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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

Alexa is owned by Amazon and they use a rating system that estimates all website traffic.  When a site is brand spanking new it starts out with an Alexa rank of several million.  In this ranking system the smaller the number that your website receives is better.

Your site will not start to show up in the Alexa charts until your site is in the top 100,000.  To tell the truth I never worried much about it and I never have worried much about the Google Page Rank score either.  In GPR your site is rated as a number from 0 to 9, or possibly 10 not sure about that.

Now lately I have had two different companies contact me out of the blue to ask for my advertising rate for inclusion of either banner ads or a simple anchor text ad.  This is about the only time that the Alexa score really counts because advertisers that are in the know do look at the Alexa number to decide whether or not to spend part of their marketing budget with you or say John Chow.  I do have a feeling that my ad rate is slightly below John Chow’s but I want to change that.

So here’s the deal.  On the next post after this one I am going to start a contest that will run until the end of the year.  My goal is to see my Alexa ranking drop to below 100,000 and so I not only will have bragging rights but that my daily chart will look real cool in the sidebar, and hopefully the advertisers will be enticed to spend a buck or two with me.

Here is where you readers come in.  I will have multiple ways that you can enter the contest.  There will be three good prizes.  “Good Prizes!” All entrants will have an equal chance in the final drawing and you will be able to increase your chances through performing multiple tasks to help this site get some recognition.  More about all of this and I will have full details in the next post.

The following are some things that I have been doing on my own to help this site and you will no doubt want to do some of these for your own site, and I encourage it.  Some of these things will be used as entrant’s requirements to enter the forthcoming contest here on Linkmoney.org.

Here is what I have been doing lately in the case of trying to improve Alexa score.
First of all it is not an exact science but if you ever intend to sell paid advertisements it is reported that advertisers look at this score as part of their evaluation of your website. Needles to say a lower Alexa score is better.

Alexa tells us that the score is developed from an average of your past three month’s traffic stream. However what some people do not realize is that it is not a fair and accurate measurement because the only traffic that counts in Alexa’s eyes is from browsers that have the Alexa toolbar installed on them.

So a deep meaning website that might be chock full of good socially beneficial content, but might be more apt to be visited by readers that do not have the toolbar installed, do not get the votes. Primarily the sites that gain the most benefit from this system would be the make money online, or Blogs about blogging, domaining, coding, and so on. In other words the majority of visitors would be propeller heads and might more likely be apt to have the Alexa toolbar installed.

So what I recommend is that everyone go to Alexa right now and install the toolbar in your browser, and then for what it is worth and I do believe it counts, set your own website up to be your computer start up homepage. That way every time you turn your computer on or page out and revisit your own site is a vote.   (In the past two days I have seen my own score drop 6,000 points and I believe it is only from performing this feature.)

Another thing I do is to grab the Alexa sidebar widget that shows your Alexa score and the number of back links that Alexa has discovered for your site. (See mine down at the lower right hand side.)  So, just slide a text box widget over to your sidebar, and insert the code and you are good to go. I also add a text title that tells the reader to “Click for Alexa Vote” (or something like it.) That way even if a reader does not have the Alexa toolbar, and they click on the widget banner, then that is a vote for your site also.

One other thing that I have just started to do is to use the Alexa site voting feature, and I give an Alexa five star rating to friends and they return the favor. So anyone that will go to Alexa and give this site a five star rating will be immediately entered into the forthcoming contest, “and” I also will return the favor, just let me know when you have posted the five star rating for Linkmoney.org.

I have not found anyone that is willing to say for sure that it helps in the overall Alexa scoring, but the way I look at it is that I suspect it does, and if not it can’t hurt anything. So it is election season, let’s all vote each other a nice easy government job. LOL

Cheers.
Rich Hill

Ps: This site uses the CommentLUV widget and also the Top Commentator widget.  So the top commentators will receive a do follow backlink.  Do not spam it or you will be deleted obliterated, and an Exocet missile will home in on your signal generating device.  Please leave as many nice comments as you want at any time, not just for a contest event.

Happy Halloween.

Update on value of increasing Alexa ranking. If you are in to List Building you will want to check out Jack Humphreys instructions on how to get more subscribers to your list.

Here’s the way I see it. We all Blog, right? Well do you Flog for links?

You’ve heard it all before, write good content and other authority sites will link to you. Bull shit! In your dreams they will. The following procedures are of course nothing that I would do but you might like to know about the possibility of Flogging.

Some Bloggers set up multiple Blogs in every niche market that they intend to Blog in. Then after you have written several good posts on your primary niche marketing Blog, you can then start posting articles in the secondary Blogs, or as I like to call them Flogs, and include some nice anchor text keyword hyperlinks to your primary site. Simple right?

Now if you do decide to follow the Flog trail, make it real. Don’t just put junk articles on the Flogs, take your time and write some decent information. Think about previous articles that you have written on any of your Blog posts on other sites and decide if they would be appropriate to insert a short sentence or two in a previous post and include your anchor text link to…where else?

Another form of a Flog is a miscellaneous or catch-all type of Blog that has no particular theme and might have hundreds of Blog posts in any given category. You will have to be a little creative to come up with ideas on how to build such a site full of content in all different fields, but may I suggest perhaps you think about “RSS”? Some of this content can come from automated feeds as mentioned and some you can easily get for a few dollars as in Private label Rights (PLR) articles.

