The One Year Millionaire

When it comes to Internet Marketing and Blogging I know that there are a lot of things that will determine my success. I believe that to be successful in the business you will need to make connections with other people in the business and you will need to promote your own business actively.

While a lot of Internet Marketers promote their business with PPC and other common strategies, sometimes they forget that they should also think broader and go all out! In this issue of the ‘One Year Millionaire‘ I am going to talk about Internet Marketing Forums and list the best ones. One thing I’ve learned in my time is that you can promote your site greatly just by being active on a Marketing forum and you can also build some great Backlinks as a bonus.

Here is a list of 8 Great Internet Marketing Forums:

1. www.digitalpoint.com
   If you are looking to become active on an Internet Marketing forum; whether it is to promote your own business or to learn more about the business, this is probably the best place to start looking. The community on Digital Point is very friendly and extremely helpful when it comes to new members. The forum is broken down into different sections including ‘Google Adsense‘ and ‘Link Development‘ that you could spend time to read every day!
2. www.warriorforum.com
   This forum is much like Digital Point listed above except it is not as widely known. It is still a big high trafficked forum; however, you should be cautious about how you post and behave because other users may be tough, but helpful! One thing I really like about this forum in particular is that they have a section regarding “Success” which is a topic I write a lot about.
3. www.wickedfire.com
   When it comes to Internet Marketing forums with the most style and the most outspoken members I would have to give it to Wicked Fire! Some of the members are extremely brutal when it comes to newbies on the site and the forum encourages harsh critique. This forum does seem to have a lot of great information and members who can prove that they know what they are talking about when it comes to Internet Marketing.
4. www.v7n.com
   This forum is a Web Development community that has a lot of members who discuss different things including Web Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Blogging!
5. www.ewealth.com
   This is an Affiliate Marketing Forum that concentrates mostly of everything to do with Affiliate Marketing. There are different sections geared towards members of different Affiliate Networks as well as a few sections about PPC Marketing and other useful Internet Marketing topics.
6. www.highrankings.com
   This forum concentrates on Search Engine Optimization which is great because a lot of Internet Marketers need to learn more about it in order to succeed. Use this forum for everything related to SEO!
7. www.sitepoint.com
   Site Point is an awesome Web Development Forum.. It doesn’t really focus on Internet Marketing at all, but I know personally that Internet Marketing and Web Development go hand in hand when you want to succeed in this business. One thing I would like to point out is that if you are looking to buy an existing established website or blog, check out Site Point!
8. www.internetmarketingforums.net
   This Internet Marketing Forum isn’t as active as all the ones listed above, but I can still find a lot of gems here once in a while. Also since there are a lot less users on the site, if you are looking for help from others or would like to share something it will be a lot easier to get noticed; whereas on other forums, your post could get flooded to the bottom in minutes!

Remember that being active on an Internet Marketing Forum can help a lot for your website’s exposure and you can learn so much! I spend about an hour everything other day on these forums to see what is going on and I feel that if I spent more time on them that my sites would grow faster. Check out these forums!

In the last issue of the ‘One Year Millionaire‘ I spoke about Alexa Rank.. what is it good for and gave you “5 Great Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank“. Today I am going to talk similarly about Technorati Authority.

Technorati is a powerhouse on the internet. It is almost like a blog ranking system that shows you how your blog measures up to the competition! In previous issues I have already talked about “The Importance of Technorati” and “Technorati Tags“, but today I will talk about what you can do to increase your rank, so let’s take a look:

