This is a guest post by Bong Jeen Hao. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

PLR Articles (Private Label Articles) are articles that you can edit as you like, and brand the newly edited work as your own. You can use PLR articles for your blog posts, autoresponder messages, or bundle few of them and create an e-course, or even an e-book. It’s the best way of freelancing, and it costs less compare with hiring a freelance to write for you.

However, many PLR articles (or other private label content) are poorly organized. At most cases, they are poorly paragraphed. If you post those articles directly, they will look very bad and not professional. You ought to do something to those articles before publicizing them.

1. Choose right articles

If the article has too much grammatical mistakes (some will have a little grammatical errors, it’s still acceptable) and spelling errors, do not use it. It doesn’t mean you totally cannot use them; just it will take you more time to edit the work. We cannot neglect that some of the ideas are really useful. You can actually take the ideas of the PLR articles and rewrite them by yourself.

2. Paraphrase

Paraphrase means we rephrase the passages with your own words, by changing the words of the original passages. You should always edit the passages before using them. People might have used your PLR article already. So you have to edit them so that they look different from other. On the other hand, I believe you know that search engines dislike duplicated content. If you post the PLR articles directly on your blogs, Google may treat them as duplicated content or spam content, as many people might have used them already.

3. Paragraph

As I’ve said, some PLR articles are poorly paragraphed. Articles without proper paragraphing are not impressive. People will feel that those are poor quality work. First impression is very important. Hence, you’re encouraged to paragraph every PLR article before using them. Generally, one idea or one point will be in a paragraph, so that it makes readers feel easier to get what messages you are trying to deliver through the articles.

4. Throw in your own expert ideas

PLR articles will not be perfect. For sure, if you’re in that niche, you are very good in the niche. You should add your own expert ideas into the articles before using them. This step makes everything different. After paraphrasing and paragraphing, the PLR articles have actually become unique because they seem like being written by your own because you’re using your own words to express the points.

Adding your own professional ideas into the articles will enable you to create your masterpieces. The articles or post will no longer look like being origin from those poorly organized PLR articles. In order to create masterpieces from the PLR articles that you have in your computer, you are encouraged to follow the 4 steps above, no matter what you are creating – blog posts, autoresponder messages, e-courses, e-books, or other content that you’re going to out in membership sites and so on.

About Author :
Bong Jeen Hao, the owner of OnlineProfitGuru. He shares his experience on how to earn money online that he has personally gone through or researched.

This is a guest post by Febap Liew. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

As an internet marketer, we always strive to effectively improve the ranks of our internet business websites through SEO. If so, many would recognize the importance of building effective backlinks to improve your SEO.

However, how many of us really know the right way of doing so? Or maybe even to the fact of identifying what backlinks are really. Therefore, here all he how’s and what’s to building effective backlinks for your internet business online.

What Are Backlinks?

Simply put, backlinks are incoming links from other websites to yours. It is eventually the links that are pointing from other websites that leads to yours.

Why Do We Need Backlinks?

By far, we know that it is an essential part of improving your SEO. It is a crucial step in developing your website o blog. The more backlinks you have, the more search engines will recognize you and giving your websites or pages much more importance and popularity.

What Are The Benefits Of Having Backlinks?

First, it improves the ranking of your website or blog in search engines. Ultimately, it can also improve the amount of organic traffic to your website.

What Are The Most Important Aspects When It Comes To Building Effective Backlinks?

1. Original and unique contents

Search engines like Google loves original and unique contents. Even so, it must have quality and offers valuable insight to whatever niche topic you are about to write on. This is an essential aspect of driving major traffics to your websites. Aside from only posting articles, your blog comments as well as replies should hold the same quality content as of how your post should be. Remember that if you are committed to driving effective backlinks to your business online, relatively intelligent content is very important.

2. Controversial or intelligent posts

Don’t for any reason post for the sake posting only. What I meant is that there are many ways to drive unique traffic onto your site and that doesn’t simply mean by just commenting on something like “nice post” or such. At times, bringing up something contradicting to the original content may spark a friendly debate. By doing so intelligently, you get to stand out and emphasize yourself far better than the rest of the commentators. Therefore, as you get noticed, so will others find an interest to learn more about you.

How Are The Ways Of Building Effective Backlinks Then?

