Hello,

First off, I’m extremely sorry to my readers for not updating my blog… I was under going few problems from last few days. First I had 5 stiches on my right hand and after that I was suffering from conjunctivitis.. I am fine now and would be updating the blog whenever I get a little bit of time.

Now getting back to the topic.. How To Increase Your Subscriber Count..

Have something to promote.

I had a technique that I had been using myself, so know it was successful, to make myself a steady, guaranteed income without doing any work whatsoever once it was setup. The method still works but it’s harder to do now because of networks tightening down – however, at the time it was solid.

I had made around $7,500 in two months using this, and had not personally seen it discussed on any other blog. Two immediate things that would almost guarantee people wanting to hear about it (just for info, the method was about CPM arbitrage). I knew that this information was worth a lot of money to anyone that used it, and could have packaged it up and sold it… but at the time I was disillusioned with IM-related products so decided to do the next best thing.

Have a reputation.

If you do something like this on a brand new blog when no one’s heard of you before, it’s unlikely it’s going to work out at all (unless you do the next part well). People need to know who you are, whether you’ve achieved anything, how worthy your word actually is.

On this blog, people had about a 100 of past posts to gauge what I was capable of and whether the upcoming information would be any good… most decided it was worth the free risk.

Build Hype.

Hype makes the world go ’round. Well it doesn’t, but it’s largely important for almost ANY kind of marketing you do. Don’t go overboard, but remember that since your post is password protected, people have no way to gauge what’s in it unless you notify them before hand. While you’re doing this, you can hype it up a little bit.. Almost 200 comments in a few days which is not bad at all.

Make it easy.

It really depends what you want, and what you’re offering. If you ARE offering high quality, don’t be afraid to make your readers do a little work… remember, you are giving them something at no monetary cost whatsoever. However, don’t make them do too much work as you’ll find that most people simply can’t be arsed.

In this case, I gave people a choice – refer three people to subscribe (can you see how that would spread?), write a review on your blog (more reviews = more exposure, again more chance of it spreading) or build links to this blog. I eventually cut down on the link building thing after being warned that it could be bad for SEO, but anyways – all three options benefited me and people could choose on which one they thought was easiest for them. It’s always good to give people a choice.

Promote

It was my first time doing this kind of thing, so I kind of just wrote up the post and let it sit there… I didn’t do any promotion on it and sat on my backside (it promoted itself fairly well though!). If I were to do it again, I’d promote on forums, other blogs etc, make sure that I got it in front of many eyeballs as possible. Don’t make my mistake.

Deliver!

Once you’ve got people waiting, it’s only fair that you deliver. It doesn’t matter if only one person signed up and followed through, you should try and deliver as best as you can. If what you promised is indeed quality, you’ll have people recommending your blog even after the hype is over.

Last but not least, don’t do this too often. Once a week will probably grow your blog quick for a month or two, but unless you keep up sensational quality people are going to get tired and stop listening to you (or worse, to stick your post somewhere you don’t want it to go… ). This can be worked for any niche – you can see a lesser done example of this with the popups on numerous blogs asking for your email in exchange for a product.

As mentioned at the beginning of this post, my results were around 300 more subscribers than I would have had otherwise, in less than a week. That’s quite a chunk of my RSS count, and the best thing is that once you have people subscribe as long as you don’t piss them off most of them will stay subscribed.

This idea is only limited by your creativity. Feel free to test, tweak it and let me know how it goes!

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Having a blog doesn’t mean you can make money out of  it. There are several steps that need to be followed to convert your blog from a source of information to a source of income. If you already have a blog,  read through the following steps below top learn how to make money out of it.

1) Posting regular updates
Your blog must have at least one blog post every week. Whether you get feedback or you don’t, it is the best to write a blog post on weekly or even daily basis. Your readers would lose interest in your blog if they do not see any updates.

2) Pinging your blog
Pinging your blog is important because it ensures that blog directories as well as search engines will be alerted each time you update your blog. This will help you get the attention of more blog readers. Pingomatic and Pingoat are some of the available sites that supply this kind of service at no cost.

3) Promoting your blog
Apart from pinging your blog, you should let your target audience know that you exist on the internet and are a valuable source of information. As you get a steady growth and targeted traffic to your blog, you have the potential to make money out of it.

4) Space for Advertisements
As your blog grows you will need space for advertisements to make money out of it. As long as you have a good number of loyal followers and you maintain a steady flow of traffic, you have much to gain from publishing pay-per-click advertisements or even directly selling some space to advertisers.

5) Promote Affiliate Marketing Programs
This can be a very valuable means to leverage on your readership. Join affiliate marketing programs with products that your target market may be interested in. You can then use your blog to promote those products and earn commissions.

By following the steps listed above, you can be more effective making money online out of your blog.

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Backlinks are really important not only to drive traffics but also to enhance your position in search engine. Many of webmasters spend their money to buying links from other site to get little juice from other high-ranked sites.

For you with low budget to build incoming links into your site, there are some tools that give you quality and massive advantages in link building. I will give you review about two of them which i found very simple yet powerful.

