Jun 29
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Jun 23
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Jan 02
Can you imagine how simple your life would be if you never had to drive to work? If you have the self-discipline to work from home, the right opportunity could help you get back those commute hours and gain some extra time each day to do whatever you want. If you’re wondering where you can find such a job in a waning economy, here are seven companies hiring for work from home right now.
4. National Shopping Service
Website: www.nationalshoppingservice.com
Job Title: Mystery shopper/researcher
Do you love to shop? Do you like to share your opinion? You can make money doing both. A mystery shopper earns perks or a paycheck for helping companies learn about their products and customer service. Paycheck amounts range from ”$5.00 to $25.00 for a fifteen to sixty minute engagement,” says Matt Wozniak, President & CEO of National Shopping Service. “The vast majority of mystery shoppers do not mystery shop for a living, although we have had a few earning over $40,000 a year. It’s a great way to pick up a free pizza on your way to get the kids from soccer or get some free gasoline.”
5. oDesk
Website: www.oDesk.com
Job Title: Various professionals
If you have experience in software development, web design, language translation and other computer-based careers, your skills may be in demand for work at home. Recently featured on Good Morning America, oDesk lets job seekers apply for contract jobs, large and small. Job seekers search jobs listings which include the job requirements, pay and estimated time commitments. “Our business has three components — hire, manage and pay,” says Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk. Plus, you don’t have to submit invoices for your contract work, which saves time.
6. Working Solutions
Website: www.workingsolutions.com
Job Titles: Transcriptionist, customer service representative
Are you a speedy and accurate typist? You might be interested in a contract position as a transcriptionist, someone who types down information from a recording, live reading or conversation. Established in 1996, Working Solutions hires independent contract agents for various transcription and customer service assignments. You can earn up to $30 an hour if you have the right skill-set and experience.
7. Language Lab
Website: www.languagelab.com
Job Titles: Teacher, actor, customer service representative
The best way to learn a language is to go someplace where you can practice with native speakers. “English Town” is such a place, minus the expensive travel and time away from work. Using a computer and internet connection, at-home students visit a virtual city where teachers help them learn English as a second language. Language Lab is looking for English teachers to participate in this fun teaching environment. Shiv Rajendran, Director of Operations at Languagelab.com says, “Teachers need to be native English speakers, Celta or Delta certified with five years of teaching experience.” Celta and Delta certifications are not college degrees, but post-high school certifications. The company also plans to hire actors and part-time customer service reps.
Dec 24
This is a follow up to my post about bums not being richer than you. I want to give an example of how a leveraged investment not only make you more money, but is no more risky or cost any more than the standard “save and invest” method.
The Money Saver
The saver is someone we’re all familiar with. He likes to save a certain amount of money every month into investments so he will have a nice nest egg when he retires. He likes to avoid debt at all cost because that is what everyone who don’t know squat about finances tells him.
Let’s assume our saver socks away $500 per month, every month for 20 years, into long term investments (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc). Let’s also assume our saver average a return of 10% per year. Some years will be up, some will be down but over the long term, 10% is about what the stock market has returned to investors.
At the end of the 20 year period, and after socking away $120,000, our saver has a nice retirement nest egg of $378,015. Not too bad!
The Leveraged Investor
In this scenario, our investor wants to be like the saver and put $500 per month into long term investments. However, instead of putting the $500 directly into investments, he goes to his bank and sets up a home equity line of credit for $120,000. He takes the $120,000 and uses it to buy the long term investments. So, instead of spreading the $120,000 out over 20 years like the saver did, the leveraged investor borrowed $120,000 to invest everything right now.
Every month, our investor needs to make a payment to the line of credit. Payments can be as low as interest only to as high as the entire outstanding amount. Interest on a line of credit is generally done at Prime. Let’s assume it’s 5%. Prime is a lot lower than that right now but over 20 years, it will average out. If our investor pays interest only on the line of credit, he would need to pay $500 every month to maintain the line.
Because the $120,000 was used to buy investments, the $500 interest payment is tax deductible so our investor can look forward to a $6,000 tax write off every year. That will result in a $3,000 tax refund if our investor is in the 50% tax bracket. If our investor was smart, he’ll put this refund back into investments. But let’s assume he’s just blows it on women instead.
