A simple google search will find you plenty of articles from respected bloggers on how to go about it, so instead of me retelling what’s already been told, I’m going to tell you about the best, simplest and fastest way to guarantee you get more blog comments!

I first used this method on my last blog post on how to start a forum and it resulted in over 100 comments within the first 24 hours of the post going live.

Some people say there are no shortcuts in life, well, that’s simply not true, at least where blog comments are concerned anyway.

I’ve created a cool little plugin that helps you get lots of blog comments and optionally builds your list at the same time.

How does it work? Offer an incentive for the comment!

With the plug in I developed, you are able to instantly follow up with all your blog commentors by automatically subscribing them to any autoresponder.

So as soon as somebody leaves a comment on your blog, they can get access to some kind of free gift you offer!

It’s easy to use and you can set up different autoresponders for as many blog posts as you wish.

Just simply leave a comment on this blog post and I’ll email you the plug in instantly.

I developed this method after failing badly when I first attempted to start an online discusion forum.  It’s a pretty much fail proof method for getting a forum started.

If you’ve ever tried or even thought about starting an internet forum before, you will know that it is not easy.

Initially, you are faced with 3 main problems:

1. Getting people to sign up (who wants to join an empty forum?)
2. Getting people to start making posts
3. Keeping momentum and growth of membership and activity going.

Lets look at how I dealt with each issue one at a time:

Getting people to sign up.  This was super simple, I disguised the forum sign up page as a squeeze page!

I just gave away some valuable stuff related to this niche, in exchange all I asked was that they give me their name, email, username and password.

I used a script I had specially designed (more on that later) that secretly added their details into a forum as soon as they signed up. On the thankyou page, they get the items they were promised and I like to add a viral element to perpetuate growth, a tell-a-friend script or something like it, but I don’t mention anything about the forum, not yet.

Getting people to start making posts. I continue sending traffic to this squeeze page until I have around 400-500 or more members. At this point I send an email to everyone announcing the forum and a contest…

… The first 10 members to make 80 legitimate and worthwhile posts get more free valuable downloads, and I like to give position 1-5 some vouchers to spend at a popular store related to the niche, or amazon or somewhere similar.

Still continue sending traffic but now change your thankyou page to encourage people into the forum.

Have a ‘sticky’ thread in the forum and continually update it as winners of the post contest are announced, emailing the members directing them to the post. Insert their username and password into the email and encourage them to get involved.

By the time it comes to having to pay out the prizes, you will have an active forum with hundreds of members and around 1000 or more articles. Of course you could always wait longer before announcing the forum and have a bigger contest to increase this.

Anyway, you’ll have an internet property that’s very saleable or ready to be nurtured.

Keeping momentum. If you just plan on flipping the site, this isn’t really your concern, but if you want to keep it yourself, getting this right is what will make or break the forum.

Most importantly you should have been active in the forum yourself, moving discussions forward and more importantly READING and getting to know your members.

You should have an idea of who knows what they’re talking about when it comes to the forums topic, who gets good debates going, and are fairly mature and intelligent.

You want to approach these people and invite them to be moderators. You can offer them something for doing this but a lot of the time you’ll find most people will be happy to do it for nothing.

This keeps your best members at the site and also gives them a vested interest in its success.

Now you just have to keep sending traffic to the squeeze page, you could run new competitions every now and again. I find article contests work well, just give say a $50 voucher to the winner, let people submit as many articles as they want, announce the winner once around 25 articles have been submitted.

This keeps people interested in visiting the forum, and gets your site lots of great new content.

Another contest idea you could try is a $50 voucher for most active thread. This will have people trying to come up with interesting threads.

Want a copy of the script I use to automate the signup process?

Now I had originally planned to release this method/software, together with some interviews with successful forum owners, tips on running forums, that sort of thing. I was going to sell it all as a package for at least $97.

But my business has gone in a different direction, and I have this script sitting doing nothing.

I actually paid a developer a few hundred dollars to create this script, but you can grab it now completely FREE!

The script was fully working the last time I used it, but I won’t be providing further support or updates. I just don’t have the time to support it.

It’s a great script, and includes a mailer and everything else described in the above method. You only need to install it once and you can use it to start as many forums as you want on different domains.

Its a php/MySQL script.

Just make a reply to this post and you’ll instantly and automatically receive a copy of the script via email.

So just let me know what you think of this method, or talk about other methods you know about creating successful forums, or even just say thanks, and the script is yours! 

