Top 5 Paid Directories
Well everybody wants to get their web site or blog listed in as many free directories as possible. This is great, but what most webmasters are not thinking about is quality. The only value a web directory can offer is quality listings and some page rank on the directory that you are to be listed on. If you use free directories you may be able to get your link on a page that has some PR, but this is not everything. You need to be aware that free directories do not have the motivation to keep the structure of their site up to date and remove dead links from their listings.
If Google finds you link on a page that has good page rank, but your link is surrounded by dead links, this will not look very appetizing to Google. You need to understand that the quality of the directory is “as” important if not more important than the PR of it’s pages. This is why in many cases the most valuable directory listings to get involved with are not free. The money spent is many times turned over to those who keep the directory up to date and continue site maintenance to assure that each and every link on the directory site is active and accurate. Just like anything else, you really do get what you pay for when it comes to buying a spot on a top website directory.
If you are ready to get serious and take your website to the next level by spending some money to get a high quality back link to you, here is our own top 5 paid directory listing list.
Top Ten Paid Directories (Domain – Page Rank – Price)
- Yahoo.com PR 8 – $299
- Business.com PR 7 $199
- Best of the Web PR 7 $69-$300
- JoeAnt.com PR6 $39.99
- MassiveLinks.com PR4 $39.99 – $79.99
There are other directories out there, but these are the ones that stick out and seem to have the cleanest and most up to date listings on the web. We don’t think you will find better value anywhere else, but if you do run across a paid directory that you think deserves to be listed here, simply leave a comment or contact me and I will be sure to consider it as an addition to the list of the top 5 paid directories here on Webmaster Business Plan.
Good luck with your site listing and we hope the list of useful resources above can help bring your website traffic to the next level. Even successful websites can use a boost and these site have proved to be among the top directories out there.
To Success,
Effective Blog Commenting Strategies
Generating traffic to your web site, blog or affiliate site can be done very effectively, simply by commenting on other blogs. The problem that many face when it comes to blog commenting is that they do not understand how to find the correct blogs to comment on and do not understand what a good blog comment is. I am going to try to cover these 2 topics of common misconception and some other tips on blog commenting that are sure to drive more traffic to your web site or blog in the days and weeks to come.
Don’t worry it is fairly simple to get a big result from blog commenting, you just have to know what you are doing and you can really get some traffic and results in the search engines in no time flat. So let’s get to it…
So What Is Blog Commenting?
Well, simply put blog commenting is the process of joining the conversation on blogs, instead of using email or popular social networks. The main feature that makes a web site become a blog, is the ability of visitors to add there own comments, thoughts or questions to the site. You may have seen a long string of comments at the bottom of a post on a web site before and this is the comments section. Anybody can submit comments on blog post, however in most cases only the best will actually be published live on the site. Depending on the blog owner, your comments may be automatically posted or they may go to the admin for review first.
Why Do I Want To Comment On Blogs?
Commenting on blogs is a great way to get known as an expert on any topic, to get more exposure to your site and to build your brand. You can comment on specific blogs to grow you brand and also get free back links pointing to your product site, affiliate program or personal web site. You will see many Internet marketers using this as a fast and free way to get more back links and get more traffic to the sites of their choosing. The reason you see so many people suggesting this as a link building technique is simple, it works. There are very few ways to get so many links put on web sites that have a good PR rating for free. Most sites charge to have a link added to their blog roll. However, having a good link in a comment section of a blog can drive some quality direct traffic and also give you valid back link for Google to pick up on as well.
So How do I Find Good Blogs To Comment On?
You can find blogs by using Google’s blog search. This is probably the simplest way to find blogs that you can comment on. However, there are a couple more factors that will prove to be important, besides the topic and content theme of the blog you comment on. One thing that will be very important if you are wanting to get a high quality back link, is the Page Rank of the blog you will be commenting on. You can install the Google toolbar on Fire Fox or on Internet Explorer to see what the blogs PR is quickly and easily. Now finally, you want to check and see if the links in the blog comments are “do-follow” or “no-follow” links. You can find a few tools that will help you with this or in Fire Fox you can simply right click on the link and choose properties to check it.
