[Stephen Meyer]

I know some may disagree with me but a WordPress Blog is the way to go if you want to make money from blogging. It also helps those of us who comment on blogs.

This may sound a little stuffy but I don't comment on Blogger blogs very often because there's little benefit for me. You won't understand that if you're new to Internet marketing and blogging in general. I'll explain, when you comment on a wordpress blog your name field is hyper linked to your website address so you gain a precious backlink. Some people, actually a lot of people, use blog commenting as a part of their Internet marketing strategy. It's a part of our online business life.

Because we do it so often and so much it's hard to take the time to write a thoughtful comment that will help the bloggers page rank if we get nothing in return. Also working a full time job and running a business in our spare time can be tough and we have to make every minute count. It's nothing against the blogger or the blog platform it's just a matter of making every minute count.

I've met a lot of Blog commenters in the last few weeks and they all feel as I do. If some one could sell me one more hour a day life would be easier, I think.

I could easily write another thread on the benefits of a Word Press blog and it would be longer than this one. I'll just say that there are many and when it comes to building your business with blogging it is the number one choice.

If you have never installed a WordPress blog or have no idea how to do it you can go here and see how it's done, CNET WP Video, WordPress Site

If you don't feel like messing with it simply visit one of our fellow PIPsters sites for the best instalation service around, Jeff Houdyschell Word Press Max Instalation. (I'm not Affiliated in any way, he's just good at what he does)

I may end up making a thread on the benefits of Word Press or you can do a Google search and you'll find many. To say the least it's a kick rearend blogging platform that will get you noticed.

[houdy]

Thanks for the kind words Steve. I have an installation guide on my site too for those that want to try it themselves.

How To Install WordPress

[Kym Robinson]

Good post Steve!

I am only just starting to realize the benefits of a wordpress blog.
As a PPG member, I had mine installed for FREE and Ken Troyer has been kind enough to guide my initial startup with my blog. Its relatively easy for a new blogger to use too.

Its pretty cool realy - I never wanted to blog - but now I am!
I wonder if you can point us to any further help with wordpress???? namely, how you get banners and pictures on there??? I would like to up the anty a little!

Maybe Houdy has some info to share???
Thanks - Kym

[houdy]

Kym just click the link in my sig "WordPress Guides" and check out the Optimization Guide on the top navigation bar to start. For banners you may want to learn more about sidebar widgets:
Sidebar Widgets Guide

Sidebar Widgets Video

[Graham Maddison]

Hi Guys

I just did a blog post re Wordpress and Houdy....lol...2 great minds think alike

Graham

[Stephen Meyer]

Hi Kym, I would follow Houdy's advice and click his links. I did that when I first started and it did wonders for my blog. Now I have a few blogs and Houdy has helped with them. His service is highly recommended for all newbies.

There are several PIPs members who offer a great service for starting a new PIPs site and blog. You can change your site to a WordPress blog site or a Joomla site to make editing and adding content easy. There are PIPs specific mentoring groups, those who will update your website and create great squeeze pages and much more. It's all right here in the PIPs forum.

If a newbie needs more information on the many services available from PIPs members just drop me a PM and I'll send you a list. It has all helped me so I'm sure it will help you.

[Alan Mater]

Hi Steve,

Great post. I totally agree, although I'm still using Blogger .

There is great value to owning a WP blog, as well as commenting on one. As for me, I prefer to comment on WP blogs as well. But hey, a backlink is a backlink regardless, so Blogger blogs do help too. Just not as SEO friendly if you will.

I would love to have a WP blog, but changing over seems like it would be a pain. I don't want two blogs either. Any ideas?

Take care,

Alan

[Jeff Casmer]

Hi,

Ken Troyer and Jeff Houdy both do great jobs. Mal Keenan also does nice work...

You cant go wrong either way....

Take care
Jeff Casmer

[Dan Grossman]

Commenting is getting a huge upgrade in WordPress 2.7. Automattic, the company that employs most of the top people working on WordPress's code, recently acquired a company that specialized in threaded discussion tools. WP 2.7 will totally revamp the comment system, adding threaded comments. Much like a forum, you can reply to specific comments, which are displayed with proper indentation so readers can follow individual conversations in the comments, rather than a plain list. It's gonna help increase commenting across the 2.6 million active WordPress blogs, I think.

[Jeff Casmer]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for that information. You learn something new everyday...

Take care
Jeff Casmer

[keithakin]

I definitely agree with you on this subject! I didn't even know how this worked at first (I am very new).

One day I was looking at where my traffic was coming from and I noticed that I was getting quite a bit of traffic from the posts I made on other people's blogs.

I went back to see how that worked and sure enough, my name was hyperlinked to my website!

