The 8 Biggest Mistakes When Designing Portfolios – and How To Avoid Them

Are you as good an investor as you think? Do you consider yourself a well-informed investor able to anticipate and avoid nearly all pitfalls associated with investing? Chances are, you are making one of the common errors that could cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars, or worse yet, your financial independence, control and security.

Google Somewhat Lifts Oceana Ad Ban

Environmental group Oceana appears to have had a Google-issued ban of its AdWord campaign lifted. Partially. The search engine has allowed the group to display an ad praising Royal Caribbean cruise lines for its clean up effort. Although, in the same stroke, Google denied Oceana from displaying ads calling for other cruise companies to follow Royal Caribbean's lead.

How To Really Make Money With Datafeed Merchants

I am not going to describe what a product feed (or a datafeed) is. There is a lot of information out there about how to use one to build sites. Instead, I want to talk about how you can actually make more sales with datafeed sites.

How to Build ‘Cool’ into Your Company

Take the time to study the companies that made Fortune magazine's new list of the Cool Companies for 2004. Each has built newsworthiness into its product. And that is a major advantage for them in the marketplace.

Tools For Checking Backlinks To Your Site

What's the best way of finding all the existing links to your site? It's widely acknowledged that Google doesn't show all the links when you do a "link:www.yoursite.com" search. Dave Hawley said that Google confirmed to him that they only ever shows a sample of the links to a given site.