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Picking the Best Cash Generator for Your Blog

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Every blog is different, and each blogger may find success with a different blog monetization method. The topic of your blog, the amount of
traffic your blog receives, and your personal goals are the biggest factors to consider when deciding which method of making money are
best for your blog.

Before you decide to advertise, become an affiliate, or review products for payment, you have to take the time to develop your blog and make it successful. Your focus should always be creating and interesting, entertaining, or informative blog that will attract readers.

Do not lose sight of the reason people read blogs, it is not to be marketed to or to see ads, it is because they like the content in the blog. If you focus on ways to make money before you develop a popular blog, your money making efforts will probably fail.

This is not to say that you should not consider ways to make money, but you should always stay concerned with giving readers great content that makes them want to come back. The more readers you have, the better your monetization methods will work.

So which money making method is best for your blog? Adsense and other advertising services that place ads work the best in content based blogs that talk about a specific topic or give information. If you blog about a specific topic, Google will have no problem finding relevant ads to display and your readers will probably be interested in them.

If you have an opinion or entertainment based blog Adsense type advertising may not work as well for you. If your readers visit your blog for entertainment they may be less effected by these types of ads because there is less informational content to display relevant ads for. If your readers come to enjoy and respect your opinions, affiliate marketing may be a better fit for you as you can offer your opinion or recommendation of a product.

If you don’t mind getting paid to blog about products or websites (without disclosing it) reviewing products may be a good way to make money for you. Any type of blog can profit from this type of monetization, provided the website you get your topics from has things that relate to your blog. Your blog will also have to have enough traffic and be indexed by search engines in most cases to qualify for these programs.

The best way to find the right money making method for your blog is to try them all and se which one makes you the most profit. You can track your profits with each method and get exact profit numbers. Sometimes what doesn’t work at first will be successful later after you have more traffic, so never give up.

Top 5 Ways To Generate Low Cost Website Traffic

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There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

Helpful Tips For Corporate Blogging

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Blogs are massive resources of information from both inside and outside companies. Businessmen survive the world of blogging because they know how and where to dig information while protecting their own secrets. Although corporate blogging can be risky world for businesses, there are several helpful tips that can help bring success to corporate blogging.

The Importance of Training

It is important to make sure the members of the communications team. In the past, this team was composed of a small group. However, with the advent of blogging, everyone who blogs at the company is spreading a specific message about the company. People
who handle the corporate blogging for the company must be trained to avoid any spill of unnecessary information.

If by accident, important information regarding the company has been disclosed, this can put the company under the watchful eyes of the regulators. More so, inappropriate leaks can provide competitors with leverage and may lead to embarrassing revelations about the inner workings of the company and its staff.

Although the usual action to be taken is to restrict employees from blogging, this can be a short sighted decision. Bloggers from within the company can easily relate and make contact with potential clients and even enhance the brand of the company.

The Fake Blogs

Several, if not all, companies are eager to establish one-on-one links with their consumers, though they are often hesitant to venture in the world of blogging. As
a result, they set up fake blogs. Fake blogs are those that are created by marketing departments of the company in order to promote a product, brand or service using a fake name or character.

These kinds of blogs are risky since several bloggers who are passionate about what they do view them as an insult to the blogging community and no one can deny the fact that these blogs are very visible to the public.

Although there are no rules prohibiting a company from making pseudo-blogs, the subject of creating one is always welcome. Always keep in mind that you can choose to create fake blogs but remember all the risks involved.

Blog Tracking

Tracking blogs is one of the easiest and most important tips to remember. Firstly, the company can look around online and search for the most influential blogger who writes about their products or services. Remember to read the blogger’s updates everyday and
perform an automated tracking of discussions.

Tracking blogs is important because even those postings from small-time bloggers can be selected by search engines, strengthened by a well-known blogger and ultimately hit the mainstream.

The Public Relations

Blogs have the ability to break down barriers between the company and its customers. It is important for businesses to take that into consideration and adjust. There are several companies that start blog in order to attain customer loyalty and address the customers’
concerns and comments. Relating to the customers is a vital factor in the survival of a business. Knowing what the customers think about the products or services can help enhance the company’s services.

The Company’s Secrets

Take into consideration one secret or secrets that you have kept at your company. Be it a list of projects for the following year or information about scandalous activities, there are several things that you must learn no to leak to your competitors.

In blogging, there is a certainty that you must rethink about something that you are trying to avoid, for that fact that other companies are increasingly sharing information to win new partners and generate new ideas. Although this does not mean that they are not keeping any secrets from you or that you must not keep any from them, it is important to reevaluate whether you can gain more out of sharing details than keep them to yourself.

Macro Trade - Actions speak louder than words

WordPress CommentCash Spam an excellent WordPress plugin

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Recently purchased and installed WordPress CommentCash and it’s one of the best plugins you could use to fight comment spam. Instead of trying to block spammy type of comments this plugin turns them into potential money to you, the blog owner.

So now, at last comment spammers are working for us!

This brand new unique plugin generates AUTOMATIC Clickbank affiliate links from spammers and spambots to drive extra affiliate sales to your Clickbank account – Totally Hands Free!

WP CommentCash is a completely automated, turn-key wordpress plugin that will let you make wordpress spammers and spambots earn you money. No other wordpress plugin does what WP CommentCash does. Our powerful software turns any spam links into YOUR Clickbank Affiliate links….automatically!

