You Scratch My Back… (DoFollow)

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear rosi You Scratch My Back… (DoFollow) It’s always good to give something back. So by way of thanks for all the encouragement & feedback I’ve been sent recently via our blog comments I’d like to offer you guys some things in return: BlogPiG is Now DoFollow! We’re enabling dofollow on your blog comments so you get the link juice for all your hard work. For obvious reasons we cannot just enable dofollow on all comments, that would lead to a spam tsunami. Instead we’re rewarding our most generous members. Anyone with 10 or more approved comments is automatically promoted to DoFollow status on all their past a future comments. Our DoFollow heroes will see a star icon appear next to their username in the comments section when DoFollow status is achieved. Basic anti-abuse rules apply: We dofollow link your comment username Use Your name or nickname NOT “Golf Clubs” etc. that sucks. No pointless links in the comment body Be consistent with your comment email address Only useful & relevant comments are approved Username should be linked your FaceBook or Twitter or personal blog Get a Gravatar Already If you’ve not setup your Gravatar, why not? It takes 2 minutes and it makes much more fun to respond to real people when I’m answering comments. We’ve also improved the recent comments widget to display all the latest comments with a lovely mugshot from your gravatar, you can see it in action here. This is a great way to build a public profile. If you don’t have a Gravatar it’s a free service run by the folks behind WordPress – get one here. Comments = Prizes Lower down you’ll another widget with a league table for the top comments this month. On the first working day of each month I’ll give a free Pro license for any one of our products to whoever had the most comments for the previous month. Just another way of saying thank you. I’m also testing CommentLuv, KeywordLuv, and rewards for retweets and FB Likes but that’s a bit more tricky to setup – stand by for more info soon. Do you have other ideas or suggestions? Do you think this is cool or dumb? Is anybody out there….? Click below to leave me a comment ;) Leave a comment All the best. Gary, Fiona & Alex Your BlogPiG Team You are receiving this email because you are a member of BlogPiG.com Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Our mailing address is: BlogPiG Diva Media PO Box 5134 Leamington Spa, Warks CV31 9HA Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2010 BlogPiG All rights reserved.

Should BlogPiG Kajabi? You Decide…

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear rosi Should BlogPiG Kajabi? You Decide… So you must have heard about Kajumbi this week right? No? Where have you been? :) Kabimbi is the latest creation from Andy Jenkins. Andy is one of the few gurus who’s managed to keep me subscribed to his list (even after my recent subscription culls) simply because he’s funny, his emails & posts sometimes benefit me and his products are pretty cool too. Video Boss was his previous launch. In a nutshell Kijaba is a being sold as an Internet Marketer’s dream platform. You may already have seen it action if you followed any of the big ticket launches this year Kern’s List Control Product Launch Formula 3 Outsource Force from Reese etc… They were all launched and managed on the Kajambo platform. And to be fair they were all absolutely huge launches, I’m talking multi-million dollar launches in just a few days. But I’m guessing that had a lot more to do with the people behind the launches than the platform they used. Let’s face it, Frank Kern could launch a bottle rocket in the park and people would pay him a million bucks for the ebook! I’ve been following the Kabobo launch for a little over a week now, and the sales videos are quite simply out of this world, Andy really knows how to put together a nice presentation. Hype aside though, I think there might really be something to this Kadubi product… It’s basically a bunch of modules all under one roof that allow you to design a custom launch and the back-end membership system to deliver the product when you’re done. There’s a whole other bunch of bell’s & whistles in there too – drip feed, video encoding/hosting, member chat etc. I won’t go into detail here. What I’d like you to do is watch the first video for me for 2 reasons: It’s absolutely awesome! (And I’m British so I don’t use the word awsesome lightly). Just turn-up your speakers and sit back, the first 5 mins is like watching a trailer for a UFC comeback night! Then tell me what you think. As a member, is this the sort of experience you’re after? Are these the features you desire? Should BlogPiG implement Kimosabi? Do you like this sort of launch/video? Even if it’s not right for me it could be just what you’re looking for…and yes, these are my Kawomble affilliate links… Yeah I know, that was 3 reasons… I’ve already had a preview of parts of the Kawooga system inside their JV area and it is very slick as you can imagine. I couldn’t help thinking though that most of it could be replicated with some WordPress themes, plugins & custom code. That kind of defeats the object, the whole point of Kaboom is to remove the need to integrate and code and upgrade and tweak so you can just get on with the job of looking after your members. I must admit that idea does appeal. The Kagoogle launch has been a pretty standard 3 stage affair so far, if you are interested you can skip the launch cycle using the shortcuts below: Watch Video 1 (awesome!) Download 30 Page PDF (NICE info in here) Watch Video 2 (looooooooong!) Anyway, Kajabba goes on sale tommorow for early birders and Andy’s offering a 2 week free trial which I’ll probably sign-up to just to try it out. I might take some screencasts when I’m inside to show you how it looks in more detail. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. ps. I had lot’s of response to the FaceBook business page post. Thanks for all the kind words. A few people wanted to make PayPal donations by way of thanks which is a really nice gesture but unecessary. The quickest way to thank someone for a good post is to help them spread the word – just retweet or share it on facebook, or repost it on your blog with a mention. There’s lots more where that came from. Leave a comment All the best. Gary, Fiona & Alex Your BlogPiG Team You are receiving this email because you are a member of BlogPiG.com Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Our mailing address is: BlogPiG Diva Media PO Box 5134 Leamington Spa, Warks CV31 9HA Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2010 BlogPiG All rights reserved.

