Google PageRank Update January 2011, Official – Yippee!
What a great way to wake up this morning to a long awaited official Google Page Rank Update for 2011. Talk about a sigh of relief, we’ve been waiting a long time for this one. The last official PR update was in April of 2010. I believe we’ve had several small updates quarterly since then. At least that’s what I read in the Google support forums.
With so many rumors going around about Google getting rid of Page rank altogether, I was starting to believe it myself and was getting a little stressed. Since I want to start relying more on organic free traffic, mostly from Google, rather than paid traffic methods. But as soon as they just recently updated the Google toolbar, I sensed something was about to happen.
Some of my newer sites jumped in Pagerank pretty nicely and this blog, www.mathewday.com has gone up to a PR3. Still aiming for the PR5 or higher, but I’ll take it. At least it’s increasing not decreasing. You definitely don’t want to see it going down.
Many people say, you shouldn’t worry about pagerank and it really means nothing. But I believe differently. The higher your page rank means Google trusts your site and it’s seen as a higher level of importance. If your PR is going down, then that means you’re probably not doing something right and or losing backlinks. I don’t get obsessed with PR (ok, maybe sometimes) but I try to just stay focused on my seo efforts.
How about you? Did you see any changes to your sites Google pagerank? Share your thoughts on the latest PR update.
Yahoo Web Hosting Contest for January, 2011 – Affiliates Earn $500 Bonus
So check it out. Yahoo is kick starting the new year, 2011 by having a Yahoo! Web Hosting Contest through their affiliate program. Any affiliate who reaches at least 10 Yahoo Web Hosting sales in the month of January will get a $500 bonus added to their affiliate commissions. Not bad, right? Lot better than the other contests where a thousand people are competing for 1 prize.
I joined the Yahoo affiliate program a while back through Commission Junction. So you can join through CJ or they might even have a in-house affiliate program too, dunno.
Yahoo is even offering a 35% discount off their hosting plans for 3 months. Which should help bring in even more sales.
Here’s the details below from the email I had received from them:
We have an entire month to get on the ball and make them 10 hosting sales through the Yahoo affiliate program. And it would be a great time to take advantage of their 35% discount, and start a website for your business through Yahoo.
HostGator Black Friday Sale – 80% OFF Everything!
You don’t want to miss out on this sale. For anyone who doesn’t have their own website yet, hosting, or had an interest to start an online business , then this sale is for you. With hosting plans starting at $35.64 for a Full 3 years. This Hostgator Sale is the Biggest and Baddest event they have ever had, offering 80% off everything . This one day sale is time sensitive, make sure you get the details so you don’t miss out.
Hostgator is one of the biggest, most well known hosting companies out there, and currently hosts over 4 million domains. I have had 2 hosting accounts with them for awhile now, plus numerous domains, and it’s the best company I’ve ever worked with. Their customer service is top-notch and available 24/7, go ahead an try it out for yourself.
Contact Hostgator if you have any questions.
This is the opportunity to start your own website/blog or to venture into the internet marketing world. With hosting plans starting at less than 1 dollar per month, there’s not much of a risk on your part whatsoever.
This sale starts on BLACK Friday at 12am – 11:59pm CST.
Here are the details from the email I got from Hostgator below:
I have told everyone I know, especially immediate family about this event. Any friend or family member that had a slight interest in what I do or creating their own site/blog this is the opportunity of a lifetime. Anyone who didn’t have the money or didn’t want to take the risk, then now is the time to lock in the cheapest rates for up to 3 years.
Just like the details above state, this Hostgator Sale is only good for one day, only 4 hours for the 80% off (or until those accounts are sold) and the rest of the day will still be locked at the 50% discount. These discounts will be good on everything and for all term lengths (upto 3 years), even on their most expensive services.
Hostgator has a plan and service for everyone. Whether you are a beginner or business owner, they have the right plan for you to create your first site or expand your online business.You don’t need to use a special coupon code or anything to get the discount, just make your purchase at the right time’s on Black Friday.
Checkout HostGator’s services and plans here.
This is an unbelievable sale and like I said earlier, I have 2 hosting accounts with hostgator currently and recommend them to everyone. With Hostgator it was easy to create my first WordPress blog (just a few clicks) and to create my first site. Plus there customer service is just Awesome, so I’ve stayed with them since just about the beginning of my internet marketing journey and have never had a problem with their services.
