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If your up to date with Internet Marketing and Blogging, you might have witnessed one of the biggest social networking sites launched in the blogosphere.

Its called BlogRush created by John Reese and his team at Income.com.

Basically BlogRush is a Blogging Syndicating Network rewards users for using their network.

Most of the Internet Marketing community has been talking about it in their blogs and gurus have actually installed the widget to drive traffic and product related topic in your blog.

Here’s what some of the Blog experts have to say:

Jeremy at Shoemoney.com - Talks about Blog rush Starts with a Bang John Chow at JohnChow.com - Increase your blog traffic with BlogRush

Darren Rowse at Problogger.net - Talks about BlogRush Stats

Yaro Starak at Entrepreneurs-Journey.com - BlogRush - Will It Increase Your Blog Traffic?

Maki at DoshDosh.com - BlogRush Review: Using Widgets to get Traffic to your Blog

Mashable at Mashable.com - Created controversy with Blogrush: Traffic Generator or Pyramid Scheme?

Michael at MichaelMartine.com - Second thougts on Blogrush Here’s what the Internet Marketing Experts had to say:

Jack Humphrey from AuthoritySiteCenter - BlogRush Blog Widget

Mike Filsaime at MikeFilsaime.com - Blog Rush, Why John Reese got out of bed at 4am…

Terry Dean at TerryDean.org - Talked about BlogRush Review

And the list goes on… I’ve installed the Blogrush widget, I’m testing it out to see if I can get some free Traffic from it.

Try it for yourself, go to:

http://www.BlogRush.com and register.

Happy Testing!

To your Success,

Carlo Selorio

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Internet has finally found the best site to keep in contact with long lost friends and families with Facebook.

Why do I say this? I’m the actual proof with finally finding my close high school buddies and friends that I would not have thought of getting in touch after I moved to Sydney from Australia’s Capital, Canberra.

Is Facebook just a phase or is it a one stop shop to communication channel to everyone in the world, be it your friends, family, relationships or business? It took me over a year to join and I now have jumped in the bandwagon.

I actually tried to see if I can use Facebook to help me win a blogging competition that I entered. The results are in… With the power of the Facebook community I came first in a voting system thanks largely to putting my blog and links to a few friends and my whole facebook friends.

So what are you wating for come and join me… here’s a short instruction:

Create a profile on Facebook

Add me to your friends list: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=740822227 Invite other people to join

Join Different groups

play around with the different plugins and widgets

Have fun and let me know how you go with Facebook.

Cheers, Carlo Selorio

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I’ve been looking at different ways to drive traffic to my blog and enable me to increase my rankings in the blogosphere. I was reading a few articles about Technorati favorite exchange specifically from http://www.doshdosh.com and Jack Humphrey’s Friday Traffic Report.

What are the benefits of getting added as a favorite at Technorati? You can automatically get new found traffic from other bloggers audience. If you have a following of the guys like Darren Rowse of Problogger.com then you will definitely see traffic spikes.

So here’s my details:

Technorati favorite: http://www.technorati.com/blogs/www.carloselorio.com

Come and join me by replying and leaving your details at my comments page I’ll return the favor back at you.

Cheers and have a great day everyone!

Regards,

Carlo Selorio

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Guest post by Michael Martine, who does SEO work as well as all forms of site and blog consulting. Michael has been designing sites and blogs and advising people since 2000. SEO is just one of the topics he covers at Better Blogging with Michael Martine.

SEO, or search engine optimization, is often seen as a bit of an occult art. In many ways, it is more art than science. There are some SEO techniques that have a learning curve and require technical acumen to implement, but to begin with you can pay attention to these five important areas for simple but effective SEO.

1. Page file names
   It has been shown that the site URL doesn’t matter as much for SEO as page file names. A page called mens-watches.html is more likely to be in a search result for a search using the keywords “mens watches” than a page with the file name womens-swimwear.html. Google prefers word separators such as hyphens “-” or underscores “_” to no separators at all. Having said that, site URLs do matter: luxury-watches-now.com/mens-watches.html would be better than anythinggoes.com/mens-watches.html. Create page file names that are important keywords and keyword phrases.
   
