Link building to build your email list
How is it possible to use link building to grow your email list? This is one of the best secrets that Internet Marketeers have kept quiet. The tactic is so easy its either going to make me look like a genius or like a complete idiot… you decide, lol.
Most people have a small section on their website that allows users to subscribe to your newsletter, if you don’t have this get it IMMEDIATELY!!! this is very important. But that’s where most people stop. You should also create a page that is completely focused on this email list allowing visitors to sign up to your email list / newsletter. Make sure this page has a lot of great content on it for search engine value. The the goal is to make sure you are linking to that exact page, start by in-site linking (make sure you have links throughout your website that are linking to it). Then find other sites that will link to you (I have a list of 8 places to find links below), and market this page specifically to people who are looking to be added to your newsletter, or a newsletter with your topic.
The 5 Steps to building your email list through link building:
- Allow users to sign up for a newsletter or to join your email list (this should be on every page)
- Create an email subscription page
- Make sure you are linking to your email subscription page from every page on your site (try putting it in the header, side navigation, or footer)
- Add several paragraphs of GREAT content on this email subscription page.
- Start link building: Link to this page from other websites.. some of the easiest ways to do this are listed below…
8 easy ways to build links to you email subscription page:
- Add you website URL to your email signature
- Post comments on blogs (not SPAM – make sure it is a quality blog comment)
- Post to relevant and high traffic forums (make sure its quality not SPAM)
- Compliment other websites, and send an email to the webmaster of the site you are complimenting, and ask for a link back to that page
- Give testimonials, give your testimonial to websites with the condition that they post your link (remember this is an endorsement, so don’t endorse a product, service, company, or website that you do not believe in)
- Link Exchanges are a great way to get quick momentum with the search engines
- Submit an original article to the main article directories
- Submit your website to the leading Website Directories
Link building to increase Targeted Website Traffic
Link Building to increase your Targeted Website Traffic in 7 simple steps
Search engines are the main reason that most people build links, but its not the only reason why you should do it. Knowing all the benefits to link building can help you grow your site even faster.
Most webmasters and Search Engine Optimization Specialist will use Link Building to leverage search engines and increase rankings on a website. This is the main reason for sure but it is only the tip of the iceberg. The benefits that you can gain from link building can be astronomical and can change the entire way your online company is structured. Basically it all comes down to traffic + content.
You need Targeted Website Traffic in order to grow your website and get your content out to the masses, and this is where most people start off with link building so they can get traffic from the search engines. This strategy is a good one, but it misses the best part. The internet is bases on one concept; Networking – so you need to network with others, you need to share your info with others, and you need to collaborate with others in your industry. Lets face it, you will never know all the answers & when you think you have seen it all life is sure to surprise you.
I’m sure your asking how all this comes together to make your site popular and gain Targeted Website Traffic… so allow me to connect the dots.
Other websites in your targeted niche have already done the hard work and become popular and are getting tons of traffic to their website, so you should network with these people and befriend them. You will be surprised at the knowledge you will gain by doing so, and in return you can share your knowledge with them. These partnerships make your company thrive and allows you to toss work back and forth amongst yourselves. It also means that you can ask them to link to your site whenever they have a posting that talks about your specific specialty.
Another way to get links that produce traffic is through controversy. If you bad-mouth a company, person, tv show, or topic you may find yourself at the front of a traffic frenzy that will get people talking about you and linking to your website where you started the controversy from.
How do I find these popular sites?
To find sites that are getting a lot of traffic you should first do a search for common industry standard words that best describe your industry and find the websites that seem to always be at the top for a majority of your searches. Then take their URL and enter it into www.Alexa.com or www.Quantcast.com (I recommend Quantcast) to find out how much traffic they are really getting each month.
The best way to start out by getting links is to:
- Add you website URL to your email signature
- Write an unsolicited blog posting about the person or website that your hoping to connect with (not SPAM – make sure it is a quality blog posting with a great review)
- Email the webmaster of the company you want to target and start up a conversation with them with the ultimate goal of networking and building a relationship with them.
- Compliment other websites, and send an email to the webmaster of the site you are complimenting, and ask for a link back to that page
- Give testimonials, give your testimonial to websites with the condition that they post your link (remember this is an endorsement, so don’t endorse a product, service, company, or website that you do not believe in)
- Talk bad about a company to stir up controversy
- Post a question on the target websites forum or blog that will intrigue them enough to want to talk to you.
These are the best and quickest ways to build links to your website that are bound to get you targeted traffic with a limited budget or no budget at all.
Have more suggestions? Post a comment and let me know.