StudioPress Themes 25% Discount Code – Final Sale Ever!
Have you been thinking about getting a new wordpress theme or even starting a new blog? StudioPress, creators of some of the most stunning and easy to use themes available, is having a sale. This would be the best time to get their highly sought after Genesis framework, grab it for a very low price today!
The StudioPress discount is good for any of their products, which is going on right now and Ends on Tuesday. You’ll get 25% off by entering the word “BLACK” as a coupon code at checkout.
What’s popular at StudioPress?
- The Genesis Framework provides the secure and search-engine-optimized foundation that takes WordPress to another level. It’s great for novice to advanced developers and is really affordable.
- The Prose Theme is their most popular theme. It comes with a visual editor, so it’s great for newbies or experienced to point and click the design they desire.
- The Pro Plus Package, which includes every theme they’ve created, plus any future themes and updates.
This is a special Black Friday promotion and StudioPress had announced that this will be their last and final sale ever!
Don’t miss out on this epic event and secure your StudioPress theme today.
I mostly have heard about StudioPress because of their Genesis framework. Many of the top bloggers have been talking about it and almost all of them now use it on their blogs. Do a little research and you’ll learn that StudioPress is a premium company that creates only the best products. I’ve been wanting to get the Genesis framework combined with the Prose theme for a good while now. I guess finally, my procrastination has paid off for once!
2 Must Have Blogging eBooks – November Discount Code
I recently was told about a really great discount code good for two very popular ebooks, 31 Days to Build a Better Blog and The Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers. Both of these ebooks are from Darren Rowse (commonly known as the #1 blogger in the world) or better known as Problogger.
The Discount code will expire on November 30, so don’t delay on getting your copies. It would make a great gift!
I have already purchased the 31 days to build a better blog ebook awhile ago and it’s worth every penny. It had a lot of great insight about how to produce great content and made me go through on a lot of things that I didn’t know about or would’ve never done on my own. I plan on getting the Copywriting Scorecard for bloggers since I’ve heard so many good things about it, and of course the discount is a nice incentive.
Before I talk about the 2 ebooks, I wanted to say a few things about Darren. He is a very modest person and has a passion for helping people succeed in blogging. He’s different than the other guru’s online. (just read his blog and you’ll see) Darren probably could sell his products for incredibly high prices and they would still sell like hotcakes, but he doesn’t. They are all very moderately priced so more people can afford them and succeed in blogging.
The Discount code good for either one of Problogger’s ebooks or for both, is pretty exclusive. I had received an email from him about it. You won’t find this on his blog, just follow the instructions below to get the discount!
31 Days to Build a Better Blog
This ebook is created to help revitalize your blog and gives you insight from the #1 problogger to help make your blog a success. Over a period of a month, each day you’ll be given something to do. You’ll also be instructed in great detail on both How and Why of the task of the day. This way you’re learning and getting hands on experience at the same time.
Benefits of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog:
- you’ll build relationships with your readers
- write a variety of different types and styles of blog posts
- promote your blog in a variety of ways
- learn techniques for coming up with new post ideas
- develop editorial calendar for your blog going forward
- design a plan for the next month of your blogging
- reach out, network and develop relationships with other bloggers
- discover ways to to be more connected to your niche
The regular price of this ebook is $19.95 but with the discount you can get it for $14.96 today.
Click Here to enter site for 31 days to build a better blog. Enter discount code: november25 when you’re at the checkout page to get 25% off, then hit update cart and you’ll see new discounted price.
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The Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers
This is almost like having an editor by your side looking over your next blog post and content to make sure it’s really ready to publish. It’s a system that will allow you to easily check the quality of your next blog post – from both the reader’s point of view and Google’s perspective.
Not only was this ebook developed by Darren Rowse (problogger) but also by specialist SEO copywriter Glenn Murray (Divine Write). So the highest quality of instructions for improving your writing and making sure it’s SEO friendly is there, by the top experts in those fields.
The Copywriting scorecard for bloggers is a checklist and provides solid teaching too. You’ll get 2 versions – one to print out to be used as your checklist for your blog posts and another in PDF format which you can rate your posts within the pdf, also includes solid practical teaching on different elements of writing blog posts.
