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Commenting on Contest Posts Will Increase Pagerank Juice

If you’re like me, you probably don’t comment that much on posts. Now I’m not saying that I don’t want to but when I read a great post and don’t have two cents to add, usually I won’t say anything. But on the other hand, you should almost always comment on contest posts. It can help you in more ways than one.

Contest posts are loved by search engines, especially Google. Think about it, your standard contest will probably have an option for people to blog about the contest and link back to the contest post, right? Because a lot of people are doing this, the post is getting a lot of one-way links and search engines love to see that.

And although most blogs have the “no-follow” attribute for the comments, you are still getting some link juices. Just not as much as if they were “do-follow.” But don’t worry, either way it helps with your pagerank and if you’re not one of those linking to the post but just commenting, you should increase the benefits as well (one-way linking).

If you notice, most contest posts for specific blogs are shown on the first page of the search results.

Don’t believe me? Just type in “AnotherMMOblog.com” in Google and you should see a bunch of contest-related posts showing up, especially the two simple contests I have/had here.

What I’m saying is the fact that even if you choose not to participate in the contest, you should still at the very least comment on the post to get some of the backlink juices.

I tried out this technique on one of my newer blogs and the only thing I did to build links was commenting on contest posts (I probably did like 50 or so) and my blog ended up ranking as PR3 from the last Google update.

So if you’re a die hard pagerank fan, then you should at the very least try this method out.

It worked for me so it should definitely work for you guys!

Will Google Remove Third-Party Content For You?

I was reading this article the other which basically talked about the removal of another webmaster’s content from showing up in Google’s search engine. Is that true? Can someone actually get my content removed from showing up in search engines?

Most of us are under the impression that Google won’t do much for us, especially since we constantly see other blogs and sites stealing our content directly from us word-by-word. But supposedly that’s not true. We can actually do something about it but of course, there are no guarantees for action to actually take place.

According to Google, they try to leave it between the webmasters to solve the issues. But majorities of the time if you try to contact that webmaster, you will have a tough time even getting their attention let alone remove your content from their site.

Supposedly, Google will intervene and possibly remove third-party content if any of the following applies:

- If the site is a spam site.
- If a webmaster believes the site is engaged in buying or selling links that pass PageRank.
- If the content posted constitutes copyright infringement, which will require a DMCA takedown request.
- If the site is believed to house malware (viruses, malicious software, phishing, etc.).
- If a webpage contains personal, private information, request for removal can be made via the URL removal tool.
- The site owner has modified a page so that it no longer contains the information or image that concerns me.
- The site owner has removed a page/image or blocked it from being indexed by using robots.txt or meta tags.
- You’ve been unable to work with the site owner, but the information appearing in the search results is one of the following:
- Your social security or government ID number
- Your bank account or credit card number
- Your image of my handwritten signature
- Your full name or the name of your business appearing on an site that’s spamming Google’s search results.

If you think about it, there are tons of sites like this but maybe not as extreme for any of us to try to get them banned from Google or anything but I just wanted to bring up the fact that you could potentially do something about it.

Building Backlinks Is The Most Important Factor in Making Money With Blogs

If you guys are struggling somewhat in making money online with your blog then more than likely it’s because you are not getting enough organic/search engine traffic. And it’s probably because either a) you don’t have any keywords people are searching for (which I doubt), or b) you don’t have enough backlinks for your site. I think I’ll choose “b” if you ask me.

Now, when someone mentions building backlinks for their sites so many people automatically assume it has to do with strictly commenting on blogs, particularly “do-follow” ones. Honestly, that may work for both traffic and building links but that is pretty time consuming and since money is time then you might be losing out a little bit.

People tend to overlook the easy ways of building backlinks to their site and honestly, if you get enough one-way backlinks, Google will love you for it. Matter of fact, I know someone that built so many backlinks for their site as a whole that whenever they blog about just about anything with a popular keyword it ends up being on the frontpage of Google.

Now, don’t you want that to happen to you too? Well, let’s get into the various methods of building backlinks, shall we?

Different Ways of Building Backlinks

Footer link on blog templates - If you are a designer then you should have absolutely no problem building backlinks, especially the fact if people like your blog templates. I know a quite a few blog template designers and they give them away for free. In return, they get added exposure PLUS a one-way backlinks to their site on the footer.

So, how does that help you guys that aren’t designers? Well, it doesn’t… unless you’re willing to pay a little bit.

You can either hire someone to build a custom blog template for you and pay them for the rights to it. Once you have done so, give that template away for free and then you should pour in with thousands of backlinks without doing much work after.

Of course, that can be pricey. But for a cheaper price, there are many designers that will charge you a small fee and they will add your link to their free templates footer. That way whenever people download that template, you also get a backlink.

Forums - If you aren’t part of a forum yet then you are definitely missing out. Not only is it a good way of building links and traffic but you get to network, learn and ask questions.

Most forums allow you to add your link as a signature and that appears on every post you have ever made on there. So let’s say you have 700 total posts on a forum and you have “Making Money Online” on your signature, well, you just gave yourself 700 more backlinks to your site.

Make sure you also post some of your article links in the threads as well, though, do NOT spam. When you do add a link of yours in a thread, make sure it’s useful to everyone and try to add other helpful links within the thread from other sites so it doesn’t look to suspicious.

Social Bookmarking sites - So many people try to use Digg, SU and all these other for traffic but unfortunately, the traffic isn’t that great when it comes to actually making money online. But using it for backlinks are always helpful.

