WP Auction is a wordpress plugin that allows the blog owners to start his own auction inwp-auction.gif his own blog and keep all the profits to himself.

 

Many of us are familiar with e-bay or at least know of its existence. Some of us have even tried list our products on e-bay portal and make some profits before. Of course, there are some who are scammed by defaulters while others may even have a close encounter with an international scam.

There is now a new way to list your products in your own blog with a number of advantages:

  • There is no listing fee and no re-listing fee;
  • There is no need to pay a final sale fee;
  • There is no need to pay any gallery images fee;
  • You can keep all the profit;
  • There is no fee at ALL!

WP Auction, a wordpress plugin let you run your own auction with a customized widget. The whole auction can be set up by a few clicks.

 


My post yesterday was about Anchor Posts, about writing some excellent flagship content in a series of posts so as to immediately define your blog’s uniqueness. Now, a good blog is as good the number of visitors and repeated daily visitors. Otherwise, it will be like the world biggest diamond hidden somewhere in the vast desert somewhere deep down in earth where no one seems to be able to find it. Well, I am not elevating my blog to that status of a rare gem, but the idea is to have traffic to my blog. I stumble upon this interesting idea of linkbaiting. Matthew the creator of this linkbait got this creative idea attending a forum when one member asked the others this question “How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In A Fight?” Immediately he could sense that he had something that could produce viral effect. He whipped up some questionnaires, designed some graphic and submitted to all major social media websites. The result was this interesting linkbait website: www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com Shortly after that his site received more than 500,000 page views per day and even after two months later has 20,000 page views per day. A google search on this key phrase produces more than 2.5 millions pages only conclude the popularity of his creative website, which incidentally was created by borrowing the idea from someone else. My score is well below par perhaps because I have been known to be kind and gentle with children (any irony here?) Try out yours before you comment, won’t you? :-)

This is the kind of linkbait one can create to bring traffics to your blog - controversial, morbid, even funny and for mild person like me, I saw it as a practical joke.  One thing that he did cleverly was to get his readers opinions by participating in some questionnaires, a surefire way to get people involved and ensure the viral effect.  Matthew is now well known in the blogosphere!

Anchor Posts

Table of contents for Anchor Posts

  1. Anchor Posts

A few weeks back I received an email from Chris Garrett, of whose newsletter I am a proud subscriber. The email mentioned about flagship content of a blog and he provided a link for us to download his e-book on this all important topic, one that would propel your blog to greater popularity. The content of the e-book really hit the nail on the head. I was stunned as I looked seriously at my blog. To be exact, I was too embarrassed with this blog, that for over two weeks I didn’t know what to write. The question kept coming to my mind, nagging me to the hilt:”What’s my flagship content?” Meanwhile, two new shopping complexes just open for business in my city. With a population of just over 600,000 at last count, these two shopping complexes sure need an anchor tenant in their complexes to add as crowd-puller to keep them in business. In the ocean of websites and blogs, more so for me to have my unique flagship content to bring repeated visitors to my blog. I know I have an enormous task ahead of me, one that has worn me down quite a number of days.

Brian Clark called it Cornerstone Content and Chris Garrett called it Flagship Content. In his article, he also use the analogy of an Anchor Tenant in a mall with the Flagship Content of a blog. Some may choose to use the synonymous term of Keystone Content or Pillar Articles to mean the same thing, but I would like to called mine Anchor Posts. Whatever term you may call it, your blog must be known to the blogosphere with remarkable anchor posts that well define the uniqueness of your blog immediately. This post is then an endeavour in this learning curve to find my remarkable anchor posts. One wordpress plugin, in-series, would be used for linking all the related Anchor Posts in a series for easy reading.

