4 ways to make your blog comments stand out

It seems like everyone is on the case of blog commenting, and more and more people dislike it every time you see a blog post about it. There are a lot of blogs that have become no follow with their comment URL’s etc. and people rarely see any benefit whatsoever for their link adding on comments. Here are a few ways to buck the trends, and use blog comments as a real source of traffic

• Use blog comments to link to your Reddit posts
  Reddit gets tons of worthwhile traffic. You can see massive surges of traffic in a very short space of time, and by including a link to your Reddit post (which links to your website), you are looking at channelling lots of traffic in the long run
• Link to your Youtube videos
  Youtube is a major player when it comes to multimedia online, and they are everywhere. You can capitalise on this fact by adding Youtube links to comments, which WILL get clicks, and eventually traffic to your site
• Link to your Social items
  If you have bookmarked your website, or if you have written a short piece about it on Digg, then you should consider linking the blog comments to them. Whilst people tend to ignore links to people’s sites on blog comments, they very rarely overlook the big names like Digg or Propeller for example
• Link to your Facebook profile
  Whilst this is just a recent tactic, linking your Facebook profile on blog comments is quite possible. You can state that you saw a pretty good link on a Facebook profile, and as with the big names above, they will be clicking through to Facebook to see who is getting the publicity,

Blog Structuring Tips

Structuring your blog post correctly is a good idea, and it is very apparent that Google likes to see this happening with your H1, H2 and H3 tags. It is often recommended that you include your keyword in bold, include it in your H1, H2 and H3 tags, and always in your blog title. What most people forget, is that you need inbound links on your page, together with a outbound links that are present on the same page as the rest of your SEO. By structuring a page in this way, Google sees the site as an authority, that is not adverse to allowing some traffic to exit on external links. This builds your trustrank with Google, and coupled with the other vital SEO steps, you can see your page ranking pretty quickly.

One of the main recommendations for a webpage, is that you keep your keyword density at around 3% to 4%. This enables the search engines to see that you are relevant to the search terms people are entering into their search bars, and that you know what you are talking about. Having a high keyword density will often work against you. The days are gone now when a person could keyword stuff a page, in the same font colour as the background, and get away with a page one ranking for absoloute rubbish content.

The on page SEO you develop for your pages will be crucial to your overall site’s success in the searches. You will begin ranking for long tail search terms first, and then the keywords and keyphrases will get shorter and shorter, as Google lends more weight to your ranking profile. After around three weeks, you will see the result of any on page SEO, as long as you have been building constant, steady off-page links to your site.

2 Reasons Your Blog Titles Might Suck

If you never sat and thought about the most important factor of SEO on a page, then allow this article to help. The first thing you see on Google search results, is a big list of blue links point to websites, and each one of those links speak to possible visitors. So you should make every effort to perfect the art of title-craft.

Numbers and grab words

Many people will forget a lot of SEO rules, but titles truly are make or break for an article and it’s home. The main thing you should concentrate on, is being different from other titles. This has been done two-fold in the article you are reading now. Instead of the number two being written as “two”, it has been done as a number. This is due to humans picking out numbers better than letters in a block of text. We are used to seeing ordered lists, number 1, 2, 3 etc. and we learn from an early age to look for patterns like this. Our brains hunt for numbers whilst we are unaware of it.

As well as a number being used in the title, you will see that there is an element of humour in there, by suggesting your titles suck. Of course, no harm is meant by this, and the title is seriously ambiguous. However, the sentence works to grab the reader, and the second effect is complete.

Keep it compact

When a reader sees your title, they will often be looking for the shortcut that takes them from search to result. You need to tell them that your article is short, compact, and has everything they need (including solving their problem – whatever it may be). This is why lists are important. If you tell people there are just two ways to fix their titles, they are interested. This is how you can ensure they don’t click the back button once they see a big block of text. They just want short and punchy results.