How To Create a FaceBook Business Page & Username

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear rosi How To Create a FaceBook Business Page & Username Nice! +40 responses to yesterdays email. Blew the 25 I needed out of the water. Seems like most people agree with me that creating a nice FaceBook business URL is a royal pain in the a**. I’ve come to the conclusion that the fact that very few people know how to do this is probably a good thing. It means there are plenty of good keywords/usernames left for us to grab! With this post you’ll find a video that shows exactly how to create a FaceBook vanity URL for your business. It’s just under 10 mins long. Here’s the basic outline of what to do in text format for those who asked: Logout of facebook and visit http://facebook.com Ignore the signup form and click on the “Create a Page for a celebrity, band or business.” link below the form Choose the Official Page section an enter your settings – I chose Brand=products, page name = autoblogging (although it is not really that important) Click create official page and confirm the next window If you get a warning saying your page name is not available simply change the type in the brand dropdown, I changed it to consumer products Resubmit and it should work just fine Now you need to link the new page to a personal FaceBook account, I just use my normal personal FB account. FB do not like you to have 2 accounts so be careful if creating a new one. Once logged in you should see your new page. There are lots of things you can setup here, logos, text, tabs etc. The URL of your page will be similar to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Autoblogging/152563548114773 not very pretty! Visit http://facebook.com/username/ and choose your new page from the drop-down You will get a warning saying it is not elgible yet, this is because you need at least 25 FB likes Now we’ll get you 25 likes Setup an account at http://microworkers.com Make a $10 (min) deposit Setup a new campaign for 30 FaceBook likes (details in the video) should cost around $4 Wait up to 24 hours for approval Check your facebook page and it will now have +30 likes Revisit http://facebook.com/username/ and choose your new page from the drop-down It will now be eligible so enter your desired username, be careful you cannot change it. Either choose a brand focus or go for SEO by choosing a keyword/key phrase. Once entered and approved you will be take to your new page via you new vanity URL e.g. http://facebook.com/autoblogging (might take a few mins to resolve All done! Now the next bit is entirely up to you but you can of course create as many pages with usernames as you want. You can choose pretty much any keywords for the usernames you want. Who’s going to bet me that a http://facebook.com/keyword URL in a moderately competitive niche is going to have a fairly easy time getting on the first page if you just add a few good keyword articles and point in a handful of +PR2 links :) Whilst there are probably still an awful lot of unclaimed brand usernames, FB seem pretty hot on monitoring this situation so be ready to lose the page or even the approving account. If you do want to go down the brand snagging route then I would probably risk a second throwaway FB account and put the page in there. Incidently you get 2 for the price of one in this post, as well as the FB username tip I’ve quickly shown your one of my personal secret weapons – Microworkers. This is such an awesome resource and I plane on showing you exactly what you can do with it in future videos. As ever please leave a comment or question on the post. It makes it much easier to put together the next one when I know people are reading/watching and appreciate what you do. You can even let me know what usernames you’ve managed to snag and make me jealous I didn’t think of them first! Leave a comment All the best. Gary, Fiona & Alex Your BlogPiG Team You are receiving this email because you are a member of BlogPiG.com Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Our mailing address is: BlogPiG Diva Media PO Box 5134 Leamington Spa, Warks CV31 9HA Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2010 BlogPiG All rights reserved.

