So, the question now is, why should I submit my rss feed to a site? Honestly, I don’t know. I have submitted my site to the Google’s blog Search (blogsearch.google.com), but that’s it. All of the other sites seemed to have absorbed my RSS feed and are now using it for their own traffic and content. So, those days are over.

So, my advice. Maybe only submit to Google’s Blog search. Otherwise, prepare to have your site beat in the searches by your OWN content on someone else’s site!

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I looked at it closely. Essentially, there is an img tag in the text, I simply added the / into the tag so it resembled . Well, that worked for Blogger/Blogspot, but it didn’t work for YouSayToo. So, back to adding the text link which is at the bottom of my posts.

Happy Holidays.

I followed up with Katryna at Market Leverage. Pleasure to speak with her, very helpful. She asked me a couple of questions, had to make sure I was legit. After about 2 minutes of talking she gave me some hints on which affiliate programs were working for their publishers. Wow, I’ve only been talking to them for a couple of minutes and I’m learing something. She signed me up guided me through some of the next steps and followed up with an email detailing my publisher contact. Pretty cool. Awesome experience, professional, to the point, and knowledgeable.

Tonight, I signed into the site and looked around. They have some pretty good programs. The payouts are high, try $42 high. I’m sold, contacting my publisher contact tomorrow to check out any more tips.

Had a little more time and investigated them a little more. Well, found out, they have MarketLeverageTV for their publishers. The videos are excellent. Each video gives some highlights of new vendors and a recap of the latest news. Feels like I have my own station. Anyone looking to just learn about affiliate marketing would enjoy them just for the content.

So, experience is top notch. I’d definitely sign up, high payouts, and some pretty good vendors. Click Click Here to sign up with MarketLeverage.

Check out these latest videos from MarketLeverageTV!

Here’s the October video.

Here’s another from October.

In order to get it running on WordPress, I had to install the OnlyWire Multi Autosubmitter. Then, I had to add a link to OnlyWire to my site. Have OnlyWire verify it and I was up and running. Granted, you don’t have to do this if you want the paid version. I can stand one more link for free services.

One good thing about OnlyWire is that I was alerted to several other feed networks I haven’t been using. So, a lot of my time with OnlyWire was actually signing up for these other services.

Also, in case you’ve been following my most recent posts, the changes made here have produced some good results. Granted, this isn’t the most popular site on the internet, but here are some results after one week of changes.

Statistics for a week ending 12/13/09

At this time, here are a list of all the services OnlyWire will Distribute to:

• Ask.com
• Bebo.com
• Bibsonomy.com
• BlinkList.com
• BookMarkSynch.com
• Connotea.com
• Delicious
• Digg.com
• Diigo.com
• Facebook.com
• Fark.com
• Faves.com
• FriendFeed.com
• Google Bookmarks
• Hi5.com
• JumpTags.com
• LinkAGoGo
• MisterWong.com
• Mixx.com
• Multiply.com
• MySpace.com
• Newsvine.com
• Plaxo.com
• Plurk.com
• Propeller.com
• Reddit.com
• Simpy.com
• Slashdot.com
• Spurl.net
• StumbleUpon
• Tumblr.com
• Twitter
• Yahoo Bookmarks

Use Header tags

Structure your page with different sections. For example use the h1, h2, h3 tags. This tells search engines a little bit more about your page and what are the important aspects of your page. So, add these before different sections.

Use descriptive links

Whenever you’re creating a link somewhere, don’t have the hyperlink text say “Click here”. Instead, make it state what the link is about. It may seem hard at first. At least it is for me, so I’ll make 2. In the sentence I’m writing, I’ll describe where the link will take them (make that a hyperlink) and then make a click here hyperlink. For example, If you want to know more about part time webmasters, click here.

Get the point across in the first 2 sentences

Most people won’t read beyond the first 2 sentences. So, get the point across and capture their attention. If the person is interested, they’ll read on or click somewhere else. As a matter of fact, that’s a pretty good concept. If someone isn’t interested immediately, give them something else to click on… hmm that should drum up some ideas.

