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This site may harm your computer – Every Site Showing Warning in Google

UPDATE: Yeap, it looks like it is fixed now.
Am I the only one? I am seeing every site in a Google search with the warning “This site may harm your computer.” – even Google sites:

Curious, no?
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StumbleUpon Hurting for Money?

Silly me, I thought StumbleUpon had banned me. Well, they banned me from the free service, but are more than willing to accept my money for advertising:
Dear StumbleUpon Advertiser-
With marketing budgets shrinking and the need to stretch your advertising dollar greater than ever, there’s never been a better time to try StumbleUpon Advertising [...]

The Year of the Ox Sunday Financial Links

Let’s hope the year of the Ox translates into the beginnings of a sustainable Bull Market:
Photo of the Week: Check Out My Crib, Y all
Today s Mortgage Rates – January 24, 2009
How to Decide If You Should Become an Entrepreneur
Vocational schools looking smarter
Turbotax Giveaway
Weekly analysis
Google Adsense Revenue Going Down
The Dollar Savings Direct Honeymoon [...]

HubSpot’s Website Grader Report for DeepMarket

The best part about the Website Grader? That the DeepMarket readability score is “Primary / Elementary School” – is that good or bad?
Thanks for the “shout out” from John Chow and the Dot Com Pho Crew.

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var wsgApiKey = “58d9df97-585a-4bdc-adc4-dec159d3bd27″;
var wsgStyle = 1;
/* END WebsiteGrader.com Badge Settings */
document.write(‘

‘);wsgScript=document.createElement(‘script’);wsgScript.type=”text/javascript”;wsgScript.src=”http://static.hubspot.com/websiteGraderBadge/badge.js?t=”+Math.random();setTimeout(“document.getElementById(‘wsgContainer’).appendChild(wsgScript);”,1);

HubSpot’s Website Grader
Report for [...]

Finance and Real Estate Blog Posts for Monday

Fund of the Week: BTTRX American Century Target Maturity 2025
Why The “Bad Bank” Is A Bad Idea
An Increasingly Popular Alternative To Layoffs
Will Anyone Have A Job In 10 Months
DIY Frugal Momma Style
Investment Guide to Proper Portfolio Allocation
Watching History From the Comfort of Home
Real Estate Debate Today
5 Debt Reduction Methods
How I Became A [...]

Google BadSense Ad

Some advertisements that I generally expect to see in Google AdSense ads are things like mortgage services, payday loans, get rich quick schemes and a whole host of other services and products. I see the occasional DWI attorney ad, but I wasn’t really prepared for this ad:
Curious targeting, huh? I guess you would [...]

Recent Financial Blog Posts

3 Cheap and Easy Formulas for Homemade Windshield De-Icer (Plus Bonus Tips)
Took 7% Gain In FAZ and Other Stuff
Fix Housing First: A Plan For Another Real Estate Bubble
How to Manage Money When You?re Unemployed
How to Prepare for a Layoff
Video: Goldman Sachs Upgrades Pfizer Incorporated
Why Are Gas Prices Going Down?
Pertuity Direct Launches
Sites of the Day: [...]

Top Stock Market Traffic in 2008

The two top sites to send traffic to DeepMarket in 2008 are The Kirk Report and News Flashr. Both of these sites have provided an excellent stream of high quality readers. I can only hope that DeepMarket is returning the favor. There were 30 sites in 2008 that really provided the majority [...]

StumbleUpon Sucks

Image via Wikipedia

I love StumbleUpon – I have literally been using it since they had a hundred some odd members. Heck, I liked it so much that I actually donated $25 to the site back in December 2003 – here is the thank you note from Geoff Smith (founder of SU):
Hi Eric,
Thank you very [...]

PageRank Update 2008

Image by Telendro via Flickr

Last PageRank update for 2008 (or is it the first PageRank update for 2009?) seems to be rolling out to all the Google ToolBar users. DeepMarket went from a PR2 to PR3. yawn. A couple years ago we were PR6 – that was pretty cool, but we are [...]