Do You Want a FaceBook Business Page?

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear rosi Do You Want a FaceBook Business Page? So I finally grabbed facebook.com/blogpig for our brand page. I’ve had twitter.com/blogpig & youtube.com/blogpig for ages. So this completes the set. It now gives a nice home for all those FaceBook fans, likes and shares. One of the things that really surpised me is how difficult Facebook make it to setup a page for your business with a good vanity URL. This is the default URL FaceBook provide: facebook.com/pages/blogpig/152563548114773 But to get to this is hard work! facebook.com/blogpig I’m plan on shooting a short video on exactly how I did this and how you can grab a great FaceBook page and vanity username for your business, product or blog. I’ll show you how to bypass the FaceBook restriction for new pages too. I’ll even show you how you can use FaceBook Pages for SEO purposes if you’re really savvy! If you’re interested in a video then leave a comment on this post. If I can get +25 comments I’ll produce & send the video showing the whole process end-to-end for you tommorow. Leave a comment here. Leave a comment All the best. Gary, Fiona & Alex Your BlogPiG Team You are receiving this email because you are a member of BlogPiG.com Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Our mailing address is: BlogPiG Diva Media PO Box 5134 Leamington Spa, Warks CV31 9HA Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2010 BlogPiG All rights reserved.

Drive-by Colon Cleanse

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear rosi Drive-by Colon Cleanse Well done for opening this after a title like that! :) I couldn’t resist the comparison… Just a quick note today, I wanted to share with you one of my more useful and well used desktop (Win) tools. It’s called SpaceSniffer, no it’s not SpacePiG, this one’s not one of mine. It’s a very handy disk space visualizer so you instantly see exactly which directories and files are hogging the most space on your drives. There was a time when I didn’t give a flip about what was on my multiple drives, space wasn’t an issue, I downloaded AND KEPT everything! Since then I’ve started to embrace minimalism in many areas of my life one of which has been my office setup. Moving from a 3 PC 3 screen setup to a single 17″ laptop has been one of the best moves I ever made. At the same time I also decided I wanted to mirror my entire D: drive online with DropBox for total peace of mind and portability, but this meant limiting myself to 100GB of space. SpaceSniffer helped me shed almost a terabyte of crud from my disks – old videos, mysterious temp directories, tons of PDF’s & zips that I am just never going to read. I’m now running at well below 100GB and by using SpaceSniffer regularly I plan to keep it that way. The benefits have been astounding: I can actually find things quickly now I have peace of mind knowing my whole disk is safely mirrored offsite Windows file search doesn’t start crying when I ask it to locate p*.* My skin feels smoother My kids are smarter I’ve cleared all my debts Well, you get the idea… It’s a completely free download, not an email form or API key in sight. No ones making any money here, just a free tool from me to you. I’ve used similar tools that didn’t perform this well and cost $40. Grab it here. I’d love to build up a list of tools you couldn’t live without, I’m not just talking plugins and IM here, we spend most of time on PC/Macs not servers anyway. Leave a comment below with top tools. Leave a comment All the best. Gary, Fiona & Alex Your BlogPiG Team You are receiving this email because you are a member of BlogPiG.com Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Our mailing address is: BlogPiG Diva Media PO Box 5134 Leamington Spa, Warks CV31 9HA Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2010 BlogPiG All rights reserved.

