Here are a selection of companies and their websites that have helped me personally over the years or those I have enjoyed and/or found a use for. The idea to spread a little link love and since this is my personal website then I should link to those I personally like or just want to.

Google Adsense, Adwords and Analytics - What can you say? In the UK we use Google more in percentage terms per internet user than any other country and I use it too. Adsense has given me a consistent source of income from my very first site and I continue to use it today. Adwords has allowed me to make money by sending appropriate buyers to my sites. Analytics has enabled me to track the people across my websites in an accurate way.

Yahoo Search Marketing - This is Yahoo's version of Google Adwords and has quite possibly the worst unfriendly user interface there has ever been. It is difficult to use and horrendously bad looking. But the prices are fantastic and I can send valuable visitors to my site thanks to this for a pittance.

Microsoft Adcenter - This is Microsoft's answer to Google Adwords and is far easier to use than Yahoo's however the clicks are usually quite expensive compared to Yahoo's so I possibly need to investigate that a bit more. The visitors are good and for some search results there is such little competition that I think this is a real untapped resource and may it stay that way.

Wikipedia - Well who hasn't used Wikipedia before. Type in any phrase or even just a letter and Wikipedia is at the top of the results. Many question it's accuracy for more complex subjects but for general information on anything whatsoever you can't go wrong. I bet school teachers have seen it's pages amongst their pupils work all the time.

Money Saving Expert - Probably one of the biggest affiliate money making sites on the web, certainly the UK. But you wouldn't begrudge the owner Martin Lewis, for this site is all about saving money and alot of work has gone into it. I have used it to save alot of money and it has some fantastic advice in there for those with real money worries.

Mercury Motors - This is where I have my car repaired, MOT'd and serviced. They are just down the road from me and are the nicest people you could meet. Which is just what you need in this business as there are many unscrupulous mechanics and garages about.

Pretty in the City - This is the blog of author Karyn Bosnak. She just happens to be one of the funniest likeable people you could ever read about? I've never met her but her writings are superb. She is abit of an internet superstar after her Save Karyn website earned her $20,000.00 in 8 short weeks to help her pay off her debt.

Super Affiliate Mindset - This is the website of Amit Mehta who has made millions from affiliate marketing on the web. The amazing thing about his business model is the he outsource's the design, the writing and the building of his websites. All he does is have the ideas, over see the work and most importantly spends his time doing the promotion of these websites. This involves writing and managing all the pay per click advertising campaigns and this is ultimately how he makes his money. This website is by far the best super affiliate website out there. None of the others give you insight and advice like this. When I discovered it I think I went through just about every page and found it very inspirational.

Bruce Springsteen - Nearly forgot this one but probably for me the greatest singer of his generation and arguably one of the most talented people in the world of music. The quality of songwriting has meant that a great variety of artists have had number ones with his songs that he has chosen not to release. He has such quality control that for the Born in the USA album over one hundred songs were written and only 10 chosen. He is the second most bootlegged artist to Bob Dylan thanks to his live shows featuring many different arrangements of different songs that you'd never hear anywhere else ever again. I have every one of his releases and more I think he continues to make good music, however few can argue perhaps his glory years are behind him, he still has integrity and passion and this shows. Whether you like him or not I think everyone knows and likes at least one Springsteen song whether they know it's written by him or not and I think he's amazing.

Old Skool 1992 - Orange at the Astoria, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 - This is the raving I used to do in my youth. These are videos of the Orange club at the Astoria theatre London. The Astoria was one of the venues I used to go to and the light shows were amazing as the videos show. The atmosphere started to change in early 1994 as jungle came so we then went to the Paradise Club in Angel, those were the days. I used to love raving and I'm afraid to say the drugs that went with it.

I think that will do for now, over time I'm sure I'll add more and more but that's it! Bye!