Did you know you can drive traffic to your blog by promoting other people’s content? It sounds weird but it is truth, remember that you can do whatever you want with the Internet’s help. In the latest days, I noticed that the quantity of links pointing to my blog has increased considerably. I think that I have attracted some blogger’s attention and they have included some of my posts in their “linking away” posts. I feel very grateful for this and I want to thank you very much for pointing my posts in your blogs, I really appreciate that.

Ok now, you may be thinking what about the traffic to my blog? Well, if you think for a while, you will get the idea immediately. You can use social media networks such Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook etc etc, to promote all those content where your blog is linked. By doing this, you won’t be promoting your own content, something that could be seen by others as spam. Instead, you will be promoting other people’s content which is very legitimate and normal in social media networks.

Of course, you need to be careful when you are going to do this. You need to promote the content which could be useful for your audience or followers. Normally, if you write about Internet Marketing, the people who follow you also are interested on Internet Marketing. But I mention this because on Mixx, you can share your submission with many groups. So, be sure to share your content with groups related to it.

Another good technique is to share the content through Twitter, Plurk, Pownce and this kind of services. As you know, those services can make something “viral“, and they can be perfect to broadcast anything among many people. In this case, is not necessary that your blog is included in the thing your want to submit. I will give you an example, if you blog about Food, and you read a great article about Sushi, you could broadcast this post through twitter with a little signature which relates your blog. I don’t know if I am being clear, so I will write a little example for you… By doing this, you can attract many people to your blog without promoting it directly. :

Twitter Message: Hey check this excellent post about Sushi ~ *link here* | Related to *your blog here*

Now, you know a few tips to drive traffic to your blog by promoting other people’s content, but I didn’t tell you how can you track all those content. Actually, by pinging search engines you can know how many blogs are pointing to yours, but I will give you another tip here which you will receive an email notifying you about those inbound links. I’m talking about Google Alerts that sends you emails of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. So, you need to create some alerts related to your blog. In my case, I have 2 alerts:

1. Alerts for: Mr. Javo
2. Alerts for: http://mrjavo.com/

With this, I receive an email with the latest updates of Google which includes those strings. Then, I just visit the blogs or websites pointing to my blog, and submit the respective page to the social media networks .

Wow, I’m tired of talking writing, now I would like to read your thoughts about this topic, and if you have another tip missed by me, please share!

Yesterday, Graham has announced the partnership between Entrecard and SezWho. That’s why you will see the plugin of SezWho intregrated in Mr. Javo dot Com, but the big question is why, which’s the purpose of this partnership?

Through the blogoshpere, there are several blogs with great posts but for some reasons, the people who visit those blogs don’t comment on them. The reasons can be many: because the author doesn’t know SEO, because they don’t spend money on advertising or because the people that would comment are slightly too lazy to do it… No matter what the reason is, the fact is that Graham of Entrecard, wanted to change this!

Why SezWho?

SezWho is a universal profile service for the social web that improves community engagement and enables content discovery to be added to blogs, forums, message boards and other social sites. SezWho works with most social media platforms without taking over the content on the site.

The SezWho system is so powerful, that your comments are leveraged tremendously via their suite of features, to deliver an incredible amount of exposure and traffic. A great comment left with SezWho will bring in the traffic and readers of 10 comments left via traditional means. I was so wondered with this because although I hadn’t account on SezWho, when I signed up, it tracked all my comments since I started blogging!

How It Works?

To get started, I recommend you to see this video to learn how SezWho works. What do you think about it? I really like it! That’s why I integrated its plugin in this blog . If you have not account in SezWho, you will need to create one. You can do it through the Entrecard’s Dashboard, or through the SezWho’s website.

Then, you need to install the SezWho’s plugin in your blog and don’t worry because it supports almost all the platforms. Download the plugin here

• If you have WordPress, you’re going to download the plugin, upload it to your plugin folder, and activate.
• If you have Blogger, you’re going to add a page element HTML/Javascript and paste some code. You don’t need to re-register if you’ve already registered through Entrecard. Also please note that if you have Blogger, SezWho takes a few hours to crawl and start sending notifications to us.
• If you have Movable Type 3.3 or 4 …oh who are we kidding, no one has Movable Type.

What next? Well now, you are ready to earn entre-credits! Yes, you will start earning credits when you leave comments on other blogs, and others will earn credits when they leave comments on your blog. With this incentive there will be a dramatical increment in the frequency that people leave comments in other blogs.

