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Grow Your Blog’s Comments Using A Comment Tribe

February 29, 2012 By 3 Comments

Grow Your Blog’s Comments Using A Comment Tribe

Comments are a great indication of how a blog is doing within the blogosphere. Generally speaking (not always) the more comments a blog gets the more active and more engaged the readers are, and the more likely they’ll return to respond to something they’ve already posted, or perhaps to defend a comment they made.

Comment tribes are a terrific way to get out and meet other bloggers and also participate in a comment exchange with them. Not only do you get some quality comments, but you also open yourself up to people with their own pool of knowledge and you can’t help but to learn something by visiting, reading, and commenting on their posts as well.

A short while back I integrated a blogging and internet marketing forum into my website where online marketers, bloggers, and entrepreneurs can meet and discuss those topics that are near, and dear to their hearts – their websites and businesses.

I’ve also just added a comment tribe into the forum, and will be accepting members who are looking to grow their community and generate more comments to their blogs.

The way each campaign works is a comment tribe member starts a campaign by creating a new thread and giving it a title such as: blog comment campaign #1 and then copying and pasting in the rules coupled with the number of their post (Which for the person starting it would be #1 of course) and a link to their post.

Here is an example:

Comment Campaign #1

— Paste Rules —

The Rules:

Rule #1 - Comment Campaigns are limited to 10 per thread. If you find yourself number eleven simply start a new thread using the following format: Blog Comment Campaign #1 (change the campaign number to reflect the new campaign) copy and paste this notice in its entirety and follow it up with a link to the post you’d like comments on.

Rule #2 - You must comment on all other posts in your campaign before moving onto a new one.

Rule #3 – Please only offer up high quality information as it relates to either the internet marketing, or blogging industry. While affiliate links make sense in some posts, if that is your only type of content this likely isn’t the forum for it.

Rule #4 - While the forum is moderated it is up to the members to inform newcomers if they are breaking the rules, or submitting content that is poor quality or in some other way unacceptable.

Rule #5 - While Re-tweets, Likes and other shares aren’t required, if you feel the content to be deserving, or could benefit your own audience then go ahead. I’m sure it will be appreciated and the chance of it being reciprocated is much more likely.

*Note Comments can hit spam traps for new visitors. If you are missing comments try checking your spam folder first.

(Copy these rules into each new campaign)

My Blog post #1
www.blog.com/post-I’d-like-the-other-nine-members-to-comment-on

Thank you.

The following person would then simply add theirs

My post is #2 and the link is

www.blog.com/example

And so on and so forth up until there are ten posts within the campaign. (The 11th person would simply start comment campaign #2 and copy paste the rules and things would start all over again.)

Please don’t start or participate in a new campaign until you’ve finished commenting on any campaigns you’ve entered into already.

While retweets, likes, or shares aren’t required if you feel the content is deserving by all means share it with your own audience if you think they might benefit from it.

Like any beginning I’m sure things will start off slowly, but with each campaign limited to only ten submissions we should be able to get underway with as few as twenty or so regular members to start off, and if we invite others into it, growth should happen quickly.

If you’d like to participate in the comment tribe, you can simply sign up here, or under the members tab up above, and create a free account (there used to be both free and paid, but I’ve recently opened everything up to everyone) and feel free to introduce yourself in the Coffee Lounge, and if you have a blog post you’d like comments on add it under the comment campaign section.

The rules for the forum are fairly standard and are only there for our benefit. If you come across a problem, or issue don’t hesitate to get ahold of me either in the forum itself, or via email and we’ll get it straightened out promptly.

 

 

 

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2nd Year Interview For PLR Internet Marketing

February 29, 2012 By 1 Comment

2nd Year Interview For PLR Internet Marketing

March 1st for me signifies the start of my third year online with PLR Internet Marketing, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have experienced some successes this year and have accomplished various personal and business goals as well as living through some failures and setbacks as well.

Aaron Hoos from www.aaronhoos.com had seen early on, something either in myself, or in what I was doing with my blog that he felt was worthy of documenting in the form of interviews (which have become an annual even that we both look forward to).