Keep the minimum word count to at least 250

A lot of people say to keep it even longer. But, sometimes, I just don’t feel like writing an entire document and just want to send out a tip. But, the more text you have the better off you are.

Name: Millionrss Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: HotVsNot Submit here Description: Free?: Yes, if you put in
Name: Solar Warp Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Postami Submit here Description: Free?: No 24.99
Name: 2rss.com Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Ping-o-matic Submit here Description: Pings your feeds. You have to bookmark your page and come back and ping again every once in a while Free?: Yes
Name: Feedsee Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: 4 Guys from Rolla Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Feedcat.net Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Feedage.com Submit here Description: Had issues getting to the site. Free?: Yes
Name: Plazoo.com Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: RSS Mountain Submit here Description: Had to register Free?: Yes

Recently, I ran across affiliate marketing. For those of you that don’t know, affiliate marketing can work similar to Adsense, except instead of making money from someone clicking on a banner, you will make money from someone clicking on a banner, then buying something.

So, the first question you may think is, “With Adsense, I always make money, with an affiliate link I won’t.” This is true. But, I’ve looked at the money I’ve made through adsense and it doesn’t amount to more than $5 over a period of several months.

So, I thought wow, that’s pennies. Then it dawned on me. If just one person bought something (from links or images that look identical to Adsense ads) I would make that amount of money or even more with one sale.

So, today, I made the leap. I removed all Adsense ads from this site. Ok, I may be crazy. But, I figured it’s worth the chance.

So, the first thing I did before proceeding was figure out how I could do this easily with WordPress. And, to my smiling eyes, I found the Advertising Manager plugin.

So, how does the Advertising Manager plugin help? Well, I’ve added several of my affiliate links and banners to the plugin. It was an extremely easy process. And, I’ve set it up so they will rotate! So, they will function similar to Adsense. And the BIG bonus. I can customize which affiliate ads display with each post I write. Wow, focused ads on my own articles. Also, I had difficulty figuring out what to do. After I did it one time, everything was easy. Here are the instructions for Advertising Manager just in case

So, if you’re not doing this yet, consider it. I’ll keep you posted on how it works.

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How does this help me? Well, if you need to direct someone to your linked in profile, you could just give them your website address (domain name). It would be a lot easier. Also, you could set up an email address for that domain name as well. So, if anyone ever wanted to get in touch with you, they’d know your email address as well.

Here’s how to do it.

1. Go to JoesWebshack and purchase a domain name. It will be less than $10 a year, and it comes with an email address
2. Once purchased, log into your account if you haven’t already.
3. Now, click on the top or left navigation where it says “My Domain Names”
4. Now, you will see a list of your domain names. Click on the hyperlink of your domain name.
5. At the top of the page in the navigation, click on the “Forward”, then “Forward Domain” option
6. In the box, type in your LinkedIn address and press OK, and you’re finished!

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Well, this post is just to see who’s out there, and if this is even a need. So, if you would like us to install Wordpress for you, let us know. You can respond to this thread or use the “Ask the Webmaster” option.

Initially, the package I was thinking about creating consists of the following:
1. Domain name
2. Hosting
3. Set up an email address with the potential to have more.
4. FTP Access
5. Wordpress installation
6. 5 standard plugins to be determined. Maybe the idea is we could let you choose from a list.

Requirements:
1. It would have to be on our hosting
2. You would have had to choose a domain name already.
3. You would have to pay up front, because the cost of domains and hosting are real costs.
4. We would need 24 hours to set it up.
5. Hosting questions would be directed through JoesWebshack.com.
6. WordPress questions would have to be posted on this site or elsewhere. This way, we could build a shared list of questions and help for everyone. In addition, there is so much to do with WordPress, we would be overwhelmed with the questions and would have to charge to answer questions.

Well, there’s one drawback. If I’m only using ads to make revenue from my site, I’m out of luck. So, what to do? Well, I’ve come to the conclusion that I should mix my ads with some links to affiliate programs. I know, this may seem obvious to some, but it wasn’t to me.

So, now, my next task is to add to my general template links to some affiliate sites. Otherwise, if all of the ads are blocked, I’m out of luck.