Most of you probably already know that you can boost your search engine rankings by getting back links to your site, but how many of you are using blog comments to get back links?

There are a lot of people out there that will tell you don’t bother to use blog comments because all the blogs have no follow tags now and the search engines don’t record the links.

It is true that the search engines usually won’t follow links with the no follow tag. But more and more you are finding blog that have disabled the no follow tag in the comments section.

When WordPress is installed it automatically configures your blog to have no follow tag on comment but there are some blog owners that want you to comment so they will use a plugin to remove the no follow tags, either completely or based on the number of comments you leave.

But you should I am going to cover blog comment etiquette before I tell you how to find these blogs that will remove the no follow from your comments.

Any comment you leave on a blog MUST have something to do with the content of the post.

If the post you are commenting on is about WordPress plugins don’t leave a comment about sports fishing. This is common sense but you would be surprise at how many comments like this I delete.

You shouldn’t put a link in the body of your comment unless it is directly related to the post and is information that won’t fit in the comment itself, such as a video.

I personally have my comments set up so that if you put links in the body of the comment it will go to moderation and not be posted until I get around to reviewing the links. This might be done quickly or it might take me a week to get to it. Remember, some people never check the comment moderation.

The name field for the comment form should only be filled with your name or moniker and a moniker should only be used if it describes you or your business accurately. Don’t stuff the name with keywords if you start doing this you might have some blog masters ban you and put you on the spam lists. You can have keywords in your moniker but only if they apply (as stated above) to you personally or your business but you are always better of using a name that can be used to recognize you.

That is brief overview of comment etiquette, basically it is the “Golden Rule” don’t do anything on another person’s blog you wouldn’t want done on yours. But I bet there are still of bunch of you asking why you should bother if the no follow tad is in place?

There are a few reasons why you should leave comments even if there are no follow tags, such as:

1.With or without the no follow tag it is still a link to your site. You can get over 1000 links to your site by leaving 5 comments a day for a year. These links will be seen by 1000’s of people that might come to your site.

2.If you comments adds value to the topic of the post the author and readers will start to recognize your name and you will be branding yourself as an expert.

3.If your comment is informative you will also find that a lot of the readers will click on your link to find out more about you.

4.Just because the major search engines abide by the no follow tag doesn’t mean everybody does. The last time I checked Ask would follow no follow tags and there are some ad services that do their own back link testing that will follow these links and this could raise the amount you collect for showing their ads.

There are the reasons to not worry about the no follow tag but what if you want to find blogs that don’t use the no follow tag in the comments?

One way is to go to the blog and find a post with comments and look at the page source, find the comment and see if it has no follow tag on the link. This is a pain but it works.

An easier way is to use FireFox or Flock browser (If you are not using one these you should be) and get the SEO for FireFox addon (It works in FireFox and Flock) you can find it as SEOTools.com or just search for it in Google.

This plugin will provide you with a lot of SEO information but it will also highlight any links that have no follow tags in red. If you find a post with comments if the name for the comment is highlighted in red it has no follow tags. Don’t worry if you get tired of the red highlights you can turn the plugin off with a click at the bottom of your browser.

People that run WordPress blogs want you to leave comments and they don’t want spam comments so a lot of them have started using a plugin that rewards the people that comment frequently, this plugin is called Lucia’s Linky Love.

How it works it the owner of the blog can set the plugin so that after so many posts the no follow tag is removed from the comments of that person.

It checks the name and email address to see if this person has ever commented before and keeps track of all the ones that match. If you use different names (which has already been pointed out as a no no) or different emails you will never have the no follow tags removed.

The blog master gets to choose the number of comments it takes to qualify for no follow tag removal, the minimum number is 3 and the maximum is whatever they feel like. I usually see it set between 3 and 5 which means you have to make 4 to 6 post before you get a back link to your site.

How do you find blogs that use Lucia’s Linky Love plugin? The easiest way is to use Google’s Blogsearch, put your keywords in quotes and then put a plus sign and then Lucia’s Linky in quotes and do you search. It should look something like this “keyword phrase”+”Lucia’s Linky” you results should sow you posts that are related to your keywords and using Lucia’s Linky Love plugin.

I use this on my blogs and I have it set at three. Because I read the comments and if they are spammy I delete them manual link spammers never get the three links they need. This encourages better comments and more comments.

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In reality, you do not have to offer such a “heavyweight” download such as a full-feature software like iTunes. You can attract prospects equally well with some quality freebies such as a simple report, a free wallpaper, and so on. The important thing is that your download offers enough value for the prospect to be willing to give away his/her own email address to get it.

