To reinforce that belief, not long ago I heard a successful internet marketer buddy of mine discouraging anyone from using any kind of back-link software.  I know I have myself promoted  back-link software, but hey, times change and even if those things worked to some degree in the past, it’s not the case anymore since Google has changed a great deal within past year or so.

Back-link software is like article spinners, the less you rely on them the better it will be for you.

In this post I wanted to show you how to create real and valuable back-links to your blog or site.  As a matter of fact, these methods are as simple and as fast as it would take you to fill up a back-link software application which in turn would get you low quality to completely useless back-links that wouldn’t help your ranking at all.

Here are five sites that Google loves and which will give a heck of good back-linking to  your blog.  And if Google loves it, you know what it means…

So, let see what are the 5 main back-link tools that you cannot ignore for the year 2012!

 Google+ Page

Make sure you have a Google+ page account.  By now, everyone should have one.  Don’t forget that Google+ belongs to Google and everything, I mean everything you put on your Google+ page will get indexed and ranked in the SERP pretty easily (unless is spun content) of course.

So, if you don’t have one yet, make sure you get your Google+ profile page and link your content to it on a regular basis.

NOTE: Do not link ONLY your content there. Internet marketing is a social business, don’t forget it.  It will be to your advantage if you’d link other people’s content on there as well.  Google likes that.

You Tube

It’s becoming more and more vital that you use You Tube to promote your business and links through You Tube.  There is a great article by Paul Wolfe on  Firepole Marketing that will give you all the specific details about what you can do to make the best out of YouTube to promote you and your business.

Don’t forget that You Tube also belongs to Google so, it will rank easily as well.

Tumblr

Tumblr is quite new still and doesn’t rank that great on Google yet, but it is expected that it will.  So, if you don’t have an account with Tumblr yet, I suggest you get one now.  If you don’t know how, Ana Hoffman from Traffic Generation Café has a post that will show you what to do.  Tubmlr is a platform kind of between a blog post and a Twitter tweet.  If you don’t have enough to write a whole blog post about and too much for a tweet, think Tubmlr!  Also, if you want to write a second little post about your real post and link to it, Tubmlr it’s perfect for that as well. That is how I use Tubmlr myself for my blog back-links.

Pinterest

Pinterest is an online pinboard.  Not ranking on Google yet, but it will and it’s predicted that it will rank very well, indeed.  On Pinterest you can share the things you love or found interesting.  You can use Pinterest to link your interesting content or pictures.

As well as any other social platform, you want to repin other people’s content or pictures that you like to build connections and relationships.  Pinterest is by invitation only. You can either request an invitation from a member or request one to admin.

I have a few invites available.   I’ll apply the first come first serve basis.  Oh, yes, it will be for those who have taken the time to read the post and left a nice comment and then tweet the post as well!

 Blog Commenting

Blog commenting is and probably always will be my favorite way of getting back-links, because not only it gives you the link back to your site, but you can create very interesting and useful relationships that can help you and your online business way beyond the back- links.

So many people are not aware of this yet, and it really amazes me!

I suggest that before you start commenting on other blogs  you get an avatar from Gravatar.com, because some bloggers won’t publish your comment if you don’t have one (I don’t blame them).  Using your real picture as an avatar is always preferable, but if you are one of those terrified by their own image, then, go ahead and get one of those avatars.

Once you’ve got your Gravatar picture make sure you read this article to know all the do and don’t about blog commenting.

By using these simple steps to get real and valuable back-links you will give real juice to your blog and you will never think that you need a back-link software again.

So, what do you think, don’t be silent let your voice be heard in the comment area below and get the back-link.

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They are saying that as long as you link your URL out there it’s all good and it’s going to give you the back-links that you need to help you rank your site high on Google.

Interestingly, such marketers usually don’t give any kind of proof of what they are saying either.  They are not able to show you what they did, and how their site is showing on Google.   The reason why they are not able to show you proof it’s because linking your site to duplicate, spun or low quality content doesn’t help a site to go up in ranking. No, on the contrary, over a short period of time it will bring the site down, never to be found on Google or other search engines again.

Maybe few years ago it was possible to fool the search engines algorithm, and don’t forget that Google had less choice back then,  but this is not the case anymore.  As a matter of fact, check this article case-study and see what the author was able to prove in regards to what search engines think about the value of duplicate content.

To make sure that we are all on the same page, let’s first make sure that we all understand what duplicate content is according to the ones it matters to the most, namely, the search engines.

