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So for all of my faithful readers you probably remember back some time ago when I talked about how my DP account was put into the moderation Que for changing my email address?

Well I have some good news…. THE ACCOUNT IS BACK!

That’s right, I believe the owner of the site Shawn came back and took my account along with a bunch of others out of the que and now we just have to wait a couple of days to gain full control of all the features DP has to offer.

This makes me quite happy because I have a lot of business to do through DP and without being on DP it is harder to make cash online! Now that my account is back I plan on making a decent wage next month from design services and reviews like I used to do! Who knows I may even have a couple goodies for all of my readers!

Stay tuned for updates!

Tags: seo, monetizing blogs, learn

As you all know I have changed the look of our blog multiple times, I continue to try new things and this time its no exception. Although our blog has always looked great its about time we try something different.

Up until now all of the themes we have had on IBB have been designed by a third party because we believed they knew best when it comes to blogging themes. However the blog has not performed well like we were hoping so we are going to change things up a little and this time we have designed our own theme!

Since we want to know and try new things this is a big step for us, I have been doing website design for years now and this is my first go at a wordpress theme for one of my own sites.

I want you to rate in for the following factors, you can rate it by commenting on this post!

1. Whats the first thing it says to you when you see it?
2. Are the colors a good choice?
3. How about the RSS placement for signups?
4. Do the advertisements look better now that they are only in one spot instead of all over the place?
5. What else would you improve?

Please comment below and let us know what you think of the new IBB theme!

Tags: blogging, money, learn

Yesterday I talked about the ways you shouldn’t be building backlinks but today I want to show you what you can and should be doing to keep the search engines happy along with your rankings!

Lets begin…

Link Bait - Link bait is simple, you create something that people want to link to. Its Automatic (blogs are perfect for this), it will take some research time but once you know your audience the rest is like eating pie!

Directories - Directory submissions have been around for a really long time, it has not change and you should still submit to directories whenever possible!

Article Submissions - Articles Submissions is a new topic for this blog to talk about, I have never needed to do it for this blog but I have done it for clients in the past, it truly is a quality way to build links the engines LOVE!

You might be saying to yourself “Wait that’s it?” YES! Link building is really not that hard, and if you want to do things the right way you won’t need to BUILD BACKLINKS, people will do it for you!

There are more ways to gain links that the search engines like but these should get your started and keep you busy for quite a while. However I would love to hear any other ways you believe are good quality link building methods!

Tags: monetizing blogs, seo blog, learn to blog

It has been quite some time since I last visited an “SEO” related topic on my blog. However lately I have been looking and learning more about it and the changes the search engines have been making.

Today I want to discuss the top ways you should no longer be building backlinks in 2008. In a post tomorrow I will cover the top ways you should be building backlinks for 2008!

Lets get started…

Buying/Selling Text Links- Sometimes it seems as if people have been buying and selling links since the age of the dinosaur but fact is they have only been doing it for a short while. However the search engines found this problem early and pretty much put a stop to it this last year by hitting link sellers hard!

Its kind of like drug dealers, if cops just go after the users its pretty much a losing battle. But if they hit a seller who supplies the users on a daily basis they just took out the seller and the users in one shot!

Google has done the same by taking out link sellers when they can.

Buying links for your sites these days is tricky and down right dangerous, you don’t want to be caught buying links when google comes knocking on your door, trust me!

Social Bookmarking - I am not really sure why but people seem to have the notion that social bookmarking is a great way to get higher rankings in the search engines. While I will admit they are great for a short boost its simply impossible to stay on top with this method for very long.

Social bookmarking puts you into a relative category but not onto a relative website so your pretty much just spinning your wheels after the initial search engine boost (that will drop in a week or two).

Forum Signatures - This is another method that people seem to have a notion about that needs to be put down. Forum signatures will not help you get better search engine rankings unless your in a super small niche that is easy to overcome.

The main problem with forum signatures is its timely or expensive to buy signatures for the sole purpose of better rankings. If you read my “Maximizing your signature clicks” article you will see what signature links are really all about these days!

Link Trades (Reciprocals)- Link trading whether it be two-way or a three-way has been around for some time as well, the problem is the search engines can spot these right away. But don’t worry not all of you are in trouble for doing these, it really depends. Did you trade links with a relative website or a site about pickles?

If you are going to link trade at least do it with relative sites so it appears your trying to help the search engines provide good results for its users. Not just gaining ranks for yourself to make more money!

If you are looking to get more traffic to your blog then this is the post for you. In order to do this right you need to think like a visitor thinks, don’t understand? Not to worry, let me break it down for you…

When someone visits your blog what do they see? Perhaps a gorgeous wordpress theme, perhaps not? Maybe when they come in they are plastered with advertisements all over the place, maybe you don’t have any listed at all?

Whatever your visitors see will either make them come back or steer clear forever more. What I like to do is get my family to look over the site and see what they see because they are kind enough to list what they see so I can correct it or stick with the parts that work!

You could do the same, just ask your friends or family members. Now, you may be wondering what this has to do with traffic? Well tbh right this second im not sure but I will type it here once I know…

So now that you have some info as to what visitors see when they enter your site you can tailor your site to suite everyone’s needs and more then likely you will have some happy rss subscribing campers!

Thats the key really, the key to big traffic is return visitors. You need to somehow convince your readers that you are worth coming back to over and over again.

If you don’t they will find a blogger who does and they will be lost to you forever!

So I will now leave you with a question… What are some ways that you feel are good ways to get return visitors? We know now that its important but how do we do it? I would love to hear any of your input to the subject while I think myself!