Don’t get me wrong, I like Facebook for its original intent, staying up to date with friends, however I am glad to see smaller niched social networking sites that are learning from the pros and cons of Facebook. Check the site out and be sure to become “friends” with me (http://unltdworld.com/profile/chrisauer/).

The referal that made it into second place somehow caught my eye as being suspicious. Upon research, I found that the site will try to install some not-so-nice software on your computer if you visit the site and click around a little. You obviously do not want to click on this link to find out where your site is listed.

Obviously, to help protect yourself, if there is a really suspicious looking domain in the list of referring links, don’t click on it unless you are sure it is a legitimate site. Just type the domain in Google and see what comes up if you are not sure (in this case, tvsetmp3.com). It will become clear from the Google responses whether or not you want to visit this site.

Like all Virgin companies, Virgin Money believes in getting customers a better deal. With money from family and friends, you can pick your own interest rate and loan terms to fit your situation. Rather than giving interest to a bank, you can keep it in the family �?? often adding up to thousands of dollars of savings.

A high school dropout, Hendricks learned the roofing trade from his father and eventually founded a wholesale roofing distributing business that turned over $3 billion in business a year with 6,000 employees and 390 locations.

“Whatever you do, do the best you can and never set a limit on how far you can go,” Hendricks told Inc. magazine last December. “It doesn’t matter what you do. It’s always fun if you’re successful.”

The reason I love this practice by Google so much is not necessarily the idea that the 10% of time an employee works on his/her own ideas for the company will change the company as a whole, but more because it reminds the employees that they are actually able to think and have input into the future of the company.

I challenge you though to thank about the money making aspect of the internet from the opposite perspective of globalization and reaching the farthest corners of the planet. Think about how you can use the internet to bring smaller geographical regions in closer to one another. There are so many opportunities yet to be filled by thinking this way simply because everyone is focused on the bigger side of things.

Think about what interests individuals when you talk about a confined geographical location. Now also think about what information users want to come to them instead of spending time seeking the information out. A few things come to my mind:

1. Safety first and foremost. How useful would it be to have instant access to police reports and user generated safety warnings. I want to know if there have been any more car fires in my neighborhood, or what that gang sign spray painted on a wall relates too.
2. Where am I going to get the best service. When was the last time you surveyed 700 of your closest neighbors to find out the best service station to take your car. Admit it, you haven’t, but that would be darn nice to have.
3. Why can’t I be notified of deals once I walk over to the town center. I am married, and therefore, I am cheap. My wife and my purchasing decision is 100% always affected by the existance of a discount coupon.

Change your thoughts from thinking of the internet as the perfect place to reach billions world wide, and start thinking of it as the perfect place to reach thousands locally. Interesting business models might start to show that could be valued pretty high.

They seem to be having the same trouble the small business I am currently working for is having; which is keeping up recruiting new talent to become a part of the team. Emily Bloom writes on the companies blog about the interesting ways they are approaching the issue of finding the right recruits for the unfilled positions (http://blog.viget.com/creative-recruiting-approach-yields-passionate-results/). Reading this post made me realize that if a company is interested in building a workforce unlike any other, they better look to unconventional ways of recruiting individuals.

I continue to keep an eye on the guys and gals at Viget Labs, they truly are creating a business model worth studying.

Here are a few tips that I used while starting the SEO process for my new site. Remember SEO is an ongoing process. Its very difficult to receive results right away. But here are some things you can do to help your rankings.

A.) Keyword Selection - do a few google searches for keywords that you think your customers are likely to use to find your products or services. For my example, I will say the keywords “nonprofit technology” are what I am after.

B.) Page Analysis - take a look at the current rankings for those keywords and try to figure out why they are ranked in that order. There are a number of tricks you can do such as placing the keywords your after in <h1>tags, the page title, and in a high frequency throughout the page. Pick the top ranked site to start and see how frequent your target keywords come up and where they come up. Take care in noting if the keywords are in any special tag. Also look in the header section of the HTML code to see if there are meta tags that the site uses to increase the rankings.

C.) Change Your Site - taking what you have learned from the top few rankers for your targeted keywords, start making the changes on your site so that the crawlers will start seeing the changes.

D.) Building Inbound Links - this will probably take you the longest time to do because it is time consuming to do correct. Take the sites that rank high in your keyword search and start searching google for the domain name (for example search google for “genericbusiness.com”) and see what outside pages link back to their site. Some of the places you will be able to submit your link to, go ahead and do that. Others might be blogs that you can send an email to the author to see if they will feature your web site or products as well. Others are from services that you may have to pay for. I will leave it up to you if you want to pay for those or not.