What is Duplicate Content?

According to the definition of Google, duplicate content is a piece of content that can be reached via several different URLs under different domains.  Having the same content under multiple URLs is called duplicate content, and it doesn’t matter how you want to put it, it’s not something search engines are found of and they’d rather not have any of it on their search engines.

According to Google, if their algorithm spots two URLs with same content it will basically pick one and drop the other in the search-referred traffic. This makes it very clear, that you shouldn’t be wasting your time having multiple URLs with the same duplicate content, because Google will pick one and drop all the others.  A real waste of your time, really! And you thought your 10 identical articles where all going to show on first page?

How do you Create Duplicate Content?

•  You can create duplicate content by posting the same article on several different article directories.
• You create duplicate content by using the same content on a .com and .net for example, thinking that Google will rank both your sites.
• You create duplicate content is by using an article that you published on a directory or web 2.0 property and then use that same content to publish it on your blog or site.

Note: Sometimes, Google algorithms may even penalize you for your content being stolen and posted under a different URL in which case you can report the stolen content to them once you find out and request for the removal of such site from their search engine.

Why it’s Really Not Worth it to Waste your Time Linking to Duplicate Content

It should be clear by now that it’s really not worth it to try to link your URL to duplicate content, but for those who are not fully convinced, yet, here are the true realistic reasons.

- Whether you are using your own little two hands or some kind of article submittal software to distribute your duplicate content, you are still using your precious time to do so, and obviously it’s time you could be using to actually create valuable original content.

- Don’t ever forget that Google is ALWAYS looking for the BEST content for their searchers, because that’s how they make money. It should be obvious for anyone by now, that the best content is NOT duplicate content.  That doesn’t even make any sense, and the ones who are still not convinced of that make even less sense to me.

- Not only duplicate content back-links will not help your site, it will actually be detrimental to it.  As a matter of fact, to give you my own live example, I have let people post articles on this blog in the past to make up for my lack of time to post regularly, however,  I could tell that the low quality content that was published on here had seriously brought the blog down.  This is why decide recently to got rid of them all the start anew.

I know that writing fresh original content may seem like a lot of work, and to top it all up we live in a world that constantly promotes fast pace and fast results all the time, but in the case of your site showing on Google, there is no substitute for hard work and hard thinking abilities to create good quality original content.  Harsh truth?

So, do yourself a favor and instead of publishing low quality duplicate content that will do just help bury your site down in the search engines dungeon, make sure your write original and valuable content every time.  Google will love you for it.

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In this post I am going to tell you about a path that you could take to build your online business and which you can start applying as soon as possible, so you can start reaping the results of your hard work sooner rather than later, or worse even, never.

Is There a Really Quick and Easy Way to Be Successful as an Affiliate Marketer?

I know some of you have been struggling to fully understand how affiliate marketing works and how you can generate money the quickest and easiest way possible.  The truth is that if there is NO such thing as a really quick and easy way that doesn’t require work.  If there is one, then, I don’t know about it and I don’t know of anyone online among all the bloggers, and marketers that I know who know that secret either.

The truth is that if you want to make money online, it’s going to take some actions on your part.  Such actions will take some of your time and energy.  There is no doubt about it.  However, for this New Year blog post, I wanted to tell you about a specific road you might want to take to settle yourself on solid ground.  I also thought that you could learn from my own mistakes so, you would actually save some precious time.

Two Mistake you Should Absolutely Avoid From the Get Go

To start off I wanted to tell you want NOT  to do.  I know that this might have worked for some, but it didn’t really work for me and by judging from all the emails that I am receiving it seems that it doesn’t work for a lot of people either.

1- Don’t believe everything you hear

This is THE number one rule – don’t believe everything you hear.  You might have been told many times over that you should do your little keyword search, make sure they are good and write your blog posts and articles based on that and everything will be fine – right?

Wrong! If you were to base your success online on this fact only, you’d be failing big time.

When I started this blog that’s what I was doing and it was a big flop.  Since I didn’t have enough time, I even allowed other people to post on my blog as long as they had good keywords and stayed within the niche.  It absolutely didn’t work!

2000+ blog posts later and my blog wasn’t doing well at all!

I had to get rid of all those trash blog posts recently, because they were bringing the blog down and I wanted to start this year with fresh, new and most of all valuable content.

