And it seems like marketers all over are already seeing their websites drop significantly in the rankings. There’s already large and growing threads in many of the popular marketing forums where folks are sharing how far their website rankings have fell!

I just thought I would take this opportunity to show you yet another reason why I believe so strongly in building your own subscriber list.

This protects your business from being at the mercy of the search engines. So whether you are using SEO, safelist, traffic exchanges, paid advertising, or any other type of traffic generation method, please don’t put all that work to waste!

You never know when that website you’re promoting might go out of business, making your affiliate links pointless. You never know when an owner might just stop paying out commissions (has happened to me a few times and lots of other marketers!). And you never know when your top ranking website might suddenly stop receiving any traffic at all.

Build a customer list that you can bring with you wherever your business takes you.

For building a subscriber list, I like Aweber.

If you need some tools to start you on the way to building your own mailing list, try out my very cool list building and traffic system, List Recon.

Have you been affected by this change or know someone who has? Have a story or comment you want to share? We would love to hear from you!

List Surfing is one of those extremely unique ideas that also turns out to be extremely effective. It’s a free traffic service that combines the power of traffic exchanges and viral list builders into one cool little system.

I promoted it when it initially launched, and I had some really nice results with it. Well now List Surfing has relaunched with some brand new features! I was very fortunate to get a sneak peak at the new system before it went live.

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First, lets go over some of the original features…

You get “unlimited” traffic for limited effort! Simply surf 50 pages in their traffic exchange system and read 5 emails from their list builder, and your pages will rotate infinitely among other members’ pages for an entire month! That is one of the coolest concepts that I really like, especially if you’re short on time.

Those credits you earn for surfing can also be used in their viral mailer! So if you wanted to surf more than 50 pages, you are welcome to and you get rewarded with additional advertising so you can make more cash.

And of course there’s a great affiliate program built in so you can earn some nice traffic credits and commissions for telling people about List Surfing.

So what’s new?

Well first, the entire site has gotten a very sexy make over! The design is modern and in my opinion a significant improvement. This is great for you as an affiliate and advertiser, because it lends more credibility when a site looks professional. That means more people joining, being active, potentially visiting your websites, and buying from you.

They’ve also added what they call, “Social Brand Immersion”. This allows you to better brand yourself by showing your picture, name, and even an opt-in box when people are viewing sites! People can leave comments about your page and chat with each other as well. This allows you to connect with your audience and even get people talking about your page. I’ve personally found branding and list building to be a couple of my main keys to success, so to see this integrated smoothly into List Surfing will really help members profit in the long run.

They have also added thumbnail surfing. Now you will see previews of a couple of sites and you can select the page you want to see. This has the potential to improve conversions and signups because people are actually selecting to see your page.

Those are some of the main highlights I’m really liking about the new List Surfing, though there is plenty more to enjoy inside after you join.

Of course there is an option to upgrade your membership to a higher level also. Once you join, make sure you take a long look at the upgrade offer, because it really saves you a lot of time and you’ll get some great advertising too. Just click the banner below to get started and increase your profits:

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Usually when a new site launches, we’re all taking a gamble on whether it will convert well or not. That’s why I tend to stick with great owners because they will make sure it works.

And that is why I’m really liking this new site from Jon Nastor called List Bonus!

On my very first mailing I raked in 7 new subscribers, even though the site is already over 3 months old! This is truly powerful because that indicates even after the launch excitement is over, the advertising is STILL converting!

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Of course there’s all kinds of cool stuff you get too like:

* 1500 instant mailing credits from a cool list builder

* nice commissions when someone in your downline upgrades

* automatically builds many downlines at the same time

* of course most importantly a great mailer that will help boost your profits

* a whole bunch more surprises

* and it’s free to join

=> Get in now and see the results for yourself…

Oh and no big surprise here, but there will be an option to customize your membership when you join. There are some very nice perks for being an upgraded member too

A couple of my favorite upgraded features are login ads, which in my experience have converted extremely well for me at various sites. Members will see these ads when they log into their account, and it’s really hard not to pay attention to them. That means more people looking at your ads.

Upgraded members also get access to Top Member Ads, which are simply text ads displayed in the members area.

And of course the biggest reason to upgrade… you get to mail more often and to more people. And that’s on top of lots of other cool extras too, but I can’t spoil all the surprised for you.

