Happy 4th of July to all!
I hope each of you had a wonderful fourth of July. It rained here all day, nonstop. I was still a great day though, really enjoyed spending time with the family. Even read about some our history, I am so thankful to be living in the USA and to be free. Thanks to all who continue to serve so that I can be free.
Shoemoney Xtreme Week 1
Week 1 was rather basic, as is needed to lay a good foundation. I picked up some basic concepts, and some terminology. Aside from that I didn’t learn much I didn’t know, however the action plan is quite good. At the end of each week he is including an Action Plan, basically some homework to get readers involved. Week 1’s action plan is essential to a good business and very involving. Its basic business stuff, but very important. I had alreay done some of it, but most of it is stuff I just had never done or whatever. I am doing now and look forward to a great week 2.
Memorial Day
Thank you to all the soldiers that have served or fallen serving here in the United States. You have my gratitude and thanks for serving this great country and keeping it free for me and my family. Thank you to all the families too who give up their loved ones so that they can serve. It is truly a privilige to live here in the US, and it is kept that way by our Service Men.
The gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery are graced by U.S. flags on Memorial Day.
Shoemoney Extreme – Don’t Miss This!
For some time now shoemoney has been working on his book, which would have been worth every cent if you know anything about shoemoney. He recently decided to scrap the book and instead turn it into a 12 week course on introduction to making money online. This kind of blueprint course is just the perfect thing for someone wanting to get started. I am excited about it, even as someone who has gotten off to an ok start. ($9,000 profit last year from my online ventures).
Realizing that this is a once and a lifetime opportunity, I am jumping on it. Then I read the most amazing part. ITS FREE!!!! Yes, he is giving it away free. It will come back to him and he will make money in other areas, but this is amazing info to be getting for at a decent price, but astounding to get it for free. I am signed up, this is something that someone that wants to make money online just can’t miss.
Link Plan
I am no great SEO, but I do know that you need a plan if you want to accomplish a good ranking. A good link plan is essential to gaining links that are productive and look and are natural. The are many different segments of link development, one of which is Web 2.0 style sites that you can get links from. Persay anyway.
Here I am sharing the link plan that I use for these types of sites. I don’t use just this plan, but rather its a piece in my overall plan. I also customize it for each site, but its the basic concept. I like having a simple, picture oriented plan I can work with.
Undead Live iPhone Game App
There is a new game out, Undead live for the iphone. Its free for the next 2 days, grab it free while you can. If not it will be $4.99. In the game you can join what is called covens and fight together against others. Please join my coven and we can fight together!
You will need to complete a couple of initial quests before we can join together, so if you don’t see the below screens then work on quests till you get to choose a name and immortality from the DarkLord then follow the below directions.
I am a Vampire, so you have to be a Vampire to join with me. Go under MyEmpire -> Mybloodline and enter in my coven code and hit “send invite”.
Code: 142945924
If you would like to add anther memeber you can add my buddy who is also a vampire:
Code: 122242476
If you would like 10,000 Free gold you can use one of the codes I have listed here:
Undead live 10000 Gold Codes
Undead live iPhone Game Guides Walkthrus and strategies
Having a excellent host
It is quite true that you get what you pay for, however its also true that when you do your homework you can get quality for a great price. When I used to work for a guy doing websites several years ago we use a host that was quality buty pricy. After a couple years we shoped around and got the same quality for 1/3rd the price.
When I started with proxy websites I went with a host that was recommended to me. I knew quality was important as proxies are very volitile and even a day down time can deal a solid blow. I ran with them for while and they were helpful. However upon searching for a better solution I found WDservers.com aka thewird on Digital Point Forums. I was able get a server that supported more then 3 times as many users for basically the same price as I was paying at my old host. My profit went up immediately, becuase I had maxed out my old server and I didn’t realize how much I was losing.
More importantly the guy who runs WDservers is on top of his game. He has always helped me out above and beyond what I needed and fixed the couple of issues I have had, in the past year and a half, in no time flat. His service is just exceptional, and he is just a great guy too.
I got an IM today saying he had fixed my server for myspace. I didn’t know it, but Myspace made some changes and it required a server tweak to may my sites work. Point being, I didn’t even know about it. I realized that my profit had gone down all of a sudden, but I handnt been able to figure out why. It was because my sites were not working! I would have probalby not gottent he problem fixed with other hosts even if I had asked them too. My family has a site with antoher provide and I had just got off chat support with them trying to fix an issue 5 mins before thewird sent me the message that he had tweaked my server. My other host had no idea what they were talking about, and it was a Wordpress related issue. You can’t get much more mainstream then that. Then I get a message from thewird that Myspace is fixed on my server and I didn’t even ask for help. Not to mention, I didn’t even know that was the reason my sites weren’t performing. Its easy to see where the quality is here. Great price, better service, hands down choice.