Awesome stuff I think and I too like the fact that we can post on each others blogs and get some traffic and a backlink too.

[Stephen Meyer]

First off, you will not get a blog installed anywhere that is as SEO optimized and net ready as those Jeff (houdy) installs. It is his passion.

Keith (I hope that's right)The power of blogging and blog commenting is great stuff.
It will get both traffic and backlinks. When you are filling out a WordPress comment form it is OK to use one of your
keywords I listed below in the name field. Just make sure you sign the comment with your real name.
That gives your a backlink with your keyword.

That's a lot of keywords.

money management,beating debt,business success,Internet Business Manifesto,
life success,millionaire mind intensive,money management strategies,online business owners,
serving others,money management, beating debt, money management strategies, millionaire mind intensive,
secrets of the millionaire mind,online business,Online business owners, internet business manifesto, rich schefren, internet marketing, making money online,
life success, business success, serving others"

Because you are new and see the value in commenting you should go to the top of the forum where the "Sticky's" are and join the blogging contest. Lots of great prizes and you will have lots of great backlinks and comments on your blog. Comments and visitors will help your blog gain Google rank and Alexa rank, it's all good.

[Clyde Dennis]

Originally Posted by Dan Grossman

Commenting is getting a huge upgrade in WordPress 2.7. Automattic

This is fantastic news! Wordpress just keeps getting better and better.

[houdy]

I have seen commenting increased on all my WordPress blogs in the past few weeks. If you see my WordPress Guides comment section (on a single post) I even encourage people to use their anchor text for their name. I also give them sample HTML code to copy and paste to use inside the comment area for another backlink. I almost always check out their blog or the link they leave.

[Linda Miller]

Hey Stephen,

I understand what you're saying for sure. I started with a third party hosted blog several years ago UNTIL I learned about the value of a self hosted blog and the Wordpress format. About a year ago I started using a blogging system that uses the Wordpress format, and also includes a lot of back end technology that submits to social networks and bookmark sites, etc., automatically. I can often get a new message posted on the front page of Google in just hours.

As a founding member I can give a few people a special Coupon Code for a $1.00 trial and a $30 per month lifetime scholarship.

Anyone interested can learn about the system here...

Blogi360.com - The Web site That works for you!

And if you want the special Coupon Code write to me directly at linda@allowprosperity.com

Many blessings.

[Alan Mater]

Here's a serious question. I really want to get a WP blog. Would it matter if I would just stop posting to my Blogger blog, host a WP blog and start posting to that one? I would still link to my Blogger blog and keep all the old posts, but anything new would be on my WP blog.

Any suggestions or thoughts?

Thanks,

Alan

[Graham Maddison]

Hi Allen,

Thats exactly what I did. I had a blogger blog .still have in fact, but the when I had Houdy do my wordpress blog, wow, how things changed. Looks so much more professional and you can link posts between the two if you wish.

Contact houdy, i am sure he will advise you.

Graham

[Alan Mater]

Hi Graham,

That sounds good. I think I will do that. Thanks.

Alan

[Stephen Meyer]

Hey Alan, I still have a Blogger blog that i stopped posting to a few months ago. I actually stopped writing for it quite a while back but I was posting unique versions of articles on it. It's funny because 3-4 times a week I'll get a comment I need to approve or disapprove. I don't market it at all and it still gets visitors.

If you get a WP blog and keep the other one and if you use SubmitYourArticle or Unique Article Wizard you can easily post a unique version of your articles on it and keep it alive with little work.

[Alan Mater]

Hey Stephen,

Thanks for the tip. I think that is the direction I am going to go. It seems it is now time for me to catch up and finally get a WP blog.

Thanks,

Alan

[Gunther69]

Hi Stephen, I have to tell you I feel the same way. I felt kind of bad for not commenting on the non WordPress blogs until I found this post. It is so much easier and right now anything that saves me some time is a good thing. Tim

[houdy]

Alan, I think all of us including me, did the same thing and started a Blogger blog first. What I did after I started using WP, and still do occasionally is post regularly on the WP blog then take the excerpts or first paragraphs of the last 5 or so posts and make one post with them on the Blogger blog.

Title the Blogger post something like this: Latest Articles On (subject). Then put the title of the WP posts in the Blogger post and link the title text to the individual WP posts. Then put part of the WP post under each title and you can add even another link to the post like "Read more here".

I haven't done it for a while but an example is here: Proven Income Opportunities Work At Home Business Blog

[Stephen Meyer]

Jeff, that is a really good idea. Looks like it will give you backlinks and direct visitors to your active blog.

[Alan Mater]

Originally Posted by houdy

Alan, I think all of us including me, did the same thing and started a Blogger blog first. What I did after I started using WP, and still do occasionally is post regularly on the WP blog then take the excerpts or first paragraphs of the last 5 or so posts and make one post with them on the Blogger blog.