What was wrong with those posts, since they were keyword and niche focused?  They gave no value to the readers.  They ended up being detrimental to my blog rather than beneficial.  I realized that the most beneficial thing I could do was to get rid of them all together.  Yes, that’s how I got rid of over 2000 posts, and this blog is now down to 73 posts and counting!

2-      Don’t try to promote more than one niche

First off, give yourself a favor and refrain from making the mistake of selling several products from different niches.  If you are just starting and fell in this trap, the odds will be against you and you most likely won’t be successful.  Here is the main reason why…

Each time you want to sell a product from a different niche you need to open a new site.  Now, you need to be aware that the sites that Google loves are blogs.  And I am sure you know that if you want to rank on Google, you’d better have what they love.  This means that you have to have a blog for each niche.

What’s wrong with a blog?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with having a blog right? As a matter of fact, I will advise you to have a blog to support what you are selling in every case.  But, here is the problem… a blog will create work for you.

So, if you have one blog or maybe two if you are going crazy, you may be fine, but now imagine that you decide to sell 5 or 6 products from 5 or 6 different niches!  This means that you would need to have that many blogs to write on, maintain and promote.  You would find out very soon that this would be a big mistake.

Now, how in the world I would know this?

I should know, because that’s the very mistake that I made myself.  And what a mistake that was.  I had 7 main blogs and I wasn’t able to keep up with all of them.  This meant that they didn’t rank well, were not up to date with valuable content, and not promoted as they should have been.

If you find yourself in this type of situation, unless you have someone to write for your blogs, you are not going to be able to maintain that many blogs.  That’s just impossible!

You Have Two Solutions

a)      You create only one or two blogs (one or two niches) that you can manage yourself without any problem.

b)      You create many blogs and you will need to outsource your writing and maybe even your blog promotion.

 Two Positive Actions You Need to Take

 1- Build relationships

The old good article marketing campaign alone, doesn’t really work anymore.  I am not saying that you can’t make money using article marketing alone, but in the end it will not be sufficient to bring you a steady income, because article marketing is also what I call “cold marketing” where people might buy from you once and never see you again.  On top of this, the odds that they will buy the first time they read an article from you are pretty huge.  Just not something you can count on a regular basis, anyhow.

That’s where your blog comes in.

Another hugely important reason why you want to have only one or two blogs is that you can’t use your blog to sale your products.  At least, not like you would on a sales page.  You want to use your blog to build relationships with your readers.  This is a MUST, and it takes time.  If you don’t, you will be losing out and may never become truly successful in the internet/affiliate marketing business.

Why is it so important to build relationships with your potential customers?

a)      The chances of someone who knows you already buying a product that you suggest to them are multiplied by 3 to 5 times.

b)      Someone who knows you is most likely to buy from you multiple times.

c)       Someone who knows you and buys from you once is more likely to refer you to someone they know and even their whole social media network.

This is why you might have read time and time again that “the money is in the list”.  You’ll read that all over the place because it’s true.  No list, no expectation of getting a regular income from your online biz.

2- Create a list

Now, how do you create a list?  The only good way to create a list is to first create a blog with valuable content.  The first thing you need to understand in this business is that you  are not going to create a list because you want to, but because you are going to offer value to your readers, and people are going to be attracted to you that way.

Second, make sure that your blog invite your reader to sign up for a free incentive such as I have on my blog right here!

Now, do not use your list of subscribers to relentlessly sale a product every week to them.  If you do, your list will shrink faster than it will grow.  Do with your list of subscribers the same thing you are doing with your blog – give them value – and they will love you for it.  It took me over a week to create the e-course tutorial that I am offering on this blog; because I wanted to make sure it was something of value to my readers.

If you follow these two do’s and two don’t that every affiliate marketer should know, there is no way you can fail.

Treat your readers and your list just like you would want to be treated and they will give you back a hundredfold.  This is the real and the ONLY way to become successful online.

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In the past, this method made affiliate marketers a lot of money.

However, today, as Google is becoming smarter by the minute, choosing those Trojan keywords purposely would be a big mistake and this post will explain you why.  But first, let’s make sure we all understand what a Trojan keyword is.

A Trojan keyword can be a broad word that has different meanings such as “pool”, “driver” or “bow”, for example; if you were to type such word in their search engine, Google would have to decide what word you are looking for.  Are you looking for a pool for your backward or are you looking for shooting pool?

