The One Year Millionaire

Hello Everyone and welcome back to the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘. In the past couple of issues I talked about a couple of essential things that will definitely help towards the greater success of your website such as Writing for your Readers, Outsourcing and Link Baiting. In this issue I am going to talk about another thing that could greatly reduce your chances of online failure. Today I am going to talk about the importance of RSS Subscribers and give a few tips on how to increase your count!

The first thing I would like everyone to know is that in the blogging world if you take a good look around you will probably be aware that the most successful bloggers are those who seem to have massive RSS Subscriber Counts. I won’t name any examples but I can see an almost direct correlation between amount of subscribers and success. The main reason that this theory holds true is because RSS Subscribers are pretty much guaranteed returning traffic to your site. If you know that more and more people are visiting your website and wanting more then you know that you are doing something right.

RSS Feed Subscriber Count is a good indicator of were you stand amongst other bloggers. If you look around you are bound to find a numerous bunch with 0-100, a hand full of bloggers with 100-1000 and
a smaller amount with multiple thousands of Subscribers! One of the best things you can do to ensure that your RSS Feed Count keeps growing is to provide your readers with great information and quality content but that alone will not ensure your success. Here are a 5 Great Tips that you could use to boost your count:

• Actively Promote your Feed!
  If you haven’t already done this… then make a special post on your website dedicated to the promotion of your RSS Feed. RSS Subscribers are a great measure of returning visitors and sometimes people just need to be reminded before they take action. That is why it won’t harm you to remind your visitors to sign up for your free email subscription which will tell them every time you update your website! You can do this in a number of ways, but a great way to do it is to thank your readers for visiting your site and urge them to consider signing up for the free feed!
• Make Your Feed Noticeable.
  I know that there are a lot of bloggers out there who do sign up to RSS feeds frequently especially when they visit a new website that seems interesting. How are they going to sign up if they don’t see the opportunity? Not every person will persistently search each blog at the bottom of the page for a tiny RSS link. Most users will come across your page and would never think about subscribing unless it is right there up in their face. Use one of those nifty icons to display your feed at the top of your page so everyone can see it right away!
• Provide Email Subscriptions.
  Give your readers a chance to be emailed whenever your blog or page updates. This is a really convenient tool that can help your RSS count! People who subscribe by email are generally those who know they will be returning often. They like what they have read on your page and they want more! Give them a chance to subscribe. If they don’t know that the option is available to them then how are they going to do it?
• Subscriber Count.
  I read somewhere else on the internet that this is the mistake that a lot of bloggers make when posting up their RSS Feed. FeedBurner has a cool little widget that can display your Subscriber Count and while it may seem cool and convenient to keep track of your stats, it might not be the best idea to display it until you have a strong readership. Most blogs should wait until they have atleast between 100-200 subscribers before they show their numbers. No one is going to subscribe to a feed if they see that there is only 1 or 2 others reading it. Especially if one of them is the webmaster!
• rssHugger.
  This is a website that was launched with the intention of building a greater connection between bloggers and readers. Your site could be prominently displayed on rssHugger.com for a length of 10 years just for a short & honest review about the site! Great RSS promotion for something that could take less than 30 minutes is always a great thing. If you should choose not to write a review then you could always pay a small one time fee of $20! Check it out and it could help your RSS numbers grow faster.

All of these things that I just listed can be done in a relatively short amount of time. You really don’t need to do it more than once and the benefits are too massive to ignore. If you liked this post and would like to be notified whenever the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ blog is update, please take the time to sign up to our RSS Feed Email Subscription.

In the next issue I will be talking about an easy way that you could gain great backlinks for your website by commenting on relevant blogs!

