Hi friends,

(Update: See BONUS Offer below)

(Update Number 2: As of this date, 09/12/10, we are still waiting for an update to fix some bugs and add new features, that were promised two months ago to be ready in one month.  The program does work, though with some bugs, but as it no longer meets my personal standards, I can no longer recommend it to my readers.  I have removed my affiliate links.  Buy it knowing that it has not been updated as promised. – Rich Hill.)

I know you all get hit every day with all of the greatest offers since the Internet was started, but I want you to know about this one, because I subscribed to this service program and am delighted with it.

Josh Spaulding has just released the Back Link Pro package which will automatically submit your link to over 600 good directories all in full auto mode and accomplished in a few hours.

Once you download and install the simple piece of software, you run the setup program, be sure to read the owner’s manual and watch the instructional video and in about twenty minutes, which is what it took me, you will have your site submitted to over 600, (soon to be more than 1,000) directories.

You will get a flood of emails from the directories noting that you have submitted and some of these will need to be approved, or some of them might require you to type in their captcha code, but when all is said and done you will have many very good and valid directory links.  You should probably create a new email address to use with this because your mailbox will get a ton of responses.

You can use this service to build links to all of your websites, both to the primary url, or to internal page links also and that is why this is called the Deep Linker.  Right now it is running in the background and I can click over to it and see the gradual progress as the software goes though its steps to automatically satisfy the requirements of each and every directory site.

Just think, thousands of backlinks to all of your websites and even to all of your internal sales page for just one very small investment.  You should know that I used to pay a service company to do this and each link used to cost $.14.  When you consider how many links you will be building this cost will become some thousands of parts of a penny!

Josh just opened this to the public at 5 am today, April 2nd, and if you act NOW you can still get in on the early bird special price.  Here is my affiliate link.

BONUS Offer:  If you missed the early bird special price I have a special deal for you.  Go ahead and grab this excellent software using my link just above here and then contact me with a copy of your receipt that shows you purchased from this website and I will provide you with one full year’s worth of targeted Tweets to your website articles.

This amounts to at least 365 tweets promoting your site.  That is a minimum of seven tweets per week for a whole year!  This will provide very targeted backlinks to your own offer at absolutely no extra cost.

Here is my affiliate link.

Perhaps you are already a member of the Warrior Forum or have been to their website.  What we are going to do with this blog post is demystify some of the overwhelming amount of material you will find there.

After checking it out a dozen or so times over the past couple of years and each time going away bedazzled and bewildered, I finally decided to try to learn some of the ways to capitalize on all of this material.

Like any forum, you should read the posts at the top of each category page that are called “Stickies”.  A sticky is one of those little note pads that you write a reminder on and stick on the fridge, your monitor, or write in reverse and stick on your forehead.  These will define the rules of the board and you need to follow the instructions “exactly”.

In my first few ventures to the Warrior Forum it was apparent at first that these people knew a LOT about website publishing and internet marketing, but like all tight knit groups they were very protective of their forum and “its my way or the highway” was pretty obvious.

Well after now a couple of months into using the forum every day and learning the ropes it is a place that will benefit everyone who blogs and in particular if you are into blogging to make money.

From the main home page you will see several categories; Main Internet Marketing Discussions, Warrior Special Offers Forum (WSO’s), Warrior Products and Services, Ad Networks – CPA, CPM, CPL – Millionaire Makers, Mind Warriors, The Copywriting Forum, Adsense / PPC / SEO Discussion Forum, Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings.

There are several more but you will have enough to learn with just those described.  By all means register, fill out your signature where you may include hyperlinks to your own sites or products, the sig box may be no more than five lines, but people will click on your links to see what you are about.

The WSO’s are my favorite.  These Warrior Special Offers (WSO) are updated constantly.  Every day there are dozens of new offers from fellow warriors that have an ebook to hump, or outsource service to offer, backlink program offers, copywriting offers, graphics design, and the list is endless.

Normally a WSO is offered at a very low price to the first few members, then the price goes up gradually through the life of the deal, so first to jump in usually get a really good bargain.  Sometimes when a WSO is first offered the vendor offers “Review Copies” for free or a reduced rate, and in return you must use the WSO and then post a product review of your fair and honest opinion of the vendor and product.  Oh, and most important, never, NEVER, ask for a review copy!

You can tell at a glance if the person making the offer has a good rep by looking at their profile in the offer.  It will tell you how many times that have posted to WF and what class of member they are.  You can rest assured that if they have been around a long time and made several offers that they are on the up and up.  I say that because if someone is a scammer the warriors are vicious and they will not be around long.

You can use the forum for free, or you can become a member of the War Room with a twenty dollar twenty year membership, I call it a life membership, but hopefully you will have to renew.

There is a way that you can send private messages however you must have made at least 50 regular message posts to the boards to be able to PM.  If you are the type of person that gets offended easily, this forum is not for you.  If you say something stupid you will be set upon by demons.

Something that I just noticed is a full set of free videos that were made by Adeel Chowdhry that will cover each and every thing you need to know about becoming a good warrior and how to use the forum.  You will see them right at the top of the forum.

I have included what you would think is an affiliate link for you to use.  This has no cash value, and is only helpful to me by letting the people that run the Warrior Forum know that I was the one that referred you.  It helps to build a sort of ‘street creds’.  Your reputation is everything on the WF, do not do anything to tarnish it.

Hope to see you as a member
http://www.warriorforum.com/index.php?referrerid=173773

Give it up for Google, the do no evil company has become bigger than everything.  This brilliant little team of mathematicians created something that is now beyond human control.  They have won you know…

Man I could not wait to get my Gmail account back when they first started up.  People were selling invites on ebay and literally the day I was going to buy one, I got the invite.  Oh Happy Days!

I had already achieved superiority by having discovered the fantastic features of Alta Vista moving on beyond the old stalwart search engine, Yahoo.  Soon it was obvious that Google was very fast and seemed to return things that you were actually searching for, not just pages and pages of totally unrelated nonsense that occasionally would have a gem in it.

I had also mastered Excite and the metacrawlers, but now Google, well they just were the best, hands down.  I had a genealogy website that had been working since the mid or late 1980′s and when I heard about Blogger by Google, well it was just no question.  Build a blog on Blogger.  It’s free after all.

Soon it was obvious that when you searched for something, anything, on Google that along with your search topic returns there were also some advertisements that seemed to be targeted to just exactly what you were searching for.  My isn’t that clever, how they do that?

So fast forward to about 2007 and I learned about WordPress and started to build websites.  Boy did I build em.  I would just put up a site about anything, anything at all and stick some Adsense code on it and sit back and light up a Lucky.  Soon the cash would be rolling in.  Not.

