Blogging For Money Wishlist

If you are blogging for money or if you are trying to improve your blogs rankings among the search engines then some of these books may just very well be on your wishlist.

For those who are blogging for money some of these books cover affiliate marketing while the rest cover many forms of popular seo techniques and strategies. And as we all know, traffic is a must and is something that we all are striving to improve upon. And one popular way is getting that high ranking for your keywords in the search engines. Something these authors have proven themselves at and now are selling their secrets to the world.


The following books range in terms of audience they are written for, some aiming at the novice blogger, those who are new and those who are experienced and looking for that extra added info to put them over the top in terms of their monetization or search engine rankings.

1. Get to the Top on Google:
   
   Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings -- and Stay There
2. Advanced Web Metrics with
   
   Google Analytics
3. SEO: Search Engine
   
   Optimization Bible
4. Building Findable
   
   Websites: Web Standards SEO and Beyond
   
5. THE SECRET TO GETTING
   
   LISTED AT THE TOP OF SEARCH ENGINES
6. The 12 Habits of Highly
   
   Effective Web Sites: Managing your PageRank and Keywords to get your product or service onPage One of search results
7. A Practical Guide to
   
   Affiliate Marketing: Quick Reference for Affiliate Managers & Merchants
   
8. The Complete Guide to
   
   Affiliate Marketing on the Web: How to Use and Profit from Affiliate Marketing Programs
9. The Super Affiliate
   
   Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People's Stuff Online
10. THE EXPERT GUIDE TO
    
    AFFILIATE MARKETING - THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE FOR ALL WOULD-BE AFFILIATE MARKETERS
    

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10 Blog Traffic Tips

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else''s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that''s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.

These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn''t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don''t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that''s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you''ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people''s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger''s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it''s sort of like your blog telling someone else''s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it''s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it''s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn''t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it''s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I''ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won''t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

http://www.blogmastermind.com/affiliates/index.php?af=788573

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Does Time Or Day Matter For Publishing Content?

That is a question that has been circulating and many have speculated or indeed have commented and posted about their success at various times of the day and days of the week for publishing content to their blogs. And as you know, once content is published, normally a ping is made to various bookmarking sites or the content is manually added at the Bookmarking sites and traffic then hopefully flows to your new content. And that is where this post concentrates on. Getting your article or content noticed on the social bookmarking sites. So is there an ideal time to publish that new spiffy article? Well over at Third Rail the answer is YES, and he has done some in depth stat gathering to back up that claim.

So what is the best time? According to his information and analysis, the best time to publish and be noticed is Thursdays at noon PST time. But a closer look also reveals that Tuesday through to Friday are all "hot time" zones for publishing between the hours of 10am- 2pm PST. That means publishing at night or on weekends lessens your chance of being a success on the bookmarking social sites. I suggest heading on over to Third Rail if you want to learn more about this claim and analysis. Maybe some publishing changes are in order now?? :)

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Powering Up Your Blog With These 26 Power Lists/Rankings

Want to increase your Brand Awareness? Maybe increase your traffic ? Or perhaps you just desire a nice inbound link with some good Page Rank behind it? Whatever your decision may be, (it may very well be you are competative and just like the thrill of competing against others) Blog Power Lists are one sure fire way to help in your quest to increase traffic, better your inbound links count with a quality link, as well as build a Brand Name Awareness for your blog as it climbs the ladder of success. Well okay I am getting ahead of myself here but one can dream right?

Some of these Blog Power Lists have been around for quite some time and some take a good deal of work to get on. This can range from a simple email request to be added, to having a blog that is noticed by the creators as a new rising star, in which case you will have to prove yourself and prove you have a quality blog. Some of these Blog Power Lists are niche specific so before trying to get added, make sure you have a blog that fits that niche. Others are a free for all of the most influential blogs out there. Climb to the top ranks of Power Blog Lists and watch your Brand Awareness increase, not to mention traffic.

With that said here are some Blog Power Lists that I have come across. If you know of any others, please leave a comment and link so that others may find them as well.

I'll start with the older lists that I am not sure if they still are maintained or updated (I believe there is a few of those so I will list them first ):

The count now for Power Lists here now is 28 , as I have added to the list since first publishing this article.

Top Ranked Web Analytic's Blogs - A list that is comprised of blogs who focus on Analytic's. From the looks of it this list likely is not updated any longer but then I could be wrong.

