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Archive for March, 2007

SEO Authority Contest - Free Entry!

Posted at 7:20pm March 24 2 comments

It’s time for my first ever contest. I don’t have much to offer except a free site review ($150 value) and the knowledge that Technorati thinks you’re blog is a great SEO Authority.

Here’s how this will work. Within the next week, make a post that links to my blog (homepage is best, but that’s up to you). I’ll check Technorati’s Authority page for this blog and whoever is listed above Jim Boykin’s wonderful post will get a free site review. This means we could have up to 10 winners!

No purchase necessary, anyone can enter. You will have to claim your winnings. I’ll try to email, but no guarantee I’ll be able to get a hold of anyone.Â Currently there is one site ranking above Jim’s post, and if they want to claim a free site review, they’ll get it!

So get your entry in, and help me give out some free site reviews!

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Challenge: Make $100/month with Clickbank

Posted at 7:04pm March 24 9 comments

I have never actually made much money with Clickbank. I think my account sat at like $10 for a year and I forgot about it. But I would like to give it a try. eBooks are big business, that’s why people keep writing them! I know it is possible to capitalize on a piece of that pie, I’ve just never done it.

I’ve been thinking about this article and even posted a little response to it. Now, I’m ready to take action on this. So here is my plan:

1. Get a list of people interested in taking this challenge with me. The goal will be to make $100 a month through Clickbank just writing articles. You don’t need your own website, just a free Clickbank account.

2. Figure out a way to promote the articles and Clickbank landing page without spending money. Whoever wants to do this, we’ll put together an email list, or a thread in a forum and collaborate some ideas.

3. See who makes it to $100 a month, and what they did that helped them get there. We’ll share ideas for future contests and see how $100 can be multiplied easily.

So who’s up for trying a no-cost approach to making money through Clickbank?

If you’re interested either email me, or post a comment. Let me know what format for some collaboration would work best for you. Let’s see how many of us can make $100 from Clickbank in April without spending any money or using your existing website!

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5 Things I Learned About Diggers

Posted at 9:50am March 23 5 comments

So you want to know how to get Dugg to the front page of Digg right? Of course, who doesn’t. But just to let you know, the traffic is great, but apart from that, you might not realize the following things that I’ve learned in the last few days about Diggers (Digg users):

1. Diggers don’t click many ads. I know, everyone already knew this, but I know why they don’t click ads. Digg users don’t click ads because Diggers are title driven. Digg users read a title and want to find that information, and only that information.

In addition to that, they are contextually ad-blind. Unless your ads stand out, this crowd won’t click. And if they do stand out, make sure they aren’t obtrusive, Digg users don’t like annoying and obtrusive.

2. Diggers navigate throughout your whole site. Contrary to popular opinion, Diggers don’t just read your article and hit the back button. Every single page in my site was viewed by at least 10 people, that includes category pages and archives. Some pages were viewed over 600 times.

3. Diggers DO sign up for your RSS feed. I have only given this site it’s new SEO vision in the last two weeks. Before that is was just my personal stuff, and of course had 0 RSS subscribers. Last week the subscribers peaked at 32. Today they are at 236! Who knows what tomorrow will hold, maybe more, maybe less. We’ll find out soon.

4. Diggers have good memories. Before my Digg article, nobody knew my name or searched for my name. So far, in 3 days 73 people have searched for and found me by name. I don’t know if that is good or bad, but I can’t hide here any more!

5. Diggers leave nice comments. All but one of my comments seem to be positive. The only one that was borderline was someone named MASA who said, “So wait, if you know so much about SEO and Page Rank then why do you have a PR of 2?” Of course, if he would have read anything on this blog he would have know that as of two weeks ago, this blog was just personal and I didn’t care if anyone read or linked to it. PR 2 is pretty good without doing anything, right?