I did not know anything about keywords or Adwords or prices of words that advertisers would pay Google for to have their ads placed in the best positions.  After a year or more it was obvious that this was a bad business model and had to learn more, a lot more.

I looked at my pitiful AdSense reports and it dawned on me that the payout structure was based on how many people visited your site and how many clicked on the ads.  So on sites where the word prices were low, or sites that people were just looking for free information, those page views counted against me.  They were basing the final payout on the total views as part of the equation of payment.  Not fair.  Not fair at all, but it is the Golden rule.  He who has the gold makes the rules.

So I took all my AdSense ads down and started from square one.  I decided to only put AdSense on websites that had high payouts for the keywords and worked on driving traffic to those sites.  That is not an easy task either because for every scheme that someone comes up with to “help” the search engines find your site, guess who figures it out?

Some other real brainy things I did was to create multiple accounts with several hosting companies.  I did not want the Big G to know that I owned all of these many sites.  Ha!

There is nothing that you can do to get around it.  If you use AdSense you have the same ID number.  If you use WordPress you have the same Akismet API and the Yahoo API and other identifiers that are internal in each of your sites.  Believe me they know who you are and where your kids go to school.

Just today Google came out with their own version of BUZZ.  Cripes!  I do not want all of my email list automatically added to any mass social media thing.  I have many different personas and pen names that I write under.  I certainly do not want people from my classic car business, knowing about my lefty green business, or the fact that I sell ladies brassieres!  True, but its a long story.

At the bottom of any Gmail page there is a tab that you can use to TURN BUZZ OFF!  By the way another tab can turn Google Chat off too if that annoys you.  Any way to get to the reason for this post as from the start.

If the government ever wanted to collect any small percentage of what we freely and openly give to Google every minute of the day, there would be screams to high Heaven.  Well 1984 is here forever.

Surely you heard about the gutsy move Google made in China.  They are now partnering up with the NSA to take that problem to the next level.  Ha!  That should make it easier for the govt to just nationalize Google during the next crisis and guess what?  It’s too late.

This will go right along with the 2010 census data.  Did you know that when the census taker visits your home, and they will, that when they are at your doorway they click a little button on a little devise that sends a signal up to  a GPS satellite that will pinpoint your doorway?

Now you take every single search that you have ever made on Google, they do still have it in their memory banks, and you couple that with exactly where you are at any moment, and do you see where I am going with this?…

Oh by the way, did you know that Google only indexes about 10% of the world wide web?  The other 90% does not cause any advertising to be generated.  Do a few searches about “The Deep Web.”

Well I for one no longer care.  At times I feel like just running into Google’s headquarters, stripping off all my clothes, throwing myself down on the receptionists desk on my back, and shouting “C’mon Google!  Have your way with me!

Are you an “A” blogger or just an average kinda blogger?  It is a possibility that it makes a very BIG difference as to whether or not you can make money on Twitter with tweets that are sponsored by advertisers.

You have heard several A bloggers proclaim the virtues of this fabulous method of making serious money online.  You sign up with an advertising company as an affiliate Twitter advertiser and you input your Twitter name and real quick they will tell you how much advertisers will be willing to pay for you just tweeting their ads.

Of course the program explains that your number of Twitter followers makes a difference in the payment per tweet amount.  So I signed up, after all I have about 10,000 followers and that’s nothing to sneeze at.  Holy smokes they say that advertisers will be willing to pay about twenty bucks per tweet, do I want to activate my account?  Hell yes!

So I gave them my name, address, contacts and social security number, after all I will have to report my hundreds of thousands of dollars of income from this new program right?  All I would have to do is sit back, relax and wait for the advertising offers to come rolling in.

Chirp, chirp, chirp, not even a peep to tweet.  So I’m thinking maybe $20 is too much, lets lower it to $18, silence, lower to $15, nothing, lower to $9 per tweet.
The pins dropping around here are deafening.

Okay, so lower it right down to five bucks and lets get this sucker moving, right?
Nothing, no offers.  I could become a lot more famous by putting my hat on sideways and pants on the floor.

So I took the banner ads down.  I never promote anything that I do not believe in, and then I notice that this big time advertising company is running a massive campaign to sign up more affiliate publishers and they seem to be giving away just about every major computer toy that anyone would ever want, for just signing up with them as a Twitter advertiser.

Now this got me to thinking.  Who told me about this in the first place?  Well as I recall it was John Chow, certainly an A blogger, and I signed up under his affiliate link.   I believe John when he tells how much money he is making with this program.  After all he and the other A bloggers are the very best word of mouth promoters aren’t they?

Looking back, I have some thoughts that came to mind, lets see what you think.
Suppose an advertising company could sign up millions of affiliate tweeters, and suppose that company could build a gigantic database of names, contacts, and “Social Security Numbers”!  Would that database have value?

I seem to recall once on one of the credit card company affiliate programs I looked in to, but did not sign up for, that they considered the full name, address, contact and SS numbers as being worth $35.00 each.  Now I am not saying that this is an ulterior motive for this particular advertising company, but it does come to mind.

Lets hear it from all of you satisfied tweeters out there.  All of you average Joes, and mommy bloggers, and hobbyists, that tweet for sponsored ads.  Please share with our readers as to whether or not you have made a ton of money with this program, or if in fact you have made “any” money with this program.

I have a feeling that it will be primarily the big names in the blogging world that are seeing any cash flow.  I know that advertising on Twitter does work and that people do make money with Twitter ads.  For instance, Leo LaPorte, the tech guy, told on a recent podcast that just before he left for the CES show in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago that Ford offered him $10,000 for just one retweet of a Ford ad.  Leo being the most ethical guy that I know of on the internet turned the offer down.

Please let us know your thoughts.

Search All Craigslist Cities at Once

Want to search all Craigslist cities at once? It is easy, just follow directions below.  No tool needed.  This is free!

Craigslist.org is set up so as to keep the buyers and the sellers in close proximity to each other in order to facilitate one on one connections, and to lessen the chances of fraud.  If you are selling or buying something you must log in with the city that you reside in or are that you are interested in.

They do not want you to be dealing with people in remote locations as there is no way to determine trust.  There is no voting system like on Ebay where you earn a trust score, so Craigslist wants to keep it local.

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A new way to search all Craigslist Cities at Once:

Now there is a way to: “Search all Craigslist Cities at Once”, using a specific Google search.

There are many specific websites that have been set up to allow you to search multiple Craigslist listings all at one time.  These tools no doubt work and the entrepreneurs that built those website tools are to be commended.

