What if the first time you got up out of bed you knew exactly how to promote your blog, and what to do in the next few hours to make money with it?

• Are you using daily to-do tasks in your online activities?

If not, you have to because this is how smart people organize their blogging activities and finish their most important tasks.

The problem with the regular way of writing to-do lists is that it’s limited and pretty boring.

What if there was an easier, fun way to write your to-do lists and get things done fast?

The solution is right here and it’s called todoodlist…

This 98-page book is the best product I’ve ever bought and read about getting things done faster… on paper!

Read it, it has my highest recommendation!

I’m already seeing improvements in my daily to-do tasks and blogging business profits because I got the book and tested the todoodlist

If you have any suggestions, questions or comments let me know.

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Get Things Done: Blogging with ToDoodList

Do you really believe him? Me neither… so let’s see what he has to share with us.

Click here to download the PDF version of this interview, or read the text version below:

1. Would you mind sharing a few things about

yourself and your background for our readers?

Sure Codrut, well my name is Ray Johnson, I was a failed offline direct marketing businessman, and literally came from the brinks of being homeless to generating my firsy $17k month online. I know run a successful online marketingcompany with 5 staff, called The Ray Johnson Group.

2. When did you get started blogging, and why?

I started last year as I knew the power of Blog when done properly, they are literally a sponge for traffic from the search engines, can help brand your name and get you recognition as well as building a subscriber base.

3. What’s the biggest mistake you

made getting started with this?

To be honest I had my blog outsourced to my coder – so I didn’t really face any difficulty!

4. How did you come up with the

idea of launching your blog?

I just knew that Blogs are an essential tool to build your business from the point of building a readership base and community of followers (to which you can assist, become the expert authority turn into affiliates for you!)  AND I also knew blogs get sucked up FAST by the search engines because of the frequent page updates and content changes. I also knew that I had a lot to say on a PERSONAL NON business level to my audience, and a Blog being an online diary – was a perfect way to do just that.

5. How often do you publish and

how do you get content ideas?

I try to publish daily or as often as possible and I get ideas from what’s happening in my business, the news and world events.

6. How do you mainly receive (or generate)

traffic to your blog?

Again I am fortunate now to be in a position where blog traffic generation is outsourced to my staff. They write articles linking back with anchor text, they leave deep blog comments on other marketers blogs, blog seo, twitter and facebook – and viral eBooks sold on eBay or passed around the net. I have an entire dedicated Outsource Team following my recent highly successful launch of http://www.outsource2success.com – which sold over $7000 in 6 days and generated over 3000 subscibers in the same period. EVERYONE should be outsourcing from day one, and my site shares my story and how ANYONE can achieve the same. You can see my team of staff here: http://www.therayjohnsongroup.com/staff.html

7. What is your most closely-guarded

secret about blogging for money?

I do not think there is truly a secret – just give before you receive. Make sure you research your blog posts to make sure the content you give is relevant and in demand and can really help people move forward in their businesses – the cash will always find it’s way back to you. You can find relevant content for blogs by searching in online forums – find out what people need help with, if there is a common need or want – look on the news (because after all a blog should mix business with real life, it helps with rapport from readers)

8. What differentiates your blog among

all the others in your niche field?

Basically, I vary my content from basic posts, to audio and video through to blog competitions and contest that really get my readers engaged. You can check out a popular competition or 2 I have done by visiting this link: http://ray-johnson.co.uk/category/contests

9. If you had to get a boost in comments

from your blog readers, how would you do it?

I would not want a boost in comments, you are only as good as your last post! Meaning that if you as the blogger thinks you can improve on comments received, provide better material for the audience.

10. Which are the blogs you visit frequently and why?

I read very few but John Thorhill’s is quite good! http://www.planetsmsblog.com

Lee McIntyre is also a great upcoming new marketer too @ http://www.lee-mcintyre.com

And of all the guru-made people I think Alex Jeffreys blog is pretty good too.. just shows you what can happen if you align yourself with successful people: http://www.postlaunchprofits.com/blog

11. Which are your favorite bloggers and why?

I am my favourite blogger!