Features

1) User friendly interface
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4) Inbuild keyword suggester: Just enter any keyword, it shows recommendations, on the fly.
5) Block keywords: Enter any keyword in the “block keyword” section, that spam comment will instantly get deleted
6) Cron based: Cron is the common feature on most cPanels, it use cron to run the script.
7) 100% control over spam comments

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2) Replaces spammers URLs with your clickbank link
3) Removes any URL posted in the comments section if required
4) Deletes comment based on comment language: Simply, specify a few common keywords that most spammers use and it will delete the comment automatically.
5) Beats powerful software: The main purpose of some wordpress commenting software is to post “comments” so that users can get backlinks. However, WPcommetcash converts the “backlink” of the spammer to your clickbank affiliate link.
7) Set and Forget: Once you have installed the plugin, just forget about it, it will work on all spam comments 24*7, making you money.
8) Works 100% with autoblogs: The more blogs you have, the more spam you will receive, but with CommentCash you make the spammers work for you.
9) Install in unlimited blogs: yup, your license give you power to use the plugin in every blog that you own. Small price for amazing plugin!

Please check it out here WordPress CommentCash

How blogs can help you with your online business

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Now, you might be wondering: How can blogs help me with my business?

The answer is plenty.

1. With a blog, you can easily brand yourself as an expert in your subject area and promote yourself all over the net. Blogs have taken a life of its own, and there are many blog directories springing to life.

Each blog directory is classified according to various topics of interest, and you can submit your blog to the major blog directories. You can then easily attract readers to your area of specialization, and slowly brand yourself as the expert from the many readers who visit these blog directories each day. The concept is similar to e-zine marketing.

2. Search engine will rank your web site higher if you have a blog on your site. This is because search engine “spider bots” like fresh content, and with a blog, you can just spend 5 – 10 minutes per day posting what you want to share for that day and that’s it.

Do that on a consistent basis, and the search engine spider bots will come back to your site more often. Having a blog on your own site is so simple my 9 year old cousin can do it.

3. Blogs allow you to build and foster a closer relationship with your visitors and readers, building trust and rapport. Blogs allow readers to post comments, and it promotes interaction. With good relationship with your readers it will be easier for you when it comes to recommending products and services because they trust you.

These are just some reasons how blogs can help you in your online business.

Keeping Yourself On Track with Link Building

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As you may have already noticed, there are so many things you can do to build links on the Web, so much so that it can easily boggle the mind. The following questions should help you keep you on the right track.

  1. Are the sites that link to you in the same field/niche as you are? In other words, is your site related to the sites that are linking to it?
  2. Are the sites that link to your site also linked to by others in the same field/theme/niche?
  3. Do you have “authorities” or experts in your subject area linking to your site?
  4. Are all your site’s pages optimized for relevant keyword phrases and are they properly linked to each other?

If you answered yes to all these four questions, you’re generally out of the woods. Congratulations!

“The Halo Effect…”

This is what organic search does for you. People assume since you’re in the organic results you must be good. It’s just another perk to being there.

And what’s cool is statistics show when you’re in the organic results, you get 3 times as many clicks as paid search. Because people tend to trust organic search far more than paid.

So the key is to get lots of one way, non-reciprocal backlinks

So You’ve Moved Your Site…

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If you’ve moved your site to a different URL which necessitates you to ask the sites that have already linked to you to update your links, write them and courteously ask them to do so. And when you do, always make sure to provide them with all the necessary information to carry out the change without much of a hassle. For example, indicate your old site’s name and URL. Also, tell them where on their site your link is located. As mentioned earlier, they are doing you a favor, so be kind enough to make the change less of a chore for them to do.

What NOT to Do

Doing one or several of these can get your site banned/penalized from the major search engines.

  • Submitting your site to paid directories.
  • Posting only whenever or wherever you’re allowed to include links in your messages.
  • Repeatedly dropping your links in forums either by posting your link as part of your messages or by including your link in your signature.
  • Posting on old/outdated forum threads just to drop links to your semi-related website.
  • Signing up in forums just to do link spamming.
  • Joining various forums and saying/asking the exact same thing in all the forums on the same day.
  • Asking a question on a forum and using a different account (on the same IP address) to answer your own question.
  • Signing your blog comments with spammy keywords instead of your name.
  • Marketing your own site in all your blog comments without contributing any useful/helpful/relevant information.
  • Posting the exact same comment on all the blogs that you come across.
  • Using automated bots to leave comments on your target sites/blogs.
  • Sending out link exchange requests which focus on Page Rank instead of the potential benefits that the link exchange might lead to.
  • Sending out mechanically-written/composed requests that appear like they had been automatically generated.
  • Going to webmaster conferences just to personally advertise your site and talk people into linking to your site.
  • Sending webmasters alerts every time you post something new on your site.
  • Sending a webmaster an email everyday asking him/her to link to your site.
  • Sending references to your site to the same webmaster using various email accounts.
  • Offering webmasters money to persuade them to link to you.
  • Stealing content from other people, stripping out all attributions from it, and using/posting it as your own.
  • Participating in link popularity farms
  • Participating in programs that send out emails soliciting people to swap links.
  • Getting low-integrity web sites to link to you.
  • Getting off-topic or unrelated sites to link to you.
  • Submitting your site to free-for-all (FFA) sites.
  • Sending out identical emails to hundreds of sites asking for a reciprocal link.
  • Applying to sites that have hundreds of links on the same page.
  • Applying to sites that have reciprocal links pages buried deep in their site.
  • Setting up multiple sites on a single IP address and linking them together in the exact same way.
  • Stay out of bad neighborhoods, these are domains that have sites which have been penalized or given low page ranks by Google.
  • Applying to sites that have hundreds of links listed on a single page. If your site is not on the top ten, you’re not bound to get anything from that site.
  • Setting up ten sites on the same IP address and link them together exactly the same way. Do not copy what you’ve already done, create each of your site from scratch. And, whenever possible, set them up on several different hosting companies.
  • Ignoring dead links on your site. You should always clean your link directories and keep them free of 404s and dead links.
  • Soliciting links from sites that have nothing at all do do with your niche/business.
  • Focusing on PageRank alone. There are many other methods for building link popularity.