Basically this ebook will help you to improve your copywriting skills by instructing you on what, why and how. Also has a system created to go over each blog post with a checklist to make sure it’s high quality and knowing if it’s ready to be published judging by the score it gets. You’ll always be able to produce quality posts.
Benefits of the Copywriting Scorecard:
- Always produce great blog posts if you go through the scorecard before you publish
- improve your copywriting skills and the quality of your content
- printable checklist to quickly go over your blog posts with, and score it out of a rating of 100
- PDF format to rate posts within, and filled with practical teachings to improve your writing
- you’ll learn the 63 things to consider, broken into 4 sections – writing, scannability, search engine optimization (seo) and Grammar
- what pitfalls to avoid, commonly found in ineffective copy
- you’ll know right away what is missing from your content and how to improve it
The regular price of this ebook is $29.97, but with the discount you can get it for $22.48 today.
Click Here to enter site for The Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers. Enter Discount code: november25 when you’re at the checkout page to get 25% off, then hit update cart and you’ll see new discounted price.
I highly recommend anything from Darren Rowse (problogger) but especially these two ebooks. They will greatly improve your blogging and give you insight on what it takes to become a successful blogger. Remember the promo code for both of these ebooks will expire on November 30 so take advantage while you can.
New Highlighter Plugin – Free Download – Improve Your Chances to Win Apple iPad
I had just received an email the other day from UBD about their new Highlighter Plugin for WP. It’s pretty cool and just might become the next big thing. It makes interacting on a blog much easier by allowing you to highlight text and images within the content, then being able to comment or share them instantly. What’s even better, right now the the Highlighter plugin is absolutely FREE to download (no catch) and you could win a FREE Apple iPad. More details below.
I’ve tried it out on a few blogs already and it seems to invite more reader engagement. All a reader has to do is simply highlight something of interest to them and comment on it or even share it. It’s really easy to use, they can turn it off if they want to, and comments on the highlighted parts are seen by anyone who wants to read them.
The Highlighter Plugin Video explains it best:
One of the features of the highlighter plugin is the inline commenting which allows people to leave a comment at the exact place in the content they are interested in, instead of having to scroll all the way down and leave a comment where most people will never see. Also, people can share just the parts that they would be interested in, instead of having to send someone the entire url or blog post.
Benefits of the Highlighter Plugin:
- Engaging your audience and building a dedicated community of readers
- inline commenting – more reader engagement – rather than having to scroll all the way down to leave a comment
- increases traffic – more people will be willing to share your content, easier to share then more people will do it
- able to highlight any image or text in your content, then share or comment easily
- it’s not a hindrance at all but your readers can turn it off if they want to
- you can engage your readers and get more feedback by leaving comments and asking questions throughout your content
- it makes your blog more social and you know that trend is only increasing
- don’t worry highlighter plugin fights spam with wp’s built in spam tool Akismet
- Increase emails, has built-in email collection tools that you can integrate with Aweber, GetResponse and Mailchimp
- It’s totally free to download now!
Enter the drawing to Win a 16GB Apple iPad – How to Increase your Chances to Win!
The creators of the HighLighter Plugin for WP said in there email that all you need to do to be entered in their drawing is to download and use the highlighter plugin. That’s worth 1 entry. But you can download and use highlighter on more than one blog and it will be worth 1 entry for each one, but it has to be installed on different url’s to count.
Write a Blog post and link back to this page, Win FREE iPad Contest and that’s worth 3 entries!
The Highlighter plugin is FREE for now at least, so you probably want to check it out. Maybe it’s not for you or your audience but you won’t know until you try it. Plus there’s a chance to win a Apple iPad so it’s not a bad deal at all. I hope you got something out of my Highlighter plugin review and please share your thoughts about the new highlighter for WordPress.
This Niche and Affiliate Offer is Hot!
In this post, I’m going to tell you about one of the hottest niches for me currently and even tell you the top selling affiliate offer that I’m using to make a lot of money in this niche from. So this is a rare occasion, especially for me since most smart internet marketers never share what niche or offers are currently making them money online. But for my readers, I like to throwout this type of information once in awhile.
