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There are over 100 million blogs and over 1 million new blog posts every week, no wonder keeping up with all the good stuff can be such a headache!

Link Love for Everyone

Seeing that I read hundreds of blogs a month, I’ve come across some pretty interesting posts these past couple of weeks and have been dying to share them with you. Let’s see what we’ve got cooked up for us this week!

• RajaieTalks | Interview With Dean Hunt - The Buzz Marketing Genius
  
• The Nexus | Make Money Online With Adigtize
• SplitStack | Make Yourself Some Money With Product Launches
• Dollar Shower | Contact Commenters WordPress Plugin
• Copyblogger | The Secret of How to Sell Anything

Rajaie recently interviewed the buzz marketing expert, Dean Hunt, and asked him some pretty interesting questions I’m sure you will enjoy. Donace also held an interview with the admin of the new company Adigtize that helps you sell ads on your site.

Swastik from SplitStack explains in detail how you can make thousands of dollars in product launches, a method increasing in popularity these past few months. Ajith from Dollar Shower recently launched an awesome plugin that helps bring back all your blog’s past commenters, a must-have for all blogs.

Finally, Brian shares the secret of how to sell anything - no, I won’t say how, just read the post.

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I’m pretty sure that many of you know how cloaking your affiliate links can double, or even triple your conversions. But have you ever wondered how or why?

Why? Simply because when a potential buyer sees that ugly referral link he is about to click, it will immediately hit him that you are only promoting the product to make a quick buck.

But seeing a URL that looks like this: john.com/go/google.php will most probably cause him to click the link without thinking twice.

How? Although there are numerous ways to cloak an affiliate link, I find that using a PHP redirect works best. After you finish reading this post, you’ll know how to create links like the one above and redirect them to your affiliate page.

Step One

Create a new directory in the root of your website (public_html) with the name you’d like to appear in your cloaked affiliate link.

For example, if you wanted your link to look this: john.com/go/google.php, then create a new folder named “go”, or “recommends” if you want it to look this: john.com/recommends/google.php

Step Two

Now that you’ve created your new folder, open your favorite text editor and paste this code into a new file:
<?php
header('Location: http://www.youaffiliatecodehere.com/');
?>

Substitute the URL with your own affiliate and then save the file as filename.php (eg. hosting.php) That’s it, just repeat the second step to make as many cloaked affiliate links as you’d like.

The reason why this method works better than a .htaccess redirect or JavaScript code is because you can link to the file on other websites and can change the content of the file without having to worry about changing each individual URL.

This tactic probably won’t do you any good in the Internet marketing niche, as its members are constantly on the lookout for these tricks, but it will most certainly work wonders in the other niches.

Update: The contest has ended, check out this post to see the results.

What better way to start off a blog than have a mini contest?!

This isn’t going to be one of those “$xx,xxx worth of prizes” contests, but rather a contest where you can win $100 in cold hard cash (well, PayPal cash) for just a few minutes of you time!

The Prizes

• First Prize - $50 by PayPal by Flipper’s Guide
• Second Prize - $25 by PayPal by the Blogoholic
• Third Prize - $25 by PayPal by the Blogoholic
• Fourth Prize - 30-Day 125×125 banner ad by RajaieTalks
• Fifth Prize - 30-Day 125×125 banner ad by RajaieTalks
• Sixth Prize - 30-Day text link ad by RajaieTalks
• Seventh Prize - 30-Day text link ad by RajaieTalks
• Eighth Prize - 30-Day text link ad by RajaieTalks

How to Enter

The contest is based on a point system, the more points you earn, the more likely you’ll win.

1. Subscribe to the Blogoholic via a valid email (Required): 1 Point
   You can’t win if you haven’t subscribed
   Enter your email address:

2. Stumble & review this post: 2 Points
3. Blog about this contest: 2 Points
4. Post about this contest on a related forum: 1/2 Point
5. Buy Flipper’s Guide (Only $9.95): 2 Points
6. Blog about Flipper’s Guide: 1 Point
7. Post about Flipper’s Guide on a related forum: 1/2 Point

How to Submit Points

Please submit your points using the method below so that the counting process will go smoothly. If you completed five of the above, here is how you would submit your points in a comment below:

1. Subscribed: (comment with same email used to subscribe)
2. Stumbled + reviewed post: StumbleUpon Username
3. Blogged about this contest: Link to blog post
4. Purchased Flipper’s Guide: Email used to purchase (will be verified)
5. Posted about flipper’s guide on a forum: Link to thread
6. Total points: xx Points

The contest will end on December the 30th and the winners will be announced a few days later.

Winners will be picked by a random drawing using Random.org - The more points you have, the higher the possibility that you win.

Good luck everyone!

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Hello there, and welcome to theBlogoholic.com!

I’m the Blogoholic, a person that will remain anonymous for now (too much information about yourself can be dangerous; or so I’ve heard) but I’m basically a willing Internet Marketer that earns a steady income from several sources online.

I run another blog that has gained quite a few popularity over the past couple of months and plan on sharing my exact methods and strategies that will also help you increase traffic, subscribers, and rankings. I strongly believe in the statement “always give more than you receive,” and that is exactly what I plan on doing at theBlogoholic.com

I’m not very good at writing welcome posts, so I’ll cut this short and finish this off with a reminder to subscribe to my RSS feed to stay tuned for all the awesome content to come!

Oh yeah, did I mention that I’m a great fan of contests? Stay tuned.