There are number of blogs that can be term professional in discussion and description of this concept of writing Anchor Posts. My choice of references will be:

The email from Chris Garrett was an awakening. Maybe it is time for me to start defining my blog. From today onward, I will continue this journey of writing my Anchor Posts…


This post is written for me more so than for any other people.  While writing this post, I can feel a strong sense of emotion built up from within.  There is lump in my throat almost as if it will choke me any moment.  I know I want to make it in internet business success this year.   No more procrastination, no more excuses, no more tire-kicking frustration.  It must be straight work and consistency.  In actual fact, it is because of an email I received recently.  In this email, this guy enclosed an video in which this particular phrase was used.  That prompts me to use it as my post title.   Derek  Gehl of Internet Marketing Center is going to unveil on January 24, 2008 at 10 am a never-seen-before system that will send *shockwaves* through the Internet marketing world and most likely tick off his competitors…  And this is going to be an explosive POWERFUL, step-by-step turnkey Internet business that the potential for us to earn up to 5-figures or more income in as little as 90 days!

Now, this post is NOT written to promote his system.  and it is NOT written as a paid post.  No, no..  This post is written just because I am feeling emotional about it.  Perhaps because this is still the first month of the New Year and Chinese New Year has not passed yet, maybe it is the feeling of that New-Year-Must-Make-New-Resolutions, whatever.  I am hoping that this year 2008 will be my most profitable year ever!  Hopefully this positive vibe and energy will pass on to you.  May this be my journey as well as yours.


An email came in last few days with the header 10,658 visitors in 6 days which looked rather interesting and aroused my curiosity.  I didn’t have time to take a look then.  So today I got through my bookmark and take a serious look at it.  Here it says:

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That really arouse my curiosity.  After I bought the e-book and read the 27 pages, I believe that the author has the right to make his claim.  Prior to this, I have never heard of Hubpages.com.  Here I would like to tout about Hubpages and their credibility.  The Hubpages team consist of three guys out of Microsoft that were part of the successful startup of MongoMusic.  The team consists of Paul Edmundson, Jay Reitz and Paul Deeds.  The exciting thing about hubpages is that their share revenues with the content providers (that is us, the publishers).  And that’s not the main exciting thing.  Hubpages are now considered authority by google search engine!  Not only that, Yahoo and MSN are the other 2 gaint search engines treating hubpages are relevant and given authority status.  Moving into web 2.0 technology, hubpages should be the portal or platform we, as bloggers need to look into, with the important result being able to bring traffics to our blogs through their links.

See an example of a hub page appearing in the first page of google search here.  And if you like to get started on creating your hubpage, this is the link.


My Blog Reading Level

Leon of mythoughtsonstuff.com came visit my blog and left a comment which prompted me to visit his blog. This guy has a cool site and I stumbled upon this cute little widget. Upon testing of my blog’s reading level, this is what I get. Is it good, you tell me., but not until you check yours first. Hey, yours maybe primary level, ;-)

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While we are always enthusiastic about blogging a new product, some excellent marketing tools and strategies, the newest making-money-online program and touting the latest e-books or products, we may appear over shouting in our blogs and lost the basic of good blogging.  Now and then I would receive email that bring me back to the proper path. One email came in recently reminds me of the basic of blogging. I would love to use his gentle reminders by employing four key words. Essentially these four key words would determine whether you are reader-centric or ego-centric.

Money - Is your blog filled with loud audio, distracting animations and effect, with that loud-crying advertisement pointing at your readers’ face? If your readers feel that about your blog, then it is high time to look into your monetizing strategy. Your blog is suppose to provide some form of solutions to readers when they click in. Maybe it is high time to gently show how your readers can benefit themselves by your solutions, suggestions.

Ego - As a writer we have the tendency to be egoistic, or ego-centric. We have the control over what we want to write and therefore we may forget what the readers need, want or enjoy to hear. It is high time to give them what they want, write with them in your mind.