However it is very easy to do and requires no special online tool.  You already have just what you need and it is called Google.

All you have to do to search all Craigslist cities at once, is to enter the following in your Google search box:

site:craigslist.org [keyword]

Make sure there is no space between site: and craigslist, and make sure there is a space between: craigslist.org and the keyword.  You also can use part numbers or use boolean searches, or use quotes to narrow things down.

Then once you find what you are looking for you should contact the buyer or seller and explain that you do not live locally and make your fair and honest offering.

If you like this post, please use the tweetmeme button at the top, or your social bookmarking tool of choice to help this website gain some more readers.  If you provide a backlink to this website, make sure to let me know and I will reciprocate.

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Thank you very much.

Have fun.

Rich Hill

http://linkMoney.org

Here is a free video on how to make an image ad for Craigslist.  With this method you could post it to the city of your choice and there is no way that they can tell it is the same ad, because they will only see it as a photo.  Pretty cool.

ps: UPDATE !!! – There is now a website that you can use that is also free to search all Craigslist cites at once, and it is called AllofCraigs.com

So if you have found this helpful, and now you want to make money with Craigslist, just Click Here!

Now you have all the best methods on how to search all Craigslist cites at once, so go forth and make money on Craigslist.

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OK, so if you are like me you obsess on your Search Engine Ranking Position (SERPS.)  Over the past three years I have developed a manual method to search Google by keyword.

First I would go to advanced search and set the number of returns to be 100 per page instead of 10 per page.  Then I would type in the keyword that I have been trying to rank for and do the search.  You end up with 100 search results and of course you are trying to see if you are in the top 10 or even the top 100.

So then I used to scroll down one by one until I found my own listing and count my position.  Well about a year or so ago I discovered a way to not have to actually count the returns.  When you locate your listing you hover your mouse pointer over the grayed out word: “cached” near the bottom of the listing, and in the very long string of totally non-nonsensical characters at the bottom of the screen you look for the [CD= number] and that will be your SERPS position number.

So I talked to several programmer friends and asked if a script could be written to do all of this automatically.  At first the answer was always, sure, no problem, but when I asked for an actual price quote to do this everyone decided that they did not want to do it.

I even asked a very well known internet marketer to help me develop it and we would share the profits.  Didn’t happen.  I have been doing some VA business with people in the Philippines and in India both, and had put out feelers to get a price for programming such a tool, and suddenly it appeared in front of me developed by I don’t know who.

All I do know is that this thing is very helpful and the best thing is that it is totally free to use.  You can sign up for a free account and use it as much as you like to check all of your SERPS.  They also have a backlink checker that will show you how many backlinks you have coming to any url.

The website is new as of December 3rd and I can not figure out who owns this site, but it matters not.  It works and works well.  There is a message on one screen that says they have a paid version that will keep continuous tracking of your requests and will send you an email on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.  The only thing is that link does not work and there is no indication as to why.

Perhaps it is just in the free beta version and the paid version will come along later.

So the site is http://easyseotracking.com/

Go there, check your SERPS and Backlinks.

PS: this just in.  I have found the best way to get free dot gov and dot edu backlinks.  You will need the authority codes to find the right ones and you can download the free pdf at the link shown.

Get on Google Page One http://bit.ly/culStA <== Free PDF (tip: uses .edu and .gov links)

Have fun!
Rich

I met Andrew through a Blog post here on LinkMoney.org, first as a commenter and later as a correspondent.  I have come to know that he speaks honestly and he sincerely wants to help people achieve their online income goals.

During the creation of the Income Blogging Guide Membership Course, Andrew and Joel completed a poll on the number of ‘internet related’ products individuals had purchased.

You may not believe the results but 32% of those who responded had purchased over 20 ‘make money on the internet’ type products.

That’s almost 1 in 3 had purchased over 20 products.

One guy actually said, “I ticked the more than 20 box in the vote, only because there isn’t one that says more than 50!”

I’m sure he’s not alone.

Why do we buy so many make money online products?

Because they all promise some form of “overnight success”. You see the seller standing in front of the flashy cars and big mansions and you think, “I want some of that”.

However, the products they sell tend to be full of the same old theory. They grab your $97 and you never seen them again. And they certainly don’t care whether you benefited or even used the product. They take your cash and run.

You are then feeling all alone and if you were to shout ‘HELP!’ you certainly would not be heard. You have less in your wallet and a book. Well whoopee-do!

But I am telling you it’s different with Andrew & Joel. These are the first guys who have come out and said:

“Our course is NOT a silver bullet to making money on-line”

“Our course will NOT make you rich overnight”

BUT what they do say is:

“What our course does show you is how to build a solid on-line Internet business that will generate income for you on autopilot AND enable you to reduce your working hours so you get some freedom and time back into your life…but NOT overnight and with some hard work.”

That is quite refreshing, don’t you think?

They are being up front – in fact their sales letter will tell you how much they expect you to be earning after you finish the course and no it’s not anything like $10k. They are being open, honest and not keeping anything back.

I think that’s different to the normal hyped-up sales approach.

Joel and Andrew care about you and your business.

They won’t be running away as soon as you’ve put your credit card away…not with the bonuses they have on offer, at least.

And Joel is the blogging mentor to some of the world’s biggest and most famous bloggers. You cannot get better support than that.

If you’ve been looking for someone who cares about YOUR success, YOUR business, I thoroughly recommend you check out The Income Blogging Guide Membership Course. Here’s the link: Income Blogging Guide

(http://www.incomebloggingguide.com/stepbystep/ )

I can only recommend that you act now.

(The links within this post are not affiliate links. I am recommending this course not to earn any income but because I believe many of you will benefit from the step-by-step approach to making you own on-line business).

Rich

So you have done your keyword research and have written a killer post on your Blog, now what?  You wait for the search engines to find it.  After all, until the search engines smile on you and give you a high ranking position for your keyword of choice, very few people will see your article amidst the billions of articles posted every day.

Sure some of your fans will read it via their email subscription or their RSS subscription to your Blog feed, but you could count on them reading it anyway.  What you need is a world wide web submit site for a fast index.

You must be indexed.  Indexing occurs often on popular blogs because the search engines know those of you who post often with new, fresh, exciting content and those little index spiders will come back and crawl your site several times a day if you are an A-Blogger, whatever that is.

So what about a niche site that you care about because you have built a site around a very specific subject or product and you have optimized this site with advertisements or offers that you want to make money with?  You may only post to this niche site once a week or maybe once a month.  The spiders will find it eventually, but they are not hanging around outside your hosting portal just waiting for you to feed them with new digits.

