However after spending some time searching for ways to get free Facebook credits, I ran into quite a few scams or survey sites that promise you credits after completing offers or purchasing things.  There were even outdated posts on games like Hello City to get free credits which doesn’t work any more.

Well recently I’ve been lucky enough to come across not one, but two, places to get free Facebook Credits, and this Friday (2/24/2012)  there’s a special event that can get you 160 Free Facebook Credits with NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

One is 4Loot and is a search engine which you need to just use their search engine to rack up points (you can download tool bars/plugins etc. but I don’t recommend doing that).  You can probably earn enough to get 25 Facebook Credits in a month or so, which to me is alot of time.

The other way is via Shopkick, which is an app for iphone or droids that lets you get credits for doing nothing but walking INTO a store on their list.  These aren’t vague store that only exist in some states, but fairly well recognized places like Sports Authority, Old Navy, Macys, Wet Seal etc.

Now I mentioned that there’s an event this weekend, and here’s the gist of it.

1.  Download Shopkick to your phone here:

2.  Once you downloaded the app make sure to login to the app on your phone in the settings page.  Do this and you will receive an extra 50 kicks (worth 2 Facebook Credits)  from me for using my link above.

3.  Visit store with the green ‘walk in’ points listed to earn your free credits.  YMMV depending on where you live (ie: here on Maui I can only go to 4 of the listed store this friday).

This weekend (2/24/2012) there is a special Black Friday Sale weekend going on that will net you around 200-400 kicks per store that you just enter WITHOUT having to buy anything.

Below is a list of the 10 stores giving out 200 kicks each (valued at 8 Facebook Credits).

• American Eagle Outfitters
• Arden B.
• Best Buy
• Crate & Barrel
• Macy’s
• Old Navy
• Simon Sales
• Target
• Toys R Us
• Wet Seal

Within Shopkick itself there are bonuses that you can collect to receive 2x points per walk in making this week’s even net you around 4000 kicks (roughly 160 Facebook Credits).  After you’ve collected your kicks you can turn them in immediately for Facebook Credits.

And that’s it, no purchases needed, no surveys to be done, and you can earn more free Facebook Credits daily even after this promotion is over.

If you want to know more about saving money on via Shopkick bargains, someone already has a post describing those as well here or watch the video below.  The Shopkick FAQs are found here on their website.

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So Warhammer Online came out not even a week ago, and I’ve been playing it quite a bit lately.  And now there’s already a few leveling guides out there on the market.  But do you REALLY need to buy a Warhammer Online leveling guide for this game?

Seriously, I’ve only played this game for less than a week, and I’m already a level 20 Rune Priest that can DPS.  The rate that you gain experience in this game has been pretty fast so far, and I’m pretty sure I’ll hit the level cap of 40 in a week or two at the most.  So the question for these leveling guides becomes, is it even worth it to buy a leveling guide for a game that most people will achieve the maximum level of 40 rather easily?  If noone else will say it I say no, but then again I’m pretty frugal myself.

Anyways here’s the two Warhammer Online leveling guides that I’ve stumbled across so far:

Ashling’s World – Warhammer Online Leveling Guide

The Warhammer Online Leveling Guide

Let’s take a look at what these guys have to offer so early after the release of the game.

Ashling’s Warhammer guide states that they had 3 players in the beta since Oct 2007 testing out everything hardcore.  By being in the beta that long they have amassed enough information to create these Order and Destruction Warhammer guides. This is believable, because I was in the beta back in Febuary, so I know what maps/scenarios they had access to then, as well as some of the previous month’s tests posts in their private forums.  I also know that the game even though it was in beta had majority of the same quests so the information is still pretty valid.  When I ran through the areas that I was familiar with in retail, most of the quests had not changed at all since Febuary.

Looks like in addition to Ashling’s Warhammer guide that you purchase you get a bonus of a Warhammer crafting guide as well.  Now there isn’t too many crafts available yet in Warhammer, but from personal experience, Talisman making is a pain in the butt.  So any help leveling that skill up is a plus for me.