1. Comment on Other Blog Posts.
   Leaving comments on other blogs is by far the easiest way to make your Technorati Rank sky rocket! It is easy to post useful comments that are relevant to other blogs without spamming and it is a great way to make your Technorati Numbers soar!
2. Guest Posting on Other Blogs.
   A good solid way to get a relevant Backlink that will be counted towards your Technorati Rank is to guest post on another blog that uses Technorati. Put a link back to your homepage in the author credits and you will have your rank go up. The hard thing about this is that you don’t want to write hundreds of Guest Posts just to build your Technorati Rank; it is a lot of work for just a little progress… but it is a good way to start!
3. Ask Others to Add Your Blog to Their Favorites.
   This may seem like a waste of time but I noticed that if you ask others to Add your blog to their Technorati Favorites than in turn they may also link to you. Also when your favorite number goes up.. other people browsing Technorati will likely see your blog and may link to its content!
4. Link all your Other Blogs to This One.
   For some reason this seems almost like a shady tactic, but I looked around and pretty much everyone does it, so there is no harm in joining the rest of the world. If you have a lot of other blogs, then you can put a small text link on the homepage linking back to the blog that you want to rank better on Technorati. When it comes down to thousands and thousands of Backlinks it won’t make much of a difference, but if you are just starting to build your Technorati Authority then you will notice how much of a difference 5-10 links can make on your number!
5. Link Baiting!
   This is the old fashioned way of building your Technorati Rank. This is the fact that if you post something that other Bloggers will link to then you are sure that your Technorati Rank will go up along with it. Remember that creating good well written and informative content will always be your best weapon when it comes to link building.

These are just some of the best ways that you can increase your Technorati Rank. Always try to keep in mind that whether it is Alexa, Technorati, or whatever else, you have to decide for yourself if it is important enough for you to spend time on. If you have personal goals or financial goals to reach.. you should know the difference before you set out to reach them and be prepared for obstacles and surprises! Good luck building your Technorati Authority!

If you run a website then your success will completely depend on your traffic and conversions. Make Money Online Now!

Depending on what your website is for you will have a tendency to choose different ways of promoting it to your own satisfaction. I know that a lot of people just getting into Internet Marketing now are wondering how to make money with Google AdSense or other publishing programs. It is all about driving organic traffic to your site and that means you will have to rank high in search engines for your key terms in order to make the most out of your site and Make Money Online!

Your web site’s Search Engine ranking can be determined by Search Engine Optimization, Backlinks, Location and Authority. After all consideration I came to the conclusion that Backlinks are probably one of the strongest determining factors when it comes to SERPs (Search Engine Results Page). For Example: If you have two pages and one has really strong SEO and a couple backlinks while the other has a little bit of SEO and thousands of backlinks. The site with more quality backlinks usually will place better!

In order to achieve great ranks and make some money you need to Build Links. The more Backlinks you have, the better you are doing! I always suggest 1 Way Linking because it will always appear natural to Search Engines; that way you cannot get penalized for Reciprocal Linking. Here are Four different common types of Backlinks:

• 1 Way Links: This is a natural link from another website to your own. This can be achieved through Link Building efforts, great content that people will Link to or by Purchasing a Link on a website.
• 2 Way Links (Reciprocal Links): This is a link exchange. You place a link for someone on your site and they will return the favor on their own. This is not suggested because the value of these links is greatly reduced just because it is reciprocal. Think of it like the links are canceling each other out.
• 3 Way Links: 3 Way Linking is where there is 1 link to another site from a triangle of Three sites. It is the result of knowing that Search Engines penalize 2-Way linking. It is just a loophole around that idea; except there is still some risk involved.
• Internal Links: These are links to internal pages of your site from within your website. If you have a page that talks about Link Building you should also place links to other Link Building pages in your web site to build internal links. Contrary to what some people may think; they are also helpful to help certain keywords rank higher in Search Engines.

Some other things that you should take into consideration when Building Links are:

• Anchor Text: This is the Text that is shown when you have a URL to your site. For example: The anchor text for Becoming a Millionaire Overnight! is “Becoming a Millionaire Overnight!” This helps you rank for those terms in Search Engines that is why it is good to have Backlinks to the inner pages of your site too; instead of just the root destination.
• Do-Follow: This is a link attribute that is default for any URL. If a Link has a No-Follow attribute it means that the link doesn’t pass any PR.
• Page Rank: The Page Rank of any given page is basically a score that Google gives the page between 0/10 which determines the page’s Link Popularity. The higher the PR; the better.

When you run a web site you should always set aside some time to Build Links. A great Link Building Campaign can really make the difference between a site that does well and a site that doesn’t.

