Wine and cigars- two things that gained a rapid rise in popularity a few years ago - two things that delighted some and struck fear in the hearts of others.  Fear?  Yes, people were afraid that they weren’t going to pick the right wine or cigar and that their snooty friends who were supposedly “in the know” would be secretly laughing behind their backs about “vinegar” you served for dinner or how that stogee you gave your friend tasted like manure and dry grass.

Well, not to fear, the internet is here and if you want to learn about wine and cigars, there are a number of great sites with lots of information geared towards the wine or cigar newbie.  One such site is http://www.wineandcigars.info which is packed with articles about everything from the different flavors of wine to how to light a cigar and all the fun things that follow.

They also have links to some of the best places to get wine and cigars at a discount. 

If either of these fun vices interest you, checkout WineandCigars.info for some great information.

A site called Student Grants and Loans provides those looking for student loan information loads of great articles full of tips and tricks that will help make the daunting task of obtaining a student loan much easier. 

If you need a student loan, arm yourself with good information first.  Then you will be prepared to take on the next daunting task - your college classes!

I never had any interest in aromatherapy other than having the place where I was getting my massage smell good.  However, there are apparently a lot of fantastic benefits that aromatherapy can provide.

Better than me trying to explain it, just visit the site and see if it is something you might want to experiment with - or better yet, suggest it to your partner and you might get a free massage out of it!

So what exactly is StatCounter?  Their website description says it best:

A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

Stat Counter is designed to help the webmaster analyze traffic flow, with the following statistic set:

• Summary - Graph of Pageloads, Unique Visitors, and Returning Visitors
• Popular Pages - See what people like on your site (focus on this type of content)
• Entry Pages - Tells you what door them came in from
• Exit Pages - This is where they took a hike
• Came From - How they found you - info I used for this Make Money Online post
• Keyword Analysis - Allows you to see what keywords are working for you
• Recent Keyword Activity - Actual times and source of keyword searches
• Recent Came From - What site they left to get to your site
• Search Engine Wars - What search engine displays your site more often in results
• Exit Links - What links are visitors leaving through
• Exit Link Activity - Date and time exit link was clicked
• Downloads - Number of times files were downloaded
• Download Activity - Date and time of downloads
• Visitor Paths - What ISP they come from and their IP address
• Visit Length - How long they stay on your site - gotta up those numbers!
• Returning Visits - What percentage are return visitors and first-timers
• Recent Pageload Activity - Details (just check it out)
• Recent Visitor Activity - Ditto above
• Recent Visitor Map - A map of the countries where visitors are from
• Country/State/City/ISP - Graphical representation of what countries your visitors are from
• Browser - Shows percentage of browsers being used by your visitors (why so much IE???)
• System Stats - Gives stats about your websites “viewability” at different resolutions
• Lookup IP Address - Gives you a visitory analysis and system analysis of visitor
• Download Logs - Here is where you can download your StatCounter logs

It is really quite a robust system for being free.  There is an option to upgrade as your free account has a log size limit of 500 entries.  There are several tiers of pricing for upgrades depending on how many entries you need to track.

Try this service - Highly Recommended. 

As a DIYer, I like to play around with things - even though I don’t know what I am doing half the time, it seems to work out.  Smashing Magazine is a great resource for me.  I first stumbled across it when I was searching for free Wordpress themes and I have been hooked ever since.

Well, what is so great you ask?  There is tons of information about design as well as frequent free graphic downloads that are available - and I don’t mean the stuff you find when you type in “free graphics” in a search engine and you get all those clipart sites.  This is top-notch with some great developers contributing their material.  You are normally taken to the authors homepage when you download a graphics pack - I bookmark them too for future use - you never know when you may need to hire a professional.  Just take a look at a few recent icons I downloaded courtesy of Smashing Magazine:

…and of course one of my favorites is the Blogroll icon:

Which I am not sure if the people on the blogroll will find offensive or just funny

But it is not just free graphics.  There are tutorials, inspiration (for you creative juices), tools, freebies, and job listings for those who can design.