A Trojan keyword is also a word or a name that searchers misspell.  For example, if you were to type tumbrl instead of tumblr or George Forman cookware instead of George Foreman cookware.  In such cases, your misspelled word would also be called a Trojan keyword.  Such typos were the kind of Trojan keywords that affiliate marketers used to love.

About a year ago when you’d realized that a misspelled word (Trojan keyword) had a lot of hits (traffic) all you had to do is create a site or page with such misspelled word as your main keyword and you’ll get quite a bit of traffic that way.

However, today, if you were to create a site with the keyword George Forman, instead of George Foreman, Google would automatically direct your search to sites that have the name spelled correctly and by-pass your Trojan keyword site.

This is the danger of creating domain names and articles based on Trojan keywords, nowadays.

The reason why Google won’t give you traffic to your Trojan keyword anymore is not that they are trying to penalize you, but their business is to help people find the best result for their search.  The best result would be the word or name correctly spelled.  Right?

Therefore, if I mistakenly type “Forman” instead of “Foreman” when I am looking for Foreman cookware, Google understands what I am looking for and will give me the sites that have the name correctly spelled.

This is just an example; it works the same way for any word that is misspelled or written with inverted letters or initials.

Do not confuse keyword stats, search results and PRB.

Keyword stats are showing you what keyword people are looking for.  However, it really is not showing how often that keyword will bring a certain webpage up in the search.  Keyword stats are what people type in the search engine which may include all kind of errors, misspellings and Trojan keywords.

Keyword results are what Google returns for such search and which can differ quite a bit from the stats.

PBR (phrase broad ratio) is how many times an exact keyword phrase is showing up in Google results without quotation.  In other words, if you did your keyword search only using quotation it could throw you off, because if your PBR is less than 15 to 20 percent, your keyword will most likely not be a good one.  As we all know, no one is searching a keyword using quotation.

I made that mistake many times when I first started messing around with keywords.  Some supposedly knowledgeable people would teach me to type my keyword phrase in quotation and if the result number was no greater than 300-500 it was a GREAT keyword.

The truth is that it’s only a Trojan keyword and, therefore, wouldn’t be worth it.

Just take those quotations out and look through the first two pages of your search; if you barely see the same exact phrase showing up on the results, most likely it’s not a good sign and all you have is just a Trojan keyword.

I found that out the hard way many times over, wondering why what was supposed to be a great keyword was bringing me zero traffic.

Trojan keywords are a trick of the past and it has been my any many other marketers’ experience that they don’t work anymore as Google is improving its search engines to be more and more efficient for the searchers.

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That’s right! For only $1 for a full month your can have access to all the tools, videos, tutorial, forum, and everything else at Wealthy Affiliate.

This offer starts today and ends on Cyber Monday, November 28^th at 11:59 PM EST.  That’s a 4 day chance to access to it, so make sure you do it now before you forget.

What is Wealthy Affiliate?

Wealthy Affiliate is a tutoring platform owned by Kyle and Carson, two young guys who are expert in internet marketing, SEO, marketing, programming and idea development.

Back in 2005 they put together this online internet marketing tutorial called Wealthy Affiliate and the number of members has grown and grown ever since.

Why did I join Wealthy Affiliate?

I joined Wealthy Affiliate back in March of 2008 when I was a little frustrated with my network marketing business and my lack of internet marketing knowledge.  I joined with the intention of learning more about promoting my network marketing business but, I quickly realized that network marketing was not nearly as easy and cool as affiliate marketing was.

If you are not sure about what the difference is between network marketing and affiliate marketing make sure you read this post which will clarify this for you.

As I joined and started applying was I was learning my progress and success was becoming more and more obvious.

There are many successful stories of people who had no clue when they joined WA and ended up getting way ahead of the game pretty quickly.  Those people are very successful today!  You can read all of their stories on the other side.

What will you be getting and have access to when you join Wealthy Affiliate for $1 today?

