This will be a short but powerful post.

How would you react if I told you that you can increase your page rank for your site, increase your search engine rank and thereby increase your sales without any incoming links?  You can do this just by manipulating the links within your site.  This works almost every time just by letting the pages within your own sites linking back to your home page and vice-versa.

I order for this to work I assume your site have some sort of pagerank.  The way this works is for example if your site have a pagerank of 2, then you link it to your other sites within your site and back. Say you have three pages addition to your homepage and you link to all three google will divide your page rank in three and give each of your sites a page rank of 0.66.  A site just put out there have a page rank value of 0.12 – 0.15 (these numbers are not accurate but it’s in that area) plus 0.66 they get from the home page they will each have a page rank of minimum 0.78.  If they link pack to the home page you will almost immediately increase your authority with google.  And you know your math so if you have 500 hundred article pages on your site linking back and forth for the same key word phrase using this strategy it becomes extremely powerful.  Page rank are some what exponential and the details are a bit complicated and no one knows exactly what’s behind google’s black box, so you can’t multiply 0.78 x 500 obviously but you will increase your page rank significantly.  You can essentially run your own article directory without any incoming links e.g ezinearticle.com.  This is called the simple pyramid diagram and works best if you have one keyword phrase.  But if you have several keyword phrases on your site, simply create one pyramid for each keyword phrase.

Another way is if you have two sites with a page rank of 2 each.  They both link back to each other, and the second page also links to your three other pages giving them a page rank of 0.12 + 0.66, and they link back to site one.  This is extremely powerful.

If you wanna see a great video about this topic, here is a link to Chad Kimball’s blog where you will find a lot of free and excellent content: chaddo.com.  Or if you are new to the internet marketing world this is a great place to start your journey (besides our blog;-): thirtydaychallenge.com.

To your ongoing online success

Andre & Tom

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Today we’ll cover a very important plugin that you should get immediately if you already haven’t installed it on your WordPress blog.

Ping Optimizer
In fact, if you have been using WordPress for a long time then by now your blog probably has been banned from ping services and you don’t even know it.

Read below to learn how some major flaws in WordPress’s pinging system can get your blog banned and make it lose precious traffic.
Answer these questions:

• Why are blogs more powerful than ordinary websites?
• Why do search engine easily index blogs while other websites struggle to get indexed?
• Why do blogs attract more traffic than ordinary websites?

The answer is the blog’s ability to PING. Its not just a geeky term. Its a lot more powerful tool and process than you have imagined. “Whenever a blog pings, many background processes happen which get your blog quickly indexed by search engines as well as bringing traffic from many other sources.”
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This is just a post against all the hype around weight loss….

Five years ago I was watching a show on CNN.  It was an interview with someone who talked about some things that really got my attention.  He was talking about taking control of your own life and “if you can dream it you can achieve it”.  It was right up my alley.  I did a Google search on this guy and it turned out that he was quite a famous man in the US.  It was Antony Robbins.  After doing a lot of research I decided to attend a live seminar in London. Two months later I was attending his UPW (Unleash The Power Within).  It was a four day seminar lasting 10-12 hours every day but it felt like 3-4.  It was truly a life changing experience to me, and I know that you can achieve what ever you put your mind to.  However, the reason I write this article is that on the last day the seminar was about health.  I heard one of the most powerful statements I have ever heard about health or weight loss ever, and it was like this: “Nothing tastes as good as being healthy feels”.  I remember this statement as it was yesterday and even if it’s a cliché it’s as true as it can be.  Because think about this:  Why do we eat?  What do you feel when you eat something good?  You feel good of course, but for how long? At least not as long as being healthy feels.  The pleasure of food that isn’t good for you last only a fraction of time what the feeling of being healthy does.  It can last a lifetime, a long and healthy lifetime.

So if we take it a step further, what will you be able to do if you on a regularly basis feel great about yourself?  Will you be more creative, attractive, fun, lovable, sexy, outrageous?  Will you have more energy, sleep better, be more present in everyday life?  You bet you will, and you deserve this kind of abundant life and you can have it.  You have the power to live this kind of life within you.  That’s what this seminar was all about.  I have ever since lived more or less after this motto “nothing tastes as good as being healthy feels” and I would like you to do the same.  Weight loss is just a bi-product of being healthy and you deserve to be healthy, in fact it hasn’t any thing to do with weight loss, it’s all about being healthy and enjoy life.

To your continued good health and online success

André & Tom

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The plugin below is another small but important “must have” plugin in your WordPress plugin arsenal;

Sociable
The Sociable plugin is free, and it enables your readers to share your posts with the rest of the world through sites like Twitter (for Twitter we use the TweetMeMe plugin), Facebook, Delicio, MySpace, Tecnorati, Digg, Reddit etc etc.

The plugin has been downloaded more than 500.000 times, and that should be proof enough that it should be a useful and popular addition to your plugins.  With the growing focus and use of social media throughout the world, make sure to help your readers spread your word via their social media sites.

Features

• The plugin is FREE
• Ability to order the icons with an intuitive drag and drop interface
• Disable/Enable the roll over functionality
• Select which types of pages icons should appear on, such as posts, pages, homepage, etc..
• Switch between icons and text links
• Option to use a pop up (thickbox) to display icons
• Open links in new window option
• Use your own custom icon images

Go here for our full list of recommended WordPress plugins and here to download the Sociable plugin.
Source: WordPress.com

To your success
Tom & André

A couple of weeks a go I saw an interview with, as it turned out with quit an interesting man.  He is known for he’s success in the business world, and became the man to made billions in just a few years.  But after just two years he was practically flat broke again.  He lost ALL his fortune being an aggressive stock trader, thinking he knew all the secrets in the financial world.  He is back on he’s feet again doing quit well with a new telecom company (LUDO).

During the interview he was asked: “When you look back in retro, what is your best memories from this period?”  Well it was very nice to have all that money and enjoying the freedom they brought, but the journey to the so-called “success” was far better. And the reason in this:  When I had all the money my life was without any challenges, the juice was gone.  I was bored and it was a completely new experience to me.  I thought the money would make me happy, like most people do, and man was I wrong.  It made me ultimately play hazard with my money, and the rest is history.  How ever the journey to my so-called “success”, is the most rewarding time of my life.  I was challenged all the time. I was constantly learning new things, bringing value to my life, to my family, my friends an co workers.  It is from this period I am able to give back to my kids and hopefully be a good example to other.  Successful people fail, and failure can make you successful.

So success isn’t always what we think it is.  Who haven’t thought that if I had that kind of money, my life would be great?  I know I have.  But the fact is that most success full people say the same thing: The journey to success is often more rewarding than the so-called “success” it selves.  And the reason is this:  We are all driven by the same needs, and two of our fundamental need is to grow and contribute.  And on our journey to success we are constantly learning, and when we learn there are more of us to give.  This gives us a feeling of fulfillment, that our life has purpose and it is one of the most powerful feelings we can generate.  I don’t say that money is a bad thing, on the contrarily money will make our life a lot better.  However we must not lose the sight of the real goal we have:  To live a life with purpose.

Successful people fail, and failure can make you successful.

To your success

André & Tom

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