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Why You Should Not Refuse Being Interviewed

Monday, April 9th, 2012 at 3:39 pm

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During my life as a blogger I’ve been approached many times to give an interview but unfortunately, due to lack of time, I’ve had to decline most of them. Emmanuel of Income Scene was the latest to approach me and luckily for him I not only had the time but the inclination to answer all the questions he provided. This resulted in Peter Pelliccia Interview – Founder Of Wassupblog.com. So, if you would like to learn a little more about me and what makes me tick why don’t you head on over to Emmanuel’s post and don’t forget to leave a comment

Truth be told I was crazy to refuse all those other interviews and I really should have made the time because those interviews would have had great SEO as well as great marketing potential. There are many reasons why you should not make the same mistakes I did and Im going to list them here for you.

Why You Should Do Interviews

Exposure: You’re a blogger right? Well something that all bloggers crave for is exposure and what better way than to answer a few questions in the knowledge that the interviewee will link to your blog in return.
Backlinks: Yep, something else that all bloggers crave are backlinks and just in case that first point slipped past you an interview can lead to several links back to your blog.
Personal Brand: A well answered interview will show the reader that you know what you’re talking about, that you’re a blogger to be reckoned with and that it would be in their best interest to head on over to your blog so as to learn more about what you have to share.
Helping Others: Usually, depending on the questions asked, an interview can help the reader to learn something new about certain topics and once you’ve wet their thirst for knowledge guess where there going to go to learn more?

So, you see there are many positives for doing an interview, so the next time someone contacts you about doing one, get out of your comfort zone and jump at the chance You won’t regret it.

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Increasing The Potential To Make Money With The Real Estate Above The Fold

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 at 10:57 pm

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Yeah, I know, that heading is a little on the long side but I just felt it was necessary because it explains exactly what this post is all about. The thing to remember about your blog is that, where advertising is concerned, there are areas on your blog that can be considered advertising real estate. These areas include the header, footer, sidebars and within the post itself. Of all the areas the ones considered most valuable are the ones above the fold. The first time I saw the term ‘above the fold‘ I didn’t have a clue what they were talking about. I now know that when people talk about something being above the fold they are referring to the section of your blog, or web page, that is visible on your screen before you start scrolling down. Everything else is below the fold.

If you look at my Well Blog Me Blog you will notice that it utilizes FlexSqueeze’s Top Feature which allows you to advertise your favourite affiliates in the prime position. The only drawback is that it can take a lot of room, depending how many affiliates you’re promoting and how big, if any, your banners are.

Making The Best Use Of Your Header

I used to use the top feature on this blog but removed it awhile back when doing some spring cleaning. I decided to introduce it again after becoming a FlexSqueeze Premium Member which gave me access to a whole heap of stuff including The Feature Slider Plugin which you can see in action above. I’ve set it so that it gives visitors enough time to read each slide before it moves onto the next one. Visitors also have the choice to manually slide them to and fro.

Adding the slides is as easy as adding a text widget to the top feature area. One text widget for each slide. In my slide show I’ve incorporated images, also thanks to being a Premium Member, as well as a description with links where I’ve deemed them necessary. These links either link to one of my affiliates or to one of my posts thereby adding to the internal linking which as most of you know adds to your SEO.

At the moment I’ve only got three slides but I will be increasing them as time goes by, each slide that I add will be promoting those affiliates or products that I feel are essential to those aspiring bloggers who want to increase their online income.

Will the slider work? I don’t really know. Only time will tell but I know that having it right there above the fold will only improve it’s chances. Do you think the slider will increase my potential for making money online?

Getting The Most From People Who Copy Your Content

Sunday, February 12th, 2012 at 1:56 pm

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I hadn’t planned to write a post today but after reading Adrienne’s post How To Get Others To Build Your Links I got so exited that unlike Adrienne who waited a month or so to compile her data I decided to write immediately so my blogging mates could get in on the action now rather than after I ran my own tests. Oh yes, there will be a followup post, that’s for sure.

Adrienne’s post was all about the service offered by Tynt, yeah amazing isn’t it, that’s not even an affiliate link According to the people at Tynt they are ‘the world’s leading publisher toolset‘ and using them will ‘Improve your seo, keep users longer and measure your user engagement by leveraging the power of copy and paste.’ Let’s see what they have to say for themselves shall we?

