Countless webmasters try as hard as they can to get there sites indexed in Google, and fail. They spend hours and hours reading useless blog posts discussing the topic, yet they continue to fail at getting their sites indexed in Google.

What if I told you there was a way to get your latest blog post indexed in Google in less than 5 minutes? Yes, you heard me, less than 5 minutes. In fact, this method is so powerful that I’m having second thoughts about releasing it to the general public to protect it from being saturated and used for the wrong purposes.

Fine, I’ll tell you how to do it. Here’s how to get your site indexed in Google in less than 5 minutes.

First, you need to install the Google XML Sitemaps plugin on your WordPress blog, make sure you set it up and build it for the first time.

Next, you’re going to have to update your blog’s ping list. Basically this is a list of web services to notify when you have published a new post on your blog. Here’s a pretty good one I use on all my blogs:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2 euro.weblogs.com
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://blawg.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=AddLink
http://blogbib.com/submit.php
http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp
http://blogintro.com/?page_id=925
http://bloglines.com/register
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/
http://dmoz.org/
http://feedshot.com/
http://findingblog.com/add_blog.php?cat=
http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/gpBlogLinkAdd.php
http://ngoid.sourceforge.net/sub_rss.php
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://pingomatic.com/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://w.moreover.com/cgi-local/site/sourcesubmission.pl
http://www.5starblogs.com/Add_blog
http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php
http://www.answers.com/main/new_blogger.jsp
http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/
http://www.blog-directory-submit.com/RSS/l_op=Addrss.html
http://www.bloghub.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi
http://www.blogion.com/?p=submit
http://www.blogmighty.com/link_submit.php
http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/
http://www.blogtree.com/
http://www.bloguniverse.com/radlinks/
http://www.blurtit.com/
http://www.bulletize.com/index.php
http://www.diarist.net/
http://www.feed24.com/?c=add
http://www.feedbomb.com/
http://www.feedboy.com/
http://www.feedsfarm.com/a.html
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://www.findory.com/submit-blog/
http://www.flookie.net/
http://www.getblogs.com/
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newzalert.com/AuthorCenter/
http://www.pubsub.com/add_feed.php
http://www.rss-clipping.com/
http://www.rssmad.com/
http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
http://www.weblogalot.com/Ping/
http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php
http://www.zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://api.my.yahoo.com
http://api.my.yahoo.com/ping
http://bblog.comping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp
http://blogbot.dk
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp
http://blogmatcher.com
http://bulkfeeds.net
http://mod-pubsub.org
http://rcs.datashed.net
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com
http://www.a2b.cc
http://www.blogdigger.com
http://www.blogpeople.net
http://www.blogroots.com
http://www.blogshares.com
http://www.blogstreet.com
http://www.lasermemory.com
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/b…ter/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com
http://www.popdex.com
http://www.snipsnap.org
http://www.weblogues.com
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC

You can change the ping list from the WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Writing. Just copy & paste the list above then save the changes.

Now go ahead and publish that post of yours, and soon as you do, head on over to Digg.com and submit a new story linking to your latest post. That’s it! Just sit back and relax while Google does the rest of the work!

Your site won’t always get the same results as mine did, but using this method, you should be able to get your site indexed within a cool 24 hours.

Pretty cool, eh? Now go on over to the DP forums to share what you just learned with the rest of your friends.

I am one of those people that spends every free minute trying to find a way to do things easier. By easier, I mean without me having to work.

One of the biggest concerns every webmaster has is driving traffic to his site. Marketers try everything, from blog commenting, to paid reviews, you name it!

But ultimately, all these methods require time and money. As well all know, time is money, so basically we’re throwing away money trying to promote our sites with little or no results. But no matter how many times they fail, they will continue beating the dead horse (or whatever that saying is).

Question is, are there really methods that are free that can bring hundreds of real visitors to your site with absolutely (fine, just a few minutes) work on your part?

Yes, I’m glad to say that there are!

Since this method involves StumbleUpon, please go sign up for an account right now if you don’t have one already. (I’m not even going to ask you to install Firefox since I expect you to have done that a long time ago.)