By all means, you can always opt into these 6 methods of building up your backlinks. However, do not limit yourself to only these 6 given. There are many ways to go about of which you can freely explore. At the mean time, however these 5 should be adequate enough for a start.

1. Directory submissions

Some of the directories submission I am pointing out onto are like article directory submissions, blog directories, and Free SEO friendly directories as such. As starter, it is always my first best advice for you to write good quality content and post them up onto such directories. This is mainly because it gets kick starts your progress to build effective backlinks.

However, significantly, you may no notice any traffic coming around during the initial starting but that is all right. Gradually but surely, you are very much ranking up your website or blog extensively.

It is preferable that you submit only to high page ranking directories. By doing so, your blog or websites tend to get indexed and crawled by search engines spiders much more drastically of which you will surely see a rapid increment in your website’s rank as well.

2. Social Networking Sites

Such social sites like Stumble Upon, Digg or Delicious are inevitably capable of driving powerful backlinks to your sites. If ever any of you post is lucky enough to hit the first page, you can expect to see a drastic rise if your traffic and backlinks.

However keep in mind to what should be appropriately done to ensure that you can effectively utilize the potential of social networking sites. Some of the aspects that you should take note upon when submitting your contents to social networking sites are making sure that it is relatively relevant to people’s needs and of course subsequently holds great value in it, write catching headlines and don’t be lazy when it comes to writing a description.

3. Connect with other bloggers

Most often, you can be sure to find a blog that relates well with your play of niche. Connecting and corresponding with the bloggers as well as commentators inside will indefinitely generate you an amount of baclinks you are precisely looking for.

Some of the methods you can profoundly etch your name in it is by leaving valuable blog comments or blog posts. Your exposure will indefinitely build your personal credibility in your specific field of niche in the eyes of other bloggers. If for any part of the deal that they find the content located in your blog worthwhile to read, they may link it within their blog indefinitely and this will surely improve the backlinks of your website. For once, your content is being recommended to read therefore they trust that you hold certain integrity.

4. Newsletter

For every blog post that you made within your own website or blog, it is very important that you keep your readers updated with the most recent post by subscribing to your newsletter service. Having your post directly posted to their inbox may raise the amount of e-mail readers as they may subsequently forward your valuable content to others. This eventually builds up a very powerful viral effect. Not only will you get your website’s link exposed greatly, you get to increase and spread your existence towards a far greater reach.

5. Free stuffs

This is effectively one of the most simplest and legitimate ways of getting massive backlinks. Who doesn’t like free stuffs? If you are subsequently providing you readers with valuable free goodies, you can ensure that they will constantly come back for more. Not to mention how fast your website would spread as good stuffs are transmitted effectively through word of ‘mouth’.

6. Forum and article directories

Posting relevant comments and post on forums is a good way of exposing your name, business and link to your website. Generally, search engines indexed forum quite regularly therefore relatively speaking when you include your website’s link within your forum signature, most preferably, you would build an amount of credited backlinks for your website.

Posting your articles on article directories is also an effective way of getting backlinks too. Most often, many publishers tend to scout around article directories to look for relevant posting too. Therefore if you are profoundly good in what you do and are lucky enough, you may not only establish a valuable progress in backlink building, your articles may even be chosen to get publicize. Imagine the amount of traffic, exposure and even backlinks you may eventually get from such.

What Not To Do When Building Backlinks

Indefinably there will be some do’s and don’ts when it comes to building backlinks. The do’s are as listed above where else the don’ts are as followed. Remember, generally do not try to work in such ungrateful manner. It will deliberately jeopardize your name or brand in the eyes of your potential customers as well as being heavily penalized by search engines.

1. Paid directories submission

Do not by any chance waste your money on paying to submit your articles to directories. These are ultimately a waste of money and effort as traffics you will be getting is close to none.

2. Forum spam

Do not put in irrelevant amount of links onto your signature box. Not adhering to forum rules and regulations as well as not submitting valuable content in them just for the sake of having your links up on them. Search engines are smart and they will soon to recognize such misdeeds.

