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After sharing on the previous post entitle “Blogging Tips : Analyze your back links using Backlink Checker“, you got the number of backline which link to your blog or site? If you dun have any backlink just like me, haha Then the next think you should be concentrate on backlink, which is most import to get higher page ranking.

One of the method to get backlink is leaving a useful or meaningful comments on other blog or forum, it’s would let other people dofollow links in your comments. It searches the Internet and give you a list of blogs you can leave comments on and build a ton of backlinks instantly! But, the smart way is only leave comments on dofollow blog, if these links are NoFollow then Google doesn’t count them as a link and are the links worthless for your search engine rankings. I am not going to elaborate why it’s the best to comment on blogs which allow dofollow links, but it’s sufficient to say that with dofollow links to your blog, it will help you improve your PageRank tremendously! My PageRank or my quality of backlinks isn’t particularly good at this moment because i just start this blog for 2 month time only.

What is DOFOLLOW?
Webmasters and SEO experts know that not all backlinks are create equal. Many backlinks, like in blog comments, are tagged with rel=”nofollow” which tells spiders not to follow the link, therefore severely decreasing the importance of that link to your inventory of backlinks. The use of forums as a method of looking for backlinks is widely known and has helped to contribute toward some of the most dynamic discussions on the web.
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An opt-in list can be quite crucial to any site or internet based company. Even for a small venture such as a niche profit site an opt-in list can make a world of difference and also add some extra income for your pocket. Rarely would you see an e-commerce site, big or small, that is without an opt-in list.

An opt-in list allows for a company to market their wares and site via an e-mail. With an opt-in list, a site and a subscriber consents to sending and receiving a newsletter from your company. Through this, you can keep your subscribers abreast of what is currently available in your site as well as whatever is coming out.

And because there is mutual consent between the two parties, any mail sent to the list is not considered as spam mail. There is a great number of successfully read promotional materials such as catalogs, newsletters and such that are sent because the subscribers themselves have signed up for them, meaning, they do want to be sent those items.

Building a list is crucial, only a small percentage actually subscribes for an opt-in list. Many people find promotional mails annoying but of you provide a good newsletter or promotional material, you will see your list build up and grow. You can also achieve this by having good content on your site. If people like what they see and read on your site, then they surely would want more. Newsletters would be a way to attract them back to your site. A little teaser or appetizer if you will.

But other than marketing your wares and your services, an opt-in list can also be used to earn extra profit. Not all lists can be used though. It would be good to first build a successful list with a huge number of subscribers. The more subscribers you have, the more money you can get. Here are seven ways to make money using nothing more than your list.

1. Place advertisements. There are many corporations who will be willing to pay to put their banners and ads on a list with many subscribers. Selling or renting out lists is not a good idea so rather than doing that, many companies would just rather place ads with lists that have a huge subscriber base. Your newsletter could be placed with many ads and each one spells money.

2. Have affiliations with other companies that have at least a semblance or relation to what your site is about. Here other companies will provide links and brief descriptions of what they offer, products and services. With every click made on the link that directs or leads a subscriber from your list to their site, the company will pay you. This P4P or pay for performance.
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What is Backlink?
According to Wikipedia, the back link is:

Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as PageRank, are likely to be more important). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.

In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node (Björneborn and Ingwersen, 2004). Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.

In order to determine your blog ranking in search engines, the number of backlinks and the quality of backlinks are the most important things that determines your page ranking. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website. Backlinks are important for SEO because most of the search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query.

Have you analyzing your backlinks before? If no, below is the backlink checker which powered by iwebtool.com, now you can determine how many backlink that link to your blog or webpage. If yes, what are the tools you are using to analyze them, feel free to share with us in the comments section.

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Getting one or two back links from high quality, high PR sites ( > PR 6) is far better than getting 30-40 back links from low PR sites ( < PR 3). Getting backlinks isn’t enough what is more important is the anchor text attached to that backlink, to let search engin to determine your blog traffic coming from that site.

Have you aware the important of sitemap in a blogging journey? For me, I created the xml sitemap for my blog just a week after my blog launch, because i known that, the later i create the sitemap, the later i will succes in my blogging journey. That why, in the post, i will share with you the important of sitemap for a blogger.

A sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is indeed the fact if you made a sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own needs.

1. Navigation purposes
A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.

2. Conveying your site’s theme
When your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the “big picture” of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors’ time.
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A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:

1. Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox
When you start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox, you are providing your visitors a place to voice their opinions and interact with their peers — all of them are visitors of your site. As conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously every day.

