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August Blog Comment Contest

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:02:47 +0000

Janice Seagraves won the drawing for our August Blog Comment Contest. She received an added bonus of 50 credits for comments.

Claire my assistant drew Janice’s name for a second win this summer. YAY!!! Congratulations Janice

Our next drawing will be September 1, 2010.

June Blog Comment Contest

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:20:38 +0000

Janice Seagraves won the drawing for our June Blog Comment Contest. She received an added bonus of 50 credits for comments.

Our next drawing will be August 1, 2010.

Traffic Exchange Discovery

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:32:41 +0000

After discovering Traffic Exchanges in 2002, the traffic to my website increased 100 times. I thought I had hit the magic button for the jackpot. People were visiting my small informational website. What I learned very quickly, the average Traffic Exchange member at that time and on the Traffic Exchanges I belonged too, were interested only in the Internet Marketing niche. I am a writer. My site was about writing. Yes, I had found a valuable tool but not for my niche.

The Writing and Publishing world didn’t have a traffic exchange. There was no way for the small author, publisher, or new literary agent to be seen other than lots of hard work. Sometimes that work paid off, other times it didn’t. This is the sole reason for Author-Exchange Promotional Services. Author-Exchange has combined the magic of the traffic exchange and the usefulness of a blog to assist our members in getting the niche traffic they deserve.

Originally, the traffic exchange was developed to exchange website traffic between like-minded small business people. You see my offer, I see yours. We’re both small and can’t afford huge budgets to advertise to the masses as our A-list peers and big publishers do, so we exchange business instead. Author-Exchange was developed to exchange website traffic between authors, small and large publishers, as well as literary agents and readers. You see my releases, I see yours. You see what I am accepting in submissions and I see what and how you write. You see what I offer and I see what you offer. With all those win-win situations being created, there should be a few sales in there for each of you, too.

By adding the blog, this created another way for our members to advertise themselves and link back to their own sites. Unfortunately, very few people are making use of this offer. There are many things a member could blog about, whether it is their new release, new service of editing, where they will be book signing or a blog tour, or something they have learned in their career as a writer.

Write your article, include the information below, and submit it through the support ticket area on the website.

All blog entries need to have:

author’s website URL
author’s name or pen name
book titles
where to purchase the book(s)

If you do not have a book in print or ePublished at this time, then list your website and author name/pen name. Get your site seen. Get your following established. Use Author-Exchange to help assist you with this mission. It is never to soon to get started.

Zeriouz Partners

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:02:58 +0000

This morning, I met the man behind this phenomenal resource for quality traffic. Actually I wrote him a fast email and asked how this would help me since all his links are ‘nofollow’. He was very nice about my rant and explained to me how ‘nofollow’ links are useful and how ‘dofollow’ links can get you banned from Google who decides if you’re allowed to have them or not. I’m to much of a 60′s child to not have that irritate me, here the establishment of younger cyber geeks are telling me what I can or can not do! Whoops! Back to the topic at hand: quality links that benefit you and others.

Mr. Len explained I needed to read the ‘Search Engines‘ page. A fellow traffic exchange owner, Don of Horror Movie Hits has been using ZeriouZ Partners sometime before October 2009, and when Yahoo Search has “horror movie hits + zeriouz”, Yahoo shows that Don’s site has over 3,000 back links. Alexa shows he has over 90. To say the least I am impressed.

This system is free. You get to promote your ‘add my link’ to your site and your signature, so others will click on it and connect to your site. Then it snow balls. I paid my $7 to this Australia based company. My $7 allows me to be advertised on the ZeriouZ website and have my URL placed so others can choose to connect to it. Take your time to check this site out, and add the code to your front page. I chose links that are relevant to my own site giving my link and theirs more clout in the ‘nofollow’ world.

zeriouz Partners: wahm-trade.com | horrormoviehits.com | www.redmansurf.com
tiptoptraffic.com | www.freedomworkshop.com | Add Your Link

‘nofollow vs dofollow’ part 2

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:04:09 +0000

Maybe I didn’t make myself clear, SPAM will be deleted.

‘nofollow’ vs ‘dofollow’ blogs

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:53:41 +0000

Is leaving comments on other folks blogs still beneficial with the ‘nofollow’ rule? With many blogs the ‘nofollow’ rule is automatically written within the code. What this means to you, who leaves the comment and your URL, is the search engines do not follow your link. It is not counted as an in-link to your website. It does not bolster your page ranking or help you in any way with SEO.

This has been a topic between marketers and codes for years. There are those people who will spam your blog with incoherent comments, spam links, false emails, and who knows what which only adds to cyber clutter. Currently, there are a couple of plugins for WordPress blog and replace the ‘nofollow’ with the ‘dofollow’ rule.