I’d like to explain how this method works, first. If you ever check out your site tracking tool, you’ll see a little area where you can see where all your visitors came from. This is called a referrer.

For example, let’s say A wrote a great article and B linked to him, when A checks his stats, he’ll see people coming from B’s site, so he’ll go and check it out to see what all the buzz is about.

How can you use this to your advantage? Well, if your site where to appear in thousands of site’s referrers, I believe that you would get quite a bit of traffic.

Here’s how we’re gonna do it:

First you’re going to need to download an autoclicker, just something simple that will click the mouse a certain amount of times each x seconds.

Then you’re going to have to install the RefControl addon for FireFox which lets you control what referrer shows up in site tracking tools when you visit a site.

It’s a pretty simple process to set up, just put in the site you’d like to drive the traffic to and move on to the next step.

Assuming you have the StumbleUpon toolbar installed, you want to position the mouse over the Stumble button and set the autoclicker to work before going to sleep. This way, you’ll be stumbling thousands of sites and appearing in all their logs with your site as their referrer.

Even if you only get a few hundred visitors per week using this method, that’s pretty good considering the fact you didn’t have to do anything.

But be careful, this is not a method you want to mess around with if you care for your reputation. Never try this with an established site of yours or anything that can be traced back to you.

Only do for sites that nobody can trace back to you.

Another idea is to use an affiliate page URL as the referrer instead of just using your site. I think you can take this method to a whole different level with a bit of creativity, just think about it.

You know, it always amazes my friends and family when I tell them that you can actually make money online! It just sounds bizarre to them for some reason, even after I try explaining it to them, they still don’t get it.

Ever since John Chow starting posting his $40,000 per month blogging income reports, everyone and their dog is jumping on to the “make money online” bandwagon. There are probably a myriad number of things they don’t understand about making money online, but in reality, there are only two things they (and everyone else) needs to know to start making money online…

If only they knew about these two secrets, making money online would seem much, much easier.

Want to know the two little known secrets about making money online? Here they are: If you want to make money online you have to… a) Work. b) Spend Money.

Wait, is it really that simple? I mean, come on, obviously if it was that simple then everyone would be making money online by now, right? Wrong.

You see, almost 100% of the people that want to make money online either don’t want to work for it or don’t want to spend any money.

They expect that the money will start rolling in while they watch another episode of Lost; they think that people will simply give them cash in return for absolutely nothing.

People, there is something you have to get into your minds if you seriously want to make money online! It takes money to make money, and you’re gonna have to work to do that! If you really bought into all those getrich-quick schemes working 1/hour a month, then you’ve got another thing coming!

I know a lot of people (myself included) that have the potential of making it big online but the only reason that isn’t happening is because no money is being spent nor is any sweat being put into it.

Reading about how to make money online on all those alleged “make money online” blogs isn’t going to help you make money online. You might think that reading about how to make money online will actually help you out in the long run by improving your skills, but trust me, the best way ever to do good on something is to actually do it.

Making money online isn’t rocket science, but it will require you to take action and start spending money.

There you have it, folks. Get out there and start taking action!

One of the most confusing things all new bloggers face is finding the perfect post schedule.

The main problem with them is that they all start out very enthusiastically, posting up to five times per day. The problem is, after they notice that nobody’s reading or commenting on their content, they simply stop.

Even when they slowly establish themselves in their niche, they still find it difficult to find the perfect posting schedule; many even go the length of thinking about the time they should post.

The secret is pretty simple, actually (and is one I’ve been using for a while now). I find that you should only post again once your first post has reached its Climax.

What on earth does that mean, eh? Well, you see, I like to think of the climax of a post as its tipping point – the time period where it has gotten the most exposure as possible.

For some, that may mean 50 comments and a thousand views, others may have lower expectations. But a general rule you should stick to when first starting out is 5 comments and 50 pageviews. That is probably the best time you should whip up another post and publish it.

Although this is the way I do things, it may not work as well for blogs in certain niches like technology, where events are constantly changing and people would like to stay updated 24/7.

This rule will ensure that both you and your readers will benefit - with you getting as much comments and pageviews as possible, while your readers enjoy your posts without feeling overwhelmed.

