• a Wordpress theme personally designed for you
   
• a free domain-name and SEO friendly blog-setup
   
• 5 hours of coaching how to blog better

You can win all these 3 prizes at once as you can participate with 3 different blogs.

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ThePinkC aka ultimate geek girl is a fun website that gives you tech news, tips on technology and living!

The website is hosted by Ellie aka ultimate geek girl who is an expert in Wordpress. She must have reviewed all the Wordpress plugins that are out there like Comment Love and Automatically Add Links to Related Sites.

I got to know ultimate geek girl when I was on my quest to earn money online with this blog.

During those days she was already making 2 to 4 times more money online than I did and what’s nice is that she constantly writes about how you can improve your blogging experience.

But it’s not all geeks for geeks, it’s all written in a clear and fun way that even my grandmother would understand. And it’s not only about IT, there is also some good advice about living better like taking your bike in stead of your car for a change.

But best of all, ultimate geek girl just loves to give knowledge and things away, so you better hurry and join here contest before the 28th of September at:

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Subscribe to "Gather Success with your Blog"
from expert and Pro-Blogger: Alvin Phang.

And you could win already the following Pro Blogger prizes given away by Gather Success with your Blog:

• Increase online traffic with the strategies and tools from Atomic Blogging 2.0 System ( Value US$197 )

  

  I use Atomic Blogging myself and I affiliate it, so I am happy to be able to give it to you for FREE.
   

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• 5 x Mini Crystal Gift (Worth US$10 Each)
   
• 2 x T-shirts bought in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Subscribing to Alvin’s blog will give you each week 2 or 3 expert posts revealing all the secrets you need to know:

• to blog better or
   
• make more money with your blog.

How do you win the iPod Shuffle?

Well…, did you subscribe already?

Once you subscribed, find all the details about winning the iPod Shuffle here.

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How to make a blog website
where we will
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Since this is a question about making money, of course we tackle it here

How to make money

This is a broad question, so we will condense everything in one post, which means for deeper explanations about making money, please ask a more specific question!

1. Let money make more money

• buy wisdom and use it to your benefit!
• buy a product and resell it
• buy a few products, recombine them and sell it (buy water, sugar and fruit and sell it as marmalade)
• put your money in a savings account
• put your money in funds
• put your money in the stock market but make sure you know what you are doing, otherwise go for funds
• pay others to do the work for you and sell their product or service

2. Work hard for the money

• get a dayjob
• start blogging and make money online
• combine the above: get a dayjob and start blogging during office hours to make money online

3. Try your luck

• buy a lottery ticket
• look for a dollar bill in your socks (yes, most likely you will be as lucky here as when buying a lottery ticket )

4. Do things that are not allowed

Unfortunately there are a lot of ways to make money illegally. They look attractive but you risk your freedom. Buying a lottery ticket you only risk your money.

Once you have made your money, you need to spend it wisely. The main killer for your personal wealth are credit cards charging you a ridiculous high amount of interest.

Make sure you earn money for yourself and not for the bank!

How to make money online

In short you can go through the list of 4 money makers above and use it to make money online.

We are making money doing most of the work ourselves and sometimes we ask other people to do the work for us: they write a post for us and most likely they will add their link in their post. If you feel your website can use some extra advertisement and buzz, just write a post and leave a comment over at How to start a blog.

Then I make easy money using the following recommended money makers:

All let you add some code on your blog so you will show some kind of advertisement.

Linkworth and Smorty also let you write posts for money.

Read a few more methods about how to make money online.

Buy Wisdom to make more money fast

If you want to learn how to set up a WordPress blog that attracts lots of visitors, buy Make money fast blogging with Atomic Blogging secrets.

If you want to make money online without the hassle of maintaining a blog, buy Make money online writing only articles on Squidoo: no blog needed!

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1. SM Sado Masochism "Used by Rihanna",
2. SEO: Search Engine Optimization "Used by Linky Love",
3. SMO: Social Media Optimization "Used by Atomic Blogging"

3. Use SMO to attract more visitors

SEO or Social Media Optimization is extremely well explained and made easy by Alvin Phang in his ebook Atomic Blogging, he just calls it Atomic Blogging .

