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Do you have a Tumblr blog yet?

You should! They’re free and you can do almost anything you want with your tumblr blog - even get good links to your web sites from within the articles you post!

I use my main Tumblr blog for my business articles. It’s called Mike Liebner Internet Marketing Tumblr Blog - I also have several others for my different areas of interest.

Pick a good keyword or your name and create your own tumblr blog and you’ll get a subdomain on tumblr if it is still available. My first blog on tumblr was mikeliebner.tumblr.com

You can post original content in them – or do what most tumblrs do – reblog.

>>> Here is an example of a reblog – new SEO Plugin

Reblogging is where you find stuff you like on other blogs and then reblog it on your own tumblr blog. Most people seem to reblog without adding anything original, but I always add my own words. At least a few sentences.

You can also put links in your tumblr blog posts – create pages for links (about me etc.) and when you follow other people and reblog their stuff you can get links pointing to your own blogs and posts.

It’s very cool. I’m up to 5 tumblr blogs and from what I can tell there is no limit as to how many you can create.

As far as I can tell Google loves tumblr blogs and if you search you’ll see 619 million pages on tumblr indexed on Google.

I’ve had a tumblr blog for a few years now, but I’ve learned a lot recently, as I have been using tumblr more often which helps you better understand it’s unique strengths.

I’m having fun too! It’s easy tp find a lot of really cool stuff just by looking at peoples blogs and following and exploring.

Everyone seems to be doing. Even the big corparations now have their own tumblr blogs like the CNN Money Watch Tumblr Blog.

Since it’s MICRO blogging it’s very easy to share stuff without the pressure of having to do 400 words for a post. In fact a lot of people simply put up pictures or videos with very few words if any.

You can have one blog or many tumblr blogs.

I find having several niche specific blogs makes it easier to use tumblr for what it is best for – sharing cool interesting stuff fast and easy (reblogging).

I would suggest having a main blog for your primary focus and/or areas of interest (and original stuff).

I post only business and marketing stuff like this micro blog post about duplicate content on my main tumblr blog.

I’d also suggest creating a few individual blogs for stuff that does not fit in your main blog or deserves their own blogs (original stuff and reblogged stuff).

You can link your blogs together if you want.

From what I have found you’ll get more followers if each of your blogs cater to a very specific subject than if you have a catch all blog that servers too wide of a range of topics.

The Tumblr blogs I follow are the ones with a lot of cool stuff in my areas of interest. I run across some awesome stuu you simply would not run into at the typical mainstream sites.

As far as I can tell there is no limit to how many blogs you can create with your Tumblr account.

 Most users I know have several or many. Each one is a subdomain on tumblr.

For the longest time I only had one blog in my account and found it very hard to post to it because it had my name on it and focused on business so I was limited to what was appropriate.

Afte I started a 2nd blog I doscovered how much easier it was to post and reblog.

Having several blogs really opened up more possibilities for me to reblog and share stuff I run across.

 I have been creating more tumblr blogs as I go along.

Part of the fun about tumblr and why it is so successful is that people create these blogs that are about the most unusual subjects.

So after I added a few more blogs I found I was having much more fun and it was easier to reblog and post cool stuff because each blog has it’s own personality.

I’m up to 5 blogs on tumblr right now and as I run into more cool stuff on tumblr that I want to reblog that deserve their own blog I will add more. That way they are focused on the areas that don’t quite fit into my other blogs.

If you don’t yet have a tumblr blog account – go get one – it’s free! Sign up and just explore and have fun. It may take a little time but you’ll figure it out!

Sign up for a free tumblr blog and then be sure to follow my tumblr blog so you can see what I am doing!

Net Marketing With Mike Liebner

Apr 10th by admin

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My external linking diagram is the key to understanding how to launch a new site so that it can quickly dominate Google for your target keywords so it stays on top for a long time.

Hi it’s Mike Liebner here with a quick blog post to make sure you have downloaded the External Linking Diagram I created for the 12 Step Success Strategy Training for Blogging Underground members.

Here is a direct link to the PDF file: 

> External Linking Diagram PDF Download

In the diagram you will see exactly how to link a site that is set up using the “Pages NOT Posts” site structure as taught in the Blogging Underground training.

In the diagram I show you how to get a new site off the ground with the best kind of one-way non-reciprocal backlinks pointing to your most important URL’s using 16 of the Blogging Underground Announcement Blogs.

Your website will have super powers if you do it the right way.

You only need 3 or 4 posts in the BU Blog Network that are properly targeting your exact keywords with one way links pointing to each of your most important pages to start!

It’s really easy to do when you know how (and have access to our powerful blog network!).

You only have ONE chance to start off a site the right way. Don’t blow it!

This BU external backlinking diagram makes it easy to follow this strategy. If you don’t start off a new site the right way you just might blow it.

> External Linking Diagram PDF Download

Sorry – but it’s not so simple as simply getting a couple of low budget links from comments or blasting directory submissions – you need to get the right kind of links if you want your web site to become an authority and achieve critical mass and get tons of targeted traffic.

Have you watched my recent webinar replay?

If the thought of starting a concise linking strategy for your website seems like a daunting task you may want to go start at the beginning. The best way to get started is by watching my “Achieving Critical Mass” webinar.

It’s 2 hours long – but the webinar has a broad overview of how websites make money and how the 12 Step Success Strategy makes it easy to build web sites that become authorities for their target keywords.

Best wishes for your online success!

Mar 07th by admin

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A great question came in regarding my previous blog post Fluctuation Happens where I discussed fluctuations in rankings.