3. Blog Spam

Yes people tend to spam blogs too. Most often if you are the moderator of a blog, you will start to notice different methods of spam blogs. Most of the time, blog spams are pretty much general and irrelevant.
Some of t he examples are listed as below :-

“Great site. See also [link]”

“Hi. this is kind of an “unconventional” question , but have other visitors asked you how get the menu bar to look like you’ve got it? I also have a blog and am really looking to alter around the theme, however am scared to death to mess with it for fear of the search engines punishing me. I am very new to all of this …so i am just not positive exactly how to try to to it all yet. I’ll just keep working on it one day at a time.”

“Thanks for the well-thought article. I’m actually at work right now! So I need to go off without reading all I’d like. However, I put your blog on my msn feed so that I can read more.”

4. Getting links by falsely claiming about oneself

Most often, we would come across a few individual that relatively talks big about what they are, claiming that they are some kind of big shot in the internet marketing realm just so to get their name hyped up.

Stealing people’s article, stripping away the author’s attribute and claim to be yours thinking that people would acknowledge you to what wonderful article you have personal came out with.

About Author :
Febap Liew is the owner of BlogXic. She shares everything that you would need to know on how to make money online on the world wide web.

Each weekend I compile and share 10 blogging related articles from blogger fellows, it goes same to this week, this is my weekly routine. 10 blogging article topics include blogging tips, search engine optimization, make money online, traffic building, social media, affiliate marketing and etc.

This week has nothing much difference compare to last week, as usual, I wrote a few articles and published guest posts. I hope regular guest poster would benefit from the guest post in term of traffic and one way dofollow backlinks, if you want to get dofollow backlinks and traffic to your site, then you may consider writing a guest post on this blog, feel free to check out the guest post guidelines.

Top 10 Sunday Killer Link Love Posts

1) Don’t Trip When You Can StumbleUpon – SiteSketch101
StumbleUpon is a fun way to both discover new sites and blogs and it’s a great way to promote you own if you have something that is worth sharing. Success in StumbleUpon really depends on having fun,engaging content, a great network of friends to help promote, and a little bit of luck.

2) Four Simple Steps For Big Gains In Page Speed – DailyBlogTips
With the recent announcement that Google will formally include page load speed as a ranking factor, I’ve started looking at this subject pretty closely. What I’ve discovered is there are a handful of simple things that one can do to make big gains in page load times. Below you’ll find four of them.

3) How To Give Your Visitors More – Blogussion
If you’re a blog­ger, it isn’t hard to fig­ure out what you vis­i­tors came to your web­site for: con­tent. And as a web­mas­ter, it’s your job to give your vis­i­tors what they’re look­ing for. There are many ways to do this, espe­cially under the world’s best and most expand­able blog­ging plat­form, WordPress.

4) 5 Reasons Why Blogging Is Not Easy – HowToMakeMyBlog
Daily millions of blogs are built in blogosphere, but most of them fail soon. The reason behind failure of blogs are different but it shows, it’s not easy to maintain a blog. There are always two sides of coin and it is applied to blogging also. Apart from many advantages of blogging, there are few hurdles in blogging career which might keep you away from success and making money online.

5) Conquering Big Industries : My Bulletproof SEO Strategy – ViperChill
Generally speaking, the more traffic you can get to a website the more money you can make. I like to focus on building search engine traffic to my sites because once you have rankings you can usually sustain them with little effort and the traffic they send is very targeted.

6) The Pros and Cons a Home Based Blogging Business – Kikolani
A home business sounds great, doesn’t it? Rolling out of bed in the morning when you wake, rather than to an alarm clock. No boss giving you grief for getting in late. You can do what you want when you want. Life couldn’t be better, or could it? First of all, there are two ways to work from home. There is working for a company from a home base, and there is working for yourself, self employed and building your own business. Making money blogging as a business venture is a great example of a way to do this.

7) Blog Commenting [Ultimate Guide] – MakeMoneyOnTheInternet
Recently I discussed how I got to my first 1,000 RSS subscribers and one area I covered in that post was the marketing strategies I used to reach that mile stone. Blog commenting is one strategy that I have used in the past for a wide variety of reasons beyond just a small spike in traffic and today I will outline everything you should know about blog commenting in this second installment of ultimate guides.

