Whether you are sending or receiving money via PayPal you can minimize their extortionate fees to a maximum of $1. So when somebody is about to transfer a large sum of money to your PayPal account you can ask them to use this trick. You simply need to take advantage of their mass pay option. Here is how this is done:

Instead of fiddling with Excel files, how PayPal instructs you to do, you can do this your own way.

1) Open a text pad

2) Type the following information, separated by tabs (use tab key, not
spaces).

An example of a payment text file:

example@whatever.com 1800 USD

After uploading the text file to PayPal it should trigger a payment of $1800 to example@whatever.com

Save the textfile as anything you like.

3) Log in to your PayPal account and click on the tiny “mass pay” link at the bottom of the page.

4) Upload your saved text file to PayPal and enter your email address.

Your payment has been sent for only $1. You have just saved yourself $70 or so bucks depending on your account type.

Please note, this trick will only save you fees when you receive money. Therefore you will need to ask the person sending you money to use this trick. Works well with your business partners or relatives. Basically people you know already.

You probably know that Flickr can be an excellent resource for links as well as traffic. My previous method involved making a quick comment on flickr images that appear on the front page of Digg and generate up to 500 clicks. However just like on most website we can’t really go around plugging our link everywhere without getting banned. Or can we?

After doing a bit of backlink research yet another method has popped up. Have a look at glitter graphics and their 3 and a half million backlinks. Can you see how a lot of these come from flickr? Lets take a closer look at one of the pages. Can you see a little animation of two cats? Its an image link back to glitter graphics. However it is not too seo friendly. I took mine to the next level.

I used a little smily from this blog and added alt=”keyword” as well as title=”keyword” tags to my html code. You can see the final result here. The smily at the end of my quick comment looks natural and small enough not to attract unnecessary attention. Now I can go whitehat and leave quality comments on related pictures or alternatively adopt blackhat tactics and bombard every page possible.