Google Gift for 2009!

Ugh! They, yes Google..lowered my Page Rank down to a 1 from a 2! I guess I should be grateful it wasn't a 0 huh?! How about you?! How is your page rank?! My Alexa rank is better though..Is now about 400,000. Was at one point, 1 million, before I joined entrecard for social marketing and increasing my traffic to my blog! Linkreferral, an affilia marketing site, was who i used before and i never made one sale and only met other webmasters and online business owners there in the same boat as me! Who needs that!? I am also with easyhits4u but I don't notice any improvement with them. I go to different sites there daily too and supposedly they say I am getting traffic back but I find few people visit me from there or blogupp, another traffic inducing site! Again, for that, as I have written on before in my posts and on countless blogs and forums on the net, your best bet for increasing your traffic is to trade links with other sites and blogs you respect and frequent and post on the forums and these sites and blogs. Remember guys to ask these places and their webmasters to backlink to your page! Also please use keywords and Stumble anything you write on the web! Oh and don't forget to PING your blog so people know when you update it!

What we all need more than just aimless traffic and entrecard droppers who stay but 5 secs and go on to the next blog for nothing more than to do their dropping quota, so they are in the topspots on Entrecard for advertising purposes..(man that was a mouthful!), but anyway...What we really need is loyal readers who backlink to our blogs and buy our art in my case and jewelry and use our services, in my case pet tips as I am a pet pro and health advice as I am an alternative health practitioner. Here's to your Health and Wealth this New Year, everybody!

Internet Tools For Your Blog: The Linkreferral Concept

Internet Tools For Your Blog: The Linkreferral Concept

Now my take on LInkreferral,lol..as I do believe other opinions are welcome and can be of benefit as opposed to this one by it's site owner,omg! ha!!

linkreferral sucks! I made no money and wasted my time, in the two years I was there and the members are mean and give bad reviews and act like kids in the forum,ugh! To top it off the site owner asks for money for credit on the referrals he get from having his link on our sites,outrageous! Most affiliate programs pay you for that privilege. Contrary to what he claims, one needs money from targeted not untargeted traffic as that is who buys our products and utilizes our services. Aimless hits only increase perhaps page rank but even that is no measure of a site's genuine popularity as evidenced by it's daily fluctuation. There is even some who have been penalized by Adsense for having linkreferral affiliation as is coercing the public to visit one's sites unnaturally! You be the judge tho,visit linkreferral and see what you think! As contrary to it's site's owner's opinion of me, I don't slander people's sites! He on the other hand offers a slanted view of linkreferral by writing articles on the hubpages,squidoo,social marketing sites like bloglog and blogspot, all singing his praises and erases comments that disagree with him! That is not accurate reporting which shows both sides of the story. He is like Oprah who only invited Obama and not McCain! MLM's, surveys and most affiliate programs claim to induce traffic and offer fast easy money but..we all know that the only real money out there is from a JOB where unfortunately you need to work,spend time at and don't make a lot after taxes! Anything on the net is a fluke and added creme to one's pudding but no promise of a regular check. Sorry, but I speak the truth.

The only good way I know of how to get traffic is by commenting in forums and on web sites and blogs like this one and exchanging links with reputable web sites and other blogs! Google wants quality backlinks not junk and that is all link exchanges and viral programs like linkreferral offer. Who wants someone visiting for 5 seconds?! I'll take a buyer any day over that and if you too want this you will be best served by avoiding Linkreferral and other link exchanges as they quite simply SUCK!

-Artzstuf
http://freewebs.com/annspets4

How do I get more traffic to my web site?!

(As appeared in LR,Linkreferral forum yesterday..)


Well you could have good content on your site for starters! If you have a page with good info on it that is of interest to the general population then it will get hits. If it caters to a more specific part of the public like say Britney Spears fans then you may only get people say in their teens and twenties who enjoy Britney! It is best to gear yourself to a wider audience in my humble opinion. On my site for instance, I deal with health. Then I get more specific and say alternative including aromatherapy. I offer a store and sell hand made soy based soap and candles and healing arts namely chakra jewelry and water color paintings of land scapes. Chakra means energy or chi,Qi in chinese. REiki is energy work for your body. We also offer meditation, feng shui, weight loss tips...In this way, you can see how you can target the general population and then hone in on more specifically the market you want to attract. More