So what do you do to call them in and say “Hey spiders, I’ve got some new awesome content!”  Well here is what I suggest.  You probably already have a Facebook (the biggest) and Twitter (the hottest) social network accounts, but what about having more than two dozen real popular social sites that you could post to all at once with just one button?

Well there is just such a magic button out there and it is free.  Ping.fm is my new best friend.  Go there now and get your free account and set it up with all of your social bookmarking sites of choice, and then when you write a post all you have to do is copy the title of the post and the url of your new article into the Ping.fm text box and hit “Ping It!”.  That’s all there is to it you have now announced to up to 30 social sites that you have new content.

I guarantee that the spiders that live at Google, Yahoo and Bing will be running across their webs to come to visit your new post.  You will be indexed almost immediately.  Now that’s what I call a fast index!

Sure it takes a little time to set up Ping.fm but it is worth the effort, I promise.  Here is a list of social sites that you can post to all with one push button; Twitter, Facebook, Ning, Tumblr, Brightkite, FriendFeed, hi5, Delicious, Diigo, Multiply, posterous, Facebook Pages, MySpace, Gtalk Status, AIM Status, LinkeIn, Identi.ca, Plurk, Jaiku, Blogger, Plaxo Pulse, Live Journal, Bebo, Xanga, WordPress.com, Custom URL, Friendster, Koomk, you are, Yammer, Flickr, Utterli, Seesmic, Laconi.ca, Present.ly, Vox, TypePad, ShoutEm, StreetMavens, Radar, MyYearbook, Photobucket, Tagged, MerchantCircle and Yahoo Meme.  This list changes from time to time and more are being added often.

What I do now is to keep Ping.fm open on a page of its own.  Then every time I post, I Ping.fm it.  Every time I comment on another Blog, I Ping.fm it.  Every time I create a back link somewhere on a directory or other website, I Ping.fm it.  Get the idea?  You want traffic?  You can’t handle the traffic that you will get with this web submit site!

The common question “Can Blogging Make Money” has been addressed on this website many times and will continue to be explained to our readers, as the answer is an absolute “YES”.

Rich Hill photo

This is what I do for a living full time and then some.  About three years ago I was forced to make a decision as to how to support myself for the rest of my years as I had met with the most enormous disruption in life plans and literally had to start over.

I had been publishing materials on the internet for about 12 years, regarding my life long hobby of genealogy.  Everything I had put up on the net even starting before there was a world wide web, had been presented to fellow genealogists for free.  I never dreamed of trying to make money on genealogy, the net just created opportunities for connections and was very rewarding.

I had been using computers seriously since 1979 and had built companies of technicians that integrated computers into machinery control for automation of various manufacturing processes.  I knew how to create teams of extremely brilliant people and we were very successful at what we did.  All that said I didn’t know beans about programming, web design, graphics, auto responders, ftp, and all the necessary elements required to become good at website publishing.

That all changed with WordPress.  Here was an easy to learn method of publishing on the internet in story form and I concentrated every minute I could spare to learn how this thing works and to start to earn a living on the internet.

Now I have way over 100 web properties in all various levels of success.  More importantly I have carved out a niche that works for me in that not only do I build niche marketing sites for myself, I build, maintain, operate and write high quality blogs for other companies.

If you listen to the audio interview with Beat Schindler on this website you will hear me talk about the 3rd Party Blog program that I pioneered and now work in joint venture with S-GO Consulting where we do the complete blogging program for many different businesses in all different types of industries.  You may read more of this service at my site www.3rdPartyBlog.com.  We do the whole blog, including researching and writing all of the content.  This alone makes me a full time income now.

3rdPartyBlog.com

There is a HUGE need for this type of service and I would encourage all of our readers here on LinkMoney.org to look into the possibility of doing this for businesses in your area.  They need it, they do not know how to blog, or they do not have people that they can assign to a company blog, and you know exactly how to do it.  So go and sell yourself and learn for yourself as to whether or not if blogging can make money.

There I just gave you my most important method of making money online.  Now I want to share with you some information on a tool that I use almost every day.  In our 3rd Party Blog business it is my duty to research and write the content for all of these different blogs that we build.  Now if I had to do it alone I would be totally unable, as we have just too many clients to write for.  So here is what I do.

I do the initial research and first couple of articles, and then I hand the project off to our crack team of professional copywriters.  We have built a team of extremely talented people that are literally scattered all over the world and each and every one of them has super abilities and life experience that qualifies them to write on all of the different subjects that we are presented with.

Ultimately all of their output comes to me for the final edit and for additional items that I might want to include such as emphasizing a client product or a call to action and things that might come to mind at publication time.  Outsourcing is a developed skill that is not easy to acquire to do it properly but I feel as though I am very good at it and we have dedicated writers that will always rise to the occasion of a rush job and believe you me, I love them all for their brilliant talent and dedication.  We couldn’t do this job without them.

Now you might say; “Well just what the heck do you do then Rich?” Here is what I feel is one of the most important parts of this process.  Keyword Research! There I’ve said it.  No matter what niche or subject our clients hire us to blog about, my primary concern is that we make sure that our articles will be indexed well in the search engines.

Just as Willie Sutton answered to the question of “Why do you rob banks?” he said, “Cause that’s where the money is.” Well we do not rob banks, we do not do anything illegal or black hat, but what we absolutely do is to make sure our articles will be keyword rich in subjects that people are presently searching for, and even as, or possibly more important, that the keywords have a high degree of commercial intent.

What does that mean?  Well there are keywords and there are “keywords.” Some popular keywords are searched on for just plain old curiosity or in searching for the answer to a school exam question.  Those keywords do not have any commercial intent.  The searcher is not looking to purchase anything, they are just looking for free information.

We like to use keywords where there is a fair chance that the searcher is interested in making a purchase of a product or where we have a fair chance of promoting something that will make their life better or to solve some problems that are obvious that they would like to have solved.

Now here is how I do this and though this is an affiliate sales product and if you decide to click through and learn more about this product I will more than likely make a commission.  I never advertise anything that I do not use myself and fully believe in and if you know me well enough by now from my writing and presence here on LinkMoney.org then you know I speak the truth.

Micro Niche Finder Ad

I purchased my own copy of Micro Niche Finder (mnf) software about two years ago and I use it like I said, almost every day.  The man that dreamed this up and offers it to others is James Jones.  He is not a high pressure salesman.  He will explain the benefits of using Micro Niche Finder and it will be up to you to decide if this is for you or not.  Personally I firmly believe that if you publish on the web, that you need it, period.

