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Hello bloggers, more than a rumor, it is a fact that Google want to buy Digg... After some negotiation rounds, Google is willing to buy Digg by $200 million, that is a low amount if we compare it with the Youtube s Deal, which was acquired by Google two years ago by $1,650 million... Digg, is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web... From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users... They want to integrate the voting system with their search engine algorithm, which you will be able to vote and add comments to a specific website directly from Google... … View Post »

Did you know you can drive traffic to your blog by promoting other people s content?... You can use social media networks such Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook etc etc, to promote all those content where your blog is linked... But I mention this because on Mixx, you can share your submission with many groups... Another good technique is to share the content through Twitter, Plurk, Pownce and this kind of services... In this case, is not necessary that your blog is included in the thing your want to submit... I will give you an example, if you blog about Food, and you read a great article about Sushi, you could broadcast this post through twitter with a little signature which relates your blog... I m talking about Google Alerts that sends you emails of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic... Then, I just visit the blogs or websites pointing to my blog, and submit the respective page to the social media networks ... … View Post »

However, if you upgraded your Wordpress, you need to know about a security hole in this awesome platform ( I think this bug is in the past versions too )... The plugins directory is not safe!... if you search in google for the index of the path where wordpress storage the plugins, it will give you thousand of websites as result, which you can access and check their plugins!... How can you fix this issue?... You need to create a file called index.html and upload it to the Plugins folder yourblog/wp-content/plugins/ ... So, when someone try to load that location, the browser will load the index file and that person will get nothing important... Also, you could redirect that page to your blog However, it doesn t matter, the important thing is that your folder will be safe now ... You can get a similar one by copying the following code into a html file: P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE= margin-bottom: 0in FONT SIZE=6 YOUR-MESSAGE-HERE /FONT /P br/ P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE= margin-bottom: 0in img src= YOUR-IMAGE-URL-HERE / /P META HTTP-EQUIV= Refresh CONTENT= 3; URL= YOUR-BLOG-HERE Take care!... … View Post »

Yesterday, Graham has announced the partnership between Entrecard and SezWho ... Through the blogoshpere, there are several blogs with great posts but for some reasons, the people who visit those blogs don t comment on them... The reasons can be many: because the author doesnt know SEO, because they dont spend money on advertising or because the people that would comment are slightly too lazy to do it No matter what the reason is, the fact is that Graham of Entrecard, wanted to change this!... SezWho is a universal profile service for the social web that improves community engagement and enables content discovery to be added to blogs, forums, message boards and other social sites... The SezWho system is so powerful, that your comments are leveraged tremendously via their suite of features, to deliver an incredible amount of exposure and traffic... If you have Blogger , youre going to add a page element HTML/Javascript and paste some code... Well now, you are ready to earn entre-credits !... No way, the community will be responsible for rating comments, and rating them truthfully... … View Post »

In the last post , I talked about how to drive traffic to your affiliate programs, touching some important points such advertising and building links... Promoting an affiliate programs is different than driving traffic to them, and it s something misunderstood by many people in Internet... Many people lie in the blogosphere, even more when they are promoting a service or product... By catching them as referrals, they will earn money from their sales and from each activity the referrals make in the affiliate network... At the first instance, you will earn more money with all those deceived referrals, the problem isn t that, who don t like to earn money?... To be successful promoting an affiliate program you need to be transparent, telling to the people what they will find in the program, the most important features of the program, how much they will earn All those kind of things, and if there is a catch, tell them... By being honest at time of promoting an affiliate program could give you more chances to multiply your earnings in a future... … View Post »

As you may know, the success of the affiliate programs resides in the traffic you drive to them... I have seem websites with several affiliate links but they have not success because their webmasters don t know how to drive traffic to those pages... Advertising : This is the first thing you can imagine when you talk about promoting... By buying advertising you can drive a lot of persons to your landing page, giving you high probabilities to catch some of them and earn money... You need to build links into your posts pointing to your affiliate programs, but in this case you need to advertise the post itself... Placing Banners : Well this is part of advertising, but I want to mention something very important... When you are going to place a 125 125 banner on your blog for example, you should study which one is the most impressive and catchy to the eyes... This way you have more chances to attract new affiliates Remember to use just 1 banner, placing 3 or 4 banners won t give you more affiliates, instead you could be scaring them, it s suspicious when someone place several banners of the same type... … View Post »

Once you have written a post, either on your own blog or on another one, you could want to know its effectiveness to apply the same strategy in the future posts... I consider that a post was effective, when it brings me the bigger number of traffic, attract the bigger quatity of subscribers or when it gives me a sale... Sometimes you can write a post with a good title and great content, but if it brings you just a little number of readers, you can t consider it as effective... Inbound Links : The inbound/incoming links, also known as links pointing to your post, can be a good indicative of how effective was your post... If you visit the front page of Digg for example, you can see articles with 500 votes or more, and a post is not there for nothing!... Some time ago, I invited a blogger to read one of my posts, and minutes later he bought an 125 125 ad on my blog... He really liked the content and he decided to buy me a spot, so that was my proof to recognize the potential of that post... The second thing you should do, is to optimize it to be a good landing page, where the people can visit, get stuck and subscribe to your blog ... … View Post »

Have you written a guest post?... I will give you a little example... Here at Mr. Javo dot Com, I write with my own style, I know what the people will like and what not... So, the first thing you need to do is Meet The Audience ... If you ask me for a guest post, I would like to see some of your posts and certificate the quality of them... Before deliver your post to the blogger, you should check it several times, looking for grammar errors... Also, if you are registered in the blog and you can write the post directly through the panel, I recommend you to preview the post to be sure that it looks good, without imperfections between the paragraphs or in the images... In this case, you need to make the title catchy and this way you will have all those people reading your guest post and visiting your blog, getting many of them as subscribers... … View Post »

I was expecting more votes, but I suppose I didn t sponsored the poll very well So let s stop talking, let s see the results!... Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post ' s poll... I did this poll to know what I will write about in the next weeks, but I will be covering all those topics no matter what the poll said... Are you participating in my contest?... … View Post »