Top 50 Blogs in the Search Place - Niche list that I believe is no longer updated, perhaps it was just that a list and was not meant to be maintained.

Revenue Blog Rankings - A ranking of blogs based on this excerpt from the blog hosting the list.

Blogs that focus on affiliate marketing, display advertising, contextual advertising, and actually helping people generate revenue in these ways by running their own site.

I am not sure if this list is still active or not. But I did notice it was updated every few months with April 2007 looking like the last update.



Top 30 Canadian Marketing & Advertising Blogs -

Not sure if this one is still maintained so I will list it with these others I am not sure about. Still a good resource if this is your niche. August of 2007 was the last updated list I could find.

Top 50 Fashion Blogs -

I am going to assume blogs here focus about fashion. This list boasts over 800 blogs. Rankings and how often it is updated I do not know. Although the last update I could find was September 2007



PR Friendly Index-
Ran by Brendan Cooper which is current, and is a niche blog list. Thats right, those blogs pertaining to PR. Public Relations, not Page Rank :) This list is limited in size and ideally you will have to aim at having your blog being noticed and put on Brendan's radar. Only active blogs with useful content make the grade there.

The Top 25 Blogs About Blogging -

Blogs considered: the list considers only blogs that have a high percentage of blogging-related content. Topics might range from blogging tips to monetization, from news to building communities or business blogs.

The “Top 25 Blogs About Blogging” list ranks blogs according to their Google Pagerank, Alexa rank, number of Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority

The Top 25 SEO Blogs -

"The Top 25 SEO Blogs" ranks the blogs according to their Google Pagerank, Alexa rank, number of Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority. Each factor has a score from 0 to 10, and the maximum score for each blog is 40.

Paula's New List of Blogger, Webmaster, Domainer, Affiliate Marketer -

Last update was June of 2007 I believe. This list covers many websites and many well known blogs and Dot Com individuals who use the internet to make money. Reported incomes are collected by Paula Neal Mooney and to add yourself to the growing list, leave a comment or send her an email.

45N5 Top 100 -

This Power List is based on the niche of blogs who blog about how to make money online. The list is ran by Mark Wielgus who set up an algorithm that constantly watches all the blogs on the list. Mark updates this list regularly and you can add a widget to your blog to show off your ever changing rank. It is based on Google, Technorati, and Alexa rankings, and yes it is called a Top 100 list, but you can still make the list as an "up and comer" if you rank 101 or lower. Well over 300 blogs on this list.

AdAge Power 150 -

This Power List has been around for quite some time and ranks all the top english language media blogs as well as marketing blogs and is maintained by Todd Andrlik.
He has come up with an algorithm based on 8 different categories. Seven of which come from Google, Bloglines, Alexa, Yahoo! and Technorati and then the 8th, his own overall "personal judgment" or "feel" from your blog.

How do you get on this Power List? e-mail Charlie Moran (cmoran at adage.com) and let him know your blog’s name, URL and country of origin.
How many blogs made the grade so far? 608!

BIGLIST of SEM and SEO Blogs -

This list has over 400 blogs on it that cover a range of internet marketing topics ranging from SEO (search engine optimization) and PPC (pay per click) to blog marketing, marketing with social media and online public relations. Taken from their list page,

How do you get on the list?
It wouldn’t hurt to link to the list first. Otherwise, we find most of the new blogs when reading blogrolls of other BIGLIST inductees or SEM social news sites. Rarely do we add a blog based on a direct request. Two fundamental requirements: Your blog must cover search marketing and it must post weekly at a bare minimum. Other considerations include, blog design, usability, writing style and quality.

Try getting on the blogrolls of other blogs who have made the list. And produce some solid content and growth and get others talking about you positively.

Ratified -

The top 100 Australian blogs. This list obviously requires a blog to be maintained by an Australian. Other than that, I believe any niche or genre is acceptable. Technorati as well as Google and Feedburner stats are used. I also believe this one is updated daily so ranks can change by the hour. Also a Winners and Losers list showing who had the biggest gains or losses.

Top 100 Australian Blogs - (Blog Pond)

Another top 100 list open to blogs of Australian ownership. This list is updated monthly and boasts may top blogs in the blogosphere. Ranking is derived by using Technorati, the Australian Alexa rank and the global Alexa rank. (Thank You Meg for clarifying)

Top 100 Australian Women Bloggers-

Another Australian flavored blogging list that is also open to all niches with one more prerequisite. The blog must not only be maintained by an Australian, but also be a woman. Technorati and Alexa ranking are used to determine a blogs rank/wight. Used to be known as top 50 but recently it was made into a top 100 due to demand.