Since I first invested in my own copy there have been many new versions that have come out, and each and every one of them has made Micro Niche Finder better and better.  You will make a one time purchase and all future updates and first class tech support are yours at no additional cost.

So what I do is to perform the research and then send the keywords to our writers and I start with the mnf tool.  All you do is type in a primary keyword in a niche that you are interested in and in a few seconds the screen will fill with suggested keywords that are relevant to that category.  They tell you approximately how often the keywords are searched for, the strength of competition and the approximate Adword cost of the keyword and will give you an overall view to be able to select the best keywords to use for your articles.

There are other keyword research tools and some of them are excellent also, including the absolutely free tool at https://adwords.google.com and I use these as well and suggest you should too.  However for day to day, quick and easy I always refer to Micro Niche Finder.

Check it out, watch the videos and hear directly from James about just how easy it is to find keywords to use for your articles.

My Dad

Oh by the way, that brilliant looking guy in the top photo, well that is the real me.  The logo that I have used for so long that looks like a crazy man, with his Charles Atlas stance, conquering arms up in defiance, well that’s my Dad!

Wishing you the best for the holidays and the most prosperous New Year to come.

Rich Hill

Here it is.  They say that you should give your best stuff away.  That is what I am doing here.

If you are a coder, go away.  This is stupid to you.  If you are not a coder and you are a beginning or intermediate blogger then this simple piece of HTML code can make you rich.

Look at it, burn it into your memory, never forget it!

<a href=””></a>

That little baby should be on your desktop, or instantly at the ready for when you are writing a blog post, or sending emails, or posting comments on blogs, or posting messages to forums.  That simple little piece of HTML code is your new best friend.

Every hyper link on the internet starts with that simple little piece of code.

Now I have said many times before, I am not a coder.  I had to learn every single thing I do by myself by reading, asking dumb questions, and trial and error.  You know what they say; “There is no such thing as a dumb question… except those are the easiest ones to answer!”

At first this little piece of code just looked like something crazy to me, but now let me try to explain it in non-technical terms.

The <a part gets the attention of the Wizard of OZ.  The href=” part tells the internet that the thing that comes next will be a url to somewhere.  The “> part says that everything before the close quote is the link and now I am going to point you to some text that I want the link to represent.  Finally the </a> means everything before the left pointing carrot is the previously mentioned anchor text and then the last slash a> closes it and says; “There I am a genius and I created an anchor text hyper link!”

Example: <a href=”http://www.alinkgoingtosomewebsite.com”>I am a genius</a>

Here is the easiest way to use this information.  Keep it handy as I said, and when you want to use it copy it into an HTML edit mode document and insert your url link between the quotes and insert your anchor text between the carrots, save and now you have it!

If you are using WordPress and you are creating a blog post you can select the “Visual” edit mode or the “HTML” edit mode and make sure you are using the latter when you paste in your final anchor text link.

Now go forth and spread your links.

Well after burning the midnight oil until about 6am today we finally finished the tally and selected the three winners of the first ever Link Money Contest.

I entered all contestants in a database and assigned each person a contestant number, then as they performed additional tasks I kept a running tally of the points count.  When the contest closed there was a total of 713 points spread out among all of the contestants.

Great care was taken to be sure that all points were credited to each contestant and then the final drawing was totally selected by chance by using Random.org to generate three different numbers for all of the points.

So now we will announce who the three winners were…

But first a word from our sponsors.
I want to thank each and every contestant who put a lot of effort into all the jumping through hoops that some cockamamie guy dreamed up, gee I wonder who that could be..?

I really want to thank some very special online internet marketing friends that stepped up when the contest was first announced and from the goodness of their heart freely donated some very nice prizes with no strings attached.

Mark Mason of Mason World http://www.masonworld.com/ donated two copies each of NicheAdsenseThemes, FirstEbookNow, and NicheNav, which will go to the first and second place winners.

J.T. Pratt of http://www.jtpratt.com/ donated three copies of his ebay plugin for WordPress, WP Easy Bay,  One of those will go to each of the three winners.  He also donated 2 hours of consulting as a WordPress Consultant value), which can be used for upgrades, security, SEO, theme work, etc.”   This will be one hour each to first and second place winner.

Then LinkMoney.org donated a paid copy of GoogleSniper and $200 cash to the First Place winner, which will be in addition to the above mentioned prizes..

$100 cash and prizes mentioned above go to the Second Place winner.

$50 cash and the Ebay plugin to the Third Place winner.

And the winners are…

First place goes to: Contestant “krissy knox”

Second Place goes to: Contestant “Eva”

Third Place goes to: Contestant “glf”

Notifications have been made by email.

Thanks again to everyone involved and when we do another Link Money Contest it will be easier all the way around.

Happy Holidays everyone.
Rich Hill

http://LinkMoney.org

Backlink Secrets

We write a lot about back links, that is the nature of the name of this site. Just as much as “Content is King”, well backlinks certainly could be called “Queen.”

If you will note over on the right hand column where the Alexa widget is it shows the Alexa score for this site, (which has been dropping nicely thanks to all of you recently,) and it also shows 173 backlinks.

Well 173 is a lie. I know for a fact that there are over 1,200 backlinks to this site but for some reason that only Google knows they only report a smidgen of them. Actually the Yahoo Site Explorer link tool is a better one to check, but even there they do not report them all.

I do not dwell on the reporting but do work on various forms of article marketing, blog commenting, forum posting, social posting, and asking others to write blog posts about my sites in order to get the highest quality form of back link.

Some sites for instance like niche marketing sites these methods are the only way you will ever get back links, so you do have to work at it. I have never and would not recommend buying links. I know that some savvy marketers do it, but with my luck I would get caught and can not take the chance. However, that said, a few good links from very high GPR sites are worth a ton more than the normal GPR 0 through say GPR 3 sites.

Pick some keywords that you want to become famous for and start your own backlink program, nice and easy does it. Say 2 to 5 back links per day would be fine, and no doubt more if you like, but I prefer the slow and steady method.I have been looking around the web to read what some others in this field recommend and want to share those sites here with you now.

Here is one of my favorite methods of getting links from .edu and .gov websites.  The link provided HERE: is an affiliate link and I will make a commission when you purchase this WSO.  I have purchased it myself and it works GREAT!

