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The US dollar seems to be gaining strength against the Euro, a situation that pleases me more than you could believe, despite living in Europe and working in Euros for my daily transactions.

I earn almost all of my income in US dollars, mostly because the dollar is still the single most important international currency, despite the crisis and recent failings in American diplomacy.

This morning I logged into Paypal to check my balance, I'd been expecting some more payments from clients, and when I get the confirmation emails I always check my balance because Paypal take their percentage, and I like to know how much money I have.

I always convert US dollars to Euros as well, Paypal is not the kind of service you use for forex, and since I buy goods, hosting, and withdraw to my bank account in Euros, it makes sense to keep the Euro balance rather than US balance.

Over the last few weeks I've notice the exchange conversion moving from US$1 -> 69 Euro cents, to todays rate of US$1 -> 75 Euro cents, a very good sign in my opinion. Paypal typically don't adjust their conversion rate unless a new price point looks settled.

Working in Europe, in US dollars, therefor means that the closer to parity the dollar and Euro get, the more money I'm making. I love it, I want the Euro to be strong, but parity would be a very nice rate to settle on.

Most webmasters know that they need to "optimize" their sites in order to get ranked in Google today. And most people know that you need to apply SEO and get links pointed to their sites in order to get ranked. But how do they know what the right technique is needed to get ranked?

Optimization services need to be considered alongside the overall marketing goal of the website. If you're selling a product, videos should be part of that strategy. If you're trying to get leads for a service, testimonials might be the focus of your marketing goals.

There are many methods to gain traffic and conversions on the web. Be sure to use the proper methods that make sense to the consumer and keep it simple!

Despite the financial crisis that everyone is talking about, I'm actually earning more money online at the moment than ever before, and I'd be willing to bet you'd like to know how.

The financial crisis is actually an opportunity to earn more money, for the first time in recorded history we have a major recession and crisis where computer use and the desire to earn an income from online activities is ballooning.

I'm well placed to take advantage of this because I write for other websites, in addition to owning my own websites, and what I've noticed is that people who don't have the time to write, are in great need of writers who can quickly put together several pages of keyword optimized content.

Running my own sites is also working for me, I have several other sites that earn good incomes from affiliate programs, although I've never had much success from AdSense except on general sites like this, and even then earnings aren't spectacular.

If you're one of the writers who subscribed to my feed and want to share your thoughts on how the crisis is affecting you, please comment below. I'm always looking for other writers to network with, and it you write in other languages, particularly Spanish, I'd love to hear from you.