Social Media are community sites focusing on :

1. news like in Digg and Slashdot
2. interesting findings like in StumbleUpon and ClipMarks
3. content like in Squidoo and Wikipedia
4. relationships like in MySpace and FaceBook

The fun of Social media is instant:

• you get noticed as soon as you join
• the more you buzz yourself, the more you get noticed

Your efforts are instantly rewarded once you sign up for Free to any of these Social Media.

To increase your rewards, you can automate some of the Social Media buzzing like in the "SHARE THIS" button at the left bottom of my site or you use other tips, tricks and automatic programs from Atomic Blogging

2. Use SEO to attract more visitors

SEO is Linky Love’s most favorite traffic generation method

I love search engines, I love to look things up and that love makes search engines my friend.

Disadvantages of using SEO to attack visitors

• if you don’t love SEO, it’s never going to work for you!
• having said so: if you try to work your way up fast "closing your eyes and using SEO programs": you are wasting your money!!!
• if you are using SEO, be prepared that for competitive keywords, you could end up waiting 1 year before you get your competitive keywords number 1.

Advantages of SEO

If you know about finding niche sites, you will rank number 1 in a couple of days for not too competitive keywords.

You can also find SEO tips and tricks and a niche keyword research tool in Atomic Blogging, but you can also find those tips and tricks scattered all over the Linky Love site

1. Use SM to attract more visitors

Rihanna is using SM to attract more visitors. I mean: she is supposed to be a singer right? But adding a bit of sexy spicy stuff in it, and you get a much bigger audience than before. Call it "the oldest trick in the book" attracting fresh visitors.

It doesn’t have to be SM, BDSM or whatever flavor, it just has to be spicy.

Have a look in our topsites, and you will notice who is attracting visitors using sexy spices.

How to attract most visitors

Use all 3 methods above and remember:

• if your website is new, you gain the most traffic with Social Media Optimization
• start using SEO at the beginning of your blog, but be patient until it slowly starts picking up momentum. Meanwhile get your visitors through Social Media Optimization
• add some sexy spice, visitors love to return to sexy spicy blogs (people are people…)

Example using the 3 methods together

After I posted on December 18:

1. SM a spicy post
2. SEO optimized for the search engines
3. SMO submitted to all the social media possible + asked my friends to buzz in their social media

My unique visitors count those days peaked well over 20.000

Oh yes, if you do everything right, make sure you have enough bandwidth ready

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Managing multiple blogs (my Learn French blog, my cute names for kittens blog…) and trying to make all blogs look different, is even harder.

There are dozens of ways to implement Adsense into your blog, but none of them are this easy or this appealing to the users. The EZ Adsense Wordpress plugin allows you to use Adsense, Yahoo, Adbrite, Amazon, you name it. No one else can claim such flexibility!

Additionally, we’ve made a layout manager that allows you to move things around a bit. If you like two columns on the left for one blog, or two columns on the right for another, no problem.

Previously, the hard part of implementing advertising into Wordpress has been editing the files for your Adsense information and configuring the header image, navigation and other elements with your WordPress powered blog.

The core feature of this add-on pack is the exclusive Easy Adsense Wordpress (EZWP) plugin that handles all this for you. You simply copy and paste your Adsense ads into the correct blocks in the Advertising Editor and let the EZWP Plugin do the rest!

Here’s what you can do:

• Easily insert your Adsense (or any other advertising system) codes into your Super Adsense themes - The EZWP Plugin lets you use any other advertising code, not just Adsense! You can now use Adbrite, Yahoo ads, or others. It’s easy and no file editing is required.
• Easily customize your header graphic - You can quickly download, modify, and upload your header graphic. We also include Gimp! The free graphics editor you can use if you don’t have Photoshop.
• Edit your navigation links – You can now edit and create your top menu navigation links from within Wordpress! We strive to make managing your blog completely intuitive without having to edit any files. We’ve made an editor for your navigation menu to make life easy!
• All 30 original Super Adsense themes customized for our plugin - I had to do a lot of work to customize the Super Adsense themes and make things easier. You’ll get the full benefits of the EZ Adsense Wordpress system by using our customized themes. The key feature to our system is the flexible column layout editor. Now you can have your navigation/advertising columns in any arrangement you desire.
  

• Add Google Analytics – It’s important to track your blogs usage, so we’ve included an edit box for you to place your tracking code. You can use Google Analytics, Sitemeter.com, or any other tracking system. Every page of your blog now will have the tracking code.
• Regular upgrades - As we improve our code, we’ll notify our paid member community so you can get the new code asap!
• Membership Forum - As a paid member, you get exclusive access to our members-only forum and newsletter. Don’t miss a single important update! We use our forums as a think-tank, where we discuss new features and get your input or to report bugs.

