Many bloggers would quickly whip out their wallets and wouldn’t hesitate to buy a fair priced link on a website with a PR of 9!  Should you follow suit?  There is a lot more to buying and selling PageRank than meets the eye and a lot of interesting information that you should be aware of if you ever consider buying links or taking advantage of your pagerank to sell links. As a follow up to yesterday’s article: Going From PageRank Zero To PageRank Superstar, I’ve decided to discuss more about Google PageRank.

Selling links on your website

• “Do-follow links” - The links that are sold to increase pagerank are referred to as “do-follow” links. Do-follow links signify that the link has a direct impact on the pagerank of the website in which you are linking to.

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What is “Pagerank?” A high Google PageRank a.K.a. “PR” always attracts attention in the blogosphere. For those of you not familiar with pagerank I’ll give you a brief definition: pagerank = a numeric value that represents how important your website is and how well your website ranks when compared to all other webpages. Here is the more advanced definition of pagerank [courtesy of Wikipedia]: “a family of algorithms for assigning numerical weightings to hyperlinked documents (or web pages) indexed by a search engine. The PageRank system is used by the popular search engine Google to help determine a page’s relevance or importance. It was developed by Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin while at Stanford University in 1998.”

How can you determine your pagerank?

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The video that I’ve posted below from 45n5.com was very interesting and thought provoking. I’ve considered making several websites and cashing in on the smaller profits rather than focusing only on AndrewPavelski.com. I thought about what Mark Wielgus from 45n5.com had to say in this video and I personally think that making 100 websites that yield $30 dollars a month would be much easier than building 1 website that makes $3,000 dollars a month. Sure you’d need to take the time to build each site, promote each site, and work on website upkeep and maintenance, but once you get a nice system going, I could see how people could cash in. I’ve talked to several forum members in the various forums that I’m a member of who claimed that they make several thousands of dollars each month by running multiple blogspot blogs. One guy even said all he does is write product reviews, posts affiliate links (doesn’t spam), and makes a healthy chunk of change each month.

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Excuses: we all make them from time to time, but we may not realize that they could really have a huge impact as to whether or not we become successful! How would you rate your current ability to blog? Are you the type to continuously make excuses and actually talk yourself out of blogging? Today, I wasn’t having a bad day, just didn’t really feel like blogging. Deciding to have a little fun with “not feeling like blogging,” I made a list of 25 Excuses To Avoid Blogging. Let me know if you make any of these excuses below in the comments section and whether or not you are doing anything to curb this habit.

1) I’m too tired - Everyone gets tired at some point. There are great ways to completely avoid using this as an excuse. Why not blog first thing in the morning? This way, you have the entire rest of your day to enjoy other activities and “get tired.” When you do get tired, treat yourself to a nice, healthy snooze!

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I created this list: 25 Traits of Successful Bloggers to help you understand how to shape your blogging experience towards becoming more successful online. I hope you are able find characteristics that “you’re lacking” or may need to “step it up a notch” with! Nobody is perfect, but successful bloggers really do a great job at effectively mastering the majority of the 25 traits that I’ve compiled. The cool thing about this list is that though bloggers may have an edge against you with certain traits, you can always work to improve! Check it out and let me know what traits you can work to improve on in the comments section below ;)

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Contributing to my “successful blogs” section of Andrew Pavelski dot com last week was an analysis of John Cow dot com. I discussed what has made the John Chow copycat so successful, what you can learn from his great blogging strategies and online persona. This week, I’ve decided to analyze a blog that I always enjoy visiting for quality advice. This blog has been packed with useful content since my first visit. Though I haven’t been visiting Courtney Tuttle’s Internet Marketing School religiously since it’s startup in 2007, I do enjoy following Court’s progress. Since it’s St. Patrick’s day and Courtney’s got the little “shamrocks” embedded throughout his theme, I felt it most appropriate to take a closer look inside the blog of this successful internet marketer!

What has made Courtney Tuttle’s Internet Marketing School so successful?

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It’s been an awesome week here at AndrewPavelski.com and in case you missed out and didn’t get a chance to check out all of my high-quality content, this little weekly wrap up will allow you to easily catch up on posts that you may have missed out on! This week started off great with my in-depth analysis of the successful blog: “John Cow dot com”. I discussed the factors that have contributed to his success and things you can learn from John’s business model. Be on the lookout for another great blog analysis coming up this week in my “successful blogs” series!

Later in the week, I let my readers know about the “Insane Internet Marketing Contest” that Gyutae Park from WinningTheWeb is putting on! The total prize value of the contest is approaching $10,000 dollars. Definitely not something you’d want to miss out on! If you haven’t already checked out my article about the contest or registered for Gyutae’s contest, both are highly recommended!

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1. They give up before getting started

Take a look at all the blogs across the web. The majority of all blogs are either abandoned, non-updated, and not making any money online. What started out as a dream to make money quickly turned into an abandoned piece of work. Whether the person running the blog made a good decision to stop or not, I don’t know. What I do know is that if you fail to update your blog or “give up before you get the ball rolling,” you will not make money online. The people that have been making money online have been heavily involved with blogging for awhile. Many bloggers blog for months before they see their first adsense dollar. So what do I consider giving up early? If you have been blogging consistently for around 1 year, I’ll know that you aren’t giving up early. Anyone who posted consistently for around 1 year should be fairly successful in the blogging industry. So far, the quickest rise to fame that I’ve witnessed online was Alan Johnson’s blog that went from ZERO to 1,000 RSS subscribers in less than 30 days. You’ve got to be in the industry for the long-haul if you want to make money online. Time + Consistent Efforts (Posting & Promotion) are a formula for success. Check out my article Blogging: Short Term Investment Vs. Long-Term Investment Returns to enlighten yourself on the importance of “time” your blog has been online. If you want to survive in the make money online niche, or any niche for that matter, you must be willing to hang around for awhile! Give your blog some time, keep up your efforts, and keep pushing forward. With time comes valuable experience!

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1) Freedom to work from anywhere

Provided the location that you want to work from has an internet connection, you have the potential to make money online. You could be chillin’ in another continent with a MacBookPro and wireless internet connection, blogging your heart away, traveling the world, and making a living online. Hypothetically, you could be at an all-inclusive resort, sippin’ a few Margaritas and still be working to make money online ;). I wouldn’t consider an all-inclusive resort a very productive work environment, but it definitely could be done. The possibilities of making money online are endless. Once you find a strategy that works for you and are willing to put in some hard work to make the money, things will get very easy. I have always enjoyed traveling, it’s great to see and experience what the world has to offer. If you are able to travel the world while making money from your online projects: I’d consider yourself living the internet entrepreneur’s dream! Having the ability to make money from any location with an internet connection sounds extremely appealing and a great perk that allows online entrepreneurs freedom that most workers do not have!

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First, The University Kid started out March with what I had considered a “hall-of-fame” blog contest. His contest prizes are awesome, and really has something to offer for everyone. Just when I thought The University Kid was going to have no “contest competition” throughout the month of March, Gyutae Park stepped up to the plate. Not only did Gyutae Park step up to the plate, he swung and hit a grand-salami by offering $8,000 dollars worth of prizes.

It turns out, not only are Gyutae Park and The University Kid running great contests during March: recently, Collin from over at feedflare.ca sent me a message through my contact form saying that he is also running a contest and would appreciate it if I let others know about it. Though I hadn’t ever visited Collin’s website before, I decided to check it out and see what types of prizes were up for grabs.

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