But wait, this will not to promote spam? No way, the community will be responsible for rating comments, and rating them truthfully. Depending on how well your comments get rated, and who rates them, your comments will earn you a sliding reward ranging from 1 to 10 credits. If your comments get rated poorly, especially by a blog’s owner, you won’t earn anything.

Another thing great I noticed of this partnership is that it will reduce your bouncing rate, and that’s because many people use Entrecard just for visiting your blog 3 seconds until they drop their cards. Think kind of things increase considerably your bouncing rate.

So what do you think about this? I think that it’s good to incentive many people to write relevant comments in the blogoshere, I think that comments like “great post” or “nice advice” won’t be seen again. May be I’m wrong, just the time will tell us how successful will be this partnership.

Hi readers, today I was asking myself about what make a blog more or less successful, and all my thoughts pointed to you, the readers! If you take a minute to analyze it, you will know what I’m talking about. The readers are the most important of a blog because you give us, to the bloggers, the motivation to continue writing and doing our best, just for you.

So this is somewhat reciprocal, because you are expecting something about me, and I’m expecting another thing about you. Daily, perhaps you are waiting a post from me, but for some reasons, I can’t post everyday, for example. Also, when I write something, I will be expecting your reactions, as comments or responses’ posts, but in your case, you could not visit my blog everyday.

So when the communicative channel is broken by some of these issues, the readers doesn’t match with the blogger, loosing the interest from both parts. So, to avoid all those problems, as blogger I will give you 6 tips to build relationships with your readers and take advantages of it:

1. Contact the new readers: Contacting the new readers could be one of the best things you can do, because it will impress those readers, as well they will visit your blog again and probably, they will become a regular readers. You can contact them through email or through social medias, giving them a welcome message that probably will be the beginning of a good friendship.
2. Contact the old readers: Everybody can get stuck in a blog, just for a time. Regularly, if you don’t contact the reader through any way, you can’t “lose” the reader in two months or even less. But I wrote “lose” because you can never lose them, they will be there, able to read your blog when they want, just they could lose the interest in your blog. It’s good to send them an email to remind them your blog’s existence, this way you will have all your readers coming back to your blog regularly.
3. Add them in social media networks: Normally, I received many requests of people who read and like my blog. It’s great to be requested, but why can’t you add them!? Although you could be the blogger, requesting their friendship in social medias could make an impact on their point of view about you.
4. Replying their comments: This point follows the communication’s principle. If you are talking with someone, you don’t want to be ignored. Instead, you want to hear his answer and feel a nice communicative wave between you, and the blogger in this case. So, you should reply the comments of your readers if you don’t want to be slapped, don’t make them feel ignored!
5. Ask them questions: By asking to your readers a question, you can improve your relationship with them. Of course, you should find a proper question for them, you won’t want to ask something off topic. Also, if they ask you something, your must is to answer them .
6. Meet them: I don’t know you, but I dislike to talk with someone without knowing his name. I suggest you to meet them, personally if it’s possible. If it’s not, you could at least chat with them regularly. By chatting with them, will increase the level of reliability between you and your reader.

You have read it!!. To keep your readers coming back to your blog (besides writing good content) you should consider all the tips listed above. Do you have another strategies? I would like to read about them .

As you may know, Google Adsense is one of the most advertising program used in Internet. Webmasters and bloggers, use this program to make money with their websites or blogs, but how many of them really have succeed with Google Adsense?

In internet, there are many programs which you can learn many things about Google Adsense, like how to optimize your Adsense banners, where to place them in your website or which is the best size for those Ads… The problem begins when you want to learn all those tips. You can be thinking “Why the problem starts just when I’m going to be taught?” Well, I affirm that because when you enter to the page where you will download the program’s content, you need to subscribe and pay a big quantity of money with your credit card or paypal.

If you see it as an investment it’s ok, because you will get your money back in some months. But why to pay for this kind of programs when you can get all those information about Google Adsense FOR FREE?

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What these lessons include?

Well, each lesson contain many information, which you could learn the best secrets about the Google advertising, something that many people reject to share. Texts, eBooks and Videos are included in the lessons, a rich content that you can’t reject remembering that you don’t need to pay for that, because it is FREE.

The best of this website is that you can Unsubscribe to the lessons, and you can do it whenever you want! So you can be thinking “But if this thing is free, and I can unsubscribe whenever I want, where is the catch?” Well, the answer is pretty simple, there is not catch!

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Daily, many people visit my blog looking for blogging tips or information to monetize their blog. Some of them, read a couple of posts and get a subscription by e-mail, visiting me constantly and taking part in this community. Others, simply read something of their interest and never come back to my blog.

