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While I was checking some stats, I noticed traffic coming from “some websites“, at first I didn’t mind, I mean who wouldn’t want some free traffic? But after doing a little more research, I found some sites that I are kinda going against what I believe in when it comes to commenting on blogs. I believe it’s about conversations and adding value to discussions.

Ok, most of you know that this blog is “DoFollow“, meaning when you write a comment you get a link back to your site. And some PR checker tools are returning a PR5 for this blog. (don’t worry, this post is not really about PageRank)

I think you’re starting to see where I’m going….

So there is over 4,500 comments on this blog, that means I give quite a bit of link love. That I don’t mind, I think dofollow is an awesome way of rewarding people that take the time to leave comments. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Conversational Blogging, Links by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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You may have heard about this new site, they were in private beta (invites only) and they just launched yesterday, it’s called Cre8buzz. I’ve been waiting for the launch since Antman told me about it, and finally they’re up and running, congrats to the team! (and thanks a lot to Ritu of Work N Play for the invite) :)

So What Is It Exactly?

Cre8buzz is basically a social networking/community site. You create a profile, add some details, a picture and voila! But the folks at Cre8buzz kinda pushed things a little further, and you can also add podcasts, blog posts, create a video gallery and customize the looks of your profile page. [Read more →]

Tags: Internet, Links, Networking, Reviews, Services by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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FreelanceFolder ;)

Tags: Blogging, Internet, Links by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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You probably have heard of this contest by now, but I thought I’d write about it anyway, cause it’s HUGE. I told David I would give free advertisement both on SWR and on FreelanceFolder and also a custom logo/header design. Yep :)

Here are the prizes:
Gold

• Custom logo from David Airey.
• Custom WordPress theme design from Nate Whitehill.
• Personal marketing / advertising plan from Maki of Dosh Dosh.
• One year’s hosting and blog setup from John Boardley of I Love Typography.
• Signed copy of Blogging Tips by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress.

[Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Fun, Links, News by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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A couple weeks ago I wrote a post titled Getting Rid Of The Middleman, and promised I would write a follow-up post on that. So here it is, short, but to the point! ;)

The idea was to put links for sale on Ebay, and see if it would work. Well the truth is it didn’t work. I got around 75 visitors to each of my Ebay auction pages (I had 3 different auctions, and all averaging 75-80 visitors, 7 days auction), which is ok. Got 2 questions from potential buyers, but no sale. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Links, Marketing, Money, Online Business by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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Lists are extremely popular among bloggers, not only because of the links you can get from being on those lists, but also because you can discover new sites you would’ve never heard of otherwise. Many of the blogs on this list I read regularly, but I found a lot of new blogs also.

I’m a sucker for everything that has to do with personal development. So I had to join this project :)

I’m not a big fan of lists though, in fact I asked to have my blogs removed from a couple of lists that were floating around the blogosphere, but this is a list I’m particularily proud to be on.

My blogs are not necessarily about personal development, but I guess they fit on the list.

This was started by Priscilla Palmer, and already the list is quite long. Feel free to add to the list if you feel your blog or a blog you know would fit on there.

Here it is: [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Creativity, Fun, Life, Links, Self-Improvement by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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There I was, surfing the net, reading a couple of posts on some blogs, and I found this post on Elizabeth-Rose that talks about selling text links on Ebay. What a cool idea!

Most bloggers/writers I know use Text Link Ads to sell text links and increase their income (maybe you do?), but the thing is, TLA takes a huge cut, so if you sell a link for $30, you usually end up getting just $15 (more or less).

Don’t get me wrong, I really like TLA, basically because the support is great and they are well-known and have a lot of sites/blogs in their marketplace, but still… what if I could get that whole $30 instead of just $15? [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Business, Links, Money, Online Business by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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As you can see I changed the design (again) on SmartWealthyRich. Yesterday I put a new design up, but, ya know, you have to listen to your people, so I decided to make some changes.

I know Snoskred was a big fan of the green arrow I had in the logo before, so I decided to put the arrow back, not green, but it’s there ;)

Rob thought the big “seal” in the logo was a little overwhelming, and looking back I have to agree, so that is gone!

Baloot said the text in the header was a little hard to read, I think it’s fixed now! [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Conversational Blogging, Creativity, Links, News, Site Updates by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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In the “blogging world“, when an authority blogger writes about your blog, or feels like linking to one of your post, it can bring a lot of traffic, and potentially make your feedburner chicklet go nuts.

Social networks like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit and others, can definitely send massive traffic too. But from my experience, people coming from Problogger, LifeHack, ChrisG, Performancing, Successful-Blog and other well-known and established blogs are more inclined to click, read and subscribe to your rss feed. (like I said, that’s “my” experience) [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Conversational Blogging, Links, Networking, Online Business by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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What Mentors Can’t Teach You, Anti-Mentors Can: Shane has a great story on how anti-mentors can teach you a lot and what you learn from them usually will help you move forward and focus on the solutions instead of the problems. A really great read! :)

Exactly How I Got a Stampede of Web Traffic: Dean Hunt wrote a guest post for the milkman recently, explaining how he took a “normal” post, modified it, and got on the frontpage of Digg in no time. Negativity can help you make it on Digg, no doubts there, it worked for Dean, might work for you too! [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Links, Networking, Relationship by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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