Title the Blogger post something like this: Latest Articles On (subject). Then put the title of the WP posts in the Blogger post and link the title text to the individual WP posts. Then put part of the WP post under each title and you can add even another link to the post like "Read more here".

I haven't done it for a while but an example is here: Proven Income Opportunities Work At Home Business Blog

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for that tip. That sounds like a great idea. I will be sending you a PM here shortly about setting up a WP blog.

Thanks,

Alan

[Roy J. Keller]

Originally Posted by Stephen Meyer

I know some may disagree with me but a WordPress Blog is the way to go if you want to make money from blogging. It also helps those of us who comment on blogs.

This may sound a little stuffy but I don't comment on Blogger blogs very often because there's little benefit for me. You won't understand that if you're new to Internet marketing and blogging in general. I'll explain, when you comment on a wordpress blog your name field is hyper linked to your website address so you gain a precious backlink. Some people, actually a lot of people, use blog commenting as a part of their Internet marketing strategy. It's a part of our online business life.............................................. ....

Hi Steve,

I guess that I will be the only one to disagree with you here since I use blogger and you have returned the favor of commenting on my blog after I did so on yours. Let me refresh your memory some if it's alright, this is the comment you left at my blog:

Steve's Home Based Business Informaton WeBlog said...
RToy, your Bloglooks fantastic and very professional. I agree 100% that Empowerism is a very good way to learn how to run an online business. Also, Ewen Chia is a mastermind affiliate marketer. He has never had a product or idea that failed. Thanks for the great information and inspiration Stephen Meyer

Saturday, 14 June, 2008

Now I know that it may not show up here but if it would you would be able to see that the opening line of: Steve's Home Based Business Information WeBlog said... is actually hyper-linked to your blogger profile page and at the end your name is hyper-linked to your website. So is it if you do not have a blogger profile it will not hyper-link and I know that the name at the end was more than likely hyper-linked by you.

So what you are saying is to just blacklist all of us that user blogger and not comment on our blogs since it may take just a few seconds longer and you will need to know how to hyper-link your name yourself. That's a real sweet mind set to have against those of us that have been using blogger for nearly three years or more in some cases.

Great Team Effort!!!!!!

Regards,
Roy

[Roy J. Keller]

Hey Steve,

Mr. Sarcasism, again. I forgot to mention that both your links in that comment still work and do go to your bloggerr profile and once their one can visit your blogger blog which was still being posted to up until June 2008. That must be when you had the revelation that blogger no longer served your purpose and switched to wordpress but allowed this blogger blog to stay up. I would imagine that was because of all the work I for one know that you did to make that blog successful so why not leave it there since the backlinks will also be there for all time.

Also your website which is hyper-linked in your name is looking very nice. I know you have been working very hard to build your business and I commend you for that Steve however just because you felt the need to change directions and go another way that is not reason enough nor is it fair to come into propably one of the most popular forums and tell people not to waste their time commenting on blogger blogs for there is no value in it for them. The right thing would have been to come in here and explain that those valuable links back to your site can be had in the title if you also have a blogger profile and they can be placed in or at the end of your comment simply by hyper-linking them yourself. And for those that are not sure how to do that you could have put the html code in your post to teach them how to do it.

Just my two cents. Steve you have always been an influence and a major help to many people here and even I have picked up a few things here and there from your posts so this thread really was a shock to me.

By the way that old blogger blog of yours still looks good and if you had not abandoned it and had continued to put in the effort to drive traffic to it I am sure you could have made money there as well. After all no traffic--no sales--high traffic-+eye appeal + great offers = sales.

Regards,
Roy

[mjcarpe]

To Stephen,

Being new at this, I thank you for bringing these issues up. Without seeing things like this in the posts here, it could be a long time before some of these things would be realized. This could mean missing out on a lot of things that can bring traffic, and in turn good seo habits.


To howdy,

Thank you for your awesome guide, if I can use your guide and get through installing word press on my site, anyone can. I have also been browseing a couple of your other guides, and would like to say well done.


To all,

You have all made this forum a great source of information,ideas and in my opinion the best training tool I have come across. I view the forum as a training tool, because I can spend literally hours here reading posts and always leave better for having done it.

Mike Carpenter

ps.

Will add the new blog to sig, after i finish setting up. I have to check out this guide and do a little more work first.

WordPress 2.5 Sidebar Widgets Guide | WordPress Max

[houdy]

Looks like this thread is dredging up the ole' Blogger vs WordPress argument. Just like in politics, some partisans will spout the "Party Line" regardless of the facts.

If you want to know the truth you will find it and know it, if you want to be told what to do then you deserve the results you get.