Promotion - There is no doubt that we need to promote our blog. However, I have come across some gurus advocating “spicy headlines” that invoke readers to click their posts or blogs. Some others employ sexy avatar pictures, women in scantly clad clothings as header images to entice subscribers and spike in traffic. I believe in the traditional way of promoting through ezine articles submission, pinging, exchanging of links, proper and sincere commenting on others’ blogs. These type of promotions maybe slow, but the effect will last if our take care of our contents, writing for the needs of our readers.

Widget - widgets are helpful but should never be too distracting. A clean blog is always a better blog than one crowded with too many widgets, too many animations and/or ads.

I write to remind myself. I write to allow my readers to critique my blog. I write to give my readers a happy reading and learning experience. Cheers to all my readers.

A young blogger’s choice:


Content Plagiarizers

One interesting wordpress plugin is the default Akismet plugin, which checks your comments you received for your posts daily against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.  When confirm, akismet plugin will show the number of spams and show on your blog if you activate this useful tool.  Judging from the number of spam I have since I started (656 to date), it would seem that I maybe quite “popular”.  Most of them are really spam, however, I was caught unaware with two of the recent comments. They were actually trapped by Akismet, but when I peruse the list, I thought that they should be genuine comments, in fact they have plagiarized my blog and stole it as one of their posts!

Content plagiarizers or blog scrapers as  Chris Garrett coined them, are becoming somewhat nuisance and annoying.  Chris even called them scrapers scum, to quote what he says:

A popular gripe of bloggers is the scraper scum. You know, the people who copy your content then slap ads around it or use it as search engine fodder so they can pimp their spam. It might be apparent that these gits annoy me too.

Chris’ recommendation is to install this plugin  WP_RssSticky  which works by adding copyright and download links into your RSS feeds and posts.  To quote what Chris says:

Why is this important? Well now when scrapers steal your content at least they will be linking back to you. The more they promote their copied and pasted spam, the more weight those backlinks will provide you. I’m hoping also it might hint to Google and co that your post is the original.

Maybe it is a blessing in disguise, I have two weighted back links to my blog!


Exclusive Niche Sites

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To quote what the people behind this Exclusive Niche Sites Program said:
“We’ve been consistently making money with Adsense and Affiliate Marketing for over 4 years and we’ve never stopped testing new techniques. We are going to spill the beans and give you the exact niche sites and resources we use every day.”
This is the claim from these group of experts who have consistently earned 5 figure income monthly from google adsense.
Formula One has been fiercely contested over the year, with the recently races distinctly fought between two rival groups, Ferrari and McLaren. Last year, the world was shock to learn that a set of Ferrari documentation (presumably the secret of Ferrari technology) was found in the now-suspended chief designer of McLaren, Mike Coughlan’s home. Apparently if there is a way to learn from the expert, the other camp would not hesitate to jump in though the consequence could spell disaster, which proved to be the case, as the court case is still going on. How is this related to today post? You may wonder, let me say that here it is, the expert in the field of earning from google adsense is ready to let you into their secret in this program, giving you full right to every thing they know! Wouldn’t you jump in, with full knowledge that there will not be any lawsuit coming after you?

These are some of the great features in the program:

SEO Keyword Article Management System
SEO Friendly RSS Feeds
Affiliate Product Placement
Easy Push-Button Updates
Add New Rotating Content With Ease
Edit and add articles in the admin interface
Keyword Article Management System

I can’t possibly list all the excellent features that this program has. Here is the link for you to take a good look at this program closely to see for yourself what I mean. In the mean time you can see my websites using this Exclusive Niche Sites Program.

25 Exclusive Adsense Ready Niche Sites


Taking A Break?

I think it’s high time I take a short break, and not talk about google adsense ready sites for today.  Ops…. I just did again.  I confess I shouldn’t talk about my google adsense ready sites anymore.  Maybe, I should just invite you over to my site to see for yourself my google adsense ready sites.  Sorry, sorry, I will not mention again my google adsense ready sites….. Ops, ops….blurrr……Well I am just drunk!

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Hey, life is good man, now that I have google adsense ready sites. ;-)


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