I’ve just bought an SEO Plugin called ‘Lazy SEO Rockstar‘ and I really like it so much that I’m going to do a quick review of it and share with you. I like it because it’s focused on onpage and offpage SEO which can relate to just about anyone who has a home business blog, someone who wants to make money online or simply starting out learning how to make money blogging.

What Is This Plugin All About

It’s the first time I see a wordpress plugin provide so much useful information and information that you can use in your daily routine SEO work. Perhaps it was developed with the intention of helping a lazy Internet Marketer and that’s why the name. But I meant lazy in a very good way. All of us are lazy to do all those boring and seemingly unproductive work and much prefer to use the valuable time instead doing something that we can see the rewards quickly. But we don’t always get what we want right? OK, the way this plugin was developed was meant to allow Internet Marketers or anyone who owns at least a site to spend just 10 minutes a day to automate some of our boring SEO tasks like onsite SEO, offsite SEO, backlinking and keyword research.

There are essentially 4 modules supported by this plugin. Module 1 helps you do ‘Long Tail Keyword Research‘, while Modules 2/3 take care of onsite SEO factors (Post LSI and Mass Tagging) and Module 4 focuses on offsite SEO and the much raved about by the many people in the Forum – it provides you EDU/GOV backlinks in seconds.

Module 1- Long Tail Keyword Research

The plugin lets you type in a ‘seed keyword’ and simply clicking a “Go’ button lists an extensive list of long tail keywords for you.  Well take a look at this screenshot and you will understand better with my example seed keyword as ‘make money blogging‘:

My Thoughts:

Long Tail keywords may not generate as much traffic as your main keywords but if you consistently write your contents using long tail keywords the eventual traffic amassed can be huge. Also it’s good for SEO too as such contents help the search engine know what topic you are writing. Personally I think it can be even more effective if you write long posts because you can write lots of different long tail keywords. I wrote about the benefits of writing long posts in this post called “2-Week Old Authority Site Now Gets Constant Traffic“. Having a list of such keywords in seconds makes your writing so much easier don’t you think? It even lets you export it for future use as well.

Module 2 – Post LSI

It has a menu that lists all your blog posts and selecting any can then tell you which keywords have helped your visitors find your particular post after they searched in Google.

My Thoughts

Having this information at your fingertips is great. You can use it for strategic planning and understanding visitor traffic and if your keyword selection is correct. It’s a lot faster since it is found in your blog rather than having to go to Google Webmaster Tools to hunt for it.

Module 3 – Mass Tagger

The mass tagger lets you tag keywords people used to find your blog posts (see module 2) automatically. You either manually tag your posts with these keywords or you can automate the process and let the plugin do it. If you look at this post below just after ‘Did You Miss Any Of These”, you will find the keywords shown as ‘tags’ – these are what keywords visitors have used to search in Google for this post. All done for me automatically.

Module 4 – Gov/EDU Backlinks

Like they say the best is left to the very last and this module is the most talkabout and most powerful. It lets you type your keyword and the plugin then searches for Gov/EDU blogs for you to do your commenting and get those precious backlinks easily. In seconds! It also lists the PR of the blog page so you can select only high page rank blogs to do your commenting.

Here is a screenshot:

My Thoughts

No matter what arguments you may have about the usefulness or the power of EDU/GOV links, I have always heard the experienced marketers swear by EDU and GOV links and why they viewed them with so much respect. Now if you think my post showing you How To Find EDU and GOV LInks is great, wait till you see how much more this plugin/EDU/GOV Backlinks Module can do for you. It’s awesome.

DO YOU WANT THIS WP PLUGIN INSTALLED ON YOUR BLOG?

There are actually 2 options:

You can buy this SEO Plugin from the Warrior Forum (use this post to buy at the current WSO price of $9.90. But it is on dimesale which means when more people buy the price will continue to go up every 10 sales.

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/457070-650-sold-lazy-search-engine-optimization-rockstar-all-one-wp-search-engine-optimization-plugin-rave-reviews-very-low-price.html

OR::
Let me install this SEO PLugin for your blog at just $5.00. I have obtained permission from the plugin owner, Traian Turcu that I can do so. Just contact me.

