[My preamble]

To all the bloggers visiting, reading and commenting, not only do we thank you but we salute you

And to all our not-currently-blogging visitors, not only do we thank you, but we encourage you to take a hard look at the material being provided on this blog. If you’re still wondering “should you start a blog” you are missing the ride of the century (and also the crest of the wave?) by delaying. Each day someone somewhere is putting up the perfect blog in your field or passion, and is, therefore, going to be lightyears ahead of you (assuming they know the “tricks of the trade”) before you even make up your mind.

[The guts of this post]

That said (it’s so important, it’s why we keep “harping at you!”) today I’m going to re-examine a social media spot explored several moons ago, and provide you with proof why this one is worth a little effort. (more…)

Special Notice: Our favorite Entrecard is currently offline due to a fire where their servers are housed. They are working to get back online quickly and we wish them godspeed! Now on to today’s post…

If you’ve read our earlier posts about SpicyPage, WhamX, and Jumptags (we have talked about more, but these three will suffice), and applied what we’ve written (signed up and started using them), we’re positive you’ve already seen backlinking to your website or blog in the search engines.

However, I’m amazed as I log into these programs how so many people are missing the boat when it comes to using these marketing tools.

What I’m discovering is (more…)

Last week we wrote about testing out SpicyPage, and how quickly this website got listed in Google in connection with our Online Internet Marketing Strategies (OIMS) blog. Well, this morning, while tooling around dropping Entrecards and commenting on other people’s blogs, <!–more–>I visited one of our static websites, Stress Relief Management. While I marveled at the PR4 reading I was getting (with zero on Alexa - but that’s another post down the road), it triggered me to go check our Whole Hog Blogs listing in Google.

Lo and behold, a comment I had made THIS MORNING praising a blog in SpicyPage was already showing in Google! Here’s proof:

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In our continuing quest to extend the reach of Online Internet Marketing Strategies, our Whole Hog Blogs system and service, and assist our clients with their blogging, we scour the internet for likely social media and internet marketing websites to list these blogs.

We’re happy to report that SpicyPage is one of these spots you should not miss!

Late yesterday, I signed us up for this service, fumbled my way around inside for a bit, listed a few sites, visited and “thumbs up” where appropriate other people’s blogs, and made a few new friends (notices of others wanting to friend us arrived almost instantly!).

Then we sat back to see how long (if at all) our SpicyPage would take to appear in the search engines (we watch Google primarily).

Lo and behold, this morning doing a quick backlink check, here’s what we found!

Go ahead, click on the image. It will take you right to our listing in SpicyPage! And the nice people there are already voting and commenting.

[Please do VOTE FOR US using the voting widget is in our left hand sidebar at the top.}

And, this service doesn’t stop there!

If you want to pull in some cash with your blog, there are blogger/advertiser opportunities you can investigate and sign up to do (we haven’t gone that far yet, we’re pretty busy LOL!).

Here’s a bit from the SpicyPage About Us page:

“Founded in September of 2006, Spicypage is the social online community where anyone shares, talks about what websites or blogs they discover on the net. It is a friendly community that allows everyone to find easier ways to spread the notable sites or blogs when stumbled upon them.

SpicyPage lets you post, comment on, vote on, share your favorites sites or blogs with your friends and others like you. SpicyPage is a new way of web-ranking solution to determine the best sites or blogs, 100% powered by its members. Discover and bookmark the new and the best sites/blogs out there and connect with people of the same interest as you.”

On top of all that, it is of course free for bloggers to sign up.

Don’t miss this social media marketing opportunity to promote yourself and your blog(s). We definitely are giving this one the thumbs up!