There are also a couple of applications out there that seem to work well for this, if you want to know more about them, just contact me and I would be glad to share.
What Do Do When Blog Commenting
- Post On Recent Posts – Being the first or one of the first to comment on a new post can really get you more attention than being the one who posted the 25th comment on a post.
- Write Something Useful – Nobody cares about the guy who say “great post” or “thanks for sharing” these are the comments you can buy for penny from India and these are not what get attention in readers eyes or from the site owners.
- Speak To The Blog Owners and Readers – These are your target market, when it comes to commenting. So don’t just speak out into thin air, talk to the folks who will be reading your comment.
- Add Value – This should be the main concern when writing a blog comment. If you are not adding value to the conversation or giving something of interest that is on topic, do not expect your blog comment to get published by the blog owner.
- Get Attention! – Yes, just like any good writing, you need to grab the readers attention and if you do this, you blog commenting campaign will prove to be very successful!
What Not To Do When Blog Commenting
- Drop links – Putting links in the comment itself is simply not proper commenting etiquette, you link should be listed as your web site and will link to the name you leave on the comment.
- Make Spelling Mistakes – Spelling errors may seem to be a very minor issue to you, but to some people reading your comment this may be the difference between a click through and scrolling on to the next comment. Your writing should represent you, so it should concise and spelled correctly.
- Talk Down About Post – If your not going to make a positive comment, don’t waste your time. If you are talking down about the web site, web site owner or the post itself, your post will never get published in the first place, so move on.
- Spam A Blog – One comment at a time is plenty. If you put a comment on ten different posts, this not only looks suspicious but is! So one at a time, if you like the blog and want to put more than one comment, bookmark it and come back later.
- Long Comments – You may need to write more than one sentence to get your point across, but understand that usually only the first few lines of a comment will show by default, so get the goods out first, if you have to make it a long one.
I hope you enjoyed this article and if you want to get a blog comment on a PR2 webmaster site, comment below or you can go to the homepage of the site and post a comment there. If you follow my rules above, I promise to publish you!
To Success,
Guaranteed Traffic – Keyword Carpet Bombing!
Do you wish there was a way to get guaranteed traffic to your blog? Are you picking out winning keywords and still not able to get traffic to your site? Do you check all the right places to find competition on your keyword phrases, but still cannot get ranked for them?
Well trust me, you are not alone. This is one of the most frustrating problems for webmasters and Internet marketers alike. If you are putting in the work and simply not getting the results, trust me I know exactly how you feel and I have definitely been through this. However, I do have some helpful hints to get your past this “bump in the road” and back on track with your internet marketing efforts.
I was recently asked a question on a forum that I frequent “I have done my keyword research and have submitted my info to squidoo and ezinearticles, but I am not getting ranked, I feel like I am missing something?”
Well, the conversation on the forum was about different methods of keyword research that different people use. There are many different methods that people use and some are obviously more effective than others. The problem it turned out was not finding the right keyword to use, but how to market the site and get link exposure with the keyword term that this member was trying to focus on.
If you do not understand what keyword research is, join our mailing list here and you will get a link to some videos that will help out with this. For those of you who are already doing some keyword research and then trying to focus your link building efforts to get ranked for those keywords, I will give you the same reply I posted in the forum. If you do not know what keyword research is and do not fully understand link building and anchor text yet, please do not proceed with the steps below!
The methodology I will explain is very quick and dirty seo, but when it comes down to it I have used these exact steps to successfully launch many a profitable site and I know these will work for you too. All you have to do is apply the steps and keep mixing up your keyword phrase in relevant long tail keyword phrases and You Will Get Results!
Write one new article, get your keyword or a variation of it in the title, body, keyword tags and make a link with the same or variant of your keywords in the post, to the post. Do Not make the keyword spammed throughout, make it natural and make this one of the best posts you ever wrote, this is the gold nugget that you are going to trade for traffic!
