Well, this may not be blackhat but it’s definitely gray.

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The key to successful blogging that I’ve been mentioning lately is focused dedication and continually writing new content. You may notice that I don’t always post new content every day to this blog, although I do try to. A lot of the content I create, I use on article sites, squidoo, hubpages, etc.

This is an easy quick way to churn out articles with reckless abandon:

1. Purchase Dragon Naturally Speaking, or find an alternative speech to text program.

2. Google the topic that you want to write about, or visit goarticles.com and search articles there.

3. Launch Dragon NaturallySpeaking and rewrite the article on the fly by putting the article into your own words. Most people can speak faster than they can type and this is a much faster way to write articles.

Please note that the key here is to make the article look different and not duplicate as far as the search engines are aware. It’s also to save you from any copyright issues.

How you make money with this technique:

Well you could post it to your blog and make money off your blog’s advertising, OR you can post your new article to squidoo, hubpages, associated content, helium, or any other site that pays for articles.

If you do it right you could potentially write 5-10 posts in an hour, if you submit these to Associated content as exclusive posts you could earn as much as $5 per post, plus an additional $1.50 per 1000 pageviews. In essence that’s $25-50 for an hour of work!

Let me know if you’ve had success with this technique!

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6 Techniques to get more RSS Subscribers to your Blog!

1. Comment on someone’s blog who has as many or nearly as many subscribers as you do - Tell them you’ve subscribed to their blog. They may reciprocate - a lot will.

2. Ask your Readers to subscribe. Make it easy and blatant. If people see links asking to subscribe all over the place then they’re more likely to subscribe.

3. Write Guest Posts for other Bloggers. This is a great way to get new subscribers - instead of puting your link in your bio, put a link to your feed url.

4. Bribes are always welcome. Offer something nice to your readers if they subscribe to your blog. This is always a good method to get new RSS readers.

5. Build your network, and then ask your network periodically to subscribe to your rss feed.

6. Start Podcasting. Podcasts are great ways to get more traffic, and get the word out about your blog. It’s also a great way to get new rss subscribers.

These are just a few methods - what’s your favorite method of bringing in new subscribers?

PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait… wait… C: wait… SD: wait…

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Poll: Which matters most to a profitable blog - Quantity or Quality?

My Answer:

I believe that both are important. Don’t just publish a crap post to get traffic, but not all posts have to be perfect either. Also the more you post the more traffic you will get. Look at all the big dogs like techcrunch you can expect 10+ posts per day from them.

I’ve written quite a few google trends targeted blog posts, I usually do these more as an exploration exercise than anything else. In otherwords, I am experimenting with ways to use google trends to increase search engine traffic.

My results are pretty astounding. My number 1 source of traffic was Twitter” rel=”homepage” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview (’/outbound/www.twitter.com’);”>Twitter, and now it’s Google. My traffic shot up from less than 100 hits per day to an average of 1,000+ (on days that I blog).

My formula is this: My goal and guideline is to write 40% good high quality articles(not necessarily a pillar article, but informative nonetheless), 20% affiliate articles to pay the bills, 25% Targeted at Google trends, and 15% for top notch pillar articles which I try to get dugg / stumbled.

This strategy is working pretty well for me - but I am very interested in your opinions. What are your posting tactics?

Lets have a discussion!

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Using Google” rel=”crunchbase” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview (’/outbound/www.crunchbase.com’);”>google trends to increase traffic…

Using google trends is pretty easy and straight forward, it’s also a great way to find new niches for new blogs and topic web sites.

1. First thing you want to do is go to google trends.
2. Next you’re gonna want to click on ‘More Hot Trends’ on the bottom right. This will give you a huge list of 100 hot trends.
3. Next you’re going to want to choose which trends to blog about, I think it may be best to only pick no more than 5, 2-3 per day should be good enough.
4. You can click on each trend to bring up a side by side google and google blog search on the topic, you can go to the blogs and just rephrase what they say, don’t copy and it’s best if you use more than one source.
5. When writing your post make sure you use the exact trend phrase that they give on the trends page. This is the keyword that you will want to get ranked for. You want to use it in your title, in a heading(h2 or h1) and at lease 4-5 times in the body of your blog post.
6. Be sure to link out to other blogs on the same topic, as you will get pingbacks and that will increase your rank.
7. A good tool I use to help me when blogging is called Zemanta and it makes it easy as pie to include related articles, and images.
8. On posts that you make on google trends that aren’t related to your blog, be sure to put up a disclaimer explaining what your blog really is about and giving people a method to subscribe easily - this is a good way to build future traffic to your blog, I’m sure many who visit will share some of the same interests that you do and will be interested in hearing more about them…
9. Don’t over do things, don’t do this everday, and don’t make it the only thing you do…This is a nice way to bring in some fresh traffic and increase your money however it’s not a great way to run a successful blog - use it sparingly and just as a tool in your arsenal, for example I’m planning on doing it one day per week, starting next week. I will keep posting updates on my successes and failures using this tip.

Follow these easy tips and I’m sure you’ll be successful using Google Trends to bring in more traffic.

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Alright - I’m a big fan of Ghost Hunters - the show on Scifi every wednesday evening. I like it mostly because they have real encounters even though they are trying their hardest to debunk / disprove that anything paranormal exists.

Being a fan, I have to admit I rushed out and bought a digital recorder to do my own EVPs.

So far I haven’t had much success. I’m hoping to get a night vision camera, and an emf detector to help find the ghosts.

Maybe I’m crazy - but this just sounds like fun. I must say though I did go to a supposedly haunted location, I wasn’t alone - but having not seen a ghost personally yet - I’m afraid what might happen when I do. I can be a bit of a scaredy cat from time to time…

My question is - how many ghost hunter fans - have actually gone out and bought any kind of equipment - and / or gone ghost hunting themeselve.

If you have gone Ghost Hunting let me know if you’ve had any kind of success.  I’m quite interested in this field, not necessarily as a profession, but as a hobbyiest.

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