I think it is not a secret that CraigsList.org is a great place to search for a home work, part time job (for designers, coders, Internet marketers, data entry jobs, etc).

From my experience, it is the busiest place for telecommute job opportunities. Job boards (including Hot Jobs, Dice, etc) do not list many openings of this kind.

Some freelance boards can compete with CraigsList:

eLance,

Guru,

Freelance Work Exchange,

Rentacoder,

Talent Market

but when I see the level of competition for each posted project I feel helpless. I realize that job posts on Craigslist.org are likely to get even more applications – but I do not see that (oh, human nature!).

The only thing I dislike about browsing Craigslist.org for remote jobs – it is necessity to browse each city separately – it takes much extra time. So, I was happy one day to discover at some forum a free online tool that made my life much easier:

This page is a quick and dirty form that scans all Craigslist cities for telecommuter (work at home) jobs. To browse all of Craigslist, just type “craigslist”. Results limited to 250 posts. The newest jobs first.

Just try and enjoy it. Thank you, the Unknown Webmaster, for this simple and useful tool.

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Internet is a competitive area where you should do your best to save on everything to stay competitive.

For instance, you can save a few dollars on domain names. It is OK if you run one website – you can easily afford paying the full price for one domain. And what if you run 10 or 100 websites? You are likely to ask yourself a question: where to buy domain names for cheap?

I have been always happy with GoDaddy.com services including the purchase of domain names. But as the number of my websites grows I think about the ways to wisely spend the marketing budget on every project – they do not generate crazy money so I have to think over cutting costs wherever possible.

My short research gave me a few companies that webmasters generally advise to use for new domain name registration:

1. NameCheap.com

No doubt, the most popular service with webmasters.

NameCheap Domain Registration Pricing

2. My favorite GoDaddy domain name registrar comes #2 among the most popular registrars.

GoDaddy Domain Registration Pricing

Pricing for 1-year registration

* Plus ICANN fee of 25 cents per domain name year. Certain TLD’s only.
** When you register 3 or more eligible domains.

3. eNom.com is the third most popular domain registrar

eNom.com Domain Registration Pricing

• * Names have a 2 year minimum registration.
• * .TM names have a 10 years only registration requirement.
• ** May require additional fees.
• *** .UK transfers prices vary according to the domain’s expiration date. See our Support Center for more information.

These are most popular, but not the only domain registrars available on the Internet. You can read much positive feedback about other sellers. I would recommend before you make your final decision who to buy domain names from to check this page:

Firstly, you will find a long list of domain name registrars
Secondly, you can run a comparison test: prices, services, etc
Thirdly and most importantly you can read the feedback from other users. There are no many feedbacks for each provider, but it is better than nothing.

Summary: I would definitely recommend using any service of three top rated. The prices are competitive and they are on the market for a few years. I am sure they will meet your requirements.

But never stop searching for deals – there are probably players on the market not covered in this post that can be a great fit for those seeking ways to save on domain name costs. As we talk about saving on domains names for those webmasters who run many more than one website then you should search and contact domain registrars asking some special price for your bulk registration.

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MySpace is a popular topic to discuss among webmasters these days. Its unbelievable traffic leaves nobody indifferent. And it seems much easier to get a portion of that traffic from MySpace than from search engines. With every passing week MySpace makes it harder and harder to earn some money for webmasters by banning accounts for spamming, making the process of friend addition harder to automate, etc.

But it does not stop online entrepreneurs – more and more persons join the game looking for the weak points in MySpace. Many run numerous accounts, try to invent new ways of automated friend generation and are more careful with sending out the bulletins. Well, MySpace traffic is not high quality targeted traffic that most webmasters search for. Bit it is better than nothing taking into the account that it is relatively easy to get it – I again compare to the difficulty to get search engine traffic.

The simplest and most common way to use MySpace for your online marketing efforts is to send the traffic to your website. Hopefully, someone will click your ads or join your community.

Another way practiced by some webmasters (who never stop experimenting) is to use their friend lists generated for numerous accounts to promote some affiliate offers. You can send out bulletins and add the links of affiliate programs in the text. The chances that your offer to buy something will work out are next to nothing. It is not the right type of affiliate links. Most webmasters use so-called incentivized affiliate programs – when the users have some incentive to click or join your offer (for instance, enter your e-mail and win a free iPod, complete the application and get a free MP3 player and the similar offers).

Where to get that kind of affiliate programs? Just check the most popular affiliate networks. Webmaster often mention in this connection:

AzoogleAds.com
HydraMedia.com
CPAEmpire.com

I am not sure if it is allowed by TOS of these networks, but at the moment it works for many people.

Summary: I think MySpace will not last for webmasters – it is spammed too much. And those users who join MySpace for networking and communicating purposes are more and more disappointed with all that flood of bulletins they get from their ‘friends’. The rules will become stricter. So, this way of making money on the Internet is not a long-term approach.

On the other hand, it is ‘fast money’ – automatically generate friends for a few accounts, send out bulletins with affiliate links and collect some cash.

Another party that might be dissatisfied with this practice – customers of the affiliate networks. They are not likely to achieve their marketing targets with this sort of promotion. And as it is known Yahoo! Publisher Network is probably the first to take steps against this kind of activity – they do not allow to use their ads next to images and it is also rumored they ban those accounts that get greater portion of their traffic via MySpace.

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