I hope that the JMMO readers will find it useful to follow these links to the tips and tricks post submissions from the recent Daily Blog Tips Blog Writing Project:

18 Tips for Writing Better Pay-Per-Click Ads – Those who are planning to get more from Internet marketing for their businesses can definitely make use of these tips.

How I Improved My AdSense CTR by 51% by Adding AuctionAds – This is an interesting way to use image ads beside AdSense ads.

Five Ways to Become an Expert Online and Make Money – Basics for those who’d like to establish their online presence.

How I Got Aerobed to Number 1 in Google – Useful step-by-step procedures in using SEO for more exposure for your products and services.

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Make Money Online Tips and Tricks Links

Hi everyone! It’s me again – Alfa doing some guest-posts for the lovely readers of JustMakeMoneyOnline.com.

Shai mentioned that joining group writing projects and blog carnivals should be a part of the to-do list of a blogger with a new blog. I couldn’t agree more.

For the uninitiated, a blog carnival is a collection of links of various blogs dealing with a certain topic while a group writing project is an activity wherein a blogger requests others bloggers to submit their blog posts regarding a certain topic. One of the differences between the two is that a blogger hosting a group writing project is the only one who will ever host that project, while a blog carnival may be hosted by different bloggers depending on the discretion of the person who started that blog carnival. Another is that usually, a group writing project will give a prize to the blogger who has met certain criteria upon joining the project.

So let’s get down to business and learn how to definitely make the most out of these blog traffic building activities.

1. Write Your Best Blog Post

Although this tip is similar to just having your visitors enjoy the best meal, it’s only logical that you write your most impressive and most informative blog post ever or just search through your archives and look for that one that has gained the most comments.

It may be harder to gain more backlinks from blog carnivals since only the host is obliged to link back to your post. But if you come up with a definitely unique post, things can become rosier. Group writing projects may help you gain more backlinks since most of these group writing projects such as Problogger’s and DailyBlogTips‘ require or encourage other participants to link to other blogs that they deem worthy of link love.

2. Use SEO Techniques

If you are just about to write a blog post for a group writing project or a blog carnival, make sure that you use some SEO techniques. One is using keywords that you’d like your blog to be associated with, say for JMMO – Make Money Online at Home: The Do’s and Don’ts.

The backlinks that you’ll earn will definitely make use of that title which will be the blog post’s anchor text. It’s important to optimize your post’s title because like article marketing, some SEO can go a long way. No matter how few backlinks that your blog will get will still count as votes to your blog for the anchor text that you used. I tried this for my work-from-home blog for certain keywords and I’ve noticed considerable increase of traffic from searches for the keywords I used when I participated once in a group writing project.

3. Participate to Blog Carnivals that Cater to Your Niche

Relevance is the name of the game. You don’t want to spam blog carnivals with blog post submissions that are not related to your blog’s topic. For JMMO, business and money and finance blog carnivals will suit it just fine. But it won’t hurt to dig into other categories, too.

4. Research about the Readers of the Group Writing Project’s Host

No you don’t have to directly write about online dating if your blog is about making money online just because the group writing project’s host blog is about online dating. But you may want to write about something like how to make money online through online dating (referral programs). The key is to be creative in striking the fancy of the target market of the host blog.

5. Host a Group Writing Project or a Blog Carnival Yourself.

The great thing about hosting these blogging activities is that you get better chance of getting more eyeballs for your blog. However, one should take note that it is more likely that you’ll get the most out of it if your blog already has some great content up before hosting one. This is to improve the chances of making visitors subscribe to your blog’s feed.

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Blog Carnivals and Group Writing Projects: 5 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic Using Them

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one important umbrella of techniques to make your website stand out when someone uses a search engine in looking for some information.

And one end result of a well-SEO’ed site is the increase in pagerank. Pagerank is that measure of a website’s importance in the eye of Google, one of the widely used search engines. It is also one of the standards that make many online businesses such as blog monetization companies like Text-Link-Ads, Adbrite, Blogsvertise and ReviewMe decide whether a site is worth their advertisers’ attention or not.

So if you are a fan of these online ad networks, you definitely want a higher pagerank (0 is the lowest and 10 being the most coveted and highest).

New sites or blogs that start from scratch (newly-registered domain name and 0 content) will have a pagerank of 0. However, it’s usually easy to make the pagerank toolbar show some green after about two to three months. How?

Here are some tips on how you can increase your site’s pagerank.

1.  Post quality content regularly.

Quality content is that writeup that makes you nod whenever you read it. For your readers, it is information that they can or cannot make use of but entertains them nonetheless.

Why do you need to post quality content?

It is the best linkbait. Linkbait is that buzzword that makes a blog post cool enough to be linked to by other bloggers. It should attract attention in any way possible depending on the type of publicity you’d like your blog to earn. If your blog has content that is worthy of a conversation, you might receive a large volume of comments that will help in making your blog sticky and spider-friendly.

Why do you need to post quality content regularly?

You want your blog to be bug-friendly, er, spider-friendly. Spiders or bots are those search engine critters that inform search engines whenever your blog is updated. The more you update your blog, the more these critters visit you to tell their masters that you have some fresh stuff posted. And search engines love frequently updated blogs.

2. Link to blogs that provide quality content.

This is in adjunct to the production of quality content for your site. One of the easiest ways to serve some hot content for your readers is through informing them of other providers of quality content via linking to those blogs with the coolest news that is relevant to your own blog’s topic. Moreover, this move works two ways – 1.) providing good links for your readers, 2.) getting excellent bloggers’ attention that might consequently win you a backlink from them. Backlinks are those inbound links or links pointing to your site. You want lots of those inbound links since they serve as votes of trust that will make Google decide whether to give you higher pagerank or not during pagerank update periods.

3. Get your site listed on site directories or indexed by search engines.

The more directories your blog is listed on, the more traffic you can expect, especially if you were able to get your site listed on many of the most preferred search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

Hundreds of search engines and directories can be tapped to enlist your site or blog. Although some require payment to get your site listed, many offers free listing. All you have to do is submit your site and provide all the required information, which mostly consists of your blog’s URL, title, description and keywords depicting your blog.

You can also ping (Packet Internet Gropher) these search engines to inform them about your updates. Some of the search engines you can ping, espcially if you are

optimizing a blog include:

http://blogsearch.google.com/
http://technorati.com

4. Provide or sponsor useful applications.

If you have the skill to develop plugins or widgets that can be used by many bloggers, you have the chance to get hundreds or even thousands of links easily. If you don’t have the programming or software engineering skill, you can bid to sponsor some of these applications, more specifically WordPress templates, which are one of the mostly used blog templates nowadays. See an actual auction of a WordPress layout at Digital Point forums.

Those are just some of the ways that can help you increase your blog’s pagerank. Dozens upon dozens of methods can be discovered if one’s creativity runs wild.

Got your own pagerank skyrocketing tips?

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