Not long ago, I went to a conference about a topic related to my industry.  While I was there, I met several people who actually gave me some referral email addresses and such to try.  Not much has come of it yet, but I’m on somebody’s metaphorical radar now all the same.

I know what you’re probably thinking right now: travel?  In this economy? Surely, sir, you jest.  But no, I jest not!  For going to conventions can give you a lot of help in your blogging pursuits.

1. You make contacts.  Though nothing may ever come of these contacts, it’s never a bad idea to shake a hand and introduce yourself.  This helps to develop a network that can be helpful down the road.

2. You get exposure.  When you introduce yourself as part of the media, and get that press badge, you suddenly take on a whole new level of credibility.  You ARE the media.  it says so on your badge!  That makes people much more willing to talk to you.

3. You get tax advantages.  Let’s face it, folks, we’re all eager to keep the government’s hand out of our pocket, and travel expenses are a long-held deduction.  Be sure to talk to your tax professional for more information.

Add those all together and you get some good reasons to book a trip for your blog!

Website hijacking has been a major issue lately, with people becoming knowledgeable about web vulnerabilities and exploits. But as script kiddies get smarter, so do we, so we have to get the upper hand before they do.

Network integrity monitoring is a way to know if your site’s DNS has been hijacked, or if your domain name has been stolen, blacklisted, or even infected with malware. The free tool, provided by Sucuri, monitors your website every ten minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Any defacement, malware, etc. will be detected by the tool, and you will be notified of its actions.

Sucuri also offers paid services to tighten security or remove malware.

I’m not going to write a long explanation about this since I think you’re going to look straight to the list anway. This list, a compilation of many different techniques and levels, is meant to be a guideline for marketing for any site, especially blogs. Some of these are things you can easily do. In fact, it’s even possible to execute all of it. So without wasting anymore of your time, here are 30 tips for exploding your blog/website’s traffic.

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A lot of you might be wondering where I’ve been. It’s been 3 days since I posted anything new and I also have not been active in terms of commenting on other blogs as I usually do. 

Where have I been, you might ask? Well, long story short: I am now doing affiliate marketing through PPC (pay-per-click) and I must tell you… it’s a LOT of work! Just ask any other affiliate marketer out there and they’ll tell you that PPC marketing takes more work than blogging. If anyone disagrees, please prove me wrong! I’d love to see how you do PPC marketing the “easy” way.

So anyway, I’ll talk more about affiliate marketing later. Right now I need some rest as I’ve spent the last 3 days learning about PPC marketing. I’ll also talk more about my #1 resource when it comes to PPC marketing: PPC Coach. I’m sure a lot of you have heard about it, but I’ll try to get a review up soon so you can learn more about it and what I think of it. It truly is a treasure.

Remember my post where I tell you, my readers, to stop lurking and start commenting? Well, here’s a follow-up to it, but for the bloggers out there. I know that many of you are bloggers with your own blog, and I also know for a fact that there are times when you are just lurking around the web and not doing anything. Let me tell you something… you need to get to work! Time is money (seriously) and with 10, 30, or 60 minutes of time that you waste, you could have done a lot of stuff!

So let’s say you spend 3-4 hours a day on the computer, doing whatever it is that you do everyday. And let’s say that you have spent 1 hour of that just lurking around instead of doing some work. Here’s what you could have done:

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Time to release my first eBook to the public… completely free! I have actually written and released it a few months ago, but I sold it on a bunch of forums for $7 a pop. What’s the eBook about? How to Make Top $$$ With Dreamhost (or other web-hosting affiliate programs). You might already know that Dreamhost is a web hosting network, but you probably didn’t know that they have an awesome affiliate program. You don’t even need to have web hosting with them to become an affiliate. I seriously think that this is the only eBook out there that talks about the method I use to make hundreds of dollars from affiliate programs like Dreamhost (and a few other web hosts).

The whole book is only 4 pages, but that’s because everything in it is all you need to know. You won’t see any useless information that other eBooks of this type always have. It gets right to the point from the beginning to the end, showing you the secret method of making the most money out of your web hosting affiliate program.

How To Get It

Oh, and did I mention that I’m giving it away completely free to my readers? To get the download link, you will actually need to be subscribed to this blog. If you already are, great. You’ll see the download link in the footer area of your next email or RSS feed update and the updates from the new posts after that. If you haven’t subscribed yet, go ahead and fill out the email subscription form below. You can also choose to subscribe through the RSS feed.

NeverBlueAds is an affiliate network that you have most likely already read about on many different blogs. Bloggers like Mark from 45n5 and Zac Johnson are currently experimenting with the new advertising network and keeping their readers up-to-date about their progress. As for my own experience, I had actually just signed up last week. The next day, one of the NeverBlueAds associates personally called me and did a little survey about my site and asked some questions. After a few minutes, I got approved for their network right on the phone.

So What Can You Find With the Network?

Well, right when I got approved I quickly logged in to see how it’s like. Low and behold, it’s just like any affiliate program. There are so many products and campaigns that you can promote and make money from that it’s almost impossible to imagine all the potential money you can earn. From ringtones and entertainment products, to e-commerce and work-from-home products, there is a lot of money to be made with NeverBlueAds.

My favorite part of NeverBlueAds is their method of payment: they pay for both leads and sales. If you don’t know what a lead is (or also called CPA), it basically just means that you get paid for an action that is required by the site. So for example, I can get paid $2.00 just for having people opt-in for the Reverse Funnel System. Two easy dollars just because people enter in their name and email! Meanwhile, a pay-per-sale is when you get paid for… well, when a sale is made. As of right now, the largest payout from a campaign is $200 for a $50 sale. That means that when you get people to pay $50 for that campaign, you get paid $200 for referring that person.

NeverBlueAds = Huge Money-Maker

Because the amount of products to promote are endless, you can easily make $50-$100 everyday (even more) with the right type of affiliate marketing. In fact, you can even create a PPC campaign right now and start making money in just minutes. By doing that you can actually be making money in your sleep. Anyway, I’ll try to keep you up-to-date with my progress with NeverBlueAds and post up some tips and tricks to making big bucks with the network. As for now, make sure you sign up if you have not done so yet.

Sign Up For NeverBlueAds.

Here’s something you might find interesting. Want to know how to view networked web cameras and surveillance cameras on the web? I don’t really know how exactly these web cams got on the internet, but all I know is that you can view them (even control them). Here’s how…

Search inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode= in Google. This will search all indexed files on Google that has the text string ViewFrame?Mode= in its URL. For the results you’ll see

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