In A Hurry? Building links with limited time?

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Building links with limited time can be a daunting task. When you’re in this situation, you will be able to gain more if you focus on getting the attention of people and sites whose credibility can rub off on to your business. Journalists, bloggers, industry experts, all these people can keep your business in the public eye. On the other hand, industry authorities such as associations can boost your site’s ranking. Following are some things you can do that will allow you to build links when you’re strapped on time.

If you have companies participating (in any way) on your site, let them know that you are showcasing them. You can do this by creating marketing collateral that highlights how they are benefited from participating on your site and send it to each and everyone of your partner companies. Make sure to include a “link to us” code in there and encourage them to link to your site by offering an incentive to do so. By the way, always ask for permission to use your partner companies’ brand names and/or logos on your site and in your advertising to keep yourself from getting involved in any trademark issues.

Find out if any of your partner companies sends newsletters to its customers. Offer link embedded content and/or offer to purchase the mailing lists of those that do and use them for your own promotional mailing.

Submit informative articles (related to your niche) to article directories such as eZine Articles.com, Go Articles, and Article Alley. Submitting articles to article directories not only gets you links but it can also get you traffic if your article gets featured on a big site or E-zine.

in exchange for their expert views on whatever it is that you’re trying to get across. Once someone accepts, issue a press release to announce that person’s involvement on your site. Make sure to optimize your press release for industry keywords and (of course) the name of the journalist or blogger.

Whenever applicable, create a Flickr stream and fill it with images of your products. If you’re selling other people/companies’ products and you’re thinking of using their product images, make sure to ask for their permission first before proceeding. In connection with this, Flickr allows links to be included in the description of the images. Anybody who sees your Flickr stream and gets curious enough to visit your Flickr album will be able to see and click on your link.

Create a Facebook page for your site and encourage your partners to join in it. Update regularly through Twitter with bits of useful information.

Run keyword and brand (your brand) searches on Twitter and befriend and engage with people who have tweeted about your brand, products/services, and niche. Create special offers for them in exchange for link placement. Also, use keywords in Twitter bio.

Invest in a tool that will let you automatically tweet useful information round the clock. Occasionally, tweet to ask for link placement.

Write content for all your offers (products and/or services) and add it to a resource center on your site. Issue a press release about the feature on your site and send it out to all your media and blogger contacts. Include linking information in both your press release and in your resource center pages.

Join and participate in industry associations that correspond to what you do or sell. Create detailed, graphic-rich reports from your statistics and customer feedback and offer them to the associations you’ve joined. Tell them how they can use or link to your report(s) in their own articles, blogs, and newsletters.

Make a text, audio, and video business pitch and send them to industry journalists.

Finding the Right Directories for Your Website

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Web directories are search engines of sorts which are operated and maintained by humans. On the contrary, the more popular variety of search engines are crawler-/bot-based and mostly operate without human intervention.

Web directories specialize in linking to and categorizing web sites and, as such, do not display lists of web pages based on keywords like search engines do. Instead, they list web sites by category and subcategory. Furthermore, categorization of sites is usually based on the entire site and not on individual pages or set of keywords.

There’s an abundance of Web directories online—there are general directories and there are niche directories. So how do you choose which one to submit to?

Before you go on submitting your site to directories, the most important thing to keep in mind is to STAY AWAY from “bad neighborhoods” and “bad directories”.

If your site is connected to these directories, Google will assume your website link is part of the “bad neighborhoods”.

Anyway, searching for directories is quite easy… just head on to one of the major search engines and do a search using the following operators:

“keyword phrase” + “directory” + “add url”

or

“keyword phrase” + “add site”

All you have to do next is to pick out those that appear at the top of the search results. Though, you may want to investigate a directory first before submitting to it just to make sure that it’s right for you and your site.

Some General Directories Where You Can Submit Your Site To

We’ve already mentioned Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Here are a few other directories where you can submit your site to.

Business.com - Submitting your site on Business.com is pretty simple. First, choose the best category for your site. Choose the best sub-category for your site. Click on the List Your Business Here button. Fill out the forms presented to you.

Note that Business.com is a paid-for-inclusion directory. It charges a recurring annual fee of $299 to maintain a site’s inclusion in the lisiting.

Best of the Web Directory (BOTW) - To get your site included on BOTW, all you have to do is to click on the Submit Site link located near the top right corner of the page. Click on the Get Started Now! Button. Read and understand the site’s Terms of Service and choose a payment scheme that you think is best for you.