Link building to increase search engine rankings
Link Building for search engines in 8 simple steps
Link building can have several great side effects, the most common reason for link building is to increase your search engine rankings. The way this is done is by finding sites that are of quality and relevant to your site and more specifically it should be relevant to the exact page on your website that you want the other site to link to. There are several different ways to get links from other sites. The easiest way is to join a link exchange, link exchanges are not the best type of link but the main benefit from them is that they are quick and easy to get. This allows you to get known by search engines so that they can crawl your website.
The best way to start out by getting links is to:
- Add you website URL to your email signature
- Post comments on blogs (not SPAM – make sure it is a quality blog comment)
- Post to relevant and high traffic forums (make sure its quality not SPAM)
- Compliment other websites, and send an email to the webmaster of the site you are complimenting, and ask for a link back to that page
- Give testimonials, give your testimonial to websites with the condition that they post your link (remember this is an endorsement, so don’t endorse a product, service, company, or website that you do not believe in)
- Link Exchanges are a great way to get quick momentum with the search engines
- Submit an original article to the main article directories
- Submit your website to the leading Website Directories
These are the best and quickest ways to build links to your website on a limited budget or no budget at all.
How to reset a Palm Pre mobile Phone
Turns out I was mistaken in one of my last posts “Palm Pre acting slow“. You can in fact restart a Palm Pre without taking the battery out, and this serves the same functionality and allows you to restart your phone speeding up the mobile device. As I mentioned in my “Palm Pre acting slow” post, the reason I was needing to restart my Palm Pre on occation is due to the speed of the Palm Pre, for some reason my Palm Pre has been acting very slow and all the functionality on the device has been slow. Restarting the Palm Pre mobile phone seems to fix the problem at least temporarily.
Here are the 4 steps needed to restart your Palm Pre
- Press the center button.
- Open up “Device Info”.
- If you want a partial reset tap “PARTIAL ERASE” twice. Doing this erases all data on your phone (except your music, videos, photos, etc.)
- If you want a full reset (proceed with caution, and backup all your data first), then tap “FULL ERASE” twice.
Be careful when doing step 4 as it will do a FULL ERASE!!
Palm Pre acting slow
My Palm Pre is acting very slow lately, so I’ve taken it in, asked friends, and listed the problem on this site. Ultimately I found the solution from you guys. Ok so it’s not as much a solution as it is a reason for my phone acting up and being slow. It is due to the amount of information I have on my phone, and since it doesnt have a slot for a memory card it fills up after X amount of photos, music, videos, data, phone history, or text messages on the phone. Now unfortunately X amount is an unknown value. The Palm Pre does not let you know how much the phone starts with, how much space the operating system uses, or how much space is remaining on the phone.
A quick temporary fix is to restart the phone, since the phone does not have a way to do a soft reboot you must take the battery out and restart the phone manually. But the good part is that it will fix your phone and get things moving faster. The better solution is to erase the text memory, transfer photos off the phone, and not load so much data on the device.
I decided to post a review video that I found that has nothing to do with my opinions, its a solid review.
Lil Red Riding Hood – Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
Every once in a while I will get a ‘oldy but a goldy’ stuck in my head. Looks like today is one of those days. Here is a older song that you might hear every now anad again; Li’l Red Riding Hood by the ‘Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs’ from 1966. The video that is shown below was done by a college student and is the not the original video that was distributes with the song.
The song is built around the Grimm Brothers’ “Little Red Riding Hood” folk tale, adapted by ending before the grandmother makes her entrance, and explicitly using the ambiguity of modern English between “wolf”, the carnivore, and “wolf”, a man with concealed sexual intentions. The singer remarks on “what big eyes” and “what full lips” Red has, and eventually on “what a big heart” he himself has. An added element is that he says (presumably aside, to the song’s audience) that he is disguised in a “sheep suit” until he can demonstrate his good intentions, but he seems to be having a hard time suppressing his wolf call in favor of the baa-ing of a sheep. One of its signature lines is “you’re everything that a big bad wolf could want”.
“Li’l Red Riding Hood,” by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs (1966) From their album “Li’l Red Riding Hood” Lyrics written by Ronald Blackwell. Betty Boop footage from “Dizzy Red Riding Hood” (1931)
The song whose lyrics are described just above is widely attributed to Ronald Blackwell. There seems to be no controversy (although various titles are occasionally used) that one with a similar title was earlier written and recorded by the Big Bopper, and released as “Little Red Riding Hood” (N.b: with “little” spelled out) late in 1958 as the B-side of his second hit. The searchable sites with its complete lyrics as text seem to constitute no more than a handful, but a recording, purported to be of his voice and thus presumably as being authoritative as to lyrics, exists online.