I  provide this wp-plugin upload service on your wordpress blog as one of my Cheap Link Building Services  I provide to my blog readers and subscribers only. If you are interested, do contact me.

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Many of us probably used Blogger or any web 2.0 websites for only one purpose – link building to boost the search engine rankings of any of our money making websites or make money blogging blogs. Well hopefully this post gives you some food for thought and perhaps you may have a different perspective or objective when you create your next blog in Blogger.

How did I start this niche in Blogger?

All my niche sites’ domains are self-hosted and I’ve never ever used Blogger or any free sites other than for link building purposes, so ranking it to no. 1 or Google’s’ page one is never in my mind. This is my very first niche site created in Blogger. One of my niche sites was ranked no. 5 in Google and I wanted to push it up to no. 1 so I thought having a similar niche site created in Blogger may help.

All my niche sites are using exact name domains as my main keyword phrase, so I was lucky to have also found the exact name in Blogger as well. Here’s all the information you will find useful:

Niche Site in Blogger (what I did in chronological sequence)

1.  Sep 8 - created niche site in Blogger with one post for the homepage. No links on the page but put adsense (it’s a strategy I learned and it worked)

2. Sep 9 – Google has indexed my blog (very much because of #1 strategy)

3. Sep 20 – published second post on the blog

4. Sep 29 – published third post on the blog

5. Sep 30 – I noted that the Sep 29 post has been indexed by Google. Now I start to update my 3 posts with 2 links on each post point to my niche site which has the same domain name as this blog name.

6. Nov 20 – Found site on Google’s page 2, #20 . Published 4th post and decided to put some life into the blog. Added 2 more adsense ads (1 block 336X280 and link unit468X15) and included one image with keyword in alt-text at the end of each post. Change header and ensure matching links color with adsense. That’s it.

7. Nov 21 (6.30 a.m) – Wanted to check if latest post was indexed but found much more than that. Found site on Google’s page 1, #1. Yeah and it outranked my other owned niche site now currently at #3, can you believe that? Almost side by site.  It looks a little strange – yes interestingly strange but absolutely wonderful. haha!

My Thoughts

1. Well whether the site will continue to remain at the no. 1 position, only time will tell (still no. 1 after 9 hrs so far at time of writing this post UPDATE: DEC 9 STILL @NO.1 IN GOOGLE) but that’s not too important. I still maintain that I will use Blogger more for link building and if any of these sites get good ranking in Google, it’s just a bonus.

2. Looks like I’ve completely missed out on using Blogger to my advantage for all my 21 niche sites. I ought to create a few more blogs in Blogger and hopefully I can find exact names as well. Anyway it’s going to be useful for any link wheel I may intend to selectively do for a few of my niche sites in the near future.

3. Gaining Google’s trust is so important when you start to build a new site. So in this niche site, my strategy not to show any links on my homepage before getting Google indexed worked because the big G dislikes people who creates blogger blogs solely for link building. In fact a few years ago I’ve had one or 2 general blogger blogs deleted because I failed to realize this importance or give due respect to G. With Google you can’t just be goody two shoes, you have to be genuinely good period.

4. The importance of using exact name domain is proven yet again here and  all my 21 niche sites followed this selection criteria during the keyword research and domain selection.

5. You don’t need many backlinks to get to Google’s no. 1 position as there are many other factors that are very important too as this case shows. I just checked Yahoo Site Explorer and it shows this blogger blog has only 7 backlinks mostly from my squidoo lenses.

6. Niche Keyword Research Info:

Broad Search-Global Search Count=14800 per month

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It’s not all about ranking!

The very first mistake and assumption is ranking. People tend to think that it’s all about your ranking position in the search engines. People become so overly mesmerized about it that they lose focus about everything else. Sure, ranking is important but it’s not everything in SEO, far from it. Search Engine Optimization doesn’t mean getting a high rank in the search engines, it means leveraging on the search engines to get the best results possible for your site/business! There’s a huge difference between both statements. I don’t think that I need to tell you again why it’s worthless for your “Shoe store” website to rank number one for a keyword like “low quality and dirty shoes”… Ranking in the search engines, anybody with basic SEO knowledge can do that, so it can’t be a criterion to decide on your SEO/SEM consultant.

There’s always a why!

