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Our guest author Mr. Hayden Linoturn provides some great tips on getting links to add to your blogging popularity quickly.

Link popularity is important to your website receiving the maximum amount of traffic. This is because the search engines, like Google, Yahoo and MSN look for other websites linking to your website to help determine how popular your website is. The more outside websites that link to your website, the higher your link popularity is and therefore the more traffic you will receive from the search engines.

Building link popularity is easy enough, and there are both for fee and for free ways to do so. As a beginner, you want to start with the free methods. This is important so that you know how things work. A foundation of understanding is important so you can later train outsourcers.

I love to use blogs to help build my backlinks and link popularity. There are literally millions of blogs out there, so you’re sure to find something on your topic. What’s more, you can get started immediately.

So first of all, go to Google and click the ‘Blogs’ link at the top. You’re going to put in a keyword that is about the topic of your site. After that, Google will give you a list of all blogs that have articles about the topic, and you’ll go to them.

Most blogs have an option to leave a comment after their articles. You will read the article and ensure that it is, in fact, about your topic. Then you will leave a comment on the article.

You’ll fill out the required fields within the commenting area. It usually asks for your email addy, name (you can just put your first name if you want) and, if you have one, a website address. This is the most important field, so make sure you fill it out completely.

Next you leave your comment in the larger text box. You’ll not want to “spam” the site by leaving what is basically a promotional message for your own site. If you do that, the blog owner will probably mark it as “Spam” and it will disappear.

Ensure that whatever comment you leave, it’s relevant and useful. Read their article and if you have another point to add, do so. You can also ask a question or compliment the blog author.

Then you hit “Submit.” A lot of blogs will make your comment immediately appear and you’ll get your backlink right away. But in these days of SPAM, some blogs to make the blog owner personally approve the comment. If this is the case, you’ll probably get a notice that your comment is waiting for approval.

Go through all the blogs listed in Google’s blog search that you found on your topic. Leave comments on all that you can that are relevant to your topic. The more blogs that you leave comments on, the more you are building your link popularity.

This is a simple, free way to being immediately begin building your link popularity today. If you repeat the process weekly, or even daily, you’ll find new blogs listed for you to leave comments on. By repeating this process on a regular schedule you’ll be able to build your backlinks over time.

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Always remember as Mr. Hayden Linoturn says follow the rules do not post offers on the other blogs just provide quality comments. Or ask questions that pertain to the article as this will most of the time get you the linkback you need.

Mr. Russell M. Stewart explains a number of ways to express yourself through blogging.

Blogs have become immensely popular among today’s web savvy community. They are used to bring news, stories, discussions, reviews and much more to a large audience around the globe. Another great way to use blogs is to express yourself openly through them. Having a special ‘let it out’ blog can help you express your opinions without really discriminating or harming anyone.

It may seem like you are biased and opinionated to others, but that’s part of everything you’ll enjoy about blogging. It doesn’t matter what you have to get off your chest, you can simply say it out and you’ll be surprised how several people from around the globe will agree with you.

There are many bloggers who take the time to express their opinions to the world. Sometimes, these blogs are hilarious and focus on the humor in everyday life. Other times, you’ll come across blogs which are bordering on the offensive, simply because the truth hurts.

There are neutral blogs which provide information about daily incidents and occurrences and visitors can easily take part in the discussions, contribute their opinions and help keep the blog interesting and enjoyable.

It takes effort to keep a blog interesting and if you are concentrating on providing hard news, it’s harder to keep up with the news and present them accordingly. Blogs are more interesting if you update them regularly and because of this reason, having a blog to speak your mind is more appealing to the global audience.

In the world outside of the internet, most social conversations rally around who did what, went where and how it effected someone else etc. That same discussions make interesting topics on the web too. So, a blog to show everyone your displeasure at world politics or the noise from your neighbor’s backyard can be your ranting and raving outlet for peace of mind.

You don’t even have to own a personal blog to do all this. Just signing up with an existing blog and becoming a guest blogger will let you post your views whenever you want. If you don’t want to become a blogger yourself, you can simply get involved in sharing opinions and ideas through comments. It’ll be an enjoyable and freeing experience.

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An exciting blogging tool that makes getting started on your own blog very easy is called WordPress Goldmine. As our guest blogger Mr. Russell M. Stewart has stated very well join in the fun or add to the excitement on blogs by other.