12. Which plugins you can’t live without and why?

I am not tecchy so as my blog coding etc was done for me I couldn’t really say, although I know of Askimet and UBC ADBlock, and the Twitter plugins, they prevent spam, help others generate traffic to their sites and allow people to see my Twitter tweets and help become a follower of what I do.

13. What is the most important thing you learned about blogging that you could share with your best friend?

Be yourself, don’t be false or uppity. Just like in real life if people like what you deliver and like you- you win the battle.

14. What plans do you have for

the future with your blog?

I currently have a new IM chatroom, created for the blog to bring marketers together in my community, helping them build relationships together – get Adswaps and JV’s – a blog is really the central point to building your community of followers – whether they subscribe or not, at least they are listening and engaging what you are doing. This way there is a chance that even if word of mouth or viral marketing only plays a part – YOUR business is ALWAYS growing. Further more to Adswaps and JV’s I welcome ANYONE reading to contact me on my blog with their own products to help promote, and get their name out the on the big wide WWW.

You can contact me @ jv@ray-johnson.co.uk anytime.

We wish Ray success in the future and thank you very much for sharing your BLOGGING tips, tricks & secrets with us all! J

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Interviews With Top Bloggers: Ray Johnson

When you create a blog, you surely desire for it to succeed. You may want it to succeed financially, convey a message to as many people as possible or whatever your hopes may be.

If you are blogging for quite some time now and have no audience at all, then something must be awfully wrong. You got the right material, invested on a personalized design, bought banner advertisements and you even have a mascot. And yet, your blog is dead or the statistics does not meet your expectations. Your efforts are not good enough.

What if I could tell you on how to spice things up? To liven up your blog through contests! I was joining blog contests before even having my own blog. I even won my blog’s hosting and domain name from one of the contests that I joined. In those times, I observed that when there’s an ongoing contest, people starts noticing and patronizing the blog. People are suddenly buzzing about those blog. They increase their feed subscriptions, newsletter, free reviews and many more endless opportunities.

Having a blog contest is one way of promoting your blog. You can boost your traffic, increase RSS subscribers and more. Yeah, blog contests are cool but don’t just jump into organizing one. Be smart!

They can be quite expensive especially when you are sponsoring by yourself and there’s a contest in your blog every month! Because no matter how big your prizes are, it might suck.

So I made an ebook entitled Blog to success with Blog contests that will guide you to create contests that rock and can deliver the following in your blog.

• Boost your traffic
• Build links
• Network with other bloggers
• Increase your feed subscriber and
• Be a successful blogger

You could get the ebook for free if you subscribe by email and the download link can be found at the footer of the feed. After reading, you can now start organizing contest that will be a sensation! It will teach you on how to properly set your goals, the contest mechanics, set your budget and more. In the end, there are scenarios on when to organize a contest and aftermath reports of my two blog contests. Better subscribe now to learn all of these for free.

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How to Blog to Success with Blog Contests

Now that’s the power of blogging in action.

Watch how Wei Liang blogs and learn from his blogging secrets.

Click here to download the PDF version of this interview, or read the text version below:

1. Would you mind sharing a few things about

yourself and your background for our readers?

I am a 22 year old student living in Singapore. Currently pursing my degree in the finance. I am the author now for www.abloggerblog.com which is designed to make blogging simply for beginners.

2. When did you get started blogging, and why?

I started blogging in 2007 after getting into contact on the topic of Internet Marketing. Since then, I attended a few local seminars to learn more about this industry.

Looking at how the internet marketers built up an online business and leveraging it to make income, I was keen to make this my full time income source as well. I wanted to free myself from the usual 8-5 work and thus started to engage in blogging.

Now that I have learnt through my experiences in making money online, I would like to share it with my readers who are taking the same train as me.

3. What’s the biggest mistake you

made getting started with this?

I failed to realize the importance of having a domain name and was building my blog on a blogger platform. Looking back at those days, how I wish there is someone to point out to the new bloggers about the importance of owning a domain name.

