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Starting a Link Building Campaign

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they start a site is pounding it with links. These days that can get you in hot water with google because if your site gets too big too fast (ie. too many links) and you climb the SERPs like a rocket they figure something must be up.

For those people who believe in natural link building (ie. suckers) it’s not an issue generally. For people who post all over the web from hubpages, to squidoo, to infobarrel, to facebook, etc. it’s not a huge issue either because you simply can’t pound out 100 of those a day (or a week for that matter).

No it’s the people who pay for things like the Keyword Academy’s PostRunner system, or BuildMyRank that end up getting tossed in google’s sandbox. Sure the sandbox is only temporary, but when you are working on a site and seeing consistent growth in the SERPs it really is a kick in the nuts to see its traffic fall to near nothing in a matter of hours.

Ok so what can you do?

1 – Start out slowly: Two or three links a day for a few months. This slow rate of link building also means that you should be investing some serious time in getting the links. Look for relevant sites to write high quality guest posts on. Build some pages on web 2.0 sites like hubpages, squidoo, infobarrel, and whatever else you can find. The nice things about building on sites like these is then if you get to a point where you have too much content and don’t want to link it all to your site (or if you have 2 links to send from 1 article like in postrunner) these are great places to link to your links.

2 – Ramp up slowly: Increase the number of links you send your site per day slow and steady. Stick with two or three for like two months, and then maybe ramp it up by one additional link every couple of weeks. Slow and steady wins the race.

3 – Hold off on the blogrolls: I wouldn’t suggest sending your site blogrolls for at least six months. Despite the fact that all the links are coming from one site, it is still a buttload of links to point at a site early on. You used to be able to get away with hammering a site with blogroll links, but I do not believe this is the case. Even when you do get to the six month mark I would suggest just doing one blogroll trade a month.

4 – Build for a wide range of keywords: Don’t just hit your site for your site for its main keyword but work on a range of related keywords as well. Use the odd “click here” or your site name, or even your sites URL. I also like to build links for some really short keywords that just relate generally to the category your site is about.

Anyway if you keep those four things in mind you should be able to keep your site out of hot water. If your site gets sandboxed anyway don’t feel bad, stop building links, or give up on making money online altogether (although I do love buying sandboxed sites off newbies for a fraction of their value). Just keep working until it comes out.

Best of luck!

Optimize Your Comments On Blogs

Leaving comments on other blogs is one way of getting backlinks and traffic to your own blog, and it’s super easy to do, which is why it is often exploited by spammers and other deceitful people. So you have to be careful to closely moderate the comments on your blog(s) and when you are leaving comments on other blogs make sure you are leaving something that is well thought out, useful, and relevant to the topic.

If you leave useful comments, you would not only get backlinks, but you can even get targeted traffic to your blog. It is important to leave relevant comments on blogs that add something legitimate to the discussion so that your comments will be approved on the blog to achieve the backlinks and traffic. If you just post comments like “nice tips” or “This is an interesting article” or you just try to leave your links — the blog owner will probably not approve your comments.

I have when someone leaves misleading or vague comments because it is annoying and adds nothing of value to my posts. I once had a commenter that left a comment that said that I have an interesting blog and he just subscribed to my feed. I was happy with that comment because someone just subscribed to my feed without me telling the person to subscribe. The next day, I saw the same exact comment on another one of my blogs. I don’t know how he found that blog, but I assume he probably uses some sort of automated tool so post comments on hundreds of blogs that he ever actually reads. When I saw that comment, I knew that I was deceived. I always moderate the comments on my blog posts, so I deleted his comment on this blog and on the other blog.

If you want to receive the benefits of commenting, you should leave useful comments. By useful comments, I mean that you should read the blog post and comment accordingly. I can tell by reading someone’s comment if the person read or did not read a blog post. Don’t let people call you a spammer because spammers don’t read blog posts. They just copy and paste the same words on every blog they come across. If you leave useful comments, you will attract other blog readers to your blog. The readers would be curious about what your blog is about and what type of posts do you have on your blog since you are leaving quality comments on other posts they read. If you have what they are looking for, they might become regular readers and might subscribe to your feed, or buy from you.

Make Money with Google Adsense

What is Google Adsense and How do You Make Money With it?

Adsense is an advertising program run by Google and it is a very popular way to earn money online. To make money from adsense, you have to put a javascript code from your adsense account into your blog or site. The code will generate an ad in the section of your blog where you put it – i.e. if you put the code in the middle of your blog post, it would generate an ad in that spot based on the content your post is about. If someone clicks on the ad, Google will pay you a certain amount of money based on a percentage of the ad revenue per click.

So making money from Google Adsense seems easy right? You just get a blog, slap adsense on the blog, then you start making money when someone clicks your ad. Also, if you read my post on make money posting links on Google, the example site also make it look easy. But the problem with this is where will you get someone to click your ad?

Google will ban you if you click your own ads. There are many people that Google have banned from their first day on being accepted into the adsense program because they were clicking their ads. Most of them were just experimenting. They wanted to know if their ad is working if someone clicks on it. They clicked on their ad multiple times (or had a friend do it) and they got that dreaded email from Google that their account have been banned. Also don’t tell people to click on your adsense ads – that is just asking for trouble.

To get people to visit your site and become potential ads clickers, you have to either be social media active or have good search engine rankings. Being social active means that you would drive people (traffic) to your blog by commenting on other people’s blogs, being active in forums, posting on social media sites such as facebook, digg, reddit, delicious, twitter, etc. To have a good search engine ranking, you should have optimized your blog – both off site and on site. This is called SEO’ing your site, and is good for Adsense if you do it correctly.

You should do both ways to get traffic to your site if possible. But if you don’t have time, you should try to improve your rank on search engines because those are the ones that click on ads because they want something; such as looking for the answer for a question or looking for how to get something. Social traffic don’t typically click on ads nearly as much. They are just looking for you to return to their site and nothing else. If you do a good job blending your adsense ads, you might get some clicks from social traffic.

The amount you can make on Adsense depends on your keywords (and many other variables). Certain keywords pay much better than others. For instance, if your niche is credit, then you can make a pretty good amount for one click for the keyword credit report. If your niche is make money online, you can also do quite well for some of the top keywords. This is what you can make if your site is very well targeted for that niche. Of course, you can earn a lot less for other niches. You can get clicks that would give you next to nothing, so you have to choose your topics wisely.

You also have to pass some guidelines to get accepted into the Google Adsense program. They don’t accept everyone so you need to have a high quality website before you can start showing the ads and make money with google adsense.

Make Your Blog Visible to Yahoo and MSN Live Search

After Google, the next 2 most popular search engines are Yahoo and MSN live search (now Bing). Both search engines have dedicated users i.e. some of the users vow to use only either Yahoo or MSN live search. They would not even think of using Google. Since both sites are search engines, they would have search engine bots to crawl your blog. It is imperative to submit your URL to both Yahoo and MSN live search

Submit Your Blog URL to Yahoo

At the submission page, you can submit your blog and/or submit your blog feed. You have to click on the arrow so that it can expand to show you the submission text box. Also, click on the arrow to revel the text box of the submit your blog feed.

Submit Your Blog To MSN Live (Now BING)

On the submission page MSN just requires you to submit URL and to enter a captcha. The captcha is a 5 letters word and it is legible. I dislike doing captcha because at times the letters are barely legible. After submission, MSN live search tells you that it indexes pages that it accepts pages that meets it standards. You should be patient and check periodically.

I prefer the Google’s submission to these two because you can write a summary about your site using your keywords. But since Yahoo and MSN live submission are free, I will take advantage of it.

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