When I started out I took the first step and I made the decision that I wanted to build a blog and business that allowed me the freedom to not only work from home, but also to allow me to spend time with my family. I then listed out what it was that I thought success would look like and proceeded to list out the various steps and goals I felt would signify success. (At least in my eyes)

I chose things like:

  • Growing my Twitter Following (which was zero) to 55,000 followers.
  • Launching a Facebook fan page and growing to 20,000+ fans.
  • Growing my daily traffic to 2000+ visitors.
  • Launching my own products and eBooks.
  • Ranking on the first page of Google for terms like “internet marketing”. (No easy feat)
  • Being able to take on an employee.
  • Earning $10,000 + per month with my blog.
  • And so many more…

Many of these are discussed in the interview, and I’d love it if you’d take a few minutes to head over to AaronHoos.com (links are below) to read the interview and leave me any comments or insights you’d like to share. After all it’s through the efforts of so many of you who’ve shared your content and advice willingly that I’ve been able to achieve the things I have and for that I’m eternally grateful!

Aaron has been chronicling my business journey in the form of an annual interview, and I’m also exceptionally thankful to him for not only considering me worthy of interviewing, but also for the accountability he affords me by allowing me to share goals, achievements, and even failures that I experience along the way.

I should point out that when I refer to “failures” I don’t see it as something negative. For me failure is simply an outcome that is a result of an action I take. I’m smart enough to realize that we don’t succeed with our first attempt (at least not very often) and that the most successful people in life aren’t those who never fail, but are those who fail the most often, and who finally break through to “success” because of perseverance (or in my case stubbornness LOL)

The first year interview I did with Aaron can be found here: http://aaronhoos.com/2011/03/29/interview-reveals-how-plr-internet-marketing-achieved-shocking-success-in-only-1-year/

And the 2nd year interview which went live yesterday can be found here:

http://aaronhoos.com/2012/02/28/internet-marketing-success-story-2nd-anniversary-of-plr-internet-marketing/

Press Release:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9237384.htm

In the interview I talk about challenges faced, accomplishments made, as well as future hopes, and goals I’d like to see (make) happen in 2012.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have been able to blog full time now for two years, and am looking excitedly forward to this third year which I’m hoping to make by best, and by far my most successful one yet.

It is my hope that you’ll still be a loyal reader of my blog when March 1st 2013 comes around, and you’ll be able to also hold me accountable to my goals and commitments as well as to help me celebrate my successes that I hope to achieve in my third year.

We all have dreams! It’s when we take the time to write those dreams down, and make a plan, filled with steps needed to achieve that dream, and follow it up with action that we are able to turn those dreams into realities.

I’d like thank you all for reading my blog, and I wish you all the success in your own endeavors this year, and hope you achieve as many of your own goals as humanly possible! I believe in you! J

Warren Wooden

 

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R.I.P Scroogle

February 28, 2012 By 1 Comment

The popular website Scroogle.org owned and operated by Danial Brandt since 2003 and which ranked within the top 5000 highest trafficked websites on the web, and held a PageRank 6 has shut its doors permanently!

Reasons cited were DDOS (Denial of Service) attacks coupled with some serious throttling from Google themselves who were actually providing the results shown by Scroogle.

Many of us, me included were regular visitors to the website since we could quickly and easily get an unbiased result for our website and its chosen keyword and that keywords location within the SERPS (search engine ranking position).

It’s a sad day when any of the larger, more popular websites go down and this is no different. According to Brandt several of his online properties were being targeted by hackers who for one reason or another held a grudge against him, and were bent on shutting down the search engine either for a time, or as it turns out permanently.

According to betabeat author Adrianne Jeffries, Scroogle’s days were numbered and would have shut down permanently even without the attacks due to the throttling issue the site was facing from Google.

What I find interesting is that Google chose to simply limit the amount of queries they were allowing from Scroogle when they could just as easily have cut them off entirely! I suppose having a search engine unable to show results for as long as 90 minutes at a time however is the next best thing.

For those of you looking for an alternative way to search your favorite keyword, or website rankings there are a few alternatives to check out.

https://encrypted.google.com/

http://clutsy.com/

http://ixquick.com/

https://duckduckgo.com/

The list above is an alternative for private searches, but seems to produce different results which might not work for some since the sole reason we’d use a service like this is to check our rankings on a particular keyword quickly. And since most of us are only concerned with rankings in Google we may be better off loading up our keyword rank tracking software of choice on a more regular basis.

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How To Blog For Backlinks

February 27, 2012 By 5 Comments

How To Blog For Backlinks

Do you know the best way to get backlinks to your website? The best thing that you can do is write an impeccable blog post and hope people link back to it. This is what many people try to do but they just don’t have the basics down to actually do it.

Won’t I need lots of website traffic?

