The keywords in the anchor text of incoming links to a site is one of the most important factors for ranking well for the keywords you target. Knowing this well, John Chow got his blog to the the number one position for the keywords ‘make money online’ by offering a free link back to the sites that review his blog and link to his blog homepage with the anchor text ‘make money online’.

However he is making a mistake by getting people to link his blog with only an anchor text of ‘make money online’. If too many sites link his blog with the same anchor text, Google will be able to find out that these are artificial links and may soon kick his blog out from the first page of the search result itself. Infact this happened recently.

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Daniel from Daily Blog Tips has been running an interesting series called Bloggers Face-off since quite a while now. And in this Face-off, its me vs Everton Blair from Connected Internet.

The Bloggers face-Off also has a poll to let the readers declare the winner, so please do vote for me

Daniel over at Daily Blog Tips has posted a list of the Top 25 blogs about blogging based on Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, Bloglines subscribers and Technorati Authority, of which this blog is ranked at number 12.

JohnTP.com would have ranked higher on the list if it had more Bloglines subscribers, but most of the readers have subscribed to this blog using Google Reader which is what most people use these days to subscribe to a blog.

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Kontera’s ContentLink is an in-text advertising program that displays double underlined contextually relevant keywords on a web page that upon mouse-over opens a small bubble like box that displays and links to an ad from one of Kontera’s advertisers.

One problem that Kontera’s publishers commonly face is that sometimes ContentLink link to bold and heading text which can be annoying at times.

To prevent this you can restrict ContentLink ads on certain areas of a page by using the following Span filter tags

<span name=KonaFilter>Text you don't want ContentLink ads to appear on</span>

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I reward regular readers by featuring good posts from the best commenter’s blogs. If you would like to see your blog posts featured here, join my MyBlogLog Community and start commenting regularly on this blog.

I hope you enjoy reading these blog posts

• Get Song Lyrics in Winamp and Windows Media Player – Nirmal
• Removing CD/DVD scratches with Toothpaste – listikal
• How to Remove COM Surrogate Error in Vista – Madhur
• Top Five Blue Websites – Grace
• 10 reasons the iPhone will succeed – tech blog
• How To Get Your Kids To Love Taking Medicine -Husbandhood
• Edit Pictures online using free picture editors – Techie Buzz
• iPhone Skin For Winamp – Pallab

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Buy me a Beer is a WordPress plugin that allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal. The plugin adds a “Buy Me a Beer” button to the sidebar and at the end of all posts. When your readers click on that button, they are taken to the secure PayPal page from where they can donate money to you.

Why add a “Buy Me a Beer” button instead of a simple “Donate Money” button?

Past experience shows me that asking people to donate money by giving them a specific reason increases donations by 200%!

For people who prefer non-alcoholic drinks, there is a setting to replace the beer mugs with coffee cups.

I currently have this plugin installed and will try it out for about a month to see if it turns out to be a good way to make money online. Ok I am tired and thirsty, how about you buy me that coffee now?

Chitika Linx is an In-Text Advertising solution, similar to Kontera’s ContentLink and Intellitxt, that is currently in beta and being offered only to selected publishers on an invitation basis.

Chitika | Linx will automatically identify key products/keywords mentioned in the content on a website or blog and hyperlink (double underline) those keywords to interactive paid (CPC-based) product listings featuring best deals, offers and promotions from name brand merchants. When users mouse-over these links, a small bubble-like scroll over is revealed listing offers from merchants.

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In WordPress 2.2, the post preview frame (the frame at the bottom of the edit screen showing a preview of your post) was removed and replaced with a preview link. Though I prefer this new change due to the speed improvements in editing a post, some people do not like it.

For those who want do not like this change, there is a plugin to return the preview frame.

Installing the plugin is easy, just upload the preview-frame directory to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it in the admin panel. The post previews will immediately start displaying when you edit posts.

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In my last post I had asked my readers to suggest categories for Blogg-Buzz. I have added the suggested categories, but would like to see which categories are wanted the most. So I have put up a poll to find out (below this post).

Please vote for the category you want the most. The poll will automatically close on June 1st.

Update: Poll closed. ‘Web’ category was voted the most.

Blogg-Buzz already has lots of categories but users are still suggesting more. So we would like to add the categories that most people want. Some of the categories that users wanted were Digital Photography, Family, Religion and Pets.

Which categories would you like to see added in Blogg-Buzz? Suggest them here via comments or use this contact form.

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