4. How did you come up with the

idea of launching your blog?

I have landed in a handful of blogs on the niche of blogging but have yet discovered one that is focused on having a structured course outline to guide, lead and coach new bloggers.

I know you will be thinking of the paid coaching courses but I believed the same quality of information can be found in my blog content as well. I know this because I have paid for the coaching myself.

5. How often do you publish and

how do you get content ideas?

I post 1-3 articles per week depending on how much time I want to give my students in between to complete my mention tasks for each lesson. Theory is not enough if I don’t give them a chance to try it out. These would also give them enough time to ask me questions should they be in doubt.

Content ideas are gotten from my 1 year plus of blogging experience. The good and bad experience are all shared with my students so that they will avoid the bad and picked up the good.

6. How do you mainly receive (or generate)

traffic to your blog?

Forums and social bookmarking sites are my top traffic driving sites. These are also the 2 areas in which I participate actively in as well. I am focusing more on forums now as the traffic seems to be more targeted towards my niche compared to social bookmarking sites.

You can find me building my profile in DigitalPoint forum nowadays. One of my thread gone hot and have gotten over 3,500 views over a period of 2 weeks. As of now, I am only using DP forum as my only channel of forum marketing and it has one of the most active forum members in there.

7. What is your most closely-guarded

secret about blogging for money?

I don’t really believe in any secret for blogging to make money. What matters is really the amount of consistent effort you are willing to devote to your blog. As long as you focus on providing valuable content to your readers, you will be able to build up your authority over the niche.

When talking about valuable content, I mean content that provide educational value to your readers. It can be in terms of text, audio or even videos. Let your readers feel that their time spend on reading your articles are make worthwhile and have learn something from it.

Readers trust blogs more than websites. Trust makes it easier for readers to use their hard earn money to exchange for the products you recommend – also known as affiliate marketing. Isn’t this the biggest secret to blogging for money?

8. What differentiates your blog among

all the others in your niche field?

As I mention earlier, that is no other blogs that I come across with a structured layout to guide bloggers on the topic of blogging and eventually monetizing off the blog. ABloggerBlog will be a one stop station for all bloggers looking for information, SEO tools, videos etc. to improve on their knowledge on blogging.

9. If you had to get a boost in comments

from your blog readers, how would you do it?

As simple as asking for it. I would ask for feedbacks on my blog, starting a topic to discuss on or even getting responses from them on what topic they would like to know more about. There are always topics in which are not covered and readers are the best source to get this information from.

My latest topic on Comment Marketing is getting a very good response in terms of comments. From this, I know that writing good contents will eventually bring in lot of discussion and comments in blog.

10. Which are the blogs you visit frequently and why?

www.problogger.net

www.thoushallblog.com

www.entrepreneurs-journey.com

www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/

www.gathersuccess.com

www.chrisbrogan.com

These are the blogs that will not disappoint me in terms of content every time I visit.

11. Which are your favorite bloggers and why?

Chris Brogan, Yan Susanto, Rosalind Gardner and definitely Darren Rowse. They never fail to produce quality content and I love their writing style. I always sink unknowingly into the article everytime I read the content publish by them.

12. Which plugins you can’t live without and why?

Askimet is the one I must have. It would take so much time to select the non spam comments to publish if not for Askimet. WP database backup has save my work once and I know this will be another indispensable plugin in my blog because it wouldn’t feel good to have your entire work lost.

13. What is the most important thing you learned about blogging that you could share with your best friend?

Blogging is not another get rich scheme. It takes consistent effort before you see income starts rolling in. It is not easy but achievable if you devote 2-3 hours of your daily life to your blog. You will soon see success when you least expect it.

14. What plans do you have for

the future with your blog?

This blog is still young ( 2 months ) and have a lot more potential to grow. I am still putting in my bits of experiences and knowledge into this blog. Urge you to take a look if you are keen on blogging.

Cheers and I will catch up with you again in ABloggerBlog.

