Best Blogroll Explained:

The default plugin setting is how the WordPress blogroll currently works. Every link is followed and most SEO’s agree these links are discounted by Google. The recommended option is to use Best Blogroll so that the rel=”nofollow” tag is on blogroll links for every page of the blog except the home page. This allows you to pass link juice from only the home page like I’ve shown below (recommended). There is another option that allows you to set the no follow tag to apply to all blogroll links on every page so that you don’t pass out any link juice via your blogroll links (greedy).

FYI: Using the no follow tag in a link means Google doesn’t pass any value “link juice” for the link

Free Download:

This plugin is available for free here simply right click and save as: Best Blogroll Plugin Download

Install Instructions:

1. Download the plugin file and upload it to your plugins directory within WordPress
2. Activate the plugin
3. Adjust the settings via the Links > NoFollow Settings section within your WordPress admin panel

Support:

I mentioned above that I came up with the idea of this plugin, but I am not a coder so I commissioned my good friends over at Website Design to create this for me. They’ve also graciously offered to provide a support forum should you find any bugs. I’ve already personally tested this on several of my own blogs without issue so I doubt you’ll have any problems.

Wrap Up:

I suggest you install this on your blog and share it with other bloggers that already link to you from a blogroll – that way you offer higher value links from your blog and receive higher value links from the blogs already linking to you! In any case, what do you think of “my” first WordPress plugin? If you found this plugin helpful feel free to retweet this article or link to this post on your blog. Enjoy!

This is what I propose…

The Solution: I’m convinced that every person has a subject or passion they truly care for and know a lot about. I’m also convinced that 99.999% of the bloggers writing about making money on the internet don’t truly have the collection of these traits in this subject matter (passion and true knowledge) so I propose that you do yourself a favor and quit or sell your blog. Odds are no one will buy it because it’s full of useless information but with the time you can reclaim by quitting the blog you’ll be thanking me later. What I suggest you do with the new found free time is to develop websites or blogs in markets and niches that you already have knowledge about and passion for. If it happens to be a niche that isn’t very competitive than that’s all the better. The point I’m trying to get across here is that I was the guy 2 years ago doing all the stupid things I listed above. It wasn’t until I quit my blog and moved into other niches that I started earning several thousand dollars a month. The only reason why I came back to this niche is because I really enjoy the topic, I have a lot of ideas to share now that I earn thousands of dollars a month on the internet and because it directly relates to what I already do for a living.

Wrap Up:

If you are part of the problem like I outline above than I urge you to go out and explore other topics on the web. You’ll be surprised by what you’ll find and hopefully you’ll start earning thousands of dollars a month like I did. If as a result of reading this post you do decide to go out and start websites in other topics and you eventually do achieve financial success I’d love to hear about it. If only one person abandons their pointless make money online blog and goes on to earn substantial money from another niche than I’ve done my job.

What do you think? Am I a jerk for calling people out like this? Do you think I’m a hypocrite because I’m criticizing people that write about a topic I cover on this blog? Whatever the case may be I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

What are your plans?

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Shane from AskShane.org in my Who is your critic? post he wrote:

Great post, Chris. We all need someone that challenges our beliefs.

Mine is my wife. In a series about Frank Schilling I wrote:

The second relationship that stood out to me was the one with his wife, Michele — probably because my own wife has played such a key role in my success over the years. Because we’re so different, she’s a great sounding board for me. Instead of just telling me what I want to hear, or what I’m telling myself, she comes at things from a completely different angle. She still doesn’t really understand what I do, but that ends up being good because she asks questions that I would never think to ask.

Like with Michele being “thoroughly alarmed as Frank sank all of their savings in domains,” relationships like these provide checks and balances that are absolutely essential. Frank ended up being right in that case, but if they’re anything like us I guarantee you that Michele’s concerns have been beneficial all along the way. I help my wife be more willing to take risks, and she helps me remember that I need to look before I leap.

There’s no way I would be where I am today without her.

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Now I don’t know about you, but I always love to read stories about something that is the World’s Largest. So here it is…

The World’s Largest Digg Button

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What do you think?

If you love World’s Largest (Insert anything) topics than feel free to Digg this post.

Here is what we’re losing:

When a publisher that signed up for Google AdSense through your referral earns their initial $100.00 within 180 days of sign-up and is eligible for payout, we’ll credit your account with $100.00.

A Google AdSense referral is counted only for publishers never previously enrolled in Google AdSense. Google AdSense referral payouts do not count towards $100.00 threshold

Ok so basically you have the potential to make $100 if someone you refer to Google Adsense makes $100 within 180 days. That may not seem like a difficult task, but even the most junior of webmasters have heard of Google Adsense and probably already have an account. Honestly, I can’t remember the last person I’ve talked with that is in this industry that doesn’t have Adsense.

Why not try referring webmasters to brand new affiliate programs instead? This way you can target all webmasters because odds are no one has heard of or let alone signed up with the new program before. With Adsense it’s very hard to find someone new but if you’re out their promoting new programs you’ll see a lot more success.

Now is it just me or who really cares that the Adsense Referrals program was retired?

One of the posts I highly recommend you check out is The Proper Way To Do Affiliate Marketing. I’m new to affiliate marketing, but when you think about the statement he makes in that post, “Affiliate Marketing Is All About The Presell” he’s right. If you can find a way to presell your forum members on various products instead of just throwing up an affiliate banner on your website you will improve your conversions and subsequently your revenue. If you’ve developed a good relationship with your members, they will value your opinion on a product or service that you recommend to them. I will be testing his ideas about preselling by creating various review pages on most of my sites with affiliate links to products that I recommend to my forum members. I will post back with my results later, but in the meantime if you haven’t already checked out John Chow’s blog I highly recommend it, he has some great tips to make money online. If you review his blog he will link to you and send you a lot of traffic.

Anyway, I should be hearing back from them in 24 – 48 hours at which time I will be able to finish off the other steps to form the business. I still have to apply for a Federal Tax ID number (EIN) and fill out a few more forms, but I’ve been meaning to do this for a while so I’m glad it’s taken care of. I wanted to get everything taken care of so that I can apply to some ad networks that require you to be a company to apply, but also to take care of all the tax stuff etc.