Hmm….it seems to me that people thinking of making money on the Internet has gone way way off course. You see people selling links on websites, on directories, you see people saying site-wide links, in-content links and so on. Now it comes to signature links! A forum signature is a little signature that comes at the bottom of every post a member makes. Yes, you can rent a signature link for a month for several dollars from someone who has tons and tons of posts in a forum. Just think of a veteran member with 1000 posts, and that means approximately 1000 links on a forum. How much will people be willing to pay for them if the forum is popular and well known? A pretty good business but highly unethical in my opinion. Although, I have to warn you, those links become useless immediately after the signature is changed because signatures in all the posts change. Just like site-wide links.

I am keen to find out how many members of popular forums are actually selling their signature links. I have been frequenting forums and checking out the members signatures and I realize that a lot of active members seemed to have the same links, pointing to the same address. This looks like it is quite lucrative. I have seen people advertising their “rental” fees openly in the forums like Digitalpoint for about US$200 per month. Yeeeks! And how many of these members are actually posting in forums just for the sake of posting and getting backlinks? Good for both backlinks and site advertising. Hahaha, bet you didn’t know that even a forum’s signature is for rent right? I wonder nowadays is there anything that is not for sale?

I was wondering whether these businessmen will take it one step further by buying “memberships”? Let’s say a member of a forum with 10,000 posts is no longer active, I am wondering whether the forum owner will take this opportunity to sell the “membership” (and that’s 10,000 signature links) to the highest bidder? This could work very well for popular forums.

Oh, I have a soul for rent too. Give me US$10000 per month, and it’s yours to use for that month. Just make sure you have insurance.

Yes, this is yet another site coming along to help you post your stories or webpage to social bookmarking/networking sites you see on the Internet. Nowadays getting listed in these social networking sites is seen to be the most popular thing to do. I guess youngsters like to feel very community and lovey dovey when they see others doing the same thing as them, which is good actually. The Internet is no longer a place for loners like me, now it has become a web of like minded people converging to their favorite sites. Think of it like honey attracting bees.

And it seems that Search Engines like Social Bookmarking sites very much. Which means that Search Engines, especially Google, takes links on Social Bookmarking Sites like Digg, del.icio.us and StumbleUpon more seriously and give them more weight. How much? I am not sure, I doubt anyone knows for sure either. Thus when people start to realize that, all the SEOers start to submit their client’s webpages to these social networking sites. It became a easy way to get good quality links and unlike directories, your submission usually won’t get rejected. You can also submit deeplinks to these sites without any problems. Actually, they like deeplinks since they are more article/story based. Best of all, it’s free and easy to use.

So now, this is where Tagenie comes in. We know that there are like hundreds of such social networking sites, some of which are pure crap. So Tagenie will list down a list of good quality social networking sites and help you create your URL, Title and description for all of them. You can then submit individually to each social networking site. Hey, what’s the difference from submitting manually you might ask. Well, Tagenie will help you remember which site you have already submitted your story to and once you have submitted, the particular social bookmarking site will be crossed off. No need to take down which sites you have submitted anymore! A life saver for SEOers doing tons and tons of submission. I really like it, though I seldom do mass submissions of my articles or stories to bookmarking sites anymore. I prefer someone else doing it for me.

Oh yes, they have a spelling mistake in their title. Bad boys.