Now onto The Warhammer Guide, which mentions that many of the guides are written from closed beta testers, and that the information is wrong.  I’m going to have to disagree with this statement for sure.  Many of the quests may have been bugged, or not giving the correct rewards etc, but the quests themselves are still the same.  Also this part of their page really piqued my interest.

Note: Currently, the guide is only completed up to Level 20 – Updates will be made every day as new content is added to the guide to stay ahead of your leveling speed. Also, stay tuned to the members area for great new bonus content just for members!

Only done till level 20?  Why do I have the strange feeling that the writers of this guide probably didn’t even make it into the closed beta.  I mean I’m level 20 on my Rune Priest already, and this guide goes up to level 20.  So this means if I had spent my $30 bucks on this guide it’d be wasted.  They should have named the guides Warhammer Online Leveling guide 1-20 instead.

Both Ashling’s Warhammer Leveling Guide, and The Warhammer Online Guide state that you get instant access to the guide after purchasing it.  As well as free updates to it as the game gets patched/fixed.  Which is a good thing.  One thing to point out is that both of these guides are offering a Order OR Destruction guide for $30, and if you want the Order AND Destruction leveling guides it will be closer to $45-50.  So make sure you select the right faction before placing your orders.

Okay so far of the two it looks like Ashling’s Leveling guide is going to be the clear winner here if I were to recommend a leveling guide.  But seriously play the game first, and see how fast you level.  If you get stuck go look up the quests in over at the Warhammer Database for free before you spend 30 bucks on either of these guides.  I myself outleveled the quests by simply participating the RvR scenarios, and find that leveling up in RvR is quite a bit faster than grinding quests.  If you still want to buy the guides then well feel free to buy them via my affiliate links below.

Ashling’s World – Warhammer Online Leveling Guide

The Warhammer Online Leveling Guide

Oh and I’m still looking for people to hang out with on my server Azazel Order side.  Hit me up I’m Minimoses.

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Its now confirmed that the new Google Toolbar Beta officially hijacks your web browser when you go to a page that no longer exists, and has a 404 page showing. The once innocent seeming company is starting to resemble Microsoft, and their monopolistic do it our way or the highway methods. Matt Cutts confirmed the story after the TechCrunch article it looks like too.

According to Matt Cutts:

404 errors with default error pages

When a visitor tries to reach your content with an invalid URL and your server returns a short, default error message (less than 512 bytes), the Toolbar will suggest an alternate URL to the visitor. If this is a general problem in your website, you will see these URLs also listed in the crawl errors section of your Webmaster Tools account.

If you choose to set up a custom error page, make sure it returns result code 404. The content of the 404 page can help your visitors to understand that they tried to reach a missing page and provides suggestions regarding how to find the content they were looking for. When a site displays a custom error page the Toolbar will no longer provide suggestions for that site. You can check the behavior of the Toolbar by visiting an invalid URL on your site with the Google Toolbar installed.

So this means its that much more important to setup your own custom 404 pages to avoid any missed affiliate sales, pages, or products as a webmaster. For the person just browsing the web though, now we have to worry about this toolbar being labeled as spyware?

If I recall Andy Beard had a bad experience with Google Toolbar’s ‘Personalized Recommendations’, and a not safe for work image a few months back . He was in the process of removing the Google Toolbar anyways, but it was another reason for him to do so.

Oh well maybe its time to go download the Yahoo! Toolbar now, and give it a try.

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While the best way to get your site linked to is to write quality content. Sometimes you want that extra exposure or specific keyword to rank in.

These sites are sorted by their current page rank.

PR 5 – Untwisted Vortex
PR 5 – Blogging Ads – Registration required
PR 3 – Blogsweluv
PR 3 – Blog A Day – Link back required
PR 3 – Inspirit Blog
PR 3 – The Weblog Review
PR 3 – Darn Good Reviews
PR 2 – Our Blog Review
PR 0 – Free Blog Reviews
PR 0 – Cikgu Azleen – Link back required
PR 2 – The Review Bunker
PR 0 – Aya’s Blog Review
PR 0 – Digital Point Product Reviews
PR 0 – Blog Review Daily

If you do free blog reviews, please feel free to add your site to the list by leaving a comment.

