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Derek Halpern Exposed: Get your blog or startup $100,000+ in national media coverage for free

11/25/2013

IN MAKE MONEY, PRODUCTIVITY

This is an expert guide to getting $100,000+ in free media coverage for your blog or business. It was written by Michael Alexis.

It is based on a private interview I did with Derek Halpern of Social Triggers (plus many hours of research), and includes two of Derek’s master strategies plus dozens of bonus tips from influential entrepreneurs. If you are serious about getting loads of attention for your project, this is a must read.

But heads up: this article is long and extremely detailed. It took 32 hours to write. It will take you 15 minutes to read. Here is the PDF version (17 pages), and here isthe ePub.

If you came from HackerNews I recommend you save this guide and schedule 30 minutes to read it later. For visitors from Reddit, here is the tl;dr – If you don’t spend 80% of your effort promoting your business, you are going to have a bad time.

I know you may be skeptical about the $100K in free publicity, so let’s start with the facts.

Derek Halpern and Social Triggers

Derek’s business advice has been featured on Fast Company, Huffington Post, CreativeLIVE, and most recently in a 52 minute 27 second video series on entrepreneur.com (9 million visitors per month — value? Easily $100,000.)

His blog, Social Triggers, is ranked 6,719 on Alexa worldwide, 2,583 in the US, and in the top 8000 most visited sites in 6 other countries. It is read by over 300,000 people each month, has 125,000 subscribers, and 33,556 Twitter followers. Derek also has a raving fan base on Facebook, with his average post getting hundreds of shares, likes, and comments. In a blog post, Forbes writer called him an “expert on consumer psychology.”

The Social Trigger’s podcast recently hit #1 in the business section on iTunes (ahead of Motley Fool, Oprah, Ted Talks, Harvard Business Review, and the Wall Street Journal).

Derek’s premium training course, Blog That Converts, has 1000+ students. The most impressive part? He started Social Triggers just 2.5 years ago.

Before founding ST, Derek built up his expertise bringing millions of visitors to a variety of websites – one site that attracted more than 67 million visits. He is also the former marketing guy for DIYthemes Thesis.

Okay, dude has got street cred. Let’s take a closer look at how he hacks the media to get free national coverage.

Table of Contents – Derek Halpern’s Guide to Free Media Coverage

1. Part 1: The Foundation
   • One simple rule that will earn you massive traffic
   • The biggest barrier to promotion and what Tom Hanks has to say about it
   • 7 specific examples of overcoming this common barrier
   • The keystone skill that separates top bloggers from everyone else.
2. Part 2: The Strategies
   • How to get massive coverage for free by hacking your competition.
   • 3 case studies about “the Drafting Technique” including a word-for-word script ($100 value)
   • The proven formula for unleashing viral content (with academic research)
   • Derek’s 12 Commandments of Natural Controversy
3. Part 3: The Conclusion
   • Summing it all up and a list of uncommon promotion techniques

Foundation: do you know this 80/20 rule?

It’s on you to create [your best content], leverage proven psychological principles to make sure it spreads, and then PROMOTE THE HECK OUT OF IT.
-– Derek Halpern, on the 80/20 rule for building a blog audience

A secret fuel of Social Trigger’s rocket-powered growth is Derek’s 80/20 rule for building an audience.

CationBot: I don’t always include pie graphs in my posts, but when I do they look like pacman.

Here is his logic:

1. If you spend time writing a piece of content, and that content only gets 1,000 readers, chances are there are one million other people in the world who can benefit from what you wrote.
2. It’s smarter to find another 10,000 people to consume what you’ve already created as opposed to creating more.

And it sounds pretty simple – just spend 20% of your time creating amazing content, and then 80% on promotion. But there are two key things you need to know.

First: this DOES not mean you get to slack on content creation. Derek puts five days of prep work into creating one episode of his video series Social Triggers TV. Ramit Sethi spends 12 to 18 hours on a single blog post. Once I interviewed a guy that wrote his entire book over a weekend. He didn’t sell very many copies.Tim Ferriss cut 250 pages out of 4-Hour Chef, published the remaining 672, and it was a New York Times Best Seller. You can choose which sandbox you want to play in.

Second: we’ve all seen that scammy internet guru that has magic tactics for explosive traffic. You’ll go viral! Just do this one thing! It’s not going to happen. That’s why Derek teaches proven psychological principles. If you have these and put in the time and effort, you will get results. From March 2011 to April 2012 Derek published an average of 2.54 blog posts per month, and earned nearly 27,000 subscribers. Do that.

If you are ready to learn Derek’s master strategies for free media coverage, you can skip ahead. But if you want to go a little more in depth, take a closer look at the Psychology of Self Promotion.

The Psychology of Self Promotion: Be like Tom Hanks

A lot of people aren’t comfortable with self-promotion (we feel like imposters). But if you have something great to share, it’s totally okay. That’s why you want to be a Tom Hanks not a Nicki Manaj.

Back in 2008, Tom Hanks went on The Late Show With David Letterman to promote his movie Charlie Wilson’s War. Check out the clip here. This is how it went…

TH: I didn’t realize it was legal to play baseball on The Mall in Washington, D.C.
DL: I don’t think you can do that!
TH: I didn’t want to, but I was prepared to drop the H-bomb if any cops [pulled up]
DL: What do you mean?
TH: Well the H-bomb Dave, the H-bomb — “Look officer, I’m Tom Hanks. I get to do whatever I want.”

Basically, Tom Hanks knows he is the man and isn’t afraid to say it. Also, TIL that Hanks’ films have grossed over $8.5 billion, making him the highest all-time box office star.

Compare this to Nicki Manaj, who claims to be on her way to a billion, but actually made $15.5 million in 2012.

