The Seventh Commandment – Thou Shalt Use Signatures in Forums with Do-Follow

Another tip from the “SEO MASTER”:
Focus your signature around the main keyword string for your home page. Try to be the first response to new posts and participate on long discussion threads that will consistently be pushed to the top of the main discussion page.

Here is a list of major forums with Do-Follow signatures:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/- SEO
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/ – music
http://forums.seroundtable.com/ – seo
http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs/
http://www.startups.co.uk/ – business
http://www.v7n.com/forums/ – seo, webmaster
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/ – webmaster
http://www.webicy.com/ – Webmaster, seo
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/ – comic books
http://bzimage.org/ – photo
http://www.earnersforum.com/forumsindex.php – ecommerce, advertising
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/ – domains
http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/ – books

For the complete list of Do-Follow Forums go here.

Check out the other “commandments” shared in previous blogs and let me know what YOU think of the information he boasts. Agree. Disagree. Not so sure. COMMENTS WELCOMED!!!

Yes, WAY!!!

PC World raged on the scene with interviews, the inside scoop, graphs, charts, and commentary on this whole “overtaking” earlier this week! If you are a subscriber to this BLOG, then you were the FIRST TO HEAR!!! Congratulations, my friends. It PAYS to be in the know.

Today, we see another TOP HITTER magazine covering the same thing, but this time with a different twist. Yet, the end result is the same. The popularity of FACEBOOK is passing that of GOOGLE! The company’s attempt to capitalize on the Social Media Circuit resulted in the launch of BUZZ (which, you know I am LOVING as the owner of Bee the Buzz Promotions – hey, it goes GREAT with my company name!). There are talks of additional tools, platforms, and websites that Google will soon launch to “reek havoc” across the internet by pulling committed users/subscribers from their bookmarked and frequently visited sites into the new realm of Google…will you be one to convert or resist. TIME WILL TELL!

As a small to medium-sized business owner, this should get you JAZZED UP!!! I mean, think about it! How many dollars have you spent on Pay-Per-Click ads (PPC), and wondered how long it will take until someone finally clicks on your ad? With over 400 million users on Facebook, it is obvious to see that you can expand your brand more easily using Facebook. Once you know who benefits most from your product or service, you can use tools like Google search engines and Facebook ads to promote your product, service or company.

Don’t make it any harder than it is! Online marketing and advertising can be free, as long as you know where to go, what to do, and the tools that are available to you. PS, you should still use Google ad words and keyword searches to determine what phrases, words, and word combinations are the most searched terms. If you’ve never done this before, when Google or being can help you locate keywords, phrases, and word combinations just test the capabilities of the search engine. If you don’t like what you get, then search again. Keyword research is powerful! If you don’t get anything else from this article, I hope you will take it upon yourself to begin to use this amazing tool that will help you grow your business, expand your brand, and increase your income all with the click of a few buttons. Yes! It is that easy.

With that in mind, I went to share with you a link to the article from and both magazines sold you can read up on how Facebook’s numbers are flying and Google fans are falling…

Read INC Magazines article here!

Read PCWorld’s BREAKING ONTO THE SCENE article here!

Before you dive right in with your ads on Facebook, you might consider some of the information shared in this article as well. Looks like Facebook is cracking down! And if you ask me, it’s about time. I’ve seen lots of ads, lots of repetition, and lots of irrelevant information that I wasn’t sure how it ended up as an ad, or why. Looks to be the end of that for now…

That ad is not actually targeted…

So, based on what you read, what did you learn and how are you going to implement these new ideas into your business? That is really what it’s all about. Finding new ways to network, implementing ideas that enable you to get where you want to go, to achieve what you desire, and to exceed the goals you’ve set for yourself not just this quarter but this month!

Who do you know do need to be aware of these staggering statistics? What clients are you going to share these numbers with? How will you use your new-found knowledge to make a difference in someone else’s business that day?

Knowledge is power, but as they say, wisdom comes from sharing…

And here’s bad news for Google again, as they stop censoring Internet Searches Results in China.

P.S. On a lighter note, here’s one way to NOT use Facebook! I hope all reading this realize what a NO NO this is! Granted, it will probably make Jay Leno, George Lopez, or some other talk show in America soon enough . . .