For those who can’t design, but like the stuff that they see on Smashing Magazine, you can hire one of their sponsors to do it for you.

No matter if you are a web developer, website or blog owner who is interested in design, Smashing Magazine is a must read on a regular basis.

“I am a 20-something internet marketer mostly focusing on affiliate marketing. Each month I make hundreds of thousands of dollars marketing products and services for different companies.”

Wow!  Anyway, I stumbled across JV’s page through a friend involved in social media marketing and about how this young guy was raking in huge bucks.  I had to go check out his blog.

First impression?  His blog looked….okay.  I wasn’t really impressed.  Then I started reading his blog.  What is it they say, provide great content and your readers will come?  Well, he does provide some very good content indeed.

His blog is full of tips on affiliate marketing - the real stuff, not that pushing ebooks junk.  He has given many good links to other blog resources as well.  I put him in my favorites folder and added his RSS feed as well. 

He even has a goals page - I haven’t really run across that before.  Why don’t you go check out his goals - they might make you feel a little inadequate.

What is nice about his blog is that there are not posts everyday - about one good post every three days.  This is something I have been noticing about super affiliates - don’t go back to their site everyday looking for a new post on a marketing tip you can use?  Why?  Because they are making money, not just talking about it.

rssHugger is a new website that brings together RSS feeds from sites all over the web into one big directory.  Getting listed here can be a big benefit to you and your blog with greater exposure, bakclinks, and potential new connections.

Every month, rssHugger runs a Top 100 RSS Feeds list that allows those that promote rssHugger on your rssHugger page the opportunity to be listed in the top 100 - what does this get you?  Besides the admiration of your peers, based upon the blog listed first, you get a lot of views (what the heck is Gossip Girl?).

Anyway, you get the point - exposure. 

Now I am getting my rssHugger page for free and you can do the same by writing an honest review of rssHugger after you register.

So a note on the site itself.  I love the idea and the creator is definitely going places, but I think the layout needs some tweaking.  Trying to figure out how rssHugger works and what the benefits are was a little too difficult for those with attention deficit.  I don’t know, maybe I am just slow, but make more bullet points and some bright, pretty pictures and it will garner even more users. 

Overall though, I liked it enough to join and write a post.  Why don’t you go check out rssHugger for yourself.

The site is visually appealing, enticing you to “take a look around.”  Obviously, the immediate question comes to mind, what is Reality Mastermind?  It sounds like a new board game (do they still make board games?), and in a way, it does seem as if it were set up as a game.  The concept of this site is about 5 guys who got together with the end goal of making money online.

Making money online is not exactly a novel concept.  I think the thing that caught my attention was that these guys are really putting together a mastermind group in the the Napolean Hill sense.  No doubt, you are more likely to be successful if you have a nucleus of likeminded that you can bounce your ideas off of. And I guess these guys are doing that.  Gonna lock themselves in a room for a few hours a few times a month and brainstorm until they come up with some useful ideas.

This gave me an idea.  It is simple, but I think that you really do need others involved in your business -even in the area of internet marketing - if you want to be successful. I am going to build my own mastermind group!  I am going to follow these guys and learn from what they do as well as try to avoid the mistakes they will make.

Of course I am curious to see the execution of this project.  It is easier to say than do, but based on what I have seen, and knowing something about James, I think the next six months is going to be exciting to watch over at Reality Mastermind.

1. Copy from *Start Copy Here* through *End Copy Here*

2. Add your site(s) to the list. Just be sure to post the “Big Bang” at each site you add.

3. Tag or don’t tag, your choice, however, the more tags you create the longer the list will grow.

4. Let the administrator of this list know your blog’s name and url by leaving a comment HERE. He will add you to the master list. 

5. Go back and copy the master list back to your site, often. This process will allow late-comers to get as much link benefit as the first ones in. Once you are on the master list people who have participated earlier will update their bookmarks and help everyone lower than them out on the list.

Important note for Wordpress users: You need to break up your list (like you see here) as Wordpress has a limit of how many links you can have per post (no more than 450).

*Start Copy Here*

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