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The master of blog marketing
April 14th, 2007 | 
Author: Whilst I’m feeling quite chuffed at moving from a 200k ranking on Technorati down to 100k in a couple of days John Chow is the true master of such things and presently sitting at number 154. Even better, his blog is there to help you make money online, in this particular instance by (hopefully) driving traffic to Foreign Perspectives. All that’s required is to link to his blog.
His blog is just filled with ways of making money online so all being well, once I’ve worked through them all, I’ll be able to give up the day job.
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Blogsite promotion
This seems to be my week for marketing the blog!
Most of the time, I’m incredibly lazy about doing it and it’s just gotten to where it is today by chance for the most part. In fact, I didn’t really do any promotion of it worth talking about ’til this week when it was something of a blitz that I’ve not yet recovered from. I started the week with the blogsite submission service at DirectoryVault which at $23 seems something of a bargain. To be fair, there was some duplication with the dribble of promotion that I’d done on a now and again basis over the last six months or so. Things like the obvious of Technorati and Feedburner mainly but it did turn up a considerable number of seemingly good places that I’ve never heard of before.
Then there was the Technorati favourites exchange on Wednesday which is still rumbling on and which has left behind a fair amount of work that I’ve still to catch up on at some point.
Finally on Thursday, I aided and abetted with the 2kbloggers list which may tootle on for a while as fellow bloggers catch up with it on their own blogs. Or perhaps they won’t as it causes a fair amount of hassle for a day or so after you post the list.
Is all this worth doing though? It’s impossible to say at the moment and even in a months time it’ll probably be hard to give a definitive answer. Certainly, if I’m pulling in $100 a day on adsense at that point I’ll likely attribute that to this weeks efforts but more than likely it’ll only be $1 and I might have pulled that in anyway. At present, the only thing that it’s safe to say is that my blog has a much higher profile in the blogging community than it did a week ago but that doesn’t necessarily mean that I’ll get significantly increased blog traffic once the efforts of this week tail off in the course of the coming week or so. What will be useful is the much improved ranking on Technorati as that should make it easier to attract links from related sites and it’s those that I think will make this weeks work worthwhile.
So now that it’s Saturday, I’m back to the other side of the fence and looking for ways to make money out of the blog and gradually working through a raft of sites that I’ve picked up. Most notably amongst those is that at Blogged-Out which has an enormous quantity of information regarding site promotion and, more importantly, making money out of it. I’ve barely scratched the surface of it at the moment and expect to be pinching great great ideas from Darren for ages to come.
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Technorati favourites exchange @ Foreign Perspectives
One of the blog marketing sites, DoshDosh recently suggested that it may be possible to get into the top 100 favourites on Technorati relatively easily.
Whilst we’ve all been beavering away in building up links back to our blogs, it will take a “while” to get to the top 100 linked to blogs as number 100 is currently sitting at over 3000 links. On the other hand, it would only require just over 100 200 people to favorite us to get into the top 100 favorited blogs which certainly seems in the realms of possibility.
Why bother though? Well, being in a top 100 list of anything is almost certain to increase the traffic on the blog and indeed quite likely to increase the number of blogs linking to us for that matter.
Anyway, if you’re interested in exchanging favourites in this way you can start the ball rolling by clicking 
and letting me know that you’ve done it in a comment to this post (quote your Technorati username so I can confirm the link).
A link back in a post would also be appreciated and reciprocated.
Those also offering link exchange are listed below:
List of blogs offering Technorati Favorites’ Exchange programmes:
- NiaTrading Signals – Alex 3071
- Domestic Divapalooza – Angela Llewellyn Stevens
- Anitokid by Anitokid –
- AskaX World – Andika Kusuma
- Tech Lock Rahul – Rahul
- Bigfoot Sightings – Linda Martin
- Azazil.net – Gary V. Vaughan
- Nukilan Jejari Azhad by Shaz Azhad –
- Fyais by fyais –
- BlogOp – Chris Lodge
- Design Adaptations – Charity Ondriezek
- Spyware, Adware and Security News
- Digital Information Technology – Atul Dogra
- How to Earn Money Blogging – Daryl Lau
- Make Money Online: Quick n’ Easy Way – EJ Cooksey
- Genius Type – Brian Lee
- Keeping Fit is a Daily Battle
- India PR Blog by India PR Blogspot –
- The Rojak Blog – Ap0gEE
- Lifecruiser – Lifecruiser
- Me and My Net – Anoop Kumar Singh
- Manila Mom – Maia Jose
- MLM Gossip
- Panda Cube – Aki Jinn
- Quasi Fictional – Diogenes
- Shankar’s Tech Blog 2.0 – Shankar
- ShanKri-La – Karthik Ramadoss
- Share Everything in Life
- Dox – Rahul
- My Online Collections by star500k –
- Table4Five – Elizabeth
- TechChee.com
- Ordinary Folk – Mike
- (weeding done to here)
- T Jantunen.com by T Jantunen –
- Vinod Live! by Vinod Ponmanadiyil –
- Online Business News – Tammy Ames
- Wampago – Chris
- Webtools@Desinet1
- Show Me The Money by Gerri –
- Armen’s Blog – Fave it
- Article Discovery Politics by David Greene –
- Philippine Home Design and Improvement Blog
- Home Based Business by Brian Pratt –
- Shakeroo’s Gold – Shakeroo