At the bottom of the page, click on the tick box to signify that you understood and agree to all the site’s terms (make sure that you do as this is legally binding), and click on the Continue button.

Then, fill out the form(s) that you’ll be presented with. Have your credit card ready, by the way, as this is a paid-for-inclusion service.

Be Creative and Stay Visible – Legitimately Build Link Popularity

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A great way to legitimately build link popularity for your sites is to build a stand alone directory or search engine. You can find programs for this at The CGI Resource Index and the PHP Resource Index. After you’ve created one, add to it your own sites, your affiliate sites, your sites that are affiliates for others, etc. You can also create a stand-alone themed search engine and put on it a link to your own site.

Another way is by offering “awards” in the form of a .GIF image that links back to your site. If you’ve developed a reputation of being an authority on a subject or niche, people will perceive a benefit from the awards you offer (e.g., he/she gets to tell everybody that your site recognizes his site as a quality site) and this will encourage them to place your award on their site. When giving awards, just like in sending links requests, always make it a point to provide the awardees the code for the award to make it easy for the awardees to put the award on their site.

Still on awards, if you don’t have what it takes to be the giver of awards, strive to become the awardee and submit your site to as many awards sites on the Web as you can and as appropriate.

Instead of joining a banner exchange program, start one of your own. The basic concept behind this kind of service is that people will sign up with your site agreeing that they will add special links to your site and allowing you to display banner ads on their pages. In exchange, you agree to display their banners on your site and on all other sites within your banner exchange network.

Never say no to an interview, especially for an article on your related field. It is very likely that, in introducing you, interviewers/writers will list your qualifications with a link back to your site. This will add visibility and credibility to you, your site, and your online business. Likewise, if you’ve been asked by an established and respected writer to contribute to an article he/she is working on, ALWAYS say YES. This can get you published in a lot of places that you otherwise could not.

Look for good quality sites that offer “free” Web space, particularly those that are indexed by search engines, and create a small site (about 3 to 5 pages) on them with the same subject as your own site. Link that small site back to your main site and submit your small site to the search engines for indexing. This should get you some creadit for link relevance.

If you offer contests or sweepstakes on your site, you shouldn’t have much of a problem in getting free links from the numerous contest and sweepstakes directories on the web.

Give discounts or any kind of special offer to anyone who agrees to post an image (perhaps a .GIF that links to your site) on their site. Also, give discounts/special offers to those who go through that link. This will surely increase your link’s popularity.

If you’re regularly giving away free stuff on your site, try getting your site listed on sites/dirctories that list sites that give stuff away like The Free Site.

If you have a members-only site, offer site owners (most especially those who might have great interests on your site or its content) free membership in exchange for a link to your site. If you have a discussion board or forum, invite related sites to link to it.

Create/host a “Top Site” which ranks sites based on the amount of incoming traffic they send. Top Site programs can be found on and downloaded from The PHP Resource Index and the CGI Resource Index.

 Include a provision in your contracts with your business partners (resellers, partners, subcontractors, and vendors) that requires them to link to your site. Additionally, also indicate that your link must be placed on a page that is accessible to search engine crawlers. Note that most search engines index only content in the top two levels of a site.

If you have bought a product online, or bought a product of someone who has a web site, write them a testimonial (focus on the positive points), include your web site’s URL in it, and email the owner of the web site and tell him/her that you would be happy to let him/her use your testimonial on his/her site.

If you have some newsworthy thing going on at your company/business–landing a big new contract maybe, or your engagement/particpation at a prestigious conference, or launching of a new product–draft a brief press release and send it to all relevant newspapers, to the attention of the Business Editor. You can find the contact information of the newspapers in your region and/or industry at Gebbie Press.

Write letters to newspaper editors, maybe to comment on an article or something, just be careful not to say anything nasty or controversial. Since most newspapers nowadays are mirrored online, one of your letters mught just end up on their site.

You could provide special offers to members of professional organizations, such as your local Chamber of Commerce, and try to get your site’s link up on their site.

Contact your local radio and television stations and offer your expertise to them. You might just be able to get your link on their programs as well as on their website.

Put your URL on your stationeries, business cards, offline advertising materials/campaigns, invoices, T-shirts, promotional items, and whatever else you can think of.

Try getting your link on the web sites of colleges and universities. Some colleges/universities may have services or courses that relate to your business’ service. If you offer to do something free for them, perhaps a seminar or giving away free gifts to students, you may be able to get your link on that university’s site. One thing that Google and other search engines love is old domain names, especially those that indicate some kind of charitable or educational status. If you can get a link from that kind of a domain name, your site will have a very good chance at ranking well in the SERPs.

