The internet is a buzz about the Living Well, Indefinitely + $20 Blogging Challenge currently running at Scott Wainner’s site.

Scott is giving “the first 100 bloggers who do a blog post about this issue to voice their demand for serious research to stop the aging process, and who write me to give me a link to their post, will each earn $20 paid via Paypal.”

By his own admission, Scott has become particularly passionate about longevity research — not just the idea of living longer, but the idea of biologically living as a 20-something indefinitely without experiencing age related disease or decay.

Admittedly, I’m out of my league when it comes to this types of discussions, but every little bit of awareness helps, so here’s my little contribution to bringing more attention to the Support Longevity Research efforts from around the globe.

For those who are interested here’s some more resources for you to look at:

• Life Expectancy Of Yeast Extended To 800 In Yeast Years
• The End of Aging? Inside the New Hunt for a Cure to Growing Old
• Aubrey de Grey thinks he knows how to defeat aging, live to 1,000.
• One Big Step For Geron: Stem Cells Enable Paralyzed Rats to Walk
• Rare Gene Mutation Plays Role in Longevity
• The Next Big Thing? (Stanley Bing, Fortune.com)

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It’s been years since blogging has been practiced. But it’s just recently that it has been considered as one of the addicting fads. Many teenagers have resorted to blogging as an outlet for their emotions, a little online nook where they can blurt out whatever just bugs them or whatever makes them feel elated. Savvy marketers have discovered that blogging is one of the best Internet marketing methods that won’t cost you a cent.

What exactly is blogging?

Blog is the widely used term that refers to web log. Basically, a blog is an online journal. A blog could be set up to no cost at all, and can be used for just for the fun of it or for business reasons.

Blogging for your Internet business is one surefire way to boost the visibility of your products and services. Here are a few ways to boost your internet advertising with the help of a blog:

1. Make your clients or customers abreast on your website’s alterations. Your new products and affiliate websites could also be announced through your blog.

2. Keep track of your business objectives and plans through open writing. Your blog content can be easily stored through archives. What could be better than searchable information that could be easily accessed by anyone browsing the web, right?

3. Air your opinions, advice or reviews on specific services or products that are related to your business. Publishing is a very easy process with blogging.

4. Include links that will fetch back links and subsequently improve your ranking on search engines. This could be better executed through putting well-written articles in your website. Affiliate links could also be included in your blog to earn more extra income.

5. Collect response through the ability of blogs to fetch comments from your blog readers. You can learn and improve your products and services through with the feedback from your readers.

6. Connect easily with other bloggers. When other bloggers notice that you have something good in your blog, they will put you in their favorite lists that will automatically link you to their blogs.

So, how do you set up a blog?

Here are some of the options you can make use of to take advantage of this fun way to advertise your Internet business.

Either you load a blogging software or let a blogging hosting service do it for you. Host services such as LiveJournal and Blogger.com are the most popular in this field. Those hosts will provide you with easy instructions on how to put up your blog.

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One of the best (and hottest) income streams in the blogging community is Text Link Ads.

Essentially, you get paid for having text link ads on your site.

New to link buying? No Problem, as Text Link Ads is the perfect tool for any linking campaign, and they’ve put together a starter kit that will help you hit the ground running.

Ok so your sitting there asking yourself - how does it work?

Well, you need to visit the Text Link Ads website, and sign up to be a publisher or an advertiser if you want to buy ads on other sites or blogs.

But, be patient as it approval process can take a few days to complete. If (and when) your approved, you then get to configure your ads to your own liking.

After all the configuring has been done, select your site’s blogging platform, and follow the instructions - simple!.

If you’re a Wordpress blogger, there’s a simple widget plugin available that can be migrated into your sitebar section.

Take advantage of their $100 in Free Text Link Ads promotion, and you’ll be running successful linking campaigns in no time!

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MaxBlogPress has several WordPress plugins to help increase your blog traffic and income. All MaxBlogPress plugins are free, so there’s nothing to worry about or money to lose.

Here’s a list of their current plugins:

• MaxBlogPress Home Page
• Different Posts Per Page
• BlogRush Click Maximizer
• MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup
• MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
• MaxBlogPress Stripe Ads

My favourite plugin is Stripe Ads. A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog.

We’ve all seen them around on a few of the better known blogs this cool little ad stripe is placed on the top of blogs as shown below, and usually contains some form of advertising.

MaxBlogPress has offered a way to easily ad the stripe without any coding on your part.

Just go to the Stripe Ads plugin page, download and upload to your wp-content/plugins directory and you’re set.

Just put in whatever text you want to show in the stripe ad and you are ready to go and watch the money start rolling in as this is another great way to earn money from your blog.

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OIOpublisher is aimed at blog owners and webmasters. It is being continually developed into a complete advertising solution. That means not only creating the ultimate sales solution, but also focusing on traffic and content development.

• No commissions taken by greedy middle men
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• Keep 100% of your earnings

How does it work?
Select between using a stand-alone sales platform, or our hosted version. Either way, you earn 100% from every sales you make. Then let everyone else know you’re in business using the marketplace!

• Can’t use the plugin, then try our hosted version
• View the Roadmap to see where we’re going
• Create and share your own modifications

What can I sell?
The sales platform offers webmasters a number of options, all of which you can view at a glance here. To allow for the greatest flexibility, you can sell directly from your site, any combination of the following:

• Sell links, reviews, inline & banner ads; even custom services
• Inbuilt affiliate program enables your readers to get involved
• The most flexible sales platform around, anywhere

How do I signup, and what will it cost?
Signing up to OIOpublisher will cost you nothing. There is a one-off charge to gain access to all our services, of $37.00. After that, regular listing of your website at the marketplace is also free, whilst premium listings (that appear at the top of categories and searches) are $19.95 per month. Any sales you make go directly to you - OIOpublisher takes zero commission.

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