This post is written by: Mark Williamson
EZ Adsense Wordpress creator:

a top alternative Adsense plugin recommended by Linky Love

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What you do next

• if your name is John Chow: leave a comment and say Thanks!
• if your name is not John Chow, then post his video in any unappropriate place you can

John Chow’s shitty routine

Just Google for John Chow shit and you will find a lot of people thinking bad things about John Chow. Well, that’s because John Chow is !

But since he was my inspiration for starting a blog about how to make money online, we might as well do something back for him and post his video which he hopes will go viral. There you go: any advertisement is good advertisement.

Now before you click the play button: some things you need to know:

• if you hate a guy named Gary, keep him in mind during the video
• if you don’t want a silly song buzzing you the rest of the day about "… in his pa-ants, … in his pa-ants", you are advised not to watch this John Chow video!
• this video could end you up thinking "John Chow: I am so tired and so sick of your shit it’s over", so be warned!
• just ask yourself why he is wearing an affiliate T-Shirt…

John Chow talks about the meaning of life or so…

How to make money from the Internet with John Chow?

It took me a long time to find out John Chow’s strategy to make money online, but this video shows it: "it’s all about making buzz".

Once the buzz attracts loads and loads of visitors then:

• start advertising his brainchild TTZ
• look for advertisers that love to be seen around a buzz.

In other words:

write a blog to attract visitors, and then
send them to places where they will be monetized.

Like GO TO Adopt a puppy for FREE now!

So if they asked me how I knew raccoon shit was blue…well… John Chow’s class: dismissed

Hidden ladies toilet bowl cam

As usual people keep on adding their URL, and yesterday on April fools day I got this link which shows the promised toilet bowl cam below.

Toilet Bowl Cam

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It’s a great honour to introduce you to the founder of her now 10.000 users community.

Sylvie D will explain you why you should join her community.

Linky Love joined Fuel My Blog a long time ago and :

• made lots of new friends and
• got lots of new QUALITY traffic!

So this is Linky Love’s way to say thanks Sylvie and Kevin!

Tip $10 and put your link ON TOP of our TOPSPOTS

"After I gave Linky Love a $10.00 tip, I’ve increased traffic coming from this website to mine. It’s working for me & it should work for you too!" Tip her here! Mae, The Postcard Collector

Fuelmyblog is a community for bloggers that was created last year in February 2007 by Kevin Dixie and myself.

We both started to grow an interest in blogging and found it difficult to move forward or communicate with other bloggers in an inviting and spam free community.

The community started to grow "organically" with both of us checking every single new blogs that applied to register with Fuelmyblog.

Today and a year on we are still checking every single blogs.

We refuse to swap to an automated system that would make life "easier" but would also mean that we would lose control over splogs and spam which we consistently reject on daily basis.

Why register with Fuel?

1. Increase your online traffic

We like to compare Fuel to a place to talk and have fun with other bloggers.

It brings traffic providing that people engage with other bloggers and take part in the various conversations that go on.

When bloggers have registered we advise to all the newbies:

• To introduce themselves in the forum.
• To start looking at other blogs on the site and to give them a "fuel" with a message to show them that they have enjoyed what they have read.
• To add the Fuelmyblog Friends Widget or Fuelroll on their blog
• Write on the Fuelmyblog’s blog. We are always listening to the users and will welcome guest posts on FMB ’s blog which we feel belongs to the users as much as the team.

All this points will quickly enable new bloggers to enlarge a network of bloggers / friends and will result in more genuine and frequent readers to their blog.

2. Win fabulous prizes

We also have some great competitions on weekly basis so there is always a chance to win something new and we have also recently started a live blog tv show that again enable users to join in conversations and topics about blogging.

We now have over 10 000 users. We are very pleased with the way Fuelmyblog is going, or goal is to get more users involved and active within the Fuel community rather than increase the figure of users dramatically.

We have lots of fun projects for 2008 so stay tuned and if you have not joined yet why not give it a go?

That’s it from me, thank you Linky Love for having me here, if anybody would like to ask me any questions I will be happy to answer them in the comment area.