8 ) The Immediate Benefits of Having a Newsletter & Why You Need One Now – Blogussion
First of all, your newslet­ter has to do with emails, mean­ing you send con­tent out to any­one who sub­scribes with their email address. You can send out as much or as lit­tle con­tent as you want, and doing this over time will grow your email list to a larger and larger audience. A newslet­ter is for every­one. Any­one can do it, regard­less of the niche you’re in. That’s what’s so great about them, as long as you can offer great con­tent on a con­sis­tent basis, you can have a great newslet­ter. Maybe you’ll make money too, but that’s for another post.

9) How To Improve Your Alexa Ranking – TechNShare
Many people have asked me how I’ve been able to improve my Alexa from 2,000,000 to 34,000 in about four months. I’d like to share with you 4 ways to improve your Alexa ranking. Alexa Rank is your site’s traffic ranking according to Alexa. It’s very important, especially if you are selling ad spaces on your website. It can provide you various monetary benefits as well because advertisers look for this rank to decide the cost of advertisements to be placed on your website or blog.

10) 4 Posts 200 Comments and Lesson Learned – FamousBloggers
Many people have been talking about blog comments but no one was sharing actually results and numbers. So I wanted to share my results and my tips to getting more comments on your blog. When I started blogging a year ago, I would write posts and sit back and wait for the comments to role in, since it seemed like that’s what other bloggers did to get their comments..Right?

Recap Of The Week

1) 4 Steps to Monetizing Your Blog With Your Content by Corry Cummings

2) How I Built A List of over 1,000 Subscribers in 4 Weeks by Paul McCarthy

3) Predict Future Trends And Make Money Online by Lee Ka Hoong

Personal Ramblings

This is a great week because I’ve just bought my new handphone, Samsung Galaxy S. It’s a great phone and all the features are almost similar to iPhone, but the price is lower than iPhone. I’ll need to tie with the 500mb data plan in a telco for 12 months, but it still worths the price in long run. Still, I couldn’t be online at home due to the network port problem in my housing area, so I can only online at cafe which has wifi provided.

I have a few plans in my mind to increase my monthly earning, unfortunately I don’t have network at home, so all the plans need to on hold or I just can do them slowly. I just hope everything can be back to normal as soon as possible, so that I can start my plans as scheduled.

How’s your day this week?

Predicting future is almost impossible unless you’re god, it goes same to predicting future trend in internet marketing. You can predict future trend unless you’re working with the company, for example, Google, if you’re working in Google, then you may know what’s the next Google’s plan or project, then you can start a niche and talk about that. Eventually, you might receive tons of traffic from the niche. People who can predict the future and they’ll be the winner.

Creating micro niche websites is what we usually do to make money online from google adsense or affiliate program, keyword research is important, the combination of keyword research tool and future trend prediction tool would be perfect. If you’re the first people who create a niche that you think that would be a hot niche in future, then you’ll make a big profit from that niche.

Future Trend Prediction Tool – The Internet Time Machine

If you’re serious in making money online, you might need several internet marketing tools or software that help you to complete several tasks and save your time such as keyword research, you need a tool or software to do the job for you. It goes same to future trend prediction, you need a tool or software for it. When you’re ready and seriously want to start off your online business, definitely you want to find a niche that converts well.

The Internet Time Machine is a tool that predicts the future trend and niche that is potential, just like their slogan “Know Today What People Will By Tomorrow“, that’s the purpose. You may ask “Why we should use this future trend prediction tool since Google Trends can do the same?“, the answer is that you can save a lot of times instead of spending few hours with Google Trends.

How The Internet Time Machine Works?

This future trend prediction tool is very simple, I believe that you can easily handle it as long as you understand English. This tool collects huge amount of data from approximate 40 million sources from the web, the data is refreshing every 24 hours. That being said, you’ll be getting trend or niche that might be profitable before your competitors.

I’ve been creating a lot of micro niche websites and make money online with Google Adsense, that’s what we call “niche marketing“. This is one of the popular ways that people used to make money online, when you get to know a niche that you think that will be a hot and profitable niche in the near future, you can start creating a blog or website on that niche and optimizing the keyword. Eventually your site will rank well in search engine and you’ll be the one who make money from that niche.

The Internet Time Machine has three different types of future trend prediction tool in the system:

1 ) Most recent mentions from the last 24 hours
2 ) Potential trends from the last 24 hours
3 ) ITM core trend analysis

The Internet Time Machine - Interface

With the option of the most recent mentions from the last 24 hours, the tool will serve you a list of latest keyphrases used in PPC ads, blogs, news groups and mailing lists across the web. You can see which niche is the hottest in the last 24 hours.