Back to the point. The niche is social media and to be more specific it’s for Twitter. I’m sure you’ve heard, social media is in right now, so why not make money from the good affiliate offers for this niche while it’s HOT.
You may be a little surprised that an affiliate offer for Twitter would be doing so well, but it seems everyone is looking for something to help manage and automate their Twitter accounts. And why not, being able to use Twitter more efficiently allows you to work on other things, while your Twitter accounts continue to grow and become more effective.
So for a small one time investment, people get to boost their Twitter accounts like they were on steroids, increase their followers, promotion, traffic, networks, and efficiency, all from one Twitter software.
The Twitter software is Tweet Adder and you can even download a FREE demo to use for yourself.
It unbelievably sells itself and I have had very few refunds. Tweet Adder is high quality, inexpensive, very effective, guaranteed, and has a very rewarding affiliate program. I believe this is the #1 highest selling Twitter software, since I’m an affiliate for several different Twitter software’s.
Just sign-up for the Tweet Adder affiliate program and you’ll get $10 bonus just for joining. It’s FREE of course to become an affiliate, and will only take a few minutes. You make 50% for every direct sale you referred and 10% from the sales that your 2nd tier makes (people who signed up for affiliate program under you). They have 4 different pricing options so you can make up to $90 per sale!
I only put a little effort into promoting Tweet Adder and already have made thousands from them. They have always paid me every month, but sometimes the actual date of payment may differ per month. The image to the right are my current number of commissions with TweetAdder, which is 608, from a total of 3545 visitors. This is pretty good since my traffic isn’t highly targeted and my promotion has been pretty minimal.
All I’ve basically done to make sales with Tweet Adder is, a few reviews on a couple of my blogs, recommended it to some friends, tweet about it, and put up a few of their banners. But I know a few people who are making a ton of money by using pay per click advertising like with Adwords, and by using other methods. The keywords (buying words) for Tweet Adder are pretty obvious. Examples: Tweet adder, twitter software, get more followers on Twitter, etc…
Like I said, Tweet Adder is quite easy to sale since it’s high quality, very beneficial, efficient, has different pricing options, and offers the FREE demo. Let people know there’s a FREE demo, this angle has worked well for me, but not if you are using PPC methods.
For me, Tweet Adder has given me a nice extra stream of income from their affiliate program with very little effort. I’m sure it can do the same for you, but I would get on it while Twitter and Twitter software is still HOT!
31 Days to Build a Better Blog – 25% Discount
So I finally purchased it today, the workbook, “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” by Darren Rowse, better known as Problogger. I’ve been meaning to get my hands on a copy of this book for awhile but been putting it off and honestly, I didn’t really know how much it would help me.
After hearing endless reviews on how “31 days to build a better blog” helped so many experienced and newbie bloggers alike, I decided to get it for myself. The 25% discount might of played a little part in my purchase today too. :-)
The discount is suppose to be going on for only a week!
Click here to get your own copy of 31 days to build a better blog and enter this discount code below when you’re at the sales page for 25% off today!
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It is a download so you get it right away and it regularly sales for $19.95 but you can grab it right now for only $14.95. Plus it does include a 31 day money back guarantee.
If you don’t know who Darren Rowse, (Problogger) is and you are interested in blogging or improving your blog, then you need to go religiously read as much of his blog, Problogger as you can. Darren Rowse is one of the pioneers of blogging and has helped shape what blogging has turned into today. He’s very straight forward, intelligent, humble, consistent and helps more people succeed with blogging than anyone else just from his blog, Problogger.
His blog is actually the first blog that inspired me to want to start blogging a few years ago before I even knew what internet marketing and blogging was.
What does the Workbook cover?
- daily tasks which you can do on your own time and help you stay accountable to improving your blog for 31 days
- building relationships with your readers
- multiple ways to promote your blog and get more traffic
- writing different type of posts and styles
- networking with other bloggers
- how to plan ahead for future posts and creating a editorial calendar for your blog
- Much More, this is just some of the topics when I did a quick glance…
I haven’t started reading it yet, but the workbook teaches new things daily and you get first hand experience by accomplishing the daily tasks.
I’ll do a review on “31 days to build a better blog” once I get into it and you can watch for yourself to see if any positive changes start happening with my blog in the next month or so.
Leave a comment with your opinions about “31 days to build a better blog”.