[Roy J. Keller]

Originally Posted by houdy

Looks like this thread is dredging up the ole' Blogger vs WordPress argument. Just like in politics, some partisans will spout the "Party Line" regardless of the facts.

If you want to know the truth you will find it and know it, if you want to be told what to do then you deserve the results you get.

Well Houdy, it seems as though this comment would be directed in my direction even though you do not mention me by name, which in itself is politics. However since I am the only one that did not fall in line and blindly agree with all that Steve or you stated for WP or against Blogger and instead presented the "FACTS" that Steve did indeed benefit from commenting on my Blogger Blog. So who then is playing the politics game???

If I am wrong in the facts that I stated, show me proof!! And just for the record I dance to the beat of my own drum and do not allow anyone to tell me what to do and I take "Full" responsibility for the results that I get or do not get. And knowing that you have a service that people "PAY" you for in setting up WP Blogs for them it is totally understandable that you would be pro WP and anti Blogger regardless which is better and when it comes down to it, it is still a matter of choice which way any person should go. I have a Blogger Blog and I also have a website that is made from the WP Blog format so I do use both. I just do not see the point in abandoning a blog that I have spent years working with simply because you or anyone else says another one is better, again I do not like to be told what to do. Nor do I think it is right to make false statements just to promote your way of thinking and have those statements bring harm to anothers efforts.


More power to you if you can make others believe as you do and use your service, that's why you are in business. My only and main point in replying to this thread was that I think it is wrong to tell people not to waste time commenting on a Blogger Blog for there is no value in it for them, Which I provided "Proof" that is just not true and showed where Steve did get the backlinks he wanted. He is and always has been a great salesman for you, though.

Roy

[Graham Maddison]

Roy,

If I may intervene here, I have used both Blogger and Wordpress......okay my wordpress blog was set up by Houdy, but that aside, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind, that Wordpress offers a far superior platform than does blogger in that the total look and presentaion of a wordpress blog gives a much more professional look.

There are countless other reasons I prefer wordpress, but feel that the those already mentioned are sufficient.

I would recommend wordpress to anyone as I would Houdy.

Graham

[Roy J. Keller]

Originally Posted by Graham Maddison

Roy,

If I may intervene here, I have used both Blogger and Wordpress......okay my wordpress blog was set up by Houdy, but that aside, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind, that Wordpress offers a far superior platform than does blogger in that the total look and presentaion of a wordpress blog gives a much more professional look.

There are countless other reasons I prefer wordpress, but feel that the those already mentioned are sufficient.

I would recommend wordpress to anyone as I would Houdy.

Graham

Hi Graham,

Everything that you stated here is indeed your right and if you feel that one is better than the other that also is your right.

I am not arguing which one is better nor do I care to. As for which one is more professional in their appearence that is strickly any persons opinion which again they are entitled to. I for one continue to get very positive comments about how nice my blog looks so both can be made to look professional it is all up to the person working with it.The one and only point that I intended to make was that I think it is wrong and bad business to state facts that are untrue just to promote your point of view since Steve did indeed get the value and benefits from posting a comment on my blogger blog, which he is making a statement that there is no value in doing so.

As for the value of the work that Houdy does or does not provide in his service I for one can not comment on since I have not used his service. I will state that I have never seen anything but appreciation of his work which in itself shows that it most likely is good. Again I never stated anything against his business nor did I say that blogger was better than WP or the other way around. I just stated that I use blogger and will continue to do so.

The other point that I made was by Steve making such an untrue statement about blogger in this, one of the nets largest and influentional forums there stands the possiblity that those of us that use and have used blogger for some time would or could have the same results of having or blogs blacklisted should people take his statements as true and not visit or comment on blogger blogs as a result of his statements. In my opinion that was a bad business thing to do and as a user of blogger I took offense to it.

So in conclusion you, Steve, and Houdy, and anyone else have all the right there is to have to choose which format you prefer and use as do those of us that choose the other, just do not make false statements to promote your point of view unless you can show proof that they are true. As I showed the proof that Steve did get the value and benefit he sought.

Never wanted or intended to start a war I was just speaking out for those of us that use blogger and it is a shame I had to stand alone but that's cool I can be the rebel for once.

Roy

[Graham Maddison]

My hat goes off to you Roy,

You state your case extremely well and I admire you for your honest opinion on the subject.

Graham

[Roy J. Keller]

Originally Posted by Graham Maddison

My hat goes off to you Roy,

You state your case extremely well and I admire you for your honest opinion on the subject.

Graham

Thanks Graham, my grandmother raised me to always be honest and live by the golden rule and since she ruled by the weeping willow switch rule back in the fifties it always stuck, LOL!!

Honestly though I also was taught to stand up for what I believe in and to be sure that I could prove what I said. So again if I am wrong then some one just needs to prove it to me and I will shut my pie hole.