Well, over the past couple of months I have received a LOT of visitors to my websites via twitter, I have charted them below showing how many visitors came at what hour of the day.

The time is set to Pacific Time, to see the difference between pacific time and your time zone, click here.

As you can see, I got most of my referrals from twitter between 1pm and 2pm.

But going on this data, it looks as though posting any time from 9am to 3pm will give you the best chance of getting exposure and traffic from twitter.

The chart shows how you could be cutting your chances of getting exposure on twitter in half depending on when you post your tweets.

Now, I think I’ll wait about 10 hours before I let my followers know about this new blog post!

Have you noticed any particular times or days when twitter seems most busy?

Click here to learn more about how to capitalize on Twitter.

For the majority that will not be the case, the entire design of the site has an ‘internet marketing’ style to it, the fact that it is a viral downline builder means it will largely attract and interest a particular group of people… business minded people, internet marketers and entrepreneurs.

Now while I was sure that would be the case, I had no real verifiable way to prove it, until I came across this… TwitterSheep.

TwitterSheep.com allows you to enter someones twitter username and it will generate a tag cloud showing what that users followers are talking about, here’s a shot of the subjects my followers have been talking about.

While there is definitely a wide spectrum of topics there, the main theme is blatantly business related.  Actually you could almost break it down and say my followers are “Online Social Marketers who Love People and Life”.

Cooool.  :)

Try TwitterSheep yourself, find out what your followers interests are so you can then communicate with them more effectivley.

So instead of sending people to a dozen different websites to learn everything they need to know, I have just put together a complete video training center for newbies at the link below:

Click Here For The Newbie Training Center

If you’re a beginner yourself I’m sure it will be a great resource for you, and if you have your own customers and subscribers who ask for this info, why not send them here, its free, there’s no registration required and it will save you and your clients a lot of headaches.

Click Here For The Newbie Training Center

Most often they tend to be ads for online dating sites saying, “meet and chat to people right now in xxxxxxx”, or something to that effect.

When I first started to look into how to do this on my own sites the only reliable methods I found seemed to be pretty costly, but a few weeks back I found a simple way to do it for free, and it seems to be pretty accurate as far as I can tell.

Click here to see how accurate it is…

It’s just one simple block of code…

Click here to grab the code…

First paste the above code into note pad. Then copy and paste it again into your websites html wherever you want the location text to appear. The text will adhere to any style attributes applied to it on the page.

Also, the part of the script that reads, “Walnut Creek, CA”, is what will be appear when no location is able to be found, so you can change that to whatever you like.

Hope you get some use out of this and let me know how accurate the script was for you when you clicked the demo above.

Later.

Gary McCaffrey.

TechSmith have gone mad and are giving away over $300 worth of top level software. I don’t think this offer will last forever, but right now you can grab full versions of Camtasia Studio and SnagIt completely free.

These are the same programs everyone uses to create screen capture tutorials and how to products. Simply the best products of their kind, and here’s how to get them.

Camtasia Studio: Download Here

Camtasia Key: Here

SnagIt: Here

SnagIt Key: Here

Even with just these two applications alone, there’s nothing stopping you from creating great selling products. This is the same software behind top sellers like Dominating ClickBank by Andrew Fox and Michael Cheney’s Adsense Videos.

Speaking of AdSense, you may have heard how so many people are becoming ticked off with Google’s tough rules and strict guidelines, as well as the drop in profits a lot of AdSense publishers have been experiencing.

In case you weren’t aware, there are plenty of alternatives out there and some of them can be even more profitable than AdSense.

Click here to check out the new eBook Adsense Alternatives and learn how great an AdSense alternative can be.

It’s broken up into bite size chunks and really easy to digest, there’s no filler here, I guarantee you’ll pick it up and read it right to the end. And I guarantee you’ll be much more clued up about this business by the end of it!

What’s even more refreshing is that it’s FREE! Now I won’t try to pull the wool over your eyes, this is a preview report to help launch the full ‘Untold Marketing Secrets’ package which launches next week. But you’ll get a lot out of this free version, and after you’ve read it, you can make up your own mind about whether or not you’d like to get the complete version.

