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Well, that did not take very long! Barely four days after I changed the rules for the Make Money Online reviews, I am on page 1 of Google.com for the term “make money online.”

If anything can demonstrate the power of anchoring you text links, this is it. Four days ago, this blog was ranked 158th place for make money online. Now it’s at the number 3 spot. Judging by the number of sponsored links, make money online is a highly prized key phase.

How does this translate in terms of traffic? The overture keyword tool says there were over 44,000 searches last month for make money online. Overture only reports on Yahoo! properties so you can expect Google to have at least twice that volume. If just 10% of searchers click my link, it could mean 8,000 or more Google visitors to this blog every month. And this is just for one search term!

Getting everyone to link to my blog with my anchor text was just part of the puzzle. I had to make some changes to the blog to speed my charge to page 1 of Google. The first thing I did was change the title of the blog home page from John Chow dot Com - The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul to Make Money Online with John Chow dot Com.

The second thing I had to do was to make sure some posts on the front page had the targeted keywords in them. Ideally, they should be in the blog post title because more weight is placed on that. Now you understand the evilness behind some of my post titles. In addition, the targeted keywords should be repeated a few times in the article.

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So, why not we start a project here at webmastermalaysia.com. We make a list of all Malaysian Blogger with their anchor text. Every time we write a post, we have to refer back to this page. If there is a word in our posting that match with the anchor text of the listed bloggers, then we have to link it to the blog. Example:

Blog anchor text: make money
URL: www.JohnChow.com

John Chow dot Com is a blog that helps you make money . If you review his blog, he’ll link to it and send you a lot of traffic.

If this project take off, then all Malaysian blogs ranking will definitely shoot up. This is volunteered effort by all Malaysian bloggers, so this is no hard and fast rules.. The blogger may not want to link if they are sharing the same anchor text.. Let me start:

Blog title: lonely day in Lonely Hurts
URL: www.LonelyHurts.com
anchor text: lonely day

Get Review My Blog for Free

Today I’m launching Review My Blog for FREE campaign.. “What is that?” Here’s what is going to happen… I will review your blog and write about it minimum 100 words on Lonely hurts for FREE. “How’s that sound? Interesting?” Please follow these instructions carefully.. step by step, you have to start with no.1 first, then wait for me to do no.2 for you. After I finish no. 2, then you continue to do no.3. After finish no.3, I will do no.4 for you. Simple right?

1. Leave me 3 decent comments on different posts and answer 4 simple questions in the profiler box (as displayed) on Lonely hurts.
Send me the following details i.e. your name, email, blog url and your anchor text using the contact form under About Me.

2. I will write a review about your blog with a minimum 100 words. I will incorporate your anchor text nicely in my review. “What so important about anchor text?”

3. Write a little snippet in your blog that I reviewed your blog for FREE, just by leaving 3 comments and answer 4 simple questions.
For example;
Dani of Lonely hurts was so lonely that he decided to review my blog for FREE. All I had to do was leave him 3 comments and answer 4 simple questions.
Please make sure that all links are correct. Then, send me your name, email, your blog url via the same contact form.

4. If all links are fine, I will then leave 3 comments on your blog.iPod shuffle

5. Extra juicy to this, if you add my blog into your technorati favorite, you will stand a chance to win a brand new iPod shuffle. You must fulfill the criteria no 1 to 4 first before can qualify for no 5.

Winner will be picked randomly via random.org Closing time will be 3.00pm, Tuesday, 31st July 2007 (Malaysia time). I will be announcing the winner on Wednesday, 1st August 2007 8am (Malaysia time). International participants are welcome. I will send it via standard delivery - approx 2 weeks to reach where ever you are. For local, expect 3 days delivery.

More detail visit my blog, lonely day in Lonely Hurts - love, romance, relationship, marriage, family, work, life, society….what it means to us….

interesting... ipod shuffle huh

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come la join us.. it is going to be very interesting..

no wonder la... when i reviewing once of my friend blog, he ask me to link with a keyword...

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yeah, good anchor text would improve ur SERP ranking

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here are my first 2 reviews:
Review My Blog for FREE - No. 2
Review My Blog for FREE - No. 1

I emphasize on anchor text given to me..

John chow got bombed by his anchor text. There was too much the exact same anchor text which cause Google to deemed it as spam. That's why we know that so many times it require different variantion of anchor text in order to be effective.

Now John Chow sits 'comfortably' at no.49 for the term "Make Money Online".

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ok.. you got your point.. but i think for Malaysia blog, you wouldn't reach to that stage.. traffic too low..

there are really hard to maintain traffic...

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ONE iPOD shuffle? or Every successful contestant, will get one?