Roy

[Stephen Meyer]

I guess I was slightly mistaken. But before I get into that I have to ask:

And for those that are not sure how to do that you could have put the html code in your post to teach them how to do it.

Roy, is there a reason you did not choose to teach people how to do it? :confused:

There are several reasons for commenting on Blogs and no one reason is better than another although each holds its own reasoning. So Instead of putting on a tin foil hat and trying to guess why I personally comment on blogs I will simply lay it out. This is in no particular order.

1. Because I like the person as a online friend or at times a personal friend.

Unfortunately those online friends can turn out to be not so friendly. But, when I comment on a friends blog I would do as a friend would do. I will compliment you, especially if you have been working on your site, and I will support what you are blogging about, your topic. I could come in and say your blog looks like Joe podunk fixed it with a hammer but that wouldn't be friendly. Criticisms would be done in private not in public view. Maybe i should be more critical and that is the reason I may have been "slightly mistaken".

When commenting on a friends blog I am not trying to get a backlink or build my business. (Maybe friends should think about that before they try to make a point out of my comments, but, maybe not.) I am trying to support them and their efforts and build them up as much as possible, maybe a mistake but I like it anyway.

2. I comment because it is beneficial for the other person.

I know, this is the business world and everything we do should be to our benefit. Contrary to a crazy assumption about blacklisting blogs a few of us have started a very valuable blogging contest for PIPs members. All blogging platforms are welcome and encouraged. What is the reason for the contest? To Help Pips Members Build Their Business.

I and the other people involved will be busily commenting on contestants blogs. I will not be doing that to build my business although any comments on my blog will also help me. Comments mean visitors and visitors will raise your Google Page Rank and your Alexa rank.

When I comment on Plug-In Profit Site Member blogs I am not trying to get backlinks, actually, I don't even think about it. I am trying to help that person. So, I don't care if I get a backlink and I don't care if your blog is DoFollow or NoFollow. All I want to do is help the other person. If they care to return the favor and comment on my blog it is beneficial for both of us. A friend of mine who I just found out passed away a while back always had a mottoe "he who serves best profits most". Profiting isn't always monetary. It can simply be in the form of satisfaction and joy. Helping someone else build their business and watching them grow and have success can be very satisfying and is in itself very rewarding.

3. To build My Business

This of course is the reason I made this thread. Commenting for business reasons. When I am engaged in commenting for the purpose of building my business every thing matters. If you have a NoFollow blog I will not comment. If you have a Blogger blog I will not comment. The purpose is to build backlinks directly from my blog comment.

Google looks at contextual links. In other words, Google looks at where the link is coming from. If you have a Fishing site and you have a lot of links coming from other fishing sites Google will favor those links and in return favor your site. The same for home based business and affiliate marketing.

I want my links to come directly from the page I commented on. I do not want links that come from my Google profile or better said my Google OpenID. Unfortunately most Blogger blogs will give you a link to your OpenID (Google Profile) and you gain nothing from the post you commented on. (Please keep in mind, this is the business aspect of commenting. )

I, like most online business persons, use a daily schedule to accomplish my daily task. Most of the time I allow one hour for blog commenting. Other times I have used half a day. In the time frame I have allotted I have to accomplish the most I possibly can. I can not afford to waste the time I have available. This is not time to be spent posting on friends blogs or helping others it is the time I use to build my business, period.

I have no idea how much time others can give their business but will say my regular scheduled working hours are 70 hours a week, that's 12 hours a day 5 days a week. Most often I work 82 hours a week (6 days) and quite often I work 94 hours a week (7 days). That is working at my job. I am not alone in that, many online marketers do the same thing and we all have to schedule our home business time around our jobs.

What must we do with our valuable marketing time, we must use it to be productive. My top priority when working on my business is building backlinks. It is number one, nothing even comes close. I do this by Article writing, forum marketing to a smaller extent, blogging and having my post syndicated, and by blog commenting.

With all that in mind, should I post my articles on low PR or new directories or make sure they are posted in high PR directories? Should I spend my business time posting in new unaffiliated forums or high PR established forums (not always in my Niche)? Should I just let my blog post sit or should I make sure to syndicate them through high PR sites and should I comment on blogs that have NoFollow and not gain a backlink or make sure I only post on blogs that are benficial to me? Most importantly, should I use tools that are easy and free but will not get the job done or should I use the tools that will do the best job possible to accomplish my goals? What would you do and what are you doing?

That's about the jest of why I comment on blogs, first because it is a friends blog, second, to help another person and, and third to build my business.

