Guest posting is widely regarded as one of the best ways to get your name as a blogger out there and expand your own blog’s readership, especially if you are able to guest post on a popular blog that has a solid, large readership base.

However before you start guest posting there are several things you have to take into consideration so that the guest post you provide is one that sways people to become regular readers of your own site.

1. Tailor your post to the audience

Before you write a post for someone else’s blog or website you need to spend some time researching the type of posts the blog’s author provides for their audience. You want to write a post for the blog that is going to resonate with the readers of that particularblog; otherwise they won’t be interested in what you have to say and probably won’t head over to your blog, thus defeating the entire purpose of the post.

2. Write well

Writing for someone else means one thing in particular: you have to provide a post that sizzles. You can’t throw together an article at the last minute and expect people to care about what you have to say, you need to take time to write, read, and edit the post so that it showcases your talent as a writer. Poorly written guest posts don’t generate relevant traffic.

3. Bullet point posts work best

As it is, people like to skim when they’re reading, and this is especially true for guest posts. Because you are not the regular author of the site people will likely end up browsing the post looking for the high points, so make them easily accessible. The best way to do this is by using a bullet or number-style post.

4. Don’t go link-crazy

While you do want to provide a link over to your website and maybe links to one or two of your best posts, you don’t want to go link-crazy within the body of your article. Keep the links to two or three good posts. Anything more than that typically is a turn-off to the both the readers and the author of the blog that you’re providing content and your article will start to resemble more of a spam post than a legitimate one.

5. Keep your own site current

If you don’t keep your own blog up to date with fresh and well-written content then it doesn’t matter how great your guest post was, people won’t stay. A lot of times a writer will get so caught up in making sure the guest post they’re writing is perfect that they forget that their own site needs some attention also.

Guest posting well is not an easy task, but one that is rewarding when done right. Give the readers a reason to become regular readers of your site by providing great quality content for the site your posting for and on your own blog and you’ll be well on your way to growing your blog’s traffic.

However, many blogs with more popular topics, such as health and fitness or making money online, have one critical problem: They don’t have any readers.

People who have just begun blogging, or blog solely as a hobby and have no profit motive, usually don’t fully understand what being a blogger actually means.

A blogger isn’t just somebody who writes on a Weblog; there’s a lot more to it than just writing. As a result, many, if not the majority of, bloggers write really good articles but they don’t know how to get people to actually visit their site and read them. Other bloggers know how to do this but could still do better.

Social media monitoring

Social media monitoring has been around for years and is used by marketers to both better target and measure the results of their campaigns. Bloggers could take a page from marketing books and adopt social media monitoring tools like Alerti to help them figure out ways to bring more people to their blog:

Find out who’s sharing your articles

People who share your articles on social media like Facebook and Twitter are usually your biggest readers. These people are thus highly targetable to affiliate marketing programs sent out by your newsletter, since they see you as a trust agent and will thus believe you by default that the product you are promoting is worth it.

Though there will not be a one to one correlation between people who repost your articles on their social media profiles and people who read your blog, you can extrapolate people who do and they are likely to a more profitable subset of your target audience.

Furthermore, people tend to have other people who are demographically similar in their social networks, so people who repost your articles on social media in the future will draw in similar people as time goes on, which will affect your demographics in the future.

Find out what articles work

Let’s face it: Everyone stands on the shoulders of giants. If there’s a hot topic that you haven’t written about yet that your readers would like, there’s no shame in writing an article about it after you read an article by someone else on the same topic.

While Twitter’s trending topics feature only allows you to find out what people are writing about, social media monitoring tools can show you whether people are reposting the same article. By setting a URL to an alert in Alerti, you can see each time somebody posts that URL, instead of only seeing whether people use descriptive keywords. Essentially, social media monitoring tools show you advanced “trends” across the entire social mediascape instead of just showing simplistic trends on Twitter.

Research your posts

Finding out what’s being said about potential sources on social media can also give you some good resources for your articles, since you can see what your readers will think about you using that source and whether or not they’ll think it’s credible.

For example, if people are reposting an article a lot and trust the author, other similar readers are more likely to trust what that article has to say so you can use it to back up your own claims. Plus, you can use these articles’ citations as “citation farms” since they are likely to have credible citations that people trust, and you can use those citations in your article just like the trusted article.

The best technical skills we must have is the programming skills which is really helpful in troubleshooting or configuring our webpage into a better look or add new functionality inside your blog.

The problem is that, do you have enough time to learn from this kind of knowledge and skills? If it does, then where should I get those resources? Below are some of the top websites that you can learn programming – web programming, software programming or application programming.

