A new departure for the blog today , we have our first ever guest Blog post.

Todays Guest Blogger Is Garry Booton from http://homeeasyearn.com/. Garry also works as a traffic testing analyst for the Cambridge Business Academy which allows him to test out all the traffic products and traffic generation methods. This gives him a real insight into what works and what doesn’t.

On with the post…

Back links to your web site or blog are crucial if you want to make your way on to the first page of Google. In fact you may find it impossible to get on the first page without back links pointing to your site.

There are various ways you can get back links such as, arranging reciprocal links with other site owners, you may have even paid someone to place your link on their high ranked website, or possibly you get back links by blog commenting.

In the past when you comment on someone else’s blog post you would earn yourself one back link pointing to your site. So to get 100 back links you would need to find 100 blogs that will accept blog comments. Now however this has changed and I want to share with you a fantastic way of getting 100’s and sometimes 1000’s of back links for just a few minutes work.

This has been made possible by a plug in called “Top Commentators” this allows blog owners to keep a record of how many comments each individual person makes on their posts. The plug in creates a list on each page of your site giving the names of the people that have posted the most comments.

Top commentators is a  great plug in to encourage people to make posts on your blog, as you could for instance run a monthly competition and give a prize to the person with the most comments.

So how does this help you to get hundreds of easy back links?

Well if you recall, the top commentators list is on every page of the blog owner’s site.

Now most sites will have possibly hundreds of pages that make up the site. If a blog has been running for 3 or 4 years, this could mean that it has thousands of pages making up the site.

If your blog post total is on the top commentators list, it is on there as a link back to your own site. Therefore if the site you posted your comment on has a thousand pages, you will get a thousand back links pointing to your site.

So how do you find the sites with the “Top Commentators” plug in installed?

All you have to do is type

inurl:blog “top commentators”

in to Google and press enter.

This will return all the sites that have the plug in installed on their site. All you do is go to each site and look for the list of people that have made the most comments. To get all your links you need to make enough comments to stay on this list long enough for Google to crawl the site.

So if the top poster has made ten comments it will not take you long to find 10 posts to also comment on. This will give you matching top rating and once your comment has been accepted by the sites owner or moderator it will appear on the top commentators list.

Once you have posted enough posts to get you on the list for that specific site. You will need to keep checking back to the site until your comment is posted live on the site. What you can do then, is take the URL of the page one of your comments appears on, and put the URL into pingomatic and ping the search engines. This will get the page crawled over by Google, which in turn will get your back links registered.

If you come across a blog where you would need to post 50+ comments to get on the top commentators list, it may be worth checking back throughout the month as there is a good chance the blog owner may have the list set to return to zero again at the start of each month.

You can find a video explaining this procedure in more detail by clicking the link below

Quick link building strategy

I thought it was about time that the Moday Tips section returned.

When I did the article marketing course /step by step in  WordPress Goldmine I showed how to quickly and easily increase your click through rate to 20 or 30%. What I didn’t show at the time was a quick and easy way to check those CTR percentages so you can see what articles need to be worked on and which ones are performing well.

The Video below show a really quick method I’ve devised , there is probably an even quicker way but this works for me and I am not too good with excel!

Do you want to change you life?  Do You want to Work where you want when you want? Do you want to become a full time Internet Entrepreneur?

If You answered yes to one of those questions then isn’t it’s time you did something about it?

It’s June 1st today so why not dedicate the next month to laying the foundation of a long term business.

I am not suggesting that at the end of the month that you’ll be able to retire but I am saying that you’ll have a usable system in place that you can build on. Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither is an Internet marketing career. I’ve been doing IM for over 4 years now it’s only in the past 9 months that I’ve finally got myself organised so that I can work a few hours a week if I wish and still maintain my income.

If you are willing to sacrifice 30 hours this month and $30 then you can succeed.