Now, the point of this long drawn out post. If you were me would you recomend people use the best tools possible that have been proven to work or would you recomend tools that are easy to use but not quite as good? Personally speaking, when I know something works and is superior to similar products I am going to recomend them. When I know there is a service available that does a great job at a reasonable price I am going to recomend it. I will even recomend high cost services if they are benficial.

That brings me around to this thread and my first post. I am sorry if it offends someone, but I am not going to recomend something that is not the best at what it does especially if the superior product can also be had for free or at a very low cost. I would be two faced and dishonest if I did that so I am not going to. Not only that, but I would be doing a disservice to new members here if I recomended things I do not think will work very well.

This forum is here to help new members grow their business to be the best it can be. The blogging contest up top is there to help new members build their business to be the best it can be and the time I spend here is to help new members build their buisiness to be the best it can be. I do that the only way I know how, am I always right, NO, am I always politically correct, HECK NO, do I always give the best advice, I think so but probably NO. Do I always give the most I can to help others build their business and do I try to give the best advice I possibly can to help others build their business, Absolutely YES.

That is another long drawn out post. If it isn't acceptable please use the ignore button also known as the back button.

[Roy J. Keller]

Originally Posted by Stephen Meyer

I guess I was slightly mistaken. But before I get into that I have to ask:

Roy, is there a reason you did not choose to teach people how to do it? :confused:

I want my links to come directly from the page I commented on. I do not want links that come from my Google profile or better said my Google OpenID. Unfortunately most Blogger blogs will give you a link to your OpenID (Google Profile) and you gain nothing from the post you commented on. (Please keep in mind, this is the business aspect of commenting. )

Hi Steve,

I guess I ruffled a few feathers with my posts....SORRY!

To answer your question the reason that I did not choose to teach people how to hyper-link their name as you did to get the backlink to your website in the comment you left at my blog is that html is not something I am that good at. And I would not want to tell some one the wrong thing.

In the second part of the quote above the title of your comment did go to your blogger profile, however you did get value from the way that you hyper-linked your name as I stated above and that was my only point. That you did gain value though you say you do not.

I also did say that you have helped many people here and I do commend you for that. As for the looks of my blog if you or anyone else think it is not all that appealing that is your opinion which you are entitled to.

As for the success of my blog or the lack there of, that is on me for my short comings of the lack of constant and consistent action being taken or should I say not taken. I had at one time built my blog to a page rank of 4 and now it is a zero since as I said I lack the consistent and constant effort. That's no one's fault but my own. I guess that is a lessen learned for all, let it go idle and it will fade away.

As for online friends I have always thought of you as one and I am sorry if my disagreement with you here has changed that, but I can not control how you feel. Anyone coming into this forum would quickly see that they can gain value from listening to you as they can with some others. I know as I stated earlier I also have gained knowledge from things you have said in the past, I just was rubbed the wrong way with your original post to this thread....again sorry!!

I may have more time in PIPS than you but that is a perfect example of applying what you learn. You have done so in a big way and continue to and for that you find success and I have not and I will continue to struggle until I do apply the knowledge that I have gained. Should I find the drive and desire to apply what I have learned from PIPS, this forum and people like you I am sure I too would find success. I am just not sure I have that level of drive to over power the frustrations I face as you and many others have.

Have a Great Day & I hope that friendship we once had has not been totally destroyed.

Regards,
Roy

[Stephen Meyer]

No feathers ruffled here.

Your post just inclined me to respond. Although I almost didn't and put it off for a while. My response was to let those interested know how I do things and why I do things. Well, commenting things anyway. No other purpose was intended but I am not a good writer so other things may have been read into it.

I am off work today. That means I have some mess around time right after the honeydo list is completed. On a day like this I have time to to surf around the net and do what I please. Including commenting how and where I want to. But it's not always that way and most of the time I have to pick and choose and any actions that require even a small amount of extra effort are hard to do.

Also, Roy, I have no idea how your business is coming along or what you are up to. You could be on your way to your first million for all I know. I can tell you this, I am working on my second million as we speak and I am determined to get it. That's because I've given up on the first.

By the way, your blog is one of them thar nofollow blogs. So no resulting backlink. But that's not why I post on friends blogs. You by the way ARE and have been a Friend. Only friends will tell friends what they think. That is appreciated.

3 times now I have forgotten to post this so I am posting it now. I did leave out one important aspect of posting on blogs and it doesn't matter what your reason for commenting is. Visitors, it doesn't matter if you get a backlink or any kind of SEO stuff from a comment you can and will get visitors to your site. If you write a well thought out comment that is on subject to the post you are commenting about people will want to learn more about you and they will click your links to see your site. So in truth I was a bit wrong up top. There is value in all comments. Not always what I am trying to accomplish but value non the less.

[Stephen Meyer]

I also forgot so I had to go look it up.