Thank you

Sylvie Dixie
Co-founder and Community Manager of Fuelmyblog.com

Add your link to become Blog of the Weekend
…or…
JUMP Queue!

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That’s why we created our Sexy Secretary Award:

Apply for the Linky Love XXtra-ordinary Sexy Secretary Award
:

Tip $10 and put your link ON TOP of our TOPSPOTS

"After I gave Linky Love a $10.00 tip, I’ve increased traffic coming from this website to mine. It’s working for me & it should work for you too!" Tip her here! Mae, The Postcard Collector

PoshMama awards

Now we only give out one award, at poshmama.com they give away a lot of them, so sad I am not a mama yet

Poshmama is a Hip Hangout for Haute Mamas, talking about all things lady-like, making friends with other moms, women, mother, friends, shopping, moms, babies, fashion, beauty, style, fitness, home interiors, art, makeup, makeovers… I guess you will get the idea by now

So if you are not a mama yet, you have one extra motivation: to become a member of the thriving poshmama community!

If you are not a mama like me, then join our thriving FuelMyBlog community!

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1. People will drop by because your ad offers them something they need
2. People will drop by because they need what you are offering and they remember your ad.

The longer you put your add online, the more effective it gets!

2. Know what men want

Why is this blog "Woman’s Swimwear" quite popular? Because "they know what men want" and…

they even add it in their description:

Come and have a look at our bikinis…
because we know what men want.

Internet Marketing is not rocket science.

Some human desires are rooted so deep that you just have to look at the past, to know what still works in the present:

Men love women and red

It shows in depictions of the bible and Sandra Oh (left) and Madonna (right)…
know what men love as well…

This kind of general ideas gives you general traffic: your visitors will drop by for sure!

But… what’s the quality of the visitors who crashed your webserver by looking at all the naked girls in the Cecilia Cheung Scandal and Edison Chen Scandal?

3. Niche Marketing

Niche Marketing is not rocket science either: blind men won’t be interested in the general Internet Marketing explained above.

So to reach this audience: you need to be able to answer the question: "What do blind men want?".

And the easiest way to know what a niche market wants :

you ask them!

You feel tricked by my answer?

If you don’t know your niche market up close and personal, then you won’t be able to give them what they need!

It’s really as simple as that.

4. SEO rule number 1

As simple as " know your market" is rule number 1 in Marketing, rule number 1 in Search Engine Optimization is:

write passionately about what you want to rank high for.

I can hear you say : "content is king, seen that, done that…"

You can only rank high in the search engine if you deserve to be there. I mean: if I write 1 post about Sandra Oh, of course I won’t be ranking as high as the real fan sites writing daily about Sandra Oh.

5. SEO rule number 2

A search engine is a piece of software.

To make your SEO more efficient, you feed this software with another software like my favorite SEO-Elite.

Even if your content is king: somebody else with similar content but "doing everything right" for the search engines will rank much higher than you.

Why?

Because you are human and the search engine is not.

Therefore you need some help from a computer program to feed the search engines exactly what they want and how they want it.

Why my favorite is SEO-Elite?

Because you get lifelong updates!

Every time something changes on the side of the search engines, SEO-Elite will be updated accordingly and…

you can concentrate on writing on topic content,

SEO-Elite will fine-tune your content towards the search engines.

6. Interact with other websites

In normal life, you only know the people you interact with.

You learn a lot from the people you interact with. So use the same tactic on the Internet.

Join in forums, leave comments on the sides you visit or give away something for free like :

• Julia: pretty young site (120 days only) and on top of our TopSites Directory : Add Your Link is the example of how free awards is a great way to attract more and more online visitors.
  
  Julia’s XXtra-ordinary BLOGGER Award (thanks Julia and keep rocking like Ramiele Malubay on American Idol: straight to the top!) See, I am now interacting with Julia
  
• Apply for the Linky Love – also – XXtra-ordinary Sexy Secretary Award
  

7. Have fun!

Make sure you are having fun when writing your website.

As much as people can hear when you are lying in bed or walking around when you are on the phone… as much can they feel when a site is fun of just another job…

People love fun!

If you don’t have fun with your website, then just dump it and get a more fun 9 to 5 job!

Tip $10 and put your link ON TOP of our TOPSPOTS

"After I gave Linky Love a $10.00 tip, I’ve increased traffic coming from this website to mine. It’s working for me & it should work for you too!" Tip her here! Mae, The Postcard Collector

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