A free traffic promotion technique
I just wanted to make a quick post thanking Geoff for writing a “free paid review” of my blog through a program he calls Reviewu. You can read his review here.
To follow up with that, I wanted to let you know that a few days ago my friend Richard over at the Link Building Bible Blog made a post about getting free backlinks from free reviews which is definitely worth the read, however I believe that CantGetRich.com should be added to the list.
Google finally ranks me for Collin LaHay
It is sort of embarrassing to admit, but for whatever reasons Google may have, they were ranking my LinkedIn.com profile #1 in google for a “Collin LaHay” search. For those of you who don’t know yet, Collin LaHay is my name. 
It seemed odd that I had received a pagerank 5 and having an extreme amount of trust on my domain, that Google wouldn’t think I should rank the top result for my own name. It just goes to show that you should register your name, as well as your companies, and possibly even your competitors as users on many of the web2.0 websites because they are growing so fast and the search engines give them so much authority.
The 3 Golden Steps to Website Marketing Success
Every day I see a ton of blog posts and articles about complex techniques on what people think are great website marketing strategies. I see dozens of people selling (as well as dozens of people buying) useless ebooks about techniques that do not work, or even worse are the ebooks or people telling others about techniques that may have worked last year, but can actually be bad for your websites now.
Build links with ThisIsByUs
** February 2009 Update: ThisIsByUs seems to have shutdown due to financial reasons **
For those of you who keep up to date with my link building cookbook series, you have read my post about Squidoo, the website that lets you write articles and allows for backlinks to your sites.
Today’s link building post is about a similar site, one where you can register and write about anything and earn a share of the advertising revenue. The advertising share is 50% to the writers, 10% to the commentators, and 5% for all the referrals. The remaining 35% goes to the site owner(s). The website I am talking about is called ThisIsBy.us
Are Traffic Widgets Really Worth It?
This guest blogging post was submitted by Sharon Hurley Hall from Piggy Bank Pie.
Who doesn’t like to get something for nothing? If you own a blog or website, the idea of free traffic is tremendously appealing, and many of us are willing to do whatever it takes to get a few more visitors to our websites. If it’s as easy as putting a widget on your blog, so much the better. It doesn’t take a lot of effort and you stand to gain a lot in return, or do you? I’ve tried a few of these widgets – TheGoodBlogs, BlogRush, Entrecard and others, and I’m beginning to wonder if they are really worth it.
Dofollow Diver
The dofollow movement happened a long time ago where bloggers decided to make every comment on their blog search engine friendly to the person who left the comment. The idea was to increase comment participation by rewarding those who left comments. The idea has had both a lot of good and bad coverage. I personally do not use dofollow links because I get so many low quality comments that are made purely for promotional purposes and I believe comments should be made for participation of the blog posts. That is why I reward my top commentators with dofollow site-wide links on every page of my blog, rather than on every blog comment.
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