The first stop you should make is ezinearticles.com. Ezinearticles is a great place to research business models.  There are loads of categories here find one that appeals to you. Once you click on a sub-niche you’ll see a link to the top Authors in each niche. Follow this link and you’ll get a list of the Top Authors in that niche. Now all you need to do is to click on some of their articles and look at where their resource links go.

This way you’ll get to see the business model they are using, and believe me if they have bothered to write lots of articles it is working. Follow the process to the end and see all the tricks and tactics they use

It’s now down to you to replicate the business model.

Even creating your own product can cost less than $30.  The graphics on my Twitter Tips and Tricks Site cost me  $17, the domain cost me $9. I wrote the book in less than a day. Although I am giving away the product at the moment I could start to charge for it or even sell it as a complete business package via a site like sitepoint or digitalpoint.  Check out the graphics at www.twittertipsandtricks.com

Go On do it now!!  Build For Your Future

If you were to believe all the hype you would think that it was easy to make $100,000 a year online. It’s not!… it takes work. You should try to think of the fist few months that you are working online as an apprenticeship. Use that time to gather knowledge and don’t worry too much about How much income you will earn.

Following on from that it is best to start building your online business before you need the extra money or before you find yourself dependant on your online income. However if you need quick cash there are several things you can do and In this post I will look at two of them.

Traditionally Internet marketers build sites or products that will earn money over a long period of time. I have sites that have been earning money over the past 4 years each month I add to my sites and build my income even more. It’s like filling a bucket with a dripping tap every month you add a few extra drips and soon the bucket is filling quickly. That doesn’t help if you need a bucket full of cash now.

The first method is to offer a service. I spent 6 months building sites for people when I first started internet marketing.I Used to build autogenerated sites and host them on my server I could complete these in a few minutes with the tools I had. It was quite easy to make $50 to $100 a day doing this. It kept me going until my own sites took off. If you don’t think that this will be a profitable venture let me tell you that I regularly spend over $500 a month on external services and I am not alone. I know several marketers that spend two or three times that.

There are loads of services you could perform you just need to price your services at the right level. Too much and you won’t get enough business too little and  you’ll get overwhelmed with work and won’t be able to keep up. Some services you could consider are content creation, Forum posting, link building, graphic creation etc.

In addition to providing services you could create sites and sell them, Pre built sites can be sold for over $100. If you can build and sell 3 or 4 a week you will have a nice income that you can rely on.

There are two places that you can sell your services, Sitepoint.com and the Digitalpoint forum. It may be also worthwhile offering your services at the warrior forum. I recently found a great graphics designer there. 

For earning quick cash there is no better way that to offer services or sell sites..try it you’ll be glad you did.

I recently completed an Article Marketing Course as part of WordPress Goldmine and in the past few weeks I’ve done a few interviews where I mentioned some of the things the course features. The one aspect that has had most comments and questions (and occasional abuse) is my assertion that when article marketing you should treat your Resource/Bio box like an Adwords Ad.

I thought I’d use this blog post to try to clarify exactly what I mean.

The first thing that you need to realise that as a marketer the resource box is the most important part of the article, this is where you are going to make your money and allow you to realise you dreams. To put it as simply as possible, If you get 1000 views on an article and have a 10% Click Through Rate (CTR) 100 people will visit your site. If you manage to get a 30% CTR you have 300 visitors and hopefully make 3 times as much money as you did previously.

Simply increasing my click through Rate has Increased the income on some of my clickbank accounts from a regular $40 per day to over $100 a day several days a week.

The way I’ve done this is to look at how adsense ads are displayed and worded and then apply these techniques to my articles. People who do PPC sucessfully spend hours getting their ads right and testing them to make them as effective as possible. So why shouldn’t article maketers take as much time and effort to work out which resources boxes convert best and attract buyers.

Look at the following 2 resource boxes and guess which one would convert best.

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In fact don’t guess test it out on your next articles..

Finally don’t think that you need to write short resource boxes, you can still use adsense styled resource boxes in longer format.The main thing is to experiment and see what grabs the attention of your readers.

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