Comparing The Numbers
If we assume our leveraged investor makes the same 10% return as our saver, that $120,000 will turn into $807,299.99 in 20 years. At this point the investor can take out $120,000 to pay off the line of credit and will be left with a net of $687,299.99.
By taking average of good debt, our leveraged investor manged to build a nest egg nearly twice the size of the saver, with the same $500 per month. In addition, the $500 per month the investor paid was tax deductible, while the saver got no tax benefits. Had our investor put the $3,000 yearly tax refund back into investments instead of blowing it on women, he would have made $996,307.49 at the end of 20 years. Women are expensive!
Most financial planners won’t tell you about leveraged investments because they are prevented from doing so. Unless you’re an Accredited Investor (net worth
over $1 million or income over $200,000 per year for the past two years) a financial planner cannot legally show you some of the more sophisticated investments available to people with money. This access to higher yielding investments vehicles is one more reason why the rich get richer. It was never a level playing field.
Nov 27
Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.
Top 10 Tips
10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.
9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.
You don”t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that’’s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).
7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.
Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.
6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger’’s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry – it’’s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.
This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important – it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.
5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.
4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.
3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it’’s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it’’s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!
2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it’’s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have – your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.
How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”. You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.
1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.
I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I’ve put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it’’s certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.
This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and friend of Unique Blog Designs. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.
25 Ways to Promote Your Website or Blog
I have hand picked all of these resources based on their usefulness, rate of success and overall quality. I have written this article to help people find new sources of traffic for their website or blog and to shed some light on some of the best resources related to each method of promotion. I hope you find this article informative and useful! Enjoy!
1. Article Directories
Article directories are a wonderful way to get traffic and backlinks to your website. There are many well established article directories that have been proven to get websites traffic. People search for articles in different categories and after reading the article they usually follow a link at the bottom of the article to your website.
www.GoArticles.com
www.eHow.com
www.EasyArticles.com
www.ArticleDashBoard.com
www.Article99.com
www.ValuableContent.com
www.EzineArticles.com
2. Business Directories
Posting in business directories is still an effective way to get backlinks and small amounts of traffic. Most directory sites have many listings that are organized into. Being that there are so many business directories, the best way to find one related to your site would be to do a Google search or to use the websites below to find them.
www.dmoz.org
dir.yahoo.com
www.lii.org
www.stpt.com/directory
www.business.com
www.cannylink.com
3. Classifieds
Classifieds are a common way to easily make posts for free, and reach large amounts of people. They tend to work better for business or service-based websites, but you can also drive traffic to other types of sites as well
www.Kijiji.com
www.craigslist.org
classifieds.myspace.com
classifieds.yahoo.
4. Forums
Forums are another good way to get backlinks and traffic, but you need to contribute to the forums and not just spam them with your links. I recommend becoming an active member of forums that are related to your site, as well as including your website link in your forum signature. By making intelligent and informative posts people will be inclined to check out the link in your signature because you’ve built interest about yourself.
The best way to do this is to manually search for forums related to your site and then sign up to start posting.
5. Social Networking Sites
Social networking sites are often overlooked as a way to market a website or blog. Having lots of friends and access to groups can be a good way to contact a lot of people in an easy and efficient manner. Most social networking sites also have forums and classifieds that you can post in.
6. Social Bookmarking Sites
Social bookmarking sites can be an amazing way to promote your website. What a lot of people will do is write a killer article and then submit it to the social bookmarking sites to drive traffic to that article, hoping it will get bookmarked a lot.
www.netscape.com
www.digg.com
del.icio.us
www.furl.net
www.stumbleupon.com
www.reddit.com
ma.gnolia.com
de.lirio.us
myweb2.search.yahoo.com
www.simpy.com
www.newsvine.com
7. Search Engines
This is probably one of the most difficult ways to market a site, but also one of the most popular ways due to the fact that the traffic you get can be extremely targeted to exactly what your site offers. This is especially important for sites that sell a product and are looking for a high conversion rate. It is usually better to start off targeting niche markets and low competition long tail keywords. Ranking well on Google for a phrase like ‘graphic design’ in the search engines would be extremely difficult to do, so look for longer keywords or more detailed ones.
8. Word of Mouth
This is a very basic and old school way of marketing but it has remained because it really is effective. All you have to do is tell all your family, friends and co-workers about your new site or blog and let them do the work! Be sure to have business cards on hand to give out to anyone you speak with.
