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TNX - pronounced ‘thanx’, as in sms texting language is an up and coming Text-Link Exchange marketplace.

The premise behind TNX is that by increasing the amount of ‘quality’ links coming into your website, you will also increase your search engine rankings, and thus get more traffic.

It’s a good practice when using services like these not to disclose the fact that you are using them as google frowns at the practice. As a rebellious blogger though and not a fan of being told what I can / can’t do - I recommend giving them a try - both as a monetary source as well as a source for more traffic.

One thing I like is that they have a market where you can buy / sell / trade TNX points - you could also give them away in contests and what not. It’s like a liquid commodity, and personally I like them a lot better than Text-Link-Ads.

They do offer full-control over what kind of links are placed on your site, as well as what kind of sites your links show up on.

If you’re looking for an affordable method of ranking higher in google and a new way to make some money online go ahead and give TNX links a try - and when you’re done swing on over and let me know how well they’re working for you - I would also like some tips to share here on how to use them more effectively if you have any - feel free to leave a comment.

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Hirosito is an interesting word. Why am I blogging about Hirosito?

Tonight I was searching for niche keywords. I’m a big fan of the tv sitcom heroes,  so I put heroes into my webceo, under the ‘get suggestions’ tab. What I’m looking for are good niches with a high KEI.

Heroes yeilded Nada. After heroes, I tried the word “hero”. Still nothing. My favorite character on the sitcom is Hiro Nakamura. So the next term I put in was Hiro with an “i”.

I was flabbergasted when it pulled up the term: Hirosito.

I had no clue what Hirosito means but the kei is: 9,501,221.183. This is huge it’s the largest find I’ve ever found. Of course my blogging about Hirosito may create an influx of competition for this word, but I’m curious to see what may happen if I can rank in the top 10 for Hirosito.

According to webceo there are about 234,215 searches for Hirosito daily, however there’s only 5,770 competing websites.

I’m not the first to capitalize on this term obviously. According to hirosito.info - hirosito means internet marketing or seo. Someone who practices hirosito is an expert internet marketer.  Because I found it while using “Niche Marketing”, I personally am going to use it to mean Niche Marketing.

In the spirit of that, I am going to replace ‘niche marketing’ with the term hirosito, in future blog posts,  as an experiment in seo. Of course some believe hirosito, may actually mean HI, Rosito, which is definitely a possibility. Anyway you look at it, it is a cool word.

What are your opinions on Hirosito? Do you know any other meaning for Hirosito?

Want to help my hirosito experiment be a success? Blog about it, and link to this post.

One side note, my wife says Hirosito is a name, and that could certainly be the case, but it is a cool niche search anomaly.

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As I mentioned in my post earlier today about “16 Ways To bring your Blog Back To Life“, one of my tips was to comment as often as possible.

Commenting on other blogs needs to be a huge part of your daily blogging career. Here are some power tips to make the most of your commenting, in the least amount of time.

1. Download and install Comment Kahuna, this software is amazing. It lets you search for blog posts with certain keywords, you can choose which platform, and you can also search blogs that have ‘nofollow’ removed, which means that each comment you submit will carry some good SEO juice.

2. Make sure you have at least 5 pillar posts. Many people make the big mistake of linking to their main page when submitting comments, this does bring traffic and seo power, but there’s an even better way.

3. Create a profile for each pillar article in Comment Kahuna. For your blog link - link directly to that post. For your name - instead of using your name, use some keywords relating to the blog post.

4. Do a search for the major keywords relating to your blog, I usually like to find blogs with at least a pr2 or above, comment kahuna has the option to let you refine your search as such.

5. Read or scan each post that you submit comments on, find 1-2 things that you can: expand on, ask questions about, answer questions on etc.. In other words provide a unique comment that contributes to the bloggers community. Make sure it’s relevant, and pertinent to the topic at hand.

6. Schedule time daily to do your commenting, if you do it everyday for just least 20 minutes a day you will see a huge improvement in just a few months.  You will see more search engine traffic, and higher search engine rankings. 

Now, you might ask the question, is this spamming?

My answer is: No.

First off you’re providing a response / comment that relates to the blog post. Secondly, each comment is unique and not submitted automatically by a bot.

This is just smart marketing and to be successful online you need to work smarter, not harder!

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In Phase 1 of this project we had people submit their top 3 Pillar Articles. I’ve chosen my favorites out of what was submitted.

This is Phase 2. In Phase 2 we will create a blog post - linking to ALL of the top pillar articles.

