I came across this and thought you’d like it. Jeremy Schoemaker, for those new to SEO and affiliate marketing, hosts the famouse Shoe Money blog. In this short clip Jeremy talks about when you should monetize a site and how to keep spam off your blog or website. I think it’s a must see if you’re interested in bringing traffic and increasing site revenues.

I found a new link building technique while I visiting EJ Cooksey at MyBlogLog. The concept was originally started by Alex over at HowtoSpoter.com. This is a great web 2.0 link building tactic and can greatly increase your incoming links if you use it.

— copy and paste the Reciprocal Review Carousel and instructions below this line —

Reciprocal Review Carousel idea is based on a few simple yet effective link-building and blogging techniques I have learned:

• Build value of the blog by creating a helpful link from within content.
• Provide value to community by doing a review on a blog you personally like.
• Link to YOUR blog has exact anchor text you want and helps you boost Google Rankings.
• No more than 30 outbound links from any page to prevent penalties for link farming.
• Viral effect of the link – as more bloggers participate, link to your blog with YOUR anchor text, coming from quality content post will spread.

Check out how this started (opens in a new window) then come back here and see what has changed on the review list below and you will see how this works immediately.

Here is How to participate:

• Copy the entire text between the specified lines.
• Create a post on your site and put at least one paragraph explaining how you joined the Reciprocal Review Carousel.
• Paste the text you copied into your post.
• Remove the Bottom Review and At the Top add your own review with a link to a site reviewed, at least 2 sentences about the site and a note – Reviewed by: Your Anchor Text. Link your anchor text to your site.

Here is an example:

WordPress Web 2.0 Guide is a blog providing very useful information on building your very own Web 2.0 portal based on WordPress. Detailed instructions and how to guides make it possible for anyone to create a sparkling and engaging blog and join the community of like-minded individuals. Reviewed by: WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-er
Sites Reviewed:

• Make Money The Quick and Easy Way! EJ Cooksey’s site contains a wealth of money making information. The site follows her journey of going from a Stay at Home Mom to a Millionaire Mom using various ways to make money online. Reviewed by: The SEO Only Blog
• Carol King’s Home Business-Know How Blog Carol King has a wealth of information about home business opportunities as well as ebooks, reviews, articles, tips and ideas. If you are needing to know more about online home based business then be sure to visit her site. Reviewed by: Make Money Online the Quick and Easy Way
• OnlineSecurityAuthority has everything you need to know about online security. Whether you are in need of the latest information on personal computing, blocking mySpace, ID Theft, RFID, Dating, or Banking this is the site to visit for all online security information. Reviewed by: AskAnissa
• Peter Lenkefi writes about Web 2.0 marketing strategies at Web2Center.com. He has some killer videos over there you should check out along with a ton of good information on blog marketing and various “new media” promotion tactics. Reviewed by: Link Building Maniac, Jack Humphrey, for the Friday Traffic Report
• Andy-Coates.com is an original creator of Viralink concept and a blog publishing information on Magic, Personal development and blog development. I have found a wealth of information on getting your blog noticed and generating the traffic for free. Reviewed by: WordPress Web 2.0 Guide
• FitForFreedom is well-established blog where you can find multitude of information on achieving financial freedom. Blog is run by Marco Righter and his writing style greatly adds to the value of information he provides. Reviewed by: Alex
• Secure Your PC For Internet blog run by Colin and provides essential information everyone accessing internet should know. Identity theft is becoming more and more of an issue and by visiting his blog you can minimize the risk of being compromised. Reviewed by: Alex
• Home With Heather is a great informative blog targeting WAHM (Work At Home Moms) and run by … you guessed it – Heather Masson. Information on what works for her in Internet Business written is very easy to read and comes from her personal experience. Reviewed by: Alex
• A Copywriter’s Blues blog published by Alex Badalic, a veteran of advertising turned musician gives you great food for soul. I have found some nice old videos of Johnny Cash performance and he has a lot more of vintage videos to satisfy fans. Reviewed by: Alex
• Did You Smell That blog authored by one of the veterans on network marketing filled with business ideas you can use. David Ledoux is well known and respected in online community and now he makes his experience available via blog posts. Reviewed by: Alex
• Best Damn Blog run by Richard Wing is all about Internet Marketing. Your visit will be rewarded by honest reviews, freebies and information you need to succeed in this cut-throat business without sacrificing your integrity. Reviewed by: Alex

— copy and paste the Reciprocal Review Carousel and instructions above this line —

Feel free to join the carousel and please add reviews to the sites you like. Just copy and paste the entire post above including the two red lines, do an opening paragraph like the one I started this post with, paste what you just copied, take the bottom review in the review list off and add a review to this site at the top, like I did for EJ Cooksay’s Make Money The Quick and Easy Way! site with a “Reviewed by:” link back to your site.