Teenager Fired from Cafe’ Job via a Facebook Message

I can see it now…the poor girl will have more job offers, will be asked for interviews by TV and radio shows and her mum won’t know what to do. Oh, and add to that, the HUGE GROWTH of her profile page on Facebook that she’ll need to start a FanPage as well. Laughing as I type these hypothetical scenarios, but really, it could happen.

Just remember, you heard it FIRST from “The Networking Queen.”

With this commandment, I hope you will take me up on the offer to COMMENT AWAY. This might help you to realize the added value of sharing your knowledge and expertise, and to post on a site that allows you to share your links.

Don’t need your “sales pitch,” remember. This is a site focused on connect, relate and refer…so if you want REFERRALS then you need to RELATE to others. So, read on, and then C.O.M.M.E.N.T. below –

The Sixth Commandment – Thou Shalt Post Comments on Blogs with Do-Follow

Do-Follow simply means that a link on a page is valued by the Google gods. Be sure to post a good comment and use the keyword string that you are focusing on as your name. (see previous Commandments below for more info on this)

Here is a list of Do-Follow Blogs:

http://brownsista.com 6
http://foolswisdom.com 6
http://www.billhartzer.com 5
http://howtosplitanatom.com 5
http://andybeard.eu 5
http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net 5
http://www.davidairey.com 5
http://www.fastlanetransport.ca/blog 5
http://lifelearningtoday.com 5
http://www.pixelheadonline.com/blog 4
http://www.logon.ie 4
http://www.howtowakeupearly.com 4
http://www.joebartender.com 4
http://jakeldaily.com 4
http://tallfreak.com 4
http://blog.achille.name 4

For the complete list of Do-Follow Blogs go here.

MY TAKE ON THIS: HALF-TRUTH!!!

Why “half”? Because in reviewing the list of blogs, I’m just not too sure about a few of them. I think searching for blogs that are relevant to your industry/niche is a pretty smart “first approach” and then hit the BIG TWELVE (or ten or whatever) once you have mastered the art of commenting.

Is there such a thing as “an art to commenting”? YES!!! Some of these Ten Commandments are most effective when you have built up your content and provide QUALITY work, not quantity, as we discussed previously.

Posting comments ANYWHERE is going to help your site to grow, your distribution list to flourish, and your sales to expand! You are getting your name and your brand out there. It is like having a prospect become your client and not sending a Thank You card – many people DO NOT do this and their sales would increase if they DID!!!

I started using SendOutCards to help me with Follow-up, and when I use it, it works! When I don’t, well…it’s never too late to send a card of any sorts – Christmas, Customer Appreciation, Thanks for the Referral, Nice to Meet you…you name it. Come up with any random reason (or a legit one) and just send it! See how your business is impacted!

The same is true with comments. It is a way to say Thank you, nice to meet you, Merry Christmas, I appreciate you, etc. This is true with Facebook, LinkedIn (though here it is more advantageous to write a recommendation), YouTube, Twitter (with a retweet, Follow Friday post, or direct message), as well as WordPress/Blogger/Blogspot, etc.  the key is…

YOU HAVE TO POST SOMETHING TO GET NOTICED.

Are you excited to see what Commandment Number Seven will be?  Stay tuned…

With four commandments already under our belts, we embark upon “The Master of SEO’s” fifth command today…and it is one for the books (bookMARKS, that is!).  I like the fact that he shares FREE sites for this…Free is ALWAYS good.

The Fifth Commandment – Though Shalt Have Links from Directories

Identify the keyword string that you want your index page to rank for and use it in the title of your submissions. Also, only do a couple of submissions each day.

Here is a list of PR4+ directories that have free submission. The $299 Yahoo directory submission is also a good move.

For the complete list of Free Directories go here.

MY TAKE ON THIS: TRUTH…but I don’t know about the $299 recommendation from “The Master of SEO”…

To get started, take advantage of the free tools shared above, and check out the link he has included for a complete list, too, after all, it is FREE!!!

The link takes you to a page with “361 FREE Directories…with PR” (as in Public Relations). Look at the numbers included AFTER each website – this indicates the site’s page ranking. The higher the number the better – that will help determine WHERE to start, right?!?