Hey everyone… I have recently written an article about Increasing your RSS Subscribers in a few easy steps and while researching a few great ways to do this I came across rssHugger.com.

rssHugger is a directory for RSS Feeds. If you are looking to expand your readership and let more people out there know about your blog, then add your site to their directory and you can be exposed to some good traffic. (more…)

In attempt to build backlinks to your website you may have spent countless hours doing repetitive tasks such as submitting your site to directories and commenting on relevant blogs that you may have completely overlooked one of the most productive forms of link building. It is called “Link Baiting” and while it is semi-controversial because of certain risks to the webmaster; it is becoming quite popular and could be an easy way to build 100% natural backlinks and possibly even subject you to highly targeted traffic!

The idea of ‘Link Baiting‘ is basically to create a unique page that seems to naturally attract backlinks from other webmasters who will either support it, trash it or question it. One thing will be common and that is the fact that people will be talking about it and linking to it. With Link Baiting, think of your ‘page’ as the ‘bait’ and ‘backlinks’ as your ‘catch’. This is the simplest way to put it as quoted from searchenginejournal.com.

So instead of spending hours at the edge of your seat in front of your computer building link after link to your web page, it is a way where others will likely just link to your pages willingly depending how good your bait is! In order to create an effective link bait you essentially need a hook. It has been reported by various online gurus that there are 5 main hooks that are commonly used in Link Baiting, here they are:

• News Hook
  Give your readers the first scoop on a story surrounding your niche. For this to work, you generally have to be the first person and that is how others will link to your site… if you come in with a scoop after others have already posted it then it isn’t much of a scoop after all. Challenge specific news in your niche to be fraudulent or look for the flaws and write about them.
• Contrary Hook
  Contradict another blogger in your niche. Be sure to have some sort of proof or justified explanation. You don’t want to look like you are claiming to have seen UFOs, but you want to grab people’s attention and possibly work off of someone else’s fame.
• Attack Hook
  This is probably not the best way to Link Bait because it can do a lot of harm to you and your reputation if you go too far, but in a sense you can almost instantly boost your traffic if you happen to get lucky and do this at the right time towards the right person for the right reason. This is very similar to the Contrary Hook except that you are taking it a couple steps further to a point of verbal attack! I personally don’t suggest this method for obvious reasons, but if you are looking for internet fame overnight then how can I stop you?
• Resource Hook
  This is probably one of the best and easiest Link Baiting hooks. What you do in this situation is that you can either compile various quality information surrounding your niche and offer it to your readers or you can also give readers a heads up about relevant tools or even something for entertainment. Remember that on the internet there is about as much fun and games as there is work being done so be sure to capitalize on that area as well.
• Humor Hook
  People will never get tired of linking to Humorous pages. Never. That is why it can’t hurt your page to post them. The most common humor hooks are either funny lists, top ten lists or weird pictures. Sharing these things will likely get backlinks because humans have a tendency to share things that they find funny. Have you ever noticed that when you find a funny video on YouTube that almost instantly after watching it you have the sudden urge to send it to some of your friends? This is one of the reasons that it has a great potential when building backlinks.

There other ways that you can Link Bait, but these are the most common and proven to work. One of the latest trends in Link Baiting is to do a contest on your blog or web page, this seems to receive a tremendous amount of backlinks especially if the contest prize is something of high-value. So in conclusion Link Baiting is a must for anyone who is serious about building great quality natural backlinks to their website! If you haven’t already, you should start to consider applying this technique on future posts and pages and monitor the results closely. For a little more information on Link Baiting you should definitely check out the Art of Link Baiting.

In the next issue of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ I am going to be talking about the importance of RSS subscriptions and how you can start increasing your count!

The writing on your page is probably the reason that surfers are visiting your page to begin with. Every reader is valued so you don’t really want to disappoint them when they do land on your page and give it a look. Today on the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ I am going to talk about a few key points which could really help you write better content and explain why it is so important to your success! (more…)

Welcome back to the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ and I hope so far you have enjoyed reading as we are getting further and further into the topic of online marketing and money making opportunities on the internet. In the last issue I talked about how to overcome laziness to be more productive, this time I am going to talk about “Outsourcing” to maximize your productivity! (more…)