It sounds ludacrous to think that a simple little LED light can save you a ton of money but it can. LED light bulbs use a ton less energy then a normal incadescent light bulb does. The best part of LED light bulbs is that they can be focused - and by that can produce whatever hue of color you'd like to have. No more pale yellow light, but crisp, clean, radiant white light that is easy on the eyes.

Your home light bulbs can eat away energy light crazy, so why not change them and make your home a little more greener. Besides who doesn't like saving a few extra dollars and spending it on fun technology. LED light bulbs can be purchased cheaply on eBay - check out these LED light bulb deals:

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3W MR16 12V 3 LED Spot Lamp Light Bulb Energy Saving 240Lm 3500K Warm White New    US $5.61

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Must have Firefox Extensions for Affiliate MarketersEdit•Delete

If you're a full time affiliate marketer, or even a part time one, these plugins are sure to help you succeed and make your life a lot easier at the same time.

7 Ways to Ensure Your Readers Feel WelcomeEdit•Delete

Making you're blog readers happy and comfortable is a top priority for a lot of bloggers. One of the best ways to maintain readership is to have things that your readers rely on. Check out the link to get 7 great ways to boost your readers comfort.

I Think I Might Be A Spammer | Can't Get RichEdit•Delete

An interesting read on how you might be a spammer and not even know it.

48 Tools and Sites to Become a Lazy Owner | The Lazy Business OwnerEdit•Delete

Lots of great links over at the Lazy Business Owner site for running your virtual business. Definitely worth a stop in your internet travels.

The Ultimate WordPress Contact Form Plugin: cforms IIEdit•Delete

If you're running WordPress as your backend system you need a way for your readers to contact you, and this is the best plugin bar none to get that job done.

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Its spring time again (for most of the country anyway) and the boys of summer are starting to get back onto the fields for spring training, you too should be preparing your blog for the summer season. Even if you don't like baseball it can lend a lot of useful techniques in preparation for the long haul season that is summer. Most bloggers and webmasters will tell you that summer is a traditional slow down period for internet usage, and rightfully so. No one is going to stay inside and stare at your blog when they can be outside in the sun at the beach. Is you blog ready for summer?

If you've never played fantasy baseball before, its a pretty easy concept. You pick a bunch of players for your team like a manager would from real life players. Once you've got your team in place you go up against other teams daily or weekly depending on how your league is set up. Players get points and bonuses for how they play in real life and your fantasy team adds up those points, the fantasy team with the most points wins that match up.

The same thing happens for blogs and websites. You put your best players on the field (aka your best posts) and launch it into the world to compete with other players (websites / blogs). Hopefully the fans appreciate your articles and link back to your post or leave comments (hits / home runs). In the end the blog with the most points (back links / comments) typically wins the match up.

One thing that baseball and fantasy players have in common are stats. Baseball is one of the most stat laden sports on the planet. If you've been blogging for even a short amount of time you know how important (or unimportant according to some) stats can be. Fantasy players have stats coming to their cell phones, pda's, work email and even espn sports center displays fantasy league stats. If you're a blogger know your stats. The summer season is coming up and if you know which articles are getting the most user actions you can prework them to carry the full summer.

All stats, injury reports and major updates available from within fantasy baseball software. This should also be true of your chosen blogging platform. If you can't easily access update notices and reports its most likely not the best platform to be using. Keeping up to date with the latest and most secure systems is a must for any blogger. Security holes are found everyday, don't let your blog get ripped just becuase you didn't get an update notice.

The potential payoff for any fantasy baseball player can be money and fame. The same goes for bloggers. Some of the biggest blogs out there have launched their creators to fortunes and fame within a very short period of time. Be sure to make your blog the best it can be for the summer season to convert on the users short attention spans.

For all you fantasy baseball players out there, here is a $10 off special promo code "BMC200". Get the jump on your neighbor today. For all you bloggers out there, use the $25 coupon for Yahoo marketing at the top to launch some promos for yourself.