The easiest way I have seen to submit to social bookmarking sites is going to socialmarker.com and you can submit to tons of sites within minutes.

Of course, the downfall to that is the fact that you have to spend time signing up for all of those sites if you haven’t already done so. But after you get past that, you should have no problem!

Blog Commenting - I’m not going into too much detail on this one but let’s say you should be commenting a lot on blogs. And if you can manage to find “do-follow” blogs with PR on those individual pages then that’s golden.

Put links of your site ON your site - Believe it or not but adding links within your site FOR your site is great and often overlooked. Have you ever seen blogs linking to themselves within their post with specific keywords? Or maybe adding their own site to their blogroll or something like that? Well, they are doing it for SEO purposes, not for decorations.

Have others link to you - If people like your blog or your posts enough, you should have no problem getting backlinks. Personally, I would try to aim for blogroll links because those are typically sitewide. So, let’s say if someone has about 200 posts and you are on their blogroll, well my friend, you just got yourself 200 more backlinks to your site.

You can also try different methods such as holding blog contests and have people write a post about it linking back to you. Those usually work pretty good and you get plenty of one-way backlinks as well.

Conclusion

There are limitless ways of building backlinks and I’m sure if you are creative, you should have no problem doing anything. I only mentioned a few but there are still tons of If you have the money and you’re willing to spend it, I would go with the blog template technique. A lot of people start link building services but honestly, you can’t fully rely on those, plus, some people I talk to complain about those services.

Personally, I have never used those services before and I don’t plan on it. But what backlink building techniques do you use?

Best Ways to Instantly Increase Your Search Engine Traffic

If you think traffic is just traffic, well, you are wrong. The most important traffic are organic and I will go over some of the best ways to instantly increase your search engine traffic.

I’m not that type to live off of social bookmarking and networking sites’ traffic because quite frankly, those are the visitors that will be clicking on your ads, signing up through your referral and affiliate links or in simple terms - they will not help you make money online.

On the other hand, organic (or search engine) traffic are visitors looking for something specific and that is why they end up on your site. And if they don’t happen to find what they are looking for, they may consider clicking on your ads to bring them to another site which may help them on their way. That equals money in your pockets.

Now, let’s get to some of the best ways that have helped me instantly increase search engine traffic.

Find a popular keyword and use it

There are various ways of finding popular keywords but it’s all up to you. (I will cover how to do keyword research in a later post). Once you find the keyword that people are actually searching for, you want to include it within your title and your first sentence in your post.

Tips: Make sure you have your permalink set that your post title show up, that way your keyword appears in the URL. Also, try bolding the keyword you want to target in your post.

Build Links

This is probably the most important part that people overlook, you have to build links in order for your site to appear in search engines. The more links you have pointing to your site, the better. Plus, it’ll help with your pagerank, if that’s important to you guys.

Now, if your site doesn’t have many links, I would suggest building as soon as possible. (Again, I will write a future post about link building)

Also, if you’re trying to target a specific keyword that doesn’t go with your site, you can just build links specifically for that keyword post. So, rather than sending links to yoursite.com, you would send it to yoursite.com/yourpostgoeshere. Again, stay tuned for the link building aspects in a future post. And it’s not only blog commenting… don’t know why everyone thinks that is the only way.

Linkbait/come up with a killer title and introduction to your post

Once your keyword post shows up in the search engines, hopefully you made it on the first page (if so, congratulations) now you have to actually entice people to click through to your site. And how do you do it? Come up with a killer title post, of course!

If you’re trying to rank for a keyword like “Venomous snakes”, you might want to come up with a title like “Don’t Let These Venomous Snakes Kill You!” Eh, I hope you can come up with better ones. But you want them to click through and read your post.

Let people link to you

Now that you have done all of that, you want to try to build even more links. And how would you do such a thing? Try getting others to link to you as well. Trust me, if you write a killer post that is interesting or extremely helpful, people will reward you with backlinks. You just have to a) write the killer post b) make sure they find your article c) put some links at the bottom of your post with options of different ways to link to you. And it can simply be by having them submit to social bookmarking and networking sites for you.

This is just a outline on how to instantly increase your search engine traffic but make sure you subscribe to the RSS Feeds as I will be going into more details on how to build links, do keyword research, turning those visitors into money and subscribers and so on.

Stay tuned!

Google Pagerank Update: Still Worthless But How’d You Do?

It looks like there was yet another Google Pagerank update and I’m sure you have been reading new blog posts, comments and whatever else discussing how each site did. Well, it looks like “Not Another Make Money Online Blog” ended up going from PR1 to PR2. Honestly, I didn’t do anything and for some reason it went up.

So, how did I end up going up in Pagerank when I did absolutely nothing different? Matter of fact, I haven’t been posting as often and I seemed to have turned away quite a few of my readers. So, how in the hell did I do even less and manage to go up in Pagerank? Actually, that just proves Google Pagerank doesn’t mean much.

If you need to know, my Google organic traffic hasn’t gone up, I checked some of my placements on certain keywords and nothing drastic changed either. Matter of fact, if you’re in the MMO niche, you should check out TheNetFool’s Latest PR Update of the Top 100 Make Money Online Blogs.

I didn’t make it on that site simply because my little site isn’t anywhere near the top 100. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in the top 1,000! Anyways, Jim put together his “Fair Value” analysis of it and it seems pretty interesting. I agree with most of it with a few exceptions but you guys should check it out.

Anyways, how did you guys do with Google’s worthless number that they give you to determine how “important” your website is?