The Viral Garden's Top 25 Marketing and Social Media Blogs -

Niche is self explanatory for this one. And the list is updated weekly. As of this article they are on week 102. So it has been around for quite some time. Technorati is what is used for this ranking list.


Top Blogs About Blogging -

This one I can not offer much input as to how the ranking are determined or how often. The only thing I know is that Google Page Rank is not used as a determining factor. As well the niche target for this one should be self explanatory.

Poetry Blog Rankings -

This one is a niche list geared towards the artistic blogs. Poetry bloggers and blogs. Rank seems to be based on voting by your peers.

Sounds And Fury Top 30 Classical Music Blogs -

Updated quarterly. Eligibility for consideration for listing and a detailed explanation of the methodology used in compiling the ranked list as well as a key to reading the list’s entries can be found here.

Top 50 Sports Blogs -

Updated Quarterly. Open to blogs that focus on sports. Google, Alexa, BallHype and Technorati are the determining factors for this list.

Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs - (Do not let the date in the url fool you, this is updated and recent)

Quantcast/SiteMeter/Compete traffic figures are used to rank blogs and when there is a tie. Googles Page Rank is the determining factor for position.


Indonesian Matters - (Top 100 Indonesian Blogs)

Google, Yahoo, Bloglines, Techorati, Delicious and Alexa are used to rank blogs. List is updated twice a month and many other factors to determine if your blog can be on this list. Read the FAQ for more information.

Top 10 Economics Blogs -

243 blogs are on this list. Ranking is based on Technorati. Top 10 get their own page. The full list however can be found as well.

Top 300 Most Influential Blogs (Wikio) -

Technology, Celebrity, Politics and Other niches are focused on (Quite a wide variety including top 10 list from each sub group).

The position of a blog in the Wikio ranking depends on the number and weight of the incoming links from other blogs. These links are dynamic, which means that they are backlinks or links found within articles.

Blogrolls are not taken into account and Wikio only counts links from the last 120 days. The weight of a link depends on the linking blog’s position in the Wikio ranking. With their algorithm, the weight of a link from a top blog is greater than that of a link from a blog that is less well ranked.

Law Prof Blog Rankings -

I am going to assume this blog ranking list would be one of the harder ones to get on :P
Few years in law school, many years practicing law, and acceptance to a University as a Professor and then your own blog should do the trick! 35 blogs on this list.

Top 100 Analyst Blogs -

Google Page Rank, Google Reader, Technorati and Technobabble 2.0 are used for ranking purposes.





Le Basketbawl's Top 25 NBA Basketball Blogs -

Uses Ballhype, Alexa, Page Rank and Technorati to determine a blogs rank. This top list is updated monthly. And is exclusive to blogs that blog about Basketball.

The Top 100 Internet Business Blogs

Is a collection of influential business blogs and the rankings are done according to Alexa rank.

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Thank You EntreCard Droppers

As I mentioned in a previous article about a newly created Entrecard widget. I am going to dedicate this article and page to those who visit Blog Me The Money, from the Entrecard program. Anyone who takes the time to visit Blog Me The Money, and drop off an Entrecard will get a nice "thank you" and a permanent backlink to your blog. (Or website)

I know many people will debate and tell me that many visitors just drop and leave quickly trying to gain entrecard credits but many I have noticed do take the time to look about and some even leave comments. And for those people I especially want to leave a "Thank You". It's not much but it is another inbound link.

For anyone wishing to take part in the "You Drop, I link" movement, head on over and grab yourself a widget.

Now for the "Droppers": Again Thank You for stopping by and I hope you return again. If you like what you read, please subsrcibe to my RSS feed.

