Free Traffic Blog

We all want traffic and for that we all need links.

Blog commenting is a popular way to do it. I use it and there is software that speeds things up for it.

If you just spam though, you’ll get some short term benefit and could lose your efforts.

If you’re interested in blog commenting for link-building and traffic for long lasting results…PAY ATTENTION!

The best way to ensure the success of your comments is to link to another blog - NOT a direct affiliate link. So stop that right away. Everybody should be using blogs as middle-man websites anyway since they are perceived as non-commercial and harmless.

Here’s the Golden Search String to get TWO links to your blog per post without spamming…

“Enable CommentLuv” +”PUT YOUR KEYWORD(S) HERE”

This will bring up the blogs that have the WP Plugin “Comment Luv” enabled. What it does is when you put your URL into the form for the comment, it will find your RSS feed and show your latest blog post.

Two links for the price of one since you still get to put your regular keyword link in by using your keywords as your “name”

I’ve tested this and I can tell you from experience that this works.

So double your results!

In this article: Google Offers Reprieve From Google Hell a really terrible time in SEO has come to an end. The changes in Google’s SERPs to include Google’s LSI (latent search index) means that there are no more duplicate content penalties that will make pages of your site vanish from the search index because of content that Google judged “too similar” to be real.

What did that hurt? It hurt all forms of content syndication. Articles were denied exposure and template sites got deindexed without any warning.

What did it help? Well it gave birth to the concept that “unique content is king” which still has some value but is on it’s way down. A site with a few pages of unique content almost always cannot complete with a site that has 1000 pages of scraped content, when it comes to traffic.

Good move Google, I applaud you. The LSI hurt a lot more than it helped.

So I wasted about two minutes of my life away reading an article entitled “SEO is Dead” by Julian Adams.  The article had no basis for its claims and was more of a rant than any actual analysis or prediction. The author called all SEOs keyword spammers and claimed that all tactics were deceptive and said that everybody would be better off if there was no SEO.  As I read it I thought, “nobody is going to respect this author, because all this article does is whine, bitch, and complain.”

I’m calling you out Julian.

Here are a few reasons why SEO is great.

1) Ethical SEO practices enable new businesses to reach people who are searching for their services or products.  I SEO for a family business that is extremely profitable now, but hardly made any money before the company website had any SEO.

2) SEO is like a check and balance on the “power” of the search engines.  If we let the search engine companies have all the power is ranking, personal bias leaks through. It is impossible to be 100% objective when making judgement calls because everybody has bias. The ability to work to deserve a higher ranking displaces the authority of search engine companies.

3) The author accused SEOs of allowing companies to just “buy their way to the top”.  Um…all search engines do that anyway with paid search listings.  People who are interested in meeting their target market without “buying” their way to the top use SEO, even though there are costs for SEO services.  Natural search rankings can either be given by chance or by design. SEO services allow it to happen by design.

Anyway, SEO services are great and do a lot of good for both customers and companies.  Like all things in life, the system can be abused, but whining about it and concluding that “everybody would be better off if SEO was dead” doesn’t solve that problem and only makes you look like a little kid who cries because he’s too little to play on the high school football team. “Everybody would be better off if the football team was dead!”  I can hear that little boy crying now, exploding with jealousy of those who are able to run plays on the gridiron while all he can do is watch.

So my web site rocks one day and sucks the next, then rocks again. It really is tough to know whether this free traffic website has Google’s “divine” approval or not. I understand full and well how a site should be optimized to become more Google friendly, but it really pisses me off when this site bounces between the top 20 site for the phrase “free traffic” one day then the next ranks #857 for the same phrase.

In this situation, Google is a lot like a neurotic girlfriend. Did you ever have one of those? (or boyfriend…) It’s like today they love you and tomorrow they don’t give a damn about you. It’s a tough situation to be in because you’re a imprisoned in the relationship. You want in, but you don’t know if you qualify. You’re stuck in limbo, watching, andwaiting. It’s more irritating than the chirping birds that eat the box elder bugs in the tree in my back yard (one day I’m going to shoot them all…)

So what is a guy to do? Well, I update, I build links, I re-examine my site’s structure and content. It’s like in the cruddy relationship where you do all kinds of cross-examining of yourself trying to find the defect that’s messing things up.

