Traffic = PR?

I guess the title of my post is pretty obvious. We all know that the algo has changed but to what formula? It seems to me that the higher our traffic, the faster our PR will rise. Is my observation correct? Now, it’s not that I want to give my blogs a fake traffic boost or anything but it will help my sanity if I at least do understand that why some blogs full of paid to post banners can still maintain their page rank while others without any, cannot!

Oh, on the other hand, I was told that some bloggers have a Page rank of 2 for the test blogs. I also have a blog that I set up especially to test templates before I mess with my proper blogs. As soon as I heard this piece of news from the other bloggers, I checked mine too. SIGH no luck lah!!! Isn’t it galling???

I wonder how long we have to suffer from being sandboxed. Errrmmm my friends, who went from PR4 to PR0 and now back to PR2 just by continuing to blog said that it was a dry six-month spell. Sigh…. there’s still a long way to wait.

A New Way to Monetize Our Blogs

Well, not exactly new, but I got your attention, didn’t I? Snap Bomb is a new blog marketing marketplace like so many others that we already know of.

When I was told of SnapBomb, I registered for an account and added my blogs to my account. Each blog is automatically valued and you can start checking out the marketplace for opportunities already. That’s right, they do not even have to review your blog for approval!

I may be new to SnapBomb but I am definitely not new to blog advertising. So, for all new members, we will have to write a review of SnapBomb before we are rated. The thing is, we were told to review the service and indirectly create a buzz for the company but we are not told of the minimum word length of our post and we can publish the review on any blog that we have added to our account. Once we have made a reservation to review an opportunity, we will be given a full twelve hours to submit our review.

Although I have checked through all the links on SnapBomb, I can’t seem to find any information on payment. All I know is that we will be paid via PayPal and this is great news for international bloggers. However, there’s no schedule listed or anything. And you know, bloggers are very sensitive when it comes to payment issues!

Anyway, let me try the service out first and give you a follow up later!

Have You Heard of Centrinads?

I came across this blog called Centrinads, the place where bloggers make money easily. How? Just by commenting on the posts. Is that easy enough?

From what I see, this blog is very new. It only has ten posts but once you are a registered member, membership is free, by the way, just comment on those posts and your account will be credited with US$0.60. Sometimes the payout is higher, depending on the post.

Once you have accumulated a minimum of US$10, you will be paid automatically to your PayPal. If you think that US$0.60 is a little low, just do the Math. How long does it take to read a blog post and leave a relevant comment?

Say It With Flowers

I am often asked by my male friends, what is the best gift to get, especially to their sisters, female colleagues, aunts and mothers. I tell them, for these women, whom we are supposed to be close to, but don’t know what they really want because they WOULD NOT let us know, it is best to say it with flowers.

We know they mean well by not wanting us to spend too much money on gifts BUT buying flowers need not be an expensive affair. Whether we are looking to purchase common flowers or exotic fresh flowers, Beyond Blossoms are able to cater to our flower giving needs.

People say that specific flowers convey specific messages so if you let the people of Beyond Flowers know what the special occasion is, just get a friendly consultation from them and you will never go wrong.

WordPress Designer Premium Theme Club Continues

A while back, I joined the premium WordPress theme club by WP Designer. After releasing four premium themes, the future of the club was a large question mark when the founder and designer decided that he needed something else in his life besides sitting in front of the computer. Boy, I need to make such a decision as well but it’s not going to be easy walking away from this kind of work. SALUTE!

Anyway, the club has found a new owner and I believe this person also knows something about creating premium WordPress themes as well or maybe he is going to hire someone to take on the task of coming out with at least one premium WordPress theme every month for 12 months.

Actually, the club fees is only US$5 per year which is already very cheap but the point of the club is to allow more people the chance to use premium WordPress themes for a low cost and I appreciate the idea behind it. Thankfully it will continue.

Buy & Sell Text Links The Hassle Free Way

Let’s admit it. The internet is a really competitive world. I started a few blogs and have been trying to build traffic while I publish quality content every couple of days. Improving link popularity is really a slow process but being impatient, I thought I’d speed things up a little.

A few months ago, I was reading the Digital Point forum and there was an limited time offer by TNX.net giving away 5,000 free links from quality websites to new members to try out their system. Of course I jumped at the chance.

I did a search on the web regarding TNX.net because I have not heard about it prior to reading Digital Point forum and it looks like this company is fast gaining popularity and membership. To date, there are already more than fifty thousand members with 23871636 links in the system.

Buying text links

Linking to your deep pages

Granted, the fear of being penalized by certain search engines for buying and/or selling links is very real BUT the key of doing it is to make your linking as natural looking as possible. From what I have learnt during my research lately to try to improve my new blogs, we need to build backlinks not only to our landing page but also, and particularly, to our deep pages.

Variety is the KEY

Another tip to note is variety in keywords. Just imagine, you would surely be giving the search engines an alarm if you suddenly had ten thousand sites [yes, TNX.net sells links so cheaply it is possible to acquire that many links with just ONE campaign!] linking to you with the SAME keyword within a couple of days. That is certainly not natural!

To aid buyers of text links in looking for natural keywords or key phrases, TNX.net created a Link Generator where we can use to generate highly competitive keywords or phrases relevant to our site.

Don’t look at page rank ONLY

Spread out your purchase to include sites that start from page rank 0 and above. Wouldn’t it be strange if ALL your newly acquired links are from sites with Page Rank 5 or 6 only?

The more important aspect, instead of looking at Page Rank, would be to look for relevancy of the site that links to you. Also, do not over look sites that are in a different language than your own.

Selling text links

As a webmaster who is continuously looking to monetize my blogs further, I did contemplate selling text links. Right now, I have not been that successful because of my Page Rank.

However, like I mentioned earlier, TNX.net also helps promote blogs and sites with PR0 so let’s hope that I get a little luck over here. By the way, TNX.net pays via PayPal. I say, the more avenues for us webmasters to earn, the better. SIGN UP with TNX.net and sell your text links on a per page basis. It gives you the potential to earn ten times more than other marketplaces that make you sell site wide links.

Oh yes, before I forget, TNX.net also has an affiliate program where webmasters can earn residual income!

WordPress 2.5

Did you read about the upcoming release of WordPress version 2.5? It is said that this is not an upgrade of the current version but was built from scratch with what we are familiar with right now plus plenty of improved features.

I tell you, although I may only have ten blogs that are powered by WordPress, I am shaking already. I am really afraid of all the extra work just maintaining the blogs. I wish the developers will just release a “final” version with all the updated security patches once a year. That would save us WordPress bloggers a lot of time!

I read that the new WordPress 2.5 allows us to change the colour of our dashboard. Although I don’t like the current shades of blue on our dashboard, really, the colour is the least of my concerns. All I want from WordPress is the ease of publishing my posts. That’s all.

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