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My son in law is finishing his last semester of college. He’s a gifted man with many talents. His drive to exhibit these talents in his school work is sometimes set down his list of priorities just a little further than we ‘older, wiser folks’ would prefer. Imagine that.

It’s no secret that he likes really cool video games. Several weeks ago, my wife mentioned in passing that it would be nice if someone got something like an XBox 360 if their grades were really good. Of course, she mentioned this in a whimsical sort of way. She had no idea just how much these things cost. Nor did she know just how seriously a poor college student would latch on to a statement like that.

NO. Buying someone an XBox 360 for having better grades is nothing any impoverished college student would take lightly.

Several weeks ago, but after my wife’s life changing promise, my daughter mentioned to me, in passing of course, the greatness of this wonderful XBox 360 offer.

Oh, no problem I thought.

First of all, I can’t find one in a store anywhere. So, I got online and searched for a little.

Did you know an Xbox 360 with a couple of game pads, some storage, and a couple of games will cost you around $489 bucks?

When I saw that, I started calling Walmart and Bestbuy around the city. Apparently an XBox 360 is a matter of luck. I mean, they don’t even know when they will get one. And it’s first come, first served when they do come in.

Also, the Xbox 360 in the stores doesn’t come in the same packaged bundle.

You’ll notice in the left bar of this page that I have a link to some ads. Lots of people monetize their blogs this way. Among them is a link to Walmart. Since I get a percentage of everything that is sold through that link, I went to Walmart through my own link to see about the Xbox 360 cost and shipping if I did it that way. That would be like getting a built in rebate. At the very least it would cover my shipping.

Guess what. It is there. It is available is several packaged bundles, and shipping was much cheaper than I expected.

Well graduation is right around the corner now. I guess I’ll have to suck it up.

Now, I’ll just need to find out which games he wants with his bundle. It must be nice having such a wonderful wife and amazing father-in-law.

Maybe I’ll get the thing and play it a while before I give it to him. I like video games too. Hmm, maybe I should just get the games I want to play. Could he complain?

Regards.

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Completing a sudoku puzzle can be tough, but the rules for sudoku are very simple.

Sudoku is made of nine by nine squares that are subdivided into a three by three set of squares. To solve a sudoku puzzle, enter a number from 1 through 9 in each square, so that:

Each row across contains each number only once.
Each column up and down only contains each number once.
Each subdivision only contains each number once.

The Japanese name, sudoku can be roughly translated “numbers singly”.

Sudoku will appear as: Su Do Ku, Su Doku or Sudoku. It is mispelled VERY often. You will find many more resources under sodoko, soduko, suduku, and other variations and mispellings.

Here is the best Sudoku online I have found anywhere.
Unlimited creation of Sudoku Puzzles
Print Sudoku Puzzles
Solve Sudoku Puzzles

It even has a timer. You can save and upload puzzles. And it has a test mode and help mode. Have fun. Play as often as you like.

Your Free Sudoku Puzzle (Click create button.)

You cannot change the given numbers. They are arranged to have only one solution to the puzzle (in a good sudoku puzzle).

In order to save your game, just click the button. Highlight the text. Save the text under the name you want for your sudoku puzzle. To load it again, just copy it from the file where you saved it and click the load button above and paste it back. It’s simple.

Here’s a better FREE really professional version CLICK HERE to download it and play it on your computer. Just scroll the left list down to it. To play it online for FREE, CLICK HERE. Just scroll down the right side list down to it.

Also CLICK HERE for this great online sudoku version I’ve found above on its own full page. Likely the best online version I’ve found to learn how to solve sudoku puzzles.

Sudoku can be extremely addictive. Sudoku became really popular in 2005. There are books upon books of sudoku puzzles.

If you can’t spell, notice its free sudoku, not free soduko, free suduku, or free sodoko.

It is easily placed in a wordpress post.

Regards.

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Don’t want to read? Click here: gamehouse.com,

Several years ago, I started an online business. I made just enough money with that business to reclaim my online investments and to keep me interested in doing business online.

In the course of tweaking my websites, I learned a great deal about Search Engine Optimizations.

A couple of years ago, I had a personal financial collapse. It had nothing to do with my online businesses. But, I pulled out of everything so we could pull ourselves out of disaster. You can read a little about that here.

This year in january of 2006 I started playing with getting online again. I was chatting with a programmer online about his work. He mentioned his online experience with games. I went to a site where game programmers got together. It seemed there was a chance to make good money programming and selling games through affiliate programs and online publishers.

I used to mess around with games programming quite a bit, just for fun. So, I started writing a game.

Well, I’m not a person who wants to spend a year of effort in something without testing the market first. So, I thought I would find a game publisher and join as an affiliate. I had used Google Adwords before. So, I was able to get up and running right away.

I knew the power of offering free things from my marketing before. So, I looked for a Free Game and online Game source that was totally free.

I also knew exactly what I wanted in a web host. I wanted unlimited bandwidth if I could find it, free domain parking, free domain name, and free sub-domains. Well, 999 gigabytes of bandwidth turns out to be impossible for me to use in a month, so that was as good as unlimited bandwidth to me–plus 50 gigs of storage. I found everything I needed plus an extremely easy setup console and 24/7 toll free support at BlueHost.com It’s absolutely the best host I have ever used. This blog was an easy few clicks to setup. It was all automated. They have every kind of site you could imagine just a few clicks to setup. I highly recommend them.

So, then I setup my free games and online games site from gamehouse.com.

It was a snap.

I started using adwords for traffic. After I tweaked my ads, I was able to turn a profit advertising gamehouse.com, free games, online games, download games, etc.

So, I kept programming my own free game with more levels available. Also, I was thinking about how to place links to more free games, and to my gamehouse.com site inside the free version of my game. This would make it viral. All the while, I was looking for more effective ways to advertise.

That’s when I came across information about the success bloggers were having with traffic to their websites. Naturally there were plenty of new sources for income that this kind of free traffic made available. That’s when I started this site you’re reading right now. I just started typing original content I thought others would like.

BANG! The first month there were over 11,000 pages read. I couldn’t believe it. That was absolutely free, not a penny spent on traffic.

And, that’s when my old page optimization knowledge kicked in. I’ve been seeing most of my articles listing on the first or second page in the major search engines. I still can’t believe it. But it’s true. Every time the search engines visit my pages and update, I’m amazed at the new searches that find my site.

Now, I’m scrambling to find the best ads and advertisers for the blog as well as the free games and online games. There’s so many ways to make money online now. It’s hard to believe.

This time around, I have every confidence of being able to retire with this in a couple of years.

It’s really fun this time. And, writing articles for traffic instead of paying for traffic makes for an incredible ROI. And the beauty of this, is each article is a new way to be found in a search. I’m ranging anywhere from 5 to 300 visitors per day per article. Write it once, get traffic forever! I love it.

Regards.

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