WPSyndicator Instant Backlinks

This video shows how to setup and use the WPSyndicator plugin to automatically syndicate your blog posts to 15 social bookmarking sites to get instant backlinks and free traffic whenever you make a post to your blog.

You can grab a copy of the plugin here – WPSyndicator

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How To Cloak Your Affiliate Links

I’ve recently been reviewing some of my subscribers blogs and one of the main things that cropped up more than once is uncloaked affiliate links.

One of the biggest problems with uncloaked affiliate links used to be Clickbank “hoplinks” as it is very easy to see the clickbank “nickname” being used and replace it, sothe referring affiliate ends up not getting credited for the commission, sometimes referred to as “hoplink hijacking”.

Now thsi shouldn’t be as big a problem any more as Clickbank now offer “cloacked” links, instead of the traditional nickname.productname.hop.clickank_dot_net format that it used to be.

However I still recommend using a simple html redirect file on your own site for all affiliate links for a number of reasons, most importantly being that they don’t look so obviously “affiliate” (or monetized) links, but also if you need to change the program you are promoting you can simply change the one file on your own site and anywhere that you have used that link is also effectively updated…

I mentioned sometime ago that I was going test out one or two CPA ad networks, including NeverBlue.

Unfortunately I kinda lost track of that test and only got around to re-visiting it in the last couple of weeks.

the good news is that it’s been a “minor” success…

just over 10 days ago I picked a couple of CPA offers from NeverBlue that looked suitable for a couple of my test blogs, one in the “Dating & Romance” niche and one in the “Autos” niche.

Here’s the stats for the last 10 days: -

NeverBlue CPA Ads

now here’s the important bit, the two blogs in question are both less than 3 months old and only have content being posted to them from the UniqueArticlesWizard.com plugin, so they’re “hands free” blogs for me.

I’ve finally added my themes to the BlogTactics Themes page, you can grab them here: -

Custom WP Blog Themes

I’ve also started posting a series of videos on how to use them, although I need to re-do a few of them for the latest version of WP, which may take a few days..

http://BlogTactics.com

and don’t forget to check out the Brute Force SEO $1 trial offer while it’s still available: -

Brute Force SEO

just a quick note to say I’ve found a neat free tool that allows you to quickly and easily add videos to your website or blog as some extra content.

You can target the videos to your chosen keywords to keep it highly relevant for your visitors as well, to help keep visitors on your site longer.

I’ve made a quick video showing how it works: -

and you can grab the software for it here: -

http://www.Video-Stacker.com/

With my house move and divorce finally out of the way, I can get back to doing some product tests again, the only problem now is I’ve got a pretty big backlog of stuff to test out, so I thought I’d start with an RSS submission tool that will submit your rss feed to 20 of the best rss sites to get more backlinks and visitors.

You can check out the tool itself here:

BadAssRSS

It’s from a guy called Peter Drew who has an excellent reputation for providing top notch tools that do some pretty cool stuff.

It’s also a real easy tool to use, although it does take a few minutes to get the accounts you need set up, but then it’s just a case of popping in your rss feed url and a “keyword/phrase” and hitting go.

I added Peelaway Ads to quite a few of my blogs a couple of months ago to test them out and see how well the perform.

Today I’ve started removing them from all my blogs…

Over the test period of 2+ months the ads have resulted in exactly 2 sales, which is pretty poor considering the amount of traffic that the blogs they were on get in total, but that’s not actually the main reason for removing them.

I’ve had several emails that the peelaway would get “stuck” and not peel back, and it seems there’s also some incompatibility issues with the FireFox browser where the peel away ad can stop the “Recent Posts” and other links from working.

Not making many sales is something that I could potentially address with different product offers and new graphics to “catch the eye” of visitors, but causing problem for visitors to my blogs, resulting in them leaving the blog, is simply unacceptable, so I’m dumping them.

As I’ve just done a video to show how to add the RealTraffic exchange ads to your blog for my BlogTactics.com readers, I also had the chance to check my stats for RealTraffic Exchange and I’m very pleased with the results..

On most of my blogs I’m getting a CTR of over 1%, showing that the ads are relevant.

Now you may be thinking that this is not good, as it means people are clicking on those adverts and leaving my blog, well that’s true, but I look at it on the basis that those people would probably have left my blog anyway, so if I can provide them with something useful to go look at, then I’m helping them out and creating “good will”.

so “WIIFM” (what’s in it for me)?