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The Geek | March 16, 2008
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The Ultimate Blog Contest

Blog Contests Are Boring

Now normally I wouldn’t blog about a contest. I mean there are so many of them out there and I get tired of seeing them. They all seem the same, jump through 500 hoops and you might win a link on my boring blog. Yawn, no thanks.

This Blog Contest is Not Boring

But this contest is different. The prize list is huge! Lots of good stuff I woudn’t mind having. The prize list is so long I put it at the bottom of the post, but do take the time to look it over. Just be careful not to drool on your keyboard! There is over $100 in cash being offered, (I could use cash!), one person will win 25,000 Entrecredits. That will buy a lot of advertising through Entrecard! But I think the prize I would most like to win would be the one hour consultation with The University Kid.

Why Should I Care About The University Kid?

Now why would I want some young college punk telling me what’s wrong with my website? Because I’ve seen him around in a few forums I visit and I think this kid might be going somewhere. He is working hard at becoming a successful blogger and I think he is going to make it. On top of that His blog, The University Kid, is interesting to read.

How To Enter

I suppose what you would really like to know is how to enter the contest! Here is the link to the Ultimate Blog Contest. Have fun entering the contest, while you’re over there tell him Kat sent you!

Contest Prizes

WordPress Themes

- Two licenses for the Revolution Theme ($160)
- Two licenses for the Premium News Theme ($200)
- Two licenses for the Purple Fever Theme ($100)
- One hundred accounts to the Themes Club ($500)

Blog Tools

- Three licenses by FruitfulTime.com ($90)

Blog Analysis

- Full Video Review By Marcus Hochstadt ($700)

eBooks

- SEO Book Donated By The Net Fool

Blog Advertising

One Month

- Two 125 x 125 on Wayne Liew ($30)
- One 125 x 125 On Blogger Noob ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on EZ Money Online ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Affiliate Gossip ($15)
- One 125 x 125 on Rhyan ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Jim Karter ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on Neotrepreneur ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Life is Colourful ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on BLJConsultant ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Resell Rights World ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Viking Blogger ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Dot Com Mogul ($10)

- One 468 x 60 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- Five 16 x 16 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- One 150 x 150 on Blogging 4 Cash ($5)
- One Text Link On Mr Javo ($7)

Three Months

- One 125 x 125 on The WWW Observer ($75)

Blog Reviews

- One Review By The University Kid ($60)
- One Review By Yimto ($20)
- One Review By The WWW Observer ($35)
- One Review By Bloggeries ($25)
- One Review By Neotrepreneur ($10)
- One Review By Life Is Colourful ($40)
- One Review By DaBlogger

Consulting

One hour consulation with The University Kid
Thirty minutes consulation with Neotrepreneur

Design

- One Custom Done 125 x 125 Ad By Affiliate Gossip
- One Custom Done Sketch By The Pencil Sketch And Art Blog

Entrecard Credits

- 2000 Entrecard Credits By Xavier Media
- 1750 Entrecard Credits By Mixed Market Arts
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Toast & Egg & Me
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Confession
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Yimto
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Site Hoppin’
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Neotrepreneur
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Gossip
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By BLJ Consultant
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Resell Rights World
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Happier Life
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Article Snatch
- 800 Entrecard Credits By Kirushanth
- 750 Entrecard Credits By Money Making Student
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Bud Calabrese
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Mr Javo
- 500 Entrecard Credits By ImpNerd
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Life Is Colourful
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Money Making Blogs

Total: 15,800

Cash

$100 Paypal by The Profit Hustler
$30 Paypal by Viking Blogger
$15 Paypal by Final Fantasy Fan
$10 Paypal by The WWW Observer
$5 Paypal by Affiliate Gossip

Miscellaneous

300 Stumbles + 300 Reviews from Niklas
$50.00 In Stumble Upon Advertising By Mixed Market Arts
Twenty Pages By One Buck Wiki
Domain Monetization Package By Domains Earn 4U
One featured, three regular links from The SEOTree Directory

Are you still with me? Good, because I think I changed my mind. A page on the one buck wiki would be cool, and it has been over a week since I changed my blog theme. It might be cool to have the revolution theme….

