I was pretty excited when I saw who this review as going to be about. If you know me I’ve been hosting guest blogging contests for awhile at blog engage and this specific company has supported us several times. I can vouch they are credible and an honest company.

Best Travel Websites Directory has a very high quality listing of all the travel vacation websites you will ever need when going on a vacation.

With categories that can meet the needs of any users the website offers an enormous variety of options for the romantic and young at heart or the retired leisure couple.

What if your a business?

Best Travel Websites offer the perfect platform from which leading industry travel brands can maximize their world-wide exposure and capitalize on the potential that association with the prestigious BTW brand provides.

Make sure to check out each section of their website including the Directory, the blog and the

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Engaging with other bloggers is easier said than done. For example it’s easy to say you will follow your visitors back to their blogs and comment but actually doing it is much harder then most think.

Over the past two weeks I have literally forced myself to engage with my blog readers on their blogs as well as here on my blog. I’m trying to get to know my readers better and perhaps understand what they do on their blogs.

Blogging is such a fun hobby and has truly become one of my most favorite activities online to this day. In the past two weeks I have proved to myself that I can have a successful blog with daily readers and visitors.

I have an interesting mix of marketing methods that has been working and it consists of hard work that you must practice daily on your blog in order for it to work properly. Trust me when I say it’s nothing unique; just hard work that’s all.

Reply to your comments

I know it’s time consuming and becomes a full time gig but you have to acknowledge your readers. When they take the time to comment you should reply to them. Not replying to your blog readers is rude and might show a lack of interest in their visiting. Let’s be realistic not all comments require your reply but the majority of them can turn into intellectual discussions.

Comment on their blog

Follow your blog readers comment luv and build on your relationships with them. I think it’s so important to visit the blogs of the people leaving comments on your blog. Read their article and make a comment if it remotely interests you. They will appreciate this trust me, just make sure you read the article and your comment ads some sort of value.

Follow them on twitter and tweet

I always follow the bloggers that comment on my blog on twitter. I think this is a great way to build on your relationships and keep an eye on their latest activity. Randomly tweeting their articles and engaging in social media marketing with them will increase the strength of your relationships.

Yes it’s hard work

Returning comments to the bloggers that leave comments on your blog is hard work. If your blog starts getting popular you could be posting 20 – 30 comments a day at minimum. This number will only increase as the blog starts to build larger. Whatever you do, don’t rush the process remember these should be sincere comments as they have taken the time to visit and comment on your blog.

Feedback and Discussions

How do you manage your time? How do you keep up with all your comments and do you reply to every single one? Do you give priority to the bloggers leaving comments on your blog before you start marketing other article you find online?

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I’m very happy to announce that the blog engage weekly word challenge is back. Anyone interested in joining us simply follow the above link and read over how it works.

From the moment we awake until we go to bed our lives are surrounded and filled by this new and overwhelming behavior of social media. I’m not talking in specifics as social media comes in a variety of shapes and forms I’m just talking in general terms.

What we have to do is understand how to use it to our advantage and accept that the world is changing at an extremely fast rate of speed. Opportunities are arising for many people in fields such as News, Marketing, Advertising, Brand Management and so much more.

Let’s face it, you know things are changing fast when you can find the latest news faster by visiting facebook or twitter then you can your local 6 o-clock news. At first businesses were reluctant to invest money and research into these ideas but now corporations are spending millions of dollars trying to solve this social media puzzle.

I have adapted to the new world and I’m standing with open arms excited to learn and grow. I know the potential social media has is huge and I want to be part of this great movement. I also know if ignored I would be left behind wondering what happened and I will not allow that to happen to myself.

Social media is changing the world we live in and there’s nothing you can do but sit back and learn how to adapt. The early adapters will find their selves in a great position to make money and offer the expertise. Take advantage of this time in changing so you can prosper in the future.

What’s your thoughts on the topic? Do you think social media is here to say or is it more of a fad that will slowly fade away. Do you enjoy learning or do you prefer things staying the same? Perhaps social media is the start of something even larger. Share your thoughts and let me know what you think.

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How does it work?

Every Wednesday I go over to Blog Engage a social network for bloggers and I comment on each and every article that is currently on the front page.

The goal is easy but will require your time and dedication. Starting right now from top to bottom I will be reading and commenting on all the articles that are currently occupying the front page our the blog engage social community.

Things to remember

• Read the content entirely before commenting

• Make notes on sections to discuss when commenting

• Make sure to ask an open ended question

• Don’t force the comment if you’re not interested

• Subscribe to the e-mail reply notifications

• Encourage conversation on the blog

If you’re interested and want to follow I’ll be doing it all day until I have commented on all the blogs within the front page of blog engage. You will most likely see my comments on all the articles so feel free to join me in the conversations.

