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20 Must-Follow Blogs For Internet Marketing And Affiliate Marketing In 2010

Dec 13, 2009 in Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, blogs

As we head into the next decade, the Internet marketing and affiliate marketing industries continue to grow exponentially. The last 10 years has seen both mature from a ‘wild west’ frontier of a few hundred of us groping in the dark to see how it could be more useful into a billion-dollar-plus-a-year industry with hundreds of thousands or even millions of people now looking to the Internet to make some or all of their income.

A quick search at Google, Yahoo! or Bing will show you some of the millions of pages, sites and blogs dedicated to Internet marketing and affiliate marketing, thousands of programs & other tools covering all aspects of both have popped up, and related membership sites abound…

All of which is great news for our industry, which is still really in it’s infancy. But it DOES make for a lot of learning to get up to speed and/or to stay current. Over the next three weeks to the start of 2010 I’ll be attempting to help clear that clutter a bit for you, bringing you some suggested resources to get you on, and keep you on, the right path with your online marketing.

Will they be the best resources and all-inclusive lists? No – no one can possibly evaluate every site in the biz, nor even the top few thousand. And exclusion from these lists doesn’t mean anything either – the choices are totally arbitrary, chosen by me personally from those I’ve found to be helpful or created for myself. And yes, where appropriate I’ll use my affiliate link to resources – I’m a marketer, remember? LOL But I do promise that no link will be included because of that – each will be given based on it’s merit as I see it.

So to get started today, here are 20 Internet marketing blogs and/or affiliate marketing blogs I suggest you keep an eye on in 2010. I’ve divided them into 3 categories (explained below) and ranked them by their current Google PageRank within each group. (I’ve included 2 of my blogs, hopefully based on merit, not personal bias.)

Group One:

Group Two:

Group Three:

How These Blogs Are Categorized

It is important to realize that the above groupings, and the order within each group, are NOT indicative of the importance of each blog to your Internet marketing or affiliate marketing success. No such ordering could be possible, as no one can predict what these Internet marketing bloggers will cover in 2010, and different information is of importance to each of us.

Instead, I’ve grouped them into a suggested ranking for leaving comments when you read each. Group 1 are blogs that give link love to your comment by disabling the NoFollow tag built into WordPress, plus some deep-linking love to your latest blog post’s permalink by enabling the CommentLuv plugin. Since these give the most in return for leaving your comments, I recommend commenting each time you read a new post on them.

Group 2 also has disabled their NoFollow tag to show you some love for commenting on their posts. The only thing that differentiates them from Group 1 is that they’re not (at the time of this post) using the CommentLuv plugin to also give a link to your latest post, but just linking to your blog’s home page. Commenting regularly on these blogs should be a part of your off-site SEO efforts too.

The bloggers in Group 3 also have great Internet marketing and/or affiliate marketing information to share with you, but at this point still have the NoFollow tag enabled, preventing your comments from helping in your SEO efforts. But just because you don’t get link love for search engine purposes doesn’t mean you won’t derive some targeted traffic from direct click-throughs, which you may well see from any of the blogs listed here. In general, when visiting these blogs I recommend commenting occasionally when a post is of particular use to you or leaves you with a question about the material covered.

A Few Caveats…

First up, recognize up front that this isn’t an exact science. For example, Google updates their PageRank as often as twice a day, bloggers may go off on a tangent or abandon their blogs, and no one can say for sure that these particular bloggers will always be the best source of information – I can only say these are the ones I count on for great info!

Similarly, exclusion from this list is by no means a comment on any other blog – there certainly are other great blogs I visit and comment on regularly. Bu then I have the time since I do this full time – since so many of my readers here are part-time Internet marketers and affiliate marketers, I’ve tried to provide a good representative selection while keeping it short enough the can easily visit each one at least once a week.

*About the Google PageRank shown for each site… As stated above, Google updates their PR rankings almost in realtime, so the listings shown are as of the date of this post, as reported by RealPageRank.com and will change often throughout the year, no doubt.

Google defines their PageRank Technology as follows:

PageRank Technology: PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.

PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page’s importance.

