Musings by Neil Shearing

If you could earn money by sharing recommendations with your friends from inside a free app, would you be interested? What if you could also make money when those friends referred more friends to download and use the free app, and their friends, and their friends, and so on?

In a shock to rival the closure of Google Reader, Google has just announced that their Affiliate Network will close at the end of July. Presumably a lot of affiliates, and perhaps merchants, will be scrambling around looking for a new home and preparing for a lot of disruption as they reconfigure their affiliate links.

I've just made a video review of Marlon Sanders new "Wp Dashboard" product. Take a look...

Often people who run a self-hosted Wordpress blog wonder which are the best plugins, and whether or not they're missing out on a great plugin that could get them extra traffic, leads, opt-ins, sales or all of those things and apple pie!

So, here's my list of the best plugins. I asked my visitors if they knew of any I'd missed, and one good suggestion was "Yet Another Related Posts Plugin", which I'm now using, so add that to the list!

Broken Link Checker Contact Form 7 Flash Video Player Google XML Sitemaps Minimum Word Count Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore Use Google Libraries W3 Total Cache WordPress SEO WPSocialite WPtouch

Can't get the mobile-friendly WPTouch plugin working with W3 Total Cache (W3TC) on your blog? Never fear, the details for what you need to do are here.

I've done a comprehensive video, text and graphics review of what the new Tube Kaboom service can do for you here.

Tube Kaboom basically allows you to distribute videos to a set of video-hosting websites and, more importantly, it backlinks those videos in many ways, including blog commenting, social media links and even embedding in niche blogs and then backlinking the blog post. You can also buy views to your Youtube videos, and issue a press release if you're a premium member.

I'm placing the "Neil Shearing" flag in the ground at this patch of Tumblr, claiming it in my digital name. As an Internet entrepreneur and digital marketer, I know it's important to distribute my brand message far and wide across the Web. If people search for me at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or, yes, Tumblr, I want them to find me.

So, here I am.