Author-Exchange is a ‘dofollow’ blog. We want to help our members by being able to provide back links to your website. Many spammers will try to abuse this, and I will trash their comments. It is very important to comment about the post, making it clear you have read the post and are replying specifically to it. This adds more content to my blog and my thanks to you is to allow your link to your website.

If your link is to an affiliate site you belong to that is not writing or publishing related, write your comment explicitly. Short tags, which I call hit and run, will be deleted. Do NOT use keywords as your name, you will be deleted.

Authors, small press, new agents, new writer services this is YOUR way to help your site receive back links.
For those of you who are interested in the topic of ‘nofollow’ blogs here are a couple of useful blogs: http://www.catswhoblog.com/leaving-comments-on-other-blogs-still-a-valuable-technique and http://myblog2day.com/10-fire-blog-tips-that-push-your-blog-to-next-level.php and the archives of Cats Who Blog – http://www.catswhoblog.com/archives

Blog Contest – It’s in the sidebar

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:03:02 +0000

I will give away -1- physical book donated from the Romantic Times Convention to a person who 1) comments on the/a blog post with a comment that pertains to that post. 2) lives within the USA. 2a) Outside of the USA participants will receive a digital book.

Each drawing will be done at the end of the month. The comment poster will be announced in the sidebar at the first of the month, with the link they provided with the posting.

Twitter As an Efficient Means to Build a List

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:26:58 +0000

It is essential to build a list if marketing on the internet is a long term intention of yours. The most widely acceptable and recognizable way of building an opt in email list is by using a squeeze page. The use of an auto responder system is the most efficient and commonly accepted way to manage and maintain contact with these people. Have you ever thought of using twitter for building a list? Well it CAN be done with a DECREASE in your costs and an INCREASE in your effectiveness. Want to hear more?

Here are 3 ways using twitter for building a list can save you money and increase the chances that your messages are being read by the intended recipients.

Less Effort and Money to Generate Traffic

You can actually build your list with Twitter by gather contact information (followers) thus saving you effort of traffic generation. As anyone marketing on the internet knows generating traffic takes a lot of effort and even money. Using twitter for this purpose allows you to also enjoy yourself as you are making friends when you are collecting contact information for promotional purposes.

No Need for Auto Responder

Twitter can actually deliver your messages (tweets) and there is a better chance they will get read and not blocked or disregarded as spam as is the case with email. How many of your email messages do you think actually gets read by your intended reader? More times than not they are either ignored or simply redirected to the spam box. On twitter your messages (tweets) can not be placed in spam and are displayed for all your followers to see and read.

This essentially eliminates the need for an auto responder system and the corresponding costs that goes with it.

Easier to Interact

You can actually interact and in ‘real’ time with your opt ins (followers) thereby making your messages more effective. If you send a tweet to which somebody has a question they are more likely to ask for an answer and you are in a better position to answer it in a more timely fashion. These questions and answers also help to further build a relationship with people and this can help increase the effectiveness of your future marketing efforts.

Hmmm, let’s see, using twitter can save you money and increase the likelihood of getting your messages read when you are building a list. Seems like a no-brainer!

When marketing on the internet it always makes smart business sense to build a list so you can maintain contact those who have expressed an interest in your business. You work hard to generate traffic therefore building an opt in email list of folks who visited your site can save you effort and money in the future. By using twitter in the way discussed above you can further increase your savings by eliminating the need for a squeeze page and auto responder. This approach also greatly increases the odds of your messages getting read and not lost in the black abyss of spam. The 3 advantages you can experience by adopting this system to collect and manage your email contacts are hard to ignore. When you consider that it will cost you nothing there appears to be little risk for you to start building a list using twitter today!

TJ Philpott is an author and Internet entrepreneur based out of North Carolina.
For more tips about how to build a list and to also receive a free instructional manual that teaches valuable niche research techniques visit: http://affiliatequickstart.com/

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=TJ_Philpott

What is a splash page?

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:47:56 +0000

A splash page is similar to a book cover. It is used to capture the viewers attention quickly and links directly to your website or your publishers website. A splash page is 600×400 px graphic which is easy to load and tells the surfer the 5 W’s: who, what, when, where and why. It communicates in less than 10 seconds everything you want them to know about that one particular book, convention, website, etc. It is your internet billboard.

Blog Requests

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:54:39 +0000

Author-Exchange Promotional Services is opening their blog to Authors, Reviewers, Literary Agents, and Publishers. To be featured on our blog, you will need to use the support ticket system. This is a free offer at this time. Once we have launched, this will be offered to our A-List Members as part of their membership package.

Now is the time to get those new release promos sent in, along with:

WHO you are.

WHAT genre is your promo?

WHEN you would like your promo posted.

WHERE your book can be purchased (this should be your affiliate link to your publishers site).

Author-Exchange Promotional Services