Have you ever noticed that there isn’t a single decent, FREE keyword tracker tool around the Internet? I was thinking about this a few days and just so happened to get an email from Terry Novak who was telling me about his latest project: RockinSEO.com.

I’ve got to say that I was really impressed when I signed up to the site and gave it a spin! The tracker was just so easy to use and it laid out the information in such an understandable fashion. All I had to do was add my site and put in the keywords I wanted to track and boom! Eye-candy charts out of nowhere!

Since the tool is still new, there’s still a lot of room for improvement, here are a few things I think Terry should add to the tool to take it to the next level:

• Ability to add/remove sites after signing up. (Right now, you can only add the site at signup, after that you’re stuck with it only.)
• More options to change in the user profile. (Password, email, notifications etc.)
• Notification when your keywords reach a certain page.
• An email to inform you when your keywords outrank your competition’s ones.
• To be able to hide/show sites when viewing the competition chart.

Those are the only ones I could think of right now, but be sure to add any if I missed some. Head on over to RockinSEO.com right now and start Rockin’! (Kudos to Terry for the great tagline.)

Almost every serious webmaster knows that the real money is in backlinks. The more you have, the higher your site will rank in the search engines, and ultimately you’ll make more money.

Let’s say there are two sites with backlinks of the same quality. One of them has 10,00 backlinks, and the other one has 50,000 backlinks. Which one do you think Google is going to consider more important? Obviously the one with 50,000 backlinks.

But then again, quantity isn’t everything. The quality of the backlinks is another important factor that search engines take into consideration when ranking your site. For example, let’s say we have two technology blogs. One has 1,000 backlinks from sites like TechCruch, Lifehacker, ArsTechnica, Gizmodo etc. and the other blog has 5,000+ backlinks from a few unknown technology blogs. Who do you think will rank higher in the search engines? The first one of course.

Quality and quantity are just two of the many factors search engines use to rank a site. Other factors are the anchor text, topic of the blog, age of the domain, PageRank of the blog and tons of others. But what we will focus on right now is the quantity of backlinks. You see, the thing about backlinks is that you can never get enough of them. Even if you reach #1 in Google, a couple of more thousand backlinks won’t do any harm. So, how exactly do you build thousands of backlinks towards your site for free?

That’s what we’ll be looking at today. Here are 7 methods that may result if thousands of free backlinks: Use them at your own risk.

Link Exchanges With 1000-Paged Websites

I bet you’ve been told a thousand times by everyone and their dog that link exchanges are a great way to get backlinks. But I’m sure that none of them have ever told you which sites you should exchange links with. You see, there’s no point exchanging links with a site that only has 10 indexed pages in Google (assuming you’re exchanging sidebar links). Because in the end, you’ll only be getting 10 measly links from that website. So how do you see if a site has many indexed pages or not? Easy, just go to Google and type in this search query: site:www.sitenamehere.com

That’s sit, this will show you the number of indexed pages the site has in the topish-right corner of the page.

Do-Follow Blog Commenting (the Blogoholic Way)

Commenting on do follow blogs has always a great method to get free backlinks. But there are two problems with this method: a) You won’t be able to use your keyword as anchor text 99.9% of the time - b) The blog owner may decide to make the comment section nofollow and there’s nothing you can about it. Okay, so what’s so new about this method? Nothing really, it’s just the way you do it. Since you’re not using your keyword as anchor text, blog owners will pay less attention to comments that seem “out of the ordinary”

Here’s what you do: First install the Firefox plugin easyComment. This will help you automatically fill in the comment fields to save you time. Fill in the Name, Website, and Email fields as you wish, but for the message field, here’s what to write:

“Hey, just thought you might wanna know that your blogs looks funny in Safari browser”

Now just open up a list of do follow blogs and submit this message to every single one you find. That’s all there is to it! Within days you will have hundreds of do follow links pointing to your website! If this is too “unethical” or “greyhat” for you, then simply don’t do it!