9. Pay per Click Advertising (PPC)
PPC advertising takes a lot of studying to do right, and can cost a decent amount of money, but if your site is well designed and converts well, or you are just looking for traffic, it can be a very powerful marketing tool when done right.
adwords.google.com
searchmarketing.yahoo.com
adCenter.Microsoft.com
10. Banner Advertising
The difficulty in banner advertising is simply creating a very alluring banner design in the amount of space specified. Some sites don’t let you create animated banners, but if you have a very intriguing static banner on a good site it can get you traffic for sure.
The best way to do this is to manually search for websites and blogs related to your site and contact them for a banner exchange.
11. Text Link Advertising
Text link advertising is usually cheap and can bring in lots of traffic, but the traffic tends to be rather unspecific – which is ok sometimes. I find it best to look for sites related to your website to buy text links spots on. Or, if you are just looking for tons of traffic, you can go to major text link sites that offer spots on very large websites.
12. Print Advertising
Print advertising can be very expensive, but is especially useful when advertising in a specific location. For example, if you are opening a new restaurant in a city, sending out flyers is a surefire way to get people to your website and restaurant. You could also drop off business cards or flyers at local stores and start offering your services to local people.
www.4over4.com
www.modernpostcard.com
www.vistaprint.com
www.clubflyers.com
www.alocalprinter.com
13. Portfolio Sites
There are many websites that host portfolios of designers and artists. By submitting your work to their sites you will often get a lot of exposure to your own site by way of a link.
www.behance.net
www.altpick.com
www.portfolios.com
www.deviantart.com
14. Tutorial Sites
Submitting tutorials is a great way to get traffic to your website via a link. A lot of designers submit tutorials to sites like the ones below, and get a lot of exposure. Most of these tutorials sites are very well ranked so getting a link on them can be very good for your website or blog.
www.pixel2life.com
www.good-tutorials.com
www.tutorialoutpost.com
15. Link Baiting
Linking baiting is when you write or post something that has the potential to be blogged about, linked or bookmarked a lot. Good content in general will help your website or blog out a lot, but you can step it up a notch by producing videos or articles specifically for link baiting.
16. Contests
People love entering contest, especially if there is a desirable prize. Contest prizes range in types. Some sites will offer you exposure and links and other sites will offer money or actual physical prizes. The key to a successful contest is obviously getting lots of people to enter, so make sure you promote your contest as much as you can on forums, classifieds and more. Also, don’t be afraid to enter contests for a chance to win some money or prizes, yourself!
17. Link Exchanges
This is arguably one of the most important ways to rank well for keywords and bring traffic to your website. It is important to exchange links or get one-way links from relevant sites. Make sure you are using an important keyword because your links anchor text and not a word like ‘click here’ or something you don’t want to rank well for in search engines.
The best way to do this is to manually search for websites and blogs related to your site and contact them for a link exchange. Also, check out the two sites below.
18. Email Marketing
Email marketing can be very beneficial if done well. You do not want to be a spammer or buy lists of emails, though. The way to work email marketing is to have an opt-in email form on your website where users can sign up to receive emails and special offers. Offering a free e-book or tips is a good way to get people to sign up. Once they are signed up you can send emails once in a while to bring them back to your site or to promote something.
19. Viral Marketing
This is the hottest new way to market a website, but it is not easy! You have probably heard about all these YouTube videos getting millions of views, and articles on Digg getting thousands of hits. If you can think up a really clever, funny or useful idea and tie it into your website via a link or some other way, you can drive incredible amounts of traffic to your site with very little money or possibly none at all.
20. Videos
Creating videos has become very popular since the creation of YouTube and other video-based sites. This ties into viral marketing and is a good way to get people interested in your blog or website. It is most common to show or say the URL of your website at the beginning and/or end of a video, or tie it into your video site profile some how.
www.youtube.com
video.google.com
vids.myspace.com
video.search.yahoo.com
video.msn.com
video.aol.com
www.metacafe.com
21. Podcasting
This is basically creating audio files and then letting your users download or stream them via a link on your website or blog or via RSS feeds. This is a good alternative to creating videos if you don’t have a video camera or don’t like being on film. I have seen many sites successfully offer audio downloads as a way of bringing users a large amount of information quickly. You can even post on craigslist.com and hire voice over talent for your podcasts at affordable prices.
