Those same popular websites / blogs did the same thing, maybe a bit different, by sending email to authors and asking for opinion or if they could include backlink to their next post.

I noticed that by leaving links in comments or forums

A. increased my traffic

B. get more Rss Feed Subscribers

C. Visitors come back out of interest what you are going to post next.

How about leaving link to your blog on other blogs and websites as third person, have you thought of that?

Example:

Website: Engadget.com

Post Topic:AT&T’s free iPhone WiFi is live at last

Your Comment: “I found this awesome link “Your Post url” which has some additional informations on where to get free WiFi. WiFi should be free for everybody not just iPhone users”

If you check your blog stat’s tomorrow I can tell you one thing, it’s going to get you at least 20 visitors if not even in some cases 5000 visitors! (Belive me it can be true!)

How To find Popular Posts?

Google it!, look for keywords that your post is about which you want to promote or thing is good. For example if your post is about Make Money Online, type that in Google see what blogs you are going to stumble upon, and leave some comments.

So what do you think about this post ?

Another thing this blog list can provide you is the domain name that you could not think.

blog domain names

Today I will give you some of my expertiese on why I think every company should have blog instead website or website with blog.

Long time ago back in 2001 I started building websites on my own primarily I used html,  I build sites in the way blogs work now. I would have one page full of my notes which you had to scroll down for at least 1 minute and then at the top and at the bottom I had links [Page 1| Page 2 | Page 3]. So I could say that I started blogging in 2001 but I do not, because those text’s are just my 21y old notes on how to hack pc’s and I feel bad now when I think about it lol.

So let say you are about to open your very first company and thinking of building website. Now what are you going to do? Post some pictures slap About Company page and thats it? You think people will come and see that website all the time?  NO they will NOT unless your company get’s popular locally and people anyways will tell you to update your site with some press releases because in todays business world people want easy and quick access to your information.

What you want to do is open website with blog inside, and everytime you have special “press” releases or something special to say about company you write it.

Now on the other hand if you open blog only it might be borring to see blog post that is 1-2years old

So chose wisely, is your blog/website going to be updated regularly or not ? If Not you might want to build Website with About Company Page but then also link to your blog called Press Releases, or Company Updates if you know what I mean?

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I think the part of the website that got me attracted was Education affiliate programs because it was providing the right information I needed. How much I make from commission, what it is and the score they have. If you go down that link I just provided you above you can check out categories that might suit your needs.

I learned a lot from Affiliate Tips website and to be honest I don’t think I found any other website that will provide you with such good information unless you subscribe to them for some monthly fee.

Why affiliate programs over google ads?

Simple enough, you make more money from affiliate programs then from google adsense. Now some of you might disagree with that, but when you have technology blog google adsense is going to bring you maybe 1$ per day because most tech people know that its “google adsense ads” , but with affiliate programs you can do much better you just need to read sites like Affiliate Tips to understand the whole concept of running affiliate programs, otherwise you will end up having banner or link that is not making you any money.

My tip: Don’t place affiliate program that is nothing relevant to your blog.

I have enough links, I have enough of comments yet I would like some more publicity.

Contest I think it’s very easy! If somebody else would do this I would jump right on it.

Things to do:

Find blog post on bontb.com that you had fun reading and would like to share with others. After that I would like you to go to other blogs and post 5 comments about that post. Remember! 1 comment per blog NOT 1 blog 5 comments!

Things Not to do:

Don’t spam other blogs with comment like “Check this out URL” or “Awesome URL”

Things I am looking from you:

Find blogs with posts that are related to post you pick on bontb.com , comment in way that you had fun reading my post.

Winner:

Will be announced after I check all links, and also I will provide back link to your blog in my “Winner post”

This contest is going to end on Tuesday next week (Jun 8th 2008)

Fair?

UPDATE: No winners nobody entered the contest, I guess it was too hard?

Now I only do this with my webhosting because I am very confident that many people will like what they offer, and if you check reviews online about LunarPages you will see they rank good between 1-4 depending on review page.

So if you don’t have any advertising going on or have another spot for 125×125 link, place your webhosting or even LunarPages affiliate program.

Here is what they offer to me as an affiliate client:

• $65 base commission rate
• $5 2nd tier commissions
• ready made banners
• a unique, close-knit staff
• incentives and commission raises at 100 referrals/month!
• tailored landing pages at 150 referrals/month

Now tell me if that is bad ??

I already got 7 commissions this year 4 of them ware my friends! They asked me who do I host with I explained and they bought it.

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Many of you heard of Twitter or Plurk otherwise you wouldn’t probably read this now. Yet some of you ask your self why don’t I have Twitter or Plurk followers? (fans).

Simple answer is “YOU ARE NOT SOCIALIZING!“.

Yes being popular on internet helps you gain more followers and fans automatically, even though such people in real life are nobody to most people. Unless they are someone like Tila Tequila (Myspace Bi***).

So stop thinking you can’t do the same! or you wish you would be Robert Scoble or Jason Calacanis from Mahalo search engine.