Post it and watch your traffic grow!

To Your Success!

As an SEO professional, it’s not uncommon to have a client call me and tell me that a competitive firm emailed them that their keyword density should be higher and that perhaps they would do well to consider hiring them for SEO copywriting instead. I always remind my clients that we write for two audiences, search engine robots and humans.

It is necessary to consider Google and the other search engines when I’m writing your web site’s content. It is also crucial, if not more so, to write for your visitors. Visitors who don’t convert aren’t worth anything. If a visitor does not make a purchase, fill in their contact information to provide you with a warm lead, join a mailing list, click through on a text or banner link or make a purchase on an affiliate site, your content sucks.

Google ranking can be improved with backlinks instead of writing exclusively for bots.

Check out Google’s Matt Cutts video…

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If you want to make money online, you need Make Money Online With John Chow dot Com.

Visit John Chow’s site today and download the free ebook.

Happy blogging,

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A great article on effective affiliate marketing vs ineffective affiliate banner ads.

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If you are looking for the statistics of your site, including the keywords rankings compare with your competitor sites, there’s is a free site that you can try it.

For a limited time this site will offer this free service, so register for an account today, before the site starts charging for the service.

When you first land on this site, you will be asked to provide the website address, the related keywords that you are promoting, any competitors websites that you want to compare yourself with, and the email that you want the report sent to.

Click on the ‘Generate Report’ button. Below the button will be the status of the report being generated.

In less than 10 seconds, your report will be ready. Inside the report, you can see the below information:

1) Overall Grade of the website

2) Score Summary, showing your status returned from the analysis

3) Google PageRank - this is one of the important area that most people look at your site

4) Webpage Structure based upon meta-keywords and page description

5) Domain registration info

6) Heading Summary showing the title of the domain or website

7) Image Summary with a list of images being used in your website

8 ) Google Indexed Pages showing number of pages being indexed inside Google

9) Conversion Methods based upon RSS Feed call to actions information

10) Inbound Links showing how many websites linked to your site from Google and Yahoo!

Click Here to get your website score now.

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Web CEO 7.0 is a suite of 12 programs that cover all aspects of SEO optimization and website promotion. The company broke new ground when they made the lowest level of Web CEO a free product in 2004, a bold step but one which seems to be paying off. My first introduction to Web CEO was an email that offered me the amazing Free software.

Web CEO is a feature rich application and is backed by a superb team of developers. New updates are constantly available (even for the free version) and response times for technical queries are excellent.

Optimize Your Site:

Find best keywords. The keyword mining software will help you pick out keywords with lowest competition and highest demand, i.e. best from the SEO POV.

Optimize your site for high rankings: the page analyzer built into our SEO software will give you detailed SEO advice in plain English.

Promote Your Site:

Submit your URLs to search engines by using our wise and safe SEO submission software.

Know who links to your site, and to your competition. Web CEO’s link analysis software reports inbound links, and even analyzes their text which is important for SEO.

Find link partners and build link popularity. Any SEO software would be incomplete without a tool for building link popularity.
Manage paid search campaigns. Though not directly related to organic SEO, PPC software is an important Web marketing tool.

Analyze Your Site:

Check your rankings with search engines. Web CEO software allows for tracking your SEO success with an advanced ranking checker and keywords trends.

Track and analyze your visitors, ad campaigns, transactions, revenues, etc. with more than 120 live analytical reports built into our software

Maintain Your Site:

Pinpoint broken links and other errors on your site.

Edit your Web pages in the WYSIWYG mode.

Upload HTML and other files to your server.

Monitor your website to know if it is up or down.

I don’t think any webmaster should be without at least the free edition of Web CEO. If you’re a serious webmaster or site owner, or active in flipping web estate (websites), upgrade or purchase Web CEO 7.0 before leaving this site. It’s must have software and will be money well spent. I can’t imagine pulling the traffic I need to make the income I make without it.

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Hey, hope you find this useful…

Check out John Chow on The Lab:

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There are two kinds of traffic: quality traffic and traffic in quanity.

Quantity is easily measured by viewing your site’s unique visitor stats.

Quality is measured as the estimated cost per thousand impressions (CPM) that a site’s publisher can earn from displaying ads to its visitors. The click through ratios (CTR) on ads, the conversion ratios (CVR) on affiliate programs and sale of merchandize from the site’s shopping cart and PayPal buttons all contribute to traffic quality.

Your site needs traffic quantity, but it becomes financially successful through quality traffic. I’d rather have a site with less traffic and strong revenue streams and it sure makes sites easier to resell when they represent a solid return on investment.

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