I’ve already mentioned that if you truly want traffic, hosting your blog is the way to go.  This means signing up for web hosting, and placing your blog there.  No, it’s not free — I think it costs me something like $9 a month.  But for that $9 a month, I can have up to 100 blogs!  And believe me, with David’s and my “great blogging experiment”, I think we’ve set up about 10 between the two of us in the last 2 weeks.   (More on the experiment can be found below today’s guest blogger’s article.)

Today, I’d like to introduce Matt Hedges, who is talking about maximizing your hosted blog.  It’s really easier than you think, and he brings up some good ideas.  Matt’s article is a nice summary of information.

Maximizing Your Hosted Blog

A blog is an easy way to publish web content. Although originally for posting online “diary” journals, blogging has helped companies make money.  In some cases, lots of it!

If interested in traffic, you need to host your blog with a web hosting company.  And that blog needs to be maintained.  Where you decide to host may be the difference between a great experience and one that’s frustrating.

It is pretty easy to get a cheap hosting site for your blog. Many people generally ask whether it is alright to go for a cheap host but get good results. The low cost may be of interest to some but quality of serive is actually the most important.  After all, cheap web hosting doesn not do you any good if your blog is down as often as it’s up!

Low Cost Versus More Expensive Web Hosting

It becomes extremely important for you to know of affordable web hosting services, who also offer excellent service.  And aside from uptime (the most important feature of a good web host) is ease of setting up your blog.  And this is especially important if you have little technical saavy when it comes to web hosting!

You should know what tools you need, when considering web hosts. There are a large range of prices available and the rising popularity of the internet means this is likely to rise further.  In general, though, you should be able to find a reliable web host with a variety of services for under $10 a month.

There are certain features which play a crucial role in making your blog a big success. One of the biggest is the database that drives a blog’s engine (so to speak). The database will be created in your Control Panel area called “MySQL”. If you select a major web host, then MySQL 4 is the minimum version to consider.

If you plan to host multiple blogs, you need to know how many MySQL databases you can run.  Most hosts will give you at least 5 databases, which translates to 5 blogs.  Fine if you want just one or maybe a few more.  Terrible if you plan to host lots of blogs.

You need to ensure people can get onto your site when they choose. If your server is slow, this is a terrible situation.  Web users have a low level of patience and if they are unable to get to your site quickly, they will go elsewhere. This will reduce the number of visitors you receive.

Another consideration is how much web space you receive to host your files, as well as the bandwidth you can use.  Web space (basically hard drive space) is critical if you plan to use a lot of photos, plan some podcasts or even video.  Audio and video can eat up space — fast!

Bandwidth can be though of in terms of a water well.  If you have small pipes running from the well to your house, it will take a lot longer to fill that bathtub compared to if you had larger pipes!  So a small bandwidth ultimately means slower service if you have a large blog, or one with lots of pictures, audio files and/or videos files.

Good, inexpensive hosting can be had.  But you need to know what to look for:  uptime reliability, number of MySQL connections, Automated blog setup, adequate web space and bandwidth.  Regular backups are also important; being able to schedule them yourself or even perform them yourself when you want through a control panel is a plus.

Author Matt Hedges:  Republished with permission from WebHostingMadness.com, a provider of hosting company ratings, comparisons and detailed articles about the web hosting industry.

Thanks Matt, for that good information.  Finding a reliable web host that makes it easy for you to maintain your blog for a reasonable fee is important.  If you’re curious to know, David and I use Bluehost for our blogs; the  cost is reasonable and installing a Wordpress blog from scratch takes maybe 20 second (it’s automated for you).  I’ve used a lot of hosts in my day, and I’ve found Bluehost to be great for blogging.

And speaking of blogging, here’s more on our experiment.

Update on the Blogging Experiment

I had something exciting happen the other day.  I’ve been a little preoccupied with tropical storm Fay lately (we live in Florida) or I would have posted this then.

I’ve had a blog up for 2 weeks as of today, and already it’s brought in more money than any of my websites has brought in within the first 4 or 5 months of their lives!  I’m both excited and thrilled to be earning the dollars quickly.

The other blogs (with the exception of one that I didn’t investigate enough beforehand; live and learn) have been getting a steady flow of traffic and plenty of clicks for our affiliate sales.

OK, the cat is our of the bag for our success so far; we use the WordPress Goldmine method for building these little blogs.  I cannot recommend it highly enough!

