Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Essential Marketing Lists, Internet Marketing, Link Building, Video Submission/Creation, Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion
Video has become an essential part of the Internet. Many bloggers use video instead of written posts, videos are used as instructional aids, on sales pages and of course, since YouTube became so huge, using video as a promotional and link building tool for websites is one of the fundamental aspects of SEO. Millions of people visit YouTube everyday, as well as other video submission sites, the video’s are included in most every SERP result in Google and once again if you make sure to properly SEO optimize each video submission with keywords, tags and a savvy researched keyword title, you will be amazed at the places it will show up over a short period of time making video just one more point of entry to your websites.
Free Video Creation/Screen Capture Software
I think many people are squeamish about using video because they think it’s a complicated proposition, and they need a web cam, or some high tech equipment to create videos, well this is not true. Below is a list of the top free video creation tools that actually record what is on your computer screen and your voice in the background and that provides a lot of options to make videos for any type of niche.
Cam Studio - The cream of the crop for open source video creation and screen capture and completely free! Add music, voice overs and more.
Jaycut – Create marketing videos or slideshows quickly with this online video editor, which is browser-based, can run on mobile devices and free. Ability to remix and trim videos; add music, transitions, effects, captions and subtitles, automated transcoding and 1 click export to YouTube and Facebook.
Adobe Premier Express - Made for newbies, easy to use and all you need is a web browser and Adobe Flash® Player, which most of us have on our PC’s. This is an online based video creation editor that can reorder, split, and trim your video clips; add music, transitions, and titles; add your favorite photos, graphics, and animation.
JING – Make short videos, capture screenshots and add your own labels and writing to them. There is a free version and a pro version for a few bucks per year.
GFX Video Writer – GFX Video Writer is not free, but it is cheap and very useful as it converts written articles into videos. Import an existing article to create a series of slides, then format each slide with fonts, colors, etc… add images if desired and background music from the software or do slide-by-slide voice overs and much more.
Top Video Submission Sites
Here are some of the top video submission sites where you can submit your videos, get backlinks and free website promotion.
www.youtube.com – PR9 – You do get a dofollow link back to your site in your channel profile.
http://vimeo.com – PR9
www.flickr.com – PR9
www.video.google.com – PR9
www.video.yahoo.com – PR9
www.photobucket.com – PR8
www.dailymotion.com – PR8
www.scribd.com – PR8
wordpress.tv – PR8
photobucket.com – PR7
www.blip.tv – PR7
www.metacafe.com – PR7
qik.com – PR7
www.viddler.com – PR7
MySpace – PR9
Facebook – PR10
www.stupidvideos.com – PR6
www.buzznet.com – PR6
www.stickam.com – PR6
www.gofish.com – PR6
www.revver.com – PR6
www.livevideo.com – PR6
www.flixya.com – PR5
castpost.com – PR5
www.videowebtown.com/community/index.php – PR5
vidmax.com – PR5
www.thatshow.com – PR4 – How-to video guides
www.clipchef.com – PR4 Cooking/recipe videos
Automatic Video Submission Software
TubeMogul Free - This is a very interesting site that offers a variety of video submission, distribution and tracking capabilities, I think it will be very effective for video marketing.
TubeMogul OneLoad is a free service that provides a single point for deploying videos to the top video and social networking sites. Users can also leverage our Destinations functionality to easily distribute to custom sites as well as encode and create RSS feeds to syndicate your video anywhere. OneLoad distribution is accompanied by our powerful analytics showing you who, what and where videos are being viewed. In addition, TubeMogul’s InPlay® analytics (for supported sites), provide the most advanced suite of video analytics on the market. See real-time viewership, audience engagement, geographic tracking, stream quality and much more for your videos.
VideoBot – $24.95 This is an automatic video submission software from Incansoft, a company that makes several great tools for marketers. I have not used this particular tool, but I do use SocialBot from Incansoft and I like it alot.
Video Submission Assistant Pro – Free! Haven’t tried this myself, but it’s free and submits video to several sites.
Video Post Robot – This is one of the most popular video submission software tools, but they are not taking new sign ups now, you can still go over and get on the alert list.
Info for Video Publishing on Your Own Sites
Google Crawling and Indexing Video – Best Practices
Video Sitemaps 101 – Making Your Videos Searchable from Google – If you are putting videos on your own sites or blogs then you should read this.
What kind of experiences have you had with video marketing? Any video submission sites or tools I missed please leave in comments.
Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Blogging, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion
Okay, a quick post here to refer you to a new site that is all about networking with bloggers for guest posts. Guest posting on other blogs and allowing them to post on yours is a fantastic way to build authority, and get precious backlinks and to alleviate some of your own workload by getting fresh, unique content that is NOT written by you, whew!
The site is My Blog Guest and it really is the perfect solution to finding blogs to post on and getting fresh content for your sites. There are lots of members all ready and they just launched recently and new members joining all the time.
Highly recommended by the authority SEO site, Search Engine Journal, My Blog Guest is a sure winner.
Features of My Guest Blog for Guest Posts
1. All niches included.
2. The site uses a rating system (blog power) to rate members sites, based on PR, subscriber numbers, Twitter followers, Facebook fans and age of the site.
3. Also has a rating system to rate members social media power, based on various social media site activity for the individual.
4. Shows how many guests posts members have done.
5. Search for blogs to post on by keywords and categories.
6. Add all or one of your sites to accept guest posts on
My Blog Guest is really a great place to network and build up your sites.
