Before you read this article make sure you read the first part of series here, otherwise this article won’t make much sense to you. 

 

 

Below is the list of those who responded to my email, I’m going to let you know how long it took them to respond, and whether or not they actually contributed. Yesterday I rewarded them all with links, for simply responding, but now I’m going to tell you who sent tips. Then tomorrow I’m going to give you the actual tips that they sent. 

 

Again remember, I’m not going to make any judgments, I’m just going to show you how their responses rank, by time, and amount of words.

 

 

Comparing the Bloggers by Time of Response

 

>1 day

 

Jim from thenetfool.com responded the fastest in an incredible, 8 minutes. He was able to help and sent a small google doc with his suggestions.

 

Jim from jimkukral.com, responded second in a little more then an hour, with a quick suggestion that has helped him, and will surely help you.

 

Jason from theuniversitykid.com, responded third within an incredible four hours, with almost a entire page of very useful information. 

 

Stephan from stephanmiller.com responded also fourth in a very short time, however he was unable to help me, because he said he wasn’t able to get to it.

 

Danny from linkersblog.com was fifth to respond. All three of these bloggers were within several hours. He was able to contribute with a relatively long list of helpful tips. 

 

David from affiliatedragon.com was sixth to respond, but he also was unable to contribute because of business.

 

Simon from otooo.com was seventh to respond, but he said, “I don’t have the time to write for my blog let alone yours at the moment so I am going to have to decline.”

 

1-2 days

 

Yan from thoushallblog.com was eighth, he responded a little more then a day later, which is still quite impressive.

 

Glen from viperchill.com was ninth, he responded in about two days. He was also able to help with some good suggestions.

 

Syed from balkhis.com was tenth, he told me he would be able to help, but I guess he forgot or something because he never responded with the tips.

 

John from johncow.com was eleventh, and he said he was to busy to help.

 

3-4 days

 

Collin from collinlahay.com was

twelfth, and he was the longest in four days, although he was also able to contribute.

 

4+ days

 

N/A

 

My Comments

 

I was very impressed with all this, I mean I don’t typically respond to my emails in less then a few days, and I’m sure I don’t get as many as these people.

 

Next I am going to compare the seven who did respond with tips, by how many words were in each of their contributions.

 

Amount of words in their tips

 

 

1^st

Danny from linkersblog.com, his tip was 365 words

 

2^nd

Jim from theuniversitykid.com, his tip was 254 words

 

3^rd

Jim from thenetfool.com, his tip was 253 words

 

4^th

Collin from collinlahay.com, his tip was 166 words

 

5^th

Yan from thoushallblog.com, his tip was 109 words

 

6^th

Glen from viperchill.com, his tip was 82 words

 

7^th

Jim from jimkukral.com, his tip was 48 words

 

My Comments

 

All in all I was very impressed with how quick people responded. Although, I was very disappointed that only 12 of the 21 bloggers responded, and of those 11 only 7 actually contributed. I want to thank again everybody who sent responses, and make sure you come back tomorrow, for the third and final part of this series. As I show you what these professional bloggers actually said are the keys on, how to get traffic.

 

 

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The purpose of this post, is to share tips from the top bloggers in the Make Money Online niche, on how to get traffic. I sent an email to 21 bloggers that I considered to be the top bloggers, asking them about how they got traffic to their site. As I thought more about it, I also realized it would be an interesting experiment to see which ones would respond, considering how busy they are, and how many emails they are receiving a day. So today I am sharing with you the list of bloggers I sent the email to, who responded, and who didn’t. Tomorrow I will be showing you the actual emails they sent, about not responding. And Saturday, I will be showing you the actual tips that they suggested.

 

 

Because there’s so much information that I’ve gotten, I’ve decided I’m going to drag this out into three posts over the next three day. I was very Very tempted to make the last post with the actual tips be password protected for RSS subscribers only, but after some thought I decided that I wouldn’t do that to you. However, I would greatly appreciate it if you would subscribe if you haven’t already. I am trying to win the Blogging Idol 2 which will give me a lot more technology to make these blog posts better, and more informative for you, and so we would all win.