The Internet Time Machine - Recent Mentions

While the column of potential trends from the last 24 hours will serve you a list of keyphrases that might be a hot and potential niche in the near future.

I would prefer using ITM core trend analysis as we can fill in the keyword, and get to know the future trend that is related to our preferable keyword. I tried to search for the keyword “food station” and it came out with a long list of result, it also provided the number of worldwide searches for each keyphrase.

The Internet Time Machine - Core Trend Analysis

Other than these, you can check out the top trends as well. It shows you the top 25 most recent mentions and top 25 potential trends, you can simply pick one of them and start creating a website for that niche. Of course, there is no guarantee on the potential of the keyword, but it’s no harm to spend some times and develop the site, you’ll be the one who benefit in the end.

The Internet Time Machine - Top Trends

Wrap Up

You’ll be making a lot of money if the result is accurate, there’s no harm even the result is inaccurate. As I mentioned earlier, the combination of future trend prediction tool and keyword research tool is going to be perfect, so I would recommend you to use future trend prediction tool and get a potential keyphrases, use Micro Niche Finder to do keyword result, the result would be more accurate. Eventually, you’ll be getting a profitable niche with better reach and conversion!

Have you heard about this tool? What’s your take?

This is a guest post by Paul McCarthy. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

We all know that to making money online is all about building a list – if you have a responsive list of many thousand people then making money online is just so easy…But how do you actually build a list of this size quickly?

Most people will tell you that to build a list of 10,000 people would take an average internet marketer a couple of years of consistent and dedicated action.

In this article, I’m going to tell you a few list building strategies that I used recently to grow my list to four figures within the first four weeks of launch. These strategies aren’t incredibly difficult to master – in fact, anyone can do them…So let’s get started:

1. Create a Giveaway that People Want!

It sounds obvious but I see so many beginners get this basic step wrong. A great giveaway is one that people want to get their hands on so much that they’d pay for it, let alone enter their name and email address into the opt-in box.

I always look for the most prevalent problem in any given niche. If I’m building a list in the internet marketing world and I want to target beginners, then I’ll offer a free course on how to build your first web site.

If I’m going to target slightly more advanced marketers then I may put together a course that tells people all the ways they can get traffic to their site.

Either way, the giveaway must have a high perceived value in the eyes of your visitors.

2. Create a Web Site with a High Opt-in Percentage

I always create a “squeeze page” web site – this is simply a one page web site that is solely designed to capture the names and email addresses of visitors. It will advertise the “benefits” of the free giveaway that I briefly spoke about in my point above with the view to “bribing” the visitors to enter their credentials.

I always try and shoot for a squeeze page that converts at around 35%, although anything above 20% is still very good.

3. Driving Traffic

Driving traffic is the key part of the list building equation – the more visitors that you get to your web site, the more people that will opt in to your list.

Here is a traffic strategy that works in competitive niches (such as make money online, FOREX and internet marketing):

• Find a number of high profile blogs and web sites that accept guest posts and submit posts that really provide excellent value. This will keep the blog owner happy as the readers will be pleased with the content.
• Joint joint venture giveaways – This is a very powerful tactic that can really explode your list size. You should try and seek out giveaway events in your niche and add your free giveaway as a contributor.
• A joint venture giveaway is basically a promotion where many people come together and offer free gifts at a special event. Each contributor then takes it turns to promote the event to their existing list of subscribers. If you have a great giveaway that catches the eye of people then you’ll be able to grow your list by hundreds for each giveaway that you attend.
• Integration marketing – One of the most powerful ways to create a consistent stream of traffic is to form joint ventures with other players in your niche. Integration marketing is all about adding advertising someone else’s product or giveaway in return for the same. This can be very powerful if you seek out the right strategic partners
• Aswaps – Similar to integration marketing, this is where you find partners to advertise with, however an adswap is a one off event whereas integration marketing is advertising that’s integrated into an email campaign on an ongoing basis
• Create a Viral Report – this is incredibly powerful if you can do it properly. The idea is to create a brandable PDF report so people can add their own affiliate links and promote it to their list. I had incredible success creating a brandable report about article marketing that contained affiliate links to related products. I then took this report and offered it to my list so they could quickly make some money. Of course, embedded in the report is links to my web site encouraging people to sign up to my list!
• Forum Marketing – Last but not least, when you’re in a popular niche you can be rest assured that there are popular forums that you can take advantage of. Make sure that when you join these forums you have an attractive signature that’s benefit driven and makes people curious (so they are more inclined to click through).

