You get what you pay for, right? Well, not exactly. Freebie Jeebies is a site that allows you to sign up for a single offer, refer others to offers and get free electronics. It has been tested and reviewed by many people online (just Google it). The biggest problem is that some people don’t follow directions, then they think they’ve been scammed. Nope.

Here’s how it works:

• You sign up and complete a free offer – the ones at Freebie Jeebies really are free
• You’ll get a referral link to send to your friends and blog/twitter/facebook/etc. readers.
• Once you have signed up the required amount of people, your account will be verified. This is to be sure that you aren’t just playing the part of all your referrals.
• Your item will be sent

I’m starting small. To get a Nintendo Wii I need 9 referrals. I’ll walk you through how it worked. I chose the item I wanted and entered my email. I was sent an email to verify my address and my browser redirected to a page with free offers. I had to choose one to complete. Some were free and some were as much as $25.

The offers are not extensive, but chances are you can find something you don’t mind signing up for. It ranges from game sites where you can play for money and a bidding site to Blockbuster’s deliver service and website hosting services. Be sure you read the details carefully. There is a credit card offer that requires you to apply and be accepted and a drive backup service that you must pay for a month of service after the free trial for the order to be considered completed.

I signed up for Livedrive. It’s an online backup service out of the UK (where Freebie Jeebies is based) that offers a free 2-week trial. You sign up without a credit card, but will need to continue to your first paid month in order to complete the offer. This I don’t mind because I’ve been meaning to try out various online backup services.

When you click on a referral link (like mine: Freebie Jeebies) you will be taken to a page where you can pick your gift. However! once you sign into your account you will be able to see all the gifts available and how many referrals you will need to receive that gift. You can select any gift you want – anytime up until your referral quote has been reached and your gift sent – or even request a custom gift. Very cool.

Here are some of the other gifts available currently:


• $100 Amazon Gift Card – 6 referrals
• iMac 21.5 inch monitor, 3.0gGHz Intel Core 2 Duo – 44 referrals
• Bluetooth Headphones – 3 referrals
• iPhone 8GB, 3G – 16 referrals
• Blue Ray DVD Player – 20 referrals
• Dyson DC19 Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner – 8 referrals
• Acer Aspire One A150-Bb Netbook – 13 referrals

I could go on forever! It all looks so cool. I sure don’t mind paying $10-25 for a frickin’ awesome gadget. If you don’t either, it’d be awesome if you’d use this link: FREEBIE JEEBIES

This is just a bit of levity. I offer you a clip from the 1990s show Kids Incorporated. The blond singing is Stacy Ferguson. But most of us now know her by a different name, with a much different attitude/reputation and … is it just me or has her face changed a lot, too?

So you let your domain name expire. Whether you ignored the email, missed the letter or just plain procrastinated until it was too late, you no longer own the domain that you had so lovingly filled with well-written content. Now your domain has reverted to a registrar or already been snapped up by someone else and your content is gone.

Oh, but it’s not. As you may have heard, the internet is forever. Even if your blog as it was is no longer, that information is still floating around there somewhere. More specifically, it’s most likely easily found using the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine. In a few simple steps, you’ll be able to view, copy and even use a free website-to-PDF tool to get back all your hard work.

Case Study: Choose a Niche Dot Com

This was a small-ish blog I created outlining seven steps to building a niche blog and reviewing a few tools that could help along the way. I didn’t spend too much time with maintenance or updates, keeping the site mostly static once all the information had been added. However, I’d spent many months prior to this creating the content. I had some of the posts saved, but not the final copies and nothing was well-organized (that’ll teach me…).

When the site suddenly disappeared and I realized I’d let it drop, I was extremely upset. This was several months ago and I’d finally come to peace with it. Then I suddenly realized that the Way Back Machine – which I’ve used many times in the past for domain research – could most likely help. And did it ever. By pulling up the most recently archived version of the site, I was able to retrieve all my articles in a nice, organized manner.

Yes, I’d lost the domain name and the Google page rank, but I still had my articles and I know exactly what I plan to do with them. Since keyword research techniques and tools are always changing, I’ll be carefully combing through the articles to edit and update them. The steps will be fleshed out and the tool reviews will be added to and become a “Resources” section.

Do you see where I’m going now?

I’m going to create an ebook. I have a clear outline, a great head-start on quality content and a topic that is just as popular now as it was when I created the site two years ago. With a bit of copy and paste to a Word document, I’ll have my ebook ready for additions and edits. I had originally considered using videos on the site to clearly illustrate some of the tasks and I just may add that to create either a full-blown info-product or a membership site that is constantly update with fresh content.

If you were going to purchase one of the two, which would it be? As always, I greatly appreciate your input.