Use Forum Signatures

If you are a member on a forum (who isn’t?) and have thousands of posts, then you should be using your signature to promote to build links towards your blog. Now I understand that many of you like to use their signatures for other reasons, but here’s the thing, all you need is a link to your site. A great way to do this and stay unnoticed is to set the font size to small and make the anchor text of the link a simple “dot”. That way, you’ll build thousands of backlinks towards your site while still keeping the ability to use your signature for other purposes.

Set Up Automated Blogs

Setting up an automated blog that automatically syndicates other blog’s feeds is a great way to build backlinks. You see, if the blog makes 50 new posts a day, and you link to your site from the blog’s sidebar, then that’s 100 new links everyday. Set up a few more of those blogs and you’ll be getting thousands of links in no time. Here’s a tutorial that shows you how to set up an automated video site, as long as your getting more pages indexed, then you’re getting more links.

Sponsor WordPress Themes

Sponsoring WordPress themes can be a fantastic source of free (and high quality) backlinks. The important thing to remember here is to sponsors the themes that you know will get a lot of downloads and be installed on tons of blogs. Also, don’t sponsor theme that are selling more than 2 links, that will just be a waste of money.

Some great themes have brought in millions (yes, millions) of backlinks towards the designer’s website. Just goes to show that the more work you put into it, the more you backlinks you get.

Create a Useful WordPres Plugin

There are millions of WordPress blogs all over the Internet. What would happen if you could create a plugin that almost every one of them would like to use? (Fine, not every single one, but most.) Well, considering that you would have included a small link in your plugin back to your website (cForms is an example of this), you just scored yourself tens of thousands of free backlinks.

Simple? Well, yes and no. First of all, not everybody knows how to make their own WordPress plugin, secondly, what on earth would tens of thousands of blogs need? But with a bit of research and asking around on forums, I’m sure you can eventually come up with something.

By the way, I know that I said you’ll be getting these backlinks for free. But once you pay for the cost of developing the plugin, you’ll have nothing other than the promotion to do!

Create a Widget That Will Go Viral!

Why do you think sites that show your Google PageRank have such a high PR? Well, it’s because every time someone wants to display his site’s PR, they give him a code that shows it along with a link to their site. Can you imagine how many people put up these widgets? Or take twittercounter.com as an example. The owners thought of something people would probably like to use and created it. Now there site has a PageRank 5 and over 2 million backlinks!

Better yet, you can create something you know that people in your niche will want to put up their blogs. Not only will this get you free backlinks, but it will also get you targeted and related ones as well. (Which Google pays more attention to.)

Using the above methods has the potential to bring your site thousands of backlinks within months (or weeks, depending on how hard you work). Whether you use them or not, that’s up to you. I showed you the way, now it’s your turn to take action and start building links!

Oh, and keep a lookout for the tomorrow’s post that discusses the #1 reason that people don’t make money online (and how to get over it). I’ll also be talking about a few forum marketing tactics during the next few days as well as a step-by-step guide that teaches beginners how to make money online fast. Just one more thing, my eBook that teaches you how to make $500/week will be released soon, so stay tuned for that!

There are a lot of people around the world that try to make money online, but 99% of them will fail. Why?

One of the reason’s is that they don’t have a clear path as to how to make money online. They waste tons of cash on useless of eBooks that are absolute crap and end up making nothing.

Well, since I grew sick and tired of seeing beginners being fooled by all the useless stuff out there, I put together a free 16-page guide that will help you make your first $1,000 online.

You heard me right, a 16-page blueprint to making $500/week from blog flipping. No catch. No nothing. Just 16-pages of pure information that will help you make your first $1,000 online.

Ya, ya, whatever, just tell me how to get the free eBook.

Simple, all you have to do is subscribe to blog’s feed via email and verify subscription. (Click on the link in the message you receive in your inbox.)

That’s it. After subscribing and verifying your subscription, you should get the eBook download link to your inbox within 24 hours. (I’ll send out the links manually - damn Aweber doesn’t accept PayPal!)

This is a limited time offer! On February 15th, the eBook will no longer be free and will cost $6.99 - Don’t miss this opportunity.