4. Use Your Subscribers to Promote Your Content Themselves

The final part of the equation is to encourage your existing subscribers to promote your site as often as possible. Subscribers on my email list get a lot of valuable content for free – in return for this free content, I ask them to socially bookmark the content and make references on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

You can also incorporate a refer a friend script into your backend – this script alone has added 42 subscribers (according to my tracking software) to my list in the last month.

In Summary

If there’s one point you should take away from this post it’s this: When you are in competitive niches you need to collaborate with others for mutual gain. Joint ventures are hugely powerful when done correctly, so make friends and create some mutually beneficial arrangements!

About Author :
If you’d like to learn how to do everything in this article and how to make a full time living from home then visit FromZeroToWebsite.com and Paul McCarthy will teach you personally himself for free.

This is a guest post by Corry Cummings. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

While there are many successful bloggers that practice their craft simply as a hobby, the majority of bloggers would love the opportunity to turn their passion into a lucrative career. Many have tried and failed. However, it is not very difficult provided that you are patient, hardworking and know how to design a blog that will turn a profit. Although the process can be complicated, there are essentially 4 steps to monetizing your blog with your content.

1. Do Your Keyword Research

Once you have chosen the subject of your blog, you need to do a little bit of research to find out what people are searching for. You might find out that you have your work cut out for you with a great deal of competition. On the other hand, you might find that you have found a great niche topic that a lot of people are searching for but there is little to no information available. Choose the top 10 keywords that people search for in your topic area and use those to formulate your first 10 blog posts.

You need to immediately target the most popular keywords related to your subject. Even if they are very competitive phrases, you need to cover the basics of your blog before you move in to the focus areas.

2. Create Content That is Valuable to Your Readers

Once you have chosen the top 10 keywords, begin thinking about how you can create content that will be valuable to readers. In other words, try to brainstorm how you can make each of your posts solve a problem or answer a question. Not only do you need to quickly establish yourself as an authority, you need to make sure that your first readers think of you as being a good resource for their favorite subject.

3. Remember the Fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization

Be sure that you do not forget the fundamentals of search engine optimization, especially when you first start your blog. You will need all the help that you can get to draw attention to your blog from search engines. However, you need to have a healthy balance between content designed to please the search engines and content designed to please your readers. Don’t overdo your search engine optimization. Making sure that the keyword phrase is in the beginning, end and most paragraphs is usually more than enough.

4. Choose Targeted Advertisements and Affiliates

If you are going to use content to promote a product or service, make sure it is a product or service that your readers are likely to take advantage of. They need to be items that your readers will want to buy from you. For example, if you are writing a blog about show dogs and choose to attempt to market basic dog food, remember how unlikely your customers will be willing to order it from you unless you are one of the few sources. With this example, the conversion blockers for orders are likely widespread availability and high shipping costs due to the weight of the food. Identify these conversion blockers and attempt to squash or spin them. If you cannot, it may to time to consider more appropriate affiliates.

Additional to what is above, you may want to consider using an article writing service to keep your blogs fresh. This will allow you to focus your time and energy on marketing your blog and keeping up with other blogs. You can spend more time networking and commenting on your own blog posts as well as other blogger’s posts.

About Author :
Corry Cummings is the owner of ContentCustoms. He shares everything about writing skills such as article marketing, content creation, SEO copywriting and etc.

This is another weekend, as usual, each weekend I compile and share 10 useful and interesting articles from blogger fellows, article topics include blogging tips, affiliate marketing, make money online, traffic building, social media, search engine optimization and etc.

Obviously, I had more time online and writing articles this week, unfortunately my new house (not mine, my brother bought it and I stay with him) still doesn’t have network port, it might need to wait about few weeks or months, that’s killing people who have a blog and need to maintain regularly. Anyway, I would like to thank all the guest bloggers who submitted guest post on this blog and help to update and fill in more informative articles, I appreciate that. Febap Liew is one of the regular guest blogger on this blog and he is writing about make money online tips in BlogXic, she is good in writing and she knows what she is doing, you may visit her blog and read what she is writing.

