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Link Love - Links Round Up No. 1

Posted on August 16th, 2008 by admin

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This is my very first post on Link Love-Links Round Up which is a round up of weekly links which I’ve found to be useful work at home ideas. It’s a small way to share some link love with my readers and subscribers and bringing some useful and interesting ideas to them. I welcome anyone who reads this post to share any good posts which you have recently read and have benefited from or nominate your own post if you consider it good here. Just post your comment here giving some details.

Yan runs a pretty unique looking Link Building blog called Thou Shall Blog and has seen its traffic grown exponentially. Well that goes without saving at the rate this man keeps coming up with fresh new ideas. His biggest and most ambitious contest is drawing in the crowd - Thou Shall Win Contest - It’s Christmas in August. Check it out. Prizes worth $2500 and contest closes on Aug 31.

If you have a new work at home business blog that needs to get listed to Blog, RSS directories, Web directories, Weblogs, Bloggeries etc etc, well look no further than Stephan Miller’s Blog as he provides you 335 Places to List Your Blog.

Creating a landing page for your work at home business can be a real nightmare for some especially if you are new.Well Zac Johnson shows you how easy it is to create one in a step by step instruction and getting the result you want - a killer landing page for your business. And …..get his free Create Killer Lanking Pages - Free Template he is giving away to you so that you can try it out for yourself.

Here is one cool site that I recently stumbled upon and the blog is run by Miss ChiQ Montes. Oh did I tell you she has such talent in creating nicely designed WP themes and likes to give them away for free? The spirit of giving I guess and it’s not even Christmas. Would you like one for your work at home business? Check it out for yourself even if you don’t need one, go visit wpthemedesigner .

Lastly, Daily Blog Tips tells us what are 7 Things to Avoid While Leaving a Blog Comment. It serves a good reminder to give worthy comments that add value to the topic of discussion. We hate spams or one-liners among others. Find it out and see if you agree with all the 7 things to avoid.

If you have an interesting article you want to share on Work From Home Business Blog, just comment below and tell me about it. Link Love - Links Round Up No. 2 will be published next week.

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How To Get More RSS Subscribers For Legitimate Home Internet Business

Posted on July 27th, 2008 by admin

Do you believe that the number of RSS Subscribers you have for your Legitimate Home Internet Business‘ RSS feed determines a fair measurement of how popular your blog is or perceived to be?

I value subscribers more than any other measure of blog success, such as page views or raw traffic. Subscribers are the life blood of a successful blog in my opinion, and frankly, I wish I had more of them.
- www.copyblogger.com

It is every blogger’s greatest desire to see a big increase in the number of RSS subscribers in his RSS feed. To him, getting that important “click” is a vote of confidence, an endorsement of what he is writing and a boost to him to continue his good work. I have seen many bloggers go the extra mile just to increase their subscribers list. The latest blogger to do so is ProTycoon.com who writes free blog review for anyone who asks and getting a free linkback. The catch? Just subscribe to his blog.

The main purpose of readers subscribing to your legitimate home internet business blog is to be informed of your new posts and then come back to read them isn’t it? Well achieving that is the easy part. The more difficult part would be how to keep him as your RSS subscriber for good. While this is an important topic to discuss and I do like to cover it in later posts, but for now I really like to focus first on “How to get More RSS Subscribers“. I have seen an increase in the number of subscribers for this blog over the last 3 weeks and thought it’s a good idea to do a quick analysis of what contributed to this little success and at the same time share it here with anyone wishing to get more RSS Subscribers. Are your ready?

Make Your RSS Buttons Visible
In order to get people to notice your RSS icons, you just have to make them more visible in your blog and located at strategic areas. If you’ve done this, you can be sure that at any time when this reader is sold to your blog or its contents or for whatever reasons that he now wants to be your RSS subscriber and ready to “click” the RSS button, it can be easily found. Here are 51 RSS buttons, in all shapes and sizes, colors and dimensions. You will be spoilt for choice to find a few suitable ones for your legitimate home internet business blog.

Quality Content
There can never be a substitution for writing original and a stellar posts. You may do your research work by visiting other internet home business blogs on the topic but every word that you now write has to be original, from you. In fact if you use a similar topic and present your views, your own perspective and offers advices, suggestions and solutions, you can be sure that you will be viewed as someone with authority on that subject.