Minimizing Load Time Through Image Optimization:Even though more and more Internet users switch to broadband every year, a sizable portion of the web’s population is still running on good old dialup connections. It is therefore unwise to count them out of the equation when you’re designing your website, and a very major consideration we have to make for dialup users is the loading time of your website.

Generating Revenue With Good Planning:For anything to work well, care must be taken to make firm, workable plans to execute it and the same goes for website designs. With a well thought out website design, you will be able to create a site that generates multiple streams of revenue for you. In fact, may websites turn into online wasteland because they are not well planned and do not get a single visitor. Gradually, the webmaster will not be motivated to update it anymore and it turns into wasted cyberspace.

Another route you can take is to design your website yourself. Think about it, if you only need 5 simple pages to present some simple information, why waste hundreds of dollars for it? Just spend a little time to sit down and do it yourself. You’ll be able to design your own sites even if you do not know a single line of HTML code with the help of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) programs such as Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and so on.

When you have a broader, better-defined scope of themes for your website, you can sell space on your pages to people interested in advertising on your page. You can also earn from programs like Google’s Adsense and Yahoo! Search Marketing if people surf to those themed pages and click on the ads. For this very reason, the advertisement blocks on your pages need to be relevant to the content, so a themed page fits that criteria perfectly.

Apply visual representations for the problems and solutions that your product offers. Not everyone will read your text copy from the head to the tail, but most people will pay attention to images on your website.

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How do you choose a cell phone and calling plan that is right for you? Over the life of your phone, the calling plan service will cost more than the phone itself. Especially if the phone is free. You should choose the most cost-effective calling plan from a carrier with good coverage in your area. With all the competition for subscribers among carriers, monthly and per-minute costs of wireless calling has gone down dramatically.

Subscribers can keep their existing wireless phone number and even their landline based numbers when starting or transferring service to a new carrier. With the right calling plan, a wireless phone shouldn’t cost much more than a landline phone. Every day more people are switching to wireless and giving up their landline service altogether.

There are a few terms you need to be familiar with. TALK TIME: The total amount phone use, typically measured in minutes, for both calls placed and calls received. PEAK MINUTES: Talk time minutes used during the prime calling periods when the carrier networks are most active, typically between 6am and 9pm Monday through Friday. OFF PEAK MINUTES: Talk Time minutes used outside of prime calling periods. ROAMING: Wireless phone used outside of a customer’s home calling area or carrier network coverage. MOBILE-TO-MOBILE MINUTES: Minutes used for calling or receiving calls from another customer on your carrier’s service network.

Today’s wireless phones enable you to receive and send instant messages, check or send e-mails, and synchronize with your PC contacts, e-mail, calendars, and more. These features make the truly wireless lifestyle a reality.

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If you are like me you have spent countless hours on the internet looking for that next great opportunity so you can spend more time at home.

Down Falls:

It all reads fantastic, make six figure income only work 4 to 5 hours per week, then you start filling in forms then you are overwhealmed with emails asking for your credit card. You then decide go give one a go and nothing happens, why it seems you missed the boat.

Okay how can we find the next Great Business Idea

* Find something that is in Pre Launch * Something that you can register for Free * Make sure there is no money down * Have the feel you are getting in at the ground level

Okay how can we find this opportunity

We can start to search the internet, looking for these ideas, they can take hours, aren’t we back to square on. My advice is sign up for couple and see what comes of them. See that there is a bit of buzz about it. Look at past ideas that have worked and see if you can see this working. You must feel comfortable with the idea after all this could be your new job, your new passion. Your Income. If you are passionate about it your have a much greater chance of success.

I have spent countless hours researching into the next big idea- making sure I can get in on the ground floor, doesn’t cost anything or a fortune.

This maybe the opportunity, feel free to check it out here.

THE NEXT BIG THING.

Finding the Risks:

Life I guess is a risk, sometimes without a step in the unknown we will stay in the circle we know. If your in the circle you know and don’t like take a step.

Without that step we may not of walked on the moon.

This could be the business opportunity that helps make 2009 the year of the dollar.

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If you are like me you have spent countless hours on the internet looking for that next great opportunity so you can spend more time at home.

Down Falls:

It all reads fantastic, make six figure income only work 4 to 5 hours per week, then you start filling in forms then you are overwhealmed with emails asking for your credit card. You then decide go give one a go and nothing happens, why it seems you missed the boat.