Top 10 Sunday Killer Link Love Posts

1) 7 Things More Important Than Dofollow Links – SiteSketch101
My main objective here is to encourage you to do other things that will help you more than chasing a dofollow comment link. The jury is still out on whether or not comment links have ANY weight at all. I am actually running some tests right now with a clients site where that will be the only links we get for the site, but he is paying me to to so, I would never do that on my own sites.

2) How to Massively Improve Reader Participation on Your Blog – Blogussion
A blog is sup­posed to be a dynamic web­site; a place where blog owner and read­ers can come together in a sin­gle com­mu­nity designed to offer com­mu­ni­ca­tion and the relay­ing of thoughts. For the new blog, and even for some of the more estab­lished blogs, get­ting read­ers to par­tic­i­pate in dis­cus­sions and leav­ing com­ments can prove a dif­fi­cult chal­lenge. Take heart, though, because it is pos­si­ble by fol­low­ing a few guide­lines to improve blog reader participation.

3) 9 Sure Ways To Get Your Guest Post Rejected – DailyBlogTips
Getting a guest post accepted on a popular and relevant blog is not as easy as it seems. Below you’ll find 9 ways that are guaranteed to get your post rejected. Are you guilty of any?

4) The Niche In The Blogging Haystack – HowToMakeMyBlog
alk about being lost in the crowd, my chosen niche is filled with so much information on the web I’m surprised I’m at all where I am today. My competition is multi billion dollar companies with their company blogs, Doctors, p.h.d. types, anything that ends in ‘pedia’, professors, and tens of thousands of little voices like mine all wanting your attention on just one subject.

5) Blog launch: 5 Tips For Success – CatsWhoBlog
Everyday, more than 10,000 new blogs are created. But how many are still maintened 3 months later? Probably less than 1%. Launching a new blog is never easy. First, you have to make it known to the audience and get it indexed by search engines. But the biggest part of the work is to show your authority and make visitors come back to your blog. After launching several websites myself, I’m going to show you 5 tips to launch your blog successfully.

6) Why Your Blog Needs a Mailing List – Kikolani
For many bloggers, myself included, the thought of a mailing list is the furthest thing from their mind when starting out blogging. And many others think of mailing lists as only something you need if you are going to be selling your own products or affiliate products to your subscribers. This, however, is a false assumption. I would say that anyone who is looking to get into serious blogging should start creating a mailing list as soon as possible. This is why!

7) 5 Steps To Impressing A Longtime Jaded Blogger With Your Comments – FamousBloggers
I’ve been blogging for six years now. While there are certainly bloggers who have been around longer than that, six years still puts me into the “longtime blogger” category. In that time, I’ve written thousands of blog posts (on my own blogs, as well as blogging on many other blogs), so I’ve been able to experience all of the joys and all of the headaches that come with blogging. After fighting off nearly a million spam comments during those six years, I consider myself to be extremely jaded when it comes to assessing the worth of a comment.

8 ) 4 Tips To Help You Stay Focused on Your Blog – DailyBlogTips
Most people who blog also have a full time job or occupation (i.e., school), not to mention other personal activities (e.g., friends and family), so balancing everything can become tricky indeed. In fact if you don’t plan well your blog is probably the one that is going to suffer first. That is, when things get messy or overwhelming, most people just abandon their blogs.

9) 5 Keys to a More Successful Email Newsletter – SiteSketch101
Email newsletters are touted by many as one of the most profitable ventures online. Internet marketers are constantly bragging about how easy it is to make affiliate sales, to promote products and to drive traffic to websites. Email newsletters can accomplish all those tasks and more but there are a few things you might want to keep in mind as you work to maximize the effectiveness of yours.

10) Tips to use Google’s Keyword Research tool effectively – DailyBloggr
One of the most popular tools used by SEO’s in Keyword Rsearch is undoubtedly the Google AdWords tool. There are many other tools available, like WordTracker, Yahoo’s KW research tool etc, but Google’s is most reliable as SEO’s consider Google’s data more accurate. Oh! Wait, if you don’t know what Keyword Research is, its the process of finding out the most popular and searched phrases on the search engines so that one can optimize their website around those phrases increasing the chances of getting search engine hits from them. Let’s see how to make the best of Google’s Keyword Research Tool.