Getting People To Link To You Even Without Asking Them To

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  • Give people reasons to link to you.
  • Provide original valuable content and useful resources on your site.
  • Create useful/insightful lists. “Top 10 whatever”, “10 easy tips to achieving whatever”, those types of lists. People love them and many can’t resist linking to them.
  • Develop authority in your chosen niche/subject.
  • Provide a privacy policy and “about” section on your site to make it look trustworthy.
  • Make your content easily understood by most people. Minimize grammatical and spelling errors while you’re at it.
  • Buy relevant traffic through pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns or through intermediary sites like buysellads.com. You might just get some visitors who will link to you at the end of the day.
  • Submit articles to article directories such as Ezinearticles or GoArticles. Include your link in your signature.
  • Submit articles to industry news sites. Include your link in your signature.
  • Find out the hottest topics of the moment and post original articles on it on your site.
  • Make a compelling and newsworthy press release and email it to journalists and bloggers, as well as press release sites like PRweb and PRLeap.
  • Keep track of those who pick up your articles and press releases and offer them exclusive content.
  • Trade articles with other webmasters/sites.
  • Ask people to provide feedback on your articles/news and to reference to it if they find the information useful.
  • Do surveys and studies that make people feel important, you’d be surprised by the amount of links you’ll get.
  • Submit your site to online directories which offer free submissions
  • Submit your site to high quality paid directories.
  • Get people to tag your site on Delicious and other social bookmarking sites.
  • Depending on your offerings, Craigslist can be a cheap/free classified service.
  • Post questions or answers on Yahoo Answers and Google Groups and provide links to relevant resources.
  • Create a topical Squidoo page and link to expert documents and useful tools in your field. Also include a link to your site.
  • Always remember to include your site’s link in your signature files.

Alternative Link Building Strategy

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Step 1 – Create a links/resources page on your site and fill it with at least 50 sites that are related to yours or your niche (avoid ones that are in competition with you).

Scout for sites by doing searches on search engines using your keywords. (Note: Pick out only the first few top results.)

Step 2 – Find out and list down the sites that are linking to those in your list. Do the same for your competitor’s sites. Look for quality content and non-competitiveness. If they pass those criterion, include them in your links/resources page. Also, take note of the webmaster’s email address.

Step 3 – Get in touch with the Webmasters of the sites you have on your final list and request for a link.

Get Something That Your Competitors Can’t

Both you and your competitor may be offering the same products and services, and you’re probably both employing the same business models, but that doesn’t mean you have to be the same in all aspects of your business.

Considering that most directories are “free-for-all” as far as getting listed is concerned, directory submission is really more of a game of chance rather than a strategic move. Or, is it?

What if I tell you that there’s actually something you can do that will give you an edge over your competitors?

Think of something that makes you and/or your business different from your competitors, think of something that sets you apart. Have you come up with anything yet? If you have, then good, you’re about to learn how to use it to your advantage… to get links that your competitors cannot.

If you’re among those who have made a commitment to do something for the good of the planet and its inhabitants, you can go to Ethical Duck and get your site listed there. Ethical Duck calls itself a “Directory of Ethical Products and Services” which lists websites that are considered “in some way are of a positive value to humans, the environment, the planet.” Considering that your competitors have not yet gone “green”, you’ve just gotten one link that they will not be able to get.

It’s not only Ethical Duck, mind you. Any quality directory that editorially discriminates on your niche/location and other factors lets you do exactly that, that is to give you something that your competitors may not be able to get.

Another thing that can get you links that your competitors may not be able to is by producing great content and doing it better than your competitors.

Yet another thing is by buying a domain that matches your keywords/phrases. Unfortunately, this one comes down to who has a better budget and moves faster. If you have both then good for you.

Link Building Strategy

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Step 1 – Build a content rich site, focusing on a specific subject.

Step 2 – Contact other sites that have the same topic/scope as yours and ask for a reciprocal link. Remember, put their link on your site first before you do this.

Step 3 – Get your site listed on the major and specialty search engines, as well as on online directories. Always choose the most appropriate category whenever you’re given the option to do so.

Do the Link Request

When making your request, make sure that you highlight what your site is all about, what it has to offer, how it relates to their site, and why they should link to it. Indicate also the exact URL of their page where you think your link will be most beneficial. Let them know that you have visited their site and have studied it well for your link’s placement.

Then, provide them the HTML code for your link. This should allow them to simply cut and paste your link into their page. Providing the HTML code will also give you some control over your link’s placement and lets you include keywords in your link text.

Be very careful in writing your request. Make sure it’s well written and that it contains all the necessary information for the recipient to carry out your request should they decide to grant it. And since you’re asking the favor (forget that it’s going to be a mutually beneficial favor once its granted), be polite and respectful in your letter.

Then… Thank Them All

Whether they grant your request or not, thank them all just the same. For those who turn down your request, ask if they’d allow you to put their link on your site, it just might make them change their minds.

For those who don’t respond to your request, send them your request again (just once more). If you still don’t receive any response from them, move on.

Get Site Listed on Search Engines

Google – http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Bing – http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

Step 4 – Build another content-rich site (located on a different IP address) and cross-link it with the first one.

What is Link Building?

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What Is Link Building?

In a nutshell, link building is getting links to your site/page(s) appear on someone else’s site/page. If done correctly, link building allows you to drive tremendous amounts of traffic to your site as well as lets your site rank high in the organic search results.

There are four main things to consider when building links—quantity, quality, relevance, and anchor text.

  • Quantity – It’s all about getting your links out and having them appear in as many sites/pages as possible. The more, the better of course. This, however, should be done with caution so as not to get one’s self branded as a “link spammer”.
  • Quality – One should not just go out and drop his/her link on each and every one of the sites/pages he/she finds. Serious consideration should be given to a target site’s reputation. Is the site/page a trusted site? Is it considered an authority in the subject matter? Another one is whether or not it has other reputable sites linking to it.
  • Relevance – This goes hand in hand with “quality”. Is the link relevant to the page/site it is placed on? Is it helpful/useful to the visitors of the site?
  • Anchor Text – Using “click here” as an anchor text won’t help you as much as “click here for low-priced laptops” would.