Promote what you’ve got

No doubt it helps that Hanks has multiple Golden Globe Awards and Academy Awards to back up his brags, but we all need to start somewhere. As you accumulate small victories, showcase these. Here are a few examples:

• When Derek first started Social Triggers, he talked about getting %201 %20million visitors to one of his sites in a single day. Now he lists off hisimpressive set of speaking engagements, and promotes his hour long video feature on Entrepreneur.com.
• Maneesh went to Stanford, published 4 books (including an international bestseller), founded an NGO, built a zero-hour workweek business that was featured on Tim Ferriss’ blog, was interviewed on Arise.TV(broadcasted to 60 million people) etc.
• In the early days of I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi created authority with his Stanford education. Then he started making TV appearances. Then his book became a New York Times Bestseller. Then Fortune Magazine wrote a 6 page feature about him. Then Forbes included him in a list of top money gurus, with his photo right next to Warren Buffett.
• Neil Patel started promoting his early successes. Being a top 100 blog on Technorati, and a “top influencer on the web” according to Wall Street Journal. Now Entrepreneur Magazine says he is one of the top entrepreneurs in the world, President Obama has recognized Neil as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 30, and he has been awarded a Congressional Recognition.
• Michael Ellsberg uses his day job (writer for Forbes) for credibility, as well as specific achievements like his “Eye Gazing Parties” being featured in major media and even Tim Ferriss’ 4-Hour Workweek. No doubt when his next book becomes a NYT Bestseller he will promote himself with that, but for now he lists off a major achievement of his book Education of Millionaires: being sold into 8+ countries.
• David Kadavy is author of the #18 Amazon Best-Seller, Design For Hackers.
• After one of his projects was featured in the Globe and Mail (national newspaper in Canada), Richard Garand wrote about it on his blog.

These stories of Derek, Maneesh, Ramit, Neil, Michael, David and Richard show that self-promotion is totally okay. You just need to know what stage you are at.

So where are all the promoters?

Online, you only have a second to grab someone’s attention. And during that second, people make snap judgments about your, your business, and your website. Before. They. Read. Your. Content.
-– Derek Halpern, on why content isn’t king

One of the leading reasons we don’t promote our work is we believe we just need to create great content and that the masses will follow, or that if you have the right product idea the market will come knocking at your door. This is perpetuated by the myth that “content is king” – a myth that Derek debunks in this post.

Now, sometimes content really does propel a project on it’s own. Here are a couple of examples:

1. Sometimes Kickstarter projects just seem to catch fire, like 3Doodler: The World’s First 3D Printing Pen, that was featured across the web and raised $2,344,134.
2. Friends of mine in Beijing opened a Korean BBQ restaurant on a quiet side street. They have great food, quality service and a cool atmosphere. But they never promoted it. Slowly people started to come, and then the media started running stories about their business. After 6 months they consistently had hour long line-ups every single night.

But sometimes a great idea just isn’t enough, or you aren’t reaching your true potential.

1. There is a pirate ship in Peurto Vallarta, Mexico that you can party on for the night. You go sailing out with a bunch of pirates. There are sword fights, lasso wranglers, dudes throwing fire around, pretty good dinner, and an open bar. It’s a great concept and a lot of fun, but if you just stuck a pirate ship in the port people are going to think you are a nutbar. So 90% of their business comes from relationships – hotels that promote their business to guests for a fee.
2. Back to my friends in Beijing. When they opened their second restaurant they learned to promote and had line-ups after 3 months. Now they are working on strategies to make it happen in 1 month. The end goal? Line-ups from day 1.

It’s possible that your content/product/idea could catch fire – but would you rather be an anomaly or ensure your own success?

* * * IMPORTANT MENTAL NOTE * * *

Derek says promotion is an iterative skill that you will improve over time. When you first start you might be terrible (though with the strategies in this article you should still get above average results). A month from now you will be better. After a year of consistent effort you will be better than 99% of people. Commit to long term results.

Alright, now let’s dig into the meat – specific strategies for promoting yourself.

Keystone skill: connect with anyone

Connecting with people and networking seems like such a basic thing, but this is a keystone skill. A large part of Derek’s success is using this skill to get featured on media like Entrepreneur.com, Copyblogger, and Affiliate Summit — and also to connect with people like Ramit Sethi, Andrew Warner, James Altucher, Chris Brogan, Pat Flynn, David Risley, Corbet Barr and Marie Forleo.

Derek published a free 9 page PDF called How to Email Influential People – And Get Responses Fast, with an accompanying post here. The PDF includes word for word scripts and more importantly – the psychology of why it works. I’ve used these same principles to connect with people like Derek, Andrew Mason (Co-founder, Former-CEO, Groupon), the CEO of a $1 billion+ revenue food service company, and many top bloggers.

Maneesh also has a guide for networking with influential people (it’s that important!).

BTW: I love connecting with people and featuring their projects in my work. Just send a quick intro to malexis@gmail.com.

Alright, time for the strategies.

Strategy #1: The Drafting Technique

I decided to apply the drafting technique as you suggested and I want to share my results…

This has now given me the the amazing opportunity to get my name and brand out there in front of the entire country and also in front of the millions of expats who read their newspaper online everyday… All I can say is wow!!!
— Vanessa, Social Trigger’s reader on her results with the Drafting Technique (cut out the middle part)

What is the Drafting Technique?

The Drafting Technique is a flagship strategy over at Social Triggers. It’s a way to get major press for your startup, small business or website without connections or a PR firm — totally DIY.As a starter for understanding this technique, take a look at the name. Drafting is a skill that top athletes like cyclists, race car drivers and speed skaters use to get better results with less effort. If you’ve ever watched Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France, one dude is up front breaking the wind, and the other cyclists are riding in his slipstream to reduce drag from wind, etc.Now think of this in marketing. Being the first to contact a major media outlet is tough — maybe they don’t know about your product or service, so you have to educate them. Maybe you don’t even know who to contact. But if your competitor gets featured first, e.g., in a newspaper, you know you can contact the author of the column and they will understand you. Now you’ve reduced the drag (who to contact, education), and can slide in with way less effort. The next section will show you how.

How to Draft like a pro

Drafting is about hopping into your competitor’s slipstream. If they get featured somewhere, you try to get featured there too.
— Derek Halpern, summing up the Drafting Technique

Derek has a 4-step process for you to get started drafting:

Step 1: List off 5-15 competitors. These don’t have to be direct competition — just people that are in the same world as you. E.g., If you sell front-pocket wallets, you can find other companies that sell modern men’s accessories.

Step 2: Search for any media mentions they have (including features, links, etc.). On Google you can write link:www.socialtriggers.com and see all the incoming links to that site (if this doesn’t work for your site, try taking out the www).

