Archive for the ‘Blogging Tips’


Turning a wordpress blog from nofollow to dofollow

Nofollow to dofollowToday more and more bloggers are turning their blogs from nofollow to dofollow. They simply do this to get more comments on their blogs. When we have a dofollow blog, we can expect more people commenting on it with their links. Many bloggers and internet marketing experts even use commenting on dofollow blog as a way to get some quality links for their websites and blogs. When we leave a comment on dofollow blog with our site link, all major search engines including Google, yahoo and MSN will consider that as a back link to our website.

And when it comes about turning a blog from nofollow to dofollow, it will not take much time and effort. In today’s post, I will tell you how to convert a wordpress blog nofollow to dofollow:

To make a wordpress blog dofollow, we will need to install a dofollow plugin from Semiologic.com in Plugins directory. This plugin will disable the nofollow attribute in comment section of your wordpress blog. Here are the exact steps that you have to follow to install this dofollow plugin from Semiologic:

  1. Download sem-dofollow (zip) in your computer hard disk and unzip it which will give you sem-dofollow.php file.
  2. Upload sem-dofollow.php file in Plugins directory using a FTP client
  3. Login to your wordpress admin section and activate the Dofollow plugin from the Plugins Section.

This is how you will be able to make your wordpress blog dofollow.

Popularity: 5% [?]

More money from Smorty

I got yet another payment of $12 from Smorty on 7th of August. I earned this money by writing about 2 of advertiser’s websites available on Smorty. A blogger even if he/she is not popular can make some money with Smorty as they don’t have any traffic or Google page rank requirement. The only thing they want is that your blog must be in active state. So fellow bloggers create an account on Smorty and submit your most active blog there and start making money with Smorty today.

Smorty has lots of advertisers and one can expect lots of money making opportunities from it. On some occassions, when I open my Smorty account, I see 8-10 new opportunities waiting for me to get accepted. Here is the payment screenshot:
Payment proof from Blog advertising network Smorty

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Where to find dofollow bloggers list?

Recently I searched on Google to find a list of blogs that are actually dofollow. Dofollow blogs are actually those blogs that have nofollow tag removed. All blogs that are created on blogger and wordpress have all comments nofollow by default. So we need to install dofollow plugin for all wordpress blogs and remove nofollow tag from all blogger blogs to make them dofollow. I find the list of dofollow blogs to get some quality links for my websites and blogs. And when we have quality blogs pointing to our websites, will help in improving our website search engine rankings and Google page Rank.

When you have the list of dofollow blogs, leave comments on them with your website URL. When we leave comments on dofollow blogs, all major search engines including Google will consider that as back link to your website. And when we leave comment on a blog that is nofollow, Google with other search engines will not count that as a back link to your website.

When we leave comments on these blogs, we should be very careful as most of blogs have comments moderation activated to lessen the amount of spam on them. So we need to add useful and highly relevant content as comment in these blog posts.

So we can get any number of quality links for our website/blog just by leaving a relevant comment on any number of dofollow blogs.

So here is big list of sites you can browse to find blogs that are actually dofollow and have some real Google page rank as well:

  1. Court’s Do-follow blog list
  2. Nigelmcloughlin.com dofollow list
  3. Dofollow blogs list with PR from Hostsgate.com
  4. 516 Dofollow blogs list by Stephan Miller
  5. Blogger’s Directory over 250 dofollow list
  6. Seo Writer Dofollow list
  7. 350 dofollow blogs with Technorati Ranking by Nicusor.com
  8. Work At Home Dofollow list with Google Page Rank

I hope this list will help us all in getting more quality links for our websites and blogs. And in case you know of such list, leave that in the comments section. I will add that to this list of dofollow blogs

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What all you need to know about web hosting company?

