The 30 Day Challenge Ends

Well the Thirty Day Challenge ended 15 days ago. And let me tell you that this years challenge was great!!! The best part is, if you didn't catch it from the beginning, you still can.

So head over and start the challenge today!

Building Backlinks - Problems

When I started this blog a few years ago. I read and learned that the main ways to build backlinks to your site was: post comments on other blogs, post comments on forums, write articles etc.

Today, these methods work less then before. Most blogs have "nofollow" tags on your comment links, articles if used on another site doesn't give your site any juice and you may have to worry about the duplicate contact penalty (maybe against your site). And as I believe I have mentioned before a number of site just post a snippet of your article with a link back to the original article directory where they got it from.

So what do you do? New way to build links back to your site come out everyday but don't work for long.

So if anyone knows of a good way to build backlinks, let me know!!!

Have You Heard About the 30 Day Challenge?

Well it's been a while since I last made a post. But I wanted to let everyone know about this great site I heard about last year, it's call the 30 Day Challenge.

It's put on by Ed Dale, Dan Raines and friends. And it is great!!! They put on this FREE Internet marketing course/challenge where they show you ways to improve your marketing efforts.

Pre-season just start the beginning of this month, the challenge is a few months away so head over and start today. This is something you need to do!

So start the 30 Day Challenge today.

Tracking--Are You Tracking Your Visitors

I'm sure, that you have heard that you should track your visitors on your website. What pages they view and what links they click etc.

So I started to do this lately and to my surprise, I found out that a percentage of my visitors did not leave a trace of what pages they were on.

Now I know you are asking yourself, then how did you know they were there? Because I am also tracking most of my links and they were getting clicked. And then I remembered talk about link theft and cloaking our affiliate links and how many sales were lost to this.

But when you think about it, how many affiliate sales are lost because of a visitor having their browser set so that cookies are off.

There are a lot of scripts out there to help with this, but I haven't found any that have worked. So if you read this post and know of one that works and is simple to install leave a comment.

Good Luck

Ping Your Blog--After 1 Month

Well it has been over a month now that I set up a test blog. And all I did to promote it was to ping it through one of the many ping services.

Now I have read two different methods on pinging your blog, I still don't know which one is collect. The first was to just use a ping service and ping your blog after each post. The other was to join each site that the ping site had listed on its page, an example of this would be Technorati.com. So I picked one, joined the site and listed my blog with them.

After trying both methods to drive traffic to my blog, I have found that neither one worked. So I did some searching and read that your blog ping stays on sites like Technorati main page for about 15 sec. Now I don't know how true that is, but if it is then the next way someone may find you is by doing a keyword search.

So lets take the keyword stock market and the search results are 165,343 for stock market. So what are the odds of more than a few people finding you.

Well Good Luck

P.S. If this isn't the collect way to ping your blog post and you stumble upon this post, please comment on the right.

Ping Your Blog

Well I have been posting every day to the other blog I set up as a test. Each day of the 14 days I have used one of the service like Ping-o-Matic to ping the blog.

As of today I haven't seen any traffic to the blog. I have pinged using just my blog address. And other time I also added the rss feed address.

I don't even think that this blog is even on the radar, but I will continue to post and ping for the next 17 days to see what happens.

Good Luck

Do You Ping Your Blog?

When I first started this blog, I heard that you should ping the blog using a service like Ping-O-Matic. And the reason was two fold; first you let the world know about your blog post and second was that it was suppose to bring some targeted traffic to your site.

Well I don't know, if I have been doing it right but I have ping my blog almost every time I have had a new post. And to tell you the truth, I don't thing it has helped me in any way. My blog traffic isn't beating my door down, as you can see I have a few product on the side and there hasn't been one sale from the traffic that I have had.

So my big question is; is it worth the time to ping your blog?

If you find this post, please leave me a comment.

Good Luck

Does Fresh Content thru RSS Bring Traffic

When I started this blog about 2 1/2 years ago, I came across this article about using rss feeds to generate fresh content for your website. At the time I hadn't heard or seen much about using rss this way.

The article talked about fresh content, high PR, more traffic and so on. How rss would update your content daily, bring the search engines to your site more and thus bring more traffic.

So I was able to find a script to add rss and waited for the traffic to flood my site. In the six months I had this script on my site, I didn't receive any traffic.

But now, you hear a lot about using rss on your site for fresh content, even blogger now has a widget to add rss to your blog. My question is, if it didn't bring me any traffic a few years ago, how is it going to work now when everyone is trying it?

So I have started a new blog and I am not going to ping it or promote it in any way. I am just going to post and have an rss feed on it. Let's see what happens!!!

PS. Now if you are looking to add Rss to your site then Click Here!

Good Luck

Affiliate Internet Marketing ***Warning***

Affiliate Internet Marketing is a popular way to start marketing on the Internet. But one of the mistakes that I find myself doing that maybe you are doing too, is having your hand in to many cookie jars at one time. You get caught up in the making money thing that you forget to make a plan.

My hand in to many cookie jars moment was, after building 20+ sites I still wasn't making any money. Some how I had gotten the idea into my head that if I seeded the Internet with 100's of site someone would come. And with as many people trying affiliate Internet marketing each day I was fooling myself.

So remember to make a plan and stick to it: find a good niche, product etc. and work on getting lots of traffic to that site. Then move on to the next project or you will end up like me scratching your head, feeling overwhelmed without a product sale in sight.

Remember spinning your wheel in one place gets you nowhere fast.
So work on your web traffic, because traffic is the key.

Good luck

Getting Traffic with Social Bookmarking

Well if you haven't heard about social bookmarking and using it to get targeted website traffic, plus getting your site indexed faster, then you may want to learn more about it.

I tried social bookmarking about 2 months ago to see if I could increase traffic to my website. And I was surprised that after a few hours I started to see more traffic. Now the increase lasted for about 3 weeks, then slowly decreased to the amount of traffic I had before bookmarking the site.

Now the downside is (depending on how many accounts you sign up for) it takes time to set-up. Then posting to each of the accounts will take more time unless you use a site like onlywire etc.

Now the upside is:

*your site is possibly indexed faster
*you are building one-way links back to your site
*if other's pick up your links then it may help with PR
*burst of targeted traffic to your site
and more...

So is social bookmarking going to help you get more web traffic? Yes for a time, but like any else you will have to work at it. Make social friends, pass on your links and keep working to promote your site.

Good luck!!!

Here is a video (9:55 mins)

Traffic thru Article Marketing!

Well from what I have read, one of the best ways to drive traffic, while building one-way links back to your site is through article marketing. Now since the whole idea of having a website and trying to sell a product online is to make a sale. But without traffic, what good is your site.

Since article marketing is one way to drive traffic to your site, I started writing. (Also because I am tired of the only traffic to my site is: that's right me).

So I set up a test page, because I want to see how well this works. I wrote a few articles and waited for the traffic storm to begin. After a few days I checked my stat counter and guess what, a few hits but not the numbers that I thought I would have.

Now the way that I understand it is, you write an article, submit it to a directory and then someone re-prints your article on their site with your link intact.

But what I found out, was the article marketing game has changed. Instead of my article with an intact link back to my site, I found a snippet of the article and the link was back to the article directory where I had posted the original.

So does this work? Only time will tell.

Affiliate Elite

Affiliate Elite has been around for a while. But if is a software that you need to look at. If you are just starting out in the world of Affiliate Internet Marketing, this software will put you steps ahead of other affiliate marketers. You Need to take a look at Affiliate Elite.

Below are videos of Affiliate Elite in action.