Today was one of those days where I found myself on the phone quite a few times talking with advertisers using our My Wizard Ads service.

Besides form submission issues, there was a striking thing each phone caller had in common.

Each person:

o Was new to the world of internet marketing
o Had yet to spend tons of money marketing
o Is in a prime position to take the bull by the horns and do something for themselves.

The chance I speak of is that of (more…)

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This morning I started to test out BlogExplosion (yes a blatant use of our affiliate url lol!). And here are my thoughts on is this worth your trouble or not…

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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!

This may seem like the most obvious to some, but other Entrecard users might be “surprised” at this twist to visiting other people’s blogs and dropping cards.

Log into your own Entrecard account.

Using either the cards shown across the top or even starting with a current advertiser, right click on the card and open that site’s information in a new window (you could even just visit your own blog and start there, but logging into Entrecard is fastest).

Then (remember you are in a “new window” at this point), click on the link out to that particular blog. Find the Entrecard widget and drop your card.

NOTE: LEAVE THAT CURRENT BLOG OPEN IN YOUR BROWSER! Later you can revisit it to comment, but at a minimum you will allow the window to be open long enough to help NOT penalize the blog owner (read up on “bounce rates” to learn what I mean). Be kind

Leave the window OPEN and RIGHT click on the current advertiser who’s card is showing on that widget.

(Highly suggested: Use Firefox and make sure your newly visited sites will open in a new TABBED window or use the RIGHT CLICK method above.)

Drop your card on this next site and click on the advertiser doing his or her thing on this new widget.

Once you get a rhythm going, it’s easy to go from blog to blog to blog. If you “get stuck” (and you will every now and then), just start the process over with a new choice from your dashboard or under CAMPAIGN.

This way you don’t keep visiting the same ones over and over (unless you really want to), and get to add numerous visits quickly and easily.

Here’s another suggestion that really is well worth your time and (no) trouble:

As you close the Tabbed Windows one by one, take a look around and see if there isn’t something you’d like to put your two cents in about… in other words leave a comment!

It’s sort of amazing how few people are really using Entrecard to its greatest advantage. A quick, simple, super easy way to FIND WAYS TO COMMENT on other people’s blogs. You won’t always get a “follow” link, but you’ll be doing yourself and your blog/website a huge favor in terms of word of mouth advertising about YOU.

So let’s recap:

1. Drop Entrecards efficiently
2. Comment for personal name branding
3. Comment for backlinking

Do this each day for 5-10 minutes and you’ll have 100s if not 1000s of backlinks for yourself in a very, very short amount of time!

Enjoy!