Updated:
1/18/08 – Added two new blogs to the list [Blog Bady, Manic Tasty Bites]
1/24/08 – Added Fat Kid Unleashed
2/14/08 – Added Aya’s Blog Review
9/23/08 – Cleaned out all the broken links, and updated pageranks.
9/26/08 – Added Digital Point Product Reviews, Blog Reviews Daily

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• Whypark Review Day 1
• Whypark Review Day 15
• Whypark Review Day 19
• Whypark Review Day 30
• Whypark Review Day 45
• Whypark Review Page Rank Received

Over all this is a nice program for those people who have some domain names that do not receive any hits while their domain is parked at sites like GoDaddy, NameDrive, Sedo etc. The reason is that Whypark will get your site indexed in Google, and other search engines. Parked domains usually will not get your sites indexed. If your sites already get type in traffic without the use of SEO then you will be better off developing the site or keeping it on the its domain parking host.

Overall Traffic Details during the complete Trial period from September to Current

The first few weeks after the articles in my Whypark site got indexed I was ranking very well for the keywords listed. I also got quite a bit of traffic from Google from the SEO on 2000+ pages. I did notice however that after 2 months the articles started disappearing from its index. In November the indexed pages were down to about 1,500. If you notice for December I started receiving little to no traffic as I currently have only 400 pages indexed with none of them ranking for keywords in the finance niche. This was the running stats with no articles published to push the keyword rankings higher. (I assumed people would want a domain stat tracking that for sites with little to extra work was needed).

Note that the finance niche has plenty of competition, so sites like Whypark will do better if you target less competitive keywords. My site got lumped into high authority sites like CNN Money, Wall Street Journal, and Business Weekly. Also every bank, investor, and stock guide so it is important that you do some keyword research first before jumping in.

Adsense revenue earned during the 3 months totaled out at a break even $5.50. If I had 100 such sites, and this was the average payout I would have netted $450, after paying for the $99 needed to buy the Whypark credits. If you have more than 100 domains I would try it out for 3 months, and then after your sites are done move them back to your previous domain park service, and move your other untrafficked domains into Whypark since your credits are not tied to a domain.

Conclusion

Whypark won’t bring you thousands of dollars. Then again domain parking doesn’t either for sites that do not get any type in traffic. If you do have sites that are aging with little to no traffic though I do recommend this. It will let you recover at least the cost of the domain name registration fees. When you do setup your sites; do some keyword research first. Do write some articles to give your keyword niche an extra boost in the search rankings. That about wraps it up. Since I still have a Whypark account I’ll be running another test on another domain once I move this blog to Wordpress. As always thank you for stopping by.

If you thought that this information was helpful, and want to try Whypark do so here.

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I had a nice big rush of traffic from Google at the beginning since it was a newly created page, and then the SERP went down slowly no visitors a day after about two weeks or so. That’s the Google engine for you, giving new engines good ranking for a day or so after release. Then sticking it into the infamous sandbox. I don’t blame them though, the site only has nine back links so I’m still surprised that its even getting hits at the moment.

Anyways it looks like Yahoo finally indexed the page recently, and I’m seeing a steady steam of visitors daily from that search engine now for the keyword free 3d mmorpg. The other one I have for Team Fortress due to all the clan sites, and gaming site promotions isn’t fairing well. This stream of people looks like its also pushing the Squidoo rankings back up as well. At its peak in October my Metin 2 site had around a 1400 ranking. This was just from being indexed in Google initially. Until recently I think the site has been sitting in the 25,000th position, but climbing back thanks to Yahoo Search to a currently around 9k. On Google for that term I don’t even show up in the top 50. On Yahoo my site shows up as #4. How you like them Apples now?

Since Squidoo does the payments about a month out I finally get to see what type of money comes in from just having two pages. (well I’m just going to count one since the Team Fortress page doesn’t bring in anything).

A nice sum of [drum roll please]: $2.07

Not bad, for a single page with only 9 backlinks, most of that being my own blog with the rest from my re-syndicated on some splog or rss sites. I think its especially good when the top earning lenses only earn about $10 from Squidoo.(they earn the rest via affiliate advertising) I think I should go back an maybe change a few things on that web page to help it out. And Yes there is an affiliate link on the site for the Metin 2 page I made on Squidoo. Also even if not many people visit the site, I’ve had 363 clicks outgoing clicks logged. Meaning this is a great free site to get pre-sell visitors to your affiliate links. I’ll have to take a look at this site again to make some landing pages for more Clickbank offers I think. Its definitely cheaper than paying for 300 clicks via Adwords.