Find the Right Sites for Your Links

Run searches for your target keywords on the major search engines and take note of the pages/sites that appear in the top results. This lets you focus in on the “good” sites which are most likely among the most visited sites based on your target keywords. This should allow you to piggy-back on their popularity.

Contact the Webmasters/site owners of your targeted sites through email, fax, or phone and ask them if they would be willing to link to your site. Phoning them is the best way to go about this since this proves to them instantly that a real person is making the request and not an automated emailing/messaging system. But if a phone number cannot be obtained, emailing your request/invitation may well be your best and only choice.

When sending your request through email, make sure that your mail is well-written and personalized to distinguish it from all the spam they receive everyday.

You couldn’t and shouldn’t expect all of them to respond positively to your invitation/request, however, particularly those that are extremely competitive with you. But there will surely be those who will be more than willing to link to you, especially if your site contains original and valuable content.

So, what to do with sites/people who are very competitive with you?

Admittedly, your chances of getting your link on a competitor’s site ranges from slim to nil. But you can still put them into good use.

Visit your competitors’ sites and take note of the sites that they are linking to, as well as the sites that are linking to them, and get in touch with those instead. You can also do the same with the sites that have responded positively to your request.

If you find sites that have already linked to your pages, you can ask the sites’ Webmaster if they’d also be interested in linking to the other (relevant) pages on your site.

Before Sending Out Your Request

So, you’ve already got a list of people/sites to send your request to… but before you go on sending out your request, there are a few things you can do in advance which can increase your chances of getting a positive response.

  • Put their link on your site first. By doing so, you are basically turning the table around and asking them to return the favor to you. But, DO NOT make it appear/sound that way. Do not say something like “Hey, I’ve put your link on my site, please put mine on yours.” Be courteous and polite in making your invitation/request while emphasizing that you have already put up their links on your site. Show them where they can find their link on your site by providing them with the page’s URL. Also, mention that you are willing to remove their link from your site should they desire it (for any reason). Should they turn down your request, thank them then ask them if they’d allow you to keep their links on your site. What do you know, they might just change their mind about linking to you.
  • Provide the HTML code for your link along with your invitation/request. Remember, you’re asking someone a favor, so make it less of a chore for them to grant you that favor. Providing your link’s code will allow them to simply cut and paste your link onto their page.
  • Make sure that the sites you’re targeting have a links page or a portion dedicated to links. Sites that do not have a links page are most likely not going to grant you your request since they have no place to put your links on in the first place.
  • Provide them with as much information as you can to enable them to easily link to you. For example, if they have a big site, tell them the specific page/section of their site where your link would fit in.

12 Solid Link Building Tips

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  1. Start a blog. Fill it up with valuable content and link to other blogs from it. To get people’s attention, leave useful, insightful, and relevant comments on other people’s blog. This may eventually lead other bloggers/people to start reading your blog and/or linking to it. Also make sure to list it in a few of the best blog directories.
  2. If you’re a respected source of information or expertise in the industry, get your materials online and use them to attract and obtain links to your site.
  3. If you’re buying your products from a number of sources (particularly those who have web sites), try to get your sources to link to you. One way to do this is by offering them a genuine testimonial or an end-user feedback (with your link in it, of course).
  4. If you have higher profit margins than your competitors, give away some free stuff.
  5. If you’re requesting links from bloggers and site owners, give them one of your cheaper items along with your link request. This could significantly increase your chance of receiving a positive response.
  6. If you have great salespeople, treat them out to lunch, and teach them about SEO and link building. These people have what it takes to call people up and get the response they (or, in this case, YOU) want.
  7. If you have lots of staff who are not fully occupied, have them do some of the things you want done which you don’t have the time for. Have them email the webmaster of every rambling society in the country or find out the top 100 Dugg pages in your niche.
  8. If your site or products have won awards, post all the links related to your award(s) on your site.
  9. If you have a PR team, no matter if they’re only good at getting you in the offline press, challenge them to get you into some large online-outlets. Remember, the reason why you got them in the first place is because they are great at getting you talked about. What do you know, they might just do as good online.
  10. Focus on real traffic/people. Build links for them and not for search engines. If you keep people coming to your site, the search engines will surely take notice of that.
  11. Use a combination of hub and authority to factor link popularity into your site’s ranking algorithm. Simply put, a hub is a site with many outgoing links, while an authority is a site with many incoming links.
  12. Create a list of experts/gurus in your chosen niche/field on your site. If you can find a way to make your project look somewhat official, or if you can impress those experts/gurus well enough, they might end up linking to your site.

All About the Traffic

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Traffic only means that the content is not that good.
However, there are also instances wherein a great blog
does not have enough traffic. The key in getting
traffic is to come up with a strategy and make
everyone notice your blog. There are a few things that
you need to consider with regards to generating
traffic to your blog and these are not that different
from planning a regular Web site.

The only exception is that blogs can generate traffic
a lot faster. What you only need to consider first is
your target audience and where exactly you are
generating your blog’s traffic.

The Content

The content of your blog is very important. It is the
reason why people visit your blog. Try to make your
blog interesting and learn to master the ideas
included in your blog. The content should also be
relevant and of high value to the audience. Find out
what your audience wants and if what you are writing
satisfy them.