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The Geek | March 12, 2008
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Qassia Gives You Free BackLinks

I have been seeing a lot of Qassia posts on the internet lately and it sounded pretty good. I am still checking it out but I think it is going to be an excellent way to get free backlinks and promote my blogs.

Join Qassia

Because I am still checking it out, I decided to just let Qassia explain themselves. Here is the About Qassia Page:

 

About Qassia

Qassia is a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory. What exactly does this mean? It means that Qassia will change your life.

Good stuff your websites will like

At Qassia, you can add your websites for free, and without having to add reciprocal backlinks. You’ll get unlimited quality backlinks (as opposed to “no-follow” backlinks). You can also add intel. Short for “intelligence”, intel is a tidbit of information. Qassia rewards users who add intel in three ways.

  1. Backlinks You get one backlink for every piece of intel you add. Every intel will carry a direct backlink to one of your sites. So the more intel you add, the more backlinks you get.
  2. Credit When you add intel, you also get credit, in the form of Qassia dollars. Your net worth in Qassia dollars determines how well your websites rank in our directory.
  3. Revenue When your intel is displayed, you get 100% of the advertising revenue generated by that page. That is not a typo, by the way: we give you ALL of the gross ad revenue.

This means that website owners have triple incentive to contribute intel. The contributed intel will allow Qassia to become a vast repository of intelligence, with unrivalled original content. And a vast amount of original content draws traffic like honey draws ants.

Inside Intel, rather than Intel Inside

Qassia is sometimes confused with sites like Wikipedia, Squidoo, most recently, Google knol. Qassia is fundamentally different from these sites, because Qassia is not about asking people to upload authoritative articles. You don’t need to be an egghead at Qassia. You could upload a lengthy academic treatise if you want, by all means, but you can also get away with contributing a hastily scribbled tidbit of information about a person, a company, a place, an event, a thing, or anything you know about. What we value is intelligence about the people, companies, and places around you. The people and places do not have to be famous, and the intelligence does not have to be earth-shattering.

Here are some examples of intel.

Qassia isn’t a wiki. Your intel will not get edited (it will get rated, but not edited). You can write your intel in any tone or style you like. You can write in the first person, and you can write your entire intel without using the shift key.

By asking for less, we receive more

We are sometimes asked if it is free to join and use Qassia. That makes us chuckle. Not only is Qassia 100 percent free – we do not even ask for reciprocal links – but, in addition to promoting your websites and discovering stuff, you can also earn real money – very easily and without any hassle. We have the best, most generous, and most reliable ad revenue sharing program on the web. So if you’re thusly inclined – and who wouldn’t be? – you’ll actually get paid for the effort you put in promoting your websites. No hitch, no catch. Now, if that ain’t a sweet deal, we don’t know what is. We believe that, only by completely pampering our users and giving more than any other website, and in fact giving more than the users themselves expect, can we attain our goal of becoming the most incredible website the world has ever seen.

Qassia is a new era

Think of the bits and pieces of intel as the gravel which will fill the potholes on the information superhighway. While the Wikipedia and other knowledge repositories are huge, boasting tens of thousands of articles, less than 1 percent of human knowledge has been uploaded to the Internet. At Qassia, we are giving users the incentive and the freedom to add the remaining 99.9 percent. The vast web of intel created at Qassia will produce more than a useful intelligence engine. The advent of Qassia is a cataclysmic event in the history of the Internet. We are redefining the web experience. Come be part of history and create your free Qassia account now.

So if that sounds interesting to you, why don’t you go ahead and sign up? It is free to join, and who knows, you could make some money.

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The Geek | March 10, 2008
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7 Money Making Blog Techniques That Spit Money And Profit

7 Money Making Blog Techniques That Spit Money And Profit
By Christopher Stigson

These are 7 simple money making blog techniques that anyone can use to make a couple of dollars online their first couple of days using free blogs and simple money making techniques. I won’t waste your time and I hope you enjoy this simple, but effective information that’s simply making money when put into action!

If you go to Google right now and search for “money making blog techniques” you’ll find about 7-8 million competing pages and odds are that one of the first 10 is an article! Why? Because articles, and blogs rank high in the search engines!