Of course it will be at a great discount too, so look for it and you’ll see why so many people are upgrading too. =)

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It’s exciting that I’m not the only one saying List Bonus converts. Even other owners I know have been raving about the results they are getting. Since your membership is free, I would suggest you at least check it out for yourself.

I consider this to be a very significant milestone in the safelist world, and I certainly couldn’t have done it without your continued support. So really, I just want to say thank you to all of you for helping to make Elite Safelist one of the top safelists online for the last few years.

As always, I will do what I can to keep the results stellar so you can superior, free advertising at one of the best free safelists around.

I’ll have a cool post coming to you soon about what it takes to succeed with your own business (whether it’s online or off), but for now I just wanted to share this news with ya!

If you’re not a member yet, just check out the sidebar (yes I’m that lazy today!) and you will find a link to join Elite Safelist and my other sites as well.

Editor’s Note: So I actually meant to post this about 3 days ago… BUT of course the next day the active members number dropped below 10,000! So if that happens to happen again… we already hit 10,000 active members twice, so I’m going to commemorate it regardless!

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So when something new launches, especially from someone well known in this market, I’m always excited to check things out.

Today I wanted to share with you my thoughts on List Building Maximizer.

I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peak into the site before the launch, so naturally I had a really good look around.

The owners of List Building Maximizer are Bill Portnova and Mike Murphy. They’ve already had quite a bit of success with their previous site, Downline Builder Direct, which I’m also a huge fan of.

They call it a list builder, but I’m going to call it a safelist because … well I can!

In case you don’t know about safelists, List Building Maximizer is an email based advertising website. Members join and can send each other emails using credits. You can be confident your ads will be seen because members need to view emails in order to earn credits and send their own advertisements.

List Building Maximizer has many of the traditional features of most credit based safelists, but let me share with you why I think you’re in good hands here:

* Has all the popular features that you would expect from other top credit based safelists like banner ads, text ads, downline builder, solo ads, and more.

* The amount of credits they give out are about right. This is super important because managing credits properly can have a huge effect on the results you get from your advertising.

* They allow top sponsor ads (tiny ads shown at the top of each safelist email) for upgraded members. This makes your upgrade a better value and gives you autopilot advertising. My ad has already been shown ____ times after about a day

* A HUGE referral contest to celebrate their launch … with $1,500 in prize money up for grabs! Why is this important? Well obviously you could win a lot of cash, but also it could mean a huge rush of new people for you to advertise to.

* Bill and Mike are owners with a proven track record.

So yea, overall I think if you enjoy credit based safelists, you’ll be very happy with List Building Maximizer.

It’s free to join, so I highly recommend you check it out. Click here to join List Building Maximizer for free.

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• Just wanna send out a quick shout out to you for adding some very helpful comments on my last blog post. It means a lot and seeing activity like that will SURELY keep me active and sharing info with you!

• Woo hoo, so EliteSafelist hit 5,000 active members. I’m really proud of that since the site is still pretty young and it’s already larger than many of the older, established safelists out there. If you haven’t joined yet, shame on you! But it’s ok, you can still join now by clicking here

• Viral Ad Store just launched. Although the name is kinda funky, it makes sense once you know what’s unique about it. It’s a viral list builder from Mike Purvis and Greg Hickman, the same guys behind The List Auction, which is (in my opinion) one of the best list builders out there. So far, Viral Ad Store is already getting me incredible results … I don’t have the exact numbers handy but at the time I wrote this, I’ve gotten something like 50 signups to my various lists since it launched. Obviously these guys know what they’re doing. Join here, I highly recommend it.

• Resale Rights Hosting launched as well, and I’ve got to say this is an awesome idea. Have you ever tried setting up a resell rights product to sell? Well it’s a PAIN! Resale Rights Hosting has taken care of all of that stuff for you. You could literally be selling resale rights products in minutes. They’ll even give you a 30 day free trial just to check things out. If you’ve been wanting to sell stuff like ebooks, videos, and software but have been intimidated by the technical side of things, then you have to check this out.

• So I got today’s article topic from one of your fellow blog readers, and hey I thought it was a good suggestion! Thanks Richard!  I’m actually going to split it into two posts, because I think each deserves it’s own so you get the most out of it.If you want to recommend a topic, you can use that blue box on the left (skribit) to request for particular things for me to write about.