We wish Wei Liang success in the future and thank you very much for sharing your BLOGGING tips, tricks & secrets with us all! J

If you want to get further into blogging, check out these resources:

• WordPress Profit Maximizer – The BEST WordPress Plugins sent to you weekly via e-mail!

• Blogging for Money - everything I learned about blogging!

Thank you,

Codrut Turcanu.

http://www.CodrutTurcanu.com

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Interviews With Top Bloggers: Wei Liang

While I do not promise you’ll get 614 comments “overnight” like the guy I’m going to talk about in a minute did, at least you’ll get some inspiration and have fun along the way.

Here is what I’m talking about:

Just recently I’ve found about CopyBlogger’s writing contest . This blog is my all-time-favorite when it comes to copy writing and there’s no wonder it attracted 43,000+ RSS subscribers as we speak.

Some bloggers would need 100 years to attract that many readers, how is Brian different and what it does that separates him from the rest of the wannabe pro bloggers out there?

1. It’s the content he (along with his team) delivers

2. It’s the fact that he knows how to write compelling, motivational and emotional copy that moves hordes.

3. And the most important fact is that he knows how to run contests and blog competitions.

If you visit Brian CopyBlogger site you’ll notice there are up to 1,054 comments on that “writing contest” posting alone!

You might tell that a thousand comments is something normal since he has 40+ thousand readers, right?

Nope. Think again. Most bloggers get less than 1 comment for each 100 RSS readers they “own”. Brian should expect to get less than 400 comments if we consider a 1% response rate (which I found to be the standard in the blogosphere).

If you take a look on his recent 10 posts you’d notice he gets less than 100 comments, which is about 0.3% response rate.

Lesson learned here: if you want an instant boost in comments, subscribers and traffic, you need to run a contest on your blog.

If you want to get 100x times more comments than regularly, running a contest is not an option! But not any type of contest.

You’d have to run a desirable contest, where you give away top-notch prizes (products, services, cash, etc.).

Learn from Brian as he’s a master at blog competitions…

The key to running a blog contest is to have a prize that your target audience desperately wants, otherwise it won’t click with them.

Another important part of this is to make sure the contest is easy to get in and state the rules. Keep it simple.

I once tried a contest on Codrut Turcanu dot Com blog and it was a dude.

My plan is to study the topic more in depth and come up with some great contests (and prizes) for 2009 and beyond. I’m currently analyzing the contest machine solution. You might want to check it out too. It’s free at the time of writing this!

Another “blogging contest” I like because it exposes how to create your own (if you study it carefully) is the letssermo post with $300 prizes galore (it got 75 comments already!)

You now have the solution to boosting your blog comments and traffic. The question is:

What are you going to do now?

What about you create your own contest or link to your last one (if it’s not expired already!) and mention it on this post (in the comments section)?

Stay tuned for the next post as I have a hot interview with a top blogger — it arrives tomorrow, and I bet you’ll learn something new about blogging for money…

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How to Get at Least 614 Blog Comments With Just One Post (Even If You Got Zero Comments Before)

I’ve just created a cool survey I want you to participate in right away. It takes less than 2 minutes, I promise!

You decide what you want to read next on my blog. Your feedback is important to me…

Yeah! You have the power to vote for the upcoming post, right now…

What would you like to see next at my blog?

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Take the Remarkable Blogging Survey #1 And Decide What Is Next

Does the Gurus laugh at you for making pennies while they launch one product after another pulling-in tens of thousands overnight?

It is hard to survive in a world full of lies.

It is hard to keep your mind right when the Gurus are laughing on their way to the bank.

Why you can’t succeed? Why only the Gurus are making the money you should be making?

Are they better than you?

Are they smarter than you?

Are they “lucky” and you not?

I think the answer is none of these… the answer is deeper, much deeper.

And if you studied psychology you will love today’s blogging for success tip.

I’m going to be brutally honest with you now:

95% of people who are currently bloging will fail… because they haven’t heard about…

The Missing Ingredient for Blogging Success
In a Financial-Collapsing World…

Want to know what is the secret ingredient?