These are the things that I do for some of my websites in order to Build Great BackLinks:

• Submit to Search Engines - Submitting to Search Engines is the first thing you should do when you have your new website up and running.
• Submit to Directories - Submitting to Directories creates good quality backlinks. There are two directories specifically that are better than the rest. Yahoo.com and Dmoz.org
• Submit to Blog Directories - When you Submit to blog directories you can get a lot of backlinks to your main page and specific internal pages. Another great thing about them is that they create exposure for your blog and possibly other bloggers will link to your material!
• Submit to Article Directories - Submitting Articles is a good way to build backlinks and receive good referral traffic. My favorite article directory is Ezinearticles. Check it out.
• Submit to RSS Directories - Submitting your RSS Feed to these sites is a great way to increase your RSS Subscribers and sometimes you can also get a link to the root of your website as well.
  
  

• Create Profiles on Social Networking Websites - These sites usually allow you to have a URL to your own personal website on your Profile Page. It is a quick and free Backlink.
• Create Profiles on Social Bookmarking Websites - Creating a Profile on Social Bookmarking Sites is good because each time you update your website you can add another backlink to your web site’s Content! A few great Social Bookmarking Sites include: Digg , StumbleUpon , Mixx , del.ico.us
• Create Profiles on Forums - Creating Profiles on some forums is great because you can place a Backlink in your forum Signature. This is the space under each post that has your Backlink. It is great because not only will you receive a good Backlink, but the referral traffic from forums is amazing!
  
  

• Blogs: Link Exchange - This is where you exchange a Blog Roll Link with another Blogger in order to get some traffic. I don’t really do this personally because I am not too fond of Reciprocal Links; but it may be helpful to some.
• Blogs: Link Baiting - This is where you write great content for your site that others will link to! This could also include contests and other types of posts that are generally linked to. Writing something controversial or humorous is a great way to Link Bait.
• Blogs: Leaving Comments - This is where you leave comments on blogs that are relevant to the post. Leave a meaningful comment that either adds to the topic, or questions it. You can use the Name as your Anchor Text and Website as your URL.
• Blogs: Guest Blogging - This is where you write a blog post for another blog and place your Backlink somewhere within the post. The great thing about this is that it also builds a relationship between yourself and other Bloggers!
• Blogs: Blog Reviews - This is where another Blog will Review your Blog and place a Backlink to your main page and possibly some of your best posts! Many times this is a paid service; however, there are a few blogs that offer them for free!
  
  

• $$$: Buying Backlinks - I don’t personally do this but I know some people prefer this method. This is where you buy a link on a high profile web page that gets a lot of traffic and you receive traffic from them. I wouldn’t really do this because it could hurt PR, but if you don’t care about Page Rank then I guess it wouldn’t make a difference.
• $$$: Link Building Services - These are services offered by Link Building Companies that will do your Link Building for you. They do all sorts of things like Submitting to Directories, Creating Profiles, and Promoting on Forums.

These are just the basic things that you should do when you are Building Links for your website or blog. If you would like to know more about Building Backlinks then check out these two websites… they both have a lot of detailed information about Building Links:

• Link Building Bible - This is a blog completely dedicated to the topic of Link Building. They also have their own Do-Follow Search Engine called the ‘Do-Follow Diver‘ which makes it a lot easier to find blogs to leave comments during your Link Building Campaign.
• Mixed Market Arts - This blog is the home of the ‘Link Building Cookbook‘ . A great resource for anyone who wants to build better links to their site!
• Courtney Tuttle’s Internet Marketing School - This Post “102 Ways to Make your Site a Backlink Superstar” is a great Link Building Guide.

Now that you know how to Build Great Links and where to find them.. go ahead and do it! The success of you site depends on it. Sign up to my RSS for free and you will be notified whenever I update with great Link Building articles.. or articles that will make you money!

In the next Issue of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ I am going to talk about Running Contests on your Blog!

Hey Everyone… We are now at issue 58 of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ and so far we have accumulated a great deal of great information regarding internet marketing and making money online. If this is the first time you join us then be sure to read up on the earlier issues because I have packed in a lot of great information in earlier posts! If you haven’t already noticed… my recent posts are more focused on a specific idea or topic while my earliest issues covered broad internet marketing ideas on a grand scale. The reason I am doing this is so that new internet marketers can get an overall idea of what they need to do by just reading the first few issues while advanced webmasters can just stay up to date and hopefully learn more from specific posts!