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Main Article – Flood Your Blog With Traffic … At Will!

Blogging has been a recent phenomenon that’s taken the internet by storm.

Some people do blogging for fun or to make some extra cash. Some people even make their entire living just from blogging!

I want to make a disclaimer that I’m not some blogging “guru”, but I am always reading and studying internet marketing. Naturally, stuff like blogging comes up fairly often, so I’ve read quite a bit of stuff on blogging and marketing online.

With that said, there are a ton of ways to get traffic to your blog. There’s SEO (search engine optimization), blogging communities (technorati, mybloglog, etc), social networking, blog commenting, blog directories, and tons of other stuff.

They all work! For me personally, I’m all about getting the MOST results for as little effort as possible.

This is how *I* drive traffic to my blog with one simple method…

BUILD YOUR LIST!

That’s it! In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and say this would be my answer for most struggling internet marketers.

First let me reveal how I do it, and then why.

1) I create a squeeze page where people can opt in to my mailing list. I’ll usually offer something of value to them, like a free ebook or membership.

2) Then I send traffic to that squeeze page using traffic exchanges, credit based safelists, and viral list builders. I also kind of (as in almost never) do other stuff like social networking or blog commenting, but only if I’m really…really…. really bored, haha. If you’re in a niche outside of Internet marketing, find hotspots where people from your niche would go like forums, popular blogs, and social networking groups.

3) I also naturally get search engine traffic without even doing fancy SEO stuff. If my blog is about internet marketing, I’ll tend to always use keywords about internet marketing anyway, so either way I still get traffic from search engines without any extra effort. But of course if you do your keyword research too, you can enjoy even more free traffic.

4) Then when I make a new blog post, I tell my mailing list subscribers about it.

And that’s how I get traffic to my blog.

So why do I do it this way?

First, it doesn’t take me any extra effort to promote my blog, because I’m always building my mailing list. And YOU should be too. Click here for my recommended autoresponder.

It’s also a good way to remind people that your blog even exists. Lets face it, we’ve all got busy lives and sometimes things will slip our minds. You don’t want people to forget about your blog, so it’s always nice to send them a little friendly reminder and let them know when you put up a new post.

Promoting your blog to your list is a GREAT way to build a relationship with your readers. Sometimes people want to know that you’re more than a marketer, they want to know what kind of person you are. Sending them to your latest blog post with actual info is a nice change of pace from just emailing them whenever you want to sell them something.

Using a list also makes your blog “Google Slap Proof”. Huh? Basically every now and then Google changes their search engine algorithm (basically a math formula). I’ve read SO many times about people who have spent months or years optimizing their websites/blogs to get on the first page of Google. Countless hours of hard work … and then *SLAP*, Google changes the formula and you’re now listed on like page 10…

Well guess what, if you have a mailing list, it doesn’t really matter where your blog ranks in the search engine! You just send out an email like you’ve always done.

And the best thing about this method is that it doesn’t actually take me any extra work. If you do have the time, then sure go out there and do that extra stuff I listed for more traffic to your blog. If time isn’t quite a luxury you have yet, then you might want to give my method a try.

I know I covered a lot of stuff today and jumped around a bit, so if you have a question, just leave a comment and I’ll try to get ya an answer.

This is actually a two part series. Next time I’ll tell you something else about blogging and how it can make you extra cash.

In the mean time, here’s my recommended action steps for more blog traffic:

1) Build a squeeze page to get people to join your mailing list. You can make them for free at Instant Squeeze Page Generator if you’re not sure how to do it.

2) Whenever you make a new blog post, let your subscribers know!

See that wasn’t hard was it?

So how are you getting traffic to YOUR blogs?

• Whoa, tons of stuff happened this past few weeks! If you wanna know why I didn’t post much this past month, make sure to keep reading…

• One blog reader was kind enough to point out that my optin box in my header doesn’t have a submit button! I still need to fix that, haha. Thanks Online Biz!

• I was out of town for a week awhile ago. Remember to work hard and work smart. One of the things that an online business can do for you is allow you to travel (i.e. VACATIONS!!) and still make money.