Edit: Of note: he told me that he is currently updating his site and prices may not be acurate.
Hiding your smily links
In my previous post I talked getting do follow links by leaving comments on various sites. The idea is that we would use a picture to get a link, like a smiley face, thus we don’t look like we are spamming. In reality we are not spamming because we are leaving quality comments, but we just want to get a link in there too.
On one site I was leaving a comment and it put a nice blue box around my picture like so:
Which make it obvious that it is a link. Thats not bad, its still unobtrusive, but its obvious. So I thought if you could dress up the image a bit to make it not so obvious it might be better. So I added boxes around the image like this:
Thus when it adds the blue link box around the outside it looks like this:
Grant it that this is not the greatest, but it makes the blue line less in your face. However its a bit big. Another option I did was backfill the smile face with the color of the blue:
Once it adds the link it looks like this:
Smaller and less noticible. Either way it camouflages the fact that there is a link. Not sure if it really makes that big of a difference, but its a thought. If anyone cares to comment if they think it really matters or other ideas that would be great. These were just a couple options I thought of real quick.
Link Devlopment with Media Sites
As I was reading Exposed SEO site I happened upon an article that he wrote on link development with Flickr. Since the premise of this article is based on his article you should probably read it first here:
Sneaky link development with Flickr – But before you jump in, Flickr is now Nofollow. This post is about adapting and expanding on the concept.
In short the concept is to gather dofollow backlinks from flickr by leaving comments and including an image (like a smile face) in the comment that links back to your site. Thus you don’t look like spam, because you are leaving a quality comment, and the link is from a harmless smily face. 
Its a great concept.
Since its no longer advantageous to do it with Flickr, the next question is how can it be applied. Without going into a long explanation of SEO and link juice (there are many others that can explain it better then me anyway) – we are looking for sites that get lots of links in. What made flickr so good is that flickr makes it easy to link to them by embedding the picture with the code they give you. It counts a link to the page that that particular picture is on.
So if you have 100 people link to an image, that page has a lot of “link juice” flowing into it. Then we put our link in the comment and we get to have a little juice from each one of those links. So we are looking for sites that make it easy for lots of people to link to them. After racking my bring for a few minutes the only type of sites I could think of were Media sites. Audio, Video, and Pictures. Anyone else thinks of any, please comment so we can take advantage of those too.
So I did a quick search for photo sharing, and I just went down the line checking each one to see if it was dofollow or nofollow. Either by signing up and leaving a comment or looking at someone elses. The point here is there are other options, we just have to do a little footwork and we can apply the same concept. The first one that found that passed link juice was webshots.com. However they don’t let you bring pictures in, but rather only put in your website in the http://www.xxx.com format. So we can’t just leave our website everywhere, or we will get deleted for spam. However we can leave relative comments and leave our site on a couple of them. So we keep moving down the list.
Always leave relative, quality comments. Use an image as a link when possible, and don’t spam.
Props to Exposed SEO for the concept.
Doing What You Love
I have heard it and read it many times, from many reputable sources. You should do what you are passionate about and the rest will follow. Well I figured I was passionate about business and that I would try to make money. I just didn’t get it. I often struggle with getting burnt out and focus. Some times I feel like I am just spinning my wheels.
However the past 24 hours have hit me hard. I have heard it and read it so many places and finally it is starting to sink in. I know it works, becuase that has been the path of successful people, I just didn’t know how I could do it. I mean how am I going to make money off of what I love? Who is interested in what I am?
Well after hearing Gary V here:
http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/79804838/chasing-dollars-instead-of-passion-many-people
http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/79163716/new-media-expo-vegas-08-see-what-people-say
Then turning around and reading this:
http://www.zanderchance.com/2009/02/20/do-what-you-love-the-rest-will-follow/
And recalling Shoemoney and others having said the same thing.
Well I finally get it. Now I just have to do it. Its a long road ahead, but I believe 2 years from now I will be able to look back and see myself enjoying what I do. Plus see myself self supporting my family without the need for a day job.
So what is it I am passionate about? I love helping people. How am I gong to make money from that? I have absolutely no idea LOL, but it will come.
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