Feel free to reply to other comments being left. Don’t get left out in the cold. Make sure to participate with us. This could be fun and will give us all an opportunity to get to know one another a little better.

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Being the owner of a large social media marketing website I know the facts about SEO and when done cheap and cost effectively it looks bad on your companies brand image.

The Cheap SEO Firms Process

1. A Cheap out sourcing SEO firm is contacted
2. Deals are worked out (minimum amount of back links) (Guaranteed traffic hits)
3. Payments are made
4. Random websites get spammed including blogs and forum communities.

Little do the North American companies know but hiring a third party SEO company for cheap will bring your company more trouble then it’s worth. You can find these companies all over the web. Simply search in Google SEO Marketing Firms, or cheap SEO Marketing and you will see the abundance of scam SEO related sites.

How to ensure quality SEO work?

• Ask how they build your SEO

• Require examples to be shown

• Ask for referrals of past clients

• Require contracts to be signed

• Request all information regarding back links

I know it’s not easy but sit back and ask yourself was marketing your products ever easy? Is working hard to brand and market your products something new in your career?

The answer is no so don’t expect to get out of this social media marketing movement cheap either. I have seen this form of online marketing many times but until today I was never successful at reaching the company. Normally you will see this for apparel companies such as UGGZ or even pharmaceutical companies that sell Viagra or other medications.

Earlier today I contacted a company that was out sourcing their SEO efforts and I left a detailed message with their marketing department. I shared my frustration in their SEO Marketing and asked the owner to call me with the contact information to the SEO firm.

The e-mail reply I got was as follows.

Brian, I apologize, I was unaware of my SEO firms tactics and I appreciate you bringing this to my attention.  I will have them cease this, since I know full well that it’s counter productive to my business.

So perhaps a lesson was learned here today. Maybe next time this company will think twice before hiring third party SEO marketing firms and if you’re considering cheap SEO marketing I hope you get to read this before signing the pay check.

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I’m not even done half of it and it’s starting to get large. I wanted to keep my e-book short and to the point. I don’t want it filled with information that’s not important. I want to share the basics of starting a blog and the aspects of marketing and Promotion.

The e-book will be free of charge but will require rss subscription or something along that line. I don’t claim to be an expert nor am I qualified to charge for my knowledge at this point. Also I’m not big on selling information to my online friends I would much rather give it away.

To be honest I think charging for these types of books is a little scammy anyways. First of all they have referral links already so who’s to say they need to make more money from us. I’m not greedy all I want is to build my subscribers list and I’m sure this e-book will fix that.

Well that’s about it for now regarding the e-book. I’m working on it and unfortunately as of right now I don’t have a time line on when I expect it to be ready. Stick around and visit daily to keep updated.

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After a few days I started getting the rest of my websites back up seeing I had updated backups for all of them. So here I am I have all my websites up but I’m still sad about all the lost content from my SEO and Marketing Blog.

I lost many comments, my readers lost many back links etc… the story keeps getting worse and worse. Now after losing the articles on my blog I all of a sudden had this social obligation to remove any of the article links I submitted to my favorite social networking websites. Now because I’m the owner bog engage I started there first.

Little did I know I was about to get the best news possible. Every single article I had lost was cached by Google’s Spider Bots. I simply copped the content, re published it and fixed the publish date to match my submission date. I still haven’t completed it all and I haven’t even started on the comments. I’m still working on completing them all I think I have about 10 more articles to do but it’s amazing how

I forgot about this amazing resource to find lost data. So if this is a tip or a lesson learned take note. When you lose data and you have no backup don’t’ fear as Google back up is here!

What’s your thoughts? Was this a surprise to you? Would you had thought about using Google’s Cache?

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Yesterday I ran into a pretty new blog written by Deneil Merritt. I was reading his content and noticed he was doing some really cool things with his blog that I wanted to share with my readers. Time is my biggest issue and from reading his blog I learned to have an article released every day I don’t necessarily have to blog everyday. Deneil writes his article in advanced and releases them as he wants using a time stamp options.

Using this option here at seomkt will allow me to blog on the weekends writing 5 articles and releasing them individually Monday to Friday providing my readers with new an fresh content. This is really exciting for me because I have never had a consistent blog and if things work out perhaps I will for the first time.

Some thing else I noticed from Deneil is he always replies to his comments so I’m going to make note of this and do my best to engage with my readers. Right now I reply to 50% of the comments left on my blog and soon it will be 100%.

What‘s your thought on this plug-in?

Do you find reading articles that have been written from the weekend take away from originality?

Or

Do you think it’s better than having nothing to read?

Let me know your thoughts on this idea.

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Brian