Drafting Tip #1: “Doesn’t matter who’s first. The trick is to find someone who was already covered, and draft behind them.” When we see a competitor featured in the media, it’s natural to think, “the opportunity is gone. They’ve already reported about X. I’m too late.” But this is actually just a mental barrier to getting started. Instead, think about how you can add a unique perspective to the conversation.

Step 3: Find the contact info for the blogger/reporter/journalist.

Step 4: Instead of just reaching out and asking for links, make a value-focused pitch.

How to make a value-focused pitch

Derek says when you are looking to get featured in the media, “It’s not about you or your company. It’s about providing the reporter with an incentive to cover your company.” And this doesn’t mean buying links! Instead, you need to give them a story — a unique/new idea, or new developments to an existing story.

To find your angle, carefully analyze the story about your competition. Find any gaps or errors — if you are an expert in your niche this should be easy. Once you have your story idea, write and send your email.

Drafting Tip #2: “With Drafting, you don’t have to write about what’s hot right now. Instead, you write about what reporters or bloggers have a history of writing about.” Drafting successfully doesn’t require you to be talking about the story of the day. Seek out reporters/bloggers that write about your niche. If you are a tech startup, find writers that cover that. If you are a relationship expert, there are countless columns in newspapers and magazines.

Here’s a tip that I always keep in mind when emailing someone new: KEEP IT SHORT — assume that people are good intentioned but lazy.

You can write your own, or use Derek’s outline:

Hey Name,

I saw you wrote about [insert topic]. Well, I’ve got some [insert unique story angle] that answers the concerns you raised in your original article. Here’s the article:

[insert link to article here].

You’re busy but you’ll find this as the perfect answer to [insert the concern they raised].

– Derek

Final step: click send :- )

Case Studies: How these 3 bloggers used Derek’s Drafting Technique to get featured in major media

Pro Tip: case studies are one of the most powerful tools available to a marketer. Not only do they establish credibility for the business, “Derek’s advice works”, but they are also useful for a) establishing social proof, “this advice works for people like me”, and b) showing a variety of application scenarios, “this is how it could work for a business like mine”.

That last point is key. A lot of advice gets passed around online over and over again — with very few people taking action and getting results (Derek calls this the “echo chamber”. Say something unique that gets people actual results and your business will stand out!)

So let’s look at how a few Social Triggers’ readers applied the Drafting Technique…

Example 1: Jadah used the Drafting Technique to bring 4,148+ readers to her parenting blog

Jadah runs a parenting advice blog called Family Sponge. Her and her blogging partner Jen write about child rearing, diet, design, sustainable living, etc. After writing an article about life without a TV, Jadah leveraged the Topic Drafting Technique to bring 4,148+ new visitors to her site.

From Jadah:

I agree that connecting with your “competitors” is a huge help. I sent a simple email to a blog I admire (it’s in a similar genre as my blog). I included a link to an article on our blog that I thought her readers might benefit from: http://familysponge.com/parenting/tv/ The blog owner actually read it and shared the link in one of her posts which brought us 1,211 views on our site to that specific article on the day it was posted with consistent 400+ referrers from her site days after. We had another big blog share with the same article weeks earlier on another site bringing us 1,737 views on that one article the first day. We actually back linked one of her posts in our post. Sometimes people get afraid to leak out to other blogs, but I find it as a way to share resources and ideas. I want to build an honest community and give credit where credit is due. But not sure how it will pay off in the long run. Our blog has been running less than 3 months, and I’m thankful for the articles I read here for inspiration and action steps.

A few things to note:

1. Notice that being featured on each of the host blogs happened weeks apart. There is no time limit on the Drafting Technique. If your content is relevant, you can promote it days, weeks, months or even years after you write it.
2. Did you see her mention fear? “Sometimes people get afraid to leak out to other blogs”. Linking to another blogger or business in your niche is an easy way to add value to them and open yourself up to reciprocity.
3. Traffic spikes are actually a really good thing. Derek says Social Triggers was built on traffic spikes — because even if you just catch a few hundred subscribers each time, the numbers accumulate. Ramit Sethi told me something similar in another interview: features on major media sites result in a “staircase” like pattern for your web traffic.

Free Bonus: the word-for-word email script Jadah used to reach out to influential blogs

I followed up with Jadah for more details about her success. She was kind enough to share the EXACT email she used to reach out to influential blogs in her niche. Copy below.

From: Jadah Sellner <####@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:43 PM
Subject: Blog crush + Life without TV
To: gabrielle@####.com

Bonjour Gabrielle,

Your blog is fabulous. I adore your family photos
and your writing style.

I subscribe to your blog, and drool over your
images and fascinating stories.

I don’t subscribe to many blogs, but you and
zenhabits.net are invited to my inbox. 

I just wanted to share a post that may benefit
your readers from a site a mommy friend and I
partner on together.

http://familysponge.com/parenting/tv/

With the New Year, I thought it might be nice to
inspire families to unplug a little bit.

I am also available to provide any assistance
that may help you out. I know balancing a family
and maintaining a successful blog can be time
consuming. I would be open to writing or sharing
something that may be helpful to your readers.

Warmest regards,

Jadah

www.familysponge.com

P.S., We have a blog crush on you. Your
site rocks!

More notes:

1. Notice this is different than Derek’s email copy above — that’s totally okay! Success comes from the fundamental principles you apply, not by stressing over word choice.
2. Jadah sent her email January 4, and the target blog linked to her February 3. Sometimes your results will be instant (I’ve had people respond back within 10 minutes and say, “love it, can we post this tomorrow?”), but sometimes you need patience and perseverance.
3. Also, when you send emails do you think about the width of your text? The narrow formatting of the email above may actually increase responses. Derek wrote about how to do these tests over on the Thesis Statement.

Jadah has since used Derek’s techniques to grow a second blog with 700,000+ visitors per month. But if you are more interested in boosting your credibility/authority than web traffic, check out the next example.

Example 2: Sean drafted his way into a national magazine

Just a quick example. Sean Mysel is another Social Triggers reader who used the Drafting Technique to land coverage in a national golf magazine in the UK. Here’s how he did it:

This works brilliantly! I used this exact technique to get ongoing press coverage for the oldest, most wide read golf magazine in the UK. They needed help figuring out a brief drought season and how to take care of courses, I offered to give them some ideas.