As such, it would seem that the link love from blogs with higher PR would benefit your SEO efforts more, although it’s also affected by factors like how many links are on the page, the relevance of that page’s content to your blog, etc. There are too many factors involved, just of those we know of, to try and formulate an exact listing, so only use PR as part of your own guidelines when considering your blog commenting strategies…

And finally, remember that every blogger on this list is a professional Internet marketer, affiliate marketer and/or blogger. You’re only hurting yourself if you try to post spam comments to try for the backlinks – not one of these blogs approves comments automatically, so your comment will be evaluated before being accepted or rejected – or marked as spam.

Besides, you’re hoping some of their readers will click through and visit your blog too, right? So make sure your comments are relevant and helpful – no other course of action will bring you traffic from people reading such professional blogs.

Start formulating your plans now to visit and read these 20 blogs regularly in 2010 – they’ll certainly add a LOT to our Internet marketing, affiliate marketing and blogging education!

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Best Blog Installation Software Is Free!

Feb 28, 2009 in Alex Sysoef, Expert WordPress, Instant Free Access, Internet Marketing, Work At Home, affiliate marketing, blog resources, blogging, blogs, free downloads, free resources, getting blog traffic, make money blogging, making money online, niche marketing, niche marketing resources, online marketing, online success, online success kit, succeeding online, training packages

It’s not often that the best software in any given area of Internet Marketing is free, but Alex Sysoef of Expert WordPress has certainly raised the bar on free software – his WordPress Blog Installation software is amazing, and he’s letting you download it for free!

Free WordPress Blog Installation Software

With WordPress blog installer services running from about $50 to $4,000 online, as I watched Alex develop the Expert WordPress software, I expected the basic version to go for about $197, with the upgrade running to $497 or $997 – and knew that Expert WordPress would still be a bargain at those prices.

You see, this incredible software means you no longer need ANY technical knowledge to install secure, professional WordPress blogs – it even installs the best plugins for you. And all in three easy steps. And with the upgraded version, you can even offer a service to others, installing their blogs for them.

So you can imagine my surprise when Alex decided to let people have the basic version of Expert WordPress for FREE – and offers them the upgraded version for a low monthly rate. I mean, this is unheard of for software this powerful – especially since blogs are the single most powerful promotional tool online today for Internet marketers, affiliate marketers, niche marketers or any other work-at-home enterprises that involve running a business or promoting a business online.

Now even a complete newbie can install their own professional blog, complete with the top SEO plugins, completely for free, without having to learn cPanel, MySQL, databases, installing plugins or any of the other requirements normally associated with installing WordPress blogs.

This is the first true must-have Internet marketing software for 2009 – and it’s yours for free if you download it now… Can you think of any reason NOT to use Alex Sysoef’s Expert WordPress software in YOUR Internet marketing business?

I didn’t think so… ;) Download your copy and get your marketing and niche blogs going today, before Alex comes to his senses and stops giving away such powerful software for free!

To Your Success,

Doug Champigny,
author, Becoming A Blogging Pro!

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Internet Marketing 2009 – Your Quick-Start Guide

Jan 02, 2009 in Doug Champigny, Internet Marketing, Work At Home, affiliate marketing, affiliate marketing training, blogging, blogs, e-mail marketing, hosting, hosting for marketers, how-to videos, list building, make money blogging, making money online, online marketing, online success, opt-in list building, opt-in lists, professional webhosting, succeeding online, targeted traffic

Internet marketing is a great way to make money online – enough to boost your income, replace your offline job and join the work-at-home crowd, or get rich online – depending on the talents, resources, effort and perseverance you bring to the table. If you’re in our online family, you already know that – in fact if you’re reading Internet marketing blogs like this you already know that too. So your online business is already up and running, thriving, and constantly moving ahead, taking your profits into the stratosphere slowly but surely, right?

What? No Internet marketing business yet? No opt-in mailing lists? No blog? No salespages or squeeze pages online? Don’t feel bad – for every 100 people who know the power of Internet marketing, only 1 or 2 have done anything about it so far. Just decide that today is the day that all changes for you, that you’re about to get off your butt and actually DO something to improve your lot, to start building your Internet business, and to take those first few baby steps towards your own dream lifestyle!