Here is the list that Kyle and Carson have put together for you, just to give you an idea…

• 4 Live Video Training Sessions (and access to all the recorded ones)
• 4 Live Chat Sessions (Hosted by Carson and Kyle)
• 30 day success club, with daily actionable tasks
• State of the Art Web Hosting (for up to 3 domain installs)
• 3 WordPress Express website installations, install an awesome looking website in seconds
• Access to us (Kyle & Carson) personally if you have any questions
• Over 500 training videos, manuals and resources
• Our database of over 60 hours of Live Video Training
• Your own social profile, your own space, and your own WA blog
• Our famous forum, with 447,168 posts!
• Ability to create LIVE chats on any topic and join 100’s of active training discussion
• INSTANT support.  If you need help, there will always be someone there!
• Acclaimed keyword research and niche finding tool, in fact FIVE of them
• Article Writing tool, keyword density checker
• Link cloaking and traffic analysis tools
• Campaign and task management tracking
• Network with 1,000’s of other Internet marketers
• Hot Affiliate Program finder, find the trending affiliate programs
• Facebook and Twitter revenue generation system (click a button, earn money…really!)
• WA Jobs, outsource your work or get paid to do jobs right within WA.
• and this is just the start…

Again this is only a buck for a ALL month.  Nothing to lose!  If you like it you can become a member and stay.  If you don’t, you would have learned a whole lot of great internet stuff for less than a Starbuck coffee cup!

Why should you join WA?

1.  Well, frankly, I would try anything I am even remotely interested in if I could get it for $1.  What about  you?  I want you to know that there is NO hiding fee whatsoever and you can just quite when the month is over.  You have Kyle and Carson’s words and they are very good trusty guys that I know myself for 31/2 years.
2. Wealthy Affiliate is really a service of value for any internet marketer and blogger and, anyone wanting to make money online.
3. You will meet an incredible amount of great marketers whom you will have access to anytime through the forum such as Kyle and Carson themselves as well as Magistudios, PotPieGirl, Klrrider, Justin Brooke, Travis and me (Ezinewriter).

We and many other professionals of the internet have an incredible amount of tutorials that you can access to on WA that will blow your mind!

So, without further ado and, if you have $1 to spare for yourself, get your full WA training for $1 now! And start your internet marketing advance knowledge right now!

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1- Blog about on topic only

Nothing could be more confusing for your readers than a blog that talks about anything and everything.  If you want to attract traffic to your blog you need to pick a specific topic and stick to it.  Don’t be fooled into thinking that on topic blog will reduce your choice of ideas to write about; on the contrary, one topic or subject will help you write better, faster and more focused articles that will attract a focused audience.

Look at Ana’s blog for example! The topic is traffic and the blog has generated over two hundred posts in just a short couple of years.  So, rest assured that there is nothing to worry about.  You will be able to write lots and lots of blog post that are focused on one theme and one theme only.

2- Make sure you know your topic well

Learning about your topic by doing a lot of research in order to become an expert at it is essential for successful blogging.  If you do you will be able to write some of the most interesting, educational and even awakening articles you could ever dream of and, readers will flock to your blog.

Once you’ve decided on the topic of your blog, it’s up to you to develop a deep knowledge of your subject.  If you only touch the surface of your topic you will lose traffic over the blogs that will go deeper than you.

Readers are looking for education and knowledge in what interest them.  This is what will attract them to your blog.  Give them such educational material and knowledge and traffic will build up naturally, increasing over time.

3- Write High Quality Content

You ability to write high quality content will basically be equal to the amount of time you are going to put into the research about your own topic.  I have never found any substitute to educating myself about the subjects of my blogs but, reading, reading and reading some more to educate myself.

Your accumulated knowledge will mature into your head and get somehow mixed with your own experience and practice and result in high quality content for your blog.

4- Post Regularly

When you are starting to blog, it’s very important you post regularly.  Readers who will either subscribe to your blog or just come back on a regular basis will rapidly get used to your rhythm of posting.  If you break that rhythm or if you don’t have a regular rhythm of posting, your readers might get tired of your irregularity and stop coming back to your blog all together.

Just take your pick, every day, twice a week, once a week, twice a month… but, try to keep it that way and your readers will keep coming back to your blog and even refer it to others.

5- Learn Basic SEO

Of course you don’t have to be an expert SEO to blog but it’s very important that your blog be found through search engines.  For your blog to show up on search engines, you need to learn some basic SEO tricks that are easy enough to follow and learn.

Some of such basics include learning about keywords and how they affect your online content.  Learning about back-linking and other methods that will bring your blog ranking up on the search engines.

6- Make Sure Your Blog Is Comment Friendly

In many cases, the fact that your blog is comments friendly or not will or won’t attract recurring visitors.  I love a blog that is using comment luv such as this one for example or my own blogs as a matter of fact!

A comment friendly blog is a blog where your readers can not only leave a nice comment or a discussion about YOUR post, but where they can leave a mark about THEIR own blog post as a back-link to their own blog or site.