Photo by Aaron Escobar

Just thirty-something years ago, the Internet was something mysterious - little people new about it and even less knew how to use it. At that time, the idea of any average Joe starting his own website was absurd; something not even thought of. The whole idea of websites, HTML, and all that was very an enigma to many, let alone the idea of making money using the Internet.

Nowadays, things are different. Now, each and every human being on this earth has been introduced to the Internet. (Well, at least most of them.) The Internet isn’t something we stop to think about at any time of our day, but something we use as we breath—it just happens.

Some say that this dependence on the Internet is okay; I mean, it is helping millions communicate worldwide and is giving us access to a huge amount of information. On the other hand, others claim that the Internet is one of the reasons people have lost social skills, and that it has destroyed the minds of this new generation.

Whatever side your on, here are 101 sure-fire signs you’re addicted to the Internet. Whether that’s a bad thing or a good thing, is up to you to decide.

1. When you hear a good joke, “LOL” is the first thing that pops into your mind
2. You continuously refresh the Google homepage even though you know nothing’s going to happen
3. You check your email every 5 minutes “just in case”
4. Your parents/spouse need to email you to call you to dinner
5. You sneak away from your wedding to check your email
6. When someone asks you how your newborn baby is, you tell them that he’s still in BETA
7. You start writing HTML on dirty car windows
8. You know your online friends better than your real life ones
9. You’ve read the Google about page over 50 times
10. You can list 10 reasons Firefox is better than IE right off the bat
11. You know what IE stands for
12. You wait for your spam folder to fill up just so that you can empty it again
13. You consider places that have no Internet access “weird”
14. You won’t even consider going on vacation where there is no Internet access
15. When you do go on vacation, the only thing you’re thinking of is when you’re gonna get back to check your email
16. Everytime you hear someone talking about a website, you think they’re talking about you
17. Your heart starts racing whenever you see a website URL somewhere
18. You can’t stand hearing people talk about Internet Explorer without interrupting them and giving them 10 reasons it sucks
19. Whenever you do something wrong, your first reaction is to hit that back button
20. Your bookmark list needs it own harddrive
21. Your monitor has the Google homepage burned into it
22. You curse the people that forgot to add the word “Google” to the dictionary
23. Your single life purpose is to continue getting faster Internet; 28.8Kbps, 56Kbps, T1, T3
24. You give your only child a DSL subscription and laptop so that you can keep in touch with him “more easily”
25. When your spouse gets angry, you quickly look for the “Exit” button
26. You have no idea how your ISP calls 200 hours/month of Internet access “unlimited”
27. You ask your doctor to see if it’s possible to create a modem port in your head
28. All your dreams are in W3C valid XHTML
29. You start imitating the default MSN winks every time you want to express your feelings
30. You haven’t talked to your mother for 10 years. Hey, it’s her fault she never learned how to use Skype!
31. You leave your room only to find that your parents are dead and that your siblings have moved out
32. You open your browser hours prior to using it so that all the previously opened tabs can load up
33. You can go about your daily tasks online blindfolded
34. You know your friends by their usernames more than you them by their real names
35. Your body has a tattoo that says “This body best viewed with Firefox 2.0″
36. You start taking pills to cure your addiction to the Internet
37. You start having headaches when you’re away from your computer
39. Your online life starts to seem more important than your offline one
40. If a coffee shop doesn’t have free wireless access, you consider it blasphemy
41. You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and stop to check your email on the way
42. You tell your kids that they can’t use the computer because “daddy’s got work”
43. You spend half the plane trip with your laptop in your lap… and your child in the overhead compartment
44. You decided to stay in college for an extra year or two… just for the free Internet
45. When you business teacher asks you the difference between “needs” and “wants”, you tell him that the Internet is a need, and sunlight is a want