Needless to say if you do research work and provide very useful information that people are looking out for, this is going to take you some time and you should therefore be prepared to devote a few good hours to complete it. For example just to give you a better perspective on this, I usually take at least 5 hours to write and publish each of my Link Building Strategy Blog Series Posts, including searching or creating accompanying images.

Add Snippet at End of Each Post
I have added a snippet at the end of every post which is nothing more than my selected text which I then enclosed it with a double line border. This text in which I can change at anytime at the moment reads like this:

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I think the border cleverly helps to give more attention to the reader. This is the HTML code that I’m using on this blog:

<div style="padding: 10px; border: 3px double #00f; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.65em; margin-bottom: 20px;">Did you enjoy this post? Why not <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/peterleehc/Gmzy"_blank" title="Click to subscribe to this blog">subscribe to my RSS feed</a>. That way you'll <strong>never miss out on new blog posts</strong>. <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/peterleehc/Gmzy" target="_blank">Click here for the feed</a>.</div>

Feel free to grab this code for your own WordPress blog. Just go to the Theme Editor (wp-admin > Presentation > Theme Editor) and edit the Main Index Template. Then put it somewhere between <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> and <?php endwhile; ?> — but preferably closer to <?php endwhile; ?>

Add Pictures to Your Post
If you’ve been a regular visitor or a subscriber to my blog, you may have noticed that I started adding pictures just before the start of my Link Building Strategy Series Posts. That’s when I found out having a picture in your blog post really brings out the message you wish to focus on and share with your readers. So searching for a somewhat relevant picture does help your cause even more. If you are unable to locate a relevant one, well just create one with your own text. The downside of adding pictures is that it takes up too much of your time. Well that’s where I can help to alleviate some of this hardship. Here are a few of the websites that I have used to search for my favorite pictures:

http://blaugh.com
http://www.picapp.com/PublicSite/
http://redkid.net/generator/
http://www.bigfoto.com/

Blog Translation - How Important is it?
Sometime ago I read an article about an interview given by Matt Cutts from Google mentioning that it is important to create a useful resource or service to attract visitors. It’s quite an interesting thought provoking statement and it does seem very true. But I was wondering how successful a blogger would be after he has created this useful resource. I mean the home business internet marketing world is pretty big and the thing that strikes me is that there could be a whole lot of people who, due to language barriers may not understand you, despite how good your resource or service is.

- Over 100 million people access the Internet using a language other than English
- Over 50% of web users do not speak English
- Web users are four times more likely to make purchases from sites written in the local languages
Forrester Research

I do have a quick solution – Install Yahoo Babel Translation. The link to install this excellent tool can be found at the right side bar of this blog.

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Home Internet Business-7-In-Dept Link Building Tips-Part 5

Posted on July 20th, 2008 by admin

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Welcome back! This is Part 5 of my Legitimate Home Internet Business -Link Building Strategy Post Series. I hope that you’ve found my last 4 posts to be helpful and were able to pick up some tips for your own work at home business. With that said, let’s dive in….

Create two site maps - one for Search Engines (Google Sitemaps) in xml format and the other one for your visitors

1. Install CommentLuv Plugin
CommentLuv is a Wordpress plugin that grabs the last post by commentors and appends it to their comment, thus giving them a backlink to their site. Clearly this means that you are getting an additional back link for every blog comment you now make. Incidentally the plugin owner just announced you can soon define a default post for your site url so it shows that instead of your latest post when you comment on a CommentLuv site or see a list of the last 10 blogs you commented. Time taken to install it on your wordpress blog: 5 minutes.

Let’s stop for a second and think what this means for you. When you offer CommentLuv on your blog, you are actually answering the “What’s in it for me to comment on your blog?” question many readers like to ask. Personally it works for me too and it’s a great way to get direct deep linkbacks to your site. I have a daily mental to-do checklist, which includes 10 blogs to comment. Now hypothetically, if I’m on my 10th comment, who do you think I will post it to, one with CommentLuv or another without?

Another great comment-related plugin you can check out which I’m using is: Top Commentators Widget. Find out why at one time, I was like a frantic blogger trying to get to number one “Top Commentators” of my favorite blogs. At that time, I had an intuition that it was good for search engine ranking. But just last week I read from Yan’s ThouShallBlog that it’s not a hunch. It’s true!