Blogs that are generous for the readers will most definitely attract traffic to your blog.

7- Acknowledge Your Readers

Last but, not least, you need to acknowledge your readers.  Your readers are people with feelings and when they leave a comment on your blog, you need to acknowledge it by replying to their comment.  Eventually, you should pass by their blog as well to get to know them better and engage more with them.

If you keep ignoring a reader long enough, never interacting with him or her, you will lose them eventually.  On the other hand if you do interact with them they will be loyal to you.

Don’t forget your readers are your blog traffic and such traffic is like potential customers entering your store.  You need to be nice to such customers if you want them to come back and eventually buy from you.

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What type of niche should you choose?

There is nothing wrong with broad niches, what would be wrong is trying to sell the niche as a whole and get lost in the ocean of big online marketers that were there before you and will always beat you on the search engines.  So, what should you do?

Should you just give up and choose another niche? No, if you have found a popular niche there is no reason why you should try something else that is not.  What you need to do, however, is put your thinking hat on and to find a niche (a sub-niche) within the broad niche.  The more specific your niche, the better.

OK, nicely said you might say but, how do you do this?

I am sure there are several different ways to do this, but I can only talk about my own and how I developed my niche within a giant niche that would have led me nowhere.  Doing this, I became an “expert” with my own sub-niche and you can do the same with yours.

What is the first step you need to take to find specific your niche?

The first step you need to take in order to find your niche is asking yourself this question: What do I love the most about this niche?  No matter what niche you are going to promote, I am sure that you do not like all the facets of that niche equally.  I am sure you may like one more than the other or maybe there are facets that you don’t even like at all.

Unless it pops up to your mind from the get go, asking yourself this question and going through every facet of your broad niche will guide you to your specific niche.

My own niche example

Let’s take my own example with the internet marketing niche.  The internet marketing niche is a tremendously generic term that includes, keyword research, SEO, website building, social marketing, article marketing, list building, traffic generation, blogging, ezines, etc… I am sure I could go on and on half that page about the different niches that are included in the internet marketing niche.

For me personally, it was already obvious what niche I was going to choose because I always loved to write.  There was no doubt that “writing” was going to be my sub-niche.  Therefore, my first advice to you would be to pick a broad niche that you like and then dig a bit deeper and think about what you like most within that niche.

In other words, avoid any niche that is completely foreign to you.  If like me, what you like most is already obvious to you, that’s great but, if it’s not, you might need to do some thinking and digging until it comes to you.  Either way, walking in familiar territory is always easier than walking in a strange land where you will get completely lost.

What you really like might not be obvious to you from the get go but, it will reveal itself as you go.  Whichever way works for you, once you’ve found YOUR niche or sub-niche you will know it.  And if you look for it, you will find it!

Sub-niches mean more success

If you are fortunate enough, you might notice that your niche has not been touched much yet, meaning it’s got a low competition, which is always a good thing.  This happens more frequently when you develop a niche within a niche.

When I decided to create a blog to teach people about valuable content and writing techniques that would help them improve their article and blog writing, I realized that there really were not that many blogs about the subject and this really helped my blog ranking right from the get go; starting with my domain name “persuasive article marketing”.

On top of that, most of my blog posts are reaching first, second and third place on Google in most cases.  All because my completion is low and really nobody is doing “exactly” what I do.

Create your own niche

When you have found a sub-niche within your niche, you really can take that niche by the horn and use your creativity to really “create your own niche”. Browse your completion and always try to do it better than them.  Sometimes, you would be surprise how easy it really is.

This blog right here was created to help you make some choices in that regard.

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Have you got CommentLuv Premium yet?

Any of you who have posted a comment on a blog using Commentluv before has had to admit to themselves that this was the best blog comment stetting they had ever every seen.

I know that when I started commenting on blogs using commentluv I loved it so much that I went an installed it on all my own blogs.

So, as soon as I heard of Commentluv Premium I couldn’t resist… I had to get it.  But what are you getting with Commentluv Premium?

CommentLuv Premium Features

Commentluv Premium is really what we could call the extreme in blog commenting plugins.  Dont’ be fooled, blog commenting is extremely important for both the blogger leaving the comment and the blogger receiving it.

If your blog has no comment, its dead, even if it gets visitors.  Visitors who like your blog, will leave a comment at one point or another,  so, why not give them some incentive for doing so?