In the next few days – say by the end of a week – you can be set up and ready to rock. That’s what this post is for – to show you what it takes to get up and started quickly. Surely you can stay motivated for a week, right? And when you see how far you’ve gotten in that one week, you’ll realize that it’s not a tough business – it just takes steady, focused action to start your online business and keep your Internet marketing profits growing year after year.

If you’ve read my previous two posts, on Starting An Online Business and Starting An Affiliate Marketing Business, then you already have some idea of what it takes to get started, so today I’ll focus on how to get there quickly…

Your Most Valuable Internet Marketing Resource

Right now, without the hesitation that held you back throughout 2008, get your account at Hosting4Marketers.com. This is far more than just some cheap webhosting, because…

  • You get enough hosting space for more than a dozen websites, blogs, salespages and squeeze pages – that’s worth more than $20 a month, right?

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  • You get unlimited professional autoresponders – you can set up an automated follow-up series for each niche you’re in, for your mainstream Internet marketing, and still have the ability to send out broadcast e-mails to any subset of your lists or to all your subscribers at any time – and no rising fees as your list size grows! (Some services start raising your rates with as few as 500 or 1,000 subscribers – sheesh!) That part’s worth more than $20 a month too, right?

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  • You get your own affiliate program. That’s right – you get a fully-featured affiliate program so others can sell your products for you too! Your products don’t even have to be hosted there, so if you already have some products or services online hosted elsewhere, you can still use this affiliate program with those products, without having to move any of your other sites. This part alone is worth a small fortune on it’s own, isn’t it?

OK – now maybe you’re seeing why we think Hosting4Marketers.com is our most valuable Internet marketing resource – and why it should be yours too. Easily worth $97 a month or more, I’m still surprised that they’ve kept it to just $20 a month – I’d still be using it at 10 times that cost! (But don’t tell them that! lol) Go ahead and get your Hosting, Autoresponders and Affiliate Program now – I’ll wait, but just don’t forget to come back and continue on…

Setting Up Your Internet Marketing Blog

Now that you have that account, let’s get you rolling – this video shows you how to set up a blog on your site there in under 5 minutes. No, I’m not kidding or exaggerating – just follow along with that video and you can set up an Internet marketing blog (or any other types of blog) in under 5 minutes. Don’t keep reading – go now and set up your blog. Then continue on here…

Setting Up Your Internet Marketing E-Zine

OK – next up is your autoresponder series – you can write your own, or use the Internet Marketing Newsletter In A Box, prewritten with a year’s worth of content for you. All you need to do is add your name as the author to each issue, and add links to your own products or to products you make affiliate commissions from. ClickBank & PayDotCom are two of the biggest sources of affiliate products to market, so sign up here for Free Updates of All New Products launching at ClickBank & PayDotCom – you’ll get an e-mail once a day showing you the new affiliate opportunities listed at both services that day – what could be simpler?

Building Your Opt-In Lists – Getting New Subscribers

Once even the first 7 – 10 issues are loaded up into your autoresponder, it’s time to get your first opt-in subscribers. Standard procedure in the Internet marketing field is to offer them a valuable gift for free just for trying your newsletter. Here’s two gifts you can have for trying our e-zine, and we even give you the squeeze page to use so you can give them away and build your own list too! Take a minute right now and download your Free Report and Squeeze Page and your Free List-Building Resource and Squeeze Page. You can get more Free Brandable E-Books To Give Away too, which carry YOUR affiliate links and let you build more affiliate commissions from those getting your reports, and those they give it away to too!

Building Targeted Traffic To Your Blog

Now return to your blog and write one good blog post for each of the three or four free gifts you just downloaded, linking each blog post to the URL where you put the squeeze page for that gift. Us the post to tell them about the gift, what it’s for and what it can do for them – 3-5 paragraphs will do for each post. Once you have them all done, go to Pingoat.com and announce your new blog to the world.

Set up a free account at each of Technorati and MyBlogLog.com and get your new blog listed with each of them there too. After that, set up an account at Twitter.com, interact with the community there for a while, and then invite them to your blog as well. Do the same with Internet Marketing forums and social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, OnlyWire, etc.

And there you have it – step by step you’ve built the core of your new Internet marketing & affiliate marketing business, in less than a week and for less than $100 total investment. And your only ongoing expense to this point is your $20 a month to Hosting4Marketers.com.