A professional SEO/SEM consultant won’t just be able to rank for a keyword, it will be able not only to tell you which keywords your site or pages should be optimized for, but even more importantly why it is so! And when I mean why, I’m not talking about saying things like this one has low competition, or this one is easy to optimize for. What I’m referring to is strategic and analytical skills here. A professional SEO/SEM consultant will be able to decipher your site and its visitor’s behavior, then from such information, he’s able to devise a plan of action as to which keywords your site should be optimized for based on:

1. Your Traffic Sources.
2. Your Visitors Behavior.
3. Your Conversion Rate.

This, I can assure that it is not something that a person with limited skills or experience can do for you. But let’s look even further…

PPC Knowledge

Again, this sounds like something overly simple. Anybody can launch a campaign, so what’s the big deal about it? If you are considering hiring someone to take care of your PPC work, then whenever you talk to that person, he or she should ask you the following question beyond your maximum budget: “What is your customer lifetime value?” Just like SEO is not about having a top ranking for a keyword but rather making sure that the right page is presented to the right people at the right time, PPC is not about writing some ads and letting people click on them until your budget is maxed out. So beyond writing good ads that get clicked through, your consultant should know about and being able to estimate the cost limit for your campaign per bid and not just seeking to max out the budget. Without consideration of ROI, even if your ad gets 11% click through rate and you can boast yourself of another excellent 6% conversion rate, your campaign may still be losing money or being worthless if your cost per acquisition exceeds your average customer lifetime value. Not only that, but since performance is involved too, your SEO/SEM consultant should be very experienced in split testing knowing exactly how to test and optimize not only your ads, but also your landing pages. Remember, you don’t need to be an expert to get ads that get clicked on and maxing out a budget, so you can’t base your decision on that!

In Conclusion

There’s more to a professional SEO/SEM consultant than just basic stuff. He or she’s your partner in business to help you succeed as much as possible. For those reasons, such consultant knows more than just keywords and clicks, but he’s really capable of doing thorough analysis, planning and suggestions to you that will really contribute to your business success. If you ever need a consultant, referring to such skills will help you screen out “fakes” and “unskilled” people, increasing your chances to get your money worth!

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During the past week, I dedicated a good portion of my free time doing link building specifically for my homepage and this home business blog. While doing so, I realized that some of the work I did to accomplish my backlinks building task would never have seen the light of day by many others. Others who chose to believe a different opinion from hearsay or a total misunderstanding of SEO. Let’s try to debunk a few of these link building myths to see if their fears are well founded.

Myth No 1.

It’s not good for your site to leave your link on an “inner page” that is new or has a low Page Rank like PR0 inside of a high Page Rank domain.

My thoughts

My recent link building efforts over the last 5 days is one good example and I practiced this. I linked to inner pages of PR0 of high page rank sites of PR6-PR9. After finding about 50 of these links, the result- My keyword phrase ‘online business opportunities‘ moved from 24th position to 7th position.

If you refer to an interview with Google’s Matt Cutts and read between the lines, you could make your own deductions. Here is part of it:

Stephan Spencer: OK. So, I guess, a follow on to that would be: a .edu and .gov link, and so forth, has, typically, a more pristine link neighborhood, so it is not just about the PageRank, right? The link neighborhood comes into play.

Matt Cutts: That is a little bit of a “secret sauce” question, so I am not going to go into how much we do trust that sort of stuff.

Stephan Spencer: OK. I am going to slap my wrist now. Ouch, ouch!

Matt Cutts: [laughing]

Myth No 2.

You must always obtain “relevant” links in the same niche as your website otherwise the links don’t help in your SEO or you will get penalized by Google.

My thoughts

While it is ideal to get links belonging to the same niche as yours, it will not hurt you if they come from non relevant sites. But only if they are high quality sites with high page rank. Google realized that there is no way to control incoming links to your website. If this were true, many nasty sites who want to bring the top sites down and rank higher than them would simply start linking lots of bad sites with them.