22. Blogs
Blogs are a great way to reach a lot of people in a fast manner. They take a lot of work, and to make a blog really effective they need to be updated with fresh content at least several times a week. A lot of websites will have a blog in addition to a main website as a sort of news system for their main site, or just as a way to drive traffic to a website.
www.wordpress.com
www.blogger.com
www.twitter.com
www.squidoo.com
www.tumblr.com
23. eBooks
eBooks have become very popular and they tend to spread well in downloading communities. You can even sell your eBook on eBay, via a website or just offer it as a gift to get people to sign up for your newsletter.
Oct 30
Yesterday we published a list of the top 10 web sites of 1998. When those sites were tops on the web, starting an Internet business was a pricey proposition. Times have changed, and it no longer takes millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to launch most web applications. It still takes some time, and money though, so below is a list of 5 ways you can raise money to fund your web startup.
1. Apply to a Startup Incubator
There are some people who argue that the growing number of small, seed fund startup incubators out there are a raw deal for the young entrepreneurs they attract. They argue that the programs, like Y Combinator and TechStars, take too much equity in exchange for such a small cash investment (generally 5-10% for between $10,000 and $30,000 depending on the program). But we disagree.
In addition to enough cash that you can afford to work full-time on building your prototype for a few months (especially if you’re young and frugal), these programs generally offer invaluable access to advice and mentoring from brilliant minds who have successfully gone through the process of starting up a web business in the past. Giving up a 6% stake in your business is worth it when the advice, mentoring, and access to services (such as hosting, PR, and legal) boost your chances of success and make sure you don’t get screwed down the line.
What follows is a list of some of the programs you can look into.
- Y Combinator in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the San Francisco Bay Area
- TechStars in Boulder, Colorado
- Seedcamp in London, UK
- YEurope in Vienna, Austria
- Summer@Highland in Lexington, Massachusetts
- LaunchBox in Washington, DC
- Founder’s Co-Op in Seattle, Washington
- DreamIt Ventures in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Bootup Labs in Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Bootphase in Atlanta, Georgia (though it seems still unlaunched)
- CIIE iAccelerator in Gujarat, India
- Awesome Inc in Lexington, Kentucky
- Startup@PARC in Palo Alto, California (more about intellectual support than cash funding)
2. Enter a Contest
This may be the strangest option on this list, and the least likely to work for you. But there are contests out there where you can win money for your startup. You Be The VC, for example, in which the crowd votes on their favorite idea, will provide its winners with guidance and mentoring from top companies and advisers, as well as office space and a stipend for living expenses in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
If you’re in school, consider entering a business plan competition. The Harvard Business School has one with a $20,000 cash and services top prize, while MIT’s Entrepreneurship Competition is even better: it has a $100,000 grand prize up for grabs each year. A number of other business schools run similar contests every year.
3. Trade Equity for Work
Last month we wrote about WebEquity, which is a marketplace for sweat equity investments. Anyone looking for help on a web business can post what they need and how much of their company (either in equity or back end revenue payments) they’re willing to part with. Since our post, WebEquity has expanded beyond Australia to include the USA, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Another option is Prototype Invest. The Denmark-based firm defines itself as a “Venture Capital firm providing software, web applications and guidance, instead of money.” Prototype Invest takes ideas and creates workable prototypes to pitch to VCs charging you in equity. I wrote an exclusive preview of Prototype Invest for ReadWriteWeb in April.
Giving out equity to get your startup up and running is an interesting route and one that requires a lot of trust. Make sure you put everything in writing before you begin.
4. Use Family and Friends (or Strangers)
Of course, you could go to a bank and get a business loan, but there are other options thanks to the web. One is social lending, where your loan comes in via small contributions from a large number of people in the crowd and the payoff for you generally comes in the form of better interest rates. There are three main social lending sites to consider Zopa, where rates start at 8.49%, Prosper.com, with rates starting at 8.68%, and LendingClub, with rates as low as 7.88% as of this writing.
If you’re looking to raise money from family and friends — always a popular option for entrepreneurs — to avoid the messiness that might occur later, you can use Virgin Money to keep track of it all.
