I’m starting a new contest of sorts – I’m going to choose one client each month and name them “Awesome Client of the Month”. When you’re selected, you’ll receive an article submission through my UAW account with your links and keywords! Nothing like some extra links, huh?

So what do you need to do to qualify? All you have to do is leave a positive comment about your experience working with me, whether you’ve purchased something from me, had me design a site for you, or even just received some good advice from me.

You can leave the comment here on my site, on your own site, or on WF, and each and every month I’ll select at least one person to receive a free article submission through UAW – pretty cool!

You’ll see a new category over on the right side – Awesome Client of the Month – and you’ll be featured then when you’re selected! So get those comments out there – it’s a win-win!

Terri

No, I’m not Shakespeare, nor will I ever be! I’ll leave that part to Donna, although I am writing more these days.

A question that I’m often asked is where we should be manually pinging our blogs. And my usual answer is no, we don’t need to go out and manually ping each blog site. But what we do need to do is provide a ping list in our Blog Settings. That’s not all we need to do to make this process automatic – we should also install a plugin that will prevent you from pinging every time you edit a post, which will get you banned from the ping services – not good. Pinging will often result in backlinks – which is good!

The plugin that I use is free, and it’s called MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer Plugin – you can just go to their download site, download it, install it, activate and register it with them. So in exchange for your email you get a great Ping Optimizer.

Now, let me give you my ping list. To included this in your blog, go to your Dashboard, Settings, Writing, then scroll down to the bottom, and just paste it in. If you have any sites you’d like to see included – please, let me know!

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

Hey guys, you know I promised you lots of insider secrets, and while I don’t exactly consider this a secret per se, this is a very powerful product. The secret is in knowing how to use it properly.

If you look at your top competitors, and really, we’re only concerned with the top ten sites that pop up when we google our keyword – right? We want to know how many backlinks that they have. Because the backlinks are the key to what’s keeping those ten sites on the first page. So you look, and see that the #1 site has 250 backlinks – that’s not many at all when you stop and think about it. I mean, some sites have thousands upon thousands of backlinks.

So how best to get them, and get good “sticky” backlinks? Here’s my tip – I use Unique Article Wizard. The Wizard will submit your articles, while making them unique – to hundreds of directories. It will submit them any way that you choose. I can’t give away too much about how it works, because then I’d violate their TOS, and I don’t want to do that. But I can tell you that I decided a few months ago that I didn’t have time to keep using The Wiz, and so I canceled my membership.

Guess what? My sites were slowly falling down in the rankings because nothing new was happening. So I very quickly re-joined, and fell right back in love with The Wizard.

Now for those of you who really are too busy to submit articles, or you just want to submit a few articles, go ahead and give me a shout, and I’ll submit them for you for the low fee of $10 per article. You’ll get hundreds of backlinks from just one submission, so it’s worth far more than that, but I think you should try it at least once to see what happens!

You’re free to provide your own Pen Name, your own links, everything will be directed to your site – so if you want to give it a try, just let me know!