I was just doing some feed reading and came across this article from redherring.com about facebook taking over twitter, so I thought I would repost it for you.

The fact that Facebook wants to acquire Twitter is not a surprise. Both are hot Web 2.0 companies that have seen meteoric increases in viewership. Facebook, started as a site for college students, has exploded since opening itself to a broader audience. Twitter, the miniblogging site, lets users report their current state of mind or location in 140 words or less.

Also, like many Web 2.0 companies, neither Facebook nor Twitter have demonstrated that they can make money on a scale that matches their vast numbers of users. And that’s where things get complicated.

Several news organizations reported this week that the two companies are in talks and that Facebook has proposed a stock deal that would set the value of Twitter at $500 million. However, since Facebook is a private company, a sticking point is going to be setting a value on that stock.

Valuations are often determined in the basis of a company’s last transaction. When Microsoft invested in Facebook last year, the company’s valuation was reportedly set at $15 billion. But with the economic downturn and the dificulty that companies have raising money or exiting from their investments, such high values are likely difficult to maintain.

The Financial Times reports that Chris Sacca, a Twitter investor, questioned the valuation at an investor’s conference in Oxford, England. “If Facebook brings $500m of stock to the table to buy Twitter, the first thing you talk about is whether that stock is worth $500m or not,” he said.

So a Facebook-Twitter deal will draw interest beyond a possible merger itself. Many investors and entrepreneurs will be looking for signs to determine what companies are worth in this very uncertain political climate.

How to Get Ranked by Google in about 10 Minutes

This is a guest post by Aaron Abber of http://www.ListedInstantly.com. Aaron is a niche marketing pioneer, having earned over $323,165.05 in niche marketing alone. Visit http://www.ListedInstantly.com for more tips and tricks to make your niche sites profitable.

(You might find this next sentence a little offensive so don’t say I didn’t warn you.)

There is a lot of crap being taught online about getting indexed and ranked by Google.

I get so fed up with so-called “experts” telling people things that just are not true about how Google works and how to get a site to rank well on Google. One of the biggest myths I hear again and again is that it take weeks or even months to get content indexed by Google.

Horse pucky.

Here is a startling but true statement: Give me any site and I can get new content on that site indexed in as little as 10 minutes (if it is an established site) and certainly less than 24 hours (even if the domain is brand new.)

To prove my point I registered a completely new domain name at 12:45pm. By 7am the next morning Google had not only indexed the content, it had ranked the site #1 against 4.6 million competing sites. It was not hard to do. In fact, there was no magic or special technique involved.

But since I knew many people wouldn’t believe me when I told them how I did it, I used Juvio to record everything I did in real time to prove it.

Not only that, but I recorded a complete series of “how to” videos to show you how to do exactly the same thing. You can view them here:

http://www.ListedInstantly.com

They’re free for now, but I won’t guarantee to make them free forever. You want to go view them now.

Its been a while since the last post. The main reason for this is because I have been focusing on How to make money with adsense. By creating AdSense websites or in this case wordpress adsense mini sites.

While I do understand that this topic of making money with adsense is incredibly overdone and over blogged. I figured I’d ad my two cents to making money with adsense.

First off what I am going to confess to here is that I am somewhat of a lazy blogger, by that I mean that I really dont want to have to figure it out and try to uncover some underlying secret to making money blogging using adsense as a business model. WHY because there really aren’t any secrets.

And anyone who tells you that they have found the secret is lying to you or trying to sell you something.

It’s really just choosing high paying AdSense keywords and niches and then doing it. You can read about it all day but until you start doing it you wont figure out what works and what doesn’t

SO what I am going to do here is provide you with the sources of information I use when planning an adsense niche blog and how I go about it and how it has been working out for me.

So what have I been doing exactly to make money with adsense and has it been working.

My main focus has been creating adsense mini sites (wordpress blogs). I’m not going after creating authority blogs and trying to be the expert ( I’m not an attention wh0re :-P). Nor am I going out and asking for piles of backlinks in the hopes of propelling myself to the top of the charts.

What I am doing is using micro niche finder to locate high paying adsense keywords choosing a keyword and then buying a domain name using that keyword.

Sorry I’m not giving you the niche I chose here, Im sure you understand why !!

So to put it simply;

1. I am targeting very specific keywords.
2. finding blog niches around the keyword
3. Buying that domain name where I can.
4. Creating content to target that keyword
5. Using adsense to monetize the posts.

Recently Garry Conn has been gushing out some great tips and Ideas to help you make money with adsense. Here are just a few to whet your appetite. Ive been reading Garry for over a year now and have been doing what he is writing about and all I can say is his methods for nailing down and creating adsense blogs work.

how to use the google adwords keyword tool

How I can make more money with AdSense

The other thing I wanted to know and verify for myself was Ad placements and are there AdSense case studies talking about Google adsense ad placements. The reason being was that I wanted to know for myself If I was on the right track with what I was doing.

Cath Lawson has some great tips inclidung links to Adsense case studies. Post title: 3 ways to increase your google adsense revenue

The next area I was curious about was Am I on the right track about optimizing my posts for Adsense So I reffered to Grizz’s blog.

One of my more favoured make money blogging blogs is Grizz over at make money online for beginners. Hes got real in the trenches content and usually pulls no punches. This post AdSense optimization tips I am sure you’ll find helpful along with some or most of the other content.

So using basically these three sources, my own imagination and a template that garry conn released I set out to see if this will work. What I did was set a seperate AdSense Account. Yeah I am that dumb, like I said I am lazy and like things fast and easy. Remember I said I was going for a buck a day on the new blog.

So Okay I didnt get a buck a day but I also haven’t been doing anything with it either. What I did was find a keyword bought that domain name used google alerts to find relevant content created 8 posts and went live and let it ride at that as a test bed.

As for the template I am using. And another reason why this post is or was along time coming was I wanted to test this theme that Garry Conn and David Cooley (cyber coder) concocted. Make money online by building profitable niche blogs

Yeah but what about getting the blog indexed, if you’re on my list you already know how I go about getting my blogs indexed in 24hrs. Along those lines Aaron Abber has a few great vids detailing how he got his blog Fun Home Theater indexed in like 19 hr.

Hope this post about how to make money with AdSense was useful.