Another news worthy incident to prove this theory is this. Remember the day news broke out about then President Clinton having an …er indiscretion with a young intern that goes by the name of Monica Lewinsky? Well hundreds of thousands of very interested readers and websites linked to ‘The Drudge Report’ from the site of the same name. Yes that’s natural linking at its best! I have to say no penalty was ever meted out by Google to this site. In fact it became well known after all the linking

Myth No. 3

If you build too many links and too fast, you will be penalized by Google

My thoughts

I think for the average person building too many links and doing it too fast should not happen.  You’ll need to have tens of thousands of similar links to raise a red flag to Google. That probably fit the profile of a spammer and that’s what Google will be going after.

Myth No.4

I cannot see my backlinks in Yahoo Site Explorer, or some other “Backlink Checker” tool, so they don’t count.

My Thoughts

It can take some time before your links show up in Yahoo Site Explorer and backlink checker tools, but most of us know that Google will NEVER show them all to you. My own experience I mentioned above shows no backlinks found in Yahoo or Google but my SERP has improved 17 positions due to my 5 days-link building work.

Share with us your linking experience

Do you have any wonderful (or bad) experience to share with us with regards to your link building efforts. How long did it take to see your backlinks showing up in Google or Yahoo?

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For those of you who may be new to this blog, as a small gesture of my appreciation, the Top Commentator for each month will be recognized and rewarded with a free one-month 125×125 ad banner on this blog.

This Top Commentator for The Month of January goes to …(drumroll) Ben Pei (again) of PeiProfit. As you might know, Ben was also the top commentator here for December. Actually it comes as no surprise to me as I’ve seen him clinched the top spots at so many other blogs, including the famous John Chow’s. I’m not sure how he did that but he’s probably smiling to himself for this achievement. That probably contributed to his massive inbound links as I did a quick check today and found tons of JC backlinks. Well Ben perhaps one day you can let in on your secret, or is that reserved for your ebook?

Another reason why I’m not surprised in him getting top commentator here is probably because he recently wrote Be A Top Commentator, Do The Right Thing. Obviously if he is advising people how to become a top commentator, naturally he has to become one too. This shows that you do walk the talk, Ben.

Now what do the rest of the Commentators get as a reward? You’ll get a link love from yours truly as a gesture of my appreciation to you for sticking with me and supporting my work at home blog.

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• Sire
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• Wei Liang
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This wraps up a pretty busy month of January which saw a few more of my keyword phrases reached page 1 SERP, obtained a high of 142 RSS subscribers, and getting inbound links of 10,000.  Ben as my top commentator, please confirm if you wish to use current banner being shown on my blog.

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While many of us are too busy trying to increase massive backlinks to our website or home business blog, for the good of succeeding in search engine rankings,  there is one aspect of link building that may be neglected – Natural Link Building.

What is Natural Link Building

“Natural Linking” is said to take place when many bloggers link to the same site or blog. The mere fact that many people painstakingly link to a specific site and recommend their readers check via a hyperlink text the site or post clearly demonstrates a big vote of confidence to this site and contents . I suspect there’s some truth  behind SEO consultants’ claim that search engines have built their ranking algorithms based on existence of natural linking taking place.

Natural links usually takes place  by deep linking to the website or blog, proving yet again how important deep links can be to improve your link building strategy. This was discussed in my post on deep links so do check it out if you’ve missed it.

An Easy Way To Natural Link Building

I’ve actually been doing natural link exchanges with other friends for a long time but recently found a better and more efficient way to do this.  Well this tip works much better for bloggers who have a  whole lot of friends who are bloggers too. If your circle of friends in the blogging community is relatively small, you could still use this tip, but you’d probably take a little longer to find your potential partners, that’s all. (here’s a post which may just help you get started in no time). Anyway, that ought to be a temporary phase given that we all agree your home business success depends a great deal on how successful you are at building good relationships with other bloggers.

Identify Partners, Keyword Phrases

1. The first step is selecting your keyword phrases that you want as your anchor text to link to your blog or web site. In this tutorial, we will use the keyword phrase ‘Make Money Online‘.
2. Secondly you should try to identify  some blogs that have used or written posts containing similar text words ’make money online‘. This is where having a big list of your blogging  friends can really help expedite your search. In this tutorial we’re going to use Work From Home Business‘ peterleehc.com/blog, but it should work for any other sites that you are interested in.
3. Now simply type: ‘make money online -category -tag -archives site:peterleehc.com/blog’. The (-) helps to remove similar posts on these categories. You’ll then be presented with all the posts which have the keyword phrase ‘ make money online’.