Letting Copy And Paste Work For You

If the guys at Tynt have got their facts right we can then assume that there are way more

More Link Backs

people sharing our content than we ever realised! The problem is that when they copy and paste it into their emails to share it with their friends we’re not getting any benefit from it whatsoever! That is of course unless you use Tynt. Of course you guys know I wouldn’t recommend something unless I’ve used it personally, how I wish these guys had an affiliate membership I could join , so you can assume that I’m using them right now. Actually you can even test it. Go ahead, try to copy and paste something from this post, or any other, and paste it into your email, don’t worry, I’ll wait for you to come back…….See, it actually works. It even works if you paste the content into a blog post or into a blog’s comment form. Can you see the potential for having this on your site?

Making Scraped Content Work For You

Do you remember that post I did on scum bags scraping my posts, you know, the one

Email links to your posts

called Has Your Blog Been Stolen? It was because of that post that I now protect them with Digiprove! Digiprove doesn’t stop them from being scraped but now when I find them I can easily prove the content is mine making it easier to coerce them to remove the post.

The problem with scraped posts is that unless someone tells you about it or you stumble upon one of your own posts on another blog you’ll probably never know about them. With Tynt you will have a link back to your post. Sure, if someone scrapes it manually they can remove the link but most times the scraping happens automatically because of a script they’re using and if that is the case they may never know of it so at least now you’ll get a link back which will probably help you to find the culprit.

However, that is only an added benefit that I personally feel you will get from using Tynt. Don’t forget all the other benefits, the main one being the link back to your post or site every time someone copies your content, whether it’s in their email, FaceBook Tweet or whatever.

I won’t know about the SEO benefits, extra traffic, measuring user engagement or any of

And so much more?

the other benefits the guys at Tynt promise until I do my own tests over time, but don’t wait until then. Install it now and conduct your own tests. Even if the only thing that is true about it is that every time someone copies part of your content to email to their friends you get a link back, that alone should be enough.

So, what say you, are you going to sign up for Tynt, which is free by the way? If not I would really love to hear your reasons why you won’t use their services.

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Why You’re Not Getting Sales On Your Blog

Sunday, January 29th, 2012 at 1:13 pm

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I’ve often wondered about this and I’ve even tried to compare blogs to real word businesses in order to find an answer. Let’s consider a couple of real world businesses to see where some differences may lie. The first one that comes to mind, probably because I’ve been associated with this type of business for most of my life, is the supermarket or corner deli. As long as their premises are neat, tidy and welcoming and their staffs attitude is professional and friendly they’re likely to convert almost every person that comes into their store into sales. The main reason for this is people who come into this type of store are looking for something that they need then and there.

Now lets look at a store that sells TV’s, Hi-Fi systems and the like. They may find it a little harder to convert because not everyone that walks into their store is ready to buy a product then and there. Many are window shopping or even looking for the right product at the right price. However, it is possible to convert these casual shoppers as long as you have the properly trained staff. Staff that are able to approach the prospects without scaring them off. Who are able to get out of the prospects what it is they are looking for and then convince them that they are not only able to offer the best deal but the best after sales service as well. Done correctly, even if the prospect leaves the store many will come back, especially if they do not receive the same service elsewhere, to complete the sale. I know this to be a fact because it’s happened many times while I was working in such a store.

Knowing Who Your Customers Are

In the above examples, as in other such businesses in the real world, they have the advantage in that people walking into their stores know what they’re selling and more importantly are probably wanting to buy something from them, if not now at a later date. This is generally not the case for our blog visitors, especially if the blogger has been using the wrong keywords to attract prospective customers.

Are You Using The Wrong Keywords?

This is something every good blogger must ask themselves. How often have you left in disgust because you landed on a site that had absolutely nothing to do with what you were searching for. While some may blame Google for it the problem usually lies with

Keywords are Important!

the site owner for using the wrong keywords. Their mistake was all they were interested in was traffic rather than getting a lower amount of targeted traffic which has more chance of converting. While traffic may be good for lowering your Alexa ranking its pretty useless unless the people who land on your site are actually looking for the products you have on offer. Traffic that isn’t targeted can be likened to customers who rush into a store just to get out of the rain. They may look around while there but they’re not likely to buy anything and once the rain stops they will continue their journey to the store which has what they’re looking for and are therefore more likely to make a sale.

I have to admit that before Market Samurai I never used to worry about keywords because it was all to hard and I know now what a great mistake that was. It’s better to do some keyword research than to not worry about it at all because otherwise you’re not getting the right traffic reducing any chance at converting traffic into sales.

