Seems Google is now going to offer FREE BROADBAND & WIRELESS to everyone at home. Probably one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for this great country we live in. The only requirement to get it going? A BIG CRAPPER! They supply the remaining.

Here is the getting setup page from their site: TiSP:

Going with the flow TiSP Kit

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

Installing TiSP

Installing a typical home TiSP system is a quick, easy and largely sanitary process — provided you follow these step-by-step instructions very, very carefully.

#1 Remove the spindle of fiber-optic cable from your TiSP installation kit.

#2 Attach the sinker to the loose end of the cable, take one safe step backward and drop this weighted end into your toilet.

#3 Grasp both ends of the spindle firmly while a friend or loved one flushes, thus activating the patented GFlush™ system, which sends the weighted cable surfing through the plumbing system to one of the thousands of TiSP Access Nodes.

#4 When the GFlush is complete, the spindle will (or at least should) have largely unraveled, exposing a connector at the remaining end. Detach the cable from the spindle, taking care not to allow the cable to slip into the toilet.

#5 Plug the fiber-optic cable into your TiSP wireless router, which has a specially designed counterweight to withstand the centripetal force of flushing.

#6 Insert the TiSP installation CD and run the setup utility to install the Google Toolbar (required) and the rest of the TiSP software, which will automatically configure your computer’s network settings.

#7 Within sixty minutes — assuming proper data flow — the other end of your fiber-optic cable should have reached the nearest TiSP Access Node, where our Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) will remove the sinker and plug the line into our global data networking system.

#8 Congratulations, you’re online! (Please wash your hands before surfing.)

Note: If you have any difficulty installing, operating or simply living with TiSP, we suggest joining the TiSP Help Group.

Advanced TiSP Options

Professional Installation Service
You can also choose to request our professional installation service, which dispatches an army of factory-trained, sub-contracted nanobots from the TiSP Access Node. The nanobots travel with exhilarating nano-speed through the sewer system and into your home to perform the installation service, which should be complete within 15 minutes. Note: For your own physical safety and emotional well-being and in consideration of the nanobots’ working conditions, please make absolutely certain that your toilet is unoccupied at the scheduled appointment time.

In-Commode Package Delivery
With professional installation service, you can also have your Google Checkout purchases delivered directly through the sewage network into your bathroom. Each package comes pre-sealed in a watertight and nanobot-resistant bag made of biodegradable corn-based plastic. For a limited time, TiSP subscribers who sign up for a Checkout account will receive free bathroom delivery on their first ten Checkout purchases.

TiSP for Enterprise
We’re actively developing a higher-performance version of TiSP specifically tailored to small and medium-sized businesses, including 24-hour, on-site technical support in the event of backup problems, brownouts and data wipes.

This is where we insert April Fool’s!

We’re excited to announce our plans for getting on the road this year. There are many conferences / expo’s for our industry now and it is a great way for us to get out and meet our current customers and maybe pick up some new recruits along the way.

We have definite plans to exhibit at one of the shows, with more to possibly follow. Let us know if you will be at any of these shows and we will be more than happy to try and meet up with you.

Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo 2007

1. New York City – April 10-13
2. San Jose – August 20-23
   (We will be exhibiting at this event)

Ad-Tech Digital Marketing Conference 2007

1. Chicago – July 31-Aug1

WebmasterWorld Pubcon 2007

1. Las Vegas – TBA

Affiliate Summit 2007

1. Miami – July 8-10

Search Marketing Expo (SMX)

1. Seattle – June 4-5 (Advanced)
2. New York City – October 16-17 (Social Media)

I thought this would be a fun game to see how much Google is really worth. Sure we hear numbers thrown at us from time to time; we know their stock prices are ridiculous and that they’re one of the biggest companies in the world, but what does that mean to the average Joe? Let’s see how much we have to work with and what we can do with that money:

1. Currently, the market value of Google is right at $140 Billion. That’s $140,000,000,000.00.
2. That could make 140,000 people millionaires.
3. It would take someone making $50k annually, 2.8 million years to make that much.
4. It would take someone making $250k annually, 560,000 years to make that much.
5. You could buy every single song available at itunes, 40,000 times.
6. It could buy 530,303 average homes at the current value of $264k each.
7. They could give every single American $450 each and every human on earth $20 and still have some left over.
8. While it is a lot of money, it’s a mere 1.5% of the U.S. National Debt
9. It’s only half of the market value of Microsoft.
10. It could put over 4.5 million kids through a 4 year private college And put over 10.5 million kids through a 4 year public college.
11. It would pay over 28 million people’s health care for one year.
12. You could buy 9.3 billion hamburgers, which would equal 1.4 burgers for every human on the earth.
13. It could pay the NBA salaries for over 50 years.
14. It could pay for almost all online spending for one full year.
15. They could buy 3.5 billion text ads from LinkWorth for 1 month :).
16. They could have purchased over 93,000 Randfish proposals during the Super Bowl.
17. You could buy over half a million top end Lamborghini’s.
18. It would only pay for around 30% of the Iraq war.
19. They could pay for the next 350,000 years of current Presidential salaries.
20. And, it’s roughly $140 billion more dollars than I have!

A lot of folks in our industry, and just about any other industry that relies on an online presence, have long been frustrated with the lack of information Google shares publicly. But maybe that is changing… at least for webmasters, SEO’s, etc…

Adamap.com has a screenshot of the Google Keyword tool showing search numbers instead of just the generic green bar measuring a keyword’s search volume.  I haven’t seen this personally, yet, but I hope it is something that will go live soon. In our jobs at LinkWorth of developing custom linking strategies, keyword search volume is something we spend a lot of time researching.  It would definitely be nice to have some new alternatives to the Overture Keyword tool since it’s so fickle when it comes to usability.