It is called PARTNERSHIP — and it stands for…

Power to associate with others

Ability to communicate online

Ready to invest (time and money)

Tenacity to become a better writer

Never say never!

Enough is NEVER enough…

Ready to sell your blog if required

Saving your blogging database is always smart

Hiring others do what you can’t is not an option

Inspiring other people is fun and profitable

Push the “publish” button if you have something valuable to share with the world

If you want to read the article which inspired me to write this creative post, click here and learn about it: Is Blogging Keeping You Poor?

It uncovers these key topics…

1. How to Make Millions Online (or Anywhere Else)
2. And of course… The Missing Ingredient for Blogging Success
3. Plus… Partnering Strategies for Invisible Bloggers

After you read it, come back here and share your findings with the other commentators on this blog!

And do not forget to check out my Niche Blogging Profits guide, it’s the hottest on the market…

Here’s WHY:

Because it speaks from my experience, no fluff talk, just real blogging practice, trials and errors…

P.S. I wrote this article in less than 20 minutes. This is my secret: EASY Content Writing Tool

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The Missing Ingredient for Blogging Success In a Financial-Collapsing World

How will you integrarate the answer to this question (re-read the title of this post) in your blog?

How are you going to keep your blog readers (and visitors) happy and give them what they want (not what you think they want)?

In today’s fast world, people do not really have time to spend on blogs. So you have to act fast and hold them right in their tracks.

How will you catch and keep their attention for more than 5 seconds?

Hint — a neat blog design or good content is NOT enough anymore!

Let me give you some quick tips that helps you understand (much) better what your blog readers really want, so you can give them exactly what they are desperately looking for

1. I join a blog if it talks about my niche topic and focuses on what keeps me awake at night.

It could be about the most burning questions I have in my mind.

It could be about the latest niche news and hottest topics.

It could be about the problems I’m currently facing.

In a nutshell, it’s all about the niche topic problems, needs and wants of your target readers.

If you don’t know about this, do your research. I use AdWords no-cost tool.

2. I join a blog if I like the writer’s style, and if I feel his personality shines through his words.

Bloggers who are fake, writing in a boring manner, or just spread the news, with no personal opinion about what they’re sharing, usually don’t get my attention.

These are two of the biggest reasons why I join blogs — what about you?

By the way: in the next post I talk about…

How to Get at Least 614 Blog Comments With Just One Post (Even If You Got Zero Comments Before) - stay tuned!

P.S. Want to learn what I discovered after starting 5 blogs and getting $35,000? Check out my blog for profit guide. I bet you don’t know all my 7 blogging secrets!

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Why Should I Join Your Niche Blog When I Have Better Things To Do?

If I told you that there’s a way to create your own WP plugins without hiring a programmer, would you believe me?

You should as I have discovered the solution that lets you create an endless number of wordpress plugins the EASY way…

It is called “WP on Crack” ; it was created by my friend Robert Plank, and it is the best tool on the market. I say that because I mean it, not because I know Robert…

Why you should create your own plugin?

1. You might want to sell it and make (big) bucks

2. You might want to keep it for yourself and rake-in the dollars quietly in the background

3. Or, you might give it away to achieve big popularity and tons of traffic, at no cost whatsoever!

Let’s recap:

Sell it and make (big) money online

Use it yourself and take your blog the next level

Give it away and get more traffic and (link) popularity

This is WHY I recommend you grab “WP on Crack” today. If you’re OK with the money you’re making, or the traffic your blog receives, you don’t have to get it!

In fact, forget about it completely.

If $97 is a problem for you, you probably don’t see the profit potential here, so forget about it.

If you want to make more money online, and get more search engine traffic and one-way links, then “WP on Crack” is for you!

If it happens you get this via my link, I have a surprise for you:

I’ll give you a 30-day e-mail consultation certificate (ask me unlimited e-mail questions per day for a whole month!).

I’m charging $499.95 for anyone wanting to pick my brains and tap into my blogging success knowledge and experience.