2. Ask me to do a link exchange. Better still link to me first and then ask me to link back. Here is a link exchange sample script that you can use:

#1 ~Visit Their Link Page & Email Recieved Request - Add - Send Email~
I visited your link page at http://www.____ and I am sending my info as requested.
I placed your link http://www.____ at Google PR __ http://www.____ , permanently 1 click away from Home Page - let me know if your site’s info is correct.
Could you place my link on a PR __ page 1 click away from your Home Page and reply?
In return, I’ll keep your link on my good page.
My link info:
My link info:
url: http://www.____
title: ____
desc: ____

Do not underestimate the effectiveness of such manual link exchanges. Many people just shun at link exchanges. I used to feel this way too. But ever since I started having a link building strategy in place I do see its value in a much bigger picture and how it can help me achieve the desired result I want for my legitimate home internet business. If you’ve seen an SEO Checklist used by experienced webmasters, you will know just what I mean. Another aspect of what this can do for you is that it helps you build a rapport with many new bloggers, with increased online home business opportunities and possible joint ventures. If you are now convinced that you really need a proven link building strategy, such link exchanges should be a part of what you do everyday just like blog commenting. It’s a good idea to create a simple SEO Link Building checklist to follow.

3. Write posts using keywords in the title. Whenever you write a new post, your objective in link building perspective is really to garner more linkbacks to your post. If and when people do linkback to you, it is likely that they will use the title to make the link. Choosing keywords in your title makes lots of sense and you can be sure that you will get more backlinks if you spend a little more time on it using this technique. Your title that you’ve chosen should ideally be compelling, thought provoking, or makes people incredibly curious as to the content of your post. Sometimes I think it’s a little phycological. No one wants to ignore and not knowing what they’ve missed. If you’ve got a title like ” How To Earn a Six Figure Income from Blogging in Two Easy Steps“, don’t you think people will be extremely curious to find out for themselves and feel like clicking the link. Well it looks like you too can’t wait to find this out for yourself. So go right ahead…. enjoy reading it and find out the answer to: “How to Earn a Six Figure Income from Blogging in Two Easy Steps“.

In a 1000-word article with a 10-word title, the 10 words in the title are probably more important than the next 1000.
- TropicalSEO.com

4. Acquire 5 Quality Backlinks a week for each site that you maintain focusing first on sites that are doing well in search engines. This brings in more online traffic than trying to quick start a new site and experienced webmasters who do website tracking (Google Analytics) have said so too. As search engines update their rankings on average every 10 days (more for Google and less for Yahoo, MSN), obtaining five quality backlinks a week for one site is therefore good enough.

5. Create new, cheap domains and web hosting by purchasing and owning them. Search for free hosting pages, free websites and maintain them at established sites including blogs, groups, forums and subdomains. Although most free sites have slightly lower quality because its index pages are not pointing to your homepage, experienced webmasters are happy with them usually owning more than 10 of them. They know that as the sites grow older, they gain better search engine quality. These sites can also be used for your 3 way link exchanges that you do with other bloggers so that they can improve on their page rankings.

6. Why a Website Ranks High:
This is a list of contributing factors to your legitimate home internet business website getting a high search engine ranking. This list is found in an SEO Specialist website:

30% because of old Backlinks
25% because of new Backlinks
15% because of regular updates
10% because it offers a useful service or resource
5% because of good title and meta tags description
5% because of keywords in content on page
3% because of minimizing, removing outbound links not working
3% because of HTML write-up validating
2% because of minimizing HTML bytes
1.5% because of other SEO
0.5% because of good keyword meta tag

7. At least half of all your newly acquired backlinks must point to your inside pages(non-home). Also, as mentioned in my other Link Building Strategy posts, do remember that any inside pages linking to your other inside pages at the same site do count as backlinks too. It is therefore very important that your pages contain links to your other inside pages as well.
Secret Tip: Place a link to a few of your inside pages from your legitimate home internet business page and from half your inside pages within the top 17 to 300 words in the main body. This should increase your pagerank on the next PR update.

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Part 4 - Internet Home Business-Link Building Strategy-DIY SEO Work Schedule-Part 4
Part 5 - 7 In-Dept Link Building Tips-Part 5

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How to Earn a Six Figure Income from Blogging in Two Easy Steps

Posted on July 19th, 2008 by admin

Do you often wonder what it’ll be like when you get rich. I mean really really rich. We all have such dreams don’t we, and it’s such dreams that keep us going each day. Well that day may not be too far away. The proof of people making money online now from blogging is already there for all to see. Darren Rowse the guy behind ProBlogger and Yaro from Enterpreneurs-Journey are just the cream of the crop of many others who have made it.