Okay how can we find the next Great Business Idea

* Find something that is in Pre Launch * Something that you can register for Free * Make sure there is no money down * Have the feel you are getting in at the ground level

Okay how can we find this opportunity

We can start to search the internet, looking for these ideas, they can take hours, aren’t we back to square on. My advice is sign up for couple and see what comes of them. See that there is a bit of buzz about it. Look at past ideas that have worked and see if you can see this working. You must feel comfortable with the idea after all this could be your new job, your new passion. Your Income. If you are passionate about it your have a much greater chance of success.

I have spent countless hours researching into the next big idea- making sure I can get in on the ground floor, doesn’t cost anything or a fortune.

This maybe the opportunity, feel free to check it out here.

THE NEXT BIG THING.

Finding the Risks:

Life I guess is a risk, sometimes without a step in the unknown we will stay in the circle we know. If your in the circle you know and don’t like take a step.

Without that step we may not of walked on the moon.

This could be the business opportunity that helps make 2009 the year of the dollar.

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A good friend recently showed me a great new tool for SEO. It is called Unique Article Wizard.

I am under a clause of confidentiality so I can’t tell exactly how it works. But I can tell you what it does for you and why it’s beneficial. In a nut shell it creates unique articles from the articles you write and then submits them to thousands of directories. It leaves anchor texted links on the submitted pages pointing back to your site.

Just yesterday I took an hour to write 3 articles, and the wizard turned those three articles into over 2,000 unique posts. It even gives you the option of sending some of the automatically created articles to your blog or emails. And for only $67 per month, it is well worth it. But you have to actually use it.

There are other automated programs that submit to bookmarking sites and things like that, but those are very weak links that aren’t worth much in Google’s search engine. For maximum SEO you need relevant links. BMD is probably the most popular and it is $120, but again it only gets cheap links.

By writing the articles your self you are able to generate pages that are relevant to your site’s niche, and thus get incredibly strong links to boost your rankings in Google for whatever niche you want.

They also give a 100% money back guarantee so if you don’t like it you can just cancel the account and move on.

It is totally worth it to try. Click the link in my signature that says Unique Article Wizard. Use the program a few times, and if you don’t like it get your money back. It’s super easy to use.

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If you are like me you have spent countless hours on the internet looking for that next great opportunity so you can spend more time at home.

Down Falls:

It all reads fantastic, make six figure income only work 4 to 5 hours per week, then you start filling in forms then you are overwhealmed with emails asking for your credit card. You then decide go give one a go and nothing happens, why it seems you missed the boat.

Okay how can we find the next Great Business Idea

* Find something that is in Pre Launch * Something that you can register for Free * Make sure there is no money down * Have the feel you are getting in at the ground level

Okay how can we find this opportunity

We can start to search the internet, looking for these ideas, they can take hours, aren’t we back to square on. My advice is sign up for couple and see what comes of them. See that there is a bit of buzz about it. Look at past ideas that have worked and see if you can see this working. You must feel comfortable with the idea after all this could be your new job, your new passion. Your Income. If you are passionate about it your have a much greater chance of success.

I have spent countless hours researching into the next big idea- making sure I can get in on the ground floor, doesn’t cost anything or a fortune.

This maybe the opportunity, feel free to check it out here.

THE NEXT BIG THING.

Finding the Risks:

Life I guess is a risk, sometimes without a step in the unknown we will stay in the circle we know. If your in the circle you know and don’t like take a step.

Without that step we may not of walked on the moon.

This could be the business opportunity that helps make 2009 the year of the dollar.

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Search engines value the links pointing to your site as votes . This is how they determine what your site is about, and the importance and relevance of your site in relation to those words. Links from high PageRank sites are considered bigger votes. And votes from trusted and authority sites are also considered more valuable. Links from a .gov or .edu are trusted sites, and will be considered a stronger vote by the search engines.

Most in the SEO industry will agree that .edu links have a higher value with the search engines, but there are always a few who disagree. In fact, it is just not true that .edu links are rated the same as other links by the search engines. A simple test will determine this: choose 2 sites, add standard links to one and .edu links to the other. Check your rankings and then run the same test several times. You’ll see that .edu text links do make a difference in site placement.

If you do any random search, you will very often see .edu and .gov sites ranking in the top 10, even when they are not the most relevant, or even when they are outdated. This is more proof that they are not treated the same as a .com or .net.