Once, I was a fan a John Cow, I visited his blog everyday and commented on all his posts. But eventually, for some reasons I lost the interest. I don’t want to lose you! Keep coming to my blog please! So In this post I will share my secrets with you, about how I keep my audience coming back to my blog.

The next is a list of 7 things to keep your visitors coming back to your blog, as a magnet attracts the metal!:

1. Giving them what they want: As I told you some lines above, most of my audience are bloggers and marketers. Here, they look for blogging tips, affiliate marketing programs and these kinds of stuff. What if I start to write about Poetry? You don’t need to be Nostradamus to know what will happen here, because it is so obvious that the people will start to leave! So, to avoid this, give to your visitors content related to your blog’s niche.
2. Sending them E-Mails: Let’s face it, nobody will visit your blog everyday. Sometimes, your readers forget about your blog with all the content in Internet waiting to be discovered. In these cases, is good to send them an e-mail reminding them about your existence, maybe with some promotion or just saying hello could be fine.
3. Poking them on social networks: There are many social media networks there. MyBlogLog, Sphinn, Mixx, Digg, Facebook, Propeller blah-blah… There are many social networks where you can interact with your readers. Sending them a simple message in these communities you can attract (again) their attention, and they will come back to your blog to see your advances. Also, you can forget all what I said in this point, and send them a message by Twitter!!.
4. Replying their comments: In an active community, many people leave a message in the posts expressing their thoughts about the topic in question. Although you get several messages, try to reply all (or at least the most) of them. Also a general message replying many of them could be good, but replying your reader’s comments it is the key of this. If you don’t reply their comments, they will feel ignored, and they will not participate in your blog.
5. Referencing their blog: If your visitors have blogs, you should reference them. This idea is not new, but it was getting more importance in the blogosphere the latests month. Referencing to your reader’s blogs, is a signal that represent that you care about them and their blogs. In addition of that, with this you help to increase their backlinks. This is a good way to attract simple visitors and make them your friends.
6. Commenting on their blog: If you referenced their blog, surely you have commented on it. Commenting in other blogs you are spreading your image and brand with many people. For each comment you do in other blog, at least 1 person will visit your blog through your comment, that’s sure. I have attracted some readers through this way.
7. Bribing them: Hahaha I have not reached this level of despair, but still being an alternative . Giving entrecard credits, dollars, free backlinks or whatever you want to give (for free) should work!

Good tips uh? You have 7 choices to keep your visitors coming back to your blog. You don’t need to do all them, but at least the points: 1, 3, 4 and 6 should be constant. Do you have another trick beside mines? So help me and my readers sharing it!

Happy Blogging

Question by Terrah’s Dawn :

What do you know about Traffic Exchanges like Dragon Surf, Surf4theEarth, Traffic-Crypts etc… I’m trying them out now. I can’t seem to get useful info on how to make real money with them. Some claim up to $200 a day with this stuff. Just wondering if you know anything about them. Thanx again Mr. Javo for another great blog. (yes I’m a subscriber)

Ok Terrah, that’s a good question about blogging. Over the web there is a lot of programs to exchange traffic, I mean that with those programs you can get traffic to your website for free, but how them works?

Programs like EasyHits4You, Surf4TheEarh, DragonSurf, LinkReferral…brings you unique visitors daily because they all use a ranking system. This system is basically an “slave measurer” and I say “slave” because in these programs, to be ranked higher you need to -for example- visit 30 sites daily, review 5 of them and add 2 to your favorites. So by doing this everyday you get ranked in the top, bringing you the most of traffic to your website….but imagine to do that everyday with 5 exchange traffic programs?

It Worth?? I don’t think so.

In addition, I think that all those “visits” doesn’t worth. To be ranked higher, the people visit your site for 20 sec or something like that…That people who visit your blog does it for the ranking and not to meet new sites. To verify this, check in your site statistics for the pageview time of those sites and you will see that this time is not longer than 1 minute.

But however, all those program find the way to attract more users by paying them for referring people or visiting websites. That’s how they keep their users visiting over and over again the same websites. That’s like a vicious circle, once you enter you can’t leave it then!

My Personal Recommendation

When I managed the blogspot blog, I used like 1 month one of those programs. It provided me like 80 visits per day and I was wonder for that, when I began to use that program I simply love it, but then I start to check the statistics….When I saw the pageview time from that site, I leave it instantly!! really it doesn’t worth, by joining to those kind of programs you will be an slave for a time after you noticed that it doesn’t worth and you will end leaving it…