If you haven’t made a Squidoo lens yet, sign up for one. At the very least to create a nice back link to your website for keywords on Yahoo, that you can’t quite rank well on Google with.

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What is Scratchback?

Its an online tipping system that gives back to the tippers by allowing a publisher to “give back” links or images in return.

Isn’t selling links bad? Won’t I get penalized by Google?

Notably, the system has been approved by Google (they checked) as every link is “nofollow” and the widgets are built in javascript; this is a product that provides an alternative advertising model that won’t see publishers punished in future Google crackdowns.

What kind of templates are available?

There are quite a few different colors, but it seems like you can’t customize them fully by setting your own bgcolor.

Does it cost me anything to sign-up?

No it doesn’t, and you can actually make some money if someone gives you a tip.

Do I have to let someones link on my site if I don’t like the contents?

You are under no obligation to show or approve any listing you find questionable for ANY reason. There are no refunds either. Your readers are tipping you for your efforts.

How Do I Get Paid?

Payments for earnings are ONLY paid through PayPal. If you don’t have a valid, working PayPal account, you shouldn’t use Scratchback as a publisher because you won’t ever get paid. In the future we may add alternative payment methods so stayed tuned. Payments are made at the end of a thirty-day cycle. It can take up to 15 days to remit payment to your PayPal account at the end of each cycle. Publishers must earn at least $25 to initiate payment.
Note: Current payout is set at $10 according to this updated post.

How Much Do I Charge For My Top Spot?

Totally up to you (minimum $1.00). We suggest you set your pricing for tips based on your own perceived value of your website or blog. Mine is currently set at a bargain price of $1 until it fills up. I’ll raise the price after the 10 slots are filled.

Does ScratchBack charge a fee or commission?

Yes, after Paypal fees they collect 10%, and give you 90% of the tip now. This is a lot better than the 50% they first opened up the program. The change was noted here in this post.

Okay I signed up for Scratchback how can I let people know I have the widget?

There is a blog post here that you can comment on. There is also a Scratchback user directory which has free listing.

I hope that takes care of any questions regarding Scratchback. Did I do a good job? You could always Scratch my back. =) Like I said earlier, for a limited time I will put tip cost at $1.00 until it fills up, after that I’ll think about raising the tip jar.

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I’ll just be borrowing the camera from work to take a full size picture of the check next time. The total check amount was for 20.25, which was about the same as the total on my September Earnings. I guess this will going towards my buying another @%!% camera fund. Anyways if your new to CashCrate, you can check out my other CashCrate review posts.

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In my previous post I also mentioned that I was only getting about 1 visitor a month to the Whypark site. This just goes to show you that page rank value has no value or connection to actual website traffic.

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Whypark Review & Trial Day 1
Whypark Review Day 15
Whypark Review Day 19
Whypark Review Day 30

According to Google’s Webmaster tools I have about 1500 pages indexed. Traffic to the site this month has been relatively slow, about 1 visitor/day at the moment. Overall from the site itself I’ve made a little less than $5.00 so far from Adsense. It did help a little bit that I added an Adsense Video as part of a Business news video page. It makes having the plain article site have a little more color, esp. I’ve been thinking instead of just the video page link, that none of the visitors seem to notice, I should just add the video unit to all article pages. I have a lot to learn about ad placement still.

Lately there seems to be more, and more templates that are similar to Whypark. However the downside to them is that you have to have a host company which usually incurs a monthly fee. Whypark hosts your domain for you for free.

I plan on continuing this Whypark trial for a full year, so visit back if you are having doubts about paying the $100 one time charge for the service. While $100 dollars is a lot of money, you have to realize that it is for 100 domains that is hosted for free. Also if you notice, I’ve already made roughly $5.00 in 45 days from just one domain that is less than 3 months old. If you have many domains that get little to no traffic now you should try out Whypark(disclosure: affiliate link).

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