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It has been awhile since my last Adtoll Update, but I thought I would write this post for the people who are very interested in trying it, but are still waiting for that last clincher. Well, as of today Adtoll is giving every new customer a free $20 in advertising credit.

Just what can $20 get you? A lot more than you would actually think… Sign up to Adtoll today and you can spend your $20 to advertise on my blog completely free. You can get your 125×125 advertisement for THREE MONTHS completely free, and an entire month of my premium banner spot at the top! If you were considering trying out different ways to monetize your blog, now would be the time.

Grazr is a web2.0 service that allows you to create widgets to “monitor online sources and share the results.”  What the heck does that mean?!? Other than sounding a lot like an RSS clone, I have no idea.  If you really want to figure out what the heck they do, go visit it, but being the vigorous internet marketer and link building deviant that I am, I only see the great link building capabilities. Grazr is a pagerank 6 authority site in the eyes of the search engines, and you can easily get a few pages on the site that link to every new post you make. In a nutshell, it is like an untapped RSS syndication that links to your blog posts the moment you write them. It is this site, along with the other popular ones in my RSS feed directory list that allow my blog posts to be cached by Google in under three hours.

I have been running websites for over a year, but have only recently been blogging. The search engines look at blogs a lot differently than they do for static websites, so I have listed a few simple SEO tweaks that will help your blog rank higher in the search engines and have your blog be more visible to the readers.

Install All in One SEO
All in One SEO is a plugin for Wordpress that does all of the hard work of building correct titles and search engine optimized descriptions for you. After you install this plugin and set it up properly, you only need to focus on link building and writing great content. What a timesaver!

4/21/2008 Update:  Right now, the site is redirecting to lifehack.org.  Either the site has closed down, or the website was temporarily hacked.  Try visiting listible.com and if it redirects you, then you can save your time by skipping this post, as it would be no longer valid.

For those of you who love building thousands of links from my different methods, you are in for another treat. While normally I blog about secret techniques that nobody else is talking about, this one has been a bit popular on Digitalpoint. I cannot take credit for this one (21/22 is a pretty good record I would say), I still want to tell you about it. Every single link counts and so I wanted to let those who haven’t heard about Listible join the fun.

As most of you know, I love finding innovative places that my readers can build links, and today is no exception. Drupal is a massively popular open source framework for websites. The homepage for it is located at drupal.org, and that is the target for todays link building campaign. Drupal is a community focused system, so their site allows users to register and fill out a profile. Inside your profile you are allowed to link to your homepage (I would assume it is supposed to be for your site that is using Drupal). However, no verification is done so you may put your own blog inside. You will get your own user page and a link to your blog will be dofollow (good for search engines), but it does not stop there.

It is the first of the month, which means I will post my income earnings from my blog for last month. I have since changed the main topic of my blog to make money blogging, so I choose to publicly disclose all of my income totals every month so that after my blog is at least a year old we can all look back to see the growth. I will begin with my blog statistics and then move into my January blog earnings.

January 2008 Blog Statistics

*Parentheses represent last months numbers*

• Google Pagerank: 4 (0)

A lot of my readers have been giving me excellent feedback stating that they love my link building strategies that I give away in the link building cookbook. Link building is important because nearly every blog wants additional search engine traffic, and building links is the best way to get it. I thought I would feed everyone’s link building appetite by releasing yet another tip that you won’t see anyone else telling you.

Introduction to Flickr

Flickr is a free image hosting site that is now owned by Yahoo. It stores thousands of images and serves millions of visitors every month. Flickr allows users to make comments on the pictures that are uploaded by other users.

A few years ago the giant forum we know today as Digitalpoint developed a mass link exchange program called the DP Co-op Advertising Network (aff). After signing up, you then add 3-5 links on every one of your pages, and this earns you more linking power (coop weight). The more weight you have, the more links to your site you receive from other members in the coop. You can choose up to 15 anchor texts and there are over 30,000,000 available links in the network today. Sites have been using it to rank #1 for “Debt” “credit cards” “bankruptcy” and “loans.” Such a simple method is allowing them to outrank massive authority sites like Wikipedia, but the main concern is how long will this gravy train last and when will Google do something about it?