Things To Waste Your Time On
A few hours ago I got an email from one of the dozens of “traditional” Internet Marketers who fill my email with breathless offers every day. I can easily see why a lot of people shy away from getting into the making money online ’space” because of the endless plethora of “copycat” opportunists who build lists of email addresses as if they cared about the people at the other end of their messages and then pound them and pound them and pound them with one “opportunity” after another. The “opportunities” all too often consist mainly of the opportunity to transfer money from your bank account to theirs.
This, in itself, wouldn’t be that bad, but when someone offers you something of substance and you take them up on the offer, at least you have something to show for the transaction. So many of these great deals we all get inundated with actually provide nearly nothing in return. What’s worse? By following up on many of these sham “values” you will waste a lot of valuable time that could be used to advance your own business and earnings. Here’s a typical example:
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A number of blogs haven’t yet implemented the “nofollow” tag on comment links. Owners of these blogs typically regulate the comments themselves and delete spam comments manually.
A well-known marketer recently came out with a video showing how to find these SEO Friendly blogs. After watching the video, I thought to myself “how incredibly time-consuming!”
Now a programmer came out with a simple program to allow to find those blogs quickly …. The price for it is ridiculously low (lower than a meal at McDs)
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Yes the price is less than a meal at McDonalds … so what do you have to lose? Hmm, how about your time and effort, isn’t that worth anything today?
“A number of blogs haven’t yet implemented the “nofollow” tag” … don’t quite know where this guy has been living but all the more popular blogging platforms, especially WordPress have “nofollow” implemented by default. What the time-wasters would have you believe is that this prevents getting page rank “value” from comments you might leave on that blog. Actually there are a number of popular blogs who have removed the “nofollow’ tag because the bloggers perceive their readers and commenters prefer it that way, and there’s a whole blogging sub-culture who argue endlessly about the merits of the “nofollow” and/or its removal.
None of this is worth a meal at McDonalds in itself and it is not worth your time thinking about. No matter what the home page page rank of any particular blog it is very rare for an individual post page … where comments are made … to have any page rank at all. Sites and blogs are not page ranked, individual pages are. So if you make a comment, leaving your bog’s URL on blog “A” which has a page rank of 6 and uses the “nofollow” attribute, and you leave a comment on blog “B” also page rank 6 which has removed the “nofollow” tag, the net result in page rank to your own blog will essentially be nil from either action.
Rather than waste time searching for blogs which “follow”, use the time to add content of value to your own blog. If you comment on anyone’s blog, “follow” or “nofollow”, do so because you like what the blogger has to say or because you feel you can add value to the discussion. To comment for the sake of getting a perceived boost in page rank is a waste of your own time and everyone else who has to wade through meaningless comments threads.
I do comment myself on blogs of interest and the act of leaving intelligent comments will, for sure, drive visitors to your own site as people who read your comment drop by to read more … that’s one of the great power of blogs … but that activity has nothing whatsoever to do with the “nofollow” nonsense.
You only have some finite number of hours to build your business … use them on some activity that has an ROI (Rate Of Return) on your investment.
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Great post, I agree on every point you said.
And no one should buy that program … there’s tons of “D-Lists” (DoFollow lists) out there that contains hundreds of blogs.
I once had “DoFollow” on my blog, but removed it a week later. I’m enjoying all the free traffic from D-Lists because I’m still on them ;).