By Labor Day, I’ll be releasing the names of the oldest of these blogs, so you can see what they’re like, and what we’ve done.

As always, stay tuned for more information!

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This is part 2 of how to identify your niche market when blogging.  Here’s part 1 of the post.

We left off with our term “harley davidson megamotor harness boots”.  We looked at the phrase (in quotes) in Google and found that there were only six listings.  Now we want to think about this for a second.  In quotes, it’s a cinch you will be on the page 1 of the Google listings.  But what about the flip side?

You’ve got the demand, you should be able to reach page 1 of Google.  But is there anyone selling these boots that has an affiliate program?  I took a quick look and didn’t really see any.  So if you planned to monetize your blog by selling boots as an affiliate, this phrase doesn’t seem to work.

Another Example to Identify Your Niche Market

OK, now you’ve seen that for a successful blog (for traffic and monetization) you need:

• Niched-down (long tail) keyword phrase.
• Sufficient demand.
• Able to be monetized.

Let’s take another example.  I’ll use acne as an example.  I happen to know there are a couple of good Clickbank ebooks that I could sell as an affiliate.  Now I need to know a decent keyword phrase to use!

Over to the free version of WordTracker, and put in acne.  It’s a bit of a tough one, because it’s such a hot topic, but the phrase “acne blackheads natural treatment” merits a closer look.  Sure, at 5,020 supply it’s over the numbers I usually use, but I want to see how strong the competition is.  In other words, are there 5,020 pages that I could blow past, or are there a lot of well-optimized pages already?

Still in Google, type the following into the Google search bar exactly as I have it shown: 

allintitle: “acne blackheads natural treatment”

This returns us 154 listings.  What does this mean?  Why should you care?

This particular search tells me how many pages are optimized, with the phrase “acne blackheads natural treatment” in the page title.  Now I really look at the results; these are the people and pages who have at least marginally optimized their pages.  Can I do better by optimizing the title, the links and the URL?

Which leads me to a quick talk about optimizing your blog.

Optimizing Your Blog

Yes, I’ve told you how you can get a free blog on blogger, wordpress.com and some other services.  But I also have to say that none of them optimize your posts very well.  And when you’re up against other blogs and websites that are optimized…you may be fighting a losing battle if other blogs are optimizing.

I know it’s kind of scary, but if you honest-to-goodness want to optimize your blog for the best possible search engine inclusion, you need to use the self-hosted version of WordPress (wordpress.org).  I’ll talk about this more in another post, but it’s something for you to think about now.

Blog Experiment Update

Yep, more entries for David’s and my great blogging experiments.  David has had a really cool success.  He created a 2-post, 1-page blog for a niche he found.  I think he made his posts yesterday (Sunday, August 17th) and today…he’s right up at the top of Google today and is getting lots of traffic!

I made a post to one of my blogs a little while ago (one of the ones in this experiment) and went to make dinner.  After dinner, I sat down in front of the computer and checked — I was already listed in Google, page 1 (with quotes)!!!  I’m #21 without quotes.  But that was in a space of about 45 minutes!

So, I am still a firm believer in this truly exciting blogging tool — it’s awesome!

Mr. Stuart M. Gray could not have described it better. A major form of today’s communication that millions are following are Blogs and Blogging. People are signing up to follow blogs by the millions.

Blogs have become the new way of capturing target audiences online and most people use blogs to attract lots of web traffic to their websites. Many personal sites are now produced in blog format too. Easily configurable blogging applications such as WordPress and BlogIt have made a phenomenal climb up in the online world and and keep drawing hundreds of bloggers each day. Millions of bloggers are marking their existence on the web all the time and with so many blogs, it’s not really a surprise that we can’t easily find and interesting blog.

Sadly, once they’ve created a blog, the majority of bloggers simply put it aside to take care of other more pressing matters in their daily lives. The once important need to tell the world about what they think goes away and the blog post content just gets too old to interest anyone. Keeping your blog interesting takes some effort and presenting the content creatively will definitely give an extra edge.

In principle, there are only two methods to maintain an interesting blog and keep the visitors returning all the time. The first step is to find a good topic which follows news stories, publications, incidents and issues etc that are of general interest to the public.

Blogging is for bringing up interesting topics for discussion and not for keeping things dull and routine. It’s about broadening your post topics and getting more people involved in commenting and discussing. When you find something interesting, never pause before blogging about it.