Publish this, take your rss feed over to http://feedburner.com, burn it, then get over to http://pingoat.com
Now that you are at http://pingoat.com submit both your website feed and the feedburner feed, with a slight variation in the title, but still Keep Your Keywords In There Too.
Next it is time to do some social bookmarking, get over to:
http://digg.com
http://stumbleupon.com
http://reddit.com
http://mixx.com
and bookmark you new post, do this at different times of the day, not all at once.
Now, write you up a small 300-500 word article and post it on all article directories( http://ezinearticles.com http://goarticles.com http://articledashboard.com ), authority sites( http://squidoo.com http://hubpages.com http://facebook.com http://knol.google.com )and as many blogs that you can(heres the blog submitter I use, it’s free)then time to get your article on some authority blogs, say hello to http://blogger.com http://blog.com http://fortuneboard.com and http://posterous.com
Everywhere you submit you article you need to make sure that you can get at least one link with a variation of your keyword in the article or do not waste your time there.
You may also want to spend some time on popular social sites telling people about the new post, Google loves to see some traffic to a page that it is going to rank. I suggest you use http://ping.fm to multiply your efforts here.
I know this sounds like you are going to be carpet bombing the web with info and Yes that is the idea. If you want to be noticed by Google, give them something to look at!
This can be done all in one day, but I suggest you spread it out over a few days or even a weeks time, because after all you don’t want to scare Google with to many new links all at once. Now once you have completed these simple steps, just wash, rinse and repeat; you will be guaranteed results.
That is if you have chosen a worthy keyword!
Well I can tell you if you do the things I spoke of above, you will get traffic! There is no question about it, you will be able to see some immediate traffic from direct click through visitors. However, more importantly, if you use good anchor text and keep mixing up the long tail terms, you will be able to sustain some rather healthy traffic from the search engines as well.
You can look at any of the big name products, video series or guru reports; they all will focus in on one of the sections of info above and build a whole product around it, but you know what, you don’t need to spend $300 dollars to take some logical steps toward your success online. When it comes down to it, there are only 2 things that online marketing comes down to, Distribution and Target Market. Everything else is simply smoke and mirrors.
Now, I will say that much like exercising, some people really do need to make a huge investment in a product to remind them that they need to exercise, however I hope you can find you motivation elsewhere 
I hope that this quick little synapses helps some internet marketer or webmaster take there website traffic and online business to the next level. As always feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this or any article of mine and I would be glad to assist in any way that I can.
To Success,
Nick Simpson
CPA Affiliate Networks Explained
I posted this article some time ago on another blog of mine and by popular demand on CPA Marketing info, I decided to republish it here. I am sure google will hate me for it, but oh well.
There are many cpa networks out there these days and it seems that there is some confusion about how to get started with CPA and how to be a successful promoter of these programs. I wanted to take a second to speak to this and explain the basic strategy of making money with CPA Systems.
What Is CPA?
Well CPA stands for (cost per action) or in some cases (cash per action), much like the old cpm (click per million) which relates to a dollar amount per click that you would earn if you delivered a click on a link. You may also here these system referred to as PPA or Pay Per Action. The CPA systems work a little different, they do not pay you until a person that you have referred to their site takes some sort of action. This means that a user signs up, registers, uploads something, or any other action that the paying advertisers may request.
This is a much more effective method for the paying advertisers and is a very effective method for the guys referring too. If you could imagine sending somebody to a site where they get something for free and then when they get the free item, you get paid, you can see how this would be a easy referral.
Not all of these programs pay on free items, some only pay when somebody joins a payed subscription service or some other paid offer, but there are also many, many free ones too. When looking at programs like these you need to focus on 2 things:
1. How Well Does It Pay
Of course you want to be payed well as an advertiser of these products and services but you also want to make sure that the company you are working with does actually pay out and does not pay outrageous prices, some places that promise such huge payouts, you must question their integrity.
Also when looking at many different advertisers offers, you may want to weigh the earnings you will receive verses the cost of the action that the new customer will have to take. If you get $1.00 every time a person registers for a $10.00 offer, it may be better to choose to promote one that pays $0.50 per completed offer if the required action is free. You must understand that many people will try anything for free and the response to your marketing efforts will be much more fruitful with these free offers, even if they pay out less.