The fact is that they earn six figure income from blogging and they are proud of their achievements and even willing to share their secrets of how they got to be where they are today. Anyway who can blame them. It’s also another proven way to grow their income too in ebooks, advertisements, product launches and just about anything sponsors can think of to obtain their services.

Well if you’ve read what they have done in order to get to the top, I’m not sure if many of us can duplicate or emulate their successes. Fortunately, I’ve recently discovered the blueprint for “How to Earn a Six Figure Income from Blogging” in two easy steps.

There you have it! A new secret is born. OK, OK did you enjoy it! This is such a classic way of sharing with you the importance of choosing keywords and how they can help your online traffic. Can I now bring you back to the real world…one in which we are really trying to achieve a decent online income from blogging. Let’s stop for a moment. I clicked to read this article too and the only thing that made all of us this excited were 13 words - yes the post title. Congratulations! you’ve succeeded in realizing the full extent of the power of “titles”. If you’ve been following my Link Building Strategy series, I hope I have a small part to play in helping you passed the test with flying colors from my recent post “How Keywords Can Get You Top Search Engine Rankings (Part 2)“.

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Internet Home Business-Link Building Strategy-DIY SEO Work Schedule-Part 4

Posted on July 12th, 2008 by admin

Top keyword rankings at Search Engines for your legitimate home internet business is an easy goal of the experienced SEO expert. But could the average marketer like you and me reach this goal too?

Update Your Site Regularly
There could be some people who may still not know how important it is to update your content on your Home Page. According to an SEO Specialist I have consulted with, this should be done at least every 17 days. Updating your description meta tag to reflect your page content is required and it is also recommended to have your title meta tag updated every 6 to 17 months.

Why 17 Days? The average engine update is 10 days and doing most SEO things every other update with 50+ sites shows to be just as effective as doing them every update with 20 to 30 sites because of the quality owned crosslink. I came up with 17 by doubling 10 days and subtracting 3 to make sure my high engine hitters are at their best for the probable second engine crawl.

- Scott Coplen, SEO Specialist

Beware of Keyword Stuffing
Once you have determined all your relevant keywords to be used for your legitimate home internet business site, you have to remember to periodically check that you do not fall guilty of keyword stuffing. Here is a keyword density analyzer that can help you quickly achieve this and keep your website search engine friendly. There is a good possibility that keyword stuffing may be made a search engine algorithm penalty according to Matt Cutts from Google.

Site Evaluation
It pays to evaluate your site to determine what you are doing wrong and at the same time get your website high up in natural search results. Here is one excellent tool I have used to do this called Website Grader. Besides the on-page site evaluation, it also provides you with useful information like your inbound links, Google backlinks, Google’s last crawl date, and even information on your selected competitors.

Maintain a Fast Loading Site
Do you prefer a beautiful website which loads incredibly slow or an average looking website which is super fast? Well the answer is obvious as most people completely ignore slow loading sites. It is also one of the top blogging tips on how to get repeat visitors to your blog or website. Here are a few things you can do to achieve this:

Minimize the bytes of your html write-up by deleting unwanted characters keeping them to a minimum for fast loading pages. I’ve come across this tool called an image cruncher which can do this. Unfortunately doing this will slightly reduce the quality of the viewed image but will reduce it’s byte size for a faster loading page.

Validate your html write-up using an HTML validator. This keeps your site fast off the server.

Remove Canceled Link Exchange Sites . It is so important to conduct such checks for sites who have ended a link exchange with you. The main reason for doing so is to prevent what is called page rank bleeding, which will hurt your search rankings.

Remove links not working for your legitimate home internet business because no one likes to be sent to a page that doesn’t work. Personally I like to do this manually by checking all my outbound links and have all bad links removed immediately.

Add high quality web page to your pages so that these pages can eventually have better page ranks. If you have an older site or page with low PR, this could raise your PR when there is a pagerank update.

A personal experience I can share with you is this. Take a look at my blog post called “Boost your Legitimate Home Business with Hit Tail” I wrote in Feb 2008 which had PR0. Just about 2 weeks ago during my Link Building Strategy project, I started adding some nice pictures just to add some color into this old post. The result of my experiment: this page jumped rank from PR0 to PR3 in a matter of 2 – 3 weeks. How did this happen you might ask? Well with a little bit of work, some intuition and lots of luck I guess. It so happened that my blog post title has a word which matches that of this picture url, ranked PR4 and the word “Long Tail” in its title can be found all over my blog post. As we know that Google does not recognize images so this proves the point I am raising on the subject.

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