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Its Election time here in Australia! By the end of the day we will find out if Prime Minister John Howard will be replaced by Labor Leader Kevin Rudd. My wife is close to giving birth so I’ll be a first time Dad soon.

In this weeks internet marketing and blogging news…

It seems like every week there is a new make money product that you just have to get. Trust me, I have fallen in this trap over and over again. I bought products specifically to learn and get to know what’s the mindset behind the product and if it can actually help me with my own online business. Some of them help me and 90 % do not. If you really want to learn about launching your product the right way. I highly recommend buying his Product Launch Formula that has instantly created hundreds of millionaires by the process he put together Launch plans. I have bought it myself and will be using it in the near future.

Enough about my ramblings. Here are some great links this week:

I actually put together a list of Social Bookmarking sites that I use a month or two ago, Marco put together 30 sites that can help you drive traffic to your blog. http://www.marcorichter.net/blog-traffic/30-social-bookmarking-sites-you-need-to-know.html

Its great to be blogged about from Top bloggers. If you go back to my last five posts, I managed to interview great bloggers… Thanks Michael! http://www.michaelmartine.com/2007/11/23/michael-martine-blogger-interview-by-carlo/

Its a mystery to me on who I should link my blog too. This post helps you decide who to link to. http://blog.seoptimise.com/2007/11/how-to-decide-who-to-link-to.html

One of the Authority bloggers, Chris explains what is an Authority… I will be interviewing him also soon… http://www.chrisg.com/what-is-authority/

To top it off, my good friend Aurelius had a great post about getting your business going. http://www.aureliustjin.com/self-improvement/idea-overload

Have a great Saturday! belated Happy Thanks Giving to those who are celebrating it!!

Cheers, Carlo Selorio

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I’ve had an interesting week with the amount of traffic I’ve been receiving. It actually slowed down my server a fair bit… hey I’m not complaining.

Blogging has been very fruitful for me in regards to meeting and networking with all the great minds in the blogosphere. There some great aussie’s that are dominating the How to blogs like of Darren Rowse and Yaro Starak. Once again, I’ve stumbled on some great blog post… Enjoy the Saturday reading.

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Learn how to earn online without selling text links from Search Engine Journal.

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-earn-revenue-without-selling-links/5978/

Sherman Hu provides a video with facts about business owners wanting to use videos…. http://www.shermanlive.com/2007/11/16/fact-majority-of-business-owners-want-to-use-video-but-are-confused-with-how-to-get-started/

Alex explain in finer details on how to design a wordpress blog. http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/wordpress/howto-design-wordpress-blog-to-survive-the-digg

Maki blogs about Social Media Marketing… http://www.doshdosh.com/social-media-marketing-in-a-nutshell/

Carl grills Dean Hunt about Buzz Marketing. http://www.carlocab.com/dean-hunt-interview/

Have a great Saturday!

Cheers, Carlo Selorio

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I’ve been constantly blogging and driving traffic to my blog on a consistent basis for the past three to four months using Social Marketing as my main source traffic, since I don’t have the funds to really pay for traffic. This month alone, I’ve already surpassed the 100,000 Hits this month which I didn’t even reach last month. As the saying goes if you build it, they will come has been a true statement for my small success in the blogging so far.

As long as you test and track your traffic, you can identify which sites you need to concentrate more than the others. For me, now that I’ve got solid numbers I know which Social Networking sites that drive constant stream of income. I actually got my first consulting client now and I’m helping to formulate a plan that will enable them to drive free traffic without paying a cent. If you know results coach Anthony Robbins, he has a mantra he uses - Constant Never Ending Improvement as part his success. I’ve also adopted this philosophy going forward with my own business. For those you that have started tapping into Social Networking, I finally found another site that has already started making noise in the Blogging Community.

Introducing: BloggingZoom.com

BloggingZoom was created by two internet marketing/SEO experts, Courtney Tuttle and Vic F(You can read more why it will be a mainstream assassin here.) The site is like a comparison to Digg for Bloggers. I’ve read all the success stories of BloggingZoom, right now I’m still in the testing phase and I’ll give you all my results in a few weeks time. I’m a big fan of Courtney with this tips and tricks with making money online and blog traffic generation. I know that they will do whatever it takes to help you succeed. As I start using bloggingzoom I highly encourage you to do the same. I’m actually going to interview Courtney so look out for my interview in the next few weeks.

