A secret group of bloggers have quietly been working with me on discovering ways to get more targeted traffic to our blogs. Now I am ready to go public with this cool trick.

It only works if you own more than one niche-related blogs.

Three words of caution:

1. not using this traffic getting strategy means you’ll get less traffic than you’re currently receiving…

2. pro bloggers are using it, why should you be left alone?

3. plus, not using it wisely could do you more harm than good!

Can you really afford not to at least try what I have to share with you next?

You are commenting on your own blog when replying to other comments, right? So this requires you change one little thing in your Word Press control panel.

Go to Users tab, then –> “Your Profile” — I use the self-hosted, one-click WP install version with DreamHost, the best blog host!

In the “Nickname” field you’d write your name along with a long-tail keyword you’d want to rank high in Google for…

I use Codrut Turcanu I Blogging for Profits and I update my profile.

Afterwards I select the same profile when “Display name publicly as”

In the “Contact info” I have my e-mail and a link back to Lazy Blogging.

Whenever I comment on Codrut Turcanu dot com or Remarkable Blogging I get more back-link love, thus increasing the chances to rank higher in Google, and other engines for key terms targetting my other blog Lazy Blogging dot com.

I use the same procedure when commenting on other people’s blogs too

Now it’s your turn to try this (just in case you haven’t done it by now) and tell me what you think about it.

I’m ready to hear your opinion… start commenting on this post right away!

The bad thing is that most bloggers just leave “admin” as their name and it’s a shame they’re not using this cool trick to get their real name out there and attract more targeted traffic to their niche-related blogs.

What about you?

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This is a guest post by Blog Mastermind graduate student, Francis Wade, who you may recognize as the time management expert with the Jamaican accent from his testimonial video. You can read about Francis and find more of his time management tips at his blog – http://2time-sys.com.

Managing your time = Managing your money

This simple equation has driven entrepreneurs from one time management class to another in search of tips that will transform them into ultra-productive professionals.

Most courses on time management run for two days, where you learn a new system of habits developed by someone who has invented a way to be more productive. The new system works so well for the inventor that he/she decides to package the approach into a detailed prescription to be followed by everyone.

The problem is, why should a time management system that works for the “expert” in their New York corporate world work for your internet business run out of your bedroom in Hawaii? You live a different life, with a need for flexible hours (i.e. midnight shifts included), and you don’t have the luxury of a secretary, IT support and real vacations away from email.

Plus there’s that habit that you have of taking a mid-afternoon nap… which you are sure helps you…to say nothing of the difference between the culture of Honolulu and Wall Street!

Instead of telling you to “follow me,” why can’t they tell you how to do something similar to what they did, so that you can also invent a time management system of your own? Did they follow some kind of method that you could use, and is there a process to follow, or were they just very smart or extremely lucky? You are a different animal, and you know that your habits are different from theirs, so why should you be expected to be successful following their system?

The fact is that most people who take time management courses have a hard time implementing a whole bunch of new, foreign habits all at once. Habits are hard to break, and the 101 new habits and 66 new tips in the new system they are learning are just impossible to learn overnight.

But, you give it a good try and it works – for a while – until the first crisis hits and you do what we all do — go back to what’s familiar. We feel bad, and we wonder how something that seemed so easy in class could be so hard to do in reality.

But in the back of our minds, we still want to be more productive and need to find a way to harness the insights that exist in all the programs out there… but who has time to attend them all?

The Solution

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Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s topic is “Poverty”. Last year during Blog Action Day I covered What If The Water Runs Out?, a decidedly dire possibility, which thankfully improved a little in my hometown since I wrote that article (although the problem is far from gone).

This year I want to focus on something positive we can all do as entrepreneurs – we can give something back – in this case, to help people help themselves rise above the poverty line.

I remember clearly the first time I did exactly this, although to be honest I wasn’t doing it because my business was succeeding, I did it because I had just closed a business that failed because I made a mistake.

Very long time readers of this blog will know one of my very first forays into online business was a community website focused on the Magic: The Gathering card game. On my Magic website I opened up a small e-commerce extension, where I sold the cards individually and in sealed cases.

After enjoying moderate success with my online store I made a tragic mistake. I received an order from someone in Thailand for a full case of cards, with a value of about $600. I took the order through an offline credit card processor (called a “click-clack”), but before I did this I phoned the card fraud hotline to make sure the card wasn’t reported as stolen, as per the standard procedures provided by the bank.

The card checked out fine, I charged it for the case and shipped off the product.

Fast forward a few months and I had sent off over $15,000 worth of product to Thailand, when I received a letter in the mail, telling me the very first order had received a charge back request. Basically, the owner of the card had said they had not made the purchase and wanted their money back.

Over the course of the next few weeks over $12,000 was charged back. It was clear my Thai customers were fraudsters, using a stolen credit card, and I had lost a ton of money.

I recovered from that instance after putting in ALL my savings and some money from my father to cover the dept. I was so heartbroken about the situation that I closed the online store shortly after and went into a depression that took several weeks to recover from.

A Bad Situation Inspires A Positive Action

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