There are five types of blog commentators you can always find in the Internet.

1. Spammer is a person who improves website ranking by leaving many worthless comments in blogs and forums. Spamming process is partially or fully automated. Special scripts allow spammers to choose niche, geographical area, message text, and other parameters.

2. Sportsman is usually blog or forum follower who loves posting the first comment or reply. It doesn’t matter what article is about. What makes sense is comment number one. Why? Because visitors more likely to read it and click a link.

3. Expert discovers strong and week points; explains what, when, and why should be improved. Experienced bloggers know that unique and valuable content attracts expert commentators. Their comments multiply post value and bring additional value to readers.

4. Smarty wants to be an expert, but can’t because of lack of knowledge and experience. Smarty’s comments are fun to read. Usually they retell the same idea that author just said.

5. Opponent argues about topic and/or creates provocation to get some traffic. Generally opponent’s arguments are false. But still opponents can play their part and help blog’s owner. People will make a reply, because they like to argue.

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1. ProBlogger Blog Tips – Darren Rowse’s blog is the best blog about blogging. This is golden chest for beginners. You can find info about content writing, marketing, money making, etc. Don’t allow yourself to miss any post.

2. Copyblogger – one of the most powerful blogs about blogging. Brian Clark is content writing guru. His popular articles list is “must read” for everyone who wants to succeed in blogging.

3. Daily Blog Tips – another blog about blogging. Many tips about content writing, link building, and money making. Don’t forget to bookmark Resources chapter. Daniel Scocco has collected many useful links for you.

4. Blogging Tips – blogger’s website with forum from professional writing team. Interesting articles about search engine optimization, blog promotion, social media, etc. Newbies can find free nice-looking Wordpress and Blogger templates.

5. Entrepreneurs-Journey.com – Yaro Starak shares his experience about making $10K per month from blogging. What else do you need to know?

6. John Chow dot Com – John knows how to make cash. His monthly income reports can make your heart stop beating. Get John’s ebook for free and learn how to make $40K monthly.

7. Shoemoney – Jeremy Schoemaker has skills to pay the bills. He received the biggest AdSense check I’ve ever seen – $132,994.97!

8. SEO book.com – Aaron Wall’s blog is one of the best SEO blogs you can find. It’s huge library of marketing, link building, money making, and other tips. Once you start reading, you can’t stop. Free SEO tools are also available.

9. SEOmoz blog – another great SEO blog that can help you to improve your blog’s ranking. Also I recommend you to try SEOmoz toolset that includes free SEO tools.

10. Search Engine Journal – latest news about search engine world, various SEO tips tricks, and useful links.

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Yesterday I installed Nofollow case by Case Wordpress plugin to encourage people to read and comment my blog. Plugin allows bloggers to manage nofollow in comments very efficiently. You can regulate link juice flow by selectively applying and stripping nofollows.

How to get dofollow link from my blog

1. Add value - The best way to get dofollow link from my blog is to share your experience. Comment if you have something to say. Any tricks related to search engine optimization, internet marketing, and money making are welcome. It means that I will support only active bloggers who add value to conversation and don’t spam.

2. Be dofollow - Dofollow blogs automatically receive dofollow. But it doesn’t mean that I strip nofollow if you say “nice blog” or “thank you”. Please don’t ignore the first bullet even if you have dofollow blog.

3. Provide valuable links - Relevant links to valuable content are welcome, others will be deleted. Also don’t provide additional links, like signatures in comments. You can specify any relevant anchor in author link (Name) and provide any relevant link (Website) you want.

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Unfortunately, course dates/times, and payment information is not yet available, but it’s worth waiting. Courses are taught by industry professionals and can be taken from anywhere with an Internet connection.

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Scour is another search engine that pulls data from Google, Yahoo, and MSN. But it also allows users to vote and comment results to make them more relevant. Why anybody would do this? Because of reward system that scour offers.

Is it worth doing?

It depends. If you live in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, U.S., or U.K. then register, install plugin and make some cash. And spend more time reading if you live somewhere else. Look why.

For every search, vote and comment you earn 1 point, i.e. 3 reward points from every search if you vote and comment. But where is daily search limit. You earn reward points from the first 100 daily searches only. It means you can do 300 points per day. Is this enough to buy a beer? Nope.

The reward system for countries listed above is:
6,500 points = $25.00
12,500 points = $50.00
25,000 points = $100

The reward system for other countries is:
50,000 points = $5

It means that U.S. citizen can make $25 in 6,500 / 300 = 22 days, but guy from India in (5 x 50,000) / 300 = 834 days! But don’t leave my blog now if you are from India :] There is something that scour can offer you, referrals!

Invite as many friends as you can and make 25% of the points they make! If your referral makes 300 reward points daily, it is 75 points for you. Ten referrals, 750 reward points and so on.

I forgot to mention that you get 50 bonus points when you register.

Bad things happen

Scour performs regular manual reviews to ensure quality of comments and votes. Don’t spam, don’t use submission scripts, don’t search invalid characters, and don’t promote your site! Otherwise scour will take some points or ban your account. Remember, that scour believes that users vote and comment to make the World better :} Don’t frustrate them, be natural.

