A fellow blogger pointed me in the direction of this tool, and it seems to be a very good one. The Website Grader will evaluate your site and make suggestions of how to make it better (from a SEO standpoint). This tool is extremely easy to use, and will provide valuable suggestions for [...]

Today, I was the victim of a hacker/spammer.  When I pulled up one of my web pages, I found a nasty little note from my web host stating that my account had been suspended for violating the Terms of Service Agreement.  Of course, I had no clue what I could have done, since I don’t [...]

If you are not using StumbleUpon, then it is time to sign up and get your free account. This is a tool that I am just now beginning to see the benefit of. The tool is simple to use, and it will begin driving traffic to your site almost instantly. Basically, all [...]

This is a blog that I decided to write to talk about either products I personally use in my quest to scrape a bit of money from the internet (hey, everyone else is doing it, so why not me?), or else products that I find that look promising.  I am in no way an expert [...]

As pretty much everyone knows, content is vitally important to any website or blog. If you are going to draw readers, you have to provide valuable, ever changing content. If you have a static page, you can pretty much bet that your visitors will dwindle down to nothingness. However, coming up with [...]

Ok, this seems to be the next craze in driving traffic to your blog. This may not be a very new system, but it is new to me, and is a growing trend on many of the blogs that I have been reading. Entrecard is advertised as being like business cards for your [...]

I just updated WordPress for one of my other blogs, and found that they changed their link on the Dashboard that records incoming links from Technorati to Google Blogs. I am sure that this is due to some arrangements between the two companies, but I am not too happy with it. For one [...]

I like free stuff. If I can find useful free stuff, all the better! One such tool that I use every day on all of my products is StatCounter. This is a great free resource that will help you keep up with site statistics. Now, I know there are more sophisticated systems [...]

Welcome to the Next Best Thing, a blog dedicated to taking a look at many different online programs, promotions and products. I will be scouring the web for anything that might help you make money on the web. I also will be looking for all kinds of free products that can help you [...]