When posting on a Blogger blog you can hyper link your name. Do not put one of your keywords in a hyper link. That is considered spamming. But you can your name and most bloggers will allow it, some may not.

Here is the code:
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com">Your Name</a>

Use your site and name.

[Matt Helphrey]

Hi all,

I run both a WordPress blog and Blogger blog hosted from my website and post to both on a regular basis. I still get plenty of traffic to both from the search engines.

I debated for awhile on whether or not to continue blogging on the blogger blog. I decided to keep it going and find it works to my benefit because I can leave a post on both blogs then social bookmark both at the same time. That way Ill get twice as many back links in less time than it would take to submit one at a time.

I hope that makes sense. I just find it more efficient working this way.

Also I don't really have a problem with Blogger except for the fact that sometimes it just does not want to publish and Wordpress gets ranked in the search engines much faster than Blogger.

And not to knock Houdy or try to undermine him it at all because he has helped me plenty of times and really knows his stuff, but I offer a WordPress install service as well. (Check the sig) Im sure he offers more of an advanced service than I but if you are looking to get a Wordpress installed to your server quickly, I can do that for you.

Houdy, if you are looking to outsource or just find you can't take anymore orders, I could use the extra cash...

Best,
Matt

[houdy]

Thanks for showing me the way Roy.

[Roy J. Keller]

Originally Posted by houdy

Thanks for showing me the way Roy.

Hi Houdy,

Now this post by you really confuses me.


Have a wonderful day!!!!

Regards,
Roy

[Roy J. Keller]

Originally Posted by Stephen Meyer

No feathers ruffled here.

By the way, your blog is one of them thar nofollow blogs. So no resulting backlink. But that's not why I post on friends blogs. You by the way ARE and have been a Friend. Only friends will tell friends what they think. That is appreciated.

Alright Steve,

It's time for you to give this old man a lesson in blogging. I have no idea what you mean by a nofollow blog. I do however know that if I go to my blog and then go to your comment I can click onto your name and it will take me to your website. Is that not a backlink? If that does not fit the definition of a backlink what then is the definition of a backlink. And I am not being a smart a.. here. I really would like to know.

I am man enough to admit I am wrong if that is the case just explain it to me so I understand it.

Regards & Thanks for Your Friendship,
Roy

[houdy]

Roy I didn't start this thread but you certainly hijacked it with your combative remarks.

A nofollow blog gives no actual credit for the backlink in Google or the search engines. It is a link yes but not one the search engines recognize.

Instead of tearing down and arguing with everyone maybe you should try to actually contribute to the conversation in a different way.

My signature file is my way of saying I think you are a jerk.

[SmoothStone]

Hello to everybody here!

I am brand spanking new to this forum.... So new I posted this on the Plug-in Profit board first... in error. I dont know very much about that... yet... I think I share with all of you here the desire for... something better. And more rewarding. I was referred to this site by someone I really dont know very well but I regard as a mentor of sorts nonetheless- Ken Troyer. He already has his stuff together I think ...

I am working two jobs right now. Dont really want to do that anymore but have no choice. One of the things I want to change. One of those jobs is on-line as a quality rater for Google. So I know there are a lot of different avenues for making money on-line. The internet is a fascinating place- not to mention a great accomplishment- probably all the people on this forum would agree with that from their own perspectives.

I have two blogs out there- www.forarden.blogspot.com- is one of them. As of right now they are basically mirrors of each other but my plan is they will diverge and take different lines of thought and interests etc. The other is on Wordpress.

I definitely am here for education. I am very internet savvy but getting past the point I am at to making money on-line- right now I think I just have the broad outlines and still dont know what I'm doing. Just added an AdSense link to one of the blogs but as it is receiving practically no traffic at this time its not much help. Driving some traffic to the site is obviously something I need more knowledge about. I dont know if you can add an AdSense link to a Wordpress.com blog... I think they warn against that. But I think there is a way to do it as well.

But I have some ideas on niche sites I want to try out and am trying to decide how to do that. Should I purchase a domain? Set another blog up on Wordpress or Blogger etc? My knowledge of how to 'monetize' sites doesnt extend much past Google AdSense right now. I have a little info on affiliate marketing but I am unsure how to best take advantage of that. Last but not least I am considering article marketing but though I have registered at Clickbank, Chordata, and GoArticles I am not sure where to go from here. I am at the first hurdle. Thanks for reading my entry and have a great day!

SmoothStone

[mjcarpe]

Hey again everyone,

To those interested, there is a post in the forum by GT dated 10/2. It is about no-follow tags in the blog script, and how to remove them.