Also, if you are looking specifically for SEO niche sites that accept guests posts then check out: 10 SEO Blogs accepting guest posts.
You also get the chance to guest post on Blogussion, a high traffic, quality blog.
If you really want to learn about guest posting and get a super opportunity to guest post, Ramit Sethi, best selling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich not only accepts guest posts, but has the most comprehensive, helpful guide I have ever seen on how to write effective posts, and how to get published by big name bloggers, check it out: Write Guest Post on I will Teach You To Be Rich, really a must read!
Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Web Site Traffic, Webmaster/Website Optimization
For most Internet marketing endeavors there are two main subjects of great interest, SEO and traffic and images are powerful tools for both of those goals.
1. They are really good for the look of the site design, look and enhance the visitor experience, especially with product guides and tutorials of any kind.
2. They are great for on-site SEO because they add keyword relevancy via image alt tags and this includes any header graphics for site-wide keyword relevancy.
3. They can also bring you lots of website traffic and money.
Search engines cannot read images you must use alt tags for descriptions, which should be keyword relevant to the page. By the way, it is blackhat to give inaccurate descriptions for the purpose of SEO trickery in the Alt Tags.
Image HTML Code:
<img src=”http://mydomain.com/image1.jpg” alt=”Keywords- Descriptions”>

Link Image to URL code:
<a href=”http://mydomain.com/”><img src=”http://mydomain.com/image1.jpg” alt=”Keywords- Descriptions”></a>
The above code is for images that are hosted on your servers. With WordPress you can upload images directly from your computer via the Browser Uploader and the Title area in the Image dashboard is the Alt Tag.
The Traffic Connection via Images
The best benefit of images is traffic. Google often shows image results when people search particular keywords.
Lately I think they must really be doing more of this than before because I have 3 new sites that have been getting a lot of traffic from Google Images and its converting to sales.
To make sure my images show up in correct keyword search results I name the image file in detail, for example:
SonyEricsonMobilePhone.jpg
SonyEricson350.jpg
And, I also make sure the Alt Tag is there with the correct descriptive words.
I launched a new site last week and within 4 days I had something like 2,000 visitors all coming via Google Images and 6 sales and that is pretty good for a new site. I think this is especially good for shopping sites that use product images.
What I like to do is place at least 2-3 images on my content pages that are related to the topic of that page. They really make the content pages look better and more professional, especially with guide type pages.
I also make sure to have several images on my home pages like around the welcome message, that is a great place to provide keyword relevace for the sitewide keywords.
Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Web Site Traffic, Webmaster/Website Optimization
What makes the best website traffic? Well, as far as I am concerned and I’m sure you’ll agree, it is website traffic that performs the action on my website that I intend it
too. Whether it is to buy something from my affiliate marketing niche sites, click on Adsense, to subscribe to a blog or whatever action the web
master intends that will lead to us making money. So, the best website traffic is traffic that converts.

Not all Website Traffic is Equal
If I have 5,000 unique visitors a day, and they do not perform any of the intended actions that I want them to then this is totally worthless website traffic, would you not agree?
Since the social, Web 2.0 revolution on the net there has been a craze with webmasters clammering to get a chunk of social traffic. Page 1 of Digg is often considered the holy grail of website traffic, but in reality Digg and other such popular social site traffic can be pretty worthless. You may get lucky occasionally but it’s nothing to rely on long term.
The reality is that social traffic hardly ever buys anything, subscribes or performs any other actions that will lead to you making money, which is why we are all here right?
Social traffic can be great as far as “numbers of website traffic” and getting more website traffic, becoming famous, but when it comes to converting website traffic it is often a big fat vacuum. Unless your goal is to become the next Tech Crunch, social traffic is not the best for making money online.
Look at your analytics and analyze what website traffic is making you money, I guarantee it won’t be social traffic. Of all my niche sites and Squidoo lenses, social website traffic has made me too little to mention! In fact, I recently launched a ringtones blog, and I got 1500 uniques from Stumble in one day, how many sales? ZERO!!!! A perfect example of how worthless that traffic is.
There are probably many reasons for this, first and foremost of which is the fact that social traffic is not well targeted, many of them are just browsing or bored, they are not performing an intentional search to solve a problem, a basic principle of any kind of marketing is that in order to get sales there must be a consumer with a problem and
someone who provides a solution and THAT will lead to the desired action. Same with Internet marketing.
Also, the same concept applies to the website traffic from article marketing and blog comments where you may get traffic and even some who take the action you desire but it’s never a consistent nor a reliable stream of well converting website traffic. While blog comments certainly are good for networking and getting known for your flagship blogs, you constantly have to comment on blogs to get even a little bit of traffic so it is not “passive” traffic.
The main purpose of article marketing, social bookmarking and blog comments is NOT website traffic but link building for BACKLINKS and those backlinks lead to higher to Page One of SERPS for your sites keywords and THAT leads to converting website traffic.
I am not including Internet forum participation here, because there you will find targeted traffic that is looking for solutions and so that traffic often converts very well.
The best source of long term, stable converting website traffic are the search engines and specifically Google, since they dominate that arena.
1. Website traffic from the search engines is the best converting traffic because it is truly targeted. When someone sits down to search for something on the net, they are purposely looking to solve a specific problem, and they are much more likely to perform an action on your website than any one else.
