the Blogoholic

I am one of those people that spends every free minute trying to find a way to do things easier. By easier, I mean without me having to work.

One of the biggest concerns every webmaster has is driving traffic to his site. Marketers try everything, from blog commenting, to paid reviews, you name it!

But ultimately, all these methods require time and money. As well all know, time is money, so basically we’re throwing away money trying to promote our sites with little or no results. But no matter how many times they fail, they will continue beating the dead horse (or whatever that saying is).

Question is, are there really methods that are free that can bring hundreds of real visitors to your site with absolutely (fine, just a few minutes) work on your part?

Yes, I’m glad to say that there are!

Since this method involves StumbleUpon, please go sign up for an account right now if you don’t have one already. (I’m not even going to ask you to install Firefox since I expect you to have done that a long time ago.)

I’d like to explain how this method works, first. If you ever check out your site tracking tool, you’ll see a little area where you can see where all your visitors came from. This is called a referrer.

For example, let’s say A wrote a great article and B linked to him, when A checks his stats, he’ll see people coming from B’s site, so he’ll go and check it out to see what all the buzz is about.

How can you use this to your advantage? Well, if your site where to appear in thousands of site’s referrers, I believe that you would get quite a bit of traffic.

Here’s how we’re gonna do it:

First you’re going to need to download an autoclicker, just something simple that will click the mouse a certain amount of times each x seconds.

Then you’re going to have to install the RefControl addon for FireFox which lets you control what referrer shows up in site tracking tools when you visit a site.

It’s a pretty simple process to set up, just put in the site you’d like to drive the traffic to and move on to the next step.

Assuming you have the StumbleUpon toolbar installed, you want to position the mouse over the Stumble button and set the autoclicker to work before going to sleep. This way, you’ll be stumbling thousands of sites and appearing in all their logs with your site as their referrer.

Even if you only get a few hundred visitors per week using this method, that’s pretty good considering the fact you didn’t have to do anything.

But be careful, this is not a method you want to mess around with if you care for your reputation. Never try this with an established site of yours or anything that can be traced back to you.

Only do for sites that nobody can trace back to you.

Another idea is to use an affiliate page URL as the referrer instead of just using your site. I think you can take this method to a whole different level with a bit of creativity, just think about it.

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You know, it always amazes my friends and family when I tell them that you can actually make money online! It just sounds bizarre to them for some reason, even after I try explaining it to them, they still don’t get it.

Ever since John Chow starting posting his $40,000 per month blogging income reports, everyone and their dog is jumping on to the “make money online” bandwagon. There are probably a myriad number of things they don’t understand about making money online, but in reality, there are only two things they (and everyone else) needs to know to start making money online…

If only they knew about these two secrets, making money online would seem much, much easier.

Want to know the two little known secrets about making money online? Here they are: If you want to make money online you have to… a) Work. b) Spend Money.

Wait, is it really that simple? I mean, come on, obviously if it was that simple then everyone would be making money online by now, right? Wrong.

You see, almost 100% of the people that want to make money online either don’t want to work for it or don’t want to spend any money.

They expect that the money will start rolling in while they watch another episode of Lost; they think that people will simply give them cash in return for absolutely nothing.

People, there is something you have to get into your minds if you seriously want to make money online! It takes money to make money, and you’re gonna have to work to do that! If you really bought into all those getrich-quick schemes working 1/hour a month, then you’ve got another thing coming!

I know a lot of people (myself included) that have the potential of making it big online but the only reason that isn’t happening is because no money is being spent nor is any sweat being put into it.

Reading about how to make money online on all those alleged “make money online” blogs isn’t going to help you make money online. You might think that reading about how to make money online will actually help you out in the long run by improving your skills, but trust me, the best way ever to do good on something is to actually do it.

Making money online isn’t rocket science, but it will require you to take action and start spending money.

There you have it, folks. Get out there and start taking action!

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Almost every serious webmaster knows that the real money is in backlinks. The more you have, the higher your site will rank in the search engines, and ultimately you’ll make more money.

Let’s say there are two sites with backlinks of the same quality. One of them has 10,00 backlinks, and the other one has 50,000 backlinks. Which one do you think Google is going to consider more important? Obviously the one with 50,000 backlinks.

But then again, quantity isn’t everything. The quality of the backlinks is another important factor that search engines take into consideration when ranking your site. For example, let’s say we have two technology blogs. One has 1,000 backlinks from sites like TechCruch, Lifehacker, ArsTechnica, Gizmodo etc. and the other blog has 5,000+ backlinks from a few unknown technology blogs. Who do you think will rank higher in the search engines? The first one of course.

Quality and quantity are just two of the many factors search engines use to rank a site. Other factors are the anchor text, topic of the blog, age of the domain, PageRank of the blog and tons of others. But what we will focus on right now is the quantity of backlinks. You see, the thing about backlinks is that you can never get enough of them. Even if you reach #1 in Google, a couple of more thousand backlinks won’t do any harm. So, how exactly do you build thousands of backlinks towards your site for free?

That’s what we’ll be looking at today. Here are 7 methods that may result if thousands of free backlinks: Use them at your own risk.

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Sorry: This eBook is no longer available for free. I will be releasing it as a $6.99 product soon.

There are a lot of people around the world that try to make money online, but 99% of them will fail. Why?

One of the reason’s is that they don’t have a clear path as to how to make money online. They waste tons of cash on useless of eBooks that are absolute crap and end up making nothing.

Well, since I grew sick and tired of seeing beginners being fooled by all the useless stuff out there, I put together a free 16-page guide that will help you make your first $1,000 online.

You heard me right, a 16-page blueprint to making $500/week from blog flipping. No catch. No nothing. Just 16-pages of pure information that will help you make your first $1,000 online.

Ya, ya, whatever, just tell me how to get the free eBook.

Simple, all you have to do is subscribe to blog’s feed via email and verify subscription. (Click on the link in the message you receive in your inbox.)

That’s it. After subscribing and verifying your subscription, you should get the eBook download link to your inbox within 24 hours. (I’ll send out the links manually - damn Aweber doesn’t accept PayPal!)

This is a limited time offer! On February 15th, the eBook will no longer be free and will cost $6.99 - Don’t miss this opportunity.

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99% Of Your Blog’s Readers Will Never Comment On Your Blog.

Comments are a way to show appreciation and gratitude toward a blogger, yet there are blogs with hundreds of thousands of readers that get no more than fifty comments per post. What’s up with that?

Maybe the style of writing doesn’t compel the reader to leave a comment. Or could it be that the blog doesn’t sport the “community feel” and that readers don’t see the purpose of leaving comments? (TechCrunch has over one million readers, yet each post has an average of fifty comments!)

The truth is, that’s just how it has and will always be. Not everyone that reads your posts will leave a comment, and it’s time for you to accept the truth of the matter - but there are certain techniques you can use to engage your readers and have them leave a piece of their mind.

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