Here are five tips from a Roofer SEO on how you can get noticed by others in your online market:

1. Create free tools that everyone can use.
   Think of something that would help you, have it put together, then offer it up for everyone else to use on your site or theirs.
2. Write reviews about other services within your market.
   If you can spend the time to learn all the other services in your market and give a constructive review, you’ll be surprised at how far flattery will get you.  Not to mention the social networks that may pick up your reviews and send loads of new readers.
3. Participate on your peers websites.
   Look for forums or blogs and interact with the owners and users on their website.  Make sure you use your name and include a link to your website in your profile.
4. Make public announcements through the press about your product or service.
   Use press releases and have them shown in popular news outlets like Yahoo and Google.  People like to keep up with the latest news related to their own market.
5. Network yourself through conferences.
   Most every industry will have some sort of conference or expo that will be full of people that are there to meet others and learn about products or services they may not have heard of.  Setup a booth and meet as many people as you can. You can also use webinar software to host your own online events
6. BONUS TIP:  Show up on the top of search results for keywords in your market.
   Anyone in your market will see who shows up first when potential customers enter your search terms.  If your website appears at the top for most search terms in your market, others in your market will try to figure out what you’re doing to capture most of the traffic. If you need WordPress support services, don’t hesitate to contact the experts at WebCitz.

These are obviously not the only solutions out there, but these will definitely get one going in the right direction.

We’re looking to make our blog as interactive and informative as possible with our readers. Along with the LinkWorth staff beginning to add posts, we want to offer our readers the ability to add their own information. If you want to have a voice on our blog, go here:

SUBMIT A BLOG POST TO LINKWORTH

You do not have to have an account to submit a post, just complete the form. All submissions will require approval before it is published.

Obviously we reserve the right to not publish any post we feel is not a fit for our blog, but if it is something our readers would be interested in, we’ll definitely post it.

If you have been part of the LinkWorth community for almost 2 years, you should remember a new product we rolled out called “Billboard Link Ads“, which will soon be called “LinkBB“. The idea behind LinkBB was the ability to push a product or service on “other” websites by having an entire content page hosted on these other sites. Not only did it create relative content around your embedded text ads, but advertisers could really pitch their product and/or service to butter up the potential lead and hopefully make a conversion once they made it to your site.

As time has past, a few places have popped up that basically take the original idea and make easy to understand blog terms. Payperpost.com was one of the first I know of (could have been others), then TLA jumped in with Reviewme.com. I think there is another one or two, but really nothing worth mentioning for free pub. I have not tested either of the places out, just read actual user feedback and there are some very obvious road blocks we can see that have not been addressed yet. The basic concept is extremely easy and very similar to something I read 2 years ago (wink wink). With that being said, I think these places are doing well and providing a decent product. Patrick is one of the nicest guys out there, so I definitely wish him the best and while I have not spoken with anyone from Payperpost.com, I’m sure they’re great people as well, and I believe everything is under control and they’re doing wonderful.

This is where I now announce that we, LinkWorth, of sound mind and body, we’ll soon have a nice fat list of new products and newly updated products already on the list. One of which will be referred to as “LinkPost“. It will be a glorified use of what we’ve had for a couple of years with a few additional bells and whistles on it. These added features are going to be so simple, but so “I can’t believe this hasn’t already been done” simple. We have no need for new website names or anything, we’re just going to add it to our product list. These will be launched completely after “Extreme Makeover: ‘Web’ Edition” has completed our amazing transformation. 😀 (Yes I have thought of a show like this already, but I just don’t think the stories are sad enough to have many interested in it, but it would be fun!)

We are extremely excited we’re nearing the time to unveil all of our hard work. We hope you are as well. Our goal is to begin stuffing our customer’s pockets with more money from better products and an easier flowing website to simplify the process.

GO MAVS!!

Since early in the week our staff was able to get LinkWords back to running smoothly. We should be good for a long while now as we have planned for plenty of growth. Requests are being processed faster than ever.

We appreciate everyone’s patience who were affected.

Do you think you are good at developing plugins for different blog and content management software? Then you might just be the person we’re looking for!

We are on the hunt for someone that can help us develop a LinkWorth plugin that makes publishing our different ad products easier for partners. We have the basic idea, we just need a specialist to make it all work.

If you are interested, please send an email to admin (@) linkworth.com. Reference “Developer Needed” in the subject line.

There has been updates to the Google AdSense TOS. This is important to LinkWorth publishers who use AdSense as a source of additional revenue. We posted before about how our ads do not violate their terms as long as you do not format them to mimic AdSense ads. It is still the same thing, just make sure your users can differentiate between AdSense ads and LinkWorth ads. If you have any question or doubt, don’t chance it, make them look different.

Here is a good article I read with more detail. You can move on to the JenSense blog to read further if you are interested.

Publishers have often complained about the rigidness of the AdSense policy that prevents publishers from running AdSense on the same page as another contextual ad program. So running AdSense & Yahoo Publisher Network on the same page during the same page view would be a no-no, but rotated 50/50 would be perfectly within the AdSense (& YPN) policies and terms. But not any more. Their competitive ad policy has gotten much, much tighter when they updated their AdSense policies today.

Their competitve ads & services policy was updated to this today:

Competitive Ads and Services In order to prevent user confusion, we do not permit Google ads or search boxes to be published on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout and colors as the Google ads or search boxes on that site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure these ads cannot be confused with Google ads.

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