Okay, I Screwed Up…

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear rosi Okay, I Screwed Up… If I was a marketing guru I might get away with calling yesterdays SocialPiG email a prelaunch stunt, but alas I’m not. It was a screw-up fair and square… I’m sorry. Yeterday’s email wasn’t supposed to go out at all, it was just an intro paragraph for SocialPiG in BlogPiG Labs. I love Mailchimp’s RSS to mail feature but now and again it can bite you on the …! Anyway, given the overwhelming response I don’t think too much harm was done. There were a lot of comments and emails so I’ve pulled together the main questions and included a short FAQ for everyone below: Is it just me, or where’s the actual link to SocialPiG? No it’s not just you, I screwed up yesterday, there is no link to SocialPiG up yet. I’ve Been a user of Auto Social Poster since it first came out and I can absolutely say that this technique works. If you’ve got ‘trickle feed’ as well then I’m all over this. When can we dive in? I know bookmarking works! Yes we do have trickle feed as you call it (I like that name). ETA is still 3 weeks I’m afraid. How much is it and where can I buy it? Costing is still TBD but it’ll be inline with our other plugins I imagine. There are services attached to it though. ProxyPiG, CaptchapiG etc. How does it work? SocialPiG works by automatically bookmarking your blog posts with several (+30 in phase 1) social bookmarking sites. It does this via a network of SB accounts that we maintain behind an proxy farm and captcha service so you never have to worry about account creation or maintenance ever again. Your posts are trickle fed into the bookmark network gradually to appear natural and build a large organic (deep) backlink network over time. The accounts are also periodically fed with authority sites to balance the average pagerank and domain age in each account. There are thousands of accounts & thousands of IPs available. The maths that goes on inside the bookmark network to control posting rates and times is pretty advanced too. If anyone has any special requests for features or functionality please do leave a comment here. We’re a community driven development company, we don’t develop ideas in a vacuum. Hasn’t this been done before? Not like this. Sure there are plenty of Social Bookmarking tools and plugins out there and I’ve tried most of them. Don’t get me wrong, they’re good, some of them are very good in fact. The problem is they all make more work for me. I have to set them up, I have to create accounts, I have maintian the accounts, I have to schedule them, I have to tweak them, I have to worry about my accounts getting banned because they don’t trickle feed bookmarks, I have to create new accounts….blah! You get the idea, some of you have probabaly been there or are still there. Tools should’t make more work for you, they should just work! SocialPiG just works… Is this the Holy Grail of automatic backling? (my question) No, probably not on its own. It’s another string in your bow and a very powerful one at that. The fact that it has zero overhead is the real win here. BlogPiG labs will open soon and you’ll get to see all the other auto backlink goodies we have in development. A combination of them all may well be just the ticket ;) Can I promote it? Sure you can, I’ll add the SocialPiG links to our partner page as soon as it’s launched. Leave a comment All the best. Gary, Fiona & Alex Your BlogPiG Team You are receiving this email because you are a member of BlogPiG.com Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Our mailing address is: BlogPiG Diva Media PO Box 5134 Leamington Spa, Warks CV31 9HA Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2010 BlogPiG All rights reserved.

SocialPiG – Automatic Social Bookmarking

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear rosi SocialPiG – Automatic Social Bookmarking SocialPiG is an awesome social bookmarking plugin for WordPress. It will bookmark every new post make but with a twist! Posts are bookmarked gradually & intelligently to create a very natural bookmarking footprint. SocialPiG organically increases your blog’s backlink count over many weeks and months and it does it on autopilot! You don’t even need to create bookmarking accounts SocialPiG takes care of everything! Leave a comment All the best. Gary, Fiona & Alex Your BlogPiG Team You are receiving this email because you are a member of BlogPiG.com Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Our mailing address is: BlogPiG Diva Media PO Box 5134 Leamington Spa, Warks CV31 9HA Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2010 BlogPiG All rights reserved.

