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Internet Marketers – Stop The “Join Me,” Crap

February 09, 2010 By: vernette Category: affiliate marketing

I am so tired of Internet Marketers shoving their business opportunities in my face.  This happens so much on Facebook and Twitter that I can’t keep up with it.  Why in the world would you just befriend someone and then try to recruit them?  That is such a major turn off.
The sad thing is most people in this business are truly “Ugly,” and they don’t even know it. Why in the world would I say that? Well because too many times I see the words, “Join me!” in my email box from Facebook, Twitter, etc.
No!!  I don’t want to “Join you.”  That’s sheer ugliness.  It’s not about getting people to join your opportunity or fighting to get people to follow you, it’s all about branding yourself.
Branding yourself is so important.  People don’t join networks, buy from marketers, blog owners they don’t know.  You have to get out there and talk to people.  Find out what people want.  Share your life story.  Let them see that you are human just like them.  Show them that you care.  Give them free valuable information.  People don’t want to be sold.  I know I don’t want to be.
Don’t be a robot with no feelings.  Show them that you want to help them with whatever you can help them with.  In other words, get your butt up and put your face out there in the marketplace.
When you join the social networks, you are there to socialize, not to sell.  The social networks are like one big, fun, crazy party.  This is truly a great way to look at it.  So you party with people.  Socialize for quite some time.
Let them get to know you and learn to trust you.  Then once you’ve built up a strong relationship with people on the social networks, invite them to your home (your blog, website, business opportunity, etc).
Would you meet someone today and then invite them to your home?  I hope not.  Well some people do, but that’s absolutely crazy and risky anyway.  So let’s just look at it this way.  If you don’t want a stranger in your house, why would you want to just meet someone online and invite them home (your blog, website, opportunity)?  Think about it.  You are just setting yourself up for failure.
So stop the “Join Me,” crap.  Just promote who you are… brand yourself.  Once people get to know you, they will eventually, “Join you.”

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1 Ugly Secret To Getting Back Links To Your Blog

February 06, 2010 By: vernette Category: How To - Website Traffic

Many blogs like this blog offer “DoFollow” on comments. What this means is that you receive benefit from leaving a comment with a link back to your site in your name.

What really makes this special is that it will benefit your Search Engine Ranking Position (SERP). I don’t have a problem with this as long as the comments are genuine and it’s pretty much a way for me to say, “Thank you,” for visiting my blog.

On the other hand, when you place a sufficient number of comments on “NoFollow,” blogs in order to gain back links to your website or blog, you are pretty much wasting your time.

These links are ignored by the search engines. So make sure you post on “DoFollow,” blogs. However, don’t spam any blog whatsoever. Read the posts and be genuine in whatever you say in the comment box.

Now, posting comments on blogs just for gaining back links to your blog or website is so damn time-consuming that blog owners don’t want to do it. Some people actually or use software… what I consider, spam bots. Please don’t do this.

Now that’s not all. Here’s the ugly secret. To save the trouble of making hundreds of comments on various “DoFollow” blogs, and avoid getting caught in spam filters, there are companies that will make relevant comments on blog posts using your chosen anchor text.

They charge anywhere from $19 for 100 comments and even up to $199 for 1000 comments left on your behalf. Would I consider this BS? Maybe, maybe not. However, it’s not something I would do.

You know what, this can really become a problem for blog owners like me, because it makes the job of spotting spammy comments almost impossible. I do have the awful task of weeding through comments trying to decide whose comments are spam or not.

So let’s take this into consideration, would you consider this spam… comments that were not actually written by the stated author, but was paid for? Does the fact that the comments were paid for make it legitimate? What do you think?

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