Keep posting relevant information to your blog, branding and offering more free e-books to those who sign up for your mailing list, and e-mail that list at least 3 times per week. Remember to hit Pingoat.com after each blog post to tell the directories about your new posts.

Most importantly, be sure to bookmark this blog and return to it regularly – I’ll be adding more and more tips on building your Internet marketing business throughout the year! To be sure you don’t miss any important updates, subscribe to my Internet Marketing RSS Feed if you have an RSS reader, and Follow Me On Twitter.

Congratulations on breaking through and actually starting your Internet Marketing Business – and welcome to making money online – hope to see you as part of the work-at-home community soon!

Doug Champigny.

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Win Gifts in the CommentLuv Contest!

Nov 11, 2008 in Carl Galletti's Internet Marketing SuperConference, Doug Champigny, IM SuperConference, Internet Marketing, Work At Home, blog resources, blogging, blogs, getting blog traffic, make money blogging, making money online, online marketing, online success, succeeding online, targeted traffic, targeted traffic expert Doug Champigny, web 2.0 targeted traffic expert

If you’re not using the DoFollow Plug-In and CommentLuv Plug-In on your blogs, you’re missing both a major draw to get targeted traffic coming to your blogs to post comments, and a fantastic way to make your blogs more interactive and user-friendly for your readers.

By enabling both plug-ins, you’re rewarding those who leave approved* comments on your blog by giving them both a link back to their blog’s main URL and a link to their latest post’s permalink, both of which can help in their SEO & PR quests.

When I spoke onstage as the reigning Web 2.0 Targeted Traffic Expert at Carl Galletti’s Internet Marketing SuperConference at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas in June 2008, I had yet to be introduced to CommentLuv. But it would have been a featured part of that presentation if I’d have already known about Andy Bailey & his marvellous bit of coding!

And to make it even better, as an incentive to get you using and supporting the blogs that use CommentLuv, they have announced a contest for the next couple of weeks. Want to win some cool prizes?

Here are the rules:

1. You must be registered at CommentLuv.com and have your site URL registered and verified.
2. You must complete your profile at CommentLuv.com.
3. You cannot spam – but as a reader of Internet Marketing with Doug Champigny, you never would anyway, right?
4. You do not need to have CommentLuv installed – but Do It!

How to win an instant prize:

- Start by leaving a relevant comment here – even if you don’t win, you’ll get both the links back to your blog and add points to your personal ‘Karma bank’.

- If you’ve won, your last blog post will come back with a prize notification attached.

- Click on it to get to the winners page. If you haven’t won yet, go back to their site and see the list of participating sites, and try again on another one.

For more info, see all the details in their CommentLuv Contest FAQ

Good Luck!

*Approved Comments: When you add the DoFollow tag to your blogs, unscrupulous types will try and autopost to your blog comments. I use the HashCash Plug-In to stop the auto-posters, and so far it works beautifully. Also, turn on the ‘All Comments Should Be Held For Moderation’ in your Admin Panel – that way you can stop silly comments like ‘Nice Post’, ‘Great Site’ or those with less-than-polite terms/comments/suggestions, and save your Luv for people who take the time to make real, intelligent & related comments about the issues in your blog posts.

Disclaimer: This contest is being run solely by CommentLuv. Doug Champigny & this site have no say in, influence nor control over any aspect of the event, including but not limited to their site, the contest, the selection of winners or the delivery of prizes. Please refer all enquiries to the CommentLuv Team via their website.

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Final Reminder & 4 Prelaunch Notices…

Nov 02, 2008 in Building Lists, Christmas Resources, Doug Champigny, Giveaway JVs, Internet Marketing, List Boosters, Work At Home, affiliate marketing, blog resources, blogging, blogs, free giveaways, making money online, niche marketing, online marketing, online success, opt-in list building, succeeding online, targeted traffic

Bookmark this post – it has a lot in it for you, and if you
can’t complete it all today you’ll want to finish it up
tomorrow or the next day…

First up, if you missed the report yesterday giving you
a list of 4,000 blogs with the do-follow for your comments,
grab it from http://TopTrafficTips.com/getting-backlinks/
while Rick still has it online. If you’re not sure why you
need it, see the Top Traffic Tips Blog.  

