How to Find Legitimate Mentors and Clients Online!

How to Find Legitimate Mentors

My friend Alonzo Pichardo and I had a chat on a recent podcast about finding the right people online.

You can check it out here:

How to Connect with the Right People Online

We wanted to help you avoid not only scammers but also nightmare clients, for service-based bloggers.

Since Enstine does such a wonderful job exposing scams and finding legit opportunities I want to share a few tips for finding awesome teachers, customers and clients during your online journey.

Follow these tips to connect with legit mentors and the perfect match clients.

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June 2018 Blog Commenting Report: 137 Authors,415 comments!

June 2018 was an awesome month. We had 415 approved comments from 137 readers. These exclude my replies.

I want to thank everyone that made it happen. I must also thank my ghost readers. You are all awesome. You make my blogging business a success. Without you readers, this blog would be a graveyard.

I’m using MyCommentAuthors to generate this list. It’s one of the lightest and most useful plugins for WordPress bloggers who care about engagement and repeat visitors.

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10 Types of Lead Magnets that Worked for Me

I still remember clearly, when way back in 2003 – I made my first online blog!

It was a free blog on a sub-domain of a site, not self-hosted. Did I know back then that blogging will become my career!

No. I knew nothing back then, but it was all fun – and thus it kept me busy. I learnt several marketing methods that were popular then, like directory submission, article submission etc. Much of those methods are already done but one thing that has persisted over the years and I still do it is – Email Marketing.

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Thank You Blog Commentators (101 authors with 199 comments)

awesome readers

The month of May was so engaging and I love it

A huge Thank You to everyone that visited my blog. And my comment authors are just so awesome.

In the month of April, there were 88 authors who made 161 comments. Here is the list generated by MyCommentAuthors. Get your free copy here. Read more about it here.

There was an improvement in engagement and I’m happy with my commentators. So thank you guys. Here is the list.

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Linkbuilding: 5 Techniques That Will Never Fail To Rank Your Blog Post

If you want your web pages to be even considered for ranking on Google, you need backlinks. Without them, there is virtually no way of making it to the top of search engine result pages (SERPs).

Still, you will find some claiming to rank their websites without any backlinks. Problem with that is you probably cannot replicate the same steps for your niche, especially if it is a highly competitive one.

That is exactly why there is a third pillar of search engine optimization (SEO). Off-page SEO, aka linkbuilding, is how you can secure (and almost guarantee) high rankings on the SERPs.

Over the years, SEOs have come up with more than hundred ways of getting backlinks. Some work, some don’t, and some ruin your website’s ranking.

Google punishes some of these techniques, warns against a lot of them, and does not like any of them.

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