Having went through the complete version myself, I highly recommend it. I think its my favorite product of 2007 so far. Anyway, I’m going to take a leaf out of Jason’s book and keep this to the point, click the link below to download this free report right now:

Download 19 Untold Marketing Secrets Here

Leave a comment and let me know what you think of the report…

In my testing I have discovered a simple tactic that massively increases the chances your email will get past the filters AND acted on. That is to simply keep all of your emails very short!

I never send an entire ezine or a complete sales pitch in the email, just a short summary or headline and a link to read the rest. Some of the best and most successful newsletters I subscribe to use this technique, because it works!

To make more people respond to your emails and actually click on the links, dont use ugly meaningless links, but actually put a powerful headline in the link itself!

For example:

Read the latest issue of ‘Power Internet Marketing’ at:

www.YourSite.com/PowerfulHeadlineHere

Give it a try in your next mailing and see for yourself. Keep your emails short and the response will jump thru the roof!

Although affiliate marketing is touted as one of the easiest and most effective ways to earn money online, it is not as easy as it sounds. The wise affiliate marketer must plan every action and execute it the best way he can. He should also maximize the potential to earn by utilizing the right tools necessary for a successful Affiliate Marketing business. I have consulted some of the most successful affiliate marketers in the business and below are the top three necessary tools for a successful affiliate marketing business.

Important Tool #1: Your Own Website

The most important and indispensable tool in Affiliate Marketing is your own website. The first step in any successful affiliate marketing business is building a good, credible and professional looking website. Your website is the jump off point of all your marketing efforts. Thus, you must first build a user-friendly website, which will appeal to your prospects and encourage them to click on the links to the products and service you are promoting and make a purchase. Therefore, you must first concentrate your efforts in building a website that will cater to what your prospects need.

The most important thing you should consider is that almost all web users go online to look for information, not necessarily to go and buy something. Above all else, make your website full of original, relevant and useful content. People will love articles that are appealing and helpful. Keep in mind that, in the internet, content is still king and good quality content will not only build your credibility, it can also help you achieve a higher search engine ranking. By posting relevant and useful articles, you establish yourself as a credible expert in the field, making you a more trustworthy endorser of the product or service you promote. Establishing a good reputation is a good step in building up a loyal consumer base.

To help you organize and keep track of all the affiliate programs you promote, you should have one domain that will become your ‘Affiliate Nerve Center’ where you promote all your products from. Give it a catchy name and on the homepage you can have either a clickbank directory, or as I do, a subscription page to catch subscribers.

Then when promoting new products, give every product its own sub domain like this:

AffiliateNerveCenter.com/product1
AffiliateNerveCenter.com/product2
AffiliateNerveCenter.com/product3

This keeps your links clean, protects your commissions and also brands you and your domain!

Important Tool #2: Incentives

Competition is extremely tight in the internet world. You must always be one-step ahead of your rivals to ensure that you capture a significant share of your target market. Therefore, you must use every possible means to encourage people not only to visit your site but also to click and proceed to the websites of the products and services you are promoting. Building an opt-in email list is one of the best ways to gather prospects. Offer a newsletter or an e-zine. Better yet, offer incentives to your prospects to encourage them to subscribe to your newsletters. You can present free softwares, access to exclusive services and other freebies that will be helpful to your prospects.

Also, once you have a list, if you plan on promoting a product or service you know everyone else will be promoting, you want to set yourself apart from the masses, give your subscribers incentives to buy through your link instead of someone elses. Think about what extra value you can give them to encourage them to buy through you.

Important Tool #3: Link Popularity

The importance of driving highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be emphasized enough. The all-important web traffic is at the top of the list of the most important entities in the internet world. Attracting people to your site should be the first step you should carry out. Do everything to achieve a high search engine ranking. Link Popularity is one of the factors that search engines use to determine search engine rankings. Therefore, to enhance your link popularity, you must launch an aggressive reciprocal link campaign.

One of the best ways to do this – at no cost at all – is by submitting articles, with your website’s link at the resource box, to e-zines and free article sites. You will not only gain exposure, you will also have the opportunity to advertise for free, just include a link back to your site. The more sites you submit your articles to, the better your link popularity is. Make your articles original, relevant and useful so that more websites will pick it up and post it.

These are but three of the many techniques that an affiliate marketer can use to maximize earning potential. The possibilities are endless and are limited only by your imagination, creativity, resourcefulness and determination. You can always explore other ideas and adapt other strategies, which you think might help you become a high rolling affiliate marketer.

For more Power Affiliate tools, make sure you check out:
http://www.PowerAffiliateKit.com/