Though related in concept to the later Blackwell song, these differ in
1. conflating into one the wolves of Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs (and implying he is on good terms with the pigs)
2. having the singer call himself both the Big Bopper and the Big Bad Wolf
3. encountering Red from outside her locked door, where he knocks seeking entrance
4. being apparently franker, in saying “you’re the swingin’est and that’s no lie”, and insisting on being let in promptly lest the rest of the household return first
5. foregoing mentioning any fairy-tale-wolfish characteristics or behavior except a Three-Pigs-wolfish threat to blow the house down (unless one regards cackling laughter as counting).
However, at least one site, which ignores the Bopper-recorded lyrics in listing his work, attributes the Blackwell/Pharoahs lyrics to the Big Bopper.
Lyrics:
Owoooooooo!
Who’s that I see walkin’ in these woods?
Why, it’s Little Red Riding Hood.
Hey there Little Red Riding Hood,
You sure are looking good.
You’re everything a big bad wolf could want.
Listen to me.
Little Red Riding Hood
I don’t think little big girls should
Go walking in these spooky old woods alone.
Owoooooooo!
From the video editor: This was for a school project we were suppose to make a video using I-movie(yuck) and my laptop (the school gives us) doesn’t have much music sooooo I did Sam the Sham and the pharoh’s Little red riding hood with the WB cartoon little red hot riding hood
2010 Federal Holidays
Here is a complete listing of the observed United States of America Federal Holidays as listed from the Official U.S. Office of Personal Management Government Website. All U.S. government offices are closed on Federal Holidays, and also the NYSE, and most other financial institutions including banks and some credit unions.
2010 Federal Holidays
Federal law (5 U.S.C. 6103) establishes the following public holidays for Federal employees. Please note that most Federal employees work on a Monday through Friday schedule. For these employees, when a holiday falls on a non-workday — Saturday or Sunday — the holiday usually is observed on Monday (if the holiday falls on Sunday) or Friday (if the holiday falls on Saturday).
| Friday, January 1 | New Year’s Day |
| Monday, January 18 | Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Monday, February 15* | Washington’s Birthday |
| Monday, May 31 | Memorial Day |
| Monday, July 5** | Independence Day |
| Monday, September 6 | Labor Day |
| Monday, October 11 | Columbus Day |
| Thursday, November 11 | Veterans Day |
| Thursday, November 25 | Thanksgiving Day |
| Friday, December 24*** | Christmas Day |
* This holiday is designated as “Washington’s Birthday” in section 6103(a) of title 5 of the United States Code, which is the law that specifies holidays for Federal employees. Though other institutions such as state and local governments and private businesses may use other names, it is our policy to always refer to holidays by the names designated in the law.
** July 4, 2010 (the legal public holiday for Independence Day), falls on a Sunday. For most Federal employees, Monday, July 5, will be treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes. (See section 3(a) of Executive order 11582, February 11, 1971.)
*** December 25, 2010 (the legal public holiday for Christmas Day), falls on a Saturday. For most Federal employees, Friday, December 24, will be treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes. (See 5 U.S.C. 6103(b).)
Commonly Mistaken Federal Holidays – Day after Thanksgiving, and Day after Christmas
There are several methods that can be used to find .edu sites that will link to you. Recently a specific method was shared with me that I liked so now I am going to spread the love and share it with you.
To find .edu sites in Google that will link to you do the following search query in Google
site:edu +”Powered by WordPress” “keyword phrase”
To find .gov sites in Google that will link to you do the following search query in Google
site:gov+”Powered by WordPress” “keyword phrase”
To find .mil sites in Google that will link to you do the following search query in Google
site:mil+”Powered by WordPress” “keyword phrase”
To find .com sites in Google that will link to you do the following search query in Google
site:com+”Powered by WordPress” “keyword phrase”
Ok, so now that you know the search queries to use to find these sites allow me explain what this method is and why it works.
This method is based on the idea of finding blogs that you can comment on and add you link into the comment therefore gaining a link back to your site if the comment gets approved. Since you are using the phrase “Powered by WordPress” in your search query you are narrowing your search down to only WordPress websites. As you probably know WordPress is a Blog / Content Management System (CMS), this means that most of the sites found will allow commenting on posts.
Of course you do not want to find just any site, you want to only have relevant sites linking to you and this is why you use the “keyword phrase” in the Google search query. And since your using the .edu, .mil, .gov sites it ensures that the sites are quality websites.
The + forces your search to have the following word in it and since the following after the + is an exact phrase (it is within quotes) it will only show results that include that entire phrase.
The last part of this search query to break down is the first part of it site:mil this tells Google to only show results from sites with the .mil extension (TLD).