Pro-tip: Think of both online AND offline media outlets for your promotional work. By getting featured in a major publication like a magazine or newspaper you can earn a great credibility badge and place their logo on your site.

Example 3: Rachel got featured both online and offline in an award-winning photo magazine

Sometimes you can actually double up on your efforts. By targeting media outlets that publish both online and offline you can get the credibility boosting power of being in print, with the link boosting power of being online.

Used the competitor’s draft to get a feature in PDN Magazine’s December 2012 issue (online and print edition) with a link to our site.

Very nice :- )

If you have any questions about the Drafting Technique, let us know in the comments below.

And for now, let’s look at another one of Derek’s media strategies…

Strategy #2: Natural Controversy

If people are going to hate you, they’re going to hate you.

You can’t really stop it.

And when you present balanced arguments… for the sake of being balanced… you’re actually hurting your chances of finding the people who truly resonate with whatever you’re trying to get them to do.
— Derek Halpern, on why you should be controversial

How controversy = traffic

Derek has a simple equation for getting massive traffic to your website…

Outrage + Controversy = Massive Traffic

Alright, two parts. Let’s break it down…

Master Outrage

Mastering outrage is all about understanding the emotional triggers of your audience, and pulling those levers in the right way.

As Tim Ferriss says, “study the top stories at Digg or MSN.com and you’ll notice a pattern: the top stories all polarize people. If you make it threaten people’s 3Bs—behavior, belief, or belongings—you get a huge virus-like dispersion.”

And as Derek says, “people go to great lengths to let everyone know how mad they are.”

So if you want to threaten behavior:

• write a blog post like “why your morning routine is actually making you fat”
• post a YouTube video about “the three things you should have done in College”
• ask Facebook “breast feeding or bottle feeding?

And if you want to threaten belief:

• write a blog post like “why Content is King is a myth“
• post a YouTube video about “how art school is a big fat waste of money”
• Tweet that “99% of beer actually tastes terrible”

And if you want to threaten belongings:

• “Do this or risk foreclosure”
• “The hidden costs on your cable bill”
• “Investors are about to lose 50% on this one common stock”

If you aren’t sure what will outrage your audience, try testing. Send a snippet to a small segment of one of your lists (email, Facebook, Twitter) and gauge the reaction.

And once you’ve caused outrage…

Master Controversy

Mastering controversy is about harnessing both sides of an argument.

With the examples above, each is going to have supporters that take different sides.

• Writers believe content is king — designers believe the design is more important (it’s the first impression!)
• “Breast feeding leads to higher IQ!” vs. “It’s not proven! Einsten was bottle fed!”
• Etc.

But you can’t rely on these groups to seek you out.

Instead — go to their home turf — blogs, forums, and other places that they congregate.

1. First, reach out to the people that will disagree with you. Send a quick email with the link. Watch as the outrage/comments roll in.
2. Then, reach out to the people that will support you. Again, comments, dialogue, and shares.

Here is email copy you can use to contact each side.

Hey Name,

I saw you wrote about [insert topic]. I know [insert unique story angle] is something your audience feels strongly about, and I did some research that might surprise them. Here’s the article:

[insert link to article here].

What’s interesting is how [useful point about your article].

– Derek

Repeat as necessary, and then let the traffic flow.

By making people take a stance, you are going to gain loyal followers.

But there is a risk of using this technique. You can actually be TOO controversial (or sputter and die because you aren’t controversial enough).

How to be the right amount of controversial 99% of the time

With great power comes great responsibility.
— Stan Lee (via Spiderman), Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and possibly first by Francois-Marie Arouet (aka Voltaire)

Even though controversy is a powerful tool for driving traffic, it does have limitations. There are ways of communicating and promoting controversial topics that work — and there are those that have a net negative effect by offending your most loyal fans. Derek actually warns against publicly taking strong stances on topics like politics, gender, religion, etc.

It seems vague at first, “be controversial without being too controversial”, but it turns out there might actually be a right level of controversy for bloggers and businesses.

A 2012 academic paper[1/2014 Maneesh Note: The link no longer works. It was originally this: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2050275 ] published by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania discussed how online marketers can manipulate controversy to achieve results like increased comments or traffic. Here are a few major takeaways:

1. Contrary to popular belief, controversy doesn’t always increase discussion.
2. Moving from low to moderate levels of controversy increases the number of comments an article receives — additional increases result in less comments.
3. Exception: If you allow online commenters to be anonymous, the are willing to discuss more controversial topics.
4. Less controversial stuff is more likely to be shared with weaker ties (i.e., acquaintances), and so is more likely to diffuse through a social network — or in Newspeak, if you want your posts to be shared by the Ministry of Twitter then low level controversy is doubleplus good.

The basic mechanics of controversy are pretty simple: “while controversy increases conversation by making topics more interesting to talk about, it simultaneously decreases conversation by making people feel uncomfortable talking about these topics.

So the art is in understanding what makes your audience tick, and not going beyond their limit. My friend Gregory Ciotti calls engaging in this low level controversy the Toilet Paper Strategy.

I recommend you read the entire academic study. It answers questions like:

• How does online controversy compare to offline?
• Does “knowledge” matter more than “interest”?

Of course sometimes even when you have zero-intent of being controversial, it still creeps in. This morning I was reading an article about air pollution in China (it is literally off the charts). One of the first commenters wrote, “This is the America the Libertarians and corporations want.” Okay — WTF?

 Good Guy Internet Commenter

 Good Guy Internet Commenter [FIXED]

To help keep you on track, I’ve created a list of rules to follow: Derek’s 12 Commandments of Natural Controversy.

