http://ezinearticles.com/?Article-Writing-Case-Study:-The-100-Articles-in-100-Days-Project&id=627427

http://ezinearticles.com/?&id=584558

I thought it was pretty cool she wrote 100 articles so fast. For a brief few minutes I toyed with the idea of taking up the challenge myself… but it scared the crap out of me. So, I pushed it out of my mind & went about my business.

The problem…

This idea wouldn’t go away. I kept thinking about writing 100 articles in a 100 days, but I kept putting it off. Finally I realized the only way make myself do this me was to make a public announcement. So, where was the most public to announce my challenge? That’s right… Twitter!

OK, I went over to Twitter. Type it in, closed my eyes, held my breath & hit enter…

I was shocked to see a reply from Jeff Herring telling me it was very doable.

Now I did it… there was no turning back. I grabbed the hashtags #HAHD so others could follow & join. Then replied to Jeff that it was on…

At the same time Jeff was talking to Fleicia Slattery about her article marketing & she tweeted she was going to do a 100 articles in a 100 days like Connie Green did.

While the 3 of us were tweeting about doing this challenge, it suddenly exploded! People were joining the challenge on Twitter left & right… this was going viral. It was exciting to see so many people fired up about this challenge. It made my head spin.

That was Saturday March 21st & by Monday the 23rd I was on a kick off Teleseminar with Jeff Herring & Felicia Slattery telling how this all came together.

As of Today over 425 members have joined us on our 100 articles in 100 days marathon challenge.

I’m inviting you to join us, and create your own traffic, prospects, publicity & profits explosion today… It’s free & imagine the benefits you’ll get out of completing your own challenge.

Sign up today at

Here is a quick over view of the site I recorded on March 24th…

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Business Week profiled a couple of folks who are relying on Ebay as the overwhelming majority of their business, and in some their only source of business. The story went on to explain what these people had to do to get back into favor with Ebay.

However, this points out a major flaw in their business model.

It’s sad to see these folks getting shut down, and have their sales grind to a halt. However their fatal flaw was getting comfortable with the huge amount of business Ebay was driving to their business. They found out how vulnerable this position can be after one policy change. The old all your eggs in one basket came back & bit them hard.

Back in March I talked a little bit about the danger of relying on a single source for your traffic, business, customers. eBay’s Latest Policy Is An Important Marketing Lesson

Relying on 3rd Party’s for traffic generation is a risky strategy.

This is especially dangerous when a 3rd party like Ebay, Google or even the latest traffic darling Entrecard controls the method. When you rely on a 3rd party you are one policy change from being locked out.

It is fun and exciting to see a bull rush of traffic coming from one place like StumbleUpon, Twitter or Entrecard. It’s so easy to pour all your efforts into this traffic source, while ignoring others… But, that is a huge mistake.

Think of traffic tactics or strategies like investing.

You have to spread your risk. You don’t want your portfolio concentrated in one industry, stock or even in a single type of investment. The meltdown from this past September is an example of not spreading your investment risk. To many people thought the real estate market would always boom, and got burned when it collapsed.

The same can be said for traffic sources. One can work like gangbusters producing a large number of visitors. But, eventually something will happen. Either the traffic source will fall out of favor… Myspace comes to mind. Or, the traffic source will make a policy change, and possibly lock you out… can anyone say Google slap!

The solution is simple; make sure you have many traffic sources going at once. Not one or two… but 7, 10 or more. Having this many going at once spreads your risk. The more you have the better protected you will be when one source hits a snag, and stops producing.

It’s always better to have 100 ways to send you 1 visitor vs. 1 way to send you 100 visitors.

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Wow… So I clicked over & sure enough there is this announcement…

After careful consideration, we have decided to shutdown the BlogRush service. If you have the widget code on your blog you will need to remove it.

When BlogRush launched in late-2007 it spread like wildfire all over the Web. Thousands of bloggers were talking about it and the service exploded to become one of the fastest growing free services in the history of the Web. During the first year of the service it successfully served 3.4 Billion blog post headlines and the BlogRush widget could be found on blogs all over the world; even up until the moment we closed down the service.

I never did get around to adding Blog Rush’s widget here, but was considering back in May. I did have their widget on one of my other blogs, and did see traffic from it. I’m impressed John Reese was so upfront about the problems, and issues they faced trying to get Blog Rush to work. It’s a shame it didn’t survive.

Hats off to John Reese for “going for it” and seeing if a crazy idea would work.

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I’ve been playing around with it today, and have already posted a comment on the 30 Day Challenge blog. It’s easy to post a comment with this plugin. I also found it easy to setup in the blog.

There is a nice feature to this option. Video blog comments get added to the Seesmic public time line. That means you could grab some traffic from people searching Seesmic. Cool beans.