The content is especially important if you are
planning sales from your blog. Firstly, you must
become a trust-worthy and credible source of
information before people try the product. Blogs are
excellent medium for sales since they allow you to
connect and converse through the use of the content.
You must realize that without a great content, your
blog cannot fully achieve power and leverage against
others.

In order to gain audience for your content, remember
not to publish infrequently. Additionally, do not
criticize others if you do not have facts to support
your claim and references for those facts. If you
criticize, do it in an objective non-personal manner.
What you can do is to publish often and make sure that
the entry you are about to publish is meaningful and
of high-value. Lastly, be yourself to help your
audience relate to you but do not reveal any private
information.

The Ping

Some bloggers take the extra mile just to ping and do
not solely rely on the blog software pings. The blog
software pings’ job is to update the servers for the
purpose of announcing your content updates. Search
engines and blog directories then checks these update
servers for the latest updates; this is the reason why
your blog’s content gets into search engines quickly.

Pings make blogs excellent search engine optimization
tools. There are even instances where it only takes a
day before your content gets into search engines.
However, your blog’s content will only take hours to a
few days to get into most search engines, on average.

When starting a blog, always check the instructions
included. There might be section wherein you can turn
on the blog software ping automatically, which
activates on the background. By doing so, whenever you
publish content in your blog, it will instantly
transmit ping updates.

RSS feeds are also important. Not only will you be
able to publish your content within a short duration
but also replicate your content through the use of
your RSS feed. Nowadays, the flow of your content is
real-time and the RSS allows you to show your content
to a wider audience.

There are several ways to promote your blog. However,
keep in mind that there is no strategy for quick money
when it comes to profitable blogging. It requires
dedication, time, a strategy for the content and
patience before the cash starts flowing in.

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HTML5 – The Future of the Web

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Steve Jobs was recently quoted as saying “No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5” igniting interest in HTML5 and sparking numerous debates online in blogs and forums.

Jobs’ prediction that flash is dead invokes memories of the famous Mark Twain quote “reports of my death are greatly exaggerated“. While the debate rages on over the future of Flash, HTML5′s destiny is assured.

It’s not just Apple pointing to HTML5 as an internet revolution, Microsoft, Google, Opera, Mozilla, W3C and even Adobe themselves agree. In fact HTML5 may become historic for that very reason. It is arguably the only time Google, Microsoft and Apple have ever agreed on anything.

How HTML5 evolved was largely due to a disagreement with the W3C over Error Handling and the failure to embrace modern Internet applications. In 1997, W3C announced it would no longer extend HTML4 and saw XML and XHTML as the future. Draconian Error Handling, (Draco was the Greek leader that issued death penalties for minor offences), instructed that browsers were to treat all errors in XML as fatal. With 99% of web pages showing minor errors, and the lack of new features in XML, many webmasters ignored the new standard or continued to serve their websites as HTML, even when adopting XHTML.

In 2004, a group of developers and browser vendors including Apple, Opera and Mozilla gave a presentation to the W3C on evolving HTML4 to include new features for modern web applications. The W3C rejected their proposal of extending HTML and CSS. Those interested in evolving HTML4 rebelled and broke away from the W3C, forming their own working group called WHATWG (Web Hypertext Applications Technology Working Group). At the core of the WHATWG beliefs was backwards compatibility and forgiving error handling. WHATWG’s vision was to extend HTML features including form handling while ensuring that it would degrade gracefully in older browsers. While the W3C wanted the world to move to a new standard XML, WHATWG planned to evolve existing HTML to support a modern Internet.

In 2006, Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the W3C, recognized that the rebels at WHATWG had gained momentum and announced that the W3C would work together with WHATWG to evolve HTML. The W3C HTML Working Group was formed, working with HTML in conjunction with XHTML. HTML5 was officially born. In October 2009, W3C shut down XHTML2 making HTML5 the future of the Internet. The pirates had taken over the ship.

HTML5 marks a change in attitude from the W3C and seeks to support the diversity of HTML rather than just enforcement of web standards. It is an incredible achievement that HTML5 is backward compatible, meaning most of HTML5 can be used straight away albeit with some JavaScript hacks on semantics for IE. Ideas from W3C, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Opera and many other experts combine to pull the best bits out of HTML and browsers past into an exciting upgrade of the HTML language that promotes inclusion not exclusion.

In many ways HTML5 simplifies web pages, taking laborious tasks such as form validation away from web authoring and into the browser. The idea of making the browser do the work probably stems back to IE3, where Microsoft provided the first browser to build in CSS support. HTML5 introduces new tags for page structure and semantics of documents.

New markets in Typography are opening up with the implementation of “@font-face”, meaning designers at last can transfer the visual appeal of print to the web thanks to advances in CSS and HTML5. Large JavaScript libraries such as MooTools and JQuery can be slimmed down as HTML5 transfers many common tasks directly into the browser. Client side storage, session storage and client side posting are set to change how we communicate on the web. Web applications such as video are embedded by HTML without the need of JavaScript. Sites will begin to move away from Flash to deliver their video and onto HTML5, especially when current codec concerns with Mozilla Firefox are resolved.

New HTML5 API’s, such as drag and drop, are reverse engineered from Microsoft, ensuring that they are supported from the start by IE. What developers of HTML5 such as Ian Hickson (Opera) have done is to view the modern web and say, “OK that’s what people are trying to do, how can HTML5 support that“.