Back Link Secrets Revealed:

The Secret to Getting Massive Back Links

As far as search engine optimization and ranking well in the search engines is concerned, there is nothing that is more important than the mighty back link People who are involved in optimizing webpages have thought up hundreds of …

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If a website has a greater Google page-rank or a lower Alexa ranking, the back-link will be more powerful for your website. Generating these back-links is really a simple 3-step process. The first step will be to bookmark your original article on many different social networking and bookmarking sites using onlywire. The next step is to create a short video telling people about your article and then linking that video back to your article. … Learn these SECRETS NOW! …

JenamaOnline: The Secret in Getting Back Links From Squidoo Revealed

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Utilizing Guests Posts: A Basic How To

It’s no secret that blogging has been around for a while, but blogging seems to be withholding the test of time. Unlike other flash-in-the-pan trends, blogging isn’t going anywhere. This has been reinforced by bloggers who attempt to …

website traffic secrets

hi friends, how do i know my site back link or links are valuable/worthable.i have been doing link building since 5months and adding/loosing/adding back links, but i am unable to find which one is valuable one way (free)back link…really …

Free Back Link Building Guide

why the real secrets (not simple rules, but REAL secrets) of keyword choice are very unlikely. to be shared with public audience. But we have a solution! From a page on www.FreeTrafficSystem.com site you can order keyword research for …

Now here is the deal. LinkMoney.org does not recommend or endorse any of the methods described by other bloggers. We offer their information for you to use your own judgment as to which if any of the methods makes good sense to you. We are not responsible for suggestions or methods described by others.

Take a look at the following videos on building back links:

7 WEB TRAFFIC SECRETS ON HOW TO DRIVE TRAFFIC TO BRAND NEW W

Hello my name is Srini Saripalli and I welcome you to 7webtrafficsecrets.com and on this video I want to share with you a unique strategy using you can drive a ton of traffic to a brand new website. It’s a very simple technique there is nothing great about it but then lot of people miss out on this because it takes a little amount of work to begin with and a little amount of time. So let’s move on, let’s see what this strategy is all about. Now article marketing, that’s what it is all about …

More Backlink Secrets

And another video…

Back Links for SEO , More traffic and higher Rank on Search Engines , Sam nasr

exactly how the search engines weigh their criteria, since the search engines protect this information as a trade secret. Search engines want to see your back links increase over time, not diminish. So if you suddenly decide to discontinue your back link purchases, you could potentially get penalized by the search engines. Search engines consider the quality of the back link that is pointing to your website. Here are some considerations. Search for website directories and submit your …

If this information is helpful to you please share the love by using the retweet button or any social network of your choice that you will see below.  Thanks.  Rich Hill

Hope you enjoyed this update on Backlink Secrets.

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Every business needs a Blog.  Period!

If you are a blogger you should also use Twitter.  Why?  Simple, it is the single easiest way to find birds of a feather.  You know that they fly together, right?

By using the Twitter search bar or better yet use the real Twitter search tool at search.twitter.com which will give you far better search metrics, you will be able to hone in on people (tweeple) in your niche of interest.

What this means is that you will be able to mix it up with like minded users that will either be selling something in your niche or interested in buying something in your niche.  Of course it probably runs 99% former and 1% latter, but either way there is a chance to create a buzz.

Personally I do not use the Direct Message (DM) feature because it is just 99% crap auto messages that say thanks for the follow, I am the best… blah, blah, blah.  DM’s totally useless.  I do use the @ mention feature a lot and the RT (retweet) of other messages of interest.  The RT also gives some link juice to the 1st twirp.

Twitter now has an RT symbol that they just introduced and for the life of me I see no use for it, but hey, who am I?  Needless to say Twitter is a great tool for connecting up with others and to promote your latest posts which of course say how great you are.

I check my stats often and every day there are at least some visitors that found my sites through Twitter.  Some is better than none.

Have you been experimenting with all the Twitter apps that come along?  Well I have tried many, not all of course because I do have a life after all.  When you try one and then you decide to not use it any more, then by all means go back and disable it.

I did not disable one app some where along the line and for the life of me I do not know which one it was because I could never find out, but one app that I had experimented with evidently auto followed after a certain time period.  I would check my settings and the apps that were installed did not seem to be the culprit but I was determined to stop it.

So I wanted to change my password figuring that would keep any unwanted activity from being able to access the account.  The password that I had in my notebook did not work so I had Twitter send me a password change authorization.  I used my Twitter user name to identify myself.  Day or two later noticed that it was still auto-following.  Then I tried changing the password again but this time instead of using the username I registered with my email.

Success!  The auto follows have stopped.  So be careful about letting others have access to your Twitter account.  So many of these apps  require your user name and password.  Do you really want to do that?  From now on, no one, or no app gets access to my account.  Period!

Follow me on Twitter (@linkmoneydotorg).  Change your password often.

Want to win a free copy of Googlesniper, and $200 cash, and other nice prizes?

Check out the Linkmoney Contest.

Wow there is a brand new method of publishing new WordPress Blogs and even what they refer to as “Pimping” your older installs of WP Blogs that seems unbelievable!

Here are some of the premises as I interpret the hype:  One button publishing.  Do your keyword research. Get a string of from hundreds to thousands of keywords in a few seconds, and then you push one button to publish each of those keywords as an individual Blog post article in mere seconds or a few minutes.   Thousands of keyword rich articles that you can back date as many years as you wish and they all look fantastically authentic just as if they had been written by humans.  So the free promo videos and free pdf downloads say.

Now along with each article come perfectly formatted affiliate ads from your accounts at eBay Partner Network, Amazon Associates, Commission Junction (CJ,) ClickBank (CB) digital download products, and even some mention of perfectly formatted AdSense blocks of code with your Adsense Pub ID number receiving the credit for clicks.

Some more bonuses that arrive with each article are free flickr images that absolutely match the article subject.  Free YouTube videos embedded that also match the keywords exactly, and content that is out of this world perfect.

You have your choice to select content from such places as Ezine Articles, Article Base and Yahoo Answers, maybe others.  Now the Mage republishes other authors works as your own article posts, which of course include all of the other above mentioned images and videos, etc.

Remember all of this stuff is done instantly, live and in living color right before your eyes, my fingers never leave my hands, it’s a miracle!

When you see the gorgeous layouts of these Blog posts that are demonstrated in the upsell videos you will be kicking the dog out of the way to get to your credit card.  Hey what’s a thousand bucks or more here and there when it comes to the millions of dollars you are going to make with this method over ‘some’ period of time?

I am very thankful that I have three dogs to jump over, because I took a breath and said, “What the Hell is a Mage anyway?”

Repeat after me, If something doesn’t seem right… (your turn.)

Here we are about to enter into a completely new world of respectable internet marketing.  The Federal Trade Commission rulings come in to effect December 1st, 2009.  I doubt the government will have the resources to regulate even one, one millionth of the potential violations of the new rulings.  They have said that they will likely only investigate violators that are reported to them.  So who would report them?  Why your competition of course.