“In your latest blog post, you say: “If you follow the 12 Step Success Strategy and you were not too aggressive you should be safe from getting hit hard with penalties.” What exactly do you mean by “too aggressive”? Could you please expand on this?”

Great question!

We do not know the exact answers…

That’s why we are pretty careful about what we do and for the most part only do the things we know Google likes – such as the steps shown in the 12 Step Success Strategy.

So what is too aggressive and what might happen to those that are TOO AGGRESSIVE?

First keep in mind that when a SEARCH ENGINE PENALTY occurs we rarely if ever KNOW IT.

No one notifies us.

Google doesn’t send a note along with a message saying YOUR BLOG SUCKS or YOU ARE IN BIG TROUBLE.

BUT we may notice our site or specific pages drop in rankings – or all pages of the site may drop significantly.

Then in extreme cases a site can just fall off the map and not show up on any search results – even the obvious ones (such as site name or ‘exact keywords” found nowhere else).

So why do these penalties occur?

They mainly occur because Google has expectations based on all their data and observations over the years as to what SPAMMERS do.

Spammers are usually OVERLY AGGRESSIVE and want FAST RESULTS.

Anything that would potentially be considered as out of the normal range for a typical web site or blog could trigger a penalty or a human review by Google.

Then you’re up to the whim of the human reviewer and/or the RULES that Google sees you as breaking and drops a penalty on you.

Who knows what those are!

For example if it is a new site a TRIGGER could be a SUDDEN BURST of continuous or reptitive activity of a certain kind or an UNUSUAL PATTERN of links coming in the same way or a large number of a certain kind of links from places or with a characteristic that is not TYPICAL.

This usually happens with MASS SUBMISSIONS or AUTOMATED SOFTWARE that does things like a robot – not like a human.

AGGRESSIVE behavior outside the realm of normal could cause anything from a slight penalty all the way to a big one… perhaps even a massive penalty or BANNING of a site depending on all the variables associated with the web site being “too aggressive”.

So – what I do is play it safe.

I only do what I know works and I avoid all the the stuff that has gotten me in trouble or is known to cause problems.

The 12 Step Success Strategy is a streamlined and simple way of building websites only doing the right things and trying to NOT do the things we know might cause prioblems.

Feb 17th by admin

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I often get asked about whether to worry about a new site that went up in rankings that then went down in rankings.

There is no reason to worry UNLESS you did something spammy or evil that caused your site to get penalized.

Fluctuation is normal.

If you follow the 12 Step Success Strategy and you were not too aggressive you should be safe from getting hit hard with penalties. We do things the right way so this happens LESS.

That said it’s common for a new site to fluctuate in the rankings. Especially after adding a WordPress blog and all it’s new pages across the blog getting indexed. Alot of those pages are garbage pages.

It’s NOT a problem having those extra pages get indexed – in fact it’s good in the long run – but at first it may dillute some of the relevance.

That’s why it is important to continue linking to your home page and other home pages to show the site isn’t dead or stale and still has value.

How long will fluctuation occur for a new site??? It really depends.

Things always change all across the web that can have an impact. You do things. Other people do things.

Until you gain authority status and trust you just need to keep on showing Google your site is a living growing thing that has value.

Eventually if you do all the right things and very few of the wrong things you will get to the top. You may fluctuate – especially if the competition is trying to one up you.

Until you get #1 and stay there for a while there will be fluctuation.

But at some point you will gain trust and they will want to keep you at the top because they know your URL is delivering value to searchers for the keyword you are ranking for.

Until you have that trust you need to keep your site fresh with new pages and/or posts and also keep fresh links coming in to the most important pages with your keywords (and a few variations here and there).

Eventually if you gain trust and don’t do anything to get in trouble you should stabilize at the top for that URL and also start gaining trust for other related keywords that are on the page.

That’s what I refer to as hitting “Critical Mass” and achieving authority status for your niche.

There are too many variables to know exactly why things happen – but that’s the basic concept.

More on Critical Mass – watch the webinar replay video!

Feb 14th by admin

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Is your web site getting top rankings for one or two keywords OR is it getting lots of top rankings like we do when our sites hit Critical Mass?

Check out the webinar replay!

I recently wrote in this blog about how to get massive traffic and authority status with Google by creating blogs that get what I call Critical Mass. It’s a big part of the Blogging Underground 12 step Success Strategy training we provide members.

Critical mass is what we aspire to achieve! I’d like to explain it to you in great detail!

I would like to invite you to join me for a special Blogging Underground webinar event called “Achieving Critical Mass with Your Website and the 12 Step Success Strategy”

Don’t miss this 1 hour presentation where I will discuss in great detail how to get massive targeted traffic when your website gains authority status and earns the trust of Google.

I will show you how easy it is to create and maintain simple websites and blogs that can bring in massive amounts of targeted traffic by achieving what I call “Critical Mass”.

“Critical Mass” is when a website achieves magical super powers and ranks on top of Google for almost every related target keyword and can brings in tons of free targeted traffic.

The webinar presentation will center around the Blogging Underground 12 Step Success Strategy Training and will explain how you can create your own authority blogs that can gain magical super powers!

Learn how to properly set up simple WordPress blogs and make sure that you do all of the right things so your blogs become trusted by Google so you can become an authority for your target keywords.

Seating is limited so please reserve your spot now!

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST

Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

Critical Mass Webinar

We’ll have Q & A at the end of the live event, plus a gift for those that attend – so be prepared to ask your questions and download your gift!

I hope to see you at the event!

Best wishes for your online success!

Mike Liebner, Blogging Underground

Jan 20th by admin

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