1. W3Schools.com

For me, w3schools is really the best resources to learn programming because they have the “DYI” feature after they have taught you the theories and other information how code works.
This website will teach you from basic programming to advance programming. Plus, they also offer certification for those who wants become certified programmer.

2. Programming Forums.

Other best resources for programmer wanna be is the Programming Forum. This is because you can engage with other programmers to ask help or tips from them directly.

You can also read some threads that might be able to add the knowledge you need on a certain programming languages.

Once you become a pro in programming, forum is also a good place to find clients and offer them your programming services. For instance, you might be interested in helping new programmers to give back what you take or just building your programming credibility.

3. Paid Programming Lesson.

If you plan to become a serious programmer, you might consider investing money on it, to have a one-on-one coaching lesson to the person whom you think that is great in doing this stuff.

The best thing about someone has guided you along your journey is that; you can avoid the trial and error process which consumes more time. Plus you have his full support in times that something confuses you.

Bottom Line.

Programming is indeed a good skill to have because it saves you more money hiring programmers doing things you want to have in your blog.

The dark side about hiring or outsource programmers is that, they sometimes fail or don’t understand what functionality you want to have that sometimes end up to conflicts and no result at all.

I hope that this post help you and see in the next post.

I know that you already heard iWriter service these couple of months ago.

The spreading about their services and feature become instantly popular and viral among website owners that took the action to try the service because of its low price service.

Yes, at iWriter you can order article for as low as $2.

But the big question is that, does this worth the investment? To answer that question, I tried to order an article to find out if the writers from this marketplace is good and here are some things that I found out.

Cheap Price, Cheap Quality.

I want to make more orders because iWriter guarantee that the content that their writers wrote passed Copy Scape – an article scanning software for duplicate content. Yes, I trust their guarantee because iWriter was introduced to me by a credible blogger whom I followed.

And I found that, the cheaper the price, the cheaper the quality of the service. I checked the content myself at copyscape and all of the article that I ordered inside iWriter didn’t pass copyscape.

Many have said, it is because the price is too low. But why does this people posted their service at iWriter but can’t maintain the quality of their service?

The Proof? See it Below!

I made a screenshot of the article that was written by the writers inside iWriter.com. Please take a look at it.

Take note: The images seems very small to see. So I suggest that you right click the image and choose the “view image” in the options given, to see the full width of the image.

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Notice the pink highlighted words and phraseS? These were the phrases that were duplicate content which they eventually copied from other websites and submitted the article to me. If you think that this is fair, then go make an order to iWriter’s writers.

Because for me, it ain’t fair coz it is really hard to earn money especially if you are working online. Anyway guys, this is just my opinion. If you have some stories and experiences at iWriter, then why not share it to us?

I am hoping that this post is useful to you.

Cheers!
- Felix

So, what really Backlink is? Well, backlink is a clickable text or hypertext pointing to a webpage. And the word or phrase of that hyperlink is called anchor text.

Backlink is indeed the backbone of your website or online business. This is because; it will help your site to get rank higher in search engine result pages, especially in Google.

Why choose search engine traffic other than doing traffic generating techniques? This is simply because search engine traffic is far more targeted and of course it is absolutely free. And if ever that your website got the #1 spot in search engine result for a targeted keyword, you will gain much traffic plus you don’t need to do lots of marketing stuffs.

How to Build Backlinks?

Before building backlinks for your site, you must also consider factors that will help your site rank in Google or in other search engines.

1. Link Building Speed.

Firstly, you must be concern about your Link Building Speed. The fact is that, Google really don’t notice if you’re doing fast track back linking routine unless you are building thousands of backlinks a day. For this, you should do it naturally.

2. IP Diversity.

The second factor is the IP Diversity. Google will also look where your link came from and sort if these links has quality or came from the same place. What I mean by this is that, Google will try to look if your backlinks came from different IP addresses.

3. Anchor Text.

Third is the Anchor Text. The text that becomes the link that gets clicked is called the anchor text. Anchor is really important in doing the link building process. Because this will determine what keyword term you really are promoting to search engines.

Most of the time, you can use the same keyword phrase in promoting a keyword but doing varying keyword will make the keyword you promote looks natural and not spammy.

4. Page Rank.

The fact is that, not each link is created equally that Google will measure the authority of the site where your backlink came from. When Google see that your backlink came from high page rank webpage, your website link will also get higher value.

So if you get backlinks from websites having the page of 3, 4, 5, and 6 or beyond that, Google will reward the webpage you promote to get a higher search rank in the keyword phrase you are using.

5. Link Relevancy.

On topic backlink is also one of the most important to bear in mind in building backlinks to your site. If you are promoting a keyword phrase called “acne cure” you must also build backlinks in some related sites that also talked about acne or talked about skin care or diseases.