So besides it is only the US government, right?  Well as in Monkey see, Monkey do.  You can bet your bottom Euro that the EU will be all over this like stink on a fart.  This is going to become the “rule” and not the exception, in my opinion.

Now thinking about that statement caused me to ponder another matter.  Why is it that some of the most successful extremely rich internet marketers are coming out of the woodwork to sell all of us their “personal” get rich schemes?  It has been working for them behind the scenes for many years and some of them have become billionaires. Or so they claim.  I am talking here about two other recently promoted automatic methods of getting rich programs as well as this.

Why is it that the promoters are living in countries that might not be affected by the FTC?  Could it be that if they spread their love around and make enough money from the subscriptions and the upsells from the millions of advertisers that are out there, that when FTC rules kick in they won’t give a damn?

Hmmm, I’m cautious.

Let’s analyze some of the above methods of creating content.  If one ‘borrows’ content from Ezine for instance, you are supposed to give full credit and internal article links and author and Ezine credits, in order to reuse the content.  How could all of that be accomplished with a Mage?

They tell you that they have an awesome method to spin the content.  They translate it into a foreign language and then back to English.  Huh?  Have you ever tried the old kids game of “Whisper a secret?”  It starts with one person whispering a secret in the ear of #2 and then on through each kid until the last and then the end person repeats the secret out loud.  Guess what?  It is gibberish.

I remember in high school French class we had a similar demonstration.  The French teacher whispered a French phrase in a student’s ear.  That student whispered an English translation in the next student’s ear.  That one again in French, and student #4 gave the English translation out loud.  Holy crap you had to pick some of us up off the floor from laughing so hard.  It was gibberish.

When the people that promote the Mage are asked about this element of word and meaning transposition, they play it down and say the search engine bots don’t really care.  Huh?

Don’t we want human beings to be able to read these Blog posts and that the article will have enough meaning that the reader will just be dying to click on an advertiser link?  I don’t know about you, but if I land on a page that even slightly smacks of automated content I hit that green left arrow so fast that the screen is a blur.  But maybe that’s just me.

The flickr images are reported to have the “CC” designation, meaning Creative Commons, and the person that uploaded the image to flickr states that it may be “seen” by anyone.  CC does not mean that everyone has the free use to republish those images, or at least in some cases that is so, I know for a fact.  Many CC images also have another little message block assigned to the author’s use terms.  Does “Some rights reserved” mean anything to you?  At the bottom of every flickr page is a little message that says “Respect the rights of content creators.”

So ask yourself, “Does the Mage ask for permission from the photographer and then give full credit to both the photographer and to flickr?”  Seems like a lot to accomplish in an instant.

YouTube videos I don’t think there is that much trouble with.  As far as I know is if an embed code is available then it is OK to use it, but I could be corrected here, that is just as I understand it.  I do question as to how the pen-ultimate associated content video could possible be selected in automation mode.

Let me give you a personal example that just happened to me just this morning.  I have a new niche that I am very excited about that the greedy gurus have not located yet, so that leaves it up to me to exploit.  LOL.  Any way, this is a technical field that would most likely be viewed by scientists, doctors, medical professionals, university level professors and students and little old ladies in tennis shoes.  So I was experimenting with a very simple minimal theme for a few days until my graphics guy can come up with a new theme header for me.  I suck at graphics.

So I have used this theme before and it converts well for affiliate ads and for Adsense, although on this new site there will be no advertising, at least not for now.  Lo and behold this theme had a YouTube element built in to it that that I did not know about.  I had never seen it before on about a dozen or so sites that I have used this theme on.  You would only see in single post mode and only for first time visitors.

I almost croaked when I found it quite by accident and it kicked in to auto play on a post about this very technical medical terminology subject and it showed this horribly ugly guy with two teeth, ranting filthy rap poetry with a caption something about having been from the Howard Stern show.  Well some people would likely find humor in that, even I admit I laughed at first, but it is no place for an automatic video.  I found the automated code and stripped it out of the theme.

I’ve got to tell you I was intrigued by this phenomenon, WordPress Mage.  I did click through to sign up for the “Free trial” period, then found out none of the automated plugins were available unless I paid the $1K.  No thanks.  I can’t afford your free gifts.

Am I going to buy it?  Nope.  Would I recommend it to my friends?  Nope.  Do I think these Blog posts that incidentally all have the Mage name in their code for all bots to see, going to be around for a long time?  Nope.  Do I think that Google will see the words that include Mage and de-index them?  Well, dunno, maybe though.  Seems possible to me.

Oh one more thing to all high pressure internet marketers that want to sell anything to me.  Do not make me input all of my personal email, phone number, mail address, credit card number and first born child’s blood type into an order entry form “before” you tell me what the price is.  That approaches slime in my book.

Fair notice.  No internet marketer has presented me with a free review copy of any program or gifted me with any goods or services to make this public review.  I am freely giving my opinion and am not swayed by cash offers.

Hello everyone. Welcome to the first contest that I have ever run here on Linkmoney.org.

This is very easy. There is no purchase necessary to win one of the prizes.

I was going to run this contest to the end of the year but that would be in the Holiday season and too much to deal with. So we will run this contest for 30 days from today, December 8th.

The goal here is to increase traffic which should help improve the Alexa score on Linkmoney. The other thing is that I lost all of my several years worth of RSS and Email subscribers when feedburner was sold to Google, so I would love to have a bunch of new subscribers.  I wrote about Alexa in a previous post here: I Want to Increase My Alexa Ranking.

So I will list certain things that you can do to help this site with and I will award points that will be equivalent to the number of chances that you will have in the final drawing of winners. Let me assure you that this will all be fair and square and on the up and up.

You may enter the contest as many times during the month as you wish as long as you perform the required actions and they are new actions then you will be awarded more points.

The Point System:

10 Points will be awarded for each of you that click on the Alexa widget over on the right, go to Alexa and login and leave a five star rating with a good comment for this site, Linkmoney.org.

1 Point for each quality comment on this Blog, either on this post or any of the article posts. Multiple post comments equal multiple single points for each article comment. Keep it real folks, make the comment meaningful to the subject and no simple answers like “nice post”. I will be the sole judge of the quality of the article comment and there will be no negotiation.

1 Point will be awarded for each RSS subscriber. I will see the counts but you will have to notify me as to the fact that you did subscribe to RSS.