One thing I like about this plugin is you don’t have to have an account with Seesmic. Anyone can post anonymously. Of course to prevent morons from posting insulting or spam videos you can have them held for moderation. I’m doing that for the time being.

You can grab the plugin at Seesmic’s Wiki page. On the wiki page they show you how to install it & how it works.

I’ve added a video comment to this post, so you can see how it works.

How about posting a video comment yourself?

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Wait… I know what you’re thinking? Doh! Nothing-new here… Everybody knows that Entrecard will increase web traffic. The big problem is it’s a bunch of junk traffic.

Folks just whiz by drop their card and leave. Barely stopping long enough to even notice the name of each blog. Maybe, maybe not…

What if I told you the traffic is not as junky as been reported? Would that surprise you? Or would you scoff and be on your way?

Here are 3 ways to improve quality of Entrecard traffic…

1. Drop on those who drop on you – Make a habit to drop on those that drop on you, and you’ll get repeat visitors. And repeat visitors are more likely to participate in your blog. I really noticed an upturn in my comments after doing this.
2. Buy ads in your category - Make sure to spend your credits in your category. I’ve seen some people advise to buy all the cheap ads to get your 125X125 out there.However my experience has shown that if you are advertising in your category traffic quality improves. Remember you want like-minded people coming to your blog.
3. Drop in your category – I know there are lists out there of fast loading blogs, you drop – I follow and others like these. These lists will allow you to rack up the credits fast ,and bring traffic to your blog.However unfocused dropping it why so many get “junk” traffic. It’s not really junk… it’s unfocused. You want people coming to your blog who already have an interest in the subject of your blog. Dropping in your category brings people like-minded visitors.

One thing I’ve noticed… most of the time our blogs could fit within multiple categories. I’ve found these tips work well with related categories. So, don’t limit yourself to the category your blog appears.

These 3 tips have helped increase the quality of the traffic. Plus, they have helped improve the popularity of this blog in the Entrecard categories.

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I submit to blog carnivals, and have had several people kind enough to publish my submission. Well it’s about time I start thanking them.

Did you know blog carnivals is a great way to help build back links? You also get traffic, but the back links are good to get. It’s easy just go to http://www.blogcarnival.com find a blog carnival that matches your blog and submit your best post from the last week.

If your post gets accepted it will be published with a back link from the blog that hosts the blog carnival.

Here are the last few places that published my submission… go check them out.

http://leadinspectors.blogspot.com/2008/05/carnival-of-leads-to-making-money.html

http://www.oibo.org/internet-business-blog-carnival-edition-11.html

http://vidacomesperanca.org/socialentrepreneurshiptoday/?p=13

http://womeninternetmarketers.com/2008/05/06/blog-carnival/

http://www.businesscreditcards.com/bootstrapper/carnival-of-business-and-entrepreneurship-18/

http://www.successpart2.com/a-make-money-blogging-carnival-april-25-2008/

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It’s one of the milestones I had set for this blog back in January. I thought it would take 4 or 5 months to hit this milestone, not 65 days. So, I’m thrilled to see it happen this fast.

Back in January Sam Carrara wrote a post titled Alexa Update, and mentioned he had seen a boost in his Alexa score. He then asked for people to take 3 easy steps, and post your results in the comments. As a bonus Sam generously offered to help the first 5 who commented with their Alexa ranking for 2 weeks.

The steps were easy, and almost took me 5 minutes to complete. I was the first to comment on Sam’s blog with my results. Of course it wasn’t hard to be 1st, because only one other person commented. Hard to believe that no one else took action.

Sam sent me a tip sheet, and emailed some suggestions. Nothing on the tip sheet, or any of the suggestions were difficult to complete. In fact a few of them I had already done, but I did pick up some valuable tips from Sam. He also featured this blog in one of his posts.

And how much did all of the cost me?

Nothing, it was free. Now, after the two weeks I continued to do the things I had learned. In addition I also sought out other resources to find ways to improve this blog’s Alexa score. But, most importantly I continued to take action.

Why did Sam do this? Have I ever met Sam before? Are we buddys? Neighbors? The answer is I’ve never met Sam, we’re not buddys, neighbors nor do we work together. We’ve emailed a couple times, and that’s it.

So, why did Sam do this? I can’t speak for Sam, but if I had to guess it… I’d say 3 reasons. First, Sam’s a great guy, and likes to help people. Second, he probably wanted to see if he could teach others how to improve their Alexa score. And third, I think he was having fun and enjoys what he does.

What were the rewards for Sam? Well, in the past 65 days I’ve linked back or written a post about Sam’s blog at least 4 times. I’ve added him to my blog roll. Plus I’m a regular reader of his blog, have stumbled his posts, and book marked them on social sites.

Why? Because Sam provides good content, which I enjoy reading. I’m also grateful to him for helping me learn how to improve my Alexa ranking.

Thanks, Sam.

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