No, although this will help you will want the right kind of traffic or following to get many backlinks. What I mean by this is 100 small sites with links back to you will be good but it won’t compare to 1 link back to your site from Problogger.net or johnchow.com. This is why the right following will do more than tons of traffic.

Also, you don’t need the major bloggers to follow you at this time. What you can do is send out an email to some of the bloggers that you follow and tell them about the post that you just wrote. This is where most people make the biggest mistake. If you don’t write a post that they want to read and that has a substantial amount of information, then they won’t read it and they will probably not even read anything else you send them. Just make sure that if you are sending bloggers a post that you just wrote you should make sure it is a “Pillar post” that they have never seen before.

Why Pillar Posts Work

The reason a pillar post will get you tons of backlinks is because they are used as an all in one article on that particular topic. For instance, if you were looking for a pillar post on link building, then I would point you over to Pat Flynn’s article – The Link Building Strategy That Works

His pillar post is great and as you can see, it shows you everything you need to know about building backlinks to your niche site.

Tips On Creating Pillar Posts

Wrong Longer Articles

Did you know that you can get more traffic from a longer post? The thought process behind this is that each sentence can attract more long tail keywords so the more sentence you have, the more traffic you will get. Not only will longer posts be better for getting search engine traffic, they will have more information in them and that is what a pillar post is all about. The only thing you need to remember is that you can’t repeat the same thoughts or ideas over and over again; this will just be tiresome to read.

Take Your Time

When people tell me that they wrote a pillar post in less than a couple hours, I really wonder how good it will be. The reason I say this is because it is tough to get all your great ideas neatly worded into one article without taking some time to do it. What I would recommend is that you spend week writing a little bit at a time and then once you are done with that, take a day or so to finalize everything. Doing this will ensure that your post is as good as it can be.

Add A Different Flavor

When I say add a different flavor I mean that you should mix things up. You don’t want to create posts that all look the same and because of this you should use heading, subheadings, bullets, interviews, quotes and anything else you can muster together on your topic. Just remember that the more you have in a post, the better it most likely will be.

When it comes to writing a pillar post you need to remember what the point of it really is a wealth of information. You don’t want to make it sound like you are creating a post just for backlinking purposes because that usually doesn’t work out in your favor. Just make the post as good as you can and then add links or sharing buttons so that the readers can easily share that post with their friends or other bloggers.

Creating a pillar post is the best way to blog for backlinks and that is why I highly recommend it. Although, this will take some time to write, it will benefit your blog a great deal.

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How To Succeed At Just About Anything

February 25, 2012 By 2 Comments

How To Succeed At Just About Anything
We’d all like to add a list of successes to our resume of life’s experiences, and I’m sure there are certain areas that are more important to you than others.
For some it might be business, others it may be excelling in a certain sport, and for still others it may be developing a better relationship either with a significant other, or perhaps even with themselves.

So what is it that successful people have going for them that failures don’t? It sounds harsh doesn’t it? Failures! The word likely isn’t one you want to hear or associate with something you’re trying to achieve in life, love, or business.

 
Tony Robbins once said there are NO failures, only outcomes and I tend to agree with him. If we look at the results after attempting a certain action there really are only two possible outcomes. We either consider the action to be a success, or a failure. This doesn’t mean that the person conducting the (we’ll call it experiment) action is a failure, merely the instrument facilitating the action.

 
In order to succeed at something you need a few things going for you, and I’m going to share them with you here.

1. You need to actually know what it is you’re trying to achieve.

If you aren’t able to clearly and accurately articulate what it is you think you want chances are you don’t really want it, but are merely curious or interested in it.

It’s easy to say “I’d like to bench press 500 pounds”, but much harder to invest the years of training, dieting, and supplementing involved to actually achieve it. However if you truly have a love of working out, and lifting heavy objects you might just have a chance and when you say “I’d like to bench 500 pounds” chances are you’re already lifting 200 or 300 and have a solid working knowledge of lifting weights.

Saying you “want” something means you want everything that comes along with that desire, the sweat, the time, the effort, and other expenditures that come with trying to attain something worthwhile. Remember, if it were easy, everyone would have it!

2. You need to create a roadmap to get you there.

In the example above the first step might be joining a gym. Breaking down large goals into smaller pieces will not only help keep you on track, but also make them appear less daunting. After all, which sounds easier, joining a gym, or picking up a gym membership? ?