Inform and Propose Natural Link Exchanges to other Bloggers

This is the easiest part. You have now identified a suitable post from your favorite blogger or friend which has the same keyword phrase that you are targeting on your blog. Your final task is to email him and propose a natural link exchange, providing your own post too for his consideration. Simple!

I’ve found from my own experience that doing this extra effort goes a long way in getting a natural link exchange done with other bloggers very quicky. We’ve always talked about the importance of providing a solution to our customer’s problems. Well it looks like we could use this lesson we have learned  and apply it to our natural link partners too isn’t it.

Building Your Natural Links…well Naturally

1.  A good strategy to do such natural link exchanges with a good number of blogs is to make it seem as natural as possible. This means try not to exchange too many links with the same blogger or the same post and I’m pretty sure you do have lots of posts you’ve written with the same keyword phrases.

2.  Make your links look natural so do make an effort to blend in the anchor text of words nicely into your paragraph you’ve selected. So don’t use words like “check this post” or “read more from this post on..”

3.  One good thing that may benefit both bloggers is that if you do this correctly, your readers may even appreciate your post even more as you’re providing more value added substance to your post.

4. Besides your usual directory submissions, article submissions, blog commenting which have their own merits in link building, having your fair share of natural link building, gives that much needed boost to your link building strategy. Besides it gives a good balance in in your overall link building techniques and strategy.

It may do you good not to think of natural link building purely for SEO at least not directly. More links can mean more avenues to generate traffic and if you have quality content people will be willing to link to it. Remember the definition of “natural link building” when I first started this post? Well It’s important that all these links appear natural to Google to be able to get in its good books making it seem more organic than an enforced link building task. Well If we can do this all I can say is that it will help us move from a baby step to taking a giant LEAP in doing well for your work at home business.

What did I miss? Do you have other interesting ways of doing natural link building that you want to share? Drop me a comment and share them as well as some thoughts.

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What a wonderful way to start my first post in 2009 with my Top Commentator Award and showing my appreciation to my readers and subscribers for supporting my home business blog and all your valuable comments for the year 2008. For those new to this blog, as a small gesture of my appreciation, the Top Commentator for each month will be recognized and rewarded with a free one-month 125×125 ad banner on this blog.

Give credit to your commentators – According to Duct Tape Marketing active commenting is one of the first signs that a blog has some real life and:

” The fact that your readers can comment and add relevant content to your site via blog comments is a major breakthrough in the communication process…”

This Top Commentator for The Month of December goes to …(drumroll) Ben Pei of PeiProfit. Ben has always been one of the first to comment on my posts and contributed his thoughts and knowledge of the topics in discussion. Reciprocating comments with my top commentators is also what I practiced not just because I put up my ‘u comment I comment’ icon but I honestly feel that my top commentators who consistently comment on my blog really have some good things going on, on their blogs. That theory has proven true at least for me. Thank you Ben for being my top commentator and I look forward to your continued support to this blog. You are hereby accorded the mighty rank of  “Boomerang Commentator“, something which another Top Commentator, Sire said:

Boomerang Commentators: These commentators are the pick of the bunch, the ones that all bloggers aspire to. They are the ones that continually return to your blog, and it’s because your content has struck a cord in them, one that lures them back time and time again to see what other commentators are saying, to add to the conversation yet again and to also check to see what new post has been added.

Well said Sire. Now what do the rest of the Commentators get as a reward? You’ll get a New Year’s first link love from yours truly as a gesture of my appreciation to you for sticking with me and supporting my work at home blog.

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This wraps up a pretty hectic ecstatic month of December which saw another one of my keyword phrases, work at home ideas getting to Google Top 10 and getting 500 incoming links from 5 outbound links in a simple link love post. Ben as my top commentator, please email me on your ad banner details.

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This is my sixteen Link Love-Links Round Up No.16 that I have the pleasure of sharing with you some work from home ideas I’ve read around the blogosphere. This week my 5 favorite posts cover Search Engine Ranking, Blogging Tips, Link Building, Traffic Building.

• Developing a unique blogging style is important not just to your readers and subscribers but more importantly to yourself as a blogger. Find out what Tom from Standoutblogger has to say in 4 Ways To Develop Your Unique Blogging Style.