Knowing Your Audience

An important question to ask yourself is who exactly is reading your blog. This is

Preaching to the wrong audience is like talking to the wind. It’s a waste of breath!

because if you know who your readers are then you have more of a chance at selecting the right products to sell to them. The real reason many bloggers are failing when it comes to marketing is because they’re pushing the wrong products to the wrong people.

Say for example you know that your audience consist mainly of teenagers then you would want to provide products that would interest them. This could be anything from ways of treating acne to the latest iPhone. Find the right products and then you’re finally on a winner.

Take this blog for example, it’s not a niche blog and yet it still provides me an income. Most of my readers are bloggers and therefore most of my money comes from selling blogging related products. My biggest seller to date has been the FlexSqueeze theme and other products include the plugins like CommentLuv Premium and even Andy’s latest IM Graphics plugin. The reason for my success with these two plugins is getting in early and being able to offer them at a discounted price. I’m sure that those who purchased the plugins from me in the early days also offered it to their readers thereby recouping their costs and perhaps even making a profit.

Just so you know those images you see in this post are all thanks to Andy’s latest updates to his IM Graphics plugin and if you act quickly you may still get it at the introductory price. My last post not only explains how it works it also shows you.

So, if you can find out who your audience is you will have a better idea at what products you can market to them Having a niche blog makes the job a lot easier but niche blogs can be boring resulting in poor posts and therefore poor conversions.

The question for many of us is how do you work out who your audience is? The obvious answer is by interacting with your commentators. I’m afraid that alone may not be enough and so I ask you, my loyal and knowledgable readers, how to we learn what category or people are reading our blogs so we can successfully market to them?

Kondoot, The Next Big Thing Since FaceBook

Sunday, January 8th, 2012 at 4:06 pm

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I bet there aren’t too many of you guys out there who have heard of Kondoot and if you haven’t don’t feel bad because it hasn’t been live all that long, about May 2011. Having said that the guys at Kondoot have been developing it for about 18 months and although it’s still in the early stages I can see them cementing a foot hold in the social networking market providing people like what they are offering.

The guys behind Kondoot are a couple of Aussies, Mark Cracknell and Nathan Hoad who just happens to have his own blog, nathanhoad.net. I’ve actually been chatting with Ben Hoad, Nathan’s brother and one of the founders and developers of Kondoot, via their live feed which proved to be very interesting.

Naturally people will compare Kondoot to FaceBook because there are certain similarities, apart from them both being developed by a Mark The biggest difference that sets them apart is that Kondoot is a social network based on live broadcast feed which means once a member you can sit in front of your computer and broadcast yourself to the world or just to friends and family.

Kondoot The Good The Bad & The Ugly

One of the things I asked Ben is what Kondoot stood for, I mean you have to admit it ~~sounds~~ looks kind of goofy. “It’s derived from Conduit, basically the idea of being the best way to connect two points” Yep, that makes total sense. We chatted about other things but I’m not about to bore you with all the details. What I will say is that it’s early days for Kondoot and there are a lot of things on the drawing board, things that will make Kondoot a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the social network market.

As a blogger I always look for things that I can use to market one of my blogs. Like FaceBook once you become a member you can set up pages to promote your blog or business. I set one up to promote my Lotto site and as you can see from my page it’s really pretty basic because there’s not all that much that you can do with it at the moment, something that Ben says they are working on.

There are a couple of positives about setting up a page on Kondoot, apart from being able to promote your business. You can see the first one by studying the image below. As you can see I can post comments using either my original login name or my page persona. The other is I can also choose from the two when deciding to do a video broadcast. If you’re lucky enough to have employees working for you then you can also give them admin privileges so they are able to make changes to your page.

Probably the biggest thing about Kondoot, as well as being their biggest money spinner, is their unique broadcasting platform which allows people to charge others to view their broadcasts. Remember, this is live so bands and musicians could virtually sell tickets, via PayPal, to their fans so they can attend concerts from the comfort of their home.

Another great way to utilise this would be for those of you who wanted to charge people to view a particular webcast. All you need to know is when you want to view it, how much you want to charge, set up the event using kondoots event page and then to get the word out to your prospective viewers. Naturally they will need to join but that won’t be a problem as joining Kondoot is free. As all broadcasts have a group chat feature you can answer any questions people may during the broadcast.

OK, that’s it for now! I’m sure you will have questions and if I can’t answer them I’ll just ask one of the guys from Kondoot. Who knows it may even be Ben who as you can see from the image below has a Space Invaders picture on the wall. What you may not know is that it’s made from post it notes.