Owner: Mixed Market Arts URL:http://mixedmarketarts.com Join Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:49:13 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: This is Collin LaHay's make money blogging blog. I share the best internet marketing tips to increase website traffic and make money online. Learn the most heavily guarded and effective internet marketing tips today, for free! Site statistics:Click here
Link Roundup 1 2008-06-14 15:33:30 For the first time in the history of this blog, I am doing a roundup post of links to other people’s blogs. I have come across a lot of material that is worth reading for any webmaster looking for free website marketing strategies, and wanted to share them with everyone.
Link Building with Picture Hotlinking [...]
Top Affiliate Challenge Update 2008-06-16 11:20:55 I would like to start off by thanking everyone for voting for my Top AffiliateChallenge
Audition. The voting has now officially closed, and the top 10 contestants with the most votes are guaranteed a spot on the show. I came in the top 25%, which means the judges get to pick two [...] Read more:Update
I am a Top Affiliate Contestant 2008-06-17 00:42:31 Less than four hours after posting my plea for getting into the final 12 to be on the Top Affiliate
Challenge, Thor Schrock (Owner of the Top Affiliate Challenge) messaged me on Google Talk asking if I had any plans from June 28th through July 15th. My fingers froze hovering above the keys. [...] Read more:Contestant
Website Marketing Strategy - Guest Posting 2008-06-24 20:16:05 Guest posting on popular blogs is a great way to get new readers, sales, and subscribers. The best part is that guest posting can get you the same amount of publicity as a paid review, but this website marketing strategy doesn’t cost you a dime. With a little bit of time spent planning [...] Read more:Marketing
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MixedMarketArts Hits the AdAge Power150 2008-06-24 11:33:34 I am proud to say this blog is now ranking on the AdAge Power150. The Power150 is a ranking chart for the top English-language marketing blogs in the world. The list is maintained by marketing blogger Todd Andrlik, and has grown to well over 150 blogs in the list. While anyone that [...]
Top 5 Affiliate Mistakes I’ve Made Which You Can Avoid 2008-06-22 23:49:38 These are the top 5 mistakes that I have made that you should read about so you can avoid them yourself. This post is my entry for Uber Affiliate
Paul Bourque’s blog contest. Paul is getting a lot of entries for this topic so that he may post a large list of mistakes [...] Read more:Avoid
Easy Giftcards 2008-07-08 17:57:31 For those of you who love incentives, today’s post is for you.
if you buy the online handbook ($9.99), and Google SEO Supervisor ($4.95 shipping), I will mail you a $25 visa giftcard, making you an easy $10 and getting two products completely free.
The offer is only valid for the first 20 people. Order them [...]
Articles Worth Reading 2008-07-08 01:08:38 This is just a quick post listing some links that I have found in the past few days that you might find interesting. Check them out:
Matt Cutts Link Building Interview - Google Webspam Guru announces that it is okay to buy your way onto Digg’s frontpage, he did it himself.
Gaming Twitter for thousands of [...] Read more:Articles
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Online Income Report - June 2008 2008-07-07 01:02:04 Hey everyone, I am posting this from my Top Affiliate Challenge team room here in Nebraska. For those of you who have been reading my blog for less than a month, I make my online income report post once a month about my online earnings. These income posts are never meant to be [...] Read more:Income
Collin LaHay Aquires DietHack and Flips It 2008-07-05 12:57:20 Way back in March, I made the post that I was looking for people who were interested in selling their sites to me so I could expand my portfolio. Since that post, I have received dozens of offers, but unfortunately most were for websites that were either web directories, cheap proxies, image hosting sites, [...] Read more:Collin
MarketLeverage Guest Review 1 2008-07-22 20:05:27 The following is Andy Crofford’s guest opinion of MarketLeverage, an up and coming affiliate company. Andy wrote his review of MarketLeverage as an entry to my MarketLeverage Contest. There are three ways to enter the contest, and writing a review was one of them. If you are interested in joining, there are [...] Read more:Guest
MarketLeverage Contest Update 2008-07-20 03:54:50 I have received a few emails and there has been a lot of confusion about some of the rules that I posted in the original MarketLeverage Contest
post. I also had a few complaints from people that wanted to win but were already MarketLeverage members.
To solve everyones problems, I am now redoing the MarketLeverage [...] Read more:Update
MarketLeverage Contest 2008-07-17 02:28:00 THIS POST IS NOW OUTDATED. Please read the updated MarketLeverage Contest
Post.
As many of you already know, I was in Nebraska for the last three weeks competing on the Top Affiliate Challenge affiliate marketing reality web-tv show. While there, not only did I learn a plethora of good tips on making money through [...]
Back in Minnesota! 2008-07-15 22:48:56 I am finally back in Minnesota
after having been in Nebraska competing on the Top Affiliate Challenge. The last episode is online now, check it out at TopAffiliateChallenge.com.
The show itself had some ups and downs (after all, it was the first season and we were the guinea pigs), and there was a lot of internal [...]