1. PR Backlink Generator.
This is software that help you to find hndreds of WordPress blogs with high PR and suitable with your niche.

One thing you should remember, this software is not the auto comment poster. All the comments are made and typed by yourself. Autocomment will affect badly for your site because the comments are assumed as spam.
Advantages:
- Finding 100 blogs at a time.
- Niche-related.
- Until PR8 blogs.
- Portable (no need to install)
- User friendly.

2. Commentkahuna – Comment Luv Backlink
Basically, this feature works based on Comment Luv WordPress plugin. Plugin which requires you to put your name, email and url and then pull your last blog post to the page. By leaving a comment in a blog such this, you earn do-follow backlinks and straightly autoapproved.

Commentkahuna software helps you to find such a blogs. You can find your niche-related blogs, leave the comments on each of them (some of them with high PR) and enjoy the juice.

Download Commentkahuna directly on their official website :
http://commentkahuna.com

Just remember, each of these tools are built to help you but don’t take it with the improper techniques. Don’t spamming someone’s blog because you have to build relationship with other webmasters.

Happy link baiting and take your site to the sky.

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In the first two days of April (1st and 2nd of April), you will get your site’s Google Pagerank is shaking. yes that’s correct, Google updating their database. For some webmasters, PR update is one of the moment that will give us brighter future or vice versa.

For me who monetizing my web and blog with selling links and blogposts, PR update is really important since it will affected my next earning. However, a lot of question will arise regarding how important your website PageRank is.

On the other hand, Some of webmasters think that traffic is more important than PR. I believe they are webmasters who gain their earning from particular programs such as Adsense, CPM-based advertising, affiliates, etc. So for them, Google PR update is just ordinary occassion.

For you who still confuse with which one should you fighting for, my list of advantages in having a high PR. I hope the list will give you brighter view about importances of PR.

Having a high PR:
1. More webmasters will be interested in linking to your site. Because the webmasters believe that high PR is the proove that your site is legit enough in google eyes.

2. Google bots will visit your site often and your site will get crawled easily because of its incoming links.

3. Attract other webmasters to pay you more for the links from your site.

4. Opportunity to get higher traffic. High PR means lot of backlinks and chances to get more clicks. But, it is only posibility. No way we can conclude that high PR equal to high traffic.

5. Increasing your image as a webmaster. Assuming how good your site and your skill to manage your website and backlinks.

However, to get your site a PR, sometimes need luck and lot of hardworks. If your site’s PR doesn’t increase in the last update although you work hard on it, please be patient. Keep on working and still do a link building. Wish you all the best.

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Hello guys,

I’ve been working on some of my other projects and as my school opened I wasn’t able to pay much attention to my blog but I some how managed a little time to update the blog atleast thrice a week and now I think its time for another contest.

This time for prizes I have:

1st Prize – 1 vBulletin License (Worth $180 or $150 in PayPal)

2nd Prize – $70 via PayPal + Link On RishabhSood.net

3rd Prize – $30 via PayPal + Link On RishabhSood.net

How to Enter the Contest?

The contest is simple, you just need to Subscribe to my email subscription and make a blog post on your blog reviewing my blog (The post should review my blog and the post should not be about this contest). Next you need to stumble and digg any one post in my blog.

Conditions:

1. Your blog should be active and should have atleast Pagerank 1.
2. You can email me link to your blog post at me[at]rishabhsood.net or put them as comment in this blog post.
3. By reviewing the blog on multiple blogs you get more chance of winning.
4. Winner will be decided on the basis of best review written and other conditions will be checked as well.
5. The Contest will end on 1st May 2009

Thanks, Looking forward for your entries

Rishabh Sood

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Have you ever realize how useful social media such as Social Networking sites (Facebook, Myspace, Friendster) to attract visitors to your site? In this article, I will write my own experience dealing with Facebook marketing tool.

Facebook, with hundred millions of users provide you huge traffic waiting to be directed. Amount of users which is very attractive to be touched. You just need little tweaks and imagination to bring traffic to your site.

There are many options to pull Facebook’s traffic to your site. One of the easiest method is by creating a group which related with your niche. For example, you have a site related to soccer, you can create a group which discuss about soccer in general. Don’t forget to leave your URL on the group’s group’s profile page.

Many spaces are available to introduce your site:
1. Basic and Contact Info of the group. As a creator, of course you can put whatever link as your wish. Just limit yourself so it doesn’t look like a spam.

2. You can put your recent blogpost links on recent news part. Remember to notice connection between your group and article. More useful the article for the group, more promotion you will have.

3. If you have pictures or videos you want to promote, the group is also have a space for you.

4. Actively discuss in your groups, the feed will be pushed to your and your friend’s wall so your group has a bigger exxposure in your community.

5. To get more exposure, you can promote your group to other related groups. It is not about competition, it’s about mutualism. You can still get new members from other groups.

Creating a group is just one of the method to find treasure from Facebook. I still have a lot more on my mind. I will write it for you in the next few days.

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Use Your Dead Domain For Quick Cash

If you have dead domains with keyword on it, perhaps you should consider to build simple website and flip it. You will realize how easy to earn more money from the dead domain buy flipping the newly built site. I’m trying to flip the website with this technique since 3 months ago but never really falling into the business because of my busy study.