If you aim to attract a lot of web traffic, you must focus on posting on subjects that interest the worldwide community. Some topics are best avoided though, such as politics, racism, religion and controversial sciences. Blogs are for sharing ideas and opinions based on empathic views and discriminative topics are not a good idea. Remember, new content attracts more web visitors, so keeping your blog updated frequently helps.

The second rule of blogging is locating good links. Without writing long essays about things that may interest people, you can simply find some interesting stories, articles or discussions on the web and provide links to them from your blog.

Your blog posting space can be used to give some reasons about why you think your readers should visit the links you have provided. The technique here is to get visitors to your blog and then send them to where the actual content is - this helps you to keep your blog interesting while getting more traffic at the same time.

Producing the best blog or locating it in the huge internet world is quite a daunting task. Not surprisingly, you will run out of interesting topics, so the trick is to keep your eyes open for breaking news and stories to make your blog interesting.

About the Author: Now and again you find an interesting blog that is thought provoking. If you feel the same, check out this blog which lists out peoples ideas on what the think the ‘best’ is…movie, travel destination, invention, or whatever..great stuff.

To get a fresh start on your new blog My Wife Gail and I highly recommend Wordpress Goldmind for all your blogging needs. Some of the very best ways to make money at home are blogs.

Russell Stuart provides some great information on what blogging is and what blog posts are.

What is a blog? For the web savvy, it’s nothing new, but for those who don’t know, a blog is a simple themed website, displaying content in a chronological format. The blog owner can write content on anything related to the blogs chosen theme and keep updating or deleting the content whenever needed. When new content is added (new blog post), it’s added to the top of the blog.

Blogging is something similar to keeping a journal that’s visible to the whole online community. The idea is to share events, daily happenings and incidents with various readers. Blogs are excellent web traffic attractors, because they act as a place for the global community to gather in one place and find out information and discuss various interests. Blogging is a veritable tool in online marketing and helps to bring in like-minded people from everywhere to a single venue.

Throughout the past 5-6 years, blog posting and commenting has become a phenomena in itself, with thousands visiting popular blogs every day, sharing ideas and discussing matters just like old friends do.

For the majority, the sole aim of creating a blog is to bring in large numbers of readers, because the more readers you get, the more they’ll get involved in sharing opinions and in return, you can market products and services to them. Most businesses and individuals depend a lot on blog traffic to promote their various products and services to their online visitors.

Are you interested in getting your own blog? Anyone is allowed to have as many blogs as they want, so you can simply sign-up for numerous blog accounts. Maintaining a blog will need some time and effort, especially when you expect to become popular on the internet. Constantly updating your blog and posting new items regularly will keep your blog interesting and increase your online visitors. The following are some tips on how to blog successfully.

Choose an intriguing topic: Do some research on what’s popular and the type of content that generally attracts people looking for a good read. Stick to a topic that’s interesting and make sure you have some genuine knowledge about it.

Speak, don’t write: Use a conversational tone to get your ideas across. Don’t be boring and monotonous and don’t use words which require a dictionary to find the meaning.

Decide how often to blog: You should decide beforehand about how often you’ll blog. Daily is better, but update your content at least once a week.

About the Author:
The internet is littered with sites covering all manner of topics in the world. Then there are blogs, a few boring, a few funny and a few just infectious. If you are searching for an interesting read, check out this blog and see what you can come up with. Some simple ideas are still the best.

A fantastic book that will teach you everything you need to know about blogging. How to even make money blogging you can find in Wordpress Goldmind. My wife Gail and I highly recommend this book for future bloggers to have fast success blogging.

Here’s the next post on how to identify your niche market before you start your blog (or even afterwards). I started to talk about this in my previous post on how to make money blogging with the right keywords, but now let’s talk some more.

Choosing a Niche

This is probably the most important step; choosing your niche.  There are two main considerations here. 

First, do you care about search engine traffic, or do you just want to express yourself?  If you’re writing a blog because you are passionate about a subject, but it doesn’t matter how many or few people read it, then write about it.  Don’t worry about choosing a niche; your subject will take care of itself.

On the other hand, if you do want search engine traffic, you need to be a little more careful in choosing your niche.  And that brings up two points.  Do you want people to read what you have to say, but don’t care about monetizing your blog…or do you want it to earn a regular (even if small) income?