• One of the biggest launches in traffic exchange history just happened. Tezak Traffic Power launched with something like 10,000+ members in 10 days! Incredible, and I gotta add it couldn’t have happened to a better guy. If you like traffic exchanges, this is a surefire winner. It’s got the same minds behind Traffic-Splash and a 10 year TE veteran in Tony Tezak.

• Mike Coursey just launched a cool new service called Splash Speaker. It lets you create splash pages that automatically create audio for you. Use the approved sites and it will even say stuff like a member’s name! It’s really cool. Sign up for free, but I recommend upgrading to get full access to these awesome features.

• Sunny Suggs continues her “All About” series with the arrival of All About My First List. This is a really cool site that helps walk you through how to build your own mailing list. Join here and you can get the first chapter for free, but as always the upgrade will get you a ton of really cool stuff.

• … And here’s a big one. Clickbank Pirate is LIVE! I was lucky enough to check things out from the inside and all I can say is WOW. Basically, Cindy Battye and Soren Jordansen have created a true plug-n-play system that will help you make commissions from Clickbank for LIFE! They’ll handle ALL the work, EVERYTHING! All you’ve gotta do is show it to people (and they reveal how to do that too). Check out their video and get two free, eye-opening reports that reveal a ton of secrets about making money online.Oh and here’s my official update. I started using Clickbank Pirate August 5th just by putting some banners ads out there linking to their professionally made squeeze pages (as in, I put in no real effort on my part). As I write this, it’s 7th and I’ve gotten my first clickbank sale thanks to Clickbank Pirate! That’s right, 2 days, barely any promotion (not even an email sent out folks!), and I got my first sale. Can I say Clickbank Pirate is awesome now?

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Main Article – Get YOUR Voice Heard!

Ok, so no real article today. Instead…

I want YOU to tell ME what you want to hear about!

Bottom line, I really write this blog for you. I want to see you succeed, and part of doing that is discovering what you need help with.

Not sure if you noticed, but I haven’t been posting to my blog as much. I noticed that on some posts, I get some good activity, while others…not so much.

Sorry but that just won’t do!

Personally, I’d like to keep this thing updated around once a week and let you know what’s going on in the world.

It’s pretty simple though: less comments, less updates.

So if you really wanna hear what I have to say about Internet Marketing, leave a comment or sent out a tweet for me!

If not, well then I guess you don’t have to do anything! haha

I installed this shiny new thing called skribit, which allows you to easily suggest and vote on topics for me to blog about.

You’ll find a blue tab on the left side of my blog, just click that, and you can make suggestions or vote on stuff for me to blog on!

So let me know what you want to hear more about! It’s really easy to do with skribit

I know a lot of you out there read this blog, so lets get more active and leave some comments. This is a great chance for you to get to know other readers, and also a chance for me to get to know some more of you better as well.

Basically, this is your chance to get YOUR voice heard!

Action steps:

1) Something you’re dying to know? Click on that suggestion box hovering on the left side and let me know. See some other suggestions you like? You can vote for those too!

2) Leave some relevant comments and share you thoughts when you read a new blog post. You can meet new people, get your website link out there (this is a “DO follow” blog by the way, for you SEO pros ), and help keep this place active. Gives me a lot more incentive to post updates when I know I’m helping you.

3) Nothing you want to say at all?! Haha it’s ok I understand, then at least do me a favor and send me out a tweet for me.  That’d be awesome too!

• There’s a poll in the right column, vote and share your thoughts!

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• Big thanks to Blogging Expert Mike Paetzold for helping me with an issue on my blog. See his blog here.

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Main Article

SEO stands for search engine optimization. SEO in a nutshell, is a method used to get natural traffic from search engines like Google and Yahoo. What makes SEO such a hot topic in Internet Marketing is that it’s free, targeted, and can obviously make a lot of money.

I’ll be the first to say I’m not a big fan of SEO.

From my experience, it’s a bit too much work and too complicated for my taste.

That’s part of the reason that I got into free traffic websites like traffic exchanges, safelists, and list builders.

The truth is that SEO works and it’s a great way to get website traffic … if you know how to do it.

It’s free, it happens on autopilot, and it can mean a ton of traffic and sales if you know what you’re doing.

