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!

I’m going to let you in on my newest discovery – Linking Loophole! We all know that in order to move up and stay up close and personal in the rankings, we need several things. Of course we need good content, and and a fair amount of it. The next thing that we need is backlinks.

Backlinks tell the big G that we’re important – that other sites are linking back to us because there’s something really good on our site. The higher PR the site has that links to us, the more important we look. So how do we get these backlinks when no one really knows who we are yet? One common way is to go to other sites, become members, and leave a link back to our own site in our profile. This can be very time consuming and tedious, right? And if you’re a good little marketer, then you subscribe to Angela’s Backlinks and take the time to create your personas and leave your backlinks. This takes hours and hours, as we all know!

Well, I’m here to tell ya, now there’s a super easy way to do this, and it’s worth every darn penny you’re going to pay for it. It’s called Linking Loophole. Linking Loophole, or LL as I’ll call it, is written by Peter Drew and and he’s teamed up with Angela Edwards – smart guy – and he’s automated Angela’s Backlinks! Woooo Hooooo!

Here’s how it works. You start up LL, and you input a username related to your niche, and a password, click a button and it goes to Yahoo and creates an email address for you. And guess what – it even SOLVES the CAPTCHA! Now that you have your email addy, you select which – or all – of Angela’s sites you want an id created for, and hit create. Now you sit back and wait while it solves all the captchas, and then you go to your shiny new Yahoo account and confirm whatever accounts need activation. Once that’s done – takes just a couple of minutes – you go click the handy dandy Post button, and away it goes! You have the option to enter in four keywords that you want to be ranked for, and one to four pages you want bookmarked. That’s it – LL logs into the site, creates your profile, posts your keyword rich links, and logs you out. Then it goes right on to the next site. Cool, huh? When it’s finished, it presents you with a list of all of your site profiles, so that you have a record of them, can submit them to be bookmarked, etc.

This software is so powerful, I absolutely cannot believe it’s so inexpensive. It’s super easy to use, and the results are amazing. Within a week of one run against one of my sites, I went from page 3, number 3 all the way up to page 1, number 8!

This software isn’t going to be available to unlimited members – I’m sure that Peter will close the offer soon because he wants to avoid market saturation. I really want you to take advantage of this, so please head over to Linking Loophole and try out the free trial – you’ll be impressed!!!

As important as the onsite optimization is, the offsite optimization is much more important, and will provide better results for your website. One of the best things you can do to improve your search engine placement is to get back links pointing toward to website.

There are two basic types of back links, reciprocal and one way. A reciprocal link means that your website and anther website have exchanged links pointing towards each others site. A one way link means that the other website points at your site, without you having to point back at their site. Obviously, a one way link is much better.

The more links that you have pointing back to your website the more importance that Google and the other search engines will place on your site. There are numerous ways to get back links, you can join an exchange, buy them, find websites that are similar in nature to your website and exchange links with them, or you can write articles.