 

The first post today, is a list of all the people who I sent the email to. And I’m going to tell you which ones responded, and which ones didn’t. What the excuses were for the people who were nice enough to respond, and also just the people who didn’t even bother to reply at all. I was surprised at the amount of responses I got that said they didn’t have the time to respond, even though what I was asking for you could do in less then five minutes. But regardless, without farther “adu” here is the the first list.

 

*Disclaimer*

 

I don’t want to get in trouble with any of these bloggers so I’m not going to make any judgments one way or the other. So I will merely present the information as I’ve received it, including copies of the emails, and I’ll let you make your own judgments. The ones who responded I am rewarding with a link to thank them for their trouble. Regardless of whether they gave tips or not.

 

 

First set of Messages sent 10/22-23

 

This is the list of bloggers that I sent emails to.

 

 

problogger.com

johnchow.com

johncow.com

shoemoney.com

blueverse.com

viperchill.com

doshdosh.com

jimkukural.com

ianfernando.com

entrepreneurs-journey.com

thoushallblog.com

balkhis.com

courtneytuttle.com

collinlahay.com

 

These Sent 10/23/08

 

otooo.com

thenetfool.com

whoisandrewwee.com

retireat21.com

zacjohnson.com

caroline-middlebrook.com

tylercruz.com

 

 

Responses to the First Email

 

I got very few responses from the first set. After I sent out the second group, several people commented the email got sent into junk mail. So there is no way for me to tell which ones did not respond, and which ones just don’t read their junk mail. J A lot more of them responded from the second group, but several people responded within several hours of the first message.

 

 

The University Kid,

Linkersblog,

Stephan Miller,

Affiliate Dragon,

 

These two also responded but within a few days.

 

viperchill.com Replied 10/24/08 2 days

collinlahay.com Replied 10/26/08 4 days

 

Note

Not all of these people who responded actually wrote any tips, some just responded saying they could not help me. This wasn’t as much a test of their willingness to help, but mainly to see which ones would respond at all. Therefore, I am still giving them the credit of a link simply for responding, whether they actually helped any at all.

 

 

 

Second set of Messages sent 10/31

 

This is a list of the people to whom I sent a second email. To make it shorter, I removed the ones who responded from the first email. There were also a few who I didn’t send a second email to for various reasons, it was only a couple, but just so you know.

 

problogger.com 2 messages

johnchow.com 2 messages

johncow.com 2 messages

shoemoney.com 2 messages

blueverse.com 2 messages

doshdosh.com 2 messages

jimkukural.com 2 messages

thoushallblog.com 2 messages

balkhis.com 2 messages

courtneytuttle.com 2 messages

otooo.com 2 Messages

thenetfool.com 2 Messages

whoisandrewwee.com 2 Messages

retireat21.com 2 Messages

zacjohnson.com 2 Messages

 

 

People to whom the first email was put in their Junk File

 

 

Again remember, several of these people responded to the second email saying the first message was put in their junk. So don’t jump to any conclusions. The ones that I know for a fact had the first email sent to their junk are listed below.

 

thoushallblog.com

jimkukural.com

balkhis.com

otooo.com

thenetfool.com

 

Responses to the Second Email

I got a few more responses from the second email, but still a depressing few amount of people who actually contributed. However, these are the links of the people who responded to the second message with some type of response.

 

jimkukral.com

johncow.com

balkhis.com

otooo.com

thenetfool.com

thoushallblog.com

 

 

The people who didn’t respond to either Email.

 

Not even so much as an “I’m too busy for you,” email which I did get several of. This list is the people were the ones who didn’t respond, despite two emails I sent them. Some of them I totally understand with how many emails they are receiving. Some other ones I was a little surprised about, but I’ll let you make your own judgments.