What has really opened the doors for SEO dummies like me is web 2.0. It’s one of the few ways that you can truly start capitalizing on SEO without having do as much of the grunt work, like writing articles or link building.

Web 2.0 sites like social bookmarking, networking, and blogging have really opened the doors to fast and effective SEO.

Even my first blog, TEscoop gets constant search engine traffic without any effort on my part.

Free traffic websites will always be my primary way of building my list, but SEO is something that you might want to check out too.

Solo says to try this:

1) Get this free report by John Merrick, Social Bookmarking Exposed. It is by FAR, the easiest report I’ve ever read that explains Search Engine Optimization so that anyone can understand it. It’s only 18 pages too.

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2) Apply some of the secrets you discover and see how SEO works out for you.

3) Leave a comment and let me know what you think of this post!

I don’t really like doing stuff like writing articles, SEO, link building, social bookmarking, adwords, and all those other “traditional” traffic methods. Don’t get me wrong, they work, but those methods aren’t quite for me.

I got my start thanks to free traffic websites and I’ve discovered secrets from some of the best in the business.

In case you don’t know what a credit based safelist is, it is basically a membership website where you exchange emails with other members. When you sign up, you get to email other members. And in exchange, they get to email you. Members have an incentive to read your emails because they earn credits for viewing your website.

Today I’m going to share with you my stupidly simple formula for successful advertising at credit based safelists.

What do I mean by successful? I mean anywhere from 5-20 signups or opt-ins every time I send out my mailings.

So here’s the basics of it…

First, you need to build your mailing list. They either need to be signing up at your websites or on a professional autoresponder like Aweber. This is the key, because once someone is on your mailing list, you can email then whenever you want. Is there a new program you want to tell them about tomorrow? 3 months from now? If they are still on your list, you can tell them about it!

It’s like having cash on demand.

Second, you need to track your advertising. You need to know where you are getting your sign ups from. It’s not enough to just mail randomly to every safelist. I know exactly where I get my sign ups from, so I don’t waste my time at programs that don’t produce results.

For example, there are a couple of safelists where I could spend over an hour clicking for credits, but it only gets me about 1 sign up per mailing. In that time, I could click for credits at several programs that get me much better results.

But wait, couldn’t you just join the programs with the most members? Membership numbers don’t always equal results. The most important thing you want to know about is activity, and tracking your advertising helps you gauge that information.

And since you’re here, I’ll give you some real insider info. There’s a few programs that outright LIE by inflating their membership numbers. I won’t call them out by name, but sadly they are out there.

If the 3 reasons above aren’t reason enough to track your advertising, I don’t know what is. =)

Finally, use squeeze page or splash pages for your credit link URLs. Here’s an example:

http://elitesafelist.com/splash5.php

What you want is a short page, that quickly explains or gets the interest of the member. Think of it like a billboard. It doesn’t have to have fancy graphics like I showed you above. I’ve seen some squeeze pages that look “unprofessional” but pull in tons of opt-ins.

If you just follow these 3 tips, you’ll find your results at credit based safelists explode. Let’s get an action plan set up for you:

Step 1) Sign up for an autoresponder so you can build your list. One of the best in the business is Aweber:
=> Click Here to Join Aweber

Step 2) Track your advertising using Hitsconnect. You should ugrade to the highest level so you can track where your sign ups are coming from:
=> Click Here to Join Hitsconnect

Step 3) Create some splash or squeeze pages. There’s a few services you can use. Most of them are free to join, don’t require much or any knowledge of HTML, and have a bunch of other features I won’t mention here.

With Instant Banner Creator, you can make professional looking images for free, including splash pages:
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Instant Squeeze Page Generator is just like it sounds, it helps you create squeeze pages fast just by filling in some forms. They even host products that your opt-ins can download when they sign up for your mailing list:
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TE Tool Box is a service created for traffic exchanges, but you can use it for safelists too. They have a nice little editor inside so you can create splash and squeeze pages without knowing any HTML.
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Step 4) If you aren’t on my mailing list yet, sign up now and you’ll get my free guide to successful advertising at traffic exchanges and credit based safelists. Just go to my blog and you’ll find an opt-in box in the upper right hand corner.

Step 5) If you’re looking for some good quality credit based safelists to join, click here for the top rankings list from Traffic Hoopla.

Don’t forget to leave a comment while you’re here!