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December 08, 2006

More Guides to Useful Web Sites

Some months ago, as an experiment, I created a webpage, supported with Google adsense advertisements, that is mostly a list of the links I had compiled to various price comparison shopping websites. Much to my surprise, it soon became the most popular page on my website, generating steady ad revenue. My guess is that the respectably decent Google page rank generated by this blog (thank you readers and linkers) has spilled over and helped generate a similar high page rank for the first guide I created. I've put together a few more guides to useful websites, curious to see if lightning will strike more than once. In all cases, I've tried to organize the links in the simplest way possible and have included at least one tip designed to be helpful to those seeking out that particular information. At Loren's suggestion, we are calling these pages Hal's Guides. Here is a list of those created so far (including a few topics that were chosen simply because content in those areas is in highest demand from an advertiser perspective): Guide to Online Car Buying Sites, Christmas Gifts Guide, Guide to Online Banking Sites, Guide to Online Credit Card Application Sites, Structured Settlement Guide, Mesothelioma Resources Guide, Guide to Asbestos Lawyers, Guide to Term Life Insurance Web Sites, Guide to Webhosting Service Providers, Guide to Animation Schools and Graphic Design Schools
Guide to the Best Auto Insurance Websites and Car Insurance Web Sites
Hal's Guide to Investment Web Sites
term life insurance
Guide to Customer Relationship Management Vendors

So let's see how people react to these guides. If enough people find guides to websites in this format useful and continue to click on the accompanying ads, then perhaps I've found a way to further subsidize this blog. We'll see...

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