Archive for April, 2007

How To Do Trackbacks?

I was surprised when I found out that many people did not understand what trackbacks are for.

This is a powerful linking technique that you can use to build some backlinks to your blog plus you get additional content for you to write about in your blog. And if you notice, some blogs already turned off commenting and only allows trackbacks. Thus it is important that you know how to do trackbacks for your blog.

Here is a video that teaches you how to do trackbacks :

Wordpress Blog Trackback

Is RSS Feed Submission Effective?

You betcha!

I just tested by using a rss feed submission program. Immediately after my submission, there was a spike in traffic. For me, this was a forgotten way of generating traffic until a few days ago when I tried it out again.

If you have forgotten about this, do test it out and see if your traffic gets going!

PS. For RSS feed url, for latest few versions of Wordpress blog, it is www.yourdomain.com/feed/

Let us keep a moment in silence for those who had died in the recent senseless killing in Virginia Tech University. My heartfelt condolences to the families and friends who had lost their loved ones.

List Building - How To Get Visitors To Subscribe?

List building is probably the most important activity of an affiliate marketer. Every successful marketer is measured probably by the number of subscribers they have on their list! Guess how many people is on Ewen Chia’s list or John Reese’s list or Stephen Pierce’s list? Probably hundreds of thousands…. salivating now?

It used to be easy to get people to give out their emails to subscribe to your list but not any more with all the spams that has been going around. Now, people are very careful in giving out their emails. For one, I am more cautious about using my main emails and what I will do is to use those “spare” emails that I create in order to use them to get these free reports.

Thus, you need to offer something to the visitor in order to get them to put down their email and name. The gift can be a short report, an ebook, a mp3 recording, a software, free membership or even a video clip. The only caveat is that …