So in a previous issue I already talked about Leaving Comments on Blogs and why it is important for webmasters to engage in this activity. Today I am going to be giving a quick step by step tutorial or guide about how to go about commenting on blogs. If you are in the middle of a Link Building Campaign then you should consider adding this to your list of things to do! Leaving comments on relevant blogs is an easy and effective way to build great backlinks to your website or blog and gain some quality referral traffic at the same time! So let’s look at how we can go about this:

• Searching for Blogs.
  In order to leave comments on blogs and create some high quality backlinks you need to find blogs that are relevant to your own. There are a number of great ways to do this and all it takes is a little time and patience. One thing that you can do is create a bookmark folder in firefox with all the blogs that you comment on so you can keep track of them and occasionally re-visit them. This makes it a lot easier especially if you want to take advantage of TopCommentator. Here are a few ways you can find a potential blog to leave a comment on:

1. Manual/Natural Search.
   Every once in a while you will come across a great blog that is relevant to your niche and you can use this as a great opportunity to leave a comment. Commenting on blogs that you genuinely read often is a great way to build a relationship between bloggers and also a great way to increase traffic to your website! Another thing you can do is use your favorite search engine and type ” *your keyword* blog ” and you will probably get a list of blogs relevant to your niche that you can leave comments on.
2. Do Follow Diver.
   This is a new search engine created by the linkbuildingbible.com which gives you the opportunity to search blogs that have the do-follow enabled. They also have extra options that you can see which blogs have TopCommentator and CommentLuv. This is one of those great resources that you can’ leave unmentioned. All you have to do is type your keyword in the search field and voila… great results!
3. Technorati.
   Technorati is a great social bookmarking website because it has become an authority on blog rankings. Type your keyword in the search field on their site and you can find a lot of great blogs that are just clicks away. If you have a blog then you should go ahead and register your blog on their site! (In the next issue I will be talking about Technorati in detail)

• Leaving a Comment.
  Leaving the actual comment is just as important as finding the right blog to do it on. You can’t just leave any comment because it could be taken the wrong way. In every comment that you leave you have to make sure that it makes sense and is completely relevant to what has been said in the post. Here are a few things to remember when leaving a comment:

1. Don’t Spam.
   This is one of the things that I see a lot on the internet and blogs. I see my own pages getting spammed constantly and I know that I speak for most webmasters when I say that this is one of the worst things you can do. Spamming can only hurt your online marketing efforts so please don’t do it!
2. Add to the Discussion/Ask a Question.
   One way to comment on a blog is by adding something that you may feel that the webmaster had left out. Maybe they left it out for a reason or maybe they just forgot or didn’t know. This can help boost your online reputation if you have a lot of knowledge on certain subjects. Providing great answers to a posted question can bring a lot of visitors to your own page. On the other hand if the blogger wrote about something you don’t quite understand or something that needs to be expanded upon then you should feel free to ask a question as a comment.
3. Leave your Opinion.
   If you have an opinion on the topic at hand… then by all means speak your mind. You will never get noticed if you don’t say anything, so if you have an opinion let it be known. Adding your own opinion whether you agree or disagree with the blogger is a great way to leave a valid comment.
4. Be Nice.
   I have noticed that generally speaking, a webmaster cannot turn down a comment if he/she is being nice and polite. If you are congradulating the blogger on an achievement or complimenting on a great post they can almost never turn it down. Don’t just say “Nice post” and leave because that can be easily confused as SPAM or a quick way to get a backlink.

So if you have been slacking on your Link Building Campaign lately because you didn’t know where to start… then you can stop right away. This post gives you all the information you need to go about leaving relevant comments to get quality backlinks to your own web page or blog!

Two Things to Keep in Mind.
Some blogs have a ‘TOP COMMENTATOR‘ plug-in which displays the top commentators for that month. This means that the more comments you leave on a blog with this plug-in that your name will be up there displayed with a link to your site throughout their entire blog or on the main page. One thing to remember is that this feature usually resets at the beginning of each new month so it is generally easy to get a top spot with few comments if you leave them at the right time! The second thing is a plug-in called ‘COMMENTLUV‘ which basically checks your blog feed for the latest post and will display a link to that post at the end of your blog comment. I think this is a nice little added feature that could attract more referral traffic from other blogs!

When you spend time working on building backlinks through blogs, do you have a certain process? What do you do specifically on your backlink hunt?

In the next issue of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ I am going to talk about a great website, Technorati!

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!