Okay, here’s a simple way to get more traffic to your site by making friends on StumbleUpon.com.

Here’s how to do it:

1) Make friends on StumbleUpon.com with people who have similar interests as you do.

2) Once you have a good number of friends, use the “Send to” button and send your friends the site you want to bring more traffic to.

3) Next, send them an honest message of what you want them to do such as, “Can you stumble this?”.

4) Watch as your friends stumble your sites and your traffic spikes to extra 300 to 500 people per day.

5) Your friends will probably ask you to stumble their sites too.  Make sure to return favors.

This is a great way since you can make lots of friends and network with other stumblers to promote your website and their websites.

Basically, you scratch their back and they scratch yours.

I just stumbled onto John Cow’s blog while stumbling through some sites on EntreCard, then stumbled onto CashQuests. I bought this WordPress Affiliate Pro plugin which allows you to changes any keyword in your blog post to an affiliate link. I originally bought it so I could link some of my target keywords to certain blogs for SEO and whatnot. But it turns out the WordPress Affiliate Pro only let’s you link in the format of,”http://zedomax.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=5″. How dumb is that? I paid $100 for something that links their text! (They are linking “wp-affiliate-pro”)

I couldn’t even change the WordPress Affiliate Pro either because the source code is encrypted so you can even change it.

I paid a fair $100 for this crappy plugin and now I find out there’s Link A Dink Plugin.

(Yes, I’d like my money back since I spent $100 on something very unuseful.)

You might wonder, what does this plugin do? Basically you can replace all keywords in your blog posts to whatever link you want so you can link up whole bunch of affiliate links and monetize your blog from your OLDER blog posts and new ones. I am sure any one blogger has a Google search term that keeps bringin’ traffic. Use this plugin and link it to your affiliate links. Don’t know what an affiliate is? Go sign up for an account at CJ.com.

Here’s the info you need:

On the bright side, now I got a plugin that I can actually use for SEO AND the source code so I can modify it, not that I’d need to.

This plugin replaces words in your posts with anything you want. I use it to replace words with links. For example, if you see my sister’s name, Ashley, anywhere on the site, it will link to a picture of her.

Upload it, install it, then go into the Link A Dink settings page in your Options.

Alright cool.

DOWNLOAD v 1.8

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I’ve been noticing that more and more of the sites we run are getting visitors from Google image search. I have been diligently using alt tags on all my images but I didnt’ know how much impact it would have on search.

Well, I just came across an article about this and now I completely understand.

If you goto my SFBlogg.com, more than 50% Google searches come from some type of image search for pictures about San Francisco.

Although I think this could work for all types of websites, it will work even better on sites where people are expecting to find images.

Here’s some key tips from pearsonified that will help you: (By the way, pearsonified is the one that made the WP Theme for our Zedomax.Net site.)

Every standards-compliant, Google-sensitive image reference should contain 5 key items:

1. 1. A src attribute specifying the URL of the image
   2. A width declaration in which the width of the image is specified in pixels
   3. A height declaration in which the height of the image is specified in pixels
   4. An alt attribute that describes the content of the image—this is the #1 element of image-oriented SEO
   5. A title attribute that contains text to be displayed when the user hovers his/her mouse over the image

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