2. Search engine traffic is all day everyday, 24/7, unlimited possibilities. While social traffic is temporary and gets buried over with newly submitted content, sitting on Page One of SERPS is far more stable. It may take time to get to Page One, but once you are there your site will get exposure to that targeted website traffic with little maintenance.
I am not saying that you should not test every possible traffic source for your niche, and especially when your site is new and you are working on ranking high in the SERPS, you should get all the traffic you can get. What I am saying is that search engine website traffic should always be the main end goal of any online campaign and it is the best converting website traffic.
Many webmasters and bloggers work hard to get their home page on Page One of SERPS by utilizing basic Search Engine Optimization. They do all the requisite tasks such as, on-site SEO, link building, keyword research and optimization etc… But, they completely ignore the inner pages of their websites and/or blog posts. This is a complete waste of perfectly good search engine website traffic. This is especially true for bloggers.
Time and again I see blog posts that are obviously just randomly picked titles without any keyword research when there is ALWAYS a good keyword that can be found for ANY subject. So the end result is that your home page may sit high in SERPS, but all your other pages are just randomly floating somewhere around the web missing out on a ton of good targeted website traffic and all for the price of ten minutes or less of research.
Also remember that as your home PR (page rank) increases it will bleed that PR to your inner pages. This blog is a PR3, but several of the earlier blog posts are PR1 and PR2 and those post titles were carefully keyword researched and now they sit on several Page One’s in Google for their keywords and continuously bring targeted website traffic to this blog. Google will spread the authority you’ve earned from your home page to inner pages placing you higher all over the SERPS, for all your keywords and this SERP domination is what brings more and more targeted, converting website traffic. And the absolute same applies to static website’s inner pages.
Keyword Research for Inner Pages
As always you want to have the most possible searches with the least amount of competition.
3 Keyword Optimization Essentials for SERP Domination:
Here are the most important aspects of optimizing each and everyone of your website pages and blog posts for the SERPS.
1. On Page Title vs. Meta Title
On Page Title is the one the visitor sees on your page, such as the title of the blog post. The Meta Title is the title in the Meta Tags that the search engines will look to for your SERP placement. So, you can make the title the visitor sees longer and more detailed if you wish, while the Meta title can be shortened to comply with Meta Tag character standards and to zone in on keywords, but make sure it is still attractive to get the click from searchers.

If you don’t have it, you really need to get the All-In-One SEO Pack plug-in for WordPress. This will give you the Meta Tags module for customizing meta tags for every post and it is really a must have for WordPress. It also provides some other important features for SEO on WP blogs.
2. Keyword Density
Long posts and website pages are the best for the SERPS and getting more website traffic, they allow the most room for keyword density and they also give the edge of lots of content for Google.
3. Permalinks
The permalink must have your keywords in it. So, if my keywords are “how-to bake”, then my permalink for the blog post page or website page would be: htttp://www.recipes.com/how-to-bake-cake. That’s it, nothing else, if you add the whole title you just confuse Google as to what you want to rank for.
Some website software, and WordPress will automatically add the entire title of your post/page into the permalink so, you must edit this. All extra words except for the keywords are UNNECESSARY and can be a detterent to ranking well in the SERPS.
Permalinks and WordPress
With WordPress you have to make sure to select the proper permalink structure. By default WordPress will create permalinks for posts using the post number, like this: http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=123. This does nothing for you in the SERPS.
How to Change Permalink Structure in WP:
From your Admin Dashboard go to Settings and then Permalinks. From there either choose Month and Name OR if you do not want to date your posts you can choose Custom Structure and then enter /%postname%/ into the box. This way you will have the optimal setting of http://www.yourdomain.com/posttitle
Editing Permalinks on a Post by Post Basis:
When you are writing posts from the editor after you enter the title the permalink will be formed automatically, click edit and get rid of everything but the keywords with the dashes in between each word.

Performing these steps is really important for SERP rankings and getting website traffic from a multitude of keyword sources to get those visitors to your sites. Also, please see 6-Step Checklist for On-Site SEO for more techniques for keyword optimization for inner pages, such as Alt Tags for images.
What do you guys think? Do you research each page and post? If not, why?
Posted by JR in Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! I hope everyone had a great day and I am sure we all have somethings/someones to be thankful for!!
Here is a sign that I need a vacation, and probably a lobotomy, I was tired and I cooked today (maybe an excuse) but tonight at my dinner, there were times as I was talking that I found myself thinking about wether I was using keywords enough in my sentences, LOSER
!! Anyway, on to better things…
As a follow up to my post 144 Do-Follow Forums, I wanted to offer some guidelines and tips to using forums effectively, to increase web site traffic, blog traffic and of course get the backlinks!
1. Read the TOS/Forum Rules and/or Posting Guidelines – Make sure to get to know the rules before you post because you don’t want to get banned! Many forums have different and specific rules. Usually you can find these rules in the forum index itself, as one of the first threads.
2. DO NOT SPAM - This is very important, do not write posts about your products and blatant advertising, not only will this get you banned, it’s also the fastest way to turn off the other members and NOT to increase web site traffic. People go to forums to look for information and answers to their questions, not to read ads.
3. Use Good Anchor Text for Signature Links –
Forums are great for website promotion and do-follow backlinks from your signature links. Make sure they are SEO friendly anchors that contain your keywords
BUT
Also make them provocative to get the click! For example, the anchor “Dog Food” may have your keywords, but the anchor “Top 10 Dog Foods” is much more click friendly.