Here’s how to make sure you get this BONUS…

Follow these three steps very carefully:

1. Clear your browser cookies
2. Buy from this link
3. E-mail me your receipt at codrut @ codrutturcanu dot com

And wait 24-48 hours to deliver the bonus gift, my private e-mail, to start on your 30-day success with WP on Crack!

Once you get in, we’ll quietly work together to make your BLOG business more successful and profitable for long-term!

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How to Create Unlimited WordPress Plugins from Scratch – No Knowledge or Prior Experience Required!

This is the second part of Top 12 Ways to Blog Like a Pro and Get More Traffic – Part #1 post. Here are 12 other ways to blog like a pro and get more traffic:

13. Get hyper-active in the blogosphere

You don’t necessarily need to say or write something new to contribute on other people’s blogs. Being remarkable is enough! Make sure your comment stands out in the crowd by providing valuable feedback or asking smart questions.

Lorrele says… “Bloggers Who Contribute to the World Benefit the World”

14. Blog commenting is not enough

There’s no secret that the easiest way to build traffic is to comment appropriately on other people’s blogs. But that’s not enough, make sure you’re actively participating in those blogs.

It’s smart you focus on 5-10 quality blogs and get to know their readers better than blast one or two comments per blog, and never come back again.

There’s a great blog commenting discussion going on here.

15. Write for your regular readers first

Most bloggers neglect their regular readers and want to get new folks join their blog, but they forget about their current readers and subscribers.

When you focus on keeping your current readers happy and provide them with great content, something strange will happen.

They’ll start twit your content, spread it on Digg, and even mention it on their blogs. This is nothing new. I had that happened not once, but several times before!

The traffic this blog gets consists of regular readers (over 30%)

16. Do you write for your reader?

I’m not talking about SEO. Not at all! I’m asking if you write with the reader in mind.

Do you write short, concise sentences?

Do you leave a space between each and every paragraph?

Do you use write like you’re talking with your best friend?

If you answered “YES” to all three questions, congratulations! You blog with the reader in mind, just like the pros!

You really have to be conscious of how people read on the computer screen and provide them with a great reading experience.

17. Give readers multiple reading options

I could name just two of the most important ones: power point slides, and PDF reports.

Some might prefer to print your blog posts, why not provide them with a nicely formatted PDF version of your posts?

18. How do you market your blog?

Seth Godin once said, “you are either remarkable or invisible”. This tells me something about blogging. Without putting the time, effort and skills to market your blog, you don’t have one.

What good to write and publish when you have no readers?

Promotion is crucial – and this article helps you learn the smart way to blog for traffic.

19. How often do you publish new content?

I know some bloggers who publish a few times per day and get a boost in traffic almost each and every time; others are doing it twice per month, and they wonder why their traffic is still low.

How often do you publish?

20. Become an expert on your blogging topic (again)

I don’t care if you’re an expert or guru already, everybody has something new to learn from other experts and gurus.

While I hate the term “guru”, I know that constant learning and marketing education is the key! Start learning from the best about your niche blog topic!

21. What have you learned (recently)?

Why not share with your readers something new that you personally learned (recently) that is targeted to your niche topic?

Robert recommends you “Always Write a Report About What You Learned”. What about that?

22. What did you learn from the US election?

Seth says… “Stories really matter.” That’s what folks respond to, so why not learn how to write faster and better next time?

23. Do you run interviews with other bloggers?

If not, you’re missing important traffic. This won’t get you hundreds of readers overnight, but it could get you hundreds of visitors…

My 5^th interview brought me up to 30 RSS readers and as many AWEBER subscribers. This strategy is not one to be easily neglected!

24. Do you link & track back when you post?

In every post I publish I make sure to create outbound links to relevant and high quality blogs; many blogs automatically have track backs enabled (in WP the option is on auto-pilot), so in their comments section they will have a link back to your blog.

If it’s a highly trafficked and ranked blog, this can mean traffic BACK to your blog, and it can draw notice from the author themselves as they often check the stats, don’t you?

Part three will be published next week, stay tuned!

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Top 12 Ways to Blog Like a Pro and Get More Traffic – Part #2