 

problogger.com

johnchow.com

shoemoney.com

blueverse.com

doshdosh.com 

courtneytuttle.com

retireat21.com

zacjohnson.com

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

All in all I got 11 responses from the 21 bloggers I sent messages to. Most of the 21 bloggers got two emails as well. I was honestly a little saddened by that, I was expecting a few more responses. There were several surprises in my mind, on both sides. Some people responded who I never thought would, and several did not, whom I expected to.

 

This is the first post in my series on the Top Bloggers in my niche. Make sure you come back tomorrow to see the second post. I will be showing the emails from the people who Didn’t respond, and again let you draw your own conclusions. Then make sure you come back on Saturday to see the actual tips given by the experts in their field. 

 

 

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One of the greatest ways to advertise your blog, is to comment on others, A lot. A good amount of the top bloggers today got where they are by leaving 50-100 comments a day. Now I don’t expect you to be able to do that, I mean who has the time for that… However, I try and comment 10-20 times a day. Usually it is a little bit fewer then that, but I try and do around that.

 

So if you comment on blogs, on at least a semi regular basis, then I’m sure you’ve seen this before.

 

 

It’s a picture of the information you fill in to leave a comment. Now up till recently I had been filling out the name box like this,

 

 

 

But then one day I had an idea. When you comment on a blog, if you get in the top commentator list, it is a backlink to your site. And then suddenly I realized, the name is the anchortext of the link! Now you may not realize at first the importance of that discovery, so let me explain. For all the people who comment a lot, and are getting links back to their site, they could be using the name box as the anchor text for the links to their site. To test this out, I filled out comments for a couple days in the name box like this.

 

 

Wanting to see if it would help with SEO purposes, sure enough within a week, (which is not very much at all,) my site was on the first page on Google for the search term, “how to get traffic.” It has slipped a bit to the second page because I’ve changed my keyword now, but a week before this, I was not even in the top 500! It was then I realized the incredible potential for this discovery. Not only are you advertising your blog and getting traffic by commenting on blogs, you are also getting free links, and really helping the SEO of your site.

 

So now I decided to really implement this great find. Because the term, how to get traffic didn’t get quite as many searches a day as I wanted, I decided to switch again to a new one. Now I fill it out like this,

 

 

If you’ve seen that term before on a site, in a top commentator list then that’s me. The term how to blog, is a much more competitive term then how to get traffic, according to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, it gets about 74,000 hits per month, which should be a nice amount of traffic if I can get on the first page.

 

 

 

Now I’ve only been gathering links for my site under that term for less then a week, and yet already. From not being in the first 500 (probably more but I didn’t look further) mastersofseo is currently number 58. Which isn’t high enough to start getting traffic, but to be in the top 100 after only a couple days, with no extra effort from me is incredible. And just think of the massive amounts of traffic that will be visiting my site in a couple weeks/months however long it takes to crack the first page.

 

Now after I realized this, I was like well, this is relatively obvious, I’m sure everybody else knows about it. However, Like nobody realizes it!!! Look at this picture of John Chow’s top commentator list.

 

 

 

Now those anchor texts are fine if your trying to rank for, TYCP Entertainment Magazine, ZK@WebTrafficROI, Keral Patel, Ben Pei, Affiliate Confession, BusinessX, Steven-Sanders, Danny Cooper, Ryan McLean, and Mike Huang. But those search terms will get tiny amounts of traffic compared to how to blog, or something along that lines. When I was using mastersofseo as the name of my comments, I was helping my site rank for mastersofseo, but I already rank for that lol. And unfortunately nobody types that in anyway, so my SEO tip for you is, to find a search term that your site can rank for, and then check the amount of searches using the Google Keyword Tool. If it’s getting enough, then make that term the search term of your comments, just make sure that it is something relevant to your blog, because remember, the point is not to spam, it’s to advertise your site. My blog is about how to blog, and so I’m not spamming.  This tip is really useful and I hope your able to put it to good use.

 

 

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