Recap Of The Week

1) 3 Effective Blog Marketing Strategies That I Use by Lee Ka Hoong

2) Web Design Progressively Gets More Sophisticated by Nikhil Narayan

3) Making Money Online With Resell Rights Products by Lee Ka Hoong

4) So You Think You Know Viral Marketing? Think Again by Febap Liew

Personal Ramblings

This week was slightly tiring as I was rushing something else. Anyway, I just went to a Japanese style event named “Bon Odori” yesterday, nothing special because it held once a year in Malaysia. Full of Japanese food stalls, and Japanese presentation at the stage, the area was crowded. I spent the day with my girlfriend and her family.

As I stated earlier, my new house doesn’t have the network port so I couldn’t online at home, so I’m writing this blog post in a cafe named “Old Town” which has wifi available. I’ve been using my current handphone Nokia 5700 for more than 2.5 years, I’m a Iphone fan and I’m planning to own Iphone4, unfortunately Iphone4 is not available in my country yet until September. Also, I heard that there was some problem with the antenna and has yet to be fixed. At the same time, I get to know that Samsung is launching an iphone lookalike phone named “Samsung Galaxy S”, 90% similar to iphone but the price is lower than iphone 1/3. I believe that Samsung Galaxy S is going to launch soon in my country and I’m planning for it.

How’s your day buddy?

This is a guest post by Febap Liew. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

How often are we led to believe in the exponential prowess of viral marketing? How specific are we to be certain of how viral marketing works and operates? As I began to ponder about this sort of question myself, being the usual curious me, I started to look around the internet for valuable information. To my surprise, I began to realize that I know nothing about viral marketing. In fact, my discovery led me to find out something much more extraordinary.

What does it really mean by viral?
adj. Of, relating to, or caused by a virus.

What is a virus then?
A minute infectious agent which, with certain exceptions, is not resolved by the light microscope lacks independent metabolism and is able to replicate only within a living host cell.

When I think of viral in such context, I think of zombies and Umbrella Corporation, seriously! How does a zombie react? Mindless, gruesome and serves only one purpose, to feed and spread their virus towards a far greater reach.

Are we really categorizing such infectious terms into our marketing strategy? Do you really want your readers to be mindless zombies so that they could spread what is it you have to offer?

No, inevitably, we don’t want mindless being. Therefore, what we want really is for your marketing strategy to spread exponentially like a virus!

The truth I have deliberately found out essentially what we are really working on is called consumer driven marketing. Consumer driven marketing is defined as a method of promotion that relies on customers helping to market an idea, product or service by choosing to share something with their friends. Such terms are better to be associated positively.

As far as we have gotten through, are you able to grasp hold of an idea or two about the difference between viral marketing and consumer driven marketing?

Inevitably, to some, you may think that may just be a play of words but distinctively, it is very crucial that we determine and set it apart. After going through what I am about to deliver, I am sure you will have a clearer state of definition to what really viral marketing as well as consumer driven marketing will be all about. After this, based on your personal preference, you can pick which sort of spread you are most interested to work on.

Viral marketing : Like a virus, it puts the host at a ‘passive’ state where it ultimately have no choice but to spread and pass on its ‘belief’. Talk about being contaminated.

Consumer driven marketing : Believes in self participation and positively active in its growth. It enables people to react based on self will and interest.

Viral marketing : Assumes that marketing itself will replicate by itself without having a care in the world.

Consumer driven marketing : Assumes that information are spread and shared amongst based on its value contents. It should only be applicable to share, it should also be worthy of performing so.

Viral marketing : Requires a supportive element to boost its marketing efficiency. Cute babies maybe or half naked women. ( I have really come across such methods and I wonder why. Now I know )

Consumer driven marketing : Consider a great amount to why and how people share and deliberately work on its favour.

After going through, what are you really marketing on? Viral marketing or really consumer driven marketing?

Therefore, stop spreading the ‘viruses’. Create something that you believe is of value and share it. Stop treating your audiences as ‘consumers’ but rather fans that would exponentially spread your course of work.

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Febap Liew is the owner of BlogXic. She shares everything that you would need to know on how to make money online on the world wide web.