The more your commenting area is attractive, giving incentive for the person leaving the comment, the more tempted visitors will be in coming back.  I have posted comments on blogs that had such an unfriendly comment area that I finally gave up and stopped visiting the blog.

You don’t want that happening in your blog, do you?

With Commentluv Premium a great insentive for people leaving comments on your blog is that you can opt to show their avatar with the last post that they linked on your blog.

This feature really encourages people to leave comments on your blog. And the more they do the more their face will be showing on the side bar of your blog.  Who wouldn’t like that? That’s why they will come back

At the same time, this is also good for you.  It shows other visitors that people are coming to your blog and leaving comments.  Not only that, but it shows that people are coming back to  your blog and leaving multiple comments.

OK, that’s great you might say, but what really is in for me with Commentluv Premium?  Here are a few things you can expect…

• You’ll get more Twitter followers
• You’ll get more Facebook likes
• You’ll even get better ranking on Google
• Because Commentluv Premiums is many plugins in one you will be able to get rid of other plugins.
• Less plugins means that your blog will work faster and smoother for you and your visitors as well.

OK, if you haven’t seen enough, let me tell you that you will get few extra bonus tools with Commentluv Premium and this is what you will learn from them…

• How to impress more with your comments
• Learn 5 powerful tactics to get more comments on your blog
• How to strengthen your article marketing
• Some FREE Word templates to create eBooks

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So, what are those people doing that you might not be doing with your blog and therefore not making money with it?

Understanding What It Takes To Start A Successful Blog

I won’t lie to you, to be able to blog and learn all the bloging skills that you need to learn in order to do it right, you are going to need time. If your time is limited you are going to have to set aside at least a couple of hours a day for your blogging project.

What I mean by that is that even if you are starting to blog on the side to try to make extra income, you need to take it SERIOUSLY.

If you don’t take it seriously, there is no way you are going to be successful with your blogging experience. That’s at simple as that!

What I mean by seriously is that you are going to take a specific amount of time where you are going to request not to be disturbed and work on your blog. This means, not having your children interrumping you, not having your spouse asking you about dinner tonight, not answering the phone, not browsing the internet, etc…

Pure undisturbed concentration on your blogging project for that day!

Use Your Precious And Valuable Time To Start Your Blog Wisely

You have to use the little time you have for your blog wisely, writing your blog posts, editing your blog posts, spreading your posts on different social media sites to promote them, finding a good list of blogs where you would post comments and link your blog in doing so, etc…  When you’ve done all that, you are going to constantly increase your blogging knowledge and skills.

Do not be fooled, taking such simple steps to build your blog is simple enough, but the reason why so many fail at succeeding with blogging is that while simple, it’s not always easy to keep up with it.

However, such steps AND the accumulation of knowledge and skills are what will make the difference between a blogger who makes money blogging and one that doesn’t.

Once you’ve got all that down, there might be another thing that will make you fail at blogging, and if you are just starting don’t fall in that trap.

I’ve noticed over my few years of internet marekting that people who are the most successful with blogging are people who blog about something they really love, are passionate about or know very well. This means that if you blog about a niche or topic you don’t care much for or don’t know anything about it would be very hard for you to thrive with your blog.

I have seen so many new bloggers trying the later and failing very badly. The main reason for this is that your blog needs to deliver deep, real, helpful, interesting and exciting information which you won’t be able to deliver with a topic that you do not care much about or do not know at all.

Eventually, you are going to be reluctant to write for your blog, and unless your goal is to pay someone to write for you, your blog won’t go very far.

Make Your Blog Useful For Your Readers

For a long time people who have been trying to make it on the internet have confused blogging for profit and blogging to profit others. The truth is this; if you are ONLY blogging for your own profit, your blog will be short lived, because no one will be interested in such blog.

On the other hand, if you are blogging for the profit of others, meaning to give them the most valuable tips, ideas, and knowledge you have to offer, your blog will become more and more popular as time goes on.  Give it some time and your blog will go viral.

If you do it well enough, you might be surprised by the popularity that your blog can reach. But, for such popularity to happen you need to understand that you need to GIVE good value with original content on a regular basis.

The days when all you had to do is try to fill up a page with some re-used content is OVER!

This just doesn’t work at all anymore, and will never attract the kind of people you want to attract with your blog.

Finding Your Niche

Find your niche. If you can’t think of any right now, I would advice you to read, read and read some more for a whole month straight, without doing anything else until you find it.