3. You need to take action!

Once you’ve created your roadmap, and have listed out the steps you believe will lead you to where you’re trying to go, you need to take action. Without action you might as well relegate “dreams” to the “wishes” pile, and go back to watching TV.

Remember each step could result in failure as an outcome, this doesn’t matter! Simply find a new step to replace the one that didn’t work and move on and watch to see if the outcome is successful or not. There aren’t too many people who succeed the first time out of the gate so be ready to keep coming until you get the result you want!

They say Edison failed 1000 times while inventing the light bulb, imagine if he’d given up after 100, 500, or even 999 times? You should ask yourself, how many times are you willing to fail in order to succeed?

4. Don’t give up!Ever!

The only way to truly fail is to give up on something. If the item in question truly is a dream of yours, then be in it for the long haul, because dreams rarely happen overnight. There are even those who would say that the attainment of the dream isn’t the prize, but the journey toward the prize.

Winning an Olympic medal might only take but moment during an athletes life, but the road to becoming an Olympic athlete will define who they are much more accurately that the medal hanging on their wall ever will.

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Ways To Increase Guest Post Submissions

February 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Ways To Increase Guest Post Submissions

Every blogger wants to receive guest posts now and then, however, when you never get any guest posts then you should try to do something to change that. The problem that a lot of bloggers have is they don’t make it known that they accept guest posts on their blog. All you have to do is tell your readers that they can submit a post or link to a guest post page.

The best part about getting more guest post submissions is that you will expand your audience, you will get more traffic in the long run, you will have more time to do other things besides writing blog posts and best of all, you are now seen as a credible blog. Other bloggers are not just going to write a blog post on a site that doesn’t have good traffic and is not credible so the more guest post you get, the better your blog is to other bloggers.

Techniques To Increase Guest Posts

Have A Guest Post Page

If you don’t have a page on your site regarding guest posts, then you really need to put one up. The benefit of doing this is that people will now know that you allow guest posts on your website. For many bloggers, they go to a site and see if there is a guest post page. Now, if you don’t have a guest post page you either won’t get anybody asking to do a guest post or you will get a bunch of emails once people start inquiring about it. Either way, it is better to just put up a guest post page and go from there.

Ask For More Guest Posts

Did you know that one of the best ways to get something is to just ask? This is something that you might want to try. All you have to do is ask the people who come to your site to write a guest post if they want to. By just asking you will get more guest post submissions and you will also grow your blogging network.

Run A Contest

How about running a contest where you give away 30 days free advertising or you give away an $25 Amazon gift card. Giving something away is not illegal and in most cases it works better than any other method to get guest posts. What I would recommend doing is to run a contest where you give something away to the person who offers the most guest posts in one month’s time. A lot of bloggers are currently doing contests like these and they are seeing incredible results. Just try it out and see how your blog does after one month.

Increase Your Traffic

One sure fire way to get more guest post is just to increase your traffic. It doesn’t matter if you have a PR6 blog with only 100 visitors a day, however, if you have a PR0 blog with 1,000 visitors a day then people will guest post on that blog. Guest posting is as much about link building as it is about getting traffic and readers to view their article so make sure you provide both high Page Rank and high traffic.

Now, although guest posts are great to get on your site you will need to make sure they are up to your standards. A lot of bloggers will quickly publish guest posts as soon as they come in without even checking them for uniqueness. This is a big mistake that you need to avoid. By simply going through the article and doing a Google search for one of the sentences you will be able to tell if the article is online already or not.

Here is how you do it;

Do a Google search like this – “This would be where your sentence would go and make sure the quotes are around it so that Google searches for this, exactly.”

Do you understand now, why some websites get so many guest posts? If you are wanting to increase your readership and network with other bloggers similar to yourself, then you need to follow some of the techniques that I listed above. The is nothing to lose by getting more guest posts, so make some changes and see how well they work.

If you would like to submit your unique post and be featured as a guest blogger here on PLR Internet Marketing, simply visit my guest posting page, and we’ll get things rolling.

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Importance of Subscribe Section in Your Blog

February 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Importance of Subscribe Section in Your Blog

In the world where there are millions of bloggers, it is essential to learn how to make your blog stand out from the rest. Truth being said, it is almost impossible to be spotted by your future readers unless you have something that will grab their attention. There are different tips and some tricks on how to make your blog the best it can be, but the majority of bloggers insist that their content attracts readers, not gimmicks of any kind.

Is It All About The Content?