Don’t bother to tell me about duplicate content because I don’t care to hear it. I know what works, of course not that I have ever tried it personally…

You also might find this site of interest Make Money Online with Niche Support. These people all seem to be master Floggers, not that I would know of course…

Here is another cool place to get as many free links as you feel like applying for.  1 Family Classifieds will let you run free classified ads in any subject category and when you insert your free ad you can make an html anchor text hyperlink. Now don’t that just kick ass?

One new thing that you will notice here on the Blogging Make Money Blog at http://Linkmoney.org is that I have added the plugin for “Top Commentator.” See it over there on the right? Every month the top 5 (for now) commentators will receive a do-follow link in my sidebar. Just leave a good comment and you will be entered. Spammers will be banned.

So how about you? Are you ready to Flog?
Backlinks are very important you know.

sub title:

” Kill the Competition on Twitter! “

Twitter will no doubt be using search in their master money plan.  You should too!  Here at Linkmoney our following and follower base has been growing immensely using this and other methods.

I have been using a method to use Twitter Search to narrow down some excellent tweeple to follow with a little used method that Twitter gives you for free!

Note when you log in to Twitter you will see a great big search box, which is why I say that they will be monetizing soon with search ads.  The method that you will want to use is not with that search box though.

Go instead to http://search.twitter.com and you will find a more sophisticated search form that allows you to use Boolean search methods without having to know boo.

If you have a product or a service that you are selling, and who does not?  Then you will want to click on the Advanced Search link and use the following format to get ahead of the competition.

The search form fields are:
All of these words:
This exact phrase:
Any of these words:
None of these words:
This hashtag:
Written in: (select language)

So for the example shown, and I’m sure you will come up with a million better ways, I selected; All of these words: buy, Any of these words: music iphone zune blackberry, None of these words: http www.

As the photo here shows by inserting specific qualifiers in your search string you have not only narrowed the users down to users in your specific niche, you have eliminated all the other competitors.

Twitter Advanced Search

How does this work?  Simple, by using the “None of these words” field and inserting both http and www you have effectively eliminated all the other competitors that are trying to sell something, because you have searched for all messages with no “LINKS”.

Now go out there and get some followers that are looking to buy just exactly what ever it is you are selling!

Follow me at twitter.com/linkmoneydotorg.

ps: If you have some tips on how to use Twitter Advanced Search we would love to hear about them.  Please send comments.

Do you get sick of the hype about all the free traffic generators to use for Twitter? Well here is another one, only catch is this one won’t cost you any money! Did you ever notice how Linkmoney, (link and money) seem to go so well together? (Andy Rooney)

The usual thing to do with a Twitter account is to write catchy little twips that will grab the reader’s attention so that they will click on your link right? OK, so if your are a genius with a razor sharp wit you can keep the energy level high and generate new stuff every few minutes and each one of your posts just might grab a new visitor to your Blog or to purchase your giddy gadget-du-jour.

What happens after the scroll? Your pin point sales pitch is gone, as in gone, gone, gone. Sure it might have grabbed a couple of people but once it has scrolled off the radar range you have to dream up some new piece of wisdom and wit to do it all over again, right?

Well no longer boys and girls. Here is a way to rejuvenate your Blog, drive new traffic to your website and it is as easy as 123. You already have your tweet posts right at your fingertips! You are a blogger, right?

You already created some wonderful short clip words of wisdom for your Blog post titles, right? Here is what you do.

Open a text editor and go to your Blog. Click on each Blog post title then take your little mousey and highlight the title, copy, and paste it over to the text editor. Then make a tinyURL for the Blog post URL and copy and paste that over to the text editor. Voila! You now have a tweet that is ready to post.

If you do not have a tinyURL tool of choice, go get one. Google will show you where. I prefer to use the tool at XR.com because it is one of the shortest ones out there. Bit.ly is another, it does not matter which URL shortener you use the object is to get the link to be as short as possible to save some of your 140 character Twitter post.

So now go through your whole Blog and create a title and a link to each of the posts. I know you all created catchy titles when you wrote the Blog posts so these will be sure to be winners on Twitter as well.

Now when you fill that text file with dozens of tweet posts you will have plenty of ammunition to use when ever you want to give a tweet! That is the manual way of course but see what’s next for the Piece-de-resistance!

Here is the free tool that will post these messages for you on a scheduled time program that you define. Use http://feedmytwitter.com. You just log in using your Twitter user name and Twitter password and it is very easy to set up.

My Account: (meaning your account)
Current Status: (running or stopped – you select)
Post Random Tweets: (you select the schedule anywhere from two minutes to hours, day, week, month or whatever.)

Message: (empty text box where you copy and paste each of your tweets that you created on your text editor. Yes you have to do them one at a time, but this is the last time you will have to do it.)

Once they are all pasted in, go down to the bottom and hit “SAVE” – Go back up to the top and hit the “START” button and walk away whistling Dixie!

You are now keeping your brand on Twitter 24/7 and with enough titles that get published randomly your followers will not get upset with you because each of your tweets has a purpose and meaning.

Besides all of that you are now freed up to just occasionally use some of your witty barbs that you are so fond of doing. More is better and it will surely just add to your mystique and your followers will marvel in how intelligent you are.

Oh, and by the way, there is no cost for using Feed My Twitter, honest. Now just watch your social traffic pick up and your followers will increase also.

Do you know of any tools like this that you can recommend to get your message out to millions of people?

Leave your comment or suggestion below.

Oh, and Follow me on Twitter: linkmoneydotorg