Alexa new ranking system got a different effect on websites

There have been changes that Alexa is now implementing with its ranking system. The big question that most website owner now has is that how can it affect our traffic in our sites. Basically, it won’t affect our traffic but the ranking that they give us might fluctuate or increase. For years now they have been implanting the ranking that is based on the usage of their alexa toolbar. A lot are saying that it isn’t that reliable because we can change our alexa ranking by simply using their toolbar. A lot of site owners are complaining about this because it can’t be trusted so they sent a complaint on alexa. Provided some suggestion that I think Alexa has now considered. Now the alexa ranking system is based on the internet population’s interest on the site itself.

The last time I check my alexa ranking it was 2 million and now it has gotten to 12 million. I could say that the change has done me bad because my ranking has gotten worst while some of my friend on digitalpoints has now a better ranking. Different websites has their own story to tell on how the new ranking has changed their stats. I could only say one thing and that is we can’t ignore Alexa because they are one of the factors that the advertisers are looking into.

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The best deals in town

I remember when I first join them way back on January this year; they give me a freebie back then. Although, I can’t remember about the freebie because the information was deleted along with my blog. I really like this affiliate program because not only you will earn in two tiers but you can also submit your own affiliate program on them and capitalize on link building not to mention the sales that you will get once you have tried to have your own affiliate program. This is one of the reasons why I have joined them in first place. I like the fact that you are considered as one of the owners of this site when you become a member.

Once you have joined Dealdotcom they will be sending you deal of day for each day that you remain as a member. It is just easy to earn, all you have to do is to refer someone to their site and then you will get the referral fee every time your referral buys something from them. This isn’t a one time earnings because you can earn as long as the referral is buying something from them. If you got lucky you might also win the freebie of the day which is given to all members who have their information on their database. This is randomly chosen so you don’t really need to do something. Once chosen you can claim the price by login in your account and then claim the price for that day.

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Dane Carlson & his successful widget

When I was just starting on my online entrepreneurship I have encountered a widget that could tell you how much is your blog worth every time I‘ve been visiting some blogs. Although I was amazed by that widget, I didn’t bother to use it because I thought that the one who was using it was the one who make it. As time goes by, I notice this little widget on other blogs and got the idea that I can use it on my own blog. The widget that I am talking about is “How much is your blog worth” which measure the importance of your blog through Technorati. I don’t understand how it is computed but I came to like it because it can tell me how much important my blog is. I watched my blog grew from a mere hundred to thousands. I have never put it on my blog but I would always go to the site to check my blog’s worth. Every time I see a blog I like, I would check its worth using the site. So to say, I become its regular reader. This has been one of the best link baiter and brought visitors from a lot of blog to this site.

Who made it?

The one who made it is Dane Carlson. He likes to talk about business opportunities offline or online, although I am not interested on reading his articles I have become a regular visitor because of his widget. Making a widget is one of the best things to bring some traffic to your site. He has made use to this and now he is getting more traffic because of it. The site is business-opportunities.biz. I think that almost everyone in the industry already know him because of the widget which has made him popular.

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Dropping my way to Success

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you heard of Entrecard? Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is about using it to drive traffic. This article is all about using entrecard’s advertising power to your advantage.

When I first joined entrecard 3 month’s ago, I was so happy that they are sending me some traffic even if I’m not using the credits that have gotten when someone is advertising on my site. I thought that this will do me some favors because I was thinking of suing my advertising credit on a blog contest that I’m planning to have this year. It turns out that when I am not advertising the credits that is needed to advertise on my site will not grow and I also heard some cases that their credits to advertise on their blogs are decreasing because of no participation from the owners. It seems that the more you participate on the site the better you will get some traffic to your site. This is always true to social sites. Not participating on the activities will only mean that you are just wasting your time with them.

When I have found out about this just this month, I decided to use my credits to advertise and I have notice that whenever I advertise I also gain some credits. Although, it is just 1 credit. Those credits will add up to become bigger. I decided to 10 droppings a day to help get some visitors to my site, I notice in my dashboard that I get more visitors when I advertise compared to those time that I’m not advertising. Besides, this is a free way to advertise your site, you don’t need to get into the PPC market when you are just starting, and you can get a free advertising from this site.

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Got my Adsense ads running

I just got my Adsense ads running. I never run it at first because I thought that I would get ban and I don’t want to use them since I’m just developing my site. I never know that I can turn it off before. I guess that all my work with those forums is finally paying off because I couldn’t have known about it if I were not participating in the group discussion. I can say that this has been the advantage of my job which I have mentioned on my first posting .

If you can find the Adsense ads then it’s because it’s hidden and you can only see it once you have click the title itself. I don’t believe that having in front of my audience all the time will help on someone clicking it because they aren’t interested on the topic. The only who wants to click on it is those who are interested in it, so this is why I’m not displaying them in front of everybody.

I have found a great plug-in to which is available to all Wordpress users. This is plug-in is the one I’m using now to setup my Adsense. It is called the “All in One Adsense and YPN”. All you have to do is fill in some information on how you would like your campaign look like and it will do the rest for you. This has given us the convenience of setting up the campaign on just an easy way. You can even try some experiment with your ads campaign and run it from different position and random formats. This is truly a big advantage on Wordpress users. You can also set it to not show to yourself once you have tried to visit your site.

