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Linking To Other Sites In Your Blog Posts Is Costing You Money

Harrison Schmidt — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:53:34 +0000

Have you ever noticed that 99% of the most popular, most famous bloggers very rarely link out to other blogs in their posts? Copyblogger, Entrepreneurs-Journey, ProBlogger, HowToMakeMyBlog, ChrisBrogan, SethGodin, and at least 90% of the Technorati Top 100 do not link out to other sites in their posts, and if they do its usually only with an affiliate link or on a very rare occasion to promote a partners site. The authors of these blogs write like they thought up all the ideas in each of their posts, and it really helps to build their authority in the eyes of their readers. The A-list bloggers know that when you link out, it causes people to leave your site, and if you link out to better sites, they won’t be back.

The only very successful blogger I know of who links out to other sites a lot is Aaron Wall of SEOBook. In many of his posts he links out like crazy, sometimes to 10 to 15 different articles at different blogs. One of the reasons he does this is because Aaron Wall doesn’t make his money directly from selling ad space on his blog, he makes it from selling his own products. He mainly writes blog posts to build trust with his potential customers, and get high search engine rankings for keywords he deliberately targets with his posts as Google’s ranking algorithm gives you more points for linking to good sites so he does it to increase his rankings. The other reason he links out to blogs in particular a lot is because when you link to other bloggers, they usually see that you linked to them, so linking to blogs its a great way to market your sites and products directly to bloggers, and get them to link back to you.

When you first start profit blogging, you might consider linking out to other blogger’s posts to get noticed by other bloggers in your niche, but eventually I would recommend cutting down on it and focusing on building perceived authority. That’s where the biggest money is.

How To Get Your RSS Feed Readers To Actually Come To Your Site

Harrison Schmidt — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:57:18 +0000

To get people to come back to your blog after they sign up for your RSS feed, all you really have to do is write good blog posts and articles or create interesting videos (in other words, create good content) and link to your past posts within your new posts. Your readers will click the links in your feeds (if they have interesting anchor text), and will come to your site where you are selling your products or have some form of better monetization than google feedburner adsense ads.

Linking to your past articles in your post is also good for deep linking . Use anchor text that is related to the article you are linking to to help with your search engine optimization.

Not only that, but linking to your previous posts in your new posts is a good way to turn nuisance webmasters who scrape content and repost it to their sites to try to rank in the search engines into a good thing, because when visitors read your content that’s posted to the scraper sites, the visitors will click the links within the scaped content that lead back to your site so you will get the traffic, and a free backlink link to your site. Most content scrapers scrape content on a mass scale and upload it to a network of scraper seo websites, and the webmasters don’t have time to remove the links in the posts that go back to the creators site, so this technique works pretty well to turn a bad thing into a good thing.

It also helps to update your blog every day or every other day, so your subscribers will be used to seeing your high quality posts in their RSS reader, and be eagerly waiting for new ones to read.

On Blogging, Making Money Online, And The Power of Google Traffic

Harrison Schmidt — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:30:19 +0000

This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on the blogosphere, done by the owner of Blogger Unleashed(ranked #47,809 in the Alexa list of most popular sites in the world) in his post Make Money Online. This guy has made a lot of money from blogging and digital information products and software. Great thoughts on how to make money online.

He talks about how valuable organic Google traffic is for making money compared with social media traffic from sites like twitter, stumbleupon and digg. Its pretty long but well worth a watch.