2. Start a web log (blog)
Keep an online journal, or more commonly known as a blog, on your site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself. Human beings are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a real life person behind the website.

3. Carry out polls or surveys
Polls and surveys are other forms of interaction that you should definitely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are strongly relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results.

4. Hold puzzles, quizzes and games
Just imagine how many office workers procrastinate at work every day, and you will be able to gauge how many people will keep visiting your site if you provide a very interesting or addicting way of entertainment. You can also hold competitions to award the high score winner to keep people trying continuously to earn the prize.

5. Update frequently with fresh content
Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time your visitors come back, they will have something to read on your site. This is the most widely known and most effective method of attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried out one because of the laziness of webmasters. No one will want to browse a site that looks the same over ten years, so keep your site updated with fresh bites!

Flash-based sites have been a craze since the past few years, and as Macromedia compiles more and more great features into Flash, we can only predict there will be more and more flash sites around the Internet. However, Flash based sites have been disputed to be bloated and unnecessary. Where exactly do we draw the line? Here’s a simple breakdown.

The good:
1. Interactivity
Flash’s Actionscript opens up a vast field of possibilities. Programmers and designers have used Flash to create interactve features ranging from very lively feedback forms to attractive Flash-based games. This whole new level of interactivity will always leave visitors coming back for more.

2. A standardized site
With Flash, you do not have to worry about cross-browser compatibility. No more woes over how a certain css code displays differently in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. When you position your site elements in Flash, they will always appear as they are as long as the user has Flash Player installed.

3. Better expression through animation
In Flash, one can make use of its animating features to convey a message in a much more efficient and effective way. Flash is a lightweight option for animation because it is vector based (and hence smaller file sizes) as opposed to real “movie files” that are raster based and hence much larger in size.

The bad and the ugly:
1. The Flash player
First of all, people have to download the Flash player in advance before they can view Flash movies, so by using Flash your visitor range will decrease considerably because not everyone will be willing to download the Flash player just to view your site. You’ll also have to put in additional work in redirecting the user to the Flash download page if he or she doesn’t have the player installed.
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What is BlogClicker.com?
BlogClicker is a blog traffic exchange dedicated to blog sites and focused on bringing blog traffic to your blogs! You’ve taken the time and effort to put your blog online and we’re here to help you get people to read it!

How does BlogClicker.com work?
It’s simple. You view other member blogs and in return, those members will view your blog. For every 2 blogs you view, someone will see yours! We also offer upgraded memberships and credit packages which give you up to a 1:1.5 view ratio or 1 view per purchased credit!

Is it really FREE?
Yes! Standard membership with a 2:1 view ratio is absolutely FREE. In addition, you’ll also have chances to earn bonus views while viewing blogs which means your ratio gets even better!!

What does downline or referral mean?
When you refer other members to BlogClicker they are your “referrals” and are placed in your downline. All members in your downline earn you more traffic for as long as they are BlogClicker members as you receive a percentage of every credit they earn up to 5 levels deep! If you are an upgraded member, you’ll also receive commissions on every upgrade or credit purchase they make!

How to earn credit?

After you sing up, you can start surf member blogs via the link provided by BlogClicker.com, just like the picture show above, after the 20 second countdown, you need the click on the number showing at the right hand site, just a simple click, you will earn a credit.

PPC (Pay Per Click) is one of the four basic types of Search Engines. PPC is also one of the most cost-effective ways of targeted internet advertising. According to Forbes magazine, PPC or Pay Per Click, accounts to 2 billion dollars a year and is expected to increase to around 8 billion dollars by the year 2008.

Let us take a quick look at how PPC Search Engines work.

These engines create listings and rate them based on a bid amount the website owner is willing to pay for each click from that search engine. Advertisers bid against each other to receive higher ranking for a specific keyword or phrase.

The highest bidder for a certain keyword or phrase will then have the site ranked as number 1 in the PPC Search Engines followed by the second and third highest bidder, up to the last number that have placed a bid on the same keyword or phrase. Your ads then will appear prominently on the results pages based on the dollar amount bid you will agree to pay per click.

How do you make money by using PPC into your affiliate marketing business?

Most affiliate programs only pay when a sale is made or a lead delivered after a visitor has clickthrough your site. Your earnings will not always be the same as they will be dependent on the web site content and the traffic market.
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