1. Thoughts From Down Under
2. Comfort Joy Designs
3. Luxury Beach
4. Pro Blog Reviews
5. Keith Goodrum
6. Living Well Naturally
7. Phoenix Radio Blog
8. Rhyan Dot Net
9. Stick It To The Man
10. Life With Roxxymetal
11. 15anhour.com
12. Net News Publisher
13. Honeys Cyber Cash
14. Lair Of The Green Knight
15. My Investing Blog
16. Money Bites
17. Make A Pound
18. How To Earn Money Blogging
19. No Nonsense Internet Tips
20. Eric's Blog
21. Smooth Asia
22. Myseo Blog
23. Ulupongdotcom
24. Article Snatch
25. Blog Dahh Net
26. Brood Online
27. Moms Check Nyo
28. IT-Aid
29. Mother's Got A Dot Com
30. Work At Home Wealth
31. Hochstadt
32. Hudson Horizons
33. Emarketscout
34. Fatherlyours
35. PR(Zero)Blogger
36. Pinoy Money Online
37. World For fun
38. The Modern Historian
39. Hysterilisator
40. Home Make Money
41. Shades Of Twilight
42. Entrezoned Teenzoned
43. Joan Joyce Dot Com
44. The Sports Dollar
45. Lightening's Blogworld
46. The Fox Hole
47. APSense
48. Satellite TV To PC Today
49. The Truth About Lies
50. Livin' Life SandyStyle
51. Le Basketbawl
52. The Recliner GM
53. Chelsea FC
54. Get Fat Money
55. Be The Best You Can Be
56. Music News And Reviews
57. Vladinati Empire
58. The Creative Nerd
59. Assess My Blog
60. Untreatable's Blog
61. Make A Pound
62. About Blog Contests
63. Caledonian Comment
64. Lofty Matters
65. Joshua Ongy's
66. Web Wanker
67. Time
68. The Buzz Nutter
69. Is A Man's World
70. Bay Area Mompreneur
71. UrbanWrit
72. Liz Harper Fitness
73. Juuust a bit outside
74. MerDurian The Zapblang Blog
75. Stewart Schatz
76. Copywriting Tips and Idea's
77. Bisnisku
78. Danu Belager
79. Reward Rebel
80. Under Heavens
81. What Lies Within The Mirror
82. Livin' With Me
83. Bro Alex
84. Social Media Mom
85. Log Blog
86. Mariuca's Perfume
87. Michigan Rafter
88. The Creative Dream
89. Work At Home Online
90. Kush Money
91. United Web Talk
92. A Wrestling Addicted Mommy's Blog
93. My Rceipes
94. Streamlined Mind
95. Markets Bull
96. Make Money Online~Work At Home
97. Bio Teck
98. Soul Meets World
99. Random Musings Of A Deranged Soul
100. Casade Apostas
101. Web Site Promotion For The Small Business V2
102. Unique Log
103. Nick Throlson
104. Dulce Negosyante
105. Wahb Biz
106. Log Blog
107. Observations Of A Student
108. Cheap Danny
109. Success Online
110. My Petaling Street
111. Gila Chess Dot Com
112. Indo Contest
113. How To Earn Money Online
114. Little Rock Jams
115. Movie Reviews
116. Finance Bill 2008
117. Self Help Blog
118. Metallman's Reverie
119. D65 Blade
120. That Blog 4 Me
121. Putin For President
122. 4 Point 6
123. Blog Profit Cafe
124. ZenZuu Team!
125. My Lap Band Progress
126. Money Maker Times Dot Com
127. Winged Words
128. A Taste Of Both Worlds
129. Knowledge Is Power
130. Money Online Business Solution
131. Nodin's Nest
132. Roxiticus Desperate Housewives
133. Cool Cars
134. All Business Auctions
135. Random Thoughts
136. Lightening's Blogworld
137. Davcheong
138. Heroes Echo
139. Notorious Celebrities
140. Squirrel Joe
141. Nostradamus New Psychic Predictions
142. Saung Blog of Abah Oryza
143. S.T.I.T.C.H.E.S
144. Seventeen and Beyond
145. Forced Green
146. Netrix
147. Ways to Make Money Online
148. Goal of Financial Freedom
149. S.E.A. NiQaBi
150. Girl For All Status
151. Billion Dollar Girl
152. Million Dollar Blog
153. Bloody Computer
154. Literary Ek-Ek
155. My Journey To Recovery
156. McNeri's Blog
157. Matt-Speak
158. Blog Production
159. pseudorant
160. Traffic Tools, Tips and Resources
161. Turnip Of Power
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164. Da Kinky Kid
165. Welcome Back Rosenthal
166. Culture Shock
167. Jaypee Online
168. BloggerNoob
169. ZParacha
170. Use It Play It Test It
171. Squidom
172. Pinoy Make Money Online
173. Simply Dunn
174. Traffic Bandit
175. El Freakzter
176. Income For Everyone
177. Top Blogger Tips

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What is a Ping? And Where Do I Ping?