As one comment indicates, “It is not about quantity but quality.”

Take time to do your research and be sure you are posting your information to the correct directories under the appropriate category. This will make a huge difference in the results of your efforts and you sure don’t want to have to redo, rework, or rethink it all after you sbumit to them. Take time to learn what works and doesn’t, and then tweak as needed.

If you want to pay someone big bucks to assist you, have at it!

You might first consider looking into http://oDesk.com and outsourcing this. Conduct interviews with local businesses whom you are already networking with. See what you can learn, who fits your budget and will meet your needs, and NEVER forget to ask for recommendations and references!!!

A new company I have enjoyed networking with is representatives of LocalAdLink. My all-time FAVORITE guru to help with SEO (and who I use as a reference for my clients, is Mike with CoolBubba.com – when you email him for information, be sure to say I sent you. He helps with this blog and is a ROCKSTAR with SEO. ..you won’t be disappointed, that is for sure!!!

As we move to the “final five” commandments, get ready for more links…”The Master of SEO” from sta.rtup.biz has another round of FAB information to share with you…just tackle this as you would eat an elephant – one bite at a time. LOL!

If you enjoy networking then you must enjoy socializing! (If you are thinking, “no, not really,” then get ready for a new way of thinking!!!)

That’s good because the next commandment for SEO focuses on you being social….Social Bookmarking, that is!

Remember, the tips you are learning here should not just be applied to your BLOG but also to your wall posts, notes, status updates, tweets and more. As you read on, don’t forget to think long-term, future-focused, and GROWING your network. After all, if you are about networking for more business, then you need to embrace the power of the internet to assist you in this voyage. I guarantee it makes things MUCH more easier, enjoyable…AND PROFITABLE!

The Third Commandment – Thou Shalt Submit Daily Blog to Social Bookmarks

The exact keyword string that you identify for your blog’s title will be used in each submission. Change up the description for each submission.

Here are the angels of Google that will help you ascend in the rankings and find a home in Google Heaven:

For the complete list of Social Bookmark Sites go here.

MY TAKE ON THIS: TRUE!!! (are you beginning to see a pattern here…?)

When I first looked at this list I was overwhelmed! Did you get that, too…and then to see there were MORE?!? I mean, who has the time to bookmark every single one of these sites with the blog I just posted or note I created, or or or…ANYTHING!  I am an entrepreneur in business by myself and would love to have an army of Web gurus at my beck and call to assist me with Search Engine Optimization, Keyword Searches, blogging, Bookmarking…and all of the things I know I SHOULD BE doing but just don’t have the time. I mean, WHO DOES???

WHEW – now that I got that off of my chest, let’s take a step back and look at what IS possible…

If there are a few of these that work best for you, then commit to using those. With each site you have to create a profile, setup your website, add the links and do hours of work, right?  Well…sort of. You could do it yourself or, again, you can do what you love and pay someone to assist with the minor details, like bookmarking (I will reference oDesk.com here again in case you missed it in a previous post talking about how you can outsource the things you need done but don’t want to or can’t afford to spend hundreds or thousands on finding someone locally to assist).

Why does he reference CHANGING the description with each submission?  Can you guess?

It will be seen as duplicate data and the additional posts could be ignored. You don’t want that to happen as it would be a waste of your time then, had you used multiple social bookmarking sites with the same content. A tip I learned from Nitro Marketing is to change every 3^rd word. HOW EASY IS THAT?!? If you want the post to be relevant and for your content to be noticed and bookmarked (duh), then try this easy approach and see how it works for you!  If you want to commit more time and energy to each social bookmarking site then go ahead and redo the entire description.  That takes a creative person with many hours of time available for the devotion of “practice” content. (LOL) For the rest of us, more power to the third WORD approach, right?!?

Next, we visit The Fourth Commandment…I hope you have already considered some of the tips shared here and MAYBE EVEN implemented a few of the ideas. If you are looking to be a master networker online (or offline), sometimes you have to embrace new ideas! (Okay, not sometimes, we ALWAYS need to look at ideas with an open-mind and see which are applicable to us…now and/or in the future).

Until then,…happy bookmarking and networking!!!