Make Money Online with Brandon Hopkins

In a recent post by Glen Stansberry at ProBlogger, Glen talks about blogging’s most underused feature, setting up future posts.

For two of my blogs I actually use that feature pretty often. Every so often something spurs me to start writing for one of these sites, and once I’ve posted 3 posts that day, I start using the future posts option. I schedule one post every day until I run out of steam. Once the steam subsides I usually have 3-5 days worth of posts.

For me, the most underused Wordpress feature is definitely the post slug. The post slug allows you to set the URL for each post, regardless of what the post title is. Here is an example.

This post is titled, “My Most Underused Wordpress Feature - Post Slug”. However I know that most people are going to search for those exact words. Those are words for the readers. For my post slug I want something that is for Google and other bloggers who might link to this post.

My post slug is, “how-to-use-wordpress-post-slug”. So as you are reading this post, look up at the URL. You should see, “http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/how-to-use-wordpress-post-slug“.

The reason I did this is because every little bit of SEO helps. Google will see the url and when someone searches for “How do I use Wordpress post slug”, or “Wordpress Post Slug uses”, or “How to post slug” they’ll find this post.

There are many other ways to use a post slug. Post slugs are especially wonderful if you post short titles without any keywords, or you post really long titles that mess up your url structure.

Can you imagine seeing this URL on a blog:

http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/my-most-underused-wordpress-

feature-post-slug-how-to-create-post-slugs-and-the-most-

effective-ways-to-use-them/

Pretty ridiculous. But when using post slugs I can make that URL anything I want.

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Here is my personal list of places that I go when I start a new site to get free links. These 29 links always get the ball rolling and help natural links come in.

Blogs

Blogs have become some of my favorite places to get free links. All you have to do is register a blog and post a short article relevant to your site and then post your link. Below you’ll find 24 free blogs in which you can link to your site.

Make sure that you interlink these blogs somewhat so that they all get found by the bots.

1. Squidoo.com
Create a free account, write an article and post a link embedded in the text back to your site.

2. Wordpress.com
Create a free blog, write a short post and link back to your site.

3. Blogger.com
Create a free blog and write 3 posts, one linking to your Squidoo lens, one linking to your Wordpress.com blog and one linking back to your main site.

4. MindSay.com
Mindsay offers free blogs and wikis. Like the others, create a free blog and post a link back to your website. Also link this blog to your Squidoo lens.

5. BloggerParty.com
Another free blog site. Link your post to one of your other free blogs and your site.

6. BraveNet Blog
Bravenet has been around a LONG time. Like the others, post then link.

7. 3Steps.com
3Steps is new but also free…make sure to continue interlinking these blogs so they all get found and indexed.

8. The Right Blogger
Site seems to be down right now…can’t create new blogs. Check back later.

9. BootsnAll TravelBlogs
You must first be approved as a member, then apply for a blog. Might not be worth the effort. Blog posts must be travel related. Hopefully your niche is travel related as well.

10. iUpload Blog
Another free blog…

11. TravelPod Blog
Travel related free blog site.

12. Bloggates
Free blog, slow site. Many good subdomains are still available.

13. Livejournal
Old, established, easy to use.

14. BlogText.com
Sites don’t seem to index well, but allows a lot of outgoing links.

15. Xanga.com
Does Xanga allow outgoing links? Couldn’t figure it out.

16. Blogigo.com
Allows outgoing links, even had a spammer listed as an example blog in a category…

17. SoulCast.com
Soulcast gives free blogs and allows you to insert your Adsense ID and they’ll automatically publish Adsense code blocks.

18. MyDietBlogger.com
MyDietBlogger offers health and diet blogs for free. Perfect for someone in a health related niche.

19. BlogNow.com.au
Free blog site touting their “No Ads” approach. I don’t know why they’ve chosen to not display ads, because not monetizing and not selling the site doesn’t seem like a good business model. I don’t think you have to by Australian to signup.

20. 20Six.co.uk
Good looking blogs, 1000+ template designs, outgoing links.

21. Vox.com
More free blogs…large site, established.

22. Tripod (remember them?)
Tripod, home to thousands of amateur webmasters has free blogs.

23. Aeonity.com
Free blog site, themes are all similar. Small user community.

24. Blogslive
One of my new favorites. Lots of themes available. Quick loading, outgoing links.

Comments on .edu Blogs

Personally I don’t think SE’s actually abide by the nofollow code. With that in mind I give you some of the best places to post comments.

The reason most of these are great places to comment is because they have PR or are popular posts.

25. PR6 - How the Cookie Crumbled: A Recap of the 2006 Creative Services Holiday Party
Most of the old pages are PR6. Comments are held for the moderator so make them legit.

26. PR4 - Blog comment spam with plagiarized text: hard to spot
Interesting discussion in 2006 relating to blog comment spam.

27. PR4 - Google bombs - Voice option and collective action

28. PR4 - Additional Comments Regarding Computers

29. PR3 - Blog is back to normal
First comment is moderated.

Most of those were found using this method and applying a few more keywords.

Hopefully those 29 locations will inspire you to find other places that will give you a free link!

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Text-Link-Ads.com sent me an email this morning about the new ability to allow people to advertise on popular posts on my websites.

This is awesome because some of my sites are full with 10/10 advertisers and therefore fully monetized with text-link-ads.com. This new product will allow me to continue to monetize by writing popular posts.

This will be perfect for people that are popular with Digg or people who have a very strong and loyal following.

Personally I can’t wait to find out more about how it works and to see it in action. I’m sure there will be some bugs to work out, but TLA has awesome support and usually can resolve an issue within a day.

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