4. Be an authority – Besides the benefit of do-follow backlinks, forums can be one of the greatest and quickest ways to increase web site traffic and this is traffic that is very targeted, as long as you’re in a forum relevant to your niche. You want the forum members to click on your signature links and the best way to make that happen is to respond to posts like an authority in your niche.
5. Many forums offer “Article threads” or “Guide Threads” or some such thing. This is where you can post your own informative guides, how-to’s, content etc. Make sure to use an intriguing title for these posts to get people’s attention. These posts are a great way to show off your knowledge and authority and deliver a click to your sig links, which of course means an increase in web site traffic for you!
6. Watch your reputation. Many forums use a “reputation” system that lets other members tag you with points when you deliver great posts, this is a good way to build authority.
7. Participate in the “Introduce Yourself” section. Many forums have a thread to introduce new members. Be active there, introduce yourself in detail and welcome others.
8. Check for new posts and participate often. The more you participate the more exposure you get to increase web site traffic AND the more backlinks you generate, since each page you post to counts as a backlink!
What works for you in forums? What tips can you offer for the best forum practices? Anyone have any no-no’s to share?
Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Essential Marketing Lists, Link Building, Search Engine Optimization, Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion
Participating in forums relevant to your niche is one of the best ways to get relevant and targeted traffic to your sites and blogs.
Internet forums are so widely used and have thousands of members that ask questions and engage in discussions and that large audience can turn into targeted traffic that can lead to lots of sales and subscribers. If you have not utilized the power of forums in your Internet Marketing endeavors that you are really missing out.
Plus the fact that any good Internet marketing strategy involves a diverse backlink portfolio, so getting links from different IP’s and domains that are related to your site is the best way to higher SERP ranks, and forum sig links are decent places to get some links.
Posting in do-follow forums can give you a nice backlink for link building and search engine optimization. The do-follow forum link comes from a link you set in the signature option of your profile, referred to as a sig link. This sig link appears at the bottom of your forum posts. So, every time you post that’s a backlink! Remember to use a good anchor text for SEO but also make sure it is eye catching for the forum audience to get the click!
Make sure to read the TOS and Posting Rules to make sure that you will not get banned. Also check out all the topics available in the forum many of them have a section for website promotion, guides, articles and how-to’s where you can refer to your sites within the post itself.
Make sure to sound like an expert (no typos
) this can bring lots of traffic!
Getting targeted traffic from forum sites is one way to make money online right away, while waiting for SEO to take affect and SERP ranks for the organic traffic. Since most of the forum traffic is highly targeted they are much more likely to buy.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/ – PR7
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ – PR7 – Post requirement prior to sig link
http://forums.seochat.com/ – PR6
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/ - PR6
http://www.zymic.com/forum/ – PR6
http://www.googlecommunity.com/forum/ – PR5
http://www.smallbusinessforums.org/ – PR5
http://forums.site-reference.com/ – PR4
http://www.websitebabble.com/ – PR4
http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/ – PR4
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.dreamteammoney.com/ – PR4
http://www.wickedfire.com/ – PR4
http://www.v7n.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.webdigity.com/ – PR4
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.ewealth.com/ – PR4
http://forums.seo.com/ – PR4
http://www.webmasterforums.com/ – PR3
http://siteownersforums.com/ – PR3
http://www.internetmarketingforums.net/ – PR3
http://www.webmasterdesk.org/ – PR3
http://www.internetmarketingforums.net/ – PR3
http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ – PR3
http://www.im4newbies.com/forum/ – PR3
http://www.webmasterize.com/ – PR3
http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/index.php – PR3
http://w3seo.org/ – PR3
http://forums.seochat.com/ – PR3 – Member for 30 days before sig link
http://www.affiliateseeking.com/forums/ – PR3
http://www.webmaster-forum.net/ – PR3
http://www.webmasterforumsonline.com/ – PR3
http://allcoolforum.com/ – PR2
http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/ – PR2
http://9mb.com/ – PR2
http://www.searchbliss.com/forum/ – PR2
http://www.decentdiscussions.com/ – PR1
http://www.inboundlinksforum.com/ – PR1
http://www.directoryjunction.com/forums/ – PR0
http://www.webmastershelp.com/ – PR0
http://www.frogengine.com/forum/ – PR0
http://www.capitaltheory.com/ – PR0
http://www.gptboycott.com/forum/ – PR0
http://www.thegreennation.com/forums/ – PR0
DNForum.com – All about domains – PR4
International Webmaster/SEO Do-Follow Forums
Australia – http://www.australianwebmaster.com/ – PR3
IRISH – http://www.irishwebmasterforum.com/ - PR3
UK – http://www.davidcastle.org/BB/ - PR2
Phillipines – http://forums.seo.ph/ – PR0
http://forums.feedburner.com/ – PR7 – All Feeds Topics
http://forum.newsgator.com/ – PR6
http://www.feedforall.com/forum/ – PR5 – “Favorite RSS Feeds” thread to promote your blogs
http://www.bloggerforum.com/ – PR5
http://www.bloggertalk.com/ – PR5
http://www.bloggeries.com/forum/ - PR4 – Has a Show of Your Blog Thread!
