Earn Money On The Internet! I am actually earning money with my personal website! How, am I doing that? With Google Adsense. Visit www.Hampton-Family.comand look for all of the Google Ads. Click them and I get paid. Pretty simple huh?

If you would like to earn money on the web then click the Generate revenue on your site with Google Adsense link. Sign up for an Adsense account, then get paid. It couldn’t be simpler.

Tips:
Promote your site - You won’t earn a penny unless people find you.
Feature your ads prominently - People won’t click what they can’t see. Place multiple ads on every page. Not only does this make your ads more visible, but it might help your Google ranking. Google will find it’s own ads on your site. The more places you have ads, the more pages google will want to index. You scratch their back…
Create multiple Links - Give people options. Promote Firefox and Adsense and host links to other businesses.
Have a ton of great content! - This one is most important. Google Adsense creates ad content based on the content of your site. Google indexes your site based on content. People find you , read your page and return because of your content. If you don’t have good content you won’t have good conversion.
Create multiple sites - Search engine optimization 101 here. One of the factors that contributes heavily to your Google ranking is outside links. Many times, depending on the type of site you have, getting outside links is difficult. This is where multiple sites comes in. If you own three websites that all link to eachother it looks like each site has multiple outside links.
Create a free page - This goes along with the last tip. You don’t have to spend a bunch of money to have multiple websites. Check out Spaces.MSN.com, Yahoo 360 and myspace. These all will be found by Google, as readily as a hosted website with a unique domain name.
Remember that only Google matters - If you notice, the only search engine I mention in this posting is Google. Google OWNS search. If you are not being found on Google, chances are, you are not being found. Work to maximize your Google exposure. Read articles on seach engine optimiziation (SEO). Follow the directions. You will see a difference.

Blog -There are few easier ways to get content, than to write a little each day. Blogs are a simple way to populate your site, and you don't have to be a web genious to use them.

If you can follow these simple tips you can earn money with your website too.

Apple released "Boot Camp" today. This public beta software allows users to run Windows XP on Intel Macs including the Mac Mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro. This software is available as a download from www.Apple.com. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing says, “Apple has no desire or plan to sell or support Windows, but many customers have expressed their interest to run Windows on Apple’s superior hardware now that we use Intel processors, We think Boot Camp makes the Mac even more appealing to Windows users considering making the switch.” Apple plans to include this program as a standard feature of OS 10.5 "Leopard".

While this is an exciting development on many levels, it does raise some new concerns for Mac users used to the stability and security offered by OS X. Some of these concerns are exemplified by a comment on the apple website "Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes."

EFI Vs. BIOS
Apple also took the opportunity of this release to level some well-deserved criticism at Microsoft. The apple website states "Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries."

This site was created on a Mac. Why does it matter? Well, I have been dealing with growing frustration over the past few months. Late last year I started a new job at Realty Response as the Marketing Director. This is a position that I feel completely comfortable in, but as is often the case in small companies my responsibilities many times fall outside of my normal job description. A large part of the job has turned out to be technical. I have become the IT director, Webmaster, Voip phone system admisitrator and all around computer tech. This is a job I am less comfortable with.

I have been a Apple guy for years. When I owned my first business, a recording studio, we ran the business on a PC and did the creative stuff on Macs. About 6 months into the business, my Compaq PC with all of the business records on it took a dump. Big-time blue screen of death. Compaq spent 6 months trying to fix the problem then finally gave up and let me return the big paperweight for a full refund. This was the last in a long line of crashes and bugs that I had experienced for the previous decade as a PC user. At the same time I realized that I had never had a crash on an Apple that caused me to lose any information. Sure, they would lock up, but I could always restart and be back up and running in no time. (Side note: That was over 8 years ago, and the record still stands. I have never had a Mac crash that caused my to lose any information!) I swore that I would never buy a pc again and so far I haven't. I have successfully run two more businesses completely on Macs and I have never looked back.

Realty Response, on the other hand, is a Windows business. It is a dirty little secret, that real estate software just doesn't run on Macs. Realtors should revolt. Not is much of the software not cross-platform compatible, but the majority of it is TERRIBLE.

Because Realty Response is a Windows business, I have had to go through the painful process of relearning to massage Windows to get it to do what I want. Our network barely works, we are constantly at risk for malware, and it is nearly impossible to make the shared printers in the office work, and this is with constant supervision and tweaking. There is good news, though. Since I have been here, the computers have never worked better. The company actually used to pay someone to maintain the system, and at the time there were more problems. That makes me feel great.

Maybe with the advent of Intel Macs, and Windows on Apple hardware things will slowly improve. Microsoft is finally feeling the pressure of a real competitor, and at the same time they are experiencing more setbacks to Vista. Good. I would love to see the computer industry become a real two horse race. Both companies would be forced to put out better products. Competition is good. In the mean time, I will continue to relearn long-forgotten Windows tweaks and hope for an Apple presence in the real estate industry.

By the way, in addition to this site, these are some other sites I have built on a Mac for business and pleasure:
Realty Response
Realty Response Connections
Realty Response en Español
Paper Mulberry
Hampton Family