• Do you want to get ranked #1 in Google? Then find out How Many Links Does It Takes To Get #1 In Google. This is a must read post from the owner of non other than Courtney Tuttle.

• Do you know that Firefox , compared to IE is a safer browser to use and that most of the people who use Firefox are more aware and conscious of potential security risks. Find out more what Garry Conn has written in Playing Online Games Can Be Dangerous for IE Users.

• Are you looking for link exchanges with others with related niches. Here is a refreshing way of doing this allowing you to exchange quality keyword optimized links with each other. Here is the deal. All links should be contained in a related post or on the site wide sidebar. Interested?  Then head over to Grizzly’s Niche Support.

• If you are wondering if anyone has achieved getting an increase of more than 200 % unique visitors per day (well about 2500 to be exact) yes Balkhis has been there, done that in Case Study – I increased my traffic from 1100 uniques to 3600 uniques per day in a week.

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Recently I did a quick experiment on forum marketing and apart from the useful result which I will share here, the initial perception I observed was that many people are using it to drive quality visitors to their website, blog or money making products- for free.

1. Some Forum Marketing Tips

• Join a forum related to your product or services. If you want to drive traffic to your website of money making niche you won’t want to get visitors from a forum related to dogs would you?. You should then join Internet Marketing forums like Warrior Forum.

• Never post spam but post only useful information to share with others in the forum. In fact make your participation count. Be seen and heard as a leader or an expert in your area of expertise. Or at least this should be what you should hope to achieve at this forum.

• Post regularly and answer as many questions as you can. That’s a good way to gain people’s trust. Over time people follow your recommendations and of course that’s where your forum signature links come in handy.

2. Forum Marketing and Backlinks

A very simplistic way of showing the relationship between forum marketing and backlinks is this. If you have done 1000 posts on your favorite forum and your signature is included in those posts, this means that you will get at least 1000 backlinks from Google. Well theoretically this is true but of course the quality of your post will determine your success rate at getting these backlinks. Personally I’ve written about 350 posts on Warrior Forum. Not really something to gloat about, but it’s still good enough to see lots of backlinks for my home business blog.

3. Optimize your forum posts:

When you do your posts on forums, it is a worthwhile effort to optimize your posts. This simply means just like your blog or article postings, putting keywords and bolding text at forum posts goes a long way in getting friendly with your Google bots visiting the forum. Well since Warrior Forum is a dofollow forum, it probably helps too that I always linkback to my blog posts after each post where possible. Here take a look at a screenshot I made to show how bolding text helped me:

4. Use Good Anchor Text for your Forum Signatures

I mentioned before the more you post the more backlinks you will get.  It can’t get any simpler than that. However it would be your own doing if you do not ensure good anchor text that contains you keyword.

5. How To Get More Traffic From Forum Marketing

So I finally did some research on how to increase website traffic by using Internet Forums, starting with my favorite one, Warrior Forum. Truth be told, my traffic from even my favorite forum really sucks. Perhaps I was just too contented with getting the good amount of backlinks. But for those of you who have had great success over obtaining huge amount of targeted traffic from forums, you’d know it probably just take a little understanding about what people are looking for. So if you can somehow find this missing ink, Boom! you’ve got traffic!

6. My experiment to get more traffic from forum marketing

This is my experiment to find out what could possibly be that missing link for me in not getting the traffic from forum marketing. It is not intended to market a product or services to Warrior Forum, not yet anyway. It’s just my experiment to find out how to increase my visitors and traffic. Here is what I did or observed:

• I selected 2 of my blog posts and started a thread featuring them. They were carefully selected using topics that were interesting enough to attract people to the posts.
• Each of the 2 posts’ titles asks a question.  As the topics were popular people are curious as to the answer that is found in the post.
• My experiment result after 12 hours: More than a hundred people read my 2 posts to find out the answers to the 2 posts: How To Get Free Backlinks From eBay and How To Get Google Index New Blog In 3 Hours.
• The topic of make money online interests many people in Warrior Forum as can be seen in one thread I found titled “I intend to make $10K in 7 days” which generated 9200 views in 2 weeks. Wow!

7. List of do-follow forums

Here is a good list of do-follow forums courtesy of my good friend Ben Pei. You will know that Warrior Forum is also top in his list too. Well good minds think alike.

