Squidoo, just like blogging, can be used to earn money - all you have to do is simply write on your favorite topic and get paid. Unlike blogging, you don't need to create a website, register a domain, or pay for hosting. You can register an account for free, and start writing right away. The lensmasters (the people who create the single pages on Squidoo, which are called lenses) get share of the revenue (50%), and the more popular your lens is, the more money you will earn.
The good news is that you don't have to rely on the money you receive from Squidoo directly, you can add modules to your lens such as the Amazon or Ebay modules, and monetize on them as well. You can also create more than one lense (in fact you can create unlimited lenses), and due to the fact that Google LOVES Squidoo, you should get some decent traffic to them.
All in all you shouldn't rely on Squidoo for making a living, but rather treat it as yet another way to increase the traffic to your product or website, and earn some extra cash.
WordTracker is probably one of the oldest keyword research tools (if you can call it a tool - its way more than that), and what is really good about it is that the guys behind it managed to stay on top of the keyword game for all these years. All their keyword data is up-to-date and relevant, and can be conveniently exported to a data sheet or you can even email it to yourself, so you don't have to do the same research over and over again.
Using Wordtracker you can find related keywords, find out how many people search for particular keyword (or key phrase), find out what the competition is like, and get a pretty accurate estimation of the traffic that you might get for that keyword.
The subscription fee might be out of reach for some webmasters, but if you are serious about making money with your website or your product, then WordTracker will give you pretty good value for your money.
I had more than twenty blogs with Hostgator for more than a year and I can honestly say that I was a happy customer. At first I was quite reluctant to move my sites with them since they are pretty big, and we all know that big companies more than often have horrible support. Luckily for me this wasn't the case - I had to contact their support only once, and they came back to me pretty quickly and resolved the issue without a delay.
Their prices are more than fair too - after all hosting unlimited domains for $7.95? I see nothing wrong with that ;) I have never had any downtime (at least not that I know of) and the control panel is pretty decent too (although a bit slow at times). The only problem I had with them was after I cancelled my hosting account with them - I emailed them well in advance to let them know, nevertheless they kept emailing me for MONTHS after that to remind me that I have to pay for my hosting (which I wasn't using at the time).
All in all Hostagor is a pretty decent host in my opinion.
No doubt that they are one of the biggest registrars out there, which means that your domains are in pretty good hands (or at least they should be).
What I find extremely frustrating is their registration process - in order to register a single domain you'll have to go through many pages with way too many offers (hosting, privacy tools, email redirection and what not) - that's a total waste of time, and can be quite confusing especially if this is the first time you register a domain. These guys are simply taking the cross-selling to the next level - not to mention that once you have gone through all the steps and are done with paying for the domains, you are hit with yet another page full of offers, instead of a simple "registration complete" message.
What's good about them is they have decent offers every now and then, discount coupons, cheap info domains, etc.
I also hear quite a lot of people complaining about their hosting, so that's something I'd definitely stay away from.