Derek’s 12 Commandments of Natural Controversy

1. Rally the people you inspire. Find the topics and emotional triggers they care about.
2. Building an audience is more about exclusion than inclusion, so don’t worry about offending outsiders.
3. Never piss off your loyal fans and friends. You CAN polarize people in the wrong direction.
4. Instead, piss off the people you want to exile from your community. “If people are going to hate you, they are going to hate you.”
5. You don’t have to be opinionated about everything. This is a big one. One of the common barriers to using Natural Controversy is “but I don’t feel really strongly about things like X”. This is easy to overcome. Someone once asked Derek, “Why do you always have such strong opinions on everything?” He replied, “It’s not that I have strong opinions on everything, it’s that I only talk about things I have strong opinions on.”
6. Don’t create problems for no reason. Being controversial just to try to drive traffic, or worse — without a goal — is a no-no. Instead, only use this technique when you truly support what you’re saying.
7. Be confident and people will believe in you. Always maintain your position unless someone provides new data that makes you change your mind. Don Moore, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, demonstrated that “consumers tend to pick advice from those who express more confidence that they have the right answer (Moore, 2009).”
8. Stay out of conversations related to politics, gender, religion, etc. These topics are a little too polarizing for the average blogger. Studies show that above a certain level controversy actually decreases discussion. Instead, optimize for “low level controversy”. Obvious exceptions: you run a political blog or church.
9. Find the common enemy. Derek says every group of people has a common enemy. “You gotta find out who that enemy is, and then use outrage + controversy against them.”
10. Question the 3 Bs. This one is borrowed from Tim Ferriss. Threaten the 3 Bs (behavior, belief, belongings) and traffic follows.
11. All controversies burn bridges. “I don’t mind burning bridges that I don’t want to leave up.”
12. Controversy is like chess — it’s easy to learn how to move the pieces, but it’s hard to learn how to play like a grandmaster. AKA: this all may sound pretty basic, but it’s actually quite hard to pull off.

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Warning: Natural controversy is a powerful technique you can use to drive traffic to your website. However Derek warns that if done poorly it can have a negative effect (like pissing off your loyal fans). Also, you may get into trouble by failing to support your opinion (e.g., with data or other research), or failing to address the major counter arguments to your point-of-view.

Here are a few more examples of controversy in action:

• Andrew Warner used controversy to build up the viewer base at Mixergy. When a Techcrunch intern was accused of taking bribes, Andrew reached out to get his story. Remember Derek’s rule — this is not just about being controversial — “he did an interview with me because he knew that I would listen, instead of sandbagging him.” Sometimes just providing a new viewpoint is enough to provide value to your fans (this also turned out to be one of Mixergy’s big traffic days).
• When I interviewed Marcus Sheridan, The Sales Lion, he told me about how he jumps on controversial topics (that he has a genuine opinion about) to get more traffic. e.g., When pro-blogger Chris Brogan deleted all his Twitter followers, it caused a small uproar. Marcus voiced his opinionon his blog. See the mega-comments for how well Marcus rallies his readers around ideas.
• Once you become an expert, you know when you can bend — or even break — the rules. Ramit Sethi masterfully executed a gender series back in mid-2012. Here’s the starter post: A confession about gender and money…, and even better How Much Should You Spend On An Engagement Ring.
• My brother’s party rock band is made up of reformed heavy-metal dudes. They name all of their songs after girls. They produced a fun music videoand got slammed by a major heavy-metal blog for being sell-outs. The result? Over 100,000 views for their video.
• I wrote the first issue of Blueprint Entrepreneur. As part of my research, I asked Quora, Programmers, what do you think when you hear “I just need a tech co-founder”? A rage storm followed — 45 comments, 23,120 views and marked as “one of the best conversations online” by one of the mods. All because the question struck an emotional chord.
• re: burning bridges. Back when I was interviewing top bloggers forWriterviews, I went to Man Vs. Debt to reach out to Adam Baker. His most recent post was called, “The Cost of a Dead Osama Bin Laden”. I found the parody title and tone of the post distasteful, so I never reached out (this is painful for me to admit because generally I favour learning opportunities. Also, P.S: even now I’m linking to this controversial post). But like Derek says, “I personally don’t mind [burning] bridges that I don’t want to leave up.”
• A thread on Reddit re: controversy, BLEW UP, getting 13,000+ comments in 5 hours and actually crashing Reddit. Check it out here: What extremely controversial thing(s) do you honestly believe, but don’t talk about to avoid the argument?

Conclusion: If you don’t spend 80% of your effort promoting your business, you are going to have a bad time

There is a lot of terrible advice out there: “you have to blog every day”, and similar. But it’s not about how much content you produce, and past a certain level it’s not really about the quality either.

What matters is the marketing and promotion you do for your product or business — and when you master high level strategies like the Drafting Technique and Natural Controversy, you set yourself up for explosive growth.

The strategies in this article are just two ways to promote your business. If they aren’t the right fit for you, that’s totally okay, try one of these instead:

• When Laura Roeder spoke at SXSW, a fan told her “It’s my dream to give a talk at SXSW”. Turns out that fan had never even applied. If you want to speak at events, ask. BTW: Laura is a social media expert — she started following Derek’s 80/20 rule and increased her traffic too.
• Ramit Sethi builds relationships with journalists by being a source — if they need stats he is able to source and provide numbers quickly.
• “The public responds to precedents and superlatives.” — Elon Musk(Founder of Paypal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX)
• Danny Iny of Fire Pole Marketing wrote 80+ quality guest posts in less than a year (he told me about his system in this interview).
• Chris Guillebeau talks about how you can grow a following by creating a compelling story and building flagship content.
• Tim Ferriss teaches how to get national media coverage by creating a reel, knowing your topic, and pitching properly.

Remember, spend just 20% of your time/effort on creation and the other 80% on promotion, and you will see terrific results. BTW: Derek says this also means that you get to repeat your BEST stuff everywhere you go — that’s a $1 million insight.

Last thing: an article like this is a lot of effort to research, draft, write, revise, etc. You can do us a huge favour by leaving a comment below. Let us know:

1. What are you struggling with in your blog or business?
2. What have you tried for promotion? What worked? What didn’t?

Maneesh, Derek, and I will review every comment — thanks!

Make Money Reddit and Quizzes

I was one of those 'how to make 5$ a day' people who would ask everyone how to get 5 bucks a day and not do much, like trying myself some thing.
I saw those Meaww and Nametests quizzes, though, and started hunting their scripts. I had plans in mind. But I have found that those scripts are almost impossible to get, and if you do get them, you will have to pay a huge price. For a starter, it wasn't a deal. So I went on with the trivia/personality quizzes which do not require scripts and am now making like 5$ a day daily with barely half an hour work per day. If I put more effort in it, why, I'll be making more.

How to do it?