5 points awarded to each new Email subscriber of this Blog. I am not going to bombard you with upsells from this contest.  All you will receive at this time is the confirmation message you get back from your subscription.  I may at some time in the future make some Email offerings to subscribers but I can guarantee you this, if I do decide to send out private offers in the future they will be something that I think will benefit you and would be of good value. I have never dealt in any crap offerings and never will. Of course you will always be able to opt out in the future if you never want to hear from me again.

1 Point shall be given for those of you who follow me on Twitter. My Twitter user name is “@linkmoneydotorg”.  If you are already following me just let me know and you will receive the point.

5 Points awarded for tweeting about this contest. You may copy and use the following exact tweet, or you may use your own:

Contest on now at www.Linkmoney.org.  Free Contest, Win prizes, No purchase necessary.

You will earn multiple points by tweeting once per week about this contest. Please no more than that as it would be too hard to account for and I would not want you to get in trouble with the Twitter police with a repeat post penalty. I know one very well known blogger that just lost his whole Twitter account and had to start all over because of some automatic retweeting that caught the eye of the Tweepolice.

Under the posts on this Blog you will see a bunch of sort of grayed out icons for various social network sites. You are welcome to use any of them at any time on any or all of the articles on this website. However in addition to the above mentioned Twitter Points you will be awarded points in the four additional socials, DIGG, StumbleUpon, Delicious and SpicyPage only.

2 Points awarded for a DIGG of this contest post.

2 Points awarded for a StumbleUpon post about this contest.

2 Points awarded for a Delicious post about this contest.

2 Points will be awarded for a vote on SpicyPage.com which is the box on the right that says “vote for my site” and has a great big red number in it.  To vote you just have to click on the word “vote” and go to SpicyPage and follow directions.  You might want to consider adding this to your site also.

20 Points awarded for a post about this contest on your own Blog. You may write as much as you want about the contest but to qualify for points it “MUST” include this html anchor text sentence:

Free contest, win prizes, no purchase necessary at the <a href=http://linkmoney.org/>Blogging Make Money</a> Blog, Linkmoney.org.

You will have to notify me in a Blog comment, or by using the contact form, or I might require you to contact me by email to make sure you receive the proper point count.   Some items I will be notified of or they will be self evident. However it will be up to you to let me know that you actually complied with a points entry.

The following bonus points have to do with two of the advertised products on this site, BlogSuccess and GoogleSniper. BlogSuccess is a group of expert bloggers that is run by Jack Humphrey of Friday Traffic Report fame. It has helped me greatly and I have networked with some of the other members to great benefit. There is a free trial period if you want to check it out for a while before you join.  I wrote a previous post about BlogSuccess here: Make Maximum Money by Promoting and Running a High Traffic Blog!

GoogleSniper is a hugely popular internet marketing program run by a young man named George Brown who went from being a furniture mover earning pitiful wages to one of the full fledged internet moguls earning over $15,000 per month with a niche blogging plan that he developed. I wrote about this in a previous post here: Is Google Sniper the Real Deal?

Please note this disclaimer: I do not expect you to earn anywhere near as much as the claims that George Brown makes for GoogleSniper.  If you do become a member of either program after having clicked through from this website, and if they do credit this site with the membership subscription, then I will earn money as a commission for the sale. That goes for any product that I offer for sale on this website.

In compliance with the recent FTC ruling if I am ever sent products for review on this website I will likely receive them for free and if I write a review it will be of my own personal judgment and not just a puff review because the vendor sent a free copy. I will call it like I see it and if it is crap I will tell you so. Vendors be on notice. Do not send bad products for review or you will get bad publicity from me.

Now as to points for these two products.

50 points will be awarded in this contest on your account in the event that you have previously joined either program, BlogSuccess or GoogleSniper from this website, you must verify your receipt with me to earn these extra points.

50 points will be awarded in this contest on your account for joining either of these two programs, BlogSuccess or GoogleSniper, during the 30 day period of this contest. You must verify your receipt with me to earn these extra points.

Please do not join these programs just to win points for this contest. That would be idiotic. Check them out and if it looks like they are something that you would be interested in then by all means do join. I am confident that you will benefit from either program, but you should be your own judge of that.

The Prizes for the Linkmoney Contest:

So what do you win? Well for starters I am personally donating the following:

First Prize! – A one-time prepaid membership for the GoogleSniper program and $200 cash payable to you via your PayPal account. You must have a PayPal account.  Prizes recently added: 1 copy of nicheadsensethemes, 1 copy of firstebooknow, 1 copy of nichenav, all 3 from Mark Mason.  1 Copy of WP EASYBAY plugin, 1 hour of WordPress consulting time from JT Pratt.

Second Prize! – $100 cash payable to you via your PayPal account. You must have a PayPal account.  Prizes recently added:  1 copy of nicheadsensethemes, 1 copy of firstebooknow, 1 copy of nichenav, all 3 from Mark Mason.  1 Copy of WP EASYBAY plugin, 1 hour of WordPress consulting time from JT Pratt.

Third Prize! – $50 cash payable to you via your PayPal account. You must have a PayPal account.  Prizes recently added:  1 Copy of WP EASYBAY plugin from JT Pratt.

Now to some of you contest aficionados these prizes might seem lame I know, but as I said I have never run a contest before and none of these prizes have been donated. Well we have 30 days and if any of you vendors hear about this contest and do want to donate any prizes in return for the exposure you are welcome to make donations that will be used as give away prizes in this contest. The cutoff date for additional prizes to be donated will be December 1st.  Note:  See the bottom of this article, more prizes HAVE been DONATED!

Come back and visit this post from time to time because I will be adding additional details as the situation might call for and I may possibly be increasing the existing prize awards or might be adding additional prizes for more places than just 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes.

This contest will end at 23:59 EST, Tuesday, December 8th, 2009. Contest winners will be announced on December 9th.

The Judges’ decision [that’s me] is final in all matters and will not be negotiable.

Get those entries in here boys and girls.

Update: 11/08/09 – Mark Mason of masonworld.com has just donated two copies each of the following products; NicheAdsenseThemes, FirstEbookNow, and NicheNav.  I will give more particulars on this later, and will decide on how they will be distributed.  Looks like we might have some more prizes coming also, will let you know later.  Thanks Mark, Rich

Update: 11/08/09 11:30,
JT Pratt of jtpratt.com has just donated 3 copies of his new eBay plugin for WordPress, WP EASY BAY.  JT is also donating 2 hours of consulting, in his words: “I’ll also donate 2 hours of my time as a WordPress Consultant value), which can be used for upgrades, security, SEO, theme work, etc.” ($100 These will be added to the winners list of prizes, more details later. Thanks JT.  Rich