Of course, if you already have your site up and running and just need some additional funding to give it a little boost, you could always ask your users. That’s what online knitting community Raverly did last April. And it worked. In three weeks they’d raised $71,000 from over 3,000 of their most devoted users.
5. Self Fund with Side Jobs
Possibly the most popular way to raise money and start a web app, is to just lay out your own cash. Many entrepreneurs these days will use money from consulting gigs or a day job at a tech company to fund their startup, which begins life as a side project. It’s not easy — you’ll be working 14 hour days, not spending any time with your friends or family, and generally staring at a computer screen whenever you’re not sleeping — but the pay off is that you own 100% of your startup and you’ll (hopefully) have a lot less debt to deal with.
This is the approach that web app sellers 37signals advise in their book. “These days it doesn’t take much to get rolling. Hardware is cheap and plenty of great infrastructure software is open source and free. And passion doesn’t come with a price tag,” they write. “So do what you can with the cash on hand. What can you do with three people instead of ten? What can you do with $20k instead of $100k? What can you do in three months instead of six? What can you do if you keep your day job and build your app on the side?”
And it’s true: the cost of entry for web startups is much, much lower now than it was a few years ago. (I co-own what is likely the largest Ruby on Rails discussion community on the web and in 2.5 years we’ve still put under $1,000 of our own money into it, for example.) 37signals built their first product, Basecamp, as a side project while still doing client work.
Oct 29
If you thought Smart Cars were cool, check out the MDI Airpod which runs on compressed air. Sure you though Segways were cool, but wait till your friends hear the air coming from your MDI Airpod catapulting you up to a maximum of 70kmh (44mph) as long as 100-kilometers (62 miles) for just 2 bucks.
The MDI Airpod, was already being tested in France, and the releasing price should be 6,000 euros and is definately a good alternative to gas guzzlers. You are sure to get plenty of stare action going on too.
Another car too which slipped past our attention is another air car:
Oct 26
If you’re like most small business owners, you always in the market for more back links to your website to improver your website’ position in the organic search results on Google & Yahoo!. In the past, the challenge has been to balance link quality against the prohibitive cost associated with link building. As the old cliche goes – ‘it’s like being caught between a rock & a hard place’! – You either had to shell out a stack of cash for content relevant 1-way links or settle for those temptingly cheap links farms – which bit you in the back later when you were sandboxed by Google for using link farms!
OK – granted there are some economical methods of acquiring 1-way links – article marketing is probably the most effective of these.
****Drum Roll Please***
Perhaps the Most Affordable Strategy Ever for Grabbing Loads of Content Relevant, 1-Way Links
1. Identify what Category your Website Is – ie. internet marketing, web development, real estate, day trading, business startups, etc.
2. Google your category(s) followed by the ‘forum or ‘forums’ – ie. If you have a real estate website, search for “real estate forums”, “real estate investors forum” etc.
3. Register as a user on the forums that have a high level of activity.
4. Then in the correct category, post a thread something like this:
Hi All,
I am looking to buy 1 link in your signature on this forum as well as 1 link in your signature in any other real estate forums.
Please pm me details for each forum that you have a link for sale in.
Please send details in this format:
Url of Forum
Your Screen Name
Post per day
Price per month
My site is http://www.yourdomain.com
Thanks!
My Name
5. Buy from users with at least one post per day. In most forums you can determine how many post per day a user makes by click on his or her screenname to get to his/her profile.
5. Expect to pay about $1 per month for each post a user averages each day. For example, if a user averages 5.14 post per day – expect to pay $5 for a link in his her signature for a month. In other words, you just bought 150 content relevant, 1-way links for $5! Generally Paypal.com is the best way to pay.
6. Ask the individual to make a post so you can see that your url & anchor text have been correctly added to his/her signature.
I repeated this simple process, with 14 forum user(1 in each forum) – now I have 14 people making posts on a daily basis with links back to my website. This has resulted in over 2,035 links for me in just 2 short weeks. You don’t believe me do you?! Check here to see that Yahoo! has indexed over 2,100 links to our site. Keep in mind that some forums will have a ‘no-follow’ attribute on the links which mean Google will disregard links in these forums.
An added benefit of using content relevant forums, is click-throughs! Since your real estate link is in real estate investors forums – some real estate investors will actually click-through to your site. So not only do these links help your seo efforts they also double as text ads!