[Alan Mater]

Originally Posted by Roy J. Keller

Alright Steve,

It's time for you to give this old man a lesson in blogging. I have no idea what you mean by a nofollow blog. I do however know that if I go to my blog and then go to your comment I can click onto your name and it will take me to your website. Is that not a backlink? If that does not fit the definition of a backlink what then is the definition of a backlink. And I am not being a smart a.. here. I really would like to know.

I am man enough to admit I am wrong if that is the case just explain it to me so I understand it.

Regards & Thanks for Your Friendship,
Roy

Roy,

Here is a thread that will give you more insight about the difference between a "do follow" and "no follow" blog. And no, the thread was not started by me...
http://www.warriorforum.com/plug-pro...llow-tags.html

I believe this is the thread that mjcarpe is referring to.

If you have any questions just ask.

Alan

[Stephen Meyer]

Roy and everyone else. I wrote these two blog post on blog commenting a couple months ago. They will help you understand commenting the NoFollow attribute. Also,if you follow the directions you can remove NoFollow from your blog. It is a good idea to do that so you can attract more visitors and comments. Keep in mind some of this is for the business end of commenting
5 Tips For Successful Blog Commenting

Gettig Rid Of “NoFollow” In Blog Commenting

I wrote those before GT, so there. Besides, Mr Co-Administrator hasn't been around for a while. I do know how to mess him up though. Just write a line of lyrics from a 70's or 80's popular song and he'll be singing it all day long. It'll be one of those, "I can't get the song out of my head" days. I had him humming "here I am stuck in the middle with you" for a whole day not long ago.

Originally Posted by Roy J. Keller

Alright Steve,

It's time for you to give this old man a lesson in blogging. I have no idea what you mean by a nofollow blog. I do however know that if I go to my blog and then go to your comment I can click onto your name and it will take me to your website. Is that not a backlink? If that does not fit the definition of a backlink what then is the definition of a backlink. And I am not being a smart a.. here. I really would like to know.

I am man enough to admit I am wrong if that is the case just explain it to me so I understand it.

Regards & Thanks for Your Friendship,
Roy

[mjcarpe]

Yes Alan that was the post.

Stephen I wasn't here that long ago, I hadn't seen those, but I have now.

I now have a question perhaps someone can shed some light on:

Akismet has marked a comment on my blog as spam, when vewing the comment I see no problem with it. It's just a compliment on the post.
Am I missing something with the comment, or is this just a mistake?

Thanks for the great info everyone
Mike

[Stephen Meyer]

Mike, maybe the person has spammed in the past so Askimet has them marked as a spammer. If you don't see a problem with the comment go ahead and approve it.

Then go join the blogging contest.

[Roy J. Keller]

Steve,

I read your articles and they were very informative, though I am still a lttle confused about some of this. Must just be an old man day you know like a blonde moment. LOL

Anyway in the one article you had these instructions:
Google Blogger users:
Go into your Blogger back office then;
* Click on Layout .
* Click on the Edit HTML .
* Check the “Expand Widget Templates Field” upper right hand corner of the HTML.
* Press CTRL+F and a search box will appear then do a search for rel=”nofollow”
attribute.

Well first the back office for my blog does not have Layout but it does have Template then Edit HTML after clicking onto that tab there is no "Expand Widget Templates Field" anywhere in sight.

I did go down through the html code one line at a time and nowhere was there the words rel="nofollow" anywhere. Did see no repeat many, many times though.

Near the very bottom of all the html code there was a section that had this:
</BlogItemCommentsEnabled>
<BlogItemBacklinksEnabled>

Since I was not able to find rel="nofollow" in the HTML code anywhere I was wondering how you were able to determine that my blog was a nofollow blog. I know that I have had this blog since before blogger did all their upgrades some time ago and I also have another blog that is totally idle and just sitting there for some time now and the back office for that blog is totally different than this one and I never really got the hang of it and that is the main reason I stopped messing with it just a short time after starting it. I could not even recall my password to get into it to check for the things in your instructions but if I recall the tabs that you talk about are in play with that back office.

Correct me if I am wrong but if I understand all this, the way that you hyper-linked your name does make it a backlink but since you say my blog is a nofollow then the search engines will pass over that link making it useless for the purpose of a backlink.

Maybe my main problem here is that I just have a hard time with certain things that change, since even with the back office for my website that is WP format I hate making any posts or changes there since it is so different and I have yet to learn how to work with it smoothly. Where I can go into my "Old" blogger blog and change the HTML and do just about anything I want without any trouble and usually will get it right the first time. I actually have less problems using FileZilla to bring pages from my other website to my PC and using NVU to make changes to that page and then using FileZilla to upload it back to the file manager at my site than I do working with my WP site. Go figure!!!

Regards,
Roy

[Simplweb]

Maybe I am missing something. Isn't making money with blogs 80% having great content and 20% the technology you choose? Wordpress, Blogger, Joomla, whatever.