http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.wtricks.com/ – PR0
http://www.blogodirectory.com/forum/index.php
http://www.rss-forum.de/ - PR7 – German Based Forum
http://forums.mysql.com/ – PR7
http://www.zymic.com/forum/ – PR6
http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/ – PR6
http://www.htmlforums.com/ – PR5
http://www.geekpoint.net/ – PR5
http://www.talkfreelance.com/ – PR4
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.talk-mania.com/ – PR3
http://www.webmastershelp.com/ – PR0
http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/?ogn=EN_US-gntray_comm_forums – PR9 – Adobe and Flash topics
http://forums.cnet.com/ – PR7
http://forums.amd.com/ – PR7
http://forums.microsoft.com/ – PR6 – choose Country and Forum Topic
http://forums.afterdawn.com/ – PR5 – Digital Media/DVD, Digital Cameras etc…No-Follow but allow sig link and very high traffic
http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/ – PR5
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/Community/en-us/Forums/ – PR5
http://forums.windowsforum.org/ – PR4
http://forums.xandros.com/ – PR4
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/categoryHome.jspa?categoryID=84 – Various PR
http://www.cultofiphone.org/forums/ – PR0
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/ – Various PR
http://www.funnyforum.org/ – PR0
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ – PR5
http://www.techsupportforum.com/ – PR5 – I think it’s no-follow but has mass traffic
http://www.notebookforums.com/ – PR4 – Not sure if do-follow but allows sig link and has mass traffic and bonuses for posting
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/index.html – PR8
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/default.aspx – PR8
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/index.html?sid=1 – PR5
http://mygamebuilder.com/forum/ - PR3 – Has a special section for link dropping
http://forums.gentoo.org/ – PR0
http://www.bookforum.com/ – PR7
http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/ – PR3
http://forum.skype.com/ – PR6
http://forums.onewed.com/ - PR4 – Sig link allowed after probation period and it’s no-follow, but big traffic.
http://www.bunchobrides.com/ – PR2 – Not sure if do-follow, but lots of traffic
http://forum.tattootattoo.info/ – PR2
http://www.wahm.com/forum/ – PR4
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html – PR7
http://bbpress.org/forums/ - PR7
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/ – PR5
http://mathforum.org/ – PR8
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/ – PR5
http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/ – PR8
http://forums.photobucket.com/ – PR7
http://opensourcephoto.net/forum/ – PR3
http://forum.hot4s.com.au/ – PR3 (Australia)
http://www.gardenstew.com/ – PR5 – Blog link below each post and parses latest posts
http://www.blossomswap.com/garden-forums/ – PR4 – Parses latest posts near your username in forum posts
http://www.gardenweb.com/ – PR4 – Lots of Traffic!
http://www.homegardenguides.com/garden-forum/ - PR2
http://chronicle.com/forums/ – PR8
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/ – PR5
http://www.votefortheworst.com/forum/ – PR4 – American Idol Vote
http://www.ableton.com/forum/ – PR3
http://forum.hot4s.com.au/ – PR3 – Australia based
http://forums.myspace.com/s/4.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewsubforum = PR6
http://forums.wsj.com/ - PR6
http://paymentprocessing.cc/ – PR6
http://thehyipforum.com/ – PR4
http://www.diggsamachar.com/adrforum/ – PR2
http://forums.cnet.com/ – PR7
http://cellphoneforums.net/ – PR5 – No-follow but lots of traffic
http://www.cellphonehacks.com/ – PR3
http://www.i-love-dogs.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.globalpaw.com/forum/ – PR4 – No follow but great traffic
http://www.chazhound.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.publichealthforums.com/ – PR3
http://www.travelforum.org/ – PR4
http://forums.travel.com/ – PR4
http://forums.touristclick.com/ – PR3
http://forums.metacafe.com/ – PR6
http://www.movie-list.com/forum/ – PR5
http://addictsports.com/baseball/ – PR4
http://www.baseballtalkpro.com/forum/ – PR2
http://www.paganforum.com/ – PR3
http://www.cheftalk.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/ – PR3
http://www.cookingjunkies.com/- PR3
http://www.cookingforums.net/ – PR2
http://www.freehostforum.com/ - PR3
http://www.realestateforum.com/ – PR3
http://dishnews.medianetwork.co.in/yabb2/YaBB.pl – PR2
http://forum.joomla.org/ – PR8
For my friend Glenda
http://forums.delphiforums.com/dreamhorse
http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=index&webtag=delphicomz
If you guys know of any do-follow forums I missed please leave links in comments or contact me and I will add it to the list.
Posted by JR in Internet Marketing, Link Building, Web Site Traffic
When I first started in affiliate marketing and built my first site, I began to look for the golden egg – TRAFFIC! As always, increasing website traffic is at the top of our lists and so, I basically tried whatever was out there, anything and everything. After some experience and testing, I began to get a clear picture of what was working and what was not.
One thing that turned out to be the lamest waste of time is using traffic
exchanges. Basically these are “incentuos” websites where members visit each others sites, in order to gain traffic. So you join, spend about 1/2 hour to 1 hour a day surfing other members sites, sometimes doing reviews, and they do the same for you.
Now, when you are new and you visit your Google Analystics account and see 50 visitors, this is really exciting, but very soon, when there are no sales, you begin to realize this is STUPID!
The reason there are no sales from traffic exchanges is because this is NOT targeted traffic and not exactly the best use of your time. So, yes traffic exchanges will increase website traffic, but this is just lame traffic for traffic sake.