1. You have to set up a normal Wordpress website. For quizzing, you need to install quiz plugins. The necessary ones we'll need the most are PlayBuzz and Riddle.com's plugins. They are just to help us embed various quizzes from their sites. (Yes! We don't even need to make quizzes! Just embed the ready-made ones!)
2. Embed about 50 quizzes to start with. Make sure these quizzes are from the fandoms that are famous, for example, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones etc. Have widgets and grid plugins to display more and more posts so that the users can read titles and go for more quizzes on your site. (Have category based widgets - Popular Quizzes, Trending Quizzes and so on). Use such a theme that allows as many thumbnails of various posts as possible. Go for grids and infinite scrolling (available in some premium grid plugins; you scroll down and more post thumbnails appear, sort of like Fiverr gigs showcase)

Now we have the website ready. How about traffic?

Reddit will be our prime focus, although you can spam on FB, too, if you have done it many times. You'll have to go join separate group for separate quiz. On Reddit, though, you can post on any subreddit. You just need an aged account and high karma on it. I will recommend you buy about three Reddit accounts that are atleast a year old and have a minimum of 1k karma, and you are good to go.
You can buy the reddit accounts on Fiverr for 5-10$. I have bought quite a few times from there (I have my own account with self made karma but I use it for discussions and as personal account) but most were shared accounts that the gig makers give you access too. Now Reddit checks IPs and it can ban you without a warning. So play safe here. I buy from a source and have had no problems so far. He has opened a gig on Fiverr too.

So now that we have about three Reddit accounts, the question comes of sharing the links. I always share one link to a quiz, then answer two-three askreddit questions (Hey, sometimes I just want to troll there and it helps i building comment karma too. Makes sharing links less work because I am kind of having fun too). By doing this, you make it sure nobody notices that you are on Reddit just for sharing them links. Three accounts make it all the better. Nobody can guess what you are doing.

A screenshot of some quiz links (My competitor's) on Reddit is





This guy posted the links in relevant subreddits. I normally refrain from posting in those subreddits with less than 1k subscribers.
Apart from the first link, the other links in the above picture easily got this guy nearly 6k traffic. I know it because of the upvotes and the subreddit strength.
My AdSense earnings for 6k traffic are 8.5$ average, so it is not a bad conversion. I was also using content.ad but they were paying like 0.30$ for 20 clicks after some days. I had made 7-8$ till then on it. Now I just use AdSense.

My AdSense CPC range from 0.09$ to as much as 0.25$. Remember, this is not organic traffic, although with a bit SEO you can get some organic traffic coming, too.

What I have learnt -

Nearly 2k Reddit traffic will make you 2$ easily. 2k Reddit traffic isn't a big deal - I have brought 80k a day from Reddit on a streaming site I am doing joint-venture with an awesome guy here.
Many of us here are seasoned IM people. We know how to do tweaks and all. I haven't tried CPA on this because the Redditors are people who take ads seriously. Half of them probably have mandatory adblocks. But AdSense ads are the best. They adapt. Gods below, I saw a quizzing ad above my own ad just today! (I use 300*250 image ads in the post, below title and in the middle. One in sidebar)

I hope some who are having a hard time making some bucks daily go for this and get succesful! Ask me any questions and I will answer.

Ong style

Ong is on the leaderboard of several launches therefore marketers reciprocate. That's the game some people play in the MMO niche. According to W+ Ong has sold over 1000 of this shit. Look at the JV page and the contest there. He knows what he's doing - just not telling anyone else how to do it!

Here's how to do it the Ong way:

1. Build a huge list of MMO wannabees.

2. Promote Other People's products as an affiliate (make sure you sign up to the leaderboards)

3. Come out with your own shit products fronted by a great sales letter and an irresistable MMO catchline.

4. Make sure your FE offer is 100% commission and the BE products are $29 - $47 with 50% comms

5. Sucker up to all your marketer 'buddies' on FB

6. Build a great JV page with a huge contest (protected by min. sales figures).

7. Announce your Launch on all the FB launch groups plus Muncheye etc.

8. Sit back and watch the money roll in and build an even bigger buyer list off the FE.

Repeat and scale up as your list grows even bigger.

That's all folks!

Losers VS Winners

How's it going Robert?

People like to ask me "What separates the top affiliates from the normal ones."

You should know that 20% of affiliates make 80% of the profits in this industry. That 20% is an exclusive club, and I'll get into that topic next week.

It's more important to ZOOM out and look at what separates the LOSERS and the WINNERS in LIFE.

Scroll through your Facebook newsfeed next time and play a game. See who has a loser mindset, and a winning one.

Here are some differences.

LOSERS:

Losers complain about not being rich...or they say things like money doesn't matter (if it doesn't matter then why do you go to work?)

Losers get JEALOUS when they see someone more successful.

Losers try to find the cheapest ways to accomplish their goals.

Losers think success is based on luck.

Losers have an excuse for everything whenever things don’t go their way. It's always someone else's fault.

WINNERS:

Winners aspire to be rich and devour information on it. Money's not evil, it's just a tool.

Winners see successful people and ask them questions how they did it. They get INSPIRED from other people's success.

Winners invest heavily to gain the skills that help accomplish their goals.

Winners know the harder they work, the luckier they get

Winners know they are 100% in charge of their own lives (internal lotus of control)

Which one are you?

I gotta admit, back in college I was 100% a loser.

It wasn’t until I adjusted my mindsets that everything changed.

That’s why the people you SURROUND yourself with are so IMPORTANT.

“Loseritis” is contagious! You need to stay away from low level people or else you'll catch the disease!

I know what you’re thinking.

What if you don’t have a great circle of friends? What if everyone you’re surrounded with has a low level mindset?

* Don’t let the negative things they say affect you. Just smile, nod, and get back to work

* Read a lot. Books are your mentors. I love KNAWWWLLEDDDGEEE :-)

* This is the INTERNET generation, you’re one click away from surrounding yourself with positive energy. (Protip: if I feel someone has negative energy or loseritis, then I unfollow them on my Facebook.)

Want daily inspiration from me? Add me on SnapChat: Charles_Ngo

Talk Soon
- Charles

Thank you Chuck.