What Does it Mean To Blog Ping?

If you own a blog and want more traffic to your blog then you will most likely want to use a blog ping. A 'ping' is simply an Internet program that sends a message to another computer in order to generate a response. Think of it as a telephone call, where you call your friend to ask if they are at home and still live there and everything is still going well.

It used to be that computer technicians were the ones who used "Ping'ing" as a means to solve technical problems. Things like traffic problems or slow connections often need the aid of a Ping to map out the problem. But now with the advent of blogs, and the exponential growth of these blogs. Bloggers have been using various services like Technorati, Google and many others to increase their traffic and reader audeince. Bloggers have built in with their software they use (Wordpress, Blogger etc.) a service that will "call home" to the high traffic sites of Google and Technorati and let it know there is new articles waiting to be submitted, and submit these articles to the mass of users at those sites.

How many services Ping on behalf of a blogger? There is likely well over 50 plus services that I have come across. Each with its own list of sites they will ping on your behalf.

Most blogging software as I have mentioned will Ping for you each time you publish an article. In order to obtain maximum benefit from blog pinging, you will need to ping each individual pinging site every time you add new content to your blog. This can be quite the chore if you own more than one blog.
Not to worry, there are services who will Ping on your behalf to multiple sites at once. Ping-o-Matic (http://pingomatic.com) being one of those services. Likely one of the more better known services at that. These services are easy to use and only require you to enter your blogs URL, your blogs title or name and then ask you to list the sites you wish it to Ping on your behalf.

A note of warning, do not spam these sites or use them unless you have published new content. Or you may find yourself guilty of whats known as "spinging" and find yourself on a blacklist.
If you consistently submit your blog to pinging services after every new post, you should see an increase in traffic to your blog.

Try Seoblackhat for a decent list of places you may try Pinging

Or try Blog Need Money for 100 ping services

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RSS Feed Directory Update

Recently I wrote about some good RSS directories and gave a list of places one can submit your feed to increase your audience. I have since then come across a few lists elsewhere that can increase your reach and audience.

Master New Media has a list of about 225 such directories. Hows that for a list. Just click on the links at the bottom of the page as they are not all submitted in one article.

Submit Me Now as well has a fair size of RSS feed Directories available as well

Top Rank Blog also has a impressive list of Directories as well

I am sure these directories for RSS feeds overlap from one list to another but there should be at least 250 plus decent possible submissions available among these three lists. Hope they prove useful to you.

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One Million Blogs

If you are looking for a free backlink which you can add your own summary, then head on over to Million Blog List and put your blog on the list. This blog is listed at number 735.

The list started on April 10th 2008 and so far they have 740 blog entries.

How long do you think it will take to hit 1 Million? Or will it?

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Blog Me The Money on 45n5's Top 100

Well it is a tad stretch, Blog Me the Money is indeed listed on the top 100 list but not quite near the top 100. A recent addition to the very popular top list for blogs whose niche is all about making money online and monetizing ones website. Pulled directly from Mark's top list page,

45n5 rank was designed to organize and feature the best blogs on the internet that discusss making money online. This web page is a must bookmark for anybody interested in the who's who of making money online and the freshest tips and techniques for making that money.

With that said, Blog Me The Money, is very thrilled to be accepted and listed with the other afore mentioned blogs, "the best blogs...", which include some heavy hitters and very popular well known bloggers. Those including the likes of Dosh Dosh, Pro Blogger, Shoe Money, and John Chow, as well as many more blogs. Too many to list but all very well written about and authored.

Mark compiles data for well over 300 blogs and shows the current data for, Alexa ranking, Technorati links, and Page Rank (Google), and then uses this data to rank all the blogs in popularity. No small task when you have to analyze 300 plus blogs as well as look after your own blog.

Blog Me The Money is honored to be on that list and a look on the home page , lower right side of my home page will show an icon with the current ranking. If you do have a blog that would fit this niche I recommend heading on over and submitting your blog for review with Mark. You will be glad you did! What originally I thought would be a novel idea at first for "inspiring" me to improve upon my blog, and a good way to keep track of said "improvements" was for me to submit Blog Me The Money to Mark for entry. I never gave a thought about any type of traffic coming from this and little did I know that the traffic that would flow from 45n5.com would be quite significant and appear "over night".

