Internet Marketing by Rick

Here are a couple of tips on how to get banned.
Sign up for the forum and build your profile.  Put several links in your profile and make some comments in the forum.  Then go back and change your signature and add different links.  This will change the links on all the previous posts to your [...]

I am a big believer in Blog commenting long term.  The reason is long term it is easy to toss the worthless blog comments  with akismet.  Real comments that come from well tended blogs I believe will become valuable.  The future is easy to predict.  The links that are easily spammed by automation will be.  [...]

There are several things I try to do with my comments.

The comment will always be part of the conversation–Relevant.
I do not put links in my comments unless the comment is on one of my own blogs and I know it will be approved.
Yes I comment on my own sites with other identities.
My comment is always [...]

When I am comment linking I usually have 3 of my webpages that I am promoting at the same time.  These will be from different sites that I am currently promoting.  I use a different “identity” on each of these usually.

The accidental Top Commenter.
I have become fairly avid at posting comments.  I post comments while watching Football or TV and with the playoffs here for 2008 I have been active commenting when the ads are on. Did I mention I love the Mute Button?
I found a blog that had Lucia’s Linky love. I know [...]

I have a different hobby.  I used to watch a bit of Television.  I now watch very little.  I used to sell stuff on Ebay. I sold over 10,000 items on eBay between 1999 and 2005.  I now sell less than 200 items a year on eBay.

My Internet Hobby
I surf blogs to come up with [...]

There are some really cool plugins that add dofollow to comments.  Lucia’s was one of the first and there are a couple more now.
What does it do?  It puts Nofollow links on all comments from an individual commenter after a certain number of posts have been accepted.  Then after you post over this number your [...]

Why I write.
I have become an avid writer. I started writing in the winter of 2004 and it has grown.
I Write to Learn!
I am an avid learner and have found one of the easiest ways for me to learn a lot about a subject. Create a website/Blog and write about it.
I have learned [...]

I have a couple simple ways to find Dofollow Blogs.  I consider the blogs with Lucia’s or similar plugins active as Dofollow blogs.
I use the SEO for Firefox plugin.  This shows all nofollow links as red.  I changed this to pink so I could read what the link says.  Sometimes the Red made it so [...]

I have found Yahoo answers to be a great place to get links and article ideas. I go in and search for questions on my niche.
I start by going to “Advanced Search” and put in my subject. I then click the button for Questions and then the “Open Questions – Best answer has [...]