46. You carry a flash drive with your bookmarks wherever you go, “just in case”
47. The last girl you hooked up with was a JPEG
48. You start using smileys in college essays
49. No matter how much your college professor tries to make you understand, you still think that “LOL” is a real word (pronounced “lawl”)
50. You have your kids faces as icons on the desktop
51. You start panting heavily every time a page stops loading; thinking that your ISP is undergoing construction
52. When you find out that you won’t have Internet access for a few days, you start crying as though your only child had just died
53. You’re willing to sit on the floor of your old apartment, where there is no furniture, just so that you can get access to the Internet where it still isn’t shut off
54. Your ISP names you “Customer of the Month” for the 12th consecutive time
55. You desperately ask your friends to loan you some money for your mother’s “important surgery”
56. Half-way to the hospital, you decide that your mother will just have to hang in there; you head on over to Best Buy to purchase that modem you’ve been eying for a while
57. You turn on the news only to find out that Tom Cruise is now president, toast causes cancer, and that the Teletubbies are gay
58. You’ve memorized every single browser shortcut and know them like the back of your hand
59. It feels “weird” when you have nothing to do
60. You know that Google is more than a search engine, and you care!
61. The choice between you kids education and the Internet bill is obvious - even though it might be tough one for your kids
62. You don’t worry about your bookmarks when your harddrive fails; you have them photocopied in a safe in Sweden
63. You constantly brainstorm things to look up on Google
64. You know why Google is better than MSN/Yahoo and you care
65. “Googling” is no longer a thing to you, but a way of living
66. You suddenly realize that you wife and children have been missing for ages
67. You search for them on Google
68. You sell your car to pay for your monthly phone bill
69. You are surprised when you go to the library and can’t find Wikipedia
70. You really think that your birthday video is going to be a big hit on YouTube
71. Your life is nothing but a blog, and the everyday events are posts
72. You try opening doors by double clicking on them
73. You constantly look for the delete button to get rid of your boss
74. You think Google knows where you car keys are
75. Your husband tells you that he’s had the beard for 2 weeks
76. You name your children after your favorite forum members
77. You’ve finally solved the mystery of the “about:robots” in Firefox
78. You don’t have a diary, you have a blog
79. When you ISP closes down, you decide to sue them for the “Mental Damage” they caused you
80. You know people online better than you know your own mother
81. Your wife makes a new rule: “The computer can not come to bed”
82. You started writing HTML code on the doors of public restrooms
83. You’ve changed your homepage over 100 times… and always ended up going back to Google
84. You refer to your age as 2.0
85. You miss a weeks worth of meals downloading the latest games
86. You try and convince yourself that you’re “not” addicted to the Internet while browsing through you feed reader’s 12,702 unread items
87. You’ve fallen for every single one of Google’s April Fools jokes
88. The only time you ever leave your room is to eat and go to the bathroom
89. You call up a plumber and ask him how much it would cost for him to replace your computer chair with a toiler
90. You start ordering all your food online and move into the kitchen so you “don’t waste any time”
91. You’re surprised to hear that your friends don’t have their own Personal Messaging system
92. You misspell words on purpose just so that you can use Firefox’s “cool” spellcheck tool
93. Your cat has it own homepage and Facebook profile
94. You refer to eating as uploading
95. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading
96. You step out of your to find that the new Ice Age has begun
97. You call up your ISP and ask them is the snow is going to affect your connection
98. If anybody wants to talk to you, he just logs on your IRC channel
99. When your connection goes down, you spend every waking minute trying to guess your neighbors password so that you can “borrow” their Internet
100. You need a list like this to tell you that you’re addicted to the Internet
101. You predicted (right) how this list was going to end before reading the last sign

