Since this document has not been updated since 1980, it’s sure to send publishers into a tailspin over how to deal with on their websites to avoid fines and possibly even jail time!

I, for one, am not so big into product endorsements, but rather post informational content (i.e. recipes, home & garden tips, candle-making tips) as well as provide WordPress themes for users on various sites.  However, I’m still shaking in my boots over just how careful I need to be about the links on my sites, and have just created an external links policy plugin for WordPress to add to my sites because so many people leave comments with links to other sites.

Grab it here for free for your own site if you like:

External Links Policy Plugin

See an example of the page it creates on this site here.

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“Top Linking Secrets” – a truly honest review!

Neil Shearing’s “Top Linking Secrets” offers tips and information in three different areas: general information about links, link sources, and finally, link building.

Unless you’re an absolute beginner, the link info section probably won’t have anything revealing to offer, so you’ll likely want to skip right over that and get on to the second section.

I don’t think that the second section was meant to be more valuable than the third, but that’s the place that I got a new, fresh idea (fresh to me anyway) to do with my sites.  Here Shearing gives a variety of ways to get inbound links, and at least one of the ways struck me as being pretty creative and useful – and I can’t wait to get started on it!

The third section which is the link building action list, does give detailed instructions on how to get natural inbound links to your site.  I am actually already doing much of what he suggests in this section with some of my sites and the results from these steps are working OK in providing a few links, but I’ve had better results with other techniques.  Also, while it gives a number of ways to get links, I personally don’t believe that it offers a high number of ways to get quality links, either.

Another thing that I didn’t like so much about this guide is that much of what he suggests involves joining somewhat expensive programs – programs that cost even most than Shearing’s asking price of $77 for the guide.

I know that many times it takes money to make money, but if you’re expecting to be shelling out only the asking price for the guide to go through his steps, then think again.

Speaking of the price, Shearing has offered some different coupon codes for the ebook, the current coupon code is “10less” for an obvious $10 savings.

Considering everything, including the price and that I did get a new idea from this ebook, I rate this product 3.8/10.

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I never wanted that to be a money-making site because I always thought of it as too special, so I’ve kept the advertising to a minimum.  And honestly, the advertising I have on there does not convert well (as is the case with most entertainment sites).  Since I created this site and delved into the world of internet publishing, though, I realized that there were some great business opportunities available online.  So while I kept enjoying my hobby site when I had the time, I spent more of my time venturing into the business side of internet publishing.

The next site I did was a paid survey site.  I had been taking surveys for money and realized that this could be a pretty cool thing to promote, since I did have some experience with it.  I became an affiliate of a few survey sites and made a survey page on a subdomain of my music site where I added my affiliate links and a little blurb.  I bought some advertising throuh our local TV station and through some paid-to-read-email sites and actually started making about $100 a month – I couldn’t believe it!  I was making money online on my own!

Eventually I took the survey section off of the music site because, even though it was its own subdomain of the site, I didn’t think it belonged there.  But now that I was aware that it was possible to make money online, I still wanted to be able to have a profitable online business and was on the lookout for a real opportunity.

One day I stumbled across James Martell’s Affiliate Handbook.  Since I didn’t have a clue about SEO or online marketing, everything in this book was a revelation to me, and it completely changed the way I thought about making sites!  There’s a lot to be learned beyond this book, but it was perfect for a beginner like me!

So I created several niche content sites and began getting up at 4:00 in the morning to write articles before my daughter woke up!  And fortunately for me, my hard work began to pay off and it was only a year later that I was making $1000 a month from the sites.

Since then I’ve learned a lot of things, and while I still only work part time (about 1 hour a day) on websites, I now make about $4000 to $5000 a month.

I’m at a point where I have a lot to offer from my experiences, and where I also have a lot to learn, so I thought this would be the perfect time to start blogging all about internet publishing and everything that entails.