In this article you’ll learn step-by-step a few marketing tricks to increase search engine rankings and make money from your blog using simple optimization tactics, marketing and more…

Tip #1: Correctly Optimize your Blog For The Keyword.

First you’ll want to optimize your site for the keyword you are targeting. In my case “money making blog techniques”. That is a strange, but long-tail keyword and people obviously search for it! If you find a keyword that you didn’t know you ranked for, create a page and optimize it for that keyword. So instead of being, 4th or 5th, you’d be ranked #1 just by optimizing another page. The difference can be huge.

Tip #2: About URLS And Post Slug On Your Blog For Optimization

Now that you’ve optimized your article by using the keyword in the title of the article, as you probably will see above? You’ve also included it a few times in the post to make sure Google and Yahoo knows what this page is all about This is what I like to call “Relevancy 101″. Another thing you’ll notice is the “url” of your article. It’s most likely to include the keyword. That’s now done and you can hopefully see in the URL in your browser that the keyword is right there? Hope so!

Tip #3: Taggin And Pinging

Having a WordPress blog in this situation is killer! You can set up a huge list of ping services and list ping sites that will easily help you get more exposure. You’ll want to set up tags for your articles that you are about to post. This is easily done and the tags are what makes sure you get “found” by technorati and a few other sites that utilize tags to recognize new content online.

As you can see they are all relevant in one way or another. This means that all the words in the tags are on the page somewhere and that means more relevancy for Google and the search engine is more likely to find your article. This also helps boost your rankings for Technorati and all of the other pingservices you are a member of.

Tip #4: Create Unique Articles And Submit Them In Directories!

Now it’s time to submit articles for MASSIVE backlinks and that can easily be done by writing 2-3 unique articles, spin them in a content spinner and submit them to article services all of the internet. You shouldn’t spam and only post 1 unique article to each website. There are many softwares and services that does this for you.

Tip #5: Structuring The Resource Box For Well Written Articles

If you are targeting, let’s say “money making blog techniques” and “internet marketing” as your keywords, you should try to optimize your resourcebox to have a ONE way link from these words using an anchor text.

Your resourceboxes need to have a compelling and well formatted structure like this:

To discover awesome fast and easy cash-pulling . Be sure to visit Your Names’s authority now! And discover how he uses dead simple techniques to make passive income on autopilot.

Having a resource box like the one I just mentioned might not be the BEST one or win any beauty awards, but it’s most definitely good enough for getting optimized backlinks from the anchor texts. Hoovering the mouse will reveal the sites you are linking to and therefore ranking.

Linking to pages “deeper” than the top-level domain is called “deep linking” and is a widely known tehcnique among SEO experts. When you have a very competetive keyword take this a step further and create a Squidoo lens and link to that lens instead of your site. Then link the Squidoo lens to your site as well.

Increasing search engine rankings from Sqduioo lenses like this also let’s you have temporary traffic until your main, new site gets ranked for anything. Since your site is new and Squidoo is an authority site… Your site will slowly climb the rankings while you maintain a slow steady stream of traffic.

Tip #6: Increase Visitors By Submitting To Socialbookmarking Sites.

So, you will want to submit to StumpleUpon using the toolbar. You want to submit to Reddit.com and MAYBE to OnlyWire, but I prefer to use a tool called BookMarking Demon.

Also remember to ALWAYS have your RSS feed announced using RSS announcer or RSS submit. This makes your post get instant backlinks in the hundreds! I’m not kidding. Your logs might tell you that your FEED is the most visited “part of your website”. That means submitting it to hundreds of sites using these tools will most likely pay off. LATER, not when you submitted them.

Tip #7: How to ask people for help in socialbookmarking.

Asking other people to Stumble the post and link to it using their own socialbookmarks, trackbacks and comments. So that’s what you should ask for right now. Tell people to click the simple “thumbs up” and trackback your articles if possible. Also tell them to comment on your posts.

Great. Now you know how to use a blog and profit! I might have forgotten to tell you to add affiliate links to your posts, but this article has said exactly how to drive targeted traffic!

To discover awesome dead simple cash-pulling money making blog techniques. Be sure to visit Chris Stigson’s authority site for passive income online now! And find out how he uses dead simple techniques to make passive income on autopilot., and it’s free!

Article Source: Christopher Stigson
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