MarketLeverage Guest Review 2 2008-08-08 12:47:46 The following is Melvin Dichoso’s guest opinion of MarketLeverage, an up and coming affiliate company. Melvin wrote his review of MarketLeverage as an entry to my MarketLeverage Contest. There are three ways to enter the contest, and writing a review was one of them. If you are interested in joining, there are two $179 Flip [...] Read more:Guest
Link Building with Naymz 2008-08-07 15:30:25 Naymz is a free website that allows you to register a profile centered around your name and reputation. They say they allow you to “promote your good name online.”
In my opinion, the site is like LinkedIn.com, but not even close to being as good. The reason I am mentioning it in a post [...] Read more:Building
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Stumbleupon Removes 200 Friend Limit 2008-08-07 14:39:47 Good news for all of you who abuse Stumbleupon (Updated post) for lots of traffic. The company has just announced that they are going to be redoing a few things on how the profiles are setup, and that they have eliminated the 200 friend limit.
For those of you who don’t know, the more friends [...] Read more:Limit
BlogWorldExpo 2008 2008-08-03 14:51:57 I will be going to Vegas for BlogWorldExpo 2008 this September 20-21. The event was massive last year and I hope this years will be even better. If you can afford the airfare, hotel, and cost of the event, I highly recommend you come and visit me there.
For those of you thinking about [...]
Weekend Updates 2008-08-22 00:33:30 I just wanted to send off a quick message to let everyone know what is happening around here lately.
The most obvious change is that I moved my domain from MixedMarketArts.com to CollinLaHay.com. I had a friend of mine redirect the domains. I was going to have him add a [...] Read more:Weekend
MarketLeverage Contest Winners 2008-08-21 01:17:50 So it has finally been one month, and my MarketLeverage Contest
has finally come to a close. Today I am happy to announce the winners of all the great prizes that MarketLeverage has sponsored.
The ten 2GB USB flash drive pens go to the following entries:
Melvin for his MarketLeverage guest review
MarketLeverage Affiliate CD10040
MarketLeverage affiliate [...] Read more:Winners
T3Leads Review 2008-08-19 15:26:15 Finding a good affiliate network oddly enough is not that easy to do. There are just so many factors you have to look at and know about so you don’t lose money or get taken advantage of. One thing a lot of us affiliate marketers look at is how much can we make with [...] Read more:Leads
Blueverse Interviewed Me 2008-08-17 12:49:31 I did an in-depth interview with Ahson Rafiq from Blueverse yesterday.
Check it out: Blogger Interview with Collin LaHay
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The New Collin LaHay Logo 2008-08-17 04:12:56 Here is the new Collin
LaHay.com logo. I wanted to keep it simple and focus more on the blue to contrast the orange of the site, and I think it does a great job of that. What do you think of it?
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BlogOnExpo is live 2008-08-16 15:50:53 BlogOnExpo launched a few days ago, but just as I imagined it went by without many people hearing about it. BlogOnExpo is a free online conference which tries to emulate the sessions that you hear about at a real marketing conference for those that cannot afford to fly to them all. The only [...]
Setting up my first niche store 2008-08-15 19:42:35 Setting up a network of niche
stores (also known as BANS, which is short for Build A Niche Store’s) that earn money off the eBay Affiliate Program has been something I have been wanting to do for awhile. The BANS software and the Pepperjam affiliate system have a wicked combination that allows you to [...] Read more:Setting
Link Building with LookupPage 2008-08-14 15:42:29 Udi Drezner contacted me about his site called LookupPage, which is an online tool for managing your online presence (ranking in the search engine), and for tracking who is looking for you.
Basically, you can sign up for a free profile account much like my post about Naymz. On your profile page, you can write [...] Read more:Building
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Link Building with PBWiki 2008-09-14 14:36:40 PBWiki is a free website that allows you to create your own wiki about anything you want. It is like being able to create your own niche clone of wikipedia. You control all of the content on the pages, and you can build in-content links. I originally found this method of link [...] Read more:Building
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Link Building with Expired Domains 2008-09-08 14:11:30 A very powerful link building technique that few people talk about is buying existing websites/domains and then redirecting them to your own website. There is a thing called a “301 redirect” which tells the search engines that your website has moved domains permanently, and it forwards all of your ranking and backlinks to the new [...] Read more:Building
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Link Building with Podcasts 2008-09-03 14:00:57 As many of you have probably noticed by now, there is a “listen now” button under the titles of each of my posts (unless you are reading this from your RSS reader or your inbox). This is a free service by Odiogo.com that grabs the text from your RSS feed and turns every post [...] Read more:Building
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College Starts Tomorrow 2008-08-31 10:30:43 Today is officially the moving-in day for my university, which starts tomorrow. I have to move all of my stuff into my dorm room and get prepared for the ‘college life.’
I have a few blog posts scheduled to be posted in the next few days, but my email replies will be a bit delayed.
This is [...] Read more:College
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