Second, Tuesday marks the end of the Halloween Giveaway;
If you haven’t downloaded your free gifts yet, head over to
the Halloween Giveaway now to grab yours
before you miss out!

What’s coming up:

Tomorrow the big PLR videos go online, with just 500
copies available. This is a collection of 8 sets of videos
you’ll want to both watch and resell. Watch the videos at the
PLR Videos Web Site today so you know
what’s there…

Two more list-building giveaways for you to use to
build your list before the end of 2008 – remember, a
bigger list is the very best way to boost your results
in 2009…

Thanksgiving Giveaway – Nov 17-27th  

Santa’s Big Giveaway -Nov 20 – Dec 31st

You have 2 weeks before these launch – be sure to
get in and start sending out your links to them now.
You’ll have a couple of weeks to get your gift ready,
but others are starting to push these already, so be
sure to get to your lists and blog readers before
they do!

Empowering YOU & Helping You Do Fine In 2009…

Doug Champigny
Champigny Christmas PLR Pack

PS – Make no mistake about it – more visitors and a
bigger list are your keys to an ever-increasing result
from your online efforts. Build both now, using the
Do-Follow Tag Blog List report
and the two new giveaways above.

Don’t expect better results in 2009 than this
year if you’re not building your list and getting
more visitors constantly!

Helping you succeed… DC.

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How ‘Plugged In’ Is Your Internet Marketing Blog?

Oct 02, 2008 in Carl Galletti's Internet Marketing SuperConference, Doug Champigny, Internet Marketing, blog resources, blogging, blogs, getting blog traffic, make money blogging, making money online, online marketing, online success, speaker Doug Champigny, succeeding online, targeted traffic, targeted traffic expert Doug Champigny, web 2.0 targeted traffic expert

As most people know, I was asked to share my Web 2.0 expertise in June ‘08 as a speaker at Carl Galletti’s Internet Marketing SuperConference. But even though I’m already a Web 2.0 Traffic Expert, there’s always more to do and always more to learn in this game…

Just a few minutes ago, my friend Willie Crawford pointed out a great new WordPress PlugIn called twitter-this. It makes that little button show up under this post that lets you twitter the link to your own twitter account – hit the button now and see how it works – don’t worry, I’ll wait… ;)

(You ARE following me at Twitter, right? And Willie Crawford? Hate to see you miss out on our 140-character pearls of wisdom… ;-) )

OK – you’ve tried the Twitter this button now and seen how it works, right? And you can see the Twitter badge in the sidebar that shows my last blog post, right? It’s linked to my Twitter account too (SuperAffil). So people see my latest post, and can click through if it’s of interest to them.

Now to tie it all together, hit the button in the sidebar for Tweet My Blog. Once you install that little beauty, your blog will autopost your post headline & a link to your posting each time you blog.

So now you have Twitter driving traffic to your blog posts, your blog driving people to your Twitter account, and have made it easy for other people to add your blog posts to their Twitter postings. This can help build your blog traffic and your followers at Twitter, which again results in increased web traffic.

Now for the ‘piece de resistance‘, hook your Twitter into your MyBlogLog account as well. (It’s in the sidebar here too – the one with all those smiling faces on it. :) )

Now your Blog post automatically gets added to your Twitter postings, with a link to it, and that Twitter posting is picked up by MyBlogLog and added to your postings there. So now your one posting gets added to your Twitter and MyBlogLog, and your Twitter gets added to MyBlogLog too – and all with no more effort than you’re using right now to post to your blog!

Pretty silly not to put in the 10 minutes work now to get this all set up, and help turn your blog into a traffic-generating machine, isn’t it? After this initial 10 minute spurt of energy, the benefits continue while you’re back to just posting and moving on – truly set-and-forget.

Gotta love that Willie guy! :) Thanks for that one missing piece that let me set up this system, Willie!

Got yours all set up? Well, whatcha waitin’ for, then? Scroll up and DO it! Now!

Then stop by Twitter & say ‘Hey’ to Willie for me, ok?

To your Internet marketing success…

Doug Champigny,
Massive Traffic Bootcamp
Traffic Generation Explosion Videos

PS – If you want to see more on Web 2.0 Traffic Generation tactics and techniques, leave a comment and let me know, ok?

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