Scour is another free SEO tool

If you are not interested in making money with scour you can use it as ranking analysis tool. Yes, another free SEO tool for you guys! Just type keyword you need and check ranking in Google, Yahoo, and MSN. You can sort SERP as well. I like this feature very much, because I can sort SERP on the fly without using special SEO tools.

P.S.: If you find this post useful you can register using my referral url.

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Bounce rate was 35%. That’s pretty low for two months old blog. Average time on site was 1 minute 34 seconds and average number of pages viewed was 1.66.

My second blog had 138 visits. Blog’s niche is very popular. It’s no surprise to me that traffic was higher compared to From Zero To SEO.

Bounce rate was around 40% and average time on site was 56 seconds.

My friend who also became Stumbleupon user shared his blog statistics. Blog had 114 visits in 24 hours.

Average number of pages viewed was 1.76. Average time on site was 1 minute and 25 seconds. Bounce rate was approximately 40%.

Good results for Stumbleupon newbies!

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1. Analyze keywords using any research tool you like. Select the most relevant keywords for slug. Check word order and spelling. Keep in mind that slug can’t be changed.
2. Enter selected keywords in the title edit box. Blogger will use them for slug creation.
3. Open your text editor and write post title you like. Title and slug don’t have to be the same. Use as many keywords from slug as possible. Remember, title should be human readable. Do your best and optimize it for readers.
4. Write content and click the “Publish Post” button. Blogger will create slug from words you specified in title edit box. Exactly what you wanted.
5. Now go to editor and modify title. Just copy the title from text editor and click the “Publish Post” button again.

Don’t forget to follow the procedure every time you want different slug and title. Make it a habit and improve your blog’s ranking in the SERP.

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Firstly I couldn’t realize what I did wrong. I wrote many pages containing lots of target keywords. I optimized content for search engines and I got some dofollow links with good anchors. But nothing happened. The reason is duplicated content.

In fact, content is unique, but is based on existing articles. I made necessary corrections and put low competitive keywords. But now I see that it’s not enough.

I’ve stopped bothering about keywords and created few unique pages. And I succeeded. Unique content brings traffic. Also some low competitive keywords appeared in the SERP in top 50. Now I’m following the 2:1 writing scheme. Two posts with unique niche content per one rewritten post with low competitive keywords. It works just fine, but I’m going to switch to the 1:1 scheme soon. Of course, I will inform you about results.

If you have any suggestions about mixing rewritten content with unique content, please comment. I appreciate it very much.

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Firstly let’s take a look at the simplified content generation process. It contains three critical steps:

• Keyword analysis
• Content writing
• Content indexing

All steps are time consuming. But you can reduce time dramatically if you know what can be thrown away.

Keyword analysis

Unused keywords

You can spend much time on keyword analysis. But more is not always better. Avoid unused keywords, because they are waste.

You know that keywords become obsolete very quickly. So why wait? Get rid of them. Instead of keeping unused keywords, give them to somebody who can use and ask for a backlink. You may sell them too.

I’d like to note that usually high competitive keywords remain unused. On my experience, if you have hundred keywords in a list, then more than a half of them will not be used at once. I know it’s difficult to resist the temptation to put them all in one post. But don’t push them. Otherwise unused keywords become extra keywords.

Extra keywords

For some of you this may seem strange, but extra keywords exist. If you usually write common blog post for about 250 words long, then it’s difficult to put more than 15-20 keywords into it.  Use others in next post. Don’t spend time trying to push everything into one post.

Extra pricing

Also I don’t recommend you to spend time on analyzing CPC of each keyword from list even if you are planning to start your pay per click campaign. Remember that keywords obtained by Wordtracker may not be in the Google Keyword Tool. Wordtracker gets keywords from metacrawlers, rather than the search engines themselves. But it doesn’t mean that you should throw away any keyword. Low competitive keyword generates traffic even if its estimated CPC is $0.05.

Instead of estimating each keyword, give an overall niche estimate or calculate average CPC for keywords you want to use and get them done. Remember that your goal is to reduce content generation time.

Content writing

Drafts

Drafts are waste. It’s neither keyword nor content. You did keyword analysis and wrote a post, but content is not used. What if you have many drafts? Finish drafts one by one instead of collecting them. Do it as soon as possible, because content become obsolete. The longer post is in draft, the harder for you to finish it.

Give your friend drafts for review. Perhaps you’ll get valuable feedback and fresh ideas. It motivates to finish writing. This trick works for me, so it will work for you too.

If you used to work in batches then minimize batch size. Pair of posts is an excellent backup. You may follow your defined posting frequency without interruptions.

Mistakes

Readers don’t like mistakes and may leave your blog. That’s why it’s important to correct them.

I make a lot of mistakes, because English is not my native language. Sometimes I read my post several times and correct something again and again. This war is endless.

Short break is the best anti mistake technique after spell checker and review. I often put post aside for a while. After 2-3 hours I read it again carefully. There will be something to correct.

Indexing

Waiting

Waiting is waste. Don’t wait until content is indexed by Google. Let people know about it. This is the simplest trick that works.

Here are some tips:

• Ask someone for backlink.
• Ask your friends to visit your blog and read post.
• Create discussion in forum.
• Comment someone’s blog.
• Digg post.

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