Read other blogs, magazines, books, etc… you name it! As you are taking in information and knowledge, don’t force yourself into finding something right now; just digests what you are learning and relax as much as you can.

Read personal development books or blogs and learn how to meditate. You would be surprise how becoming more of a “spiritual” person will help you as an internet entrepreneur.

In time, you will be coming up with something that you really like and that makes you alive. Only then, will you know that you have found what you should be blogging about.

This post by Sylviane Nuccio

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Yes, indeed, there is going to be an amazing contest for all bloggers big or small out there.  This contest is called the Surviving The Blog Reality Contest.

If you are interested in entering the contest, you need to know that the owner of the blog contest Kiesha Easley will start accepting entries for potential contestants on September 5, 2011.  The deadline to enter the contest will be September 23^rd at 11:59 PM EST.

Selection will be announced on October 3^rd and the Surviving The Blog Contest will begin on Monday, October 10^th 2011.

Why I am personally going to enter the contest Surviving The Blog?

First of all, I love internet marketing and I love blogging.  I think that’s a MUST if you want to enter such contest.  So,  make sure you have those two MUST-have qualities, and you’ll do great yourself.

Back in 2005 when I fist decided to find a way to make money online I knew nothing about anything regarding the online world.  However, I knew that there were ways to work from your own home just hooked to your computer.  While I know that a lot of people might be turned off by that thought, I was personally totally turned on!

I don’t know if you remember this, but back in 2005 “blogging” was really in its infancy, and as far as I was concerned, I started hearing about blogging only early 2006.  My first blog was a Blogger blog and I had no idea how to put things together and what the goal of a blog really was.  To tell you the truth, I am not sure a whole lot of people did back then anyway!

However, I ALWAYS loved to write and I was simply hooked with this internet marketing thing.  So, I kept on pressing, fighting ignorance of the internet, and trying to learn more and more.

Since then, I’ve started numerous little blogs until WordPress started to be THE blog platform any blogger deserving that name had to use.  Today, I own 6 large blogs and a few more little promotion blogs.  Beside my blogs I’ve written about 2000 articles under my name, few under pen names and some for pay.  I’ve also created about 100 Squidoo and Hubpages pages.

Some of my content has gone viral and has been posted all over the place on various sites (most of them with rightful credits and few without). Either way that’s always a great feeling!

I also started writing tutorials, most of which are free giveaways.  My Ezine Article Writing Secrets has also gone viral and is given away by other people even showing up on search on its own.

The best part of all of this is that my tutorials have really helped few newbies of the internet marketing world, and this is the best of the best for me.

So, why entering a contest such as Surviving The Blog Reality from WeBlogBetter and why I should be chosen as a contestant?

Here are the 10 reasons why I should be chosen for the Surviving The Blog Reality contest

1. I have been blogging for 5 years now and know quite a bit about the mistakes one should and can avoid when starting a blog.  However, I have plenty of room to learn more

2. I’ve started totally on my own with no one in my network was able to help me at the time, so, I know how to work alone and it’s not fun. Learning with a group of people who have one goal and on mindset is just divine.

3. I’ve learned how to start networking and get acquainted with the right people who gave me good advice.  However, I can say that internet marketing can feel like you are on a desert island, unless you make  daily efforts to reach out and develop a STRONG will to move forward.

4. I believe that I have writing skills and a strong natural desire to help others who are struggling in this business.

5. I know I will benefit 200% from a contest like Surviving The Blog Reality because I will put all my creativity, writing skills and other qualities to help others into it.

6. I can bring three different cultures to the table since as an interpreter and a foreigner I know quite a bit of the European, South American and North American cultures and languages (French, Spanish and English). That could be a plus.  You just never know!

7. I also have a background in acting that has helped me face any kind of situation by “acting the part” if I had too.

8. I don’t consider myself successful, yet, in the blogging business, but I have huge and tons of will that I know will lead me to an incredible success!  (Come back to me in two year from now, and read these lines again).

9. I have a long story of experience, and I naturally put some of that experience in my articles, my blog posts, my tutorials, my forum posts, my emails and everything I write online.

10. The comment area on my blog just sucks.  I know I have good content, but not enough visitors which include people willing to leave a comment.  I can definitely improve in this area, and I believe that the contest will help me to do so.

What can I say! I think that I am just the perfect candidate for this contest!

If you think that I am a perfect candidate for this contest or if you think that YOU are a perfect candidate for this contest, please, leave a comment below and tweet your comment as well. And, take action right here!

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