Amazon Store WordPress Plugin
WordPress Plugin for your website that lets you have a complete Amazon Store
Up until now the only Amazon Store Plugin for WordPress has been a crappy snippet of I don’t know… All I know is that it sucked and looked bad, and didn’t include a cart, and ooohhh that’s right they called themselves a Amazon Niche Store but it doesn’t have a shopping cart. To me that makes the other plugin is ‘NOT a Amazon Niche STORE‘. Im trying to lay the sarcasm & frustration on very thick because I have been looking for a solution like this for years. But it looks like my wait has finally paid off. Now you can have a completely functioning WordPress Niche Store without much effort at all. And since it uses Amazon’s API it automates the entire plugin once it is setup. And of course since it is a plugin it can work with any template. And if that wasn’t enough it also includes a default template if you don’t want to take the time to find one or use your current WordPress template.
This is the real Deal – not a cheap wanna-be Fake Amazon Niche Store. But as it goes I can only tell you that it is here & I will be posting a link within a few days, so be patient with me as I test this thing out to the max.
Amazon Store WordPress Plugin
Link will be posted in a few days.
WordPress Amazon Niche Store plugin
WordPress Amazon Store
Funny Twitter Updates
So you want to be entertained by Twitter, wow you are hard up! jk
Here is a list of Funny Twitter Updates, I compiled a list from Twitter Updates that I have used, or have seen and also from a few lists that people have emailed me. Some of these Funny Twitter Updates are really good & others are dumb, take your pick 
Be sure to spread the love and link to this page… and if you have any Funny Twitter Updates to share please comment with your ‘Funny Twitter Update‘ below and I will add them.
- (insert funny twitter update here)
- thinks it’s funny how we spend our childhood wishing we were older, and our adulthood wishing we were younger.
- Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off NOW!
- is reading other statuses but your status is important to him. Please stay online and your status will be read in priority sequence.
- Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
- Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
- is old enough to know better, but young enough to do it anyway!
- always goes the extra mile especially if what he wants is a mile away!
- retweets Twitter by saying “What’s happening?”
- Success is a journey, not a destination!
- Some people dream of success and some people go for it.
- Read the dictionary from cover to cover, tell you that book really does have something for everyone.
- is better to be bad and remembered than be good and forgot!
- If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, talk to me, I find it funny!
- “gotta love that quiet time in the morning when you’re the only one awake” Based on pics, I’ll bet some alone time rocks.
- If one of the 6 people you’re following is your MORTAL ENEMY who you’re determined to destroy, you’re doing this social-media thing wrong.
- the more i find out, the more afraid i get. should i take the step forward or those two steps back??
- I have come here to drink beer and kick ass. And I’m all out of beer!
- is a few quid richer than yesterday but not as rich as tomorrow.
- I like the word “offbeat” because if you switch it around, it becomes BEAT OFF — Ironically, my favorite thing to do.
- Just woke up. Had an awesome dream about riding a flying dolphin thru a dense forest of pubic hair.
- Someone sent me a direct Twitter message saying “cute pic.” They must have amazing sight.
- Does anyone know how to change the batteries in a dead kitten? Please help.
- the glass is half awesome
www.JamesStJohn.net – Funny Twitter Updates - Tough break for you: I just realized that I am awesome.
- I shout the talk. And I run the walk.
- I may not have the key to success, but I know how to pick the lock.
- I believe in capital punishment more in theory than execution
- was bringing sexy back, but lost the receipt.
- is wondering…. if money doesn’t grow on trees, then why do banks have branches?
- is poking my face and wondering what all the fuss is about!
- has had amnesia for as long as he can remember.
- has an extremely short attention spam due to clutter.
- is wondering where Noah kept the woodpeckers on the ark
- is somewhat sceptical you’re laughing out loud as much as you claim.
- wonders why we work ourselves to death, spending money we don’t have, to buy stuff we don’t need, to impress people we don’t even like!
- has CDO. It’s like OCD, except the letters are in alphabetical order…like they should be.
- is suffering from amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
- is retired. I was tired yesterday, and I’m tired again today.
- has used all his sick days so is going to phone in dead.
- dreams of a better world…where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned
- used to play sports. Then he realised you can buy trophies. Now he’s good at everything.
- says do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
- is wondering if you can grow marijuana on Farmville then sell it on Mafia Wars?
- thinks one good thing about Alzheimer’s is that you can hide your own Easter eggs!
- is proud of himself. He finished a jigsaw puzzle in 6 months and the box said 2-4 years.
- just wants to point out that Cinderella is living proof that shoes CAN change your life!
- says practice safe lunch. Use a condiment!
- wonders why Noah didn’t kill the mosquitoes while there were only two.
- was wondering why the Frisbee kept getting bigger. Then it hit him.
I hope you enjoyed the Funny Twitter Updates. Be sure to let me know of any good ones that you might come across.
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