But I think, in this case, just as in a neurotic dating relationship, the fault is with Google and not with my site. My site is playing clean ball, no cloaking, no automated content generation, no doorway pages, nothing that should give Google a reason to distrust my site. The relationship brings so many benefits, however, that it’s worth hanging in there a while longer. I can always try to seduce a little Yahoo or MSN love, but in the end, not even the both of them combined give the benefits of being Google’s favorite.

So for now, Google, we’re still together. Thanks for all you do for me, but let’s try to open up a little communication or something babe.

There are a lot of issues with education that I have beef about. One of those issues is standardized testing. I remember taking the AIM tests in elementary school, state testing later, and the ACT in high school to try and get into college. I never took the SAT but that’s because the ACT is more popular in the western U.S. where I lived.

Do standardized tests really show how smart you are? I don’t think so.

Do standardized tests show how well you take tests? Yes they do. But that’s about it.

The other beef I have about the standardized tests that are given is that the problems are so impractical and my score on the ACT (a 29 average out of 36) has absolutely zero impact on my ability to perform in the business world. Or does it… There may be a correllation at best but it certainly isn’t the supreme factor to determine my intelligence.

I dropped out of college with one semester left to complete (I got married and left the country) and I have every intention of going back to finish. I don’t want to finish because the degree is actually going to help me, I want to finish because I’m the kind of guy who finishes what he starts, even though I’m slow to do so…

I do respect, however, trade school degrees where people earn certifications not by writing essays on theory but by demonstrating by their actions that they are an expert. I never went to school for marketing nor did I ever take a course on search engine optimization, but I decided to put my skills up against those who trained to see if I would pass for certification in my field. I went to ExpertRating.com and took their test for search engine marketing. You’ll notice there aren’t any Adsense ads on this blog, which shows I’m no expert on PPC, Adsense, or Adwords by any stretch of the imagination and this test shows it.

I scored 100% on search engine optimization techniques though, and here is my marks sheet to prove it:

I think it’s cool that I didn’t need a course to prepare me for a test, but that in this case the test really shows that I am competent in my work.

I recommend you check out ExpertRating and pick up some certifications yourself if you do any contracted work online, there’s even a certification for typing, so you can apply for data entry jobs. Click the banner below to see what tests are available for your certification:

Man I am so sick and tired of hearing about “bum marketing” and all these lies that “all you have to do is submit a bunch of articles about your niche with your link and you’ll start making sales…” Do sales happen from traffic that articles bring? Yes, I’m not saying people won’t buy anything if they came to your site via an article. What I am contesting, however, is the idea that it will bring thousands of targeted visitors desperate to buy from your website.

Just to get one thing clear, I think any traffic from articles is just a bonus. I write articles purely to get more keyword-rich backlinks to my site, which is why I use Article Marketer to submit and distribute my articles. I’m interested in speed and quantity. Quality happens when the article is written, so that’s not the issue here.

Everybody knows that the author box is where you stick an ad for the site you’re promoting right? And according to outdated marketing methods, these articles will bring you lots of free traffic. That’s not really the case, but here are a few tips to get a lot MORE out of your article marketing.

#1) Make the title of your article match almost exactly a commonly searched long-tail phrase.

Not really black hat, but it changes the motive behind your “creative writing”. Use a keyword tool like WordTracker to find a really long keyword phrase and then make that keyword phrase the title of your article. You may just take the #1 spot once you get your article into ezinearticles.com

#2) This is the big one. Put the conclusion of your article inside the author’s box, not the body of the article.

Have you ever noticed that there’s no seperation between the author’s box and the article body when you article appears on ezinearticles.com ? Take advantage of that. Make your conclusion a really short paragraph of it’s own, and include a keyword text link there, making it look like you are linking to an authority site that isn’t yours.

Be sure to include a second paragraph with links as your “author’s box” though so the paragraph with the keyword link looks like EzineArticles approved your link to an “authority” site. You’ll get way more visitors that way because people won’t see your link as an advertisement!

Happy New Year to everybody out there! I wish you all prosperity, health, wealth, and happiness!

-Tyler Ellison