2. Site subdomains and folder names
   If your site is, say, myaffiliatesalessystem.com, a subdomain would be something like adsensetips.myaffiliatesalessystem.com. Google really, really likes subdomains. It uses them in many of its own services such as Blogger and Google Pages. Site directories or folders can also be important in this regard, such as: myaffiliatesalessystem.com/adsensetips. The folder adsensetips has its own index.html page in it to act as a homepage for that folder. Note that these folders don’t have to be real folders on the web server. If you’re using WordPress, you never see a page extension appear in the browser’s address bar. All you see are virtual folders separated by slashes. WordPress sites have pretty good SEO “out of the box” (although it can and should be improved), and this is partly why. Create subdomains and folder names that are keywords and keyword phrases. Subdomains may be beyond the reach of an absolute beginner, but folders are easy to create when designing the structure of a website. If you’re using a blogging platform such as WordPress, your categories act like high-level folders.
   
3. Title tags
   A web page’s title appears in the title bar (or tab) of a web browser. Google places a tremendous amount of trust in the content of title tags and uses them in SERPs (search engine results pages). If you want to see how many ignorant people there are when it comes even the most basic user needs being met–let alone good SEO–then do a Google search for the phrase “intitle:untitled document”. Create title tags that contain keywords and keyword phrases, and eliminate redundancy in your title tags, such as the name of the site on pages after the home page. Or, at the very least, put the name of the site after the keyword-rich page name.
4. General page content
   The best advice you can follow for this is to create compelling content that people will want to consume, bookmark, share, and–most importantly of all–that causes them to convert. That is absolutely the most important thing you can do, period. To help it out a little bit, though, do be conscious of using several appropriate keywords in your text and variations of them. Don’t put text in images: it’s not crawlable by search engine spiders. Use structural markup such as headings, levels 1 and 2.
   
5. Link anchor text
   Link anchor text is the words of a hyperlink. In HTML, hyperlinks are called anchors. Creating a hyperlink by saying click here, where the words “click here” are the anchor text is not good SEO. Creating a hyperlink that uses search keywords in the anchor text is far more effective SEO. So if the link were to, oh… say home biodeisel kits, then you want the words home biodeisel kits to be the words that people click on. Larger sites or blogs, which create a lot of content over time, benefit from a lot of internal links that contain carefully considered anchor text.
   

There is certainly much more that could be done with regards to SEO, but these five areas are so important and basic that if you’re not paying attention to them, you needn’t bother with anything else. A common piece of SEO advice is to create content for humans, not search engines. But that saying doesn’t provide a detailed description of how to accomplish the goal. If you look over the five tips above, you’ll notice that every one of them helps improve the overall experience of your site’s visitors. Another angle on this is that good web design and good content is also good SEO.

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I watched a really good TV Show last night with Sydney’s Channel 9 here on I-Caught showing the Best Videos and most downloaded videos on YouTube and other video sharing sites. (I actually missed Australian Idol just to watch this show, and it was worth it!)

What I found interesting was that got a hold of most of the people who uploaded the videos and the people who were on the videos. What did I learn from the show and Videos going viral?

Here are my 5 Tips to making your Videos going Viral:

1. Videos must be short - Viewers don’t like to watch long videos as they find it boring and it drags on.

2. The Freakier the video the better - Video viewers love to watch strange things

3. Funny/Hilarious - If you look at Youtube, you will find a lot videos that are hilarious and that are interesting

4. Interesting/controversial and Creative - Every person loves to pass around videos that will interest their friends and family especially those videos that are information filled and done really well.

5. Sex Sells - I’m not trying to encourage porn in your videos, Having sexy videos that will attract your viewers attention, similar to the Lynx Ads (Bam Chicka Wah Wah…check youtube for examples).

So what does this all have to do with Britney Spears? If you’ve been following her new MTV appearance, It was a shocker… but when I checked Youtube to see if it was posted there… The videos that been posted for less than 24 hours already has 150,000 views for her pathetic performance! Why you may ask? Well, Britney has all the elements of the 5 criterias I mentioned.

I was going to post the Video here but Youtube has already taken it out due by viacom rights. I’ve managed to get the MTV Video promo that got viewed by over 713,000+, here it is:

I will do my own case study and see if it works for me. I suggest you try it out for yourself and let me know how you go.

Ok… that’s it for now.

Have a great day!

To your Viral Video Success,

Carlo Selorio

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