eBay is planning to sell Stumbleupon company that was bought for $75 millions less than a year ago… Surprise, surprise. Who said it was ever profitable? I mean, less that a year somebody said that the company’s value is $75 millions, eBay paid the money and now the reason for selling is that company is not profitable. No comments. Deutsche Bank is hired by eBay to get rid of Stumbleupon. The truth is that web 2.0 wave has brought a lot of social sites, but just a few of them are able to make any money and has real value.

Optibizz is now a “do-follow” blog! What does it mean to be a “do-follow”? Basically, it means more spam for me to clean from the commenting area:) and more benefits for good bloggers who really appreciate time and efforts that I invest in this blog. These bloggers read and leave comments and the “dofollow” link will help the PageRank of the linked website (a NoFollow link will not help the PageRank of the website that was linked. The NoFollow standard was adopted to reduce spam (Wordpress uses by default “nofollow” attribute).

Start commenting today, I’d like to hear from you!

What is my next step for optimizing this blog? At this point I am thinking to add Kontera network to this blog as we did last night for Wagg.it and see if it works better than Chitika or AdSense. In this case “better” means “brings more money”. Blogging is fun and it should be fun at first place (otherwise you’ll never get paid for what you do), but monetizing a blog is one of the critical steps.

I have just read one of the best guides on social marketing that is called the Authority Black Book by Jack Humphrey.

social media sites and SEO guide

Jack is the go-to guy who consults gurus and experts the world over on link building and
social marketing strategies. What is strange to me is that Jack is just giving
it away. Its jam-packed with resources andtactics to immediately start driving more website traffic and I know he could charge for it and make a bundle.

But its really a no strings attached download you can grab right now and start benefiting from immediately. It was not rated the #1 ebook for bloggers by Mashable.com for nothing. People can be found praising the Black Book all over the web in
Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

You should grab it tonight and devour it.

And do not forget who sent you all this free
traffic!

Regards,

Helen

P.S. - The Authority Black Book is now in its
second release. This is the newest 2.0 version
released this spring. So if you got the Black Book
from last year, you need to download the new version.

It is even better with tons of new information!

grab it here, it’s YOURS!