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I’ve just sold two books on craigslist. I’ve created ads using craigslist’s “create posting” panel. The panel is very intuitive and easy to use. It was not difficult to write text, upload two images and publish it. Below you can see a screenshots of ads I’ve created:

Nothing wrong with this ads and it works - means selling what you want to sell. BUT what will happen if you want to sell more books? The craigslist allows to upload only four images and unfortunately resize them decreasing the quality of the images. Are stuck with maximum four images to display? Not really…

You can display more than four images on craigslist ads if you know a little HTML or use my very simple template, copy its code and paste it inside “Posting Description” on craigslist’s “create posting” panel. And it’s FREE for you.

See the code…

and THIS IS HOW YOUR CRAIGSLIST ADS WILL LOOK LIKE:

If is very important for you to know what content the search engines have indexed from your site. You can also check to see how your links are displayed and to see if any titles or descriptions are missing from your pages.

You can see how many of your pages are indexed in Google by using the site command.

Just type into Google Search: site:yourURL

Another way to look at your pages in Google is to type in “http://yoursite” and “www.yoursite” with the quotation marks to see the exact number of listings for each.

From http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2008/mar/7.html

http://www.smilebox.com

The Smilebox service is free and easy to use. With a few clicks, anyone can turn their photos and video into animated, musical wonders. Which makes it no wonder that we’re receiving raves from not just our many users, but consumer and mass media press as well. (Check out all the buzz from consumer publications and press reviews here: http://www.smilebox.com/about/press.jsp)

HERE HOW IT WORKS:

Choose a design Choose from hundreds of original designs for special occasions, holidays, and everyday greetings.
Personalize it Simply drag & drop your photos and videos into a design. Add music, captions, and embellishments.
What can you do with Smilebox? Email, Blog, or Print it You can email your creation or post it to a blog. Your friends and family do not need to install Smilebox to view your creation.

If you freelance, or have a small online business, there is a new web application that you can use for invoicing and payment processing. The program is called SimplifyThis and is currently FREE as a trial.

This would be great for service-based professionals, for example, that dont want to purchase or learn complex accounting software programs. SimplifyThis is web-based, easy to use and customizable.

You can send invoices by email, allowing your clients or customers to choose their payment method and make their payment online instantly:

The ‘dashboard’ gives you an overview of your business at a glance, and since it is web-based you can view it from anywhere that you get online:

For those that dont want to invest the time and money into professional accounting software, and the learning curve involved with using those programs, this looks like a very simple solution that will still give your business a professional appearance to clients and customers. You can put your Logo on the payment page, as well as on your individual invoices - a very nice customization feature.

It is currently being offered as a Free Trial while they gather feedback and continue to add features to the application. You will be able to accept payments using PayPal or Authorize.net, which are the two most popular payment processing services online.

Once the beta trial is over, you will have options to upgrade or to have all of your data sent to you in electronic format.

<strong>At widgetbox.com you can make a widget to place on your pages for FREE.</strong>

With a widget you can place the current information from your blogs and or/websites on other webpages, and your personal pages on social networks like myspace, ning.com and your private clubs. This is not only fun and informative, but an excellent promotional tool.

What is a widget? According to Wikipedia a “web widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static. Generally widgets are third party originated… Widgets are also known as modules, snippets, and plug-ins. Widgets can be written in HTML, but also in javascri’pt, flash and other scripting languages…”