Finding your product can be difficult…

If you have had problems finding a good product, do not worry, you are not alone. When you first enter the internet marketing arena, there’s a plethora of  options. On Clickbank, it would take many months for you to go through each one, and try to decide the best one for you, and your knowledge. In actual fact, Frank Kern’s cousin, Trey Smith performed a very cool experiment where he tried 12,000 products on Clickbank, and found 54 were profitable. Further products turned out to be profitable later one… but that number could strike fear into the heart of the new marketer. In fact, what you don’t know, is Trey used PPV (Pay Per View) traffic, which can often be awesome at sending traffic to offers – but can also fall flat on it’s face. If you used Adwords for 12,000 Clickbank products, what could happen (aside from you bankrupting yourself overnight)? All you need to do is find the right product, and use ONE traffic source, until you are comfortable in other traffic generating methods. If you use Youtube to site methods, then this can work fine. So can Adwords, forum traffic, and many other ways… but what product do you choose?

Often, you will see a product appear out of nowhere, and become mega popular overnight. By the time you jump on it, the super-Gurus out there are already taking up the top 10 on Google. So if you want to get ahead, you need to be informed when a product is going to be released, rather than seeing it go live and panicking.

All you need to do is look for JV (joint venture) notification websites. These let marketers know that a product is going to be released, and JV’s are available. One site which will help, is JV Notify. You can get great info here as to when big marketers are releasing their new products, and it can give you a vital heads up when it comes to picking great products.

Tell The World About Yourself – Your Other Self

There is no crime in pretending to be someone else. Everybody in the industry who writes regularly will no doubt have a pen name or pseudonym, and they will use it to explore other markets, ask questions or simply stay anonymous. This is by far the best thing about the internet – the anonymity. People will often forget that you do not have to limit to just asking questions on a forum or writing articles. You can actually create a whole new  person with a real presence online.

To use this type of marketing to your best advantage, all you need is a blog, and a product – preferably your own product. If you are creating your own product, and are marketing it using this method, include a chapter in the end of the book that tells the buyer or reader to start a journal blog. When you list this product for sale, or first begin marketing it, you should create the blog, and post real photographs. Of course, it would be better to use pictures of a family member or a friend you can trust. After you have done this, ensure all your pseudo accounts with internet marketing forums and blogs etc. get the link to the blog in their profile signature, and that you inform people on said blogs/forums that you are following a method that you hope will earn you a great income, and will be updating every day. People interested in your product who are on the fence will follow the blog closely and subscribe. This is a great thing.

Once the blog is up, set about listing accounts that have a zero balance, like Adsense or Clickbank, or whatever way you are using to monetize. These will need to be accounts set up in your friend or family member’s name, or a secondary account if allowed. The names will always be blurred on the accounts anyway, so it does not matter.

The only thing that does matter is your honesty and integrity, so do not fake any results in this process. Simply post every single day with what you have done in the method you are using, and what has happened in your accounts. Try not to give away any major details.

Remember you suggested that each buyer start their own blog like the above? Well, once people have seen one person doing so, they will no doubt do the same. It is important to note that the site you create MUST have an affiliate link or buy link, so you can earn from it! Also, if it is your own ebook -, get yourself an affiliate account so that others can sell your product. The people creating blogs and journals will then be making you money with their own personal experience.

Jiggle The Web For Better Rankings

Created by internet marketing specialist Michael Campbell, Jigglingtheweb.com provides a free and simple method to getting your websites ranked very quickly, or at least indexed. To get the search engine spiders to crawl your website, and start to rank it based on popularity and relevancy, you must give it a nudge in the right direction, and make sure the search engines know your web page has been updated in the first place.

Jiggling the web is a concept that is reproduced in many manuals and ebooks, and it is a very simple procedure that anyone can learn, coming complete with a set of advanced tricks that you can learn at your own pace. To start with, it is much easier if you have WordPress, as most of the tips and tricks are available as plugins.

Once you are ready to start posting some content to your website, simply take a snippet of this text, and post it on social sites like Digg, Propeller and Reddit. These sites are all about news and events. They are constantly updated in Google’s cache. Once these go live, you need to bookmark them using StumbleUpoon, Mr.Wong, Google Bookmarks etc. Less is more. You only need to use up to four of the top bookmarking sites. It’s also a little academic getting a bookmarking tool to do it, as you can be done in just a few minutes yourself. Once you have done the above, it is time to ping the RSS feed using a reliable service like Pingomatic. You only need to ping a couple, as Google will pick the rest up naturally.

Surprisingly, it is not much more difficult than that. This will ensure you are getting indexed very quickly. So if you have a blog that keeps up to date with hot topics or news, your site will be among the fastest that are indexed, bringing great rankings.