This article helps you to understand how to comment effectively on other blogs to boost the ranking of your website or blog. You might say… I know all that! But stay with me, you might get some handy tips in this article.

To get a link back to your site from a blog, you simply enter a comment at a blog like this:

I know many of you go to blogs which use the "KeywordLuv" script to get links. By the way, it allows you to put "YourName@YourKeywords" in the Name field (The blog links back to your site with "YourKeywords") — and that's fine. But soon you'll run out of these KeywordLuv blogs.

Then simply find blogs which are "Do follow" blogs (See below how to find them) and comment in the "Name" field with your keyword like I did above. In the name field I put "Riggie - Internet Business".

Most webmasters won't mind this… and I get a useful link with the keyword "internet business" back to my site. This is all you have to do… enter your name and your keyword in the "Name" field and you have a link back to your site, that's if the blog is a "Do Follow" blog.

To find those "Do Follow" blogs…

… go to ezbusinessneeds.com and repository101.com which are free websites helping you to find "Do Follow" blogs. Or get a piece of software called Fast Blog Finder which does a great job finding "Do Follow" Blogs. It does a pretty good job of finding "Do Follow" blogs too.

The software allows you to enter keywords, and goes off to find "Do Follow" blogs. It even shows you how much PR and outbound links a blog has. Now you can easily and quickly comment on one or two blogs in a day

I'm often asked how often one should comment on other blogs. Well, just like with any other method you apply to boost your site, use blog commenting as a part of your linking strategy. I personally wouldn't post more than one or two comments a day, as the search engines may pick up an "unnatural" amount of commenting which is linking to my site.

So… get links from article directories, web directories, web 2.0 sites etc. and simply include blog commenting.

A fun way to get people to read your posts
and to brand yourself on the net,

is to add your photo at gravatar.com. You simply create a free account and then go to Account –> Add an Image. Then you add an image of yourself…. and voila… you photo appears next your comments on most blogs! Very cool.

In closing, remember to post quality articles to your own blog at least twice a week, and probably a maximum of twice a day. This gives your own blog a solid reputation on the net, and other blog owners will gladly post on your blog too

Well I hope this article helped you a step further in your quest to succeed in linking to your site. Please comment and let me know what's on your mind…

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There is a hard way and an easy way to create a website and make money  for your off-line business or on-line internet business.

The hard way to create income is to try and find out what works by trial and error, or by getting overwhelmed by internet marketing e-books. In other words, wasting a lot of time trying to figure out what to do.

The easier and quicker way is to use this simple formula to get traffic quickly and actually make money selling your own product or affiliate products. The secret is to use  these following 5 steps to get traffic and make sales for your website or blog:

1. Add Content at Least Twice a Week to your Site

Make sure you update your website or blog with content at least twice a week.

This will help your site to get crawled regularly by the search engines and help you to keep your traffic growing as time goes on. Your goal should be to get a few visitors a day for each article you write. Once you've written 100 articles… you'll definitely get loads of traffic!

2. Use LSI to get your article found in the Search Engines

Make sure you learn to use a Latent Semantic Indexing tool to write effective articles. Download this LSI Tool today.

This tool will help you write articles which will be seen as very relevant to your topic by the search engines. Your article will then be found for many different keywords which your potential visitors search for.

3. Submit Your Site to Key Web Directories

There are key Web Directories you must submit your website or blog to when you first create your website. Search engines don't place much value on most directories, so you must submit to the ones they value. Here's a partial list of directories which Google values:
- Yahoo.com
- JoeAnt.com
- Gimpsy
- GoGuides
- WOW Directory
- Somuch.com
- BOTW.org

Most directories cost about $30 - $80. Only Yahoo costs $299 per year, which is worth it as Yahoo gives your site a tremendous authority boost with Google.

4. Use Quick Linking Techniques to Get Your Site Ranked Well

To speed up getting links for your website, you can go to Linkvana and 3WayLinks. These sites help you to get one-way links to your sites relatively easily.

They're not cheap, but will save you loads of time searching for links. And they'll help your pages get ranked a lot quicker.

Remember to comment on blogs and get even more links to your websites. Some sites (like my blog here) use the KeywordLuv plug-in which allows you link to your site with the keyword of your choice. Find a list of these blogs at http://www.untwistedvortex.com.

5. Additionally Create an Adwords Campaign

Make sure you always run a Google Adwords advertising campaign parallel to your search engine campaigns. It will always increase your traffic and your sales.

What are your secrets to setting up a successful website? Let us know….

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Many entrepreneurs make basic marketing mistakes either because they don't know about these mistakes, or they don't have an effective system to avoid them.

This article is about the simple, basic mistakes you must avoid in order to make consistent profits with your business.

1. Failing to Master the Primary Function of Your Business

It amazes me how many businesses don't master their core business. By this I mean, if you own a grocery store in town, do you have the basic items and brand names your customer buys on a daily basis… in stock all the time?

You should, as your customers rely on you to have these items in stock when they need them. And if you don't, they'll shop somewhere else.

Now think about your business. Do you have a system in place for you business, which allows you to master the primary functions in your business so your customers are happy in their dealings with you?

You don't need to master marketing or become a business guru. Simply set up a solid system and master your core business, so your customers get what they wanted from you in the first place.

2. Not Specializing and Targeting a Specific Market

Small business owners seem to 'forget' who their customers really are and don't realize they need to specialize. Seeing they don't have a huge advertising budget, almost all small businesses need to specialize.

This allows them to compete with a small advertising budget.

Decide what you what to specialize in and decide which customers you want to go after. And then simply go after your target market every day.

3. Failing to set up a Database of Prospects and Clients

You may think this is obvious, but I still come across many entrepreneurs who are too lazy to set up a database of prospects and clients. If you have a brick and mortar business, you too can easily do it too.

Simply collect the email addresses of every prospect and customer you meet and add them to an autoresponder program such as aweber.com.

Then build a relationship with them by sending them valuable content and offers you can sell to them.

4. Not Systematically Following Up on Leads

Make sure you keep in contact with your existing prospects and customers at least twice a month. I notice many small business owners 'forgetting' this step too. If you don't keep building a relationship with your prospects and customers, they'll forget about you and buy elsewhere!

Remember they've already purchased from you and trust you. Selling additional products to them is easier than find and selling to new prospects.

5. Failing to improve the Usability and Conversion of Your Website

How many visitors on you blog or website are you converting to subscribers or customers? How easy is it for your visitors to understand what to do on your site?

To improve the usability of your website, make sure all links are blue and underlined, for example. Web visitors are used to seeing blue links.

You can also increase the size of your "Buy" or "Subscribe"buttons. It almost always increases conversions. Also make sure you eliminate all distractions which will stop your visitors from buying or subscribing on your site, especially on the order pages.

Distractions could mean links to other sites or any unnecessary things which distract your visitors from buying or subscribing on your site. This also increases conversions.

So study your websites and blogs, and make sure it's clear what your visitors must do on your site. Also investigate how you can increase the conversion rates so you can turn more visitors into buyers.

Do you have any additional marketing mistakes we should watch out for?

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