Think of this: consider a new University opening this year, versus any average State University already in existence. The new school wouldn’t likely hold much value with the search engines because it’s brand new. But that State University, over 100 years old, well respected, huge amount of inbound links, full of information, thousands of hits per hour is going to be ranked high. That’s just how it is. So except for extreme situations such as brand new .edu links, the overall premise of premium value cannot be disputed.

Yes, there are one or two naysayers still, but by and large, the industry places high value on .edu text links, as do the search engines. We will continue to run with the crowds and continue to use .edu text links. The phenomenal results we’re seeing with our clients rising swiftly to the top in search tells us we’re doing something right.

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I thought when I first saw this SEO linking system known as 3WayLinks by the web guru Jon Leger… I doubted the whole thing it seems to be the real deal.

It seems like one of those “too good to be true” deals that I generally stay away from. But I had a friend that joined and was giving it rave reviews, so I decided to take a closer look at automated link system.

Looking at it now after being on the service for almost a year now, I would say it is not “miracle service” for it cannot grab the #1 spot in a highly competitive niche market, like “insurance” but I know for a fact it has helped me to grab the top rankings in some smaller niche keyword phrases.

It has helped me get to the top of the engines for several “long tail” keyword phrases that requires less link popularity to rank for. It will take a few weeks but it is definitely worth the wait.

The way the links grow is slow, and as your network of links grow, your PR grows.

At first, I tried this on sites that I did not care much about and saw good results the rankings began to climb.

The 3waylinks.net system allows webmasters to add up to 50 domains in their link network in exchange for thier monthly fee. In the beginning I only added 3 of my own websites. I decided to do some otehr things and then months went by and noticed a doubling in traffic to those site. I am now convinced it is worth it. To this day, I am still a member.

On one of my sites on the network, I was able to acheive a top 3 ranking for a highly competitive term (which I will not reveal here..but be assured, I was extremely pleased…

A few tips I will leave with you about 3 way networks:

1. DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT - If you want to test it, test it on sites that are marginally important so that you can find out for yourself if it is good.

2. CONTINUE TO LINK TRADE IN OTHER PLACES - It is definitely dangerous to leave all your linking in only one place. IF you will build a strong network of links all over the net, it will be much better. This will disguise any possible footprint…even though I have not found this to be a problem any way.

3. IT DON’T HELP PR - It didn’t help my sites with PR anyway. I find PR to be not such a huge factor in rankings anyway. While I dod keep an aye on it some, I don’t base my SEo solely around the concept like some SEO “experts”.

4. YOU NEED SOME WEBMASTER SKILLS - The install of the code could make a web newbie cringe, but it is not difficult. IF you need help, email me.

5. CHOOSE THE RIGHT KEYWORDS - I usually pick highly related keywords that are not going against huge competition in terms of sites optimizing for it AND also produces a good bit of traffic according to Google’s Adword Keyword Tool.

If you are looking to get more traffic, build rankings, and have an extra way to dominate Google, I highly recommend 3waylinks.net

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Search engine optimization, or SEO, is still a mystery to people not in the industry. It is hardly a household word. But what is always fascinating is that even within the SEO industry, there is so much gray area on how it should be done and what is or isnt ethical.

There are some standard guidelines like high volume of content on the website, giving outbound links and receiving inbound links, properly formatted meta tags, and a well organized site. Most in the industry do agree that these are basic tenets for a successful SEO program, but there is no magic path to getting there. SEO is not divined from a scientific method, but remains almost like a dance, an art form. The SEO provider is constantly working and reworking their formulas while they keep a close eye on the website’s movement in the rankings.

Most professional SEO providers will provide their client a level of detailed in-depth report similar to one another. But that’s where much of the similarity ends. While most will not have any outright conflicting advise, their content and their approach will be different. If you polled 10 providers for reports, you’d likely get 10 different versions.

The industry is an exciting one for SEO providers. Because there’s no clear cut right or wrong way, much of their work is based on inherent knowledge, experience, and a whole lot of intuitiveness. Nobody has a secret plan that will work 100% every time, and every website is different in its needs and goals. Building traffic and improving rankings are the only way a SEO provider gets a “report card”. And because SEO work takes time before the effects are seen, there’s almost a magical excitement present that the suspense of not knowing brings.

For an individual to perform successful SEO work on their own website is nearly impossible because of all the nuances involved these days. And things change regularly, in fact so rapidly that only an experienced SEO provider with an extensive performance history is likely to be able to keep up with them. The best way to assure success is to check out providers and look at their track record.

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