Nowadays making your online presence has become must not only from the business prospective but also for leading your company brand among hundreds of major sources. So have decided to build a website of your own? Good, but you have to first decide what the site to be about, you have some potential names for the website picked out in your head, and you are hoping they are still available. I know you are wondering how you actually get it on the internet. Most of us have read some articles that tell if you want to put your site on the world-wide-web a web host is compulsory. Now again the real problem arises, which web hosting company to choose from a huge list of providers that would serve best services when you need?

All web hosting companies out there claims to have the best prices comparatively and the outstanding services. Now here your research about web hosting articles and all necessary information could be the plus point in selecting the best web host. You may have even been lucky enough to come across an article from someone commenting on a great experience with their hosting company.

Sometimes choosing a web hosting company can be hard nuts to crack. You have to choose between how much storage space you need, how many email boxes you can set up, how many FTP accounts you can have, SQL databases, control panels, sub-domains, and the list goes on. Each company usually offers different levels of all these to meet your needs and then multiply that times all the different companies out there.

After a long search I found Web Hosting Pal which could be your good friendly guide to choose the right web host without worrying about your budget. You may easily compare web hosting services under $5 per month offering PHP & MySQL, Unix, Windows and FrontPage. Some recommended web hosting companies are: Bluehost, WebHostingPad, Host Monster, Omnis, LunarPages, PowWeb, iPowerWeb, StartLogic, Dot5Hosting and EasyCGI. Look for a web hosting providers that offers Business / Ecommerce hosting with CPanel and PayPal if you are planning on selling any goods from your website. For further information you may directly contact www.webhostingpal.com/ at any time and their executives would be pleased to hear your queries.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Blogging/Marketing Guru’s in Technorati Top 100 list

I use certain parameters to decide whether a particular blog is popular or not. I mainly use Google Page Rank, Alexa Ranking and Technorati to know the popularity of a blog. But after last algorithm changes in Alexa Rankings, it seems as if Alexa has lost its importance  to some extent at least. So its Google page rank and Technorati Ranking that still has some real value.

Recently I was going through Technorati Top 100 blogs and was able to know about many popular blogs there about whom I haven’t heard about so far. Most importantly, why I was browsing this popular list of bloggers from Technorati?

Actually I was interested in knowing about the top 5 bloggers who blog about blogging, seo and marketing and are able to make it to the list of Technorati Top 100 blogs:

Here is the list of top 5 bloggers who writes about blogging, money making and seo kind of stuff:

  1. Seth godin’s Blog
  2. Maki’s Dosh Dosh
  3. Darren Rowse Problogger
  4. Daniel Scocco Daily Blog Tips
  5. Jeremy Schoemaker’s ShoeMoney

Popularity: 6% [?]

Stumble Rush for StumbleUpon Traffic

StumbleUpon Traffic with Stumble RushStumble Rush is a Study course that will teach us bring tons of traffic on our websites/blogs using StumbleUpon on daily basis. This study course is designed by Caroline Middlebrook who is a full time blogger. This course includes some videos and tutorials that will help us in bringing lots of traffic from StumbleUpon. Prior to Stumble Rush, she worked on some successful online projects including an e-book and is making good amount of money from her blogging efforts.

Caroline Middlebrook launched Stumble Rush on the 10th of July which is an e-mail based teaching course for bringing traffic to a website from StumbleUpon. Stumble Rush is offering study course in two segments in the form of Basic Lessons and Advanced Lessons. Basic lessons include 10 free lessons along with 11 videos that will teach us how to start driving traffic to our website from StumbleUpon. Topics that will be covered in 10 free lessons will be:

  • How to create content that gets stumbled
  • Mechanics and ethics of StumbleUpon submission
  • How to pimp out your profile!
  • How to get more thumbs up votes
  • The basics of networking on StumbleUpon
  • Traffic boosting tips
  • How you can correct mistakes

For reading these 10 lessons, you don’t need to pay a penny as they are all available for free. In Advanced Lessons, you will be given 20 in-depth lessons and 20 videos that will help you take your traffic to next level through StumbleUpon. Here are some of topics that will be available only in Advanced Lessons section:

  1. ‘Power’ Stumbling - The What, Why & How
  2. Optimizing Your Submissions for Maximum Results
  3. The Proper Way to Use Categories & Tags
  4. How to Build a Massive, Loyal Fan Base on StumbleUpon
  5. How to Ask For Stumbles Without Being a Jerk!
  6. Using StumbleUpon to Build Backlinks to Your Site
  7. Using Images to Tap Into a Little Known Source of Traffic
  8. Another 3 Advanced Stumble Tricks
  9. Monetizing StumbleUpon Traffic
  10. Putting It All Together - A Complete Action Plan

Charges of Stumble Rush total study course including Advanced Lessons are $47 only.

Stumble Rush Study course will tech us exact steps needs to be followed to bring lots of traffic from StumbleUpon on our websites.

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More money from Text link ads

‘Text link ads’ sends more money in my paypal account. This time I Receive $319.26 from TLA. This is the amount that I made with text link ads in the month of July. ‘Text link ads’ accepts blogs from all major blogging engines including Blogger, Wordpress, and Movable Type. So if you have a blog with page rank of 3 or more, create an account on TLA and submit your high PR (PR >= 3) blog there. Here is the screenshot of payment from ‘Text Link Ads’ for the month of July:

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Top 5 ways to make money online

If you want to make some money on the internet, create a blog today. Thousands of blogs are created everyday on various blogging engines which shows that people are actually able to make money and promote their stuff with blogs. Once you have created a blog, add some posts to it about your niche and start marketing work for it.

Once you have some traffic on your blog, you can go for its monetization. In today’s post, I will be sharing you some of my top money making programs which actually make me some money and can be used by any blogger on their blogs to make money of it:

  1. Text link ads: I have been able to make some hundred dollars with text link ads every month on my blogs. To earn money with TLA, we will have to sell TLA advertiser’s links on our websites and blogs. To start earning money with TLA, we need to have a blog with high page rank and alexa ranking. If you have a blog with google page rank of 4 or more, you surely have big chance of making money with TLA.
  2. Matcked.co.uk: you can earn up to $150 per month with Matched.co.uk. All you need to work with this banner advertising company from UK all is a blog and Paypal account or UK bank account. If you don’t have a paypal account, create an account today and start earning money today with Matched.co.uk.
  3. Performancing Ads: is an add network where we can make money by adding 125×125 size banners on our blogs. Currently Performancing ads network is successfully running on Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and stand alone PHP blogs/websites. So submit your blog on Performancing Ads today to start earning money with this banner advertising network started by Ryan Caldwell.
  4. Smorty: Surely you will be able to make some money with Smorty which pays you for writing reviews and general articles about the advertisers they have. Although you will get around $6 only per every opportunity you accept but they will give you lots of money making opportunities. I himself have got 4 payments from them in just two months time.
  5. Linkworth: is another money making opportunity for all bloggers. To start making money from it, all bloggers have to do is create an account on Linkworth and submit their popular blogs. Once you have done this wait for the new opportunities comes your way and whenever you get an opportunity, take that as a way to start making with Linkworth.

I have been able to make five to six hundred dollars per month by following these five money making programs only. If you are interested in knowing more money making ideas, keep on visiting my blog and subscribe to SFM blog RSS

Popularity: 9% [?]

Checking Google Backlinks in Yahoo

Currently, Yahoo Site Explorer is the most up date and fast link checker for a website. Some people even use it to check their back links in Google. With Yahoo Site Explorer, you will have exact idea about the total number of links to a website whether they are coming from external sites or the original websites itself. Yahoo Site Explorer can be used an alternate to Google webmaster tool to check the back links of a website. Some people even use it to know the back links of their competitor’s website. Yahoo Site Explorer is the only place where you can get the complete list of links to a website publically.