My first flip was arcade game website which only need 2 hours to set it live. Using the free script and free games package, I got $30 for 2 hours work. I am using my dead domain which has keyword “game” on it, install the script and upload the files.

My other flips using my dead domain is my image hosting site. I purchased the domain from webmaster forum for only $3. I installed the script (free of course), and create the thread on Digital Point forum. Only need 30 minutes of my time and I earned quick $20 from it.

Beside using turnkey scripts, you can flip your dead domain and create content-rich site or blog. However, you need more efforts to do this, but believe me, you will earn more. With this method, I have already sold 3 blogs with 5-10 unique articles. Price range is somewhere between $50-$70 for each blog. Perhaps you need one full day to create one site or even more.

Here are the steps to convert your “almost dead” domains into more money:
1. Collect your unwanted domains, make a list from them. Separate the domains with keywords.

2. Choose one of them. I believe every keyword has its own gem.

3. From the keyword, find one simple idea how to build the site from that domain. It can be using simple turnkey script or using content-rich method to create a blog. Then decide which one will you use.

4. Don’t think too much, just start your work. Find the free turnkey script or use free wordpress theme for your blog.

5. Make a new thread on DP forum or listing on Sitepoint. If you are not in a rush, you can expect high price. But don’t oversell your newly site because other webmasters know the value of your site. Lower price will attract more potential buyers.

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Hello guys,

Its been a while now.. I was a bit busy with my exams and now as they’re over I have plenty of time to update the blog So today, I am gonna tell you about Making your affiliate links.

There are lots of people around who think if they buy something using an affiliate link, they’re going to loose money or get scammed or somthing. But this isnt really true, If you sign up with an affiliate link you arent going to loose anything but you’ll be giving some benifit to the person whole affiliate link you are from.

Still, if people are afraid of clicking your affiliate links you can always mask them  and it’d help you to earn more money.

How To Mask Your Affiliate Links

TinyUrl.com – TinyUrl.com is a site which helps you make your URL short. You can use their custom alias system to build a good url.

PHP-Redirection – This one of the commonly used method and I love it, use it and recommed it You just need to create a new .php file for every affiliate link of your.

For eg: If your affiliate link is about a Compaq Laptop, you should name the file as compaq-laptop.php

<?php
header( ‘Location: http://www.youraffiliatesite.com/?user-id=14w5423 ) ;
?>

Put this code in the .php file and don’t forget to replace your URL This is all I have about How To Mask Your Affiliate Links. If I have more info on it, I’ll update you guys

Thanks,

Rishabh Sood

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Hello guys,

Hows it going? I’ve been a bit busy lately with ongoing exams . Thought to update the blog as its been a while now. Okay so now back to topic, How To Earn Money In PayPal From PayPal! Yeah, Its true. I am sure you must have heard of the PayPal referral, PayPal really pays you for referring a merchant to them. Here is the thing:

When you refer a merchant to PayPal and he gets his first $200 in this paypal account, you are given $1 in your paypal account. Moreover, you will get 0.5% of the total amount of their payments for 12 months, up to $1,000. Isn’t it cool?

In order to receive the bonus the merchant you refer should open a Premier or a Business account with PayPal and should verify it using a Credit card or Bank account.

So, What are you waiting for for? Gooo! Tell your friends to make a PayPal Account using your Referral Link Put it on your blog or website and get money without doing any hard work

Thanks,

Rishabh Sood

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Ever heard of easy money from completing offers for Zip / Email Submitting? If not read on and earn easy money

First step is finding companies that offer such offers there are many search on Google and you will find even more a few sample firms are:

www.neverblue.com/ www.maxbounty.com/ www.rocketprofit.com/

While selecting offers make sure you choose wisely and select the network or service that provides the best conversion rates in addition to the ones that you think you can market well

After you have selected your network and the product all you need to do is create a solid landing page. For those of you who do not know what a landing page is it’s the page that will prompt users to click on your link. If you are not that good a writer make sure to hire professionals as a good landing page is half the work done. If the landing page has images with SELECT OR VOTE in read written over it and user clicks it they are taken to take the offer neat isn’t it? Free button makers are easily available online just search for them. A note of caution here everyone wants to earn money but no one wants to help someone else earn money so make sure you mask your affiliate links and codes wisely the best way to do this is via buying a new domain they are available cheaply using various coupons on hostgator and moniker namecheap etc and if not but the cheapest domain even .tv or .me would do if you ask me.

After you have done the groundwork all you now need is a way to divert the traffic that will complete the offers, there are various ways of accomplishing it you can advertise on sites like sitepoint and dp and get traffic cheaply, but in my experience that kind of traffic does not last usually convert, so I suggest spending a little on Google keywords but make sure you choose the ‘keywords’ wisely and do not pay more that 0.1$ for every click, so let’s see if the offer pays 2$ one should expect a good profit and ROI but remember to use a variety of CPC’s and various keywords to keep the revenue flowing..

Rishabh Sood

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