We are here to make money right? So every valuable minute we spend working our asses off should be spent on the most effective Internet marketing techniques that will result in PAYCHECKS and eventually telling our bosses to shove it!
So, to summarize, traffic exchanges are a complete and total waste of time!
Now, there is one traffic exchange service, one of the ones I have used from the beginning, that is worth your time and that is linkreferral.com.
Now, the main purpose is to visit and review member’s sites and they do the same for you, but you don’t need to do that, again because traffic exchange is a pointless activity.
Sidenote: there is one exception to this, this blog received three subscribers from linkreferral members, but this is because most of those members are webmasters and Internet marketers who really liked the content and this blog was relevant for them and the traffic was therefore well targeted, and if your sites are about subjects related to webmasters and Internet Marketing stuff and your content is good the same may happen for you.
In general, I recommend Linkreferral for 2 main reasons:
1. Google loves them and crawls them often, member’s sites are listed in a directory fashion and their listings appear in search engines for respective keywords with your site name and description.
2. Most important, it is a powerful do-follow backlink. While Google is slow to show backlinks, the linkreferral backlink always shows up and stays strong month after month. So, for the 3 minute sign up and site submission that backlink is a nice payoff!
And, while most traffic exchanges require that you visit other sites to earn points or else your site does not even show up, with linkreferral your sites are always there, they will be last on the list if you don’t visit other websites and earn a higher position, but that does not matter for the backlink!
linkreferral.com, register a free account, and add your sites, (each site is added under the same user name but with a different password, I mention this because it is confusing on their site, so create an account add one site, log out and then add a new site, input the same info and user name, except change the password and add the new url).
Now go get a backlink at linkreferral.com
What do you guys think about this? Anyone disagree? Do you use traffic exchange? Has it worked for you?
Posted by JR in Article Marketing, Internet Marketing, Keywords and Niches, Search Engine Optimization, Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion
How cool would it be to have your websites ALL OVER THE SERPS? (search engine rank positions also known as search engine result pages).
Thanks to article marketing this is fairly easy to achieve. Article marketing brings direct traffic and provides quality one-way backlinks, for search engine optimization and lots of them, if like me, you are using Article Marketer for article submission.
BUT, did you know that article marketing provides the unique opportunity for a large amount of exposure to your websites by dominating the SERPS?!?!?
Doing comprehensive keyword research is crucial for the success of websites, not only for search engine optimization, but also to hone in on popular niches and what people are searching for. Website keywords play a crucial role in gaging demand and facilitating success in the Internet marketing world.
While, many of us spend a lot of time on keyword research for our websites, we do not always do the same for the articles we write, or we just use the same keywords for articles as for our websites. This is a big mistake!
First, if you are using the same keywords then you are basically competing against yourself. Second and most important, you are limiting your website exposure within search engine page results (SERPS), which should always be the goal of any search engine optimization campaign.
Article marketing provides the unique opportunity to be all over the SERPS by using different keywords for each article, and thereby giving searchers access to your sites from within the articles.
Website Keywords
For example, if my website’s MAIN KEYWORDS are: buy digital camcorders, cheap camcorders, used camcorders and I have correctly optimized my site for these keywords then my website will rank in the SERPS for these searches.
Article Keywords
Then, for all my articles, I will research additional keywords and find: how-to buy a camcorder, camcorder review, top digital camcorders, camcorder buying guide, etc… And I will use these to write articles.
Following this technique will give your website massive exposure and allow
you to DOMINATE THE SERPS! The more articles with different keywords you write the more exposure to your website!
The Advantage of Using High Competition Keywords with Articles
I advise in, Step-by-Step Niche and Keyword Research, that you look for lower competition keywords, as this will help your websites to rank higher and faster. But, because many quality article sites, such as Ezine Articles, rank very high in search results, you can safely go to for the more popular/highly competitive keywords, like 1,000,000 plus competition, for your articles, because you will piggyback on the article sites ranking ability.
The same as with your websites, it is crucial to help the search engines to
relate your articles with the keywords you want to rank for, remember, it is not humans who crawl the web, but algorithms.
1. Make your article title interesting, engaging and clickable but be sure to have the keywords in it.
2. 3-5% keyword density throughout the article body.
3. Use the keyword at least once in the first paragraph and the last paragraph.
4. If possible, bold the keyword, maybe once or twice (at most) within the article body.
Following such simple search engine optimization techniques will lead to great Internet marketing success for a long time to come and eternal SERP domination!!
What do you guys think? Are you writing articles? Are your articles all over the SERPS?
Posted by JR in Internet Marketing, Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion
A great Internet Marketing Strategy and a way to increase website traffic is USFree Ads. I started using USFree Ads, online classifieds, about two months ago and have been impressed with the results in the amount of increased traffic to my websites. I have received a total of over 3,000 visitors for all my ads combined.
There are 3 main benefits to using US Free Ads:
1. Increase in targeted and relevant website traffic, from the many USFree members who are there to look for specific products/services and often looking to buy, which is great for conversions.
2. Website Promotion. USFree is a great way to website promotion and exposure to your sites.
3. Google loves USFree and the ads rank high in SERPS (search engine page results) for respective keywords, so you have more exposure and traffic to your sites through search results.
