Time for another round up of great posts I read during this week. I hope you will get some valuable tips from these posts.

Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land takes an in depth look at urs shortening services. It takes a look around 20 url shortening services and presents the comparison in a nice graph. Since almost everyone uses url shortening these days you may want to check out if you are using the correct service.

The next post is from Shoemoney where he talks about how to avoid obvious failure as an affiliate. He takes a look at three types of affiliates and shows reasons why they fail and teaches you how to succeed as well.

Zac Johnson takes a look at what will happen to your business if someting ungainly happens to you. Not everyone can understand how a Internet business works and nobody knows all the passwords of your different accounts as well. He takes a look at few things that you can do to avoid such a situation.

John Chow has a great guest post about how to stay focused when doing your work. When your working with the Internet there are lots of things that can distract you so using check lists can be a great way to stay focused.

I hope you will enjoy these articles as I enjoyed them .