In the other hand, not all niches have lots of relevant websites where you can build your backlinks. Because of this, you tend to build backlinks from an off-topic websites which is I think is still okay. Why? It is because Google will think that you are not doing it naturally and not the link farming way.

The Truth about Link Building.

The fact is that, patience is the key to get successful in building backlinks. It may seem sounds easy to do but it will need more time and effort in doing it.

What I mean is that, there are many ways to build backlinks. There is Blog Commenting, Forum Signature, Article Submission, Guest Post and etc. The problem with this technique like doing blog commenting and forum marketing is that, you need devote more time in finding relevant and do follow websites.

And in the part of doing the article submission process and guest post, you need have many unique articles to be submitted to these websites in order your article get published and earn backlink.

Two Best Solutions.

There two ways to make this link building process easy for you and gain more time to work for other projects you have in mind.

1. Outsource.

The first one is to outsource backlinks. Outsourcing is one of the best techniques for you to have more time for your other business and your family. Shall we say, this is really the so called dot com life style.

The problem with outsourcing is that, you need to manage your workers to make sure that they are doing it right. Also you need to train them according what you want to achieve. The worst case is that, if you hire a wrong person, you will loss lots of money from your pocket.

2. Buy Backlinks.

This option is I think one of the best options. Why? It is because the company or individual who is offering this service really know what he is doing. Most of the time, they will give you an option package for you to choose from. The number of backlinks you want and where these backlinks came from.

If your problem is the place where you will buy these backlinks, your problem is now solve because I just found a legitimate marketplace where they offer high quality backlinks that your website deserves to have.

This marketplace is called SEO Clerks. This website is a place for buy and selling backlinks. Now, if you know how to backlinks, you can advertise your service here and earn lot of money. I think that this site works like fiverr. I am pretty sure you know fiverr.

I was shocked and almost cried of what other people are saying about my whole personality.

Then I immediately contacted my wife if she was responsible for the distribution of this great information product by Darren Rowse of Problogger dot net.

And I found out that she did.

When I learn that, I felt confuse and rapid beating of my heart because I am thinking that my Guest Post entry might be in trouble and all my hard work will be gone to nothing.

No one is perfect. In my case, I wasn’t aware that someone is violating the copyright law under my name, until I learned that told me about it.

I am very sad that I am now disqualified from the contest that I really did my best to promote it. Anyway, I would like to share some few things that I learned from this trouble.

1. Don’t Let Other Do the Work for You.

I am not saying that outsourcing is bad. What I really mean by this is that; don’t give your tasks to anyone who is not well trained by you. It because she or he might do some things not following your procedure.

2. Don’t break the rules.

We are not perfect and sometimes, we make mistakes without noticing it that sometimes break the rules. I have the experience before that my Google Adsense account was terminated cause by clicking my own adsense ads.

This was done by other person who is curious about the relevant link inside my post. The thing is that, I was shocked when my ads were disappearing and when I log on into my account; a prompt said that my account was terminated.

I really don’t know what causes it, but I do know the rules which I haven’t break it at that time. When time passed by, my wife confessed on me that she was the one who clicked the ads.

3. Don’t Leave Your Personal Computer On.

If you are planning to go somewhere else, always remember to turn your personal computer off. Because if you leave it open, there would be a great chance that your personal accounts will be use unauthorized.

Also put a password in your computer, so that whoever wants to open your computer, they can’t completely get inside and use it fully.

Conclusion.

In the end, I am hoping that I still have your trust. My experience can happen to anybody. But there’s a phrase that I learned from a friend.

Smart People Do Learn from their Mistakes.

That’s all and thank you very much.

- Felix

But most of the time, having this kind of business model is seldom happened in the offline business world and found it in the virtual world of the internet.

Now, if you want to learn how this passive income business works, you should also learn it from the experts having the system that works and other stuffs that you need in your journey.

Luckily, the Greatest Passive Income Online Business Course was launched since 2008 that I’ve following their course since they got started.

This program has the training videos, softwares, plugin and templates that you need to build your online business empire. They will also host your website for FREE and this I consider an All-in-One system that you must be a member.

Check my review in the link below. And if you like the review, please share it in Facebook and if you have some queries, please share it in the comment section.

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That’s why I am thinking that this might be a nature for us human being.

Because of this, companies used this advantage to market or promote their products and services to targeted crowd of prospects by simply sponsoring sweepstakes draw or contest that people can win instant prizes.

On the other side, many people who are also trying their luck to get this instant fortune by joining raffle draws, lottery and other forms of contest badly. Because of that, they use to search over the web or local newspapers to look for this opportunity to win instant cash or items.