- Blue Sky Brothers – Greg Meares
- Brown Thoughts by Brown Baron –
- Business Sanity – Susan Martin
- CalvinWarr.com by Calvin Warr –
- Can’t Coach That by Coach McGee –
- Career Ramblings – Fave the Site
- The Pond – Karen
- ContentPays.info by Yogesh –
- Creative Design – David Airey
- Random Expressions – Deepak Jeswal
- Digital Phocus – Brendan Monaghan
- Dosh Dosh – Fave it
- Eat Drink & Be Merry – Fave it
- Ed Lau – Fave it
- eJabs.com by Matthew Jabs –
- Everyday Weekender – Fave it
- (exceptional) work.com – Jon
- Life in the Fast Lane by Deborah –
- Foreign Perspectives by Arnold –
- Gauravonomics by Gaurav –
- Hannes Johnson – Fave it
- Ramblings from the Marginalized – Fave the Site
- Homemaker Diary – MQ
- Internet Serious Business by The Troll –
- iReview – iReview
- JesterTunes – Jester
- Jimi Morrisons Head – Fave it
- Jon Lee – Fave it
- Julies Journal – Fave it
- Kabatology – Kabatology
- Klamath Design by Linda –
- Sleeping Princess
- MLM Forums online marketing blog by Jens P. Berge –
- MrGaryLee.com by Gary Lee –
- Msdanielle.com by Danielle –
- My Dandelion Patch – Fave it
- Nate Whitehill – Fave it
- Nathan Drach – Fave it
- Net Business Blog – Fave the Site
- Life Rocks! 2.0 by Nirmal T V –
- Real Amber – Real Amber
- Reality Wired – James
- Revvi::blog – Revvi Sudirnoputra
- Riskiraj by Rishiraj –
- Romance Tracker by Phil Van Treuren –
- Samanathon – Fave it
- Scribble on the Wall – Fave it
- Serendipity by Sharique–
- Shadow Scope by Richard –
- SiteLogic – Fave it
- Sizlopedia – Sizlopedia
- SMO Blog – Mark Blair
- SMS Today by Foxtucker–
- Square Cookies – Square Cookies
- SquareCookies
- Stephen Fung – Fave it
- Syaf the Geek by Syafrizal Abu Mansor –
- TechLivez.com – Tech Livez
- Technacular by Vikas Sah –
- TechnoDiary – Sahil Gupta
- Technospot.net by Ashish Mohta –
- TeknoBites by Ram –
- The Blog Columnist – The Blog Columnist
- Filipino Entrepreneur by Filipino Entrepreneur –
- The Thinking Blog by ilker yoldas –
- Untwisted Vortex – RT Cunningham
- UrgentClick by Andy –
- Vacilamos! – Ari
- Online Diary – Venu
- VersaCreations by Vivienne Quek –
- My Affiliate Journey
- Inklings: The Copywriter’s Blog by Walter Burek –
- My Life My Story –My Passion – Yong Kai Loon
- Zath by Simon Barker –
- Digital Art World Blog –
- Blogtology –
- The Outsider’s View – Javier Altman
- Making Money through Internet – MarriedMelody
- Earn Money on the Web – Kent
- Blogs et IE – T@Blogoshere
- Spark Minute – David Spark
- Uncleboob – Uncleboob *
- IT Experts Central – IT Experts Central *
- Tech Freak – Kanak *
- sophistishe – Sheena *
SUGGESTION: once you’ve gone through and faved everyone on this list, add a comment saying you’ve done that and subscribe to the comments. That’ll pick up anyone new appearing here. ‘Tis also worthwhile to run up a favourites exchange page of your own; if you do, mention that here and I’ll add you on which get’s both of us a link.
IMPORTANT: I’m running various separate blog promotions at the moment so you need to put a comment here to say that you’ve favourited me as I can’t tell from the Technorati info whether or not new favourites are arriving because of this post.
TRAVEL/EXPAT/IMMIGRATION/EMMIGRATION RELATED SITES: let me know if your blog covers topics in the areas of travel, expat or immigration/emmigration matters as I will consider blogroll exchanges with sites in those areas.
WEEDING: a number of those listed here are no longer participating in the exchange; I’m in the process of weeding out those that aren’t so this list will be shrinking drastically over the next few days weeks months.
LINK BACK: As I have dofollow for comments, you should automatically get a linkback to your blog when I approve any comments written here. I’d appreciate it if you’d return the favour 🙂
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As we write this we are languishing at PR2 which is “below average” but then we’ve only had this domain registered for a fairly short time.
What is a little peculiar to look at are some of the values the pagerank prediction tools are producing at the moment for the site.
For me, the most interesting collection of little site monitoring tools is that at iWebTool which has recently changed it’s prediction from a quite respectable PR5 to a PR6. Will we get that next time round though? I can’t honestly see us sitting at PR6 this time next month (the pagerank review is due in early April) but PR5 would be quite nice. They arrive at these predictions basically by looking at the number of backlinks (ie links to) our site. So, when the last pagerank review came up a few months ago we had around 1000 links to our site and thereby ended up with PR2. That was a so-so start though I think we’d have been PR3 if the site had been in operation longer. Now though we have almost 10,000 links to the site picked up by iWebTool and almost as many again when I look at the site via google’s webmaster tools. That’s more links than all the rest of my sites put together so I think it’s fairly safe to say that the minimum PR next time will be 4 and might be 5 if the site is now old enough for it’s age not to act as a drag on the pagerank. Does the pagerank really matter though? Well, the figure quoted by google probably doesn’t but what is obvious is that the pagerank that they’re using internally for FP is much higher than PR2 as the site appears considerably higher in searches than it did a few months ago (or even last month for that matter). Ironically, all this improvement in FP has happened despite me doing virtually no promotion of the site whereas even with a good deal of effort being put into promoting a number of my other sites, none have had the performance improvement that FP has had. So great is that improvement, that I’m toying with the idea of restructuring some of the sites as blogs. |