That said I would like to thank Mark for all his hard work and effort for making this valuable top list.

I would also like to mention a good article on 45n5.com about the worth of the blogs found on his top list. A neat article giving a rough idea on a blogs worth. A good read indeed.

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Steve Pavlina Uses Blog Carnivals To Attract 50,000 Visitors

Not a bad number indeed! And to think you too can copy what he has sucessfuly been doing and get that sort of traffic or more yourself.

What is a blog Carnival?

Think of it as being a type of "blogging community. On the internet there are millions of blogs and maybe millions of niche categories making up one pile of articles. A Carnival community collects the blogs together of a specific niche or topic and groups their articles together. Think magazine, in which your niche is published weekly, monthly or however often the publisher see's fit.

How does this benefit Me?

Well for starters it gives your articles a much broader audience. And with some well written content it will attract readers to your blog. Carnivals also offer one way inbound links to your site which weigh more than a traded or reciprocal link exchange and they are FREE.

So find yourself a Carnival that fits closely to your blogs niche, pick your best articles and content and submit those articles to get them published. Not a bad way to gain a handful of new subscribers to your RSS feeds or perhaps even hundreds with each round of submissions.

Steve Pavlina wrote, How To Make Money From Your Blog, and in this article he states,

In my early traffic-building days, I’d do carnivals submissions once a week, and it helped a great deal in going from nothing to about 50,000 visitors per month. You still have to produce great content, but carnivals give you a free shot at marketing your unknown blog for free. Carnivals are like an open-mic night at a comedy club - they give amateurs a chance to show off their stuff. I still submit to certain carnivals every once in a while, but now my traffic is so high that relatively speaking, they don’t make much difference anymore.

With that said, why are you still here reading? Go submit to your Blog Carnival!
And Best of Luck!

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Send Away Your Traffic

Thats right, the Title said , Send Away Your Traffic.

You are likely thinking to yourself politely right now (Or at least I hope politely lol) what in the world is this guy thinking? why would I or anyone want to send our traffic away?

I was recently reading some forums and saw others debating on this technique. I then googled and found other articles and forums debating this practice as well. In short, send your traffic away via a link to related content on another bloggers site within your articles. Why? To increase your traffic! No I didnt trip on the way home from a walk or get in a car accident, and no I dont have a fever.

The theory here is simple. If you blog about what other bloggers or "competitors" within your own niche are writing about and point your own readers to these other blogs, you are doing a service to your readers. You are providing them with information! After all they came to your blog or article looking for information and you are directing them to the source. Your readers will be happy and count on your blog for getting them the information they want. Which helps with return visits and readers. Not to mention the other blog might notice and review about you and send traffic your way. The main thing here is you will become an "authority" in the niche that your blog dwells in.

In short:

1. The more you send people away to more valuable resources, the more valuable you in return become for your readers
   
   
2. Blogging about other bloggers puts you in a unique position to get your blog cited by them

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Build Page Rank With .gov and .edu Sites

It is widely debated and accepted that search engines will give more weight or page rank to sites containing .edu or .gov backlinks. Google however has never admitted this as being a part of their algorithm. Most SEO and online marketing experts however will confirm that .edu and .gov links outperform other extensions in terms of search ranking thunder. There are likely many ways to find and gain these valuable backlinks to your site and here are a couple ways that are often used by bloggers, depending on whether your blog has relevant content to educational and governmental websites or not.

Step 1 (Blogs With Relevant Content)
You need to locate these valuable sites that could be a potential backlink to your blog with related content on them. Using the Google operator, site:.edu and site:.gov combined with the keywords of your blog should return a bounty of possible potential choices.

Example site:.edu "keyword"
Or site:.gov "keyword"



Then take your results, sift through it and find the most relative sites to your content and then create a link to their content from your own site. Perhaps even a nice review. Then contact the webmaster of those sites and point them to the content on your blog that could be relevant and valuable to them as well as the review you wrote. (If you chose to write one) You dont want to come across as "begging" or "needy" but come across as "valuable" in related content.

Now if you cant find sites with similar or related content.

Step 2 (Blogs without relevant content)

If your blog does not have content that could be relevant or valuable to educational and governmental websites then you are going to have to look for sites that allow users to create a backlink without ever having to interact with a webmaster. Those would be sites that are blogs (Comment sections) and forums.