So you see, this is all true.
Stop whining and get to work.
Invest time and money in tools to make IM work. NO BODY WILL EVER HAND YOU THE KEYS TO THEIR EMPIRE! (unless your father is Frank Kern or someone like that,,,, no? Then you're screwed) "Run to your destiny, don't walk". Les Brown

They will only offer you steps to get there. I've seen and bought a thousand products about IM and yes, most say the same thing.

And do you know why that is?

BECAUSE IM IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE DOING! AND IT ALL TAKES WORK!

I'm tired,,, so tired,,, so tired of all these biotches saying how nothing works. Everyday people start and succeed online, somewhere, in someway. An they do it because of putting in the work. Successful marketers are where they are at because of work,,, NOT BECAUSE OF A PRODUCT THEY BOUGHT THAT GAVE THEM SUCCESS AND RAINED MONEY DOWN ON THEIR HEADS!

The truth is in internet marketing, where you can see faster results is the more you spend in the right way, the more you can make and the faster you can make it. Every huge, successful internet marketer spends a ton of money ON internet marketing.

IM success will never be free. Get over it. And NO $7 WSO will rain money down on you head, however, it may give you a few steps that will lead you down a path that gets you closer to success. Success is a mountain that you need to climb. There is no elevator to the top. It's like pushing a stone up the mountain and when you get to the top and find success it will level out a little bit. And you will find that it eases up and isn't so hard. Just like an airplane or rocket or even a car, the getting going is the hardest part that takes the most effort.

In IM, "getting started" takes the most time, planning, tools, money, building, setting up, and getting everything in line. YOU CAN'T SKIP THIS! This is the foundation of any IM business. It's the foundation of ANY business. Make sure you have your foundation in place or your business will crumble before it ever has a chance to get going.

Now get going.

Marketing Guru's SHit

You must be thinking that I am a fool to suggest you not to follow the techniques of the marketing gurus! Yes, this is exactly what I am saying and to hell with all the bogus and nonsensical marketing techniques of these guys who call themselves gurus. Don't believe me?

Well, then answer this. How many people like you have you seen succeeding by following the techniques taught by these so called gurus? The only people who succeed by selling such techniques are these pseudo intelligent, intellectual, etc.-etc. marketing gurus who claim they know everything.

Let's go back to the question and this time read it carefully and seriously. How many people have you seen succeeding by following these techniques? How many articles have YOU read that had titles like "10 Best Marketing Techniques that all you need to Succeed." What happened? You read them and thought that's it. Bingo! "Boy, I have what it needs to setup my million dollar empire online and be the next big thing" or whatever.

There's nothing wrong in dreaming and there's certainly no harm in believing in yourself. But putting your trust on such self-proclaimed gurus who do nothing but mint money by selling their futile and useless techniques to gullible users on the internet is the worst thing to do.

Wasting your time and money in these shitty things that actually serve no purpose is the stupidest and the most pathetic thing to do.

Now, you would start thinking what I am blabbering about. What do I want to say and why I am being so cynical to these marketing gurus and their "time tested" techniques. "Time tested", really? Do you even believe it yourself? Trust me, you don't. I will explain everything. The context of this blog and what my suggestions are; but first, take a moment's break, and a deep breath and think “ have you ever seen such techniques yielding really good results? If your answer is yes; well, all the best to you! It's your time and money to waste. Let it go down the drain. But if you feel what I am saying makes a little sense, keep reading.

Let's first look at some of the techniques that several marketing gurus promote. Along with it, I will tell you when to ignore them and also how you should adapt them or completely replace them with something more workable.

Follow-up and Hard Sell
You must have heard this umpteen number of times. Follow-up and hard sell a product. The customer will buy it. Or, that don't give up on a prospect and keep following up. Images like the one below are used to shove the statistics in your face.



Alright then! Do you really believe this shit in this age of internet and online sales? I mean what the hell on earth someone is thinking when telling you to keep following up your prospects till they buy.

Now, something like it might have worked if you were selling insurance to an old timer who doesn't know much about the internet why finds it hard to slap the door on the face. But try selling the same way online and it would be a matter of seconds when you"ll be blocked. Internet offers enormous choices to a buyer but it also gives you an access to a humongous pool of potential clients. Why waste time following up someone specific when there are thousands more out there who need exactly what you are selling.

A Big and an equally useless email list

Alright then. Build big, bigger, biggest email list and the customers will queue up to buy your product! That's the most blatant lie a marketing guru will tell you and if you really believe this shit, then only God can be your saviour!



Do you know a big email list is of no use if the people in your list are not interested in your emails selling your product or sending them your newsletters? How do you know that just because they haven't unsubscribed to your list they are reading your emails? It's possible all your emails are already marked as Spam by most of them.

Instead, focus on building an email list that contains email addresses of the people who are actually interested in receiving your emails. Try engaging with your contacts and if you find some of them aren't interested in talking to you, unsubscribe them and trim your list. Remember, quality will qualify your email list as a potent marketing method.
Quantity will only create more mess than you can clean up.

Stop boosting and speak the truth
So, let's touch upon the way our "Best Friends", the Marketing Gurus talk. Most of them use similar titles to their content - 10 or 20 or zillion ways to give an Amazing Boost to your business or grow your business 10 times in 10 days using these simple techniques. Now, I am really sick and tired of listening to such bullshit. I mean, I'm yet to see someone increasing even 10% of the business by following these "Amazing Marketing Techniques". These are blatant lies and the best examples of how marketers boost.

Stop doing that in your business. A customer will buy your product not just once but every time if you are truthful and honest. Boosting or false promises will allow you to sell once but soon the client would know and the next time you approach him, he would... you know where he'll kick you! Why would you want that? It's not that you won't have to sell again in the future. Be honest and kind and build a relationship with your clients forged on trust.

You might say that the marketing gurus don't ever ask to lie or boost. But then, it's exactly they are doing when their titles are so catchy and project something that's too good to be true.

Creating a sense of urgency
Okay! It's something you'd have already seen. You go to a website or a shop and see an offer - "Order in next 10 hours and get this or that free". If you've been advised to do something similar by a marketing guru in a "subtle" manner then ask him get lost. The best way to sell is to time your sale when a potential buyer needs a product and decides to buy it. Creating urgency could help with a flash sale but if want to make a real good offer and a long term relationship, better negotiate a discount with your clients individually.