Most people would answer positively to this question without thinking about it too much. They would be right, but not completely right. The truth is that your content is what makes your blog valuable to the readers, but this isn’t the only thing that you should focus your attention to. Namely, even the greatest writers with one-of-a-kind ideas are not likely to achieve great success if they have nothing but a great content. The idea of blogging is to attract readers, and if you want to do so, you need to make them want to read your blog posts. How do you do that? Well, you need to make a great design for your blog, and only then will you get a chance to become noticed.

It Is the Design of the Entire Blog Actually

When it comes to blogs, people tend to pay great attention to design. This means that blog posts with lots of colors, useful widgets and on the top of it all, lots of creativity will be more visited that the blogs that are ordinary and plain, and some would say even boring. So invest some time into designing your blog the best way you can.

Subscribe Section – How Important Is It?

If you are just starting your blog, it is vital that you make the subscribe section a part of it. If you, on the other hand, already have a blog of your own, but haven’t included this section in it – do this immediately. Making it possible for the visitors to your blog to subscribe to it is very important for you if you want to generate traffic. By having a subscribe button on your blog you give a visitors a reason to return to your blog, in case they find something interesting there. From here the equation is simple – the more visitors to your blog, the more money you earn.

Make It Simple

From the aforementioned it is easy to conclude that the subscribe section should definitely be made part of your blog. However, there is the question of how this should be done, because it is not all about giving your visitors the option to subscribe, but you should also make them want to do that. The best idea is to make subscription to your blog as simple as it can possibly be. If you make this task hard most visitors will give up instantly on subscribing to your blog. In addition to this, a lot of people who own a blog give away free stuff to their future subscribers such as free e-books. So, keep it simple and try to award your subscribers with quality content, and if possible give them a gift occasionally.

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Why Bloggers Are Not Getting Better

February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Why Bloggers Are Not Getting Better

As a blogger you have a responsibility to your community to get better. Whether you are going to take a blogging class, attend a seminar or just read as many high quality blogs is up to you, just know that all of these things will make you a better blogger.

Where many bloggers make their first mistakes is they spend too much time doing things that will ultimately take them in the wrong direction. In order to get back on track you must first realize what you are doing wrong and then fix it. Since you might not know what it is that you are doing wrong, I have provided a list of things to avoid in order to get better as a blogger. Now only will these things help you grow as a blogger, they will help you increase your productivity and traffic over time.

Things To Avoid To Get Better

Facebook For Fun

Something that every blogger needs to avoid is using Facebook for fun. I use Facebook on a daily basis, however, it is for blogging purposes. I use Facebook to stay connected to my community, not to chat with friends and play games. If you want to become a better blogger, then you need to avoid Facebook at all costs until you start using it for purely business.

Email Overload

How many emails do you get in an average day? If you are getting emails constantly throughout the day, then it is time that you relieve yourself of this duty. What I recommend is that you take the slowest part of your day and read and answer emails then. For me, this would be in the early morning when I am still half asleep. If you require your email throughout the day, then just make sure you look at only the ones you need and save the rest for later.

Know It All Syndrome

Do you think you know it all when it comes to blogging? As a blogger myself, I have a lot to learn and so does everybody else. There is no way to know everything about blogging because it changes on a daily basis, there is always something new coming out, and we still have Google who rarely shares what they are doing with the rest of us. Just know that it doesn’t hurt to read and learn more and that is why I recommend that you follow 5 or 6 blogs so that you can combine your heads and learn much faster.

Zero Community Time

If you are not committing some of your time to your community, then you will never make it to professional blogger status. As a blogger you have a requirement to your community to talk with them and interact. What I suggest is that you give yourself so much time during the day to interact with your community through Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and most importantly, your blog.

Distracti-Ons

This is something that I made up but it applies here. A distraction is anything that takes you away from the important things you should be doing that day. A distracti-on is anything that is turned on that distracts you. For example, this would be cell phones, televisions, computers, Ipods and anything else that is turned on. Studies show that just leaving a cell phone on will result in 3% less production throughout the day and that I without even using the phone.

Blogging is going to be around for a long time, so you should figure out the right way to do it. If blogging is what you are doing to earn an income, then you should take the list above and eliminate all the bad habits. Don’t think for a second that you have no bad habits, everybody has a bad habit or two.

One tip that I have for you is to write down everything that you do and then go back through it on the weekend. I can guarantee you that after a week or work you will be able to locate and eliminate a few things that you do that are highly unproductive to your blog. Don’t just take my word for it, try it this week and see where you are at.

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