To use site explorer, one does not even need to create an account on it. Here is how to use Yahoo Site Explorer to check the complete list of links a site have:

Go to Yahoo Site Explorer page

Enter the URL of the website to find its back links (I entered http://www.scopeformoney.com) and Click ‘Explorer URL’

The first result that you will get will be the list of pages that are currently indexed in Yahoo for this website. I get 214 pages for SFM that are actually indexed in Yahoo.

Now click on ‘Inlinks’ which is shown with some numbers. There are two drops down menus below:

Make a selection from the dropdown menu which is shown after ‘Show inlinks’.

From the second drop down menu select you want to check backlinks for ‘Only this URL’ or ‘Entire Site’.

Spend some time on Yahoo Site Explorer and get used to all of its functionality. All in all you can use this amazing tool from Yahoo to check internal as well as external links to a website. Here is again the list of things you can do with Yahoo Site Explorer:

  • Number of pages indexed in Yahoo
  • Total number of links to a website
  • Total number of link except the link from the domain/sub domain itself
  • Total number of backlinks for a particular page

Most of the links that are shown in Yahoo Site Explorer will also be shown by Google. Google is very slow in picking and counting the links for a website. But on the other hand, yahoo is very fast in picking and counting links to a website. On Yahoo Site Explorer, you can expect new links available for a website that it gets in the last few days or few hours or even in the last few minutes time.

I himself use this tool from Yahoo on regular basis to know the backlinks of our as well as competitors websites. The only downside I find about Yahoo Site Explorer is that, it counts all incoming links as links whether they are dofollow or even nofollow.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Performancing Ads: Another money making opportunity

Ryan Caldwell, owner of popular blogging community Performancing, recently launched a new ad network in the form of PerformancingAds. PerformancingAds is a marketplace where all blogger and publisher will be able to make money with their websites and services.

Publishers

PerformancingAds is open to all bloggers from now and is accepting all blogs irrespective of their size and popularity. Before coming into full flow, PerformancingAds was successfully running on 10’s of top blogs in the industry. If you have a blog and want to make some extra money from it, then PerformancingAds can be the right choice for you. With this ad network, you will be placing the advertiser 125×125 ads in your blog header, sidebar or footer for a week and get paid for it. Publishers can set their own price for each ad that will be sold on their blogs.

Creating an account on PerformancingAds will not take much time. All you have to do is provide some basic information about you including Paypal e-mail id and conform your e-mail id. Once you have confirmed your account with PerformancingAds, all you need is submit all of your blogs details where you are willing to sell 125×125 ads offered by this network.

Currently, PerformancingAds are offering plugiin for Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and stand alone PHP websites.

Advertisers

Advertisers will have the option to advertise their website and services on the top blog in their niche through text or image ads. Currently, PerformancingAds are offering $25 off on your first purchase of $100 or more. Advertisers can easily find the top bloggers of their niche by making a search with the keywords of their industry or can even browse them by categories at PerformancingAds. When they click on a blogger of their choice, they will be shown some interesting stats about that blog like Blog Page Rank, Alexa Ranking, Technorati Rank, Yahoo inbound links, Bloglines Subscribers count with general blog details. So the advertisers will not have any difficulty in finding the top bloggers of their niche at PerformancingAds.

Revenue Sharing

This ad network is offering 60:40 revenue sharing ratios where the publishers will be getting the 60% of revenue and the rest of 40% revenue will go to PerformancingAds account.

Referral program

They have a referral program where you will be paid $10 for every new publisher or Advertiser that you refer to PerformancingAds. Also you will also get 5% of the sales generated by your referrals for life time. They have banners in many formats including 728×90, 300×250, 160×600, 468×60, 125×125 that the bloggers can use on their blogs to bring more bloggers to PerformancingAds and more money to their paypal accounts.

PerformancingAds looks really attractive to me and will soon be adding it to my list of top money making programs.

Payment System

You will get paid on the first of next month for your previous month earnings and paypal is the mode of payment transfer this ad network is using right now.

So if you have a Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal or general PHP website/blog, create an account on PerformancingAds today to start making more/some money from your blog site.

Popularity: 10% [?]

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