Free (read crappy) gifts
That's the worst thing to do. Offering an ebook that nobody wants or something stupid that has no value. Avoid it. Your customers need stuff with real value, not some nugatory free crap, and they are willing to pay for it. So stop being a pain in their (you know where) and give them something useful.
Instead of telling them how lucky they are to receive your free stuff, invest the time and money in offering to help them in some way that will help you develop a meaningful and useful long term relation with them. If you want to give away anything for free, give them your time. They will appreciate it and trust me, will always keep trusting you.


Now that you've seen how marketing gurus propagate techniques that help no one except them to make money, it's time to use your brain that you've preserved so carefully. Use your own judgement and logic and stop following the herd. You aren't going to get anything out of it and will only end up losing your money and time. It's better to take a nap instead of listening to the idiotic ideas promoted to you as "expert" thoughts.        

Winning Marketing Solutions

Winning Marketing Solutions (previously known as On Stage Marketing) is a complete scam. This company will gain leads of people looking or researching for a home-based business opportunity or are currently or recently unemployed looking to make an additional stream of income during trying times. They CAPATILZE on your weaknesses, emotions and use high-pressure tactics to encourage you to listen to a 45-minute audio call (that is how it all starts). After listening to the call, Ellen Franzoso will call you back to confirm that you watched the video and then the "SELLING" starts! I paid $2, 499 to be on their so-called Dream Team! It's a total joke. What you really end up paying for are elementary-level sales tools mostly about cold-calling, advertising, etc (education you can get for FREE off the general Internet or Google). They claim they will help you increase your income by $50, 000 or your money back (which you will NEVER get back because they will claim that "you just didn't apply their techniques correctly")!

Terry Duff and Gino Niccoli are the owners of this company and they are a SELF-named "Dream Team." This dream team is more of a nightmare. RUN FOR THE HILLS FROM TERRY DUFF or you'll have yourself to blame! The claims they make are preposterous and they extensively exaggerate the necessity in using their program in order to succeed in a home-based business. They state that they are “world renowned experts" on everything related to marketing. It's all about "them" and joining their "special program" in order to be part of this self-claimed dream team. They claim to know the "secrets" of the art and science of marketing; again, much of which is nothing new or innovative in any way, shape or form. ALL THEIR CALLS are prerecorded and are NOT live as they claim they are. Again, lying about what they offer and how they offer it.

After the sales pitch, you choose 1 of 3 Levels. 
Diamond - which includes an 8 week course on mindset, the law of attraction, law of abundance...bullshit after bullshit after bullshit, inner circle, mastermind training, and other "must have" information.
Platinum and the Gold - are basically the same thing, but did not include some of the "crucial secrets." This is all backed by FALSE "risk free guarantee" that if after a year, if you haven't made at least $50, 000, you get your money back x2!

I did NOT make $50, 000 and I was told that I would not be getting my money back, but that I could remain a "Lifetime Member" and could continue to "sharpen my skills" through their bogus education program. The costs are the following: Diamond - $2499, Platinum - $1499, and the Gold Package - $999. 

These kinds of SCAMS have now become so numerous because of the saturation of internet marketing and the direct sales opportunities that out there. There are too many over-the-top, overblown claims just as in the case with Winning Marketing Solutions. There are a lot of differences between regular marketing and internet marketing and I'm sure there are things "one must know" to be successful, but you cannot find out these secrets and techniques from internet scammers like Terry Duff. 

I am currently reporting Winning Marketing Solutions to my states Attorney General's office, the BBB and the Federal Trade Commission and hiring an attorney to represent me in small claims. DO NOT LET THIS COMPANY CONVENIENCE YOU TO JOIN THEIR DREAM TEAM!


Website: terryduff.com
winningmarketingsolutions.com

I had the same horrible, scamming experience with Ellen Franzoso and Terry Duff. July 2015 I lost $4000 to these thieves and liars. I started by paying $700 for using the website, then $600 to hire Ellen to "coach" me (sick) then another $2000 to hire Terry to make me a website then $600 for an email responder service. Then, as if that was not enough, Terry began sending me email after email to buy a package of Leads he had...and Ellen would call me and call me to buy the Leads as well. They don't teach you anything on their website you can't find for free online everywhere else. Run, run, run from Winning Marketing Solutions, Terry Duff or Ellen Franzoso. Don't learn your lesson the hard way like I did!!

I have just experienced what I still find hard to come to terms with.Asa 69 year old fool I was convinced that all my dreams of having success on the internet would be realized and some.In my excited state being wooed by Terry Duff and Ellen franzoso I was convinced even after I tried to reject their offers that I could not go wrong and all my problems are solved.Well within 24 hours away from Ellen and Terry I realized that the $1260.00 I handed over was well beyond what I could afford and I right away rang and plead with both terry Duff and Ellen Franzoso to release me from the agreement.I had openedup to both of the and they new my dire financial position.I believed that the manner in which they sympathized with me prior to getting my money that they would understand and releave me of the stress I was under as a result of this stupid decision on my part.
I am from Australia and here it would be unimaginable to have the experience I got from the principle of Winning Marketing Solutions Mr Terry Duff and his associate Ellen Franzoso.
They reminded me in no uncertain terms that I would have no chance in getting a refund and that I was stuck with that, even though I had not received nay product or service from the up to this time oless the 24 hours. 
I am still reeling from this experience and cannot believe that something like this is possible.My begging for understanding was rebutted in the most callous manner with absolutely no evidence of understanding or remorse.Both Terry and Ellen were fully made aware of my dire financial position before they took my money and I sincerely believed that I would have their sympathy.

Best Do dollow backlinks in 2016

I'm sharing high PR backlinks list

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Go to /]blackworldforum.
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Now register yourself their for new account.
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You will get a ******** backlink.



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Go to Codecademy.
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Go to Granta.
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Fill your profile and add your website link while filling profile.
This will be a PR7 backlink.



5. Backlink From OneTab

Open your Firefox browser.
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Open your website/blog in your Firefox browser.
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And that's it, you will get a unique on which your backlink will be available.



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Go to Copyrighted.
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Go to Alltop.
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At the bottom of the page you will see a option to add your blog/website.
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Add link which putting your info using :<a href = "http://www.yourwebsite.com"> Your Keyword </a>.
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