Anyways lets go back to the topic “How to Build Social Network full of Followers and Fans”

First thing I must tell you, It will not happen over night, so be patient time will come when people will talk about you.

Socialize!, that is the key. Have only 1 eventually 2 social networks that you are going to focus on each day. Day and Night!

Talk to other twitters, plurkers, friendfeeders or whatever the social network might be. Ask questions ! Find out who what like, but ask questions that are interest of yours as well. Like for example “What car do you drive?” then go on with that, make some conversation about it. After that you will see one or two people will add you as fan or follow you on twitter.

Plurkers, don’t think people like you because you have big karma, they like you because they found same interest or you are god damn looking GIRL. Chasing Top Plurkers isn’t something you want to do, focus as I wrote above on your fans or friends talk to them.

Twitters, don’t just follow big boys and top bloggers, because they will never “almost never” replay you any message unless they know you really good. Instead go to “everyone” tab, find somebody interesting again to you, ask him/her question or give your opinion to what he/she said. Use hashtags #twitter #plurk (See top hashtags here) or summize.com.

Anyways I wrote this post because I want to help people to socialize on internet, and because I don’t want Twitter or Plurk to focus on just people that have a lot of followers, fans, friends etc..

Word Socializing on Plurk or Twitter does not exist anymore!. Just because of people that are self promoting them self or like some, show their (body parts), such people know that being on internet “popular” does not work forever, at least not in real life.

So please Plurkers Twitters, don’t start making friends with lies ,  sooner or later that will hunt you down. (I know some people did). Also if you like cars and don’t know anything about technology or blogshpere, don’t pretend you do. In other words don’t pretend being somebody on internet that you are not.

Why?

I understand that sometimes your opinions need to be expressed and you just had to leave rude comment. Well don’t! Sooner or later somebody will pick on you and could eventually crash you with only one move by  blogging about you and your personality. What happens next?

Your visitors might see that blog post and do not see the other side of you. Soon enough you are going to start losing respect, loyalty and most important your image affront of your friends and family.

What to do then?

Don’t comment in way that could hunt you back, don’t comment personal stuff because you never know how somebody is going to take that. Some people take it positive some in negative way.

If somebody writes about you on their blog, just ignore it. Unless you really really have to clarify and can make things better by saying “It’s not true, That’s a lie here is the proof.

Why am I writing this?

Because I see big bloggers bashing one another constantly online, take TechCrunch (Michael Arrington) and Robert Scoble for example. Two most tech known people on internet, talking against each other now and then. After each post I read all the comments, some people liked what Michael or Robert said , yet more people see it as “How is this post related to tech news”?

Now you know! If you are angry with some other blogger because of , this and that, try to make things private via email or even better call each other via Skype.

Keep your online image clean..

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This week my negative karma kicked in if you haven’t noticed yet by my last posts. But the reason I am writing this way is because I don’t want you to quit blogging. Motivation is the key! And there are ways to keep your self motivated not to quit blogging.

Here are few examples how I kept my self motivated in situations where I said “i’ll just quit!!”:

I started reading inspirational blogs and one of my favorite is Problogger(How Do You Stay Motivated) there is not one day (for past 2 years) that his posts did not lead me to some kind of positive motivation.

Money should NOT be your real motivation, imagine you blog for 2 years and you only managed to pay off your hosting! And then right before you wanted to quit blogging some top post keyword of yours landed as no.1 in google the next day, which brought you 52.000+ visitors that day.

Blogging is time consuming but then as I said in earlier post, you don’t have to post every day , people don’t expect you to.Try to write at least once or twice a week grab 10 minutes of your time and blog something in your niche. Take DosDosh for example, he writes about once or twice a week since he started blogging and look what his blog became (Top 100 in technorati, over 16.000+ Rss subscribers).

Blogs that keep me motivated:

News.com Blogs

TechMeme

ChrisG

Social Networks like Twitter, Plurk, MySpace, FaceBook …. can keep you motivated too! People constantly ask “when are you going to post something?, Why didn’t you post anything last week?, How can I advertise on your blog?”

So find the way to keep your self motivated , and motivate others to blog in positive way even though you might feel the negative energy inside your self.

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I bet many of you are blogging for more then 6 month’s some of you even 1 year or more! Looking back at your blog do you still think make money online niche is for you? The problem is that I am not out of ideas what to write on (Blog Or Not To Blog) but the time came where I dedicated more time to college and work.

Sometimes blogger as me should take time of , and it is ok. Some of you are afraid loosing traffic some of you are afraid loosing readers. But don’t be. Your readers and visitors understand such life times.

As most of you noticed I don’t write 1-2 posts per day, now it is most likely 1-2 per week. Yet I still did not loose any of the traffic I was getting before and the only thing did change is the increase of the readership, its  slower increasing.

So what is the worst thing you can do to your blog?

Let blog die I would say! Not posting anything for month or two is something that I don’t like to see on other blog and the only reason I could understand is medical illness.

Don’t let your blog die, you can always find 5 minutes a week and write something that would help other bloggers or visitors that is if your blog is about let say “Make Money Online Niche“.