Luckily, there’s an instant cash sweepstakes directory called iWinnerAdvantage.com – a website that helps you to find offline or online sweepstakes, winning lottery numbers and competitions, for you to join.

How nice this great website in becoming a One-Stop shop in finding a winning cash flow sweepstakes opportunities. So how does this website works?

iWinner Advantage Features:

iWinner Advantage will give sweepers the proper tools to win more prizes. Every month, there are over a billion dollar sweepstakes in all places of the globe that you can win. Below are some of the following:

1. Tracking promotions you have entered.

As a Winners Circle member you can track promotions by simply clicking “Track” once you have entered into the promotion. And in the future, you can return to your list of tracked promotions and sort them by Draw dates or close dates and easily click on their links to get updated on who won. Maybe You!

2. Suggesting Promotions.

Winners Circle members are always submitting promotions to the IWA community, and so can you. A strong community helping each other increases your chances of winning.
3. Tracking your Lottery Games.
IWA tracks winning Lottery Numbers from all over the world. Winners Circle member can add lottery games from all over the world to their Winners Circle account and also input their purchased lottery numbers as well. When you visit their personal Winners Circle lottery listings, you will be informed of all the winning lottery numbers for the Lottery Games you play. And easily see when you’ve won!

The Benefits of Becoming a Member:

A Free worldwide Access to Winning. Where you’ll find up to the minute online and offline sweepstakes, contests, competitions and winning lottery numbers WORLDWIDE! Become a member, and we’ll provide you with a personalized administration area where by you can track your own entries.

• Online entry, No Postage, No additional cost!
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Conclusion.

If you are the person who is trying your luck to win huge prizes, then joining iWinningAdvantage.com is a great advantage against your competitors. So what are you waiting for? Take the action today!

Firstly, I would like to thank you all in helping me to Win the Third Prize at Smart Bloggerz Guest Blogging Contest. I won a cash prize of $125. I really appreciate your help.

But this time, I want to ask your help again to WIN the Guest Blogging Contest of the Year at Blog Engage.

If you want, you can also join the contest and get the chance to win the $1000 cash. All you have to do is visit the link above to learn more information about the contest.

On the other hand, I would like to say Thank You for the sponsors that are responsible of making this huge prize Guest Blogging Contest come to happen.

Please Help Me.

In order for me to win this Guest Blogging Contest, I want ask your help again. I want you to please take a second to VOTE my Guest Blogging Entry – If You Don’t Read This Post, You Are a Liar. Find Our Why!

I know that my entry has an intriguing title that sometimes offend some readers and bloggers. But I guarantee that you will learn something useful from this post.

I hope you will give this favor. Thank you and have a great day.

- Felix

Now, if you are not a skilled graphic designer then using a software application is a great choice than hiring someone to do it for you.

Introducing, the eCover Creator – a product of InDigital Cover and InDigital Works.

The eCover Creator is a web-based eCover Application that allows you to create any 3D eCover designs like DVD cover, eBook cover, Membership Card cover and Software Box cover in just a few minutes.

All you have to do is just choose an eCover model, Upload Background and Text then Download your eCover Image.

Once you turn on this all-in-one, cover-in-a-box machine, you won’t stop creating new covers… Even if you want it to.

Watch how it works in the video below.

Try it for Yourself FREE!

Now that you finished watching the tutorial, do you want to test it yourself? Use the frame below to experience the features of the product.

The Private Label Rights.

Today, the eCover Creator Application is selling The Private Label Rights for 50 copies. Now, what those “Private Label Rights” mean to you?

If you’re not familiar with “Private Label Rights” yet, by purchasing PLR for this application you will be allowed to:

• Charge for the eCover Creator access and keep 100% of the profits from all your sales
• Edit the sales page, put your name on it, and insert your order link
• Rebrand with your name/company/brand
• Claim yourself as the creator/author
• Add to your bonus offer
• Add to membership sites
• Add to Blog or any other website…

In this special PLR deal, you will receive:

• The eCover Software Full Version
• The eCover Software Demo Version (show your visitors how great this application is – before they subscribe or buy)
• The proven money-making sales page
• All the graphics with .PSD source code
• Video Tutorial on how to use the software (no more customer support!)
• Rebrander (so you can rebrand the software with your own name!)

Sounds like a great deal right? Learn more about the product offers over this link.

How You Can Get 1 FREE License?

Currently, I am arranging a Quick tweeting contest at Famous Bloggers.net. This means that you will have to tweet about the product or simply tweeting the product review.

The contest has not been launch yet. So I suggest that you follow me on twitter @bloggingaccess for the contest update. What are you waiting for? Grab a Copy NOW!