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Prizes Recap - $7,119 Total

• $650 Cash from Azoogle Ads
• $500 Cash from PepperJam Network
• $250 Cash from NeverblueAds
• $200 Cash from BidVertiser
• 1 Full Conference Pass to Affiliate Summit East ($949 value)
• 3 Month Membership to Aaron Wall’s SEO Training Program ($300 value)
• 6 Month Membership to SEOmoz Pro ($249 value)
• 12 Month Subscription to RankSense Professional ($630 value)
• 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan from Purple Internet Marketing ($800 value)
• The Secret Classroom from Joel Comm & Next Internet Millionaire ($497 value)
• Autographed Copy of Kris’ Jones Upcoming Book on SEO ($20 value)
• Copy of the SEO Handbook 2008 from HuoMah ($10 value)
• 8 PSD Custom Banner Designs from Banners Mall ($275 value)
• 2 Exclusive Blog Themes from Unique Blog Designs (2 winners - $100 value each)
• 2 Revolution WordPress Blog Themes from Brian Gardner (2 winners -$80 value each)
• WordPress Coding from CSS Rockstars ($209 value)
• 1 Year Swamp Plan Web Hosting from Host Gator ($150 value)
• 1 Hour Blog Optimization Consulting from Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips ($175 value)
• 3 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on AndyBeard.eu ($100 value)
• 1 Month Text Link Ad on Ades Blog ($90 value)
• 1 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on John Cow ($125 value)
• 6 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on JonLee.ca ($300 value)
• 3 Fast Passes, 3 Featured Statuses, and 5000 Credits from Entrecard
• 1 Paid Review on Winning the Web - sponsored by 1 Cool File ($100 value)
• 20 Winning the Web T-shirts (20 winners - $9 value each)

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Viewbook - Show your work in clean portfolios, simple, easy to use.

How to win the hearts of Digg users - Great article over at Dosh Dosh about winning the hearts of social network users.

Build some traffic to your blog! - Great posting on how to build more traffic for your blog.

Star Wars SEO - This is without a doubt an instant SEO classic hall of fame posting.

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Seven Steps to a Killer Authority Article - This is a good read and I highly suggest people actually read it and don't just skim over it. If you're looking to create good quality postings, you should follow these easy steps and you're blog posts will certainly get better.

Homie Pirates - This has nothing to do with marketing other then the fact that you could market this as some sort of odd social behavior that you should avoid at all costs. A rediculously funny post from HotChickswithDouchebages.com.

Google Retires Adwords Onsite Signups - Google decides that onsite signup for Adwords wasn't cutting the beef and so they've decided to put that feature back into the Google archives. If you've made money with this option be sure to check you're codes so you don't end up with blank space.

Evil Facebook Trick - John Chow shows us just how evil he really is in this post on the latest happenings from his evil campaign to take over the world. Where do I sign up?

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Without further ado I give you Hotchickswithdouchebags.com - yes you read that right. This site had me in tears from laughter after reading through the first five postings. This definitely needs to be a daily stop. I've attached a post from there for you're viewing pleasure.

From Hotchickswithdouchebags.com:

Its like wirings a car battery to your nads.

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Monetizing Your Blog: A Thorough Analysis On How Your Blog Can Provide Income - Anyone thats been blogging for awhile will know that thorough analysis of things is absolutely essential, whether it be for articles or monetization. This article will help with that endeavor.

SkyScraper - WordPress Theme - A great looking Word Press theme. If you're looking for a new theme this one has alot of very nice features.

Stepping Outside Your Niche: How to Reach New Readers and Potential Customers - DoshDosh always thinks outside the box, but now they have an article that shows you some interesting ways you to can be thinking outside that box and gaining new readers.

Free at Last! Saying Good-Bye to 20 Years of Debt - This link is a great article on how to get your debt squared away. Any home owner will find this blog absolutely essential for a daily reading.

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Image Collection 1 - A random collection of images from the web. Interesting photos.

16 Things to do after starting a Word Press Blog - What a great list of things you should do when setting up a new word press blog. Even if you have an existing blog you should read through this list and make sure you've done most of it. Pretty good advice.

A Sweet Keyboard - Saw this and thought I'd link it. I'm not entirely sure how it works, but damn it, I'd buy it just because it looks cool.

Mixx.com - A new social network site, like there needed to be more right? Well yes, there does need to be more alternatives to Digg, and Mixx is one of them.

The Measurement of Social Media - Great post on setting objectives in social media markets.

LinkBait 101 - Learn to link bait from the ground up. Go read this post if you're looking to get more visitors to your site.

This week's links brought to you by a healthy dose of SPAM, the only meat you'll ever truly need.

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Expose Yourself Publicly - A posting about the potential pitfalls and upsides to using social media sites to gain exposure for your blog or website.

Gifts For Your Co Worker - This site provides all kinds of amusement and gift ideas for that hard to buy for office worker. Personal favorite of mine is the flying monkey.

EZfetch Wireless HD Digital Media Player - I sooooooo want one of these bad boys. This handy little device will play just about anything to your tv wirelessly from your computer system.

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