Your New Products Monthly

This is cool and is asking you for backlinks back to yourself. One way links OK not anchor text but I’m going to investigate this somewhat further and update asap. However I did post two links pointing back to my mini reveiw of Internet Marketing Success Formula and see a little inbox stampede of 4 sign ups for Sorens free eBook.

What is ListCamp?

Seems to be a catalouge of lists compiled by it’s users and it is very very new or as yet very under used. I’m quite happy that a resource recommended by Stephen Pierce has a link back to my site on it’s front page right on the home page a link to my post 5 ways to make money from plr.

Click the What is list camp heading above and you’ll be taken back to their about page. There is not a huge deal there but this is the point in this social networking and bookmarking site that you can gain alot of exposure to your articles that contain lists because it is in it’s infancy you can build up a pressence. It’s a good idea people love lists.

It is being whispered about now at the very least get accross there and add a list of your products and services.

KillerStartups.com - list making fun

Welcome back!

Ok social networkers here’s a new twist to the tale. We all look for some added functionality for our online networking capabilities how about if you could combine the power of digg and twitter to let those who veiw your feed at twitter have a feast of your recent diggs. Well now you can with this cool little offering.

Some potential drawbacks might be annoying the hell out of your current following at twitter if you digg 20 posts a day. I do about 2-3 so I don’t think I’ll really piss of my following especially when they start to notice some of their best posts in the twitter feed.

Although the benefits could be multiple growth in the amount of diggs that you and your network receive and end up on the front pages of Digg. Plese bear in mind there is no point ending up on the front page of Digg.com if there is nothing for them to read when there get back to your website that has any value at all to them.

Find me on Twitter.

mind me on Digg.

If your in the internet marketing niche and you post decent content on this site you are in serious danger of me using these tools to promote your site. If you link to my site you are in much greater danger.

Stumble it!

That’s the first reason it’s easy to use they give you loads of free tools for example buttons to add to your website for people to share your content with others other places that you can make kenny ritchie public.

Why do I have a sudden love of StumbleUpon?

Well I’m a bit of a stats junkie and I’d never miss a jump in traffic of any note now having a look at my cpanel and mybloglog stats there has been some recent spikes and the refering url’s have been stumbleupon.

Anything to do with me? - well yes I commented on some sites with some helpful remarks and their owners have come back to mine to see the value of the links back to them and low and behold submitted my blog post to 5,946,241 members wow.

What has the value been to me in the last few days I’ve had 26 unique visitors and 110 unique visitors to this site with no furter effort from myself. So the point of linking to other bloggers is not only the fact that they may link back toyou at some point in the future but also the fact that they might just understand how social networking works and drive some traffic to your site because it links to theirs.

What features does StumbleUpon Have?

It’s not a search engine like google it targets the content the veiwer has requested to veiw by tag. Anyone can suggest a site or a blog url to StumbleUpon and give it a classification or tag. I have tagged quite a few recently and will become a much more active on this site it is simply genius.

Stumble Upon will update the sites you are surfing through depending on what you have told it in the past making it a perfect research tool and an almost necessary addition to every student,marketer or information junkie on the planets arsenal of tools.

A peer to peer rating system that will make great stuff be veiwed by thousands without any input from the author.

Web 2.0 and social networking are important to your future personal and business needs check out this recent post at web20portals.
This Free E-Book will explain everything you could ever need to know about this.
A Top Internet Marketer understands this concept.

Aside from linking to some very highly trafficed site you should be frequenting places like PRweb for their content. No matter what your marketplace is there will be some related content over here.

I was researching for blog traffic sources and training in Prweb when I happened accross a press release of the first article of bloghology So I went ove to the site and there is a host of articles there that you can gain some valuable insights into the psychology and marketing of blogs. I especially liked the article how can color influence your site? Have a look and let me know if I’ve got mine right.

Some more relevant info from PRWeb.

BlogCatalog Boosts Blog Readership with new Social Networking tools
Premier Blog Directory Announces New Paid Search Designed to Boost Blogger’s Blog Traffic

Social networking is perhaps one of the most under-utilised and important aspects of marketing that has evolved in the last couple of years. Technological change has quickened and there is a growth within the internet marketing niche of peer to peer marketing. There are hundreds of different ways you can drive traffic to your site from social sites and others that rank highly. Did you know you can get traffic from cnn? No neither did I but I am excited about it.