USFree provides a great editor that includes, H1, H2, H3 header options, ability to insert images, fonts, colors, bullets and more:
As always, do some keyword research and find the best keywords for your ads, use different keywords than those you are using for your sites because this way you will be all over the SERPS.
I will use the example Cheap Laptop Computers as my keyword
1. Use keywords in the title of the add
2. Use H1 and H2 (SEO tags) title tags for keywords within the add, and make sure to use keywords a few times within the content of the add, with some of them in bold.
3. Describe your products/services in detail and with content that will make people want to visit your site. Get creative, use images, bulleted lists, make what you are offering irresistable. Between each section of content add your website link with H2 header anchor text to your site.
4. Add your keyword at the bottom in bold (helps to rank in SERPS). You can say something like, please click the link and browse cheap laptop computers.
You can see the ad live here: Example of US Free AD
More Reasons to use USFree Ads:
1. For $9.99 a month you get unlimited ads, that is pretty cheap for the amount of exposure, traffic and potential sales you can get. (I believe they also have a free version but with limited ads)
2. You can have as many ads as you want for each specific category with different titles. This means you can use unlimited amounts of keywords for the same sites in different ads and be all over the SERPS.
For example, for my site I may have the keywords, Cheap Laptop Computers, Used Laptops, Apple Laptops, Dell Laptops, Buy Cheap Laptops, Laptop Sales, Laptop Auction…etc. AND I can make an add for each of these keywords and get much more exposure from USFree member traffic looking for specific things AND from be all over the SERPS for the different keywords. This is the way to Increase website traffic!
Learn more and get a USFree Ads account at: USFree Ads
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Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Blogging, Essential Marketing Lists, Web Site Traffic, Website Tools, Wordpress Plugins
Comment Luv is a nifty WordPress plugin that parses the commenters blog posts and places them in the comment. It is a fantastic way to network with other bloggers and build traffic and relationships with new readers.
If you write great content and titles and comment on Comment Luv blogs then you will surely attract new readers to your blog. Also implementing Comment Luv on your own blogs is a great way to attract commenters which only leads to increased popularity of your site.
Leave Useful and Interesting Comments
The bloggers that have the Comment Luv feature on their sites are generous and understand the value of networking and sharing the love. It is important that you do not SPAM them or leave useless comments because it harms everyone in the blogging community.
Plus, if you leave a good comment then it is much more likely that you will be noticed by other readers who will want to learn more about you by clicking on your blog post link.
Get the Plugin and Register Your Blog for More Exposure
Get the plugin for your blog and search for other blogs that have it enabled via keywords at the official Comment Luv Website. You can also register your blogs over there as well, so that anyone searching will be able to find your Comment Luv blogs.
List of 132 Comment Luv Blogs by Niche
These are high traffic, quality blogs that offer value and great content. They have lots of readers and commenters so the conversation is good.
INTERNET MARKETING/ONLINE BIZ/BLOGGING/WEBMASTERS
Grow Your Online Business with GrowMap
Gail also provides Do-Follow comments with Keyword Luv!
Sire at Blogging Tips, Tricks and SEO
Sire offers A LOT of link luv at his blog with Keyword Luv Do-Follow comments and Top Commenter!
Free Tools for Webmasters
Twitter, Blogging and Podcasting at Ms. Ilene Speaks
How to Make Money Online Blogging with Chris
Chris is an example of a great blogger. I just discovered his blog, it has great content and even though he has thousands of subscribers, he still replies to his commenters, unlike other “big time” bloggers.
WordPress and Blogging at Serradinho
George also has Top Commenter and the @Twitter in comments.
I’m Dennis Edell
We all know Dennis and he is also do follow and has the Twitter in comments as well!
Work From Home Resources
My long time reader Alan at his blog ReplaceYourSalary.com also has the Twitter Follow plugin for comments.
Make Money Online
Jim, aka the Net Fool shows all the love with Comment Luv and Top Commenter!
Make Money Online at Pei Profit
A LOT of love going on here, because along with Comment Luv, the Top Commenter feature is enabled as well and…
The Pei Profit True Blue Fan Award – This award goes out to commentators who are able to hit past 40 comments each month before the counter resets and the prizes ranges from free ad spaces to e-book and reviews…What a cool idea!
Work From Home Opportunities
Make Money Online with Stephan Miller
Brad Blogging with WordPress Tweaks and Tutorials
Also offers Do-Follow comments!
Web Marketing and Affiliate Marketing with ZK
Top Commenter also enabled!
Make Money Online with Barbara Ling
Inline SEO
Do-Follow comments as well!
Gupshup Blog
Do-follow comments as well with blogging, IM and other various topics.
Blogging Tips by Tycoon Blogger
Lots of link luv here with Top Commenter, Comment Luv and Do Follow comments enabled!
Money Making Ideas with Suzanne Franco
Do-Follow comments as well!
Make Money Online with Affiliate Funnels
Lots of link luv going on here, with Do-Follow comments, Top Commenter and Comment Luv!
Young Entrepeneuer
Tips for Successful Writing and Blog Writing
NetBusinessBlog
Blogging and Internet Marketing Tips
Earning Step
Blogussion – Blogging Tips and Tricks
Derek Semmler – WordPress Ninja
Also has top commenter
Authority Domains
Make Money Blogging with Caroline Middlebrook
Also Top Commenter!
Free WordPress Themes and Social Bookmark Icons
Ask Owlbert
Make Money Blogging
SEO Marketing
BlogInTheBag
Blogging Tips and SEO with Another Blogger
Also Top Commenter, and the Follow Me on Twitter in comments.