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The Shoe that has more money

Jeremy Schoe

No, this isn’t about a real shoe, this is about the blog known as ShoeMoney . ShoeMoney is created by one of the famous blogger Jeremy Schoemaker. They say that he is the arch-rival of rock star of the blogging world, John Chow . Although I’ve been hearing of him ever since I was working of forums. I never really try to know him because I thought that he was just one of those small time blogger who are doing it all to be notice. If wasn’t for John Chow mentioning in his blog that his nemesis is Shoemoney I wouldn’t visit his blog. John Chow said that one of the best ways to market your blog is to get a review at Shoemoney for just T-shirt with your own company or website. He also says that doing this my get my blog to be know in the blogging world. The first time I have visited his blog, I found out that I can be looking at a great blog here because the said blog is able to compete with John Chow who has been more than 5 years in the industry. The blog is dealing with tips on how to drive and market your blog. Like John Chow, one of his favorites is the videos. I think that making a video would definitely give you more visitors since you have the power to use YouTube on your advantage. One thing that I have notice about his post is that most of them are just short but he has been receiving as much traffic for those short posts. With these findings, I got a new idea that shorter post doesn’t mean that you will not get some attention to them. This is a good example of a short and meaningful post. This is a lesson that you should not try to make post that are longer but does not come from your own idea. Do not copy, what the other person post on his blog.

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John Chow and his blogging influence

I think that most of us by mow already know John Chow because he has been in the business for five years teaching us to be successful on the blogging industry. The only way I think that one may not know him is that is because he is just new in the industry and doesn’t know what to do in this world. I remember when I was starting my first blog that I tried very hard without any direction. It took me 4 months but I can’t go anywhere because no one has leaded me on how the things are done here.

It was only on January that I started following John Chow. I found him on ad from Adword. At first I was not an avid fan but as I was reading his articles I learned many things that I wish that I have done when I was just starting out. He has provided some many articles on how to bring traffic to my blog. Most of them involve SEO. This is the first time that I have learned about SEO and doesn’t really understand much about it, so I set my browser to his page whenever I’m opening my internet. This was the best thing that I have done in my life.

Every time that I have seen a new article I wouldn’t miss to comment on it. By commenting on the said article I was able to be one of the top commentators which also give me some traffic. This is one of the reasons why I like commenting on his blog. I can avail some of his traffic to my site. It is like a free advertisement on his blog.

Whenever he was ask on monetizing a blog, he always stated that work on traffic first then monetization will come. He is also the one that made me realize that traffic is more important than PR. A good traffic is best thing to get some monetization from your site. He also stated that don’t depend on Adsense alone but try to put more advertisement on your site. He said that if his site is monetized on Adsense alone then he will just earn $1, 000 a month instead of $30, 000 a month.

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Claiming your site on technorati

As I already stated before on my first post that this is my second blog that got its name from my first business blog, but because the URL is new and most of the post are only new then I have to submit this site to technorati again. I’m force to claim my blog again because this si the first thing that you must do in technorati in order to used their services. We have the right on how should we claim out blog. The first one being is the quick claim which is the easiest way because all you have to do is enter the username and password for the blog and you can claim your blog. The second one, post claim requires you to write a post about technorati and link it to your Technorati Profile . I have chosen the second one because this is a great way to have a review from your blog of the famous technorati site. Once that you have write a blog post for technorati then you can start releasing the spiders which will release the spiders that will claim your site.

Once you have claimed your site then you have the choice of deleting the claim information on your site. Honestly, I think that it would be a waste of time deleting such a post because you have spent some time and effort on it. Deleting it would only mean that you have waste another good post which could be valuable information to your readers.

Another thing that I like about technorati is that you can get some advertisement on them by just contacting their sales team. They didn’t state about the pricing so that is what you needed to ask to their sales team.

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Adding your site to every social sites

I thought of making a review about this site because it has always helped me in the past. The one thing about I like about this site is that you can get indexed by a lot of search engines because you can submit to as many social sites you want. You don’t need to add each social site to your own blog because they almost have a complete list. They have the most popular social sites around the net. Forget those social sites that aren’t known because they will not give you what you really like, the traffic.

So, what is ADDThis?

Basically, it’s a collection of the famous internet social sites that helps you gain access to a lot of readers. You can tap to a lot of audience if you will be submitting all of your articles to these social sites. Examples of these famous social sites are MySpace, FaceBook, Digg, StumleUpon, and a lot more. These are the best tool to help buzz into your site and drive numerous amount of traffic to your site. You can avail of these huge potential visitors with one click of a button.

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Blog Catalog and its Pulling Power

I can’t believe how fast my blog got accepted on BlogCatalog. This is not the first time that I have passed a blog and got accepted by them. The first time I pass a blog took me a week and it also took me 4 times to pass before my blog got finally accepted.

As this post imply on the title so I’m going to explain how it can be used to get some traffic to our site. The first thing that you must know about this social site is that you need to get your blog approved before you can get some visitor going to your site. Once approve then they will display your site’s url on their listing and that will help you get more traffics to your site.

Aside from getting those free traffics to your site, you can also buy some advertisement from them. Basically there are three types of ads to be you can choose your ads to be. Here are the following:

  1. Site Wide Sponsorships
  2. Exclusive Channel Sponsorship
  3. Niche Conversation Sponsorship

They don’t have many details about the price. I think that they have forgotten about on selling this to advertisers.  After you have chosen what are you going to use then you can head on over to filling in the form on the sidebar.  I have provided a picture of the form.

Blog Catalog inquiry form

The other thing that you can do get some additional visitors to your sit is by sponsoring a categories.

1. Category Position – for just $8/month, your blog will show in there category specific directory. This is only a first come, first serve basis.

2. Category Spotlight – for $120/month, your blog will be displayed on the top position of the category page. This will ensure you of more visitors to your site.

Sponsoring a category

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