While the good traffic to these 2 posts is of no significance as far as blog monetizing is concerned ( I got a few more subscribers though), it does show that there is enormous traffic in forum marketing waiting to be tapped. I’m pretty pleased with my experiment knowing that when I do have a hot product, or joint venture that I want launched, forum marketing is definitely one of my best options to market it with a reasonable amount of traffic expected.

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How I Find A Money Making Niche-makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com
Dec 5, 2008
I always start with the goal of making money from Adsense. Why? Because it is the largest advertising network in the world. 5.5 billion in sales last quarter – 1.7 billion in profit. Google has a 67% share of search traffic

Are You Inspired To Make Money Online?-garryconn.com
Nov 17, 2008
On the Internet, money does grow on trees. However, it is your job to build the ladder used to climb up the tree to pick the money off. Secondly, it is your job to find the trees that grow the money. If you step back for a minute and apply basic business marketing tactics, you’ll see how much money you are missing.

Making Money With Adsense as a Beginner-bloggingzombie.com
Nov 4, 2008
Lets talk about how to make money with adsense when you are a beginner. There are a lot of you out there that have been working with adsense for a long time and still just don’t get it.

8 Tips on How to Build a Highly Effective Blog-blueverse.com
Dec 5, 2008
But not all blogs become successful in bringing in high traffic and income to your site, most probably because they are not effective enough in conveying your message and attracting visitors. Hence, you must learn how to come up with an effective blog.

Make Money Blogging with Bloggerwave-yanuarteguh.com
Dec 5, 2008
Blogging is one of the cheapest and easy way to make money from the internet. To start making money with your blog, you can join Bloggerwave. This is very simple, just post a review for only 50 words at your blog, and you’ll be paid $10 or more. That’s very nice, isn’t it?

Making Money Blogging Basics for Beginners-bloggingweb20.com
Dec 4, 2008
There are thousands of people who are making money blogging right now and new blogs are being started all the time. You can make money blogging and it’s not as hard as you may think.

Can You Really Make Money Blogging?-slackerology.com
Dec 5, 2008
Every now and again I get an email from a ProBlogger reader excitedly telling me that they’re about quit their jobs to become full time bloggers. More often than not they are new bloggers who for one reason or another have it in their minds that blogging for money is a quick and easy thing to do

Banner Ad Marketplaces For Making Money Buying, Selling Ads On Your Blog-tomuse.com
Dec 5, 2008
The revenue share, type of ads, size of ads, and other distinctions vary across these networks for buying and selling ads on your blog

3 Ways Make Money Blogging With Your Computer-infopirate.org
Nov 30, 2008
….there are some steps you can take to become successful. In this article let’s take a look at a few ways you can make money blogging using your computer.

The Future Of Blogging As They See It-problogger.net
Dec 6, 2008
I don’t make money blogging; Under $10; $10 – $29; $30 – $99; $100 ..

An Honest Review Of Blogging To The Bank 3.0-myuniquecontent.com
Dec 4, 2008
Blogging To The Bank 3.0 is a breath of fresh air and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to make easy money online

How To Make Money With A Blog-makemoneywithablogonline.com
Dec 2, 2008
There are two ways of making money blogging, one more profitable than the other. First of all, small business owners find a great advantage in the use of blogs that provide rich informational content and the opportunity for great marketing promotions.

How Chitika Premium Ads has doubled My Blog Income-5xmom.com
Dec 5, 2008
Read how putting Chitika Premium Ads and Chitika WordPress plugin may help to increase your blog income. Find out if it works with Google Adsense.

How To Make Money With eBay-maximizingrevenuetips.blogspot.com
Mar 9, 2008
Even if you don’t want to quit your job and really go for it, you can still use eBay to make a significant second income

Blog Me The Money
Here’s a blog that offers great tips and suggestions on monetizing a website or Blog. As the blog’s name suggests, you’re going to see many posts on make money blogging as well as blog carnivals showcasing other bloggers’ articles.

Ghost Write For Online Business Blog
If you have a passion for writing online business reviews, do it and get paid. Yes you can earn between $40-$50 per post when you ghost write for Writing Cafe. Check it more details to make some money.

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