Google released a selection of software today thats free to download and naturally are all affilaited with Google in some way.

Check it out at: http://pack.google.com/pack/pack_installer.html.

If you haven’t used Picasa yet you ought to give it a go, it’s one of the best photo organisers I’ve ever come across and it’s free! Also they give you a free 6 month subscription to Norton Antivirus which is pretty good.

I came across these guys today: http://www.adsenseready.com/. They basically have hundreds of prebuilt Websites with articles and automatically generated RSS feeds in them in different categories. You can buy them individually for $9.95 or 150 of them for $117.50!

If your going to use them you will remember the following:

1) Each domain will need it’s own template ideally (Template Monster)

2) Each site will of course need it’s own domain name (Go Daddy for .coms or 123-reg for UK domains)

3) Every new Website needs promotion ie. link building, blogs, search engine and directory submissions, rss submissions etc. - this will cost you money and time.

4) The more customisation you do to each site the better as Google are on to these kind of sites in a big way.

There description of each site is as follows:

“Many other Adsense sites being sold are listed as being optimized for search engines, but the truth is most are not even close! Take a look at what AdSenseReady.com Web Sites Include:

Custom H1 tags on every page (search engines love this)

Custom Title Tags, Meta Description and Meta Keywords on EVERY page. Your site is not optimized without this!

High click-through positioning and maximum number of AdSense ads on each and every page
RSS feeds for fresh content daily, with a script that doesn’t let the search engines know you are linking to an external site

Short descriptions and links to more articles on every page to defeat duplicate content filters. If you don’t
have this, you will never be found in search engines.

Every page has different article links to more articles, keeping each page fresh.

Static File Names such as 1234.php, rather than dynamic URL’s, helping each page get spidered easily by search engines

Free Resources from AdSenseReady.com to get your sites online quickly, cheaply and with the greatest impact.

Easy to follow instructions for getting your sites online in minutes. With a few changes to only 5 files in each site, you can customize the look and feel of your site, as well as link every revenue-generating page to your AdSense account. ”

I agree with a lot of what they say above however as I said Google is on to these kind of sites and looks for whats known as a “footprint”. Some of the code in the site that makes it recognisable as a machine generated site.

I think the people at Adsenseready have simple used Traffic Equalizer to build all these sites and now they are trying to make a living selling them.

There is a lot of discussion out there on Traffic Equilizer and how Google has banned many sites generated by it so be careful!

I came across this great little free tool today called Roboform - it fills out all your online forms, username and passwords for you.

I’ve been trying it out now for a few days on my Laptop and I found it it very useful so it’s made it to to my main PC now.

Their feature list is:

RoboForm is an award-winning automated password manager and web form filler with some serious Artificial Intelligence. This is what it does:
• AutoSave passwords in browser.
• AutoFill passwords to login form.
• Click Login button for you.
• Fill personal info into online forms.
• Save offline passwords & notes.
• Generate Secure Random Passwords.
• Encrypt passwords and personal data using AES, Blowfish, RC6, 3-DES or 1-DES algorithms.
• All personal info is stored on your computer only.
• Take RoboForm with you on USB disk for ultimate portability.
• Sync your passwords and notes to Palm or Pocket PC.
• Backup & Restore, Print your passwords.
• More features: drill down for more.
• It is well-behaved: NO ADWARE, NO SPYWARE.
• Works under Windows as an add-on to IE-based browsers.
• Works with Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox under Windows.

You can download it from here: http://www.roboform.com/download.html