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No More Excuses Now Your Comments Mean Real “Cash” Credits

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

By now you know how much we harp on commenting on blogs. Not only is it easy to do, but it’s absolutely, positively the best free form of marketing for yourself and your website - and a great way to gain a backlink (in most cases) in the search engines to your website link.

And now, especially for bloggers, there’s no reason not to… if you’re a member of Entrecard.

Entrecard and SezWho (a comment rating system) have joined forces to not only encourage your comments, but reward you for your efforts.

Here’s an excellent post that outlines the details (why reinvent the wheel?):
Top 10 Reasons Why Entrecard-SezWho Partnership Is Important For Bloggers

Frankly, we love comments and we love commenting - and we love free marketing!

And, for all you affiliate marketers and website owners without a blog, don’t think that commenting isn’t for you, too! Commenting can be incredibly lucrative - both in short and long term internet marketing and search engine linking… (and did we mention it’s free!).

Let’s face it, people pay big bucks to purchase a spot on websites and blogs. But commenting is FREE and gets you the same - actually even better - results! You get to pick and choose. Your comment remains on the blog forever. And no one will disconnect your link at a whim (or if you stop paying).

Of course the idea is to provide insight or feedback or a pat on the back to the blogger. Or to (kindly) dissent when appropriate. Your quality comments get you visitors to your website.

People are curious animals and a good comment always makes me click through to see what’s on the other end. Visitors that didn’t cost you a dime, just a bit of time.

And, if you use Firefox (we’re partial to Firefox), and have the Alexa addon, you’ve got the perfect tool to check for traffic ranks on the blogs you stop on and comment on (keep in mind it’s just a tool, who’s to say where your next client or customer might come from?).

So… Why purchase them, when commenting provides a natural (organic!) link for yourself on quality blogs?

It really is a no brainer.

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Your Turn! Have your say right now! Comments welcomed!


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The Internet Has No Secrets (Traffic or Otherwise) - Or - When To Stop Buying Into Things And Just Do It

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

NOTE: Before you get going, the title of this post is “secrets” not “methods.” People come up with all sorts of new ways of doing things, and open all sorts of new social media areas, and we give credit where credit is do. But they aren’t “secrets.”

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For years, and I do mean years, we’ve been online explaining, demonstrating, and, in many instances, doing the hands-on work to help you be successful online.

And, throughout these years, we - like you - have been (and continue to be) inundated with special reports, new software, e-books, videos and more all ranting and raving how this is “the one.”

Rarely is anything “new.”

Let me explain by example before I continue:

Ten years ago, a script was developed that (more…)

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Get Your Feet Wet With This Easy To Do BlogCarnival

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

A while back we did a post about blog carnivals, and not so strangely, here’s one that is so simple to do you’ll kick yourself for not participating.

Techtreak is hosting a blogcarnival with some great incentives just for following a few quick steps.

First, let me tell you what you could win by participating: (more…)

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Jumping Back to Jumptags For A Real Boost in Backlinking

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Four prior posts, to date, have discussed the advantages of using Jumptags as a social book marking tool for your website and/or blog.

These posts have included proof that just taking a few seconds of your time each time you make a post - or even add a new page to your website - to log into your Jumptags account means multiple links in the search engines extremely quickly (we’ve even got pictures).

So why am I returning today to talk once again about the beauty of back link building with this social media strategy?

First, because (more…)

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Facebook Replacement? Try This New Small Business Social Network

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Networking is a must if you plan to run any type of successful business online. Even if your goal isn’t to “make money” you still need resources that help you locate like-minded individuals. (more…)

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Twitter Finally Useful With New Twellow Tool

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Just a bit ago, I received Websitepro’s newsletter and they have “exciting” news! They have developed their own “search Twitter” website, which hopefully, will allow like-minded people to make contact (and make it a whole lot easier to do).

If you use Twitter this should (more…)

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Why Your Two Cents Is Worth More Than It’s Weight In Gold

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Everyone, everyday, has the ability to dramatically boost their positioning in the search engines. It doesn’t matter if you are a blogger, a website owner, or an affiliate homeless at the moment promoting other people’s products (though we recommend at least a redirected domain name to that product).

And, not so strangely enough, this marketing technique is completely free.

Today let’s really focus our attention on this one tiny marketing method with rock solid, gigantic benefits.

We speak of… (more…)

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What’s Got Us Jumping For Joy and How You Will Too

Monday, June 9th, 2008

If you do a search on this blog, you’ll soon discover that we’ve been fans of Jumptags for quite a while now. Surprisingly it snuck up on us, and if we hadn’t been paying close attention to our search engine stats, we might never have realized how very wonderful Jumptags can be to your search engine linking.

A simple website, Jumptags gives you the opportunity, with a minimum of fuss, to (more…)

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Why Blogging Is A Blast The Cool Resources You Discover

Friday, June 6th, 2008

It’s been a day or two since our last post only because we’re happy to welcome a few new bloggers to our Whole-Hog-Blogs Network. And these new members receive the full treatment as we get blog choices decided upon, domains propagated, widgets ready, and plugins plugging :)

And, lucky for me, this evening while getting one of our newest acclimated to a new way of “marketing,” I came across (more…)

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