Rules:

1. You must write a blog post that somehow uses all the keywords and makes sense - the most creative blog posts will be featured in phase 3. Be creative - and remember it can be a story, an anecdote, a true story, a false story, it can be a sci-fi story, a horror story, etc etc etc…
2. You MUST choose 2-3 keywords to link to that relate to each of the chosen pillar posts.
3. You MUST link EVERY pillar blog post on the list.
4. You MUST link back to this post, saying something similar to: “This post is part of Patrick’s April Blogging Project” - Please use your own wording for this link to really make an effect on SEO.
5. You must submit a link to your post in the comments section of this post.

The Most Creative and Interesting Posts will be part of phase 3.

If you can’t tell this is an experiment in DEEP Linking, for seo purposes.

ALL who participate will benefit with increased traffic, and search engine rankings - when I release Phase 3 of this experiment.

All Submissions must be submitted by May 1st.

Here are the Posts to link to:

• http://www.fuelinteractive.com/blog/2008/04/11-coolest-googletwitter-combo.cfm
• http://www.ultrarob.com/blog/2008/03/7-mountain-biking-confidence-killers.php
• http://jobmob.co.il/blog/beautiful-resume-ideas-that-work/
• http://jobmob.co.il/blog/funniest-short-job-descriptions-ever/
• http://successfool.com/creating-multiple-streams-of-income/
• http://successfool.com/what-is-twitter/
• http://wingdom1.blogspot.com/2008/04/will-you-make-up-your-mind.html
• http://homeofficewarrior.com/2008/04/04/if-a-blog-falls-in-the-forestwill-anyone-give-a-care/
• http://truthintaylor.blogspot.com/2007/09/its-content-stupid.html
• http://red66.com/2007/11/5-observations-on-the-state-of-digital-media/
• http://ninjakai.com/generic/the-war-of-the-friend-counts
• http://blog.uprinting.com/whats-new/the-happiest-brand-on-earth/
• http://evantravers.com/2008/04/what-is-flickr.html

I’d like to take a moment and say thanks to all those who submitted their pillar articles, if I didn’t choose your article it isn’t personal, these are just the ones that stood out the most. I am greatful that you took the time to view this site and follow my meanderings.

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Internal linking, is one of the given tools in an seo-masters’ toolbox.

Internal linking is essential for building pagerank, and adding umph to your search engine optimization.

Why Give Yourself some Link Love?

1. First off it helps your visitors find more useful information on your blog, and builds credibility and stickyness.

2. Robots, often count how many pages link to a page, even giving weight to links coming from your own domain. The more links the better, plus it gives them an easy way of finding the links.

What’s the Best Way to Build Internal Links?

You could easily keep a list of all your blog postings, and key in each link by hand. That of course would be the hard way, if you’re one of those bloggers, (And I know you’re reading this)… who like to invent the wheel, or do things the hardway, by all means, start manually linking up content.

For the rest of you, there’s a cool wordpress plugin that makes it easy. It’s called The aLinks plugin for Wordpress.

You can watch this cool video also about Self-Link’in or view it over at 45n5:

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Patrick Curl is the main Author of this blog.

Patrick has been inspired by many great bloggers, including the ones in his blogroll at the side. He believe’s wholeheartedly that a man who believes hard enough in his goal, works hard, and keeps a positive attitude, can achieve anything he sets out to do.

Many will argue that circumstance plays a big roll, but when you look at the greats(Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, The Wright Brothers, Leonardo Divinci, Michaelangelo, Galileo, even Jesus), they all came from different circumstances, some humble, some poor, some affluent, some had an easy life, some a harsh one. The thing that sticks out for them, the key to their success was their perserverence.

All of them failed many many times except one(at least by belief-system, as I’m a Christian - I of course allow you your own beliefs / opinions), the brilliant thing about each person, is that no matter how many times they experienced failure, they kept at it. No matter how hard things seemed, or how painful it got, they kept at it.

The key to being successful, is overcoming failure, in order to be successful you must be a failure first, we can’t learn to ride a bike without falling a few times first.

More about Patrick Curl:
Born: November, 14th 1979
AGE: 28.
Wife: Elka L. Curl(Boyter)
Schools: Utah College of Massage Therapy, Sinclair Community College, Kettering Fairmont High School.
Faith: LDS / aka Mormon. (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).

Political: I’d say Progressive, alas the Democrat party best fits my desires(My major issues: Universal Healthcare, Get out of Iraq, Less focus on rest of world more on building up our own society, also I believe congress shouldn’t be paid, and lobbying should be outlawed - as Congressmen are public servants and so are police, and if you bribe a cop you get in big trouble.)

Skills: Blogging, Marketing, Seo(Intermediate), PHP/MYSQL(Intermediate), CSS / HTML, Affiliate Marketing, Writing Business Plans, Massage Therapy(Including: Swedish Massage, Acupressure, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Cranial Sacral, Structural / Deep Tissue, Trigger Point, Hydrotherapy, Russian Massage, Injury Massage, etc..)

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