If you’re wanting search engine traffic but don’t care about monetizing, choose the method I described in my last post.  Find words in the free WordTracker tool, then check the two supply numbers in Google.  As a very general rule, keep your in quotes keyword under 1,000.  Now you can go over this at times, but I wouldn’t normally look higher than 2,000 — just too hard to climb to the top of the heap (i.e., page 1 of the Google search results).

How to Identify Your Niche Market to Monetize

Most people wouldn’t mind making a bit of money from their blog, and some want it to earn a regular income.  Indeed, some want it to replace their current income!  Here are some tips for this for you, if it’s your ultimate goal.

Pick your niche carefully.  For example, maybe I wanted to be an affiliate for shoe sales.  Well, “shoes” is a mightly big topic.  So I’ll winnow it down some.  Do I want men’s shoes?  Women’s shoes?  Boots?  a specific brand?  Well, how about boots?

Put the word bootsinto WordTracker and see what comes up.  Hmmm, it’s a really big list, but maybe harley davidson boots?  Click on that, because we want to winnow it down even further.

As a very general rule, we want more words in the keyword phrase; less likely to find other pages that have all these words.  The phrase “harley davidson boots” (in quotes) turns up 157,000 for a supply — far too much.  Keep looking…

Whoa, here’s a term — “harley davidson megamotor harness boots”  In quotes that has a supply of just 6!  Now that could be a winner!  Especially because people searching on that term know exactly what they want, and are far more likely to have a credit card in hand (so to speak) before they get to your blog!

This post has gotten a bit longer than I wanted, so I’ll continue this topic of how to identify your niche market when blogging on the next post.  See you then!

How to make money blogging with the right keywords is what I’m going to discuss right now, and it goes hand-in-hand with the blogging experiments Dave and I have been running.

Choosing the Right Keywords

First, for you to have a decent chance of success, you need to select keywords that have demand, but very little competition.  We’ll use this post as an example.  There isn’t a ton of demand for this keyword phrase, but there is also very little supply.  So the chances for me getting to the top of the search quickly are pretty decent.

Now, that’s the example for just this post — what about an entire blog?  I mean, this particular phrase “how to make money blogging with the right keywords” certainly isn’t worth a blog in its own right.  But it makes for a great post!

Supply Versus Supply

If you do a search in Google using the keyword phrase in this post’s title (without quotes) you’ll see 2,680,000 records returned.  OK, put the quotes around the phrase and the number goes down to 326.  Quite a difference, right?  So one supply figure is wildly different from the other.

You want the keyword phrase in quotes to be as low as possible.  I try to keep it under 1,000.  I’m even happier when I can get it under 500.  And I’m ecstatic when it’s under 100.

So know your supply numbers!

How to Make Money Blogging With the Right Keywords - Update

This is still the grand blogging experiment that you can read about in the previous post.  I have an update from this morning.

David and I decided to play hookey today and spend some time away from the computers, so we went to lunch, took a long leisurely drive, then grabbed a smoothie for dinner.  We came back home and I checked my newest blog.  Yay!  The traffic has started coming in.  Then I decided to check my standings in Google by typing my keyword phrase into the Google search bar, with and without quotes.

With quotes, I came up in the #1 and #3 spots!  And even more exciting, without quotes I was in the #4 spot (I was at like 9 or 10 this morning)!  This, mind you, for a blog that was just born a couple days ago!

How did I manage this?  One, it was by checking both supply figures and making sure the search with the keyword in quotes was as low as possible.  Two, it’s making sure the demand for the keyword is worth the effort — if the number of searches is too small, it’s not worth (to me) making a blog on.  For my keyword tool, I use the free version of WordTracker.  The numbers you see in this tool are the number of searches on a daily basis.

Normally for a single-product blog (if I have a specific product for sale as an affiliate), I want to have a keyword with at least 1,000 unique visitors a month.  That’s roughly 33 people a day.  If it was for an informational website where I was featuring Adsense instead of an affiliate product, I’d want that number much higher — at least 5,000 people a month.

The other way I managed it was with the exciting blogging tool I found last week.  Keep in mind that I’ve been writing online for several years (mainly full-blown websites), but I have never, ever had this kind of search engine success before!