I hope you enjoyed the list! I’d love to hear some more suggestions from you guys!

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99% Of Your Blog’s Readers Will Never Comment On Your Blog.

Comments are a way to show appreciation and gratitude toward a blogger, yet there are blogs with hundreds of thousands of readers that get no more than fifty comments per post. What’s up with that?

Maybe the style of writing doesn’t compel the reader to leave a comment. Or could it be that the blog doesn’t sport the “community feel” and that readers don’t see the purpose of leaving comments? (TechCrunch has over one million readers, yet each post has an average of fifty comments!)

The truth is, that’s just how it has and will always be. Not everyone that reads your posts will leave a comment, and it’s time for you to accept the truth of the matter - but there are certain techniques you can use to engage your readers and have them leave a piece of their mind.

Here are 10 effective methods to get more comments on your blog:

1. Keep it easy

I personally comment on hundreds of different blogs every week. The only reason that would prevent me from commenting on a blog would be having to register first. You see, people have busy lives, and asking them register before leaving a comment is practically telling them not to comment at all. I understand why many sites require registration before commenting (to reduce spam), but they are loosing out on so many comments because of that. Commenting should be fun, so remember to keep commenting as simple and easy as possible.

2. Provide incentives

Let’s face it, sometimes doing good for the sake of good just doesn’t cut it. Why should anyone comment on your blog when there are millions of others to choose from? Occasionally, it helps to provide incentives for your readers to comment. You can give away eBooks, themes, or other products to those who comment; this works wonders since your readers are always on the lookout for free stuff.

3. Ask

As obvious as it might seem (or not), simply asking your readers to comment will definitely help you get more comments. I don’t know why this works, as your readers already probably know that they can comment whenever they want to, I guess it has to do something with being specifically asked (makes it seem more personal).

4. Write controversially

If your readers are always going to agree with your posts, then there won’t be much room for them to voice their opinion. Writing controversially is the solution to this problem. I don’t mean writing a post where you insult another blogger or product, but writing in a way that shows the other side of the story. The more you disagree with the masses, the more comments you will get. Warning: you are bound to get many flamers and pissed off people, don’t delete their comments. Rather, respond to their comments in a civilized way. No matter how careful you are in not offending anyone, you are bound to get a few pissed of readers. Don’t think about them too much, the traffic and comments you can get from a well-structured controversial post make it worth it.

5. Respond to comments

If you aren’t going to be using your own comments section, then why should others? Readers usually ask questions in their comments and expect answers. If you are going to leave them hanging without answering their question (or even acknowledging their comment), then why should they comment in the first place? Respond to comments politely and be sure to respond to each one individually. Nobody likes being referred to as “guys or everyone”

6. Reward the commentators

One day I checked my email and found this blogger’s latest eBook sitting their - he had sent it to me to show his appreciation towards me for commenting on his blog. That email really changed the way I see that blogger and his blog. The fact that he was the only blogger that thanked me for my comments showed that he really payed attention to those taking the time to comment on his blog. You should try it someday. Head on over to your WordPress dashboard right now and send your own token of appreciation to all your commenters. I’m pretty sure you’ll have a warm fuzzy feeling inside of you after you do.

7. Make use of plugins

There are tons of WordPress plugins out there that will help you get more comments on your blog. You have probably seen sites with the top commentators widget, or others participating in the do-follow movement. All these things can be achieved with free WordPress plugins, here are some of my favourites:

1. Subscribe to Comments - Allows readers to be notified by email when new comments are made.
2. Top Commentators - Gives the top commentators a link in the sidebar (tons of options to customize).
3. Contact Commenters - Sends an email to commenters that have been absent for a while
4. Do-Follow Comments - Remove the “rel=nofollow” from the website field in the comment section.
5. Threaded Comments - Let’s readers respond to other comments in an organized fashion.

8. Don’t write everything

If you write everything that can be said in your post, then you are leaving no room for the opinions and ideas of your readers. Always try your best to not write everything. Always save some room for improvement by asking your readers for their thoughts on the matter. For example, instead of writing about 15 ways to get more comments on your blog, I only wrote about 10 and will ask you guys to share some more. Not only does this increase the comments your blog gets, but it also creates and gives your site more of a community feel.

9. Comment on other blogs

Almost every time I leave a comment on another blogger’s blog, he immediately checks out my blog and leaves a comment in return. Commenting can be very time-consuming, and not everyone will have the time to tell you what a good job you did on your last post. But when you comment on other blogs, their owner’s will usually feel obliged to comment on your blog to return the favor. Pretty simple really, you scratch their back, they scratch yours.

10. Show appreciation

When was the last time you thanked your commentators? It can be surprising how such a small “thank you” at the end of your posts can take your comment section a long way. Your readers are taking their time to leave comments on your blog, so the least you could do is thank them for their effort. A little thank you note can turn a stop-and-go commenter into a very loyal reader. Think about it

What are some methods you personally use to get more comments on your blog?