Unlike previous web standards based releases such as XHTML 1.1 and the never finished XHTML 2.0, HTML5 is backward compatible and is here to stay. With the involvement of people that have been critical of the W3C, HTML5 brings a standard based upgrade of HTML that is fully supported throughout the industry. HTML5 will genuinely future proof your site without the danger of your markup depreciating in a couple of years.

HTML5 timetable for completion is in 2022, which has left many webmasters confused as to its relevance now. However, any website can begin using the new specification immediately by simply changing the doc type to “<!DOCTYPE html>“, the lowest number of characters required to trigger standards mode in IE. Currently, only beta versions of browsers IE9, Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera support advanced HTML5 elements. However, typography “@font-face” is fully supported in current browsers. For more information have a look at Ethan Dunham’s “FontSquirrel.com” and Jeffrey Veen’s “Typekit.com“. Other HTML5 features such as “Drag and Drop” and “ContentEditable” are also currently supported. You can follow the implementation of HTML5 in modern browsers at “HTML5Readiness.com” and “Caniuse.com“.

Further information:

http://www.whatwg.org

http://diveintohtml5.org

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html

About The Author
Jennifer Robinson currently works as an underpaid freelance writer for Online Connect, a supplier of photocopiers and Document Management. Visit their website at www.onlineconnect.co.uk

Why SocialSpark becoming so popular – my review

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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.

Socialspark_smallFor those who are into blog monetization or pro blogging read on about this new website SocialSpark, brainchild of a company named Izea, because they got my vote on a couple of important features when joining programmes like this.

Social Spark is becoming one of the most popular “paid to post” or “sponsored post” sites on the web. Bloggers can set their own price for reviews and then start earning decent amounts of money.

I signed up a couple of days ago and the whole process was very easy and efficient. The website layouts were very well thought out with an easy flow to it, so from a total newbie to a seasoned blogger would find their way around, without feeling like your lost in a link jungle.

I liked their signup forms, being large fields with intuitive prompts to assist you in completing your details. Suppose they had to create a good comfort zone with forms, because sites like these tend to become very form field intensive. Who said filling in forms need to be dull and tedious.

Overall use of colours and regions for the pages I found to be very effective in highlighting the important and more frequently used information. The whole process looked very easy to follow because they made it easy to follow.

Once I signed up, I needed to add my blog or blogs to start accepting paid reviews and posts. SocialSpark generated a unique tracking code that I then copied and pasted into my blog source code. You might need some help with this if you are not sure how to edit or access your blog templates.

I’m using a blog theme that allows for easy adding of codes and scripts to the header or footer part of my blog, so I got my blog verified within seconds – no waiting.

Feeling my way around the SocialSpark site I found a breeze because they divided the site into four main sections being marketplace, community, account and help. Compared to other sites in the same market they got major points from me for just keeping it clear and simple with very nice looking but intuitive menu dropdowns.

Overall I’m very impressed with the signup experience, code of ethics and general website look and feel.

I am excited about this new opportunity and already busy looking at my first reviews in the marketplace. If you’re looking for a happier place to start earning from your blog, then Sign up for SocialSpark and join the blogolution!

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5 figures a month from 18 mouse clicks…

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The doors are open, hurry over there right now, before you’re too late  CBPredators is finally live, and it’s selling out FAST.

In case you’ve missed all the controversy this has caused, CBPredators is the system that lets you set up a fully functioning online business in just a few clicks of your mouse.

No joke, no kidding, no exaggeration. Go here and see for yourself.

When I say it sets everything up, I’m not meaning that it’s just some spam site generator either. No way – this thing provides traffic, content, everything you could need…

… and once it’s set up, it’s set up permanently.

So you don’t have to worry about all those other details… how to get traffic, how to build links, nothing like that.  Just push the buttons and it’s done. Check it out now

Do you know the best thing about it though?

The best part is that it’s totally scalable. You can start with one site, and easily ramp it up until you’ve got 40 or 50, all plowing serious cash straight into your pocket. Truth is, you could get that many up and running in no time at all.

But listen, there’s something else you need to know…

… I’ve been speaking with the CBPredator guys, and it turns out it’s actually their own personal tool. This is something they developed to help them with their own affiliate business.

Did it work? Well, in the short time they’ve used it so far, it’s made them over a hundred grand and counting.

So if you’re tired of struggling for traffic, struggling to get affiliate commissions, or just plain old want to make more money, this is just about the easiest way to do it.

You could be up and running just 10 or 15 minutes from now… and that’s if you take it easy.

Once you get it down, you could be churning out new sites every few minutes. That’s not an exaggeration. I’ve seen it working and it’s every bit that fast.

Just imagine that for a second – imagine being able to almost instantly create a new site for any affiliate product you want to… and to KNOW that site will get great rankings in the search engines.

It’s powerful isn’t it?

Listen, people are already calling this thing a game changer, and it is… but there’s a downside. At some point, they’re going to have to stop letting people in. The system will only cope with so many users, and once they get close to that limit, the doors will slam shut.

In fact, the only way to make sure you get in on this, is to jump in right now, with both feet. Go on, do it now

You could be making your first money just 15 minutes from now.

PS- Oh and don’t worry… the sites you create are completely your property, and can be hosted on your own servers, or wherever you want. This isn’t one of those weird spam networks or link farms or whatever they call it.

It’s just a very simple way of making unlimited income on the internet.