I’ll keep you posted as to how the blogs do.  Meanwhile, go out an check the free version of Wordtracker and run some phrases through, see what kind of demand shows up.  Then pick some keyword phrases from the list WordTracker returns and drop them into Google search, both with quotes (“how to make money blogging with the right keywords“) and without quotes (how to make money blogging with the right keywords) and see what kinds of numbers you come up with.

There’s another tool you can use once you’re familiar with the way WordTracker works.  Unfortunately it’s something that costs money (although it’s pretty inexpensive), so that’s why I recommend the free version of WordTracker for now.  Get used to doing those searches, and being aware of what the numbers mean.

Make a blog, and make it fun!  I’ve been concentrating so much on the money-making aspect that I’ve kind of ignored the other huge aspect: how to make a blog and have fun doing it!

Good morning all, it’s Gail again with a blog update and a guest author, Russell Stewart, telling us a little bit more about the overall aspect of blogging.  Sorry I’ve been kind of glossing it over, because if you don’t enjoy it, blogging will be an awful lot like work!

And after Russell gives us some insight on how to make a blog fun, I’ll give you an update on the latest of my blogging experiences, in the section called “Gail’s Blog Update” and it’s also exciting!

But in the meanwhile, please welcome Russell.

Make a Blog and Make it Fun

Blogging is an art of enjoyment, and web logging has reached phenomenal heights because of that aspect.

Even in the pretty recent past, creating websites was considered to be ‘geeks-and-professionals-only’ territory. However, it’s been streamlined so very much that a couple of simple click will get the job done.  Anyone and everyone can do it!  It’s now child’s play to make a blog.

With blogging came an onslaught of new opportunities for both business and pure enjoyment.  Interactivity, social networking and communication swept the internet.  And whoa! the introduction of RSS feeds contribute further to this, making it even easier to get the information you want.

Blogging is now also a way to make money,  You can do it via AdSense, affiliate marketing and actual products. Right now, most businesses maintain blogs to promote their specific industry and get visitors to their sites.

If you really want to express your thoughts freely, you should get a blog!  It’s something that anyone can do. It’s easy to choose a topic for your blog when you know what you want to say. Some blogs are open-ended, with just about any topic discussed among the writers and readers.  These can be considered “anything goes” and they can be quite fun to read.

Some would rather maintain specialized blogs. These blogs have posts relating to a single topic and this topic can be anything such as business, travel, computers, advertising etc. Such blogs are interesting only to those who are specifically looking for information on that field.

There are blogs which allow guest authors to contribute interesting write-ups (like the one you’re reading right now). General readers are also enticed to participate in blogging, to make it more lively and conversational.

Whether you write for money or for fun, whether you are a high-risk entrepreneur or stay-at-home mom, regardless of whether you do it a few hours a week or many hours a day - blogging is fun!  It’s the next generation in community involvement.

About the Author:
If you are looking for strange stories then take a look at this great site. packed with weird stuff from around the world, this blog will certainly entertain. Great reading when you are looking for something to make you smile and shows the lighter side of living.

Gail’s Blog Update

OK, I have an update on Dave’s and my great blog experiment (read more about it here and here).  I mentioned that we had some new blogs we were trying out and here’s the latest!

(By the way, if you’re wondering why I’m not mentioning the exact URLs of these blogs, it’s because I don’t want to artificially inflate the results by having people click from this site.  Never fear, when the blogs get to be three weeks old, I’ll release their names.)

OK, I created a blog on Tuesday, in an area I know less than nothing about.  But the numbers looked good, and I used the exciting blogging tool to get the information to the blog.  And I was bogged down yesterday morning when one of the steps ran into a problem (a free site I needed to spend 10 seconds on was down).  Anyway, the site was operational yesterday around lunch.

Today…drum roll…my brand new blog is sitting at spots number 2 and 3 in Google!!!!  Now that’s the keyword with the quotes, but even without the quotes I am still on page 1 of Google!  I’m writing this at about 9:30 AM, so it’s been less than 24 hours for me to reach Google page 1.

David’s blog that he did this weekend is still going very strong, spot number 1 in Google with the quotes, as well as spot number 10!  Without the quotes, he’s number 2.

And to make things even more exciting, the final two steps are underway for these three sites (my original, my new and Dave’s).  They take a little more time, but they should explode the blogs even more.

Talk about make a blog and make it fun!  It’s fun and exciting to see all this happen.  And it’s all due to this exciting blogging tool that we discovered.

Onward!  More blogs!