How to Trackback and Why You Should

You may not be asking how to trackback and that may be because you don't know the potential in using trackbacks... yet. However, this week we're going to be focusing on trackbacks. What they are, how you get them and why you would even want to think about them! What is a trackback? Trackbacks and pingbacks, from what I can tell, are about the same thing. It's wordpress software's way of notifying another site that you mentioned them over at your site. Each time you link to another site … [Read more...]

Guest Posting ~ What Others are Saying

Guest Posting is the new article marketing. Yeah, it's really that important. Instead of posting an article on a huge directory mixed in with thousands of other articles on your topic and about a million other topics you get to post an article to an eager crowd looking for the information you're offering. Please don't let whatever excuse you're using for not guest posting get in your way. You don't have to start with the biggest blog in your niche. You can start small and move up as you gain … [Read more...]

Choosing Blogs To Follow

This week the goal is to find 10 blogs in your niche or related to your niche to follow.  This can be really easy right? Just go out there and pick some blogs.  Yes, it can be that easy, but today I'm going to give you some tips about how you can choose blogs to follow so you can best leverage your time and effort. 1. Regularly and Consistently Updated You want to choose blogs that are active. This means the person (like you) is updating their content 3 to 5 times a week.  You want/need … [Read more...]

Web Traffic Tips: Niche Directories

For those of you who hate to write, you're going to love today's web traffic tip. Today we're going to learn about submitting our sites to niche directories.  This web traffic tip will help you in a couple ways. 1. Get some good quality links back to your site to help improve your search engine ranking. 2. Some direct traffic. What is a niche directory? A niche directory is a site that contains links to a bunch of different sites all related to the same niche or topic. You can find … [Read more...]

Web Traffic Tips: Backlink Packets

Even after my post a few days ago about changing the mindset of getting traffic I know most of you still want to build links to get some Google love. That's ok ~ Google traffic is free, and once it's established it's pretty much hands off so I understand. The question then becomes: How do I build enough links? Thus far we have been creating a lot of content to add our links to, which means a lot of writing. I also realize not everyone loves to write or finds writing easy to do. For … [Read more...]

Some Interesting Things I Found About CommentLuv

I was over at a new blog I'm following yesterday and when I went to make a comment I realized commentluv had been pulling in the same blog post for a really long time. I started clicking stuff and realized you could actually sign your blog up at commentluv and then it would show 10 posts for you to choose from. That's pretty cool. It was not easy to figure out how to do it, some links on the site are broken, but I finally did it. Here's how it went: 1. Go to the site 2. Click the … [Read more...]

Social Bookmarking ~ How to Get Started

Social bookmarking though, not my favorite way to get links is a way to easily get links back to your sites. Before we get into this let's get clear about what social bookmarking is and how it can best be used. Social bookmarking: Social: As with all web 2.0 stuff the content is user generated. People on the web bookmark sites they like, and then the sites they bookmark are shared with anyone who wants to see them. This is a social game, whether you think so or not, it is also a … [Read more...]

How to Start and Use Your Blog

I've been getting quite a few questions about how to work better/quicker/faster/easier with a blog. I thought I'd cover a few tips and tricks about blogs today. If you have any questions I haven't covered please ask them in them in the comments section ~ that way this will be a great place you can come back and reference for blog related questions. :) So here we go. Where can I build a blog? I know I recommend blogger, but there are lots of places you can build a blog very easily for … [Read more...]

Let’s Talk Product Benefits!

Creating content is the cornerstone of internet marketing. You have to have content for your main site, then you need content to put on the sites to build links, whether it's in blog posts, or articles you're writing, content is huge. So what do you do when you just can't think of something to write about? How on earth do you write all this content for ONE product?? Never fear ~ there are ways, easy ways you can get this done. One of the easiest ways is to think about what the product … [Read more...]

Using Free Ad Blogs for Building Links

What is a free ad blog? A free ad blog is a blog someone has put up where they allow other people to post on the blog. Some have more rules than others, but the basic similarity is that you can put content on someone else's blog. What is the purpose of doing this? The purpose of writing posts on a free ad blog is to get links pointing back to your lens helping it increase its search engine ranking. How does it work? It takes a few simple steps, then you'll be ready to post. 1. … [Read more...]