To your Blogging Success,

Carlo Selorio

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Ok, I’ve been blogging a lot about Driving Free Traffic to your blogs lately via Social Media Marketing. I went back to reviewing Traffic Secrets by John Reese and checked out what still works and what doesn’t…

From what my subscribers tell me, one of the toughest and most asked questions is how to get traffic to your site. Their are free methods to drive traffic to your site if you go about it the right way. traffic is the lifeblood of your web site and if you don’t get enough traffic to the site it will die a slow painful death and we don’t want that to happen do we. Here are some that you can still use and still work.

Many great free methods to drive traffic to your site is out their. Let’s go over some of these traffic generating ideas so you can have a better grasp of what you need to do.

One of the more popular ways are through traffic exchange programs. These programs are widely used by people with various success. Many times it depends on alot of different factors that you have no control over. The best part about traffic exchanges is you will get some free traffic to your site which can only help.

Another free traffic method is using articles to drive it their. Writing articles and submitting to article directories will drive traffic to your site and it’s a great free way that people are using more today than ever before. The biggest advantage of this method is it keeps working as most of the articles are picked up by search engines and can stay on for years thus giving you traffic month after month.

Social network sites are the newest craze and a great way to drive traffic to your sites. Social networking is where you meet people like yourself and you can exchange ideas about growing your business. The best part about social networking is the relationships that are built through these organizations. These are great traffic builders for your business. I’ve been writing a lot about Social networks and I highly recommend you test and try it out for yourself. I already compiled a list of Social Media sites that you can use.

Using splash pages(some call it optin pages or flycatchers) and a free gift to drive traffic to your sites. A splash page is a fancy designed or even a generic page that let’s you give away a free gift in exchange for their email address and name. These pages can also redirect these customers to your web site once they sign up. Sure they may only sign up for the free gift, but you now have an email address to market to and their taken to your web site. You win twice in this method. Blogs is probably the hottest thing right now in Internet marketing and it gives you a way to get tons of free traffic to your site in various ways.

You can also use blogs like this one your reading, I know a lot of people who use blogs to drive free traffic to their sales pages. Since you don’t really update your one page salesletter(unless you constantly test different headlines and update it) then having a blog assures that you continue to update your site and in return the Search Engines love you.

Some free traffic methods that still work well, but have been overlooked are free classified ads. Free classified ads are still used on the Internet and contrary to popular belief they do work. People visit them and actually see what people have to offer. Classified ads don’t pull like they once did, but don’t kid yourself they are still a valuable resource. I’ve saved the last two as they are my favorite.

Signature files are usually what is attached below your signature be it in an email or a post on the Internet. These signature files will get clicked on and free traffic is the result from them.

The last and in my opinion one of the best ways is to visit lots of forums. Forums let you create a signature file and most will let you post free ads to drive even more traffic to your web site. Each day new forums are put up and it doesn’t look like that will stop anytime soon. Forums are one of the best free traffic methods that exist today.

As I always say, test and track it and see if it works for you and your business model. It really doesn’t hurt you if you hit a home run if it boost your traffic five percent here or ten percent there. It all adds up in the long run.

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Here are the Social Bookmarking Sites that I use to drive traffic to my blog by submitting my posts and articles.

If you create quality/authoritative content that will help and benefit your readers, these sites will definitely reward you by flooding your site with more visitors that you can ever imagine.

1. Digg

2. StumbleUpon

3. Propeller(Formerly know as Netscape)

4. Shoutwire

5. del.icio.us

6. Reddit

7. Sphinn

8. plugIM

9. Marktd

10. Onlywire -When Submitting to Onlywire, it automatically submits your content to twenty two social bookmarking sites. (Backflip, Bibsonomy, Blinklist, Blogmemes, Blue Dot, De.lirio.us, Del.icio.us, Diigo, Excites, Furl, Linkatopia, Linkroll, mag.nolia, Markaboo, Rawsugar, Shadows, Simpy, Spurl, unalog, Wink, xilinus)

11. Bumpzee

12. Simpy

13. Newsvine

14. Squidoo

15. Hubpages

What You Need to Do:

• You need to join in each Social Networking site and read the rules on what to do with submitting your blog post or content.

• You must participate by rating other members community for example, Digg other members content or give other sites a thumbs up with Stumble Upon, as long as you participate, other will reciprocate with what you do and return the favor.

• Provide content that will help benefit other users, by doing this you will start a viral effect with your articles… as long as its interesting, controversial, Buzz worthy.

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