2. Does It Fit In With Your Sites Content Topics or Niche
There is no reason to be promoting free manicures on a all mens site, there is no reason to tell house wives about some new bikini model, and there is no reason for you to tell your website members and associates about a product or service that they are not interested in.
There is a small gray area between promotion and spam. The main difference to most people is if, what they are being offered is something that they interested in or not so make sure to keep all your offers on topic or at least in the same niche market as your other content and information, that you offer.
Exposure & Influence!
The amount of success comes down to 2 things, exposure and influence. If you have a great deal of exposure on only a few, then the most that will join are not so many, if you have exposure to masses but nobody looks to you as a leader, same results, none! My point is this, if you are planning on sending out spam email to thousands of folks and think you are going to make money, you are wrong.
To make money with these systems, joining social groups or working on social sites is a great way to get to know enough people that you may have some influence over to send you offers to. However, a more effective way to get well known is to start your blog or website and start talking about the topics that you have promotions for. Blog often, blog well, people will get to know you as a leader in what ever industry you choose and will follow you and your suggestions. This is a proper manner of referral marketing, now throw in some article marketing and it’s on!
You need to understand that in most cases you must know people or have people tha “feel” like they know you to make this a effective money maker, but if you can get people to “feel” like they know you by writing a lot online, this can really increase ones level of influence. If you offer great information in a email subscription list, the people in it would most likely all choose to check out any free offer you can send them, so why not start getting paid for doing just that?
O.K. I Understand What CPA Networks Are, Now What?
Now that you know a little about what CPA Networks are and how to find the offers that will not only produce the most for you, but will also be of interest to your followers, subscribers, members, or site surfers; lets talk about where you can get setup to take advantage of these programs.
There are many companies that offer this type of advertising, I do not list these in any specific order, but these are just a few to get you started, note that most of these companies do require phone verification to start working with them.
Top CPA Programs (Big Earners List)
- FluxAds.com – Has Free Offers of Brand Name Products
- NeverBlueAds.com – Many Free Offers and Top Selling Products
- XY7.com
- http://maxbounty.com
- http://azoogleads.com – Has Free CPA Offers
- http://hydranetwork.com
- http://clixgalore.com
- http://revresponse.com – Has Free CPA Offers
Free Back Link Building System – Automatically Build Backlinks
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How Many Back Links Does Your Website Have?
If you are like most people you probably have 5-20 back links built up by posting to forums or maybe a blog here and there. However to really get ranked in google for a search term that you want to be ranked for, one that really pulls in the traffic, most sites are boasting over a thousand back links. It is a commonly accepted fact that the amount of back links to your website, including the correct anchor text is one of the most definitive techniques to achieve the first page of google, for that term.
So How Do I Build Up More Back Links?
Building back links is not a quick process and actually google likes to see a constant stream of new ones pointing to your site, this assures the search engine that not only is the link text accurate, but more and more people agree that this site is worth seeing. So for many webmasters it seems like a constant uphill battle to keep bringing in new back links. Some actually resort to black hat methods like paying for back links or even using sneaky software to spam forums or blog comment sections. We here at Webmaster Business Plan do not suggest you use either method above.
The correct way to build back links is to either contact many webmasters and ask to trade links, get active on forums and add your link to your signature or even join many social networks that allow you to post your web address.
The problem with all these methods is that they are very time consuming and in some cases produce very little results.
What Is A Better Way To Build Back Links?
I know that there are many more methods than discussed above to build back links to your website. But, simply put all of these methods are just as slow and very repetitive to complete if this is being done by one person and not a team of seo experts. What I propose is that you use a “system” to do the work for you, instead of you manually working day in and day out just to “keep up” with the competition.
Here is the system that I have used myself to drive more than one site to the #1 spot on google and it is absolutely free to use! I don’t know what to say besides, it is free, it works and it is worth its weight in gold!
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Nick Simpson
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