We’re not alone multi-national corporations are employing bloggers, using facebook and myspace and even incorporating twitter into their marketing mix. Blogging and business in general should be more social, I’m certainly looking at makeing this site more interactive, yahoo’s bloglogs looks a cool little widget. If you haven’t read the social networking black book yet 40,000 others have done so free are you competing on a level playingfield? a great tip I’m going to explore further from this source is utilising the power of mobile phones to drive traffic to your blog. You can find out more from the original post is your blog mobile friendly yet?

Why get involved well your looking for people that are already active in your niche who promote similar but not directly competing products. You’ll have a fair idea what a joint venture is and why the above statement is important. The people you network with are in business already and are obviously like yourselves trying to turn a profit.

A hot topic is how you can extend your exposure with the same content. My own musings on this may be of little consequence to you but what I would highly recommend is having a look at the social marketing black book. This has not been downloaded over 40,000 times for no reason.

There are over 50 social marketing strategies in here so please don’t be overwhelmed have a look at a few a day and implement more regularly what works best in your own environment. Don’t get cluttered and keep adding things that work for you remember every page of your website should have a purpose and you should be clear about that before you start throwing new things at it.

Did I say get the black book yet.

Thought so
Thanks for reading
Have an excellent day.
Kenny Ritchie.

Now this works both ways, a blog is a kind of community. That’s probably the reason that blogs are found in the social networking categories at the likes of clickbank and paydotcom.

WHY oh WHY would you link from your blog to another blogger? Search engines love outbound links as long as they are links to related sites. A link to an authority in your field is not a bad thing but if you link to someone who has 2,000 unique visitors a day they may not notice the juice that you squeezed for them if 20 of readers click through to their site. So are they likely to reciprocate the link?

I’ll leave that to yourselves to decide the answer.

Now look at the situation from a different standpoint lets say you link to another blog for example someone who is up and coming in your niche you’ve read some of their articles and like them they don’t seem to be getting too many comments on their blog why would you link to this site?

Well in this case the blogger would almost certainly notice the traffic that you sent them, it may be a turning point for them and the start of potential joint venture opportunities and of course future backlinks to your site. A blog that certainly looks nice talked about free themes for your blog.

Gary Jordan I’m sure will be around for a long time to come so might be one for your bookmarks guys. Well I’ll certainly keep an interest.

I’ve just looked at Odinn’s blog and he’s updated his theme and it looks lovely as well if your finding it all too much doing all the tasks online yourself you can always listen to Odinn he’s just said “hire my virtual assistant“. What I’d love Stacy to do is to tell me where Odinn got that killer theme, and a copy of the code for the optin box would be greatly appreciated.

If you’ve not got the message it’s similar to forums just be even more respectful of the site owners they do not want to spend their day deleting spam posts. That’s about it for today however if you haven’t got Odinn’s massive-traffic-flood yet really consider it.

Everyone is looking for more traffic. So how can you get some more for your Blog?

Here are some and I’ll look at them in more depth over the coming days

1. Joint Related Forums - Now don’t post rubbish. When you do that you’ve instantly lost the respect of your new public. Look for threads that you know something about and can add value to the ongoing discussion. Leave your future prospective readers wanting more and you’ll get visitors to your blog. Generally each forum will allow you a signature file us this to drive traffic back to your blog. A favorite forum of mine is Russell Brunson’s Conquer Your Niche Marketing Forum click this text and get involved.
2. Comment on other blogs - very similar to forums add value to the ongoing discussion and people will seek you out to find out more about you and what your all about. DO NOT post lame comments like I agree what a great article, your wasting your time and that of everyone that reads it. If you have posted similar leave a link to the thread. Leave links of love from your blogs if you love a post at another blog link to it with no thought of receiving a backlink other blog owners will notice you.Because they will suggest and add ways you can generate traffic, here’s a post about an overlooked website traffic method frm Lynn Terry.
3. Submit articles to directories - If you post articles on line you are allowed generally an about me box, leave a link back to your blog, If you enjoyed the article you can read more at yourblog.com. The article length in my opinion is irrelevant as short or as long as you want but the point is it should leave your reader wanting more and should have a way of finding you.
4. Social Networking - Facebook, Twitter you name it Web 2.0 is big and will get bigger. Find people of a similar nature and comment upon what is going on in their lives get involved marketing is now a social event. I was slow on the uptake here as admitted previously.
5. Start an email list- And if you haven’t subscribe to mine. Top right corner of the page guys - always always make it clear to people what they are required to do next. Ps I’ll only send you blog updates or stuff that I genuinely believe will help your online presence or learning.
6. Use Lists - Search engines as well as people love lists. People tend to get all the way to the bottom which is where we are for today thanks for reading.