Drive More Traffic To Your Site
Dragon Blogger – Tech News, Blogging Tips and Entertainment
Also Do-Follow and Top Commenter.
ICT Trends
Also has Dofollow, and find out how to add Comment Luv on Blogger platform blogs.
Make Money Blogging with Famous Bloggers
Blogging for Business
Keith is showing a lot of link luv in comments with Top Commenter, Keyword Luv and the Follow Me on Twitter in comments.
2 Create a Website Blog by Lisa Irby
FM Seo
Newru – Kelly has a great tagline in her blog, You May Not Be A Newbie…But You Are Not A Guru…Then You must be a NEWRU, I like that! She also has Top Commenter!
Blogging with POTPOLITICS
John is also really spreading the link luv, with Keyword Luv, Top Commenter and the Follow On Twitter in comments!
Tips on Online Marketing with AriWriter
Social Media and Blogging Tips @ Blog Tracker
Win With 1
Website Traffic and Promotion with iWoodpecker
Website Design and Internet Marketing @ InteractOne, and is Dofollow as well!
Blogging and Make Money Online with SmartBloggerz, also has Top Commenter and Keyword Luv for do follow.
Blog With Power with Don Power, is also Dofollow!
Don is also a co-author of BloggerLuv.com, which is a collaboration of 9 bloggers who share the “link luv” and it too has all the goodies, Top Commenter, Commen Luv and Keyword Luv for dofollow!
DMarketing Spot – Jonathan also has Keyword Luv!
Blazing Minds – Blogging – Also Top Commenter, Twitter username in comments and Keyword Luv!
I’m Just Sharing
Hot Blog Tips – Keith also has Keyword Luv and the Twitter follow in comments.
Blogger Illustrated Video Blogging – Also do follow.
How to Make Money At Home with The University Kid. Jason the blog author does not waste time with BS posts, he provides the most useful and hands-on content for making money online, I suggest you go and sign up.
INSPIRATION/SUCCESS/LIFESTYLE
Lifestyle Design for You - A very useful blog full of great inspirational, lifestyle and general success and motivation articles. Make sure to read Gordies posts.
HEALTH/WEIGHT LOSS
Free Diets and Weight Loss
Weight Loss Plans
Men’s Playbook
Family, career, money, health and relationships for men.
Healthy Weight Loss
Gluten Free Health – Celiac Disease Info
Healthy Diets
Best Acne Treatments and Skin Care
Acne Scar Treatment
Health in Life
Kitchen Table Medicine
PSP Living – Organic and Healthy Living
GENERAL TOPICS
Blog About Everything
Also offers do follow comments
Mommies Magazine
Health, style, shopping, family and more
BestInformationAbout.com
Life, Universe and Everything with Mark Knowles
DEBT CONSOLIDATION/LOANS/MONEY/FINANCE
Got No Dough – Saving Money in Slim Times
Debt Consolidation Tips
Cheap Credit Cards
Debt Free Life at Money Relationship
Top Finance Blog
Personal Financial Planning – Debt Reduction
REAL ESTATE
Foreclosure News - PR2
News About Real Estate and Foreclosures - PR3 and dofollow comments too!
Investment Property Blog
Real Estate News
Tempe Real Estate
GOLF
Golf Store and Blog
House and Home
Building a Home
RECIPES/FOOD/COOKING
Vegan Soapbox
Traditional Russian Food Recipes
Family Friendly Recipes
Cook Local
TriniGourmet
Coffee Reviews
SHOPPING
We Magazine for Women
Grechens Online Shopping Blog
PARENTING/FAMILY
Dad’s House
Simple Mom
TRAVEL
Travel Wires
Travel Advice
Jennie En France
Wine Food and Travel
TECH/GADGET/COMPUTERS/LAPTOPS
Browse Easy
Laptop Guides
Computer Security and Virus Software
Notebooks and Laptops
Worthy Tips for Technology and Blogging
JoeTech
My Lovely Gadgets
Dragon Blogger – Tech News
Also Do-Follow and Top Commenter.
BEAUTY/WOMEN/MAKEUP/FASHION
Short Haircuts Pics and Hairstyle Guides
Fashion Blog, Purses and Handbags
Makeup and Beauty Blog
Beauty Fool
Makeup and Beauty Reviews at MakeUp4All
Fashion Grail
POLITICAL
Caffeinated Thoughts
WRITING
Men with Pens
Writing Forward
Solutions for Writers
Tips for Successful Writing and Blog Writing
Get Paid to Write Online
CELEBRITY/ENTERTAINMENT/MOVIES/MUSIC
Blazing Minds – Music Reviews, Films – Also Top Commenter, Twitter username in comments and Keyword Luv!
Celebrity VIP Lounge
Online Movie Watch
Music Reviews
First Class Fashionista
PETS/ANIMALS
Cool Dog Pictures and Breed Information
Very cool site, with some awesome doggies.
Pet Insurance Reporter
French Bulldog Breeders Blog
DiscussingDogs.com
GrokHorses
I tried to cover the most popular niches for blogs with Comment Luv plugin enabled, if I missed your niche please search at the official Comment Luv Website. Make sure to register your Comment Luv blogs over there as well!
If you own or have a favorite Comment Luv blog that is not on this list please leave the info in comments, thanks!
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