BlogPiG Dream Plugin Competition Results

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear rosi BlogPiG Dream Plugin Competition Results In this video post you can watch me running the draw for the BlogPiG Dream Plugin Competition. I also dreamed up a new plugin in the process – a Random Comment Selector plugin for comment competitions! Would save me having to enter the ugly PHPMyAdmin UI. Anyway as you can see in the vid I ran a simple SQL query that combined the comments from the 2 posts and chose 3 random commenters excluding my comments. The 3 random winners where: Steven Van Schooten – with his ReviewPiG scraper & spinner Liz – with her AnyPluginAutoOptimizer….PiG… Jack – with his AmazonPIG plugin (lawsuite!) If you three would like contact me directly via support {[A T]} blogpig.com I’ll get you set-up with a Pro license of your choice. Or of course you can hang on to the prize and wait for SocialPiG or future plugins to come out, the choice is yours. Here’s a quick reminder: CommentPiG – Get more comments for your blog posts with our comment simulation plugin TagPiG – Get more pages indexed with our AutoTagging plugin CSVPiG – Build big sites fast with our CSV datafeed import plugin ClickPiG – ClickBank vendors get more backlinks and protect your payment links and hoplinks A big thank you to everyone for entering and leaving your suggestions, I really enjoyed reading all the comments and I think I responded to everyone personally so check your comments and see if I need some more info about your idea. I definitely plan to make BlogPiG competitions a regular thing from now on. Leave a comment All the best. Gary, Fiona & Alex Your BlogPiG Team You are receiving this email because you are a member of BlogPiG.com Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Our mailing address is: BlogPiG Diva Media PO Box 5134 Leamington Spa, Warks CV31 9HA Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2010 BlogPiG All rights reserved.

Dream to Win Pro Plugins (Update)

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear rosi Dream to Win Pro Plugins (Update) Wow! Thank you. The response has been absolutely awesome to our dream plugins competition. Over 80 comments so far all packed with great ideas about plugins you’d love to see developed. Not all of them serious of course I particularly liked DatePiG and several people agreed with my CoffeePiG thoughts. One of the nicest things I discovered was that we are definitely heading in the right direction as some of upcoming products include many of the suggestions made. The need for automatic social bookmarking of posts was mentioned several times so the launch of SocialPiG this month could not be more timely. We’ve also decided to bring forward the launch BlogPiG Labs a place where you can see exactly what we’re working and even vote for what we shoul work on next. It’ll be a hub for product suggestions and beta testers etc. Should be pretty cool. An existing member who’s already bought the whole suite of products emailed me of the weekend. They where understanderbly a little miffed at the thought of missing out on free Pro upgrade. I should have been clearer in the original note and said that the complimentary Pro License is good for any exiting OR FUTURE BlogPiG product. So you can claim a plugin tommorow or hold on to it ans wait for SocialPiG or whatever comes next. By way of thanks for all the great comments I’ve upped the number of Pro Licenses we’re giving away to 3 so you’ve much better odds at winning now. Each comment you leave equals a new entry and you leave multiple comments. (only 1 license per person though) What would be your dream WordPress plugin? So go on leave a comment on this post or the previous post (I’ll combine both posts comments for the draw tommorow). Less then 24hrs left. http://blogpig.com/news/dream-to-win-pro-plugins-update/#comments All the best. Gary, Fiona & Alex Your BlogPiG Team You are receiving this email because you are a member of BlogPiG.com Unsubscribe rosimassy@gmail.com from this list | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Our mailing address is: BlogPiG Diva Media PO Box 5134 Leamington Spa, Warks CV31 9HA Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2010 BlogPiG All rights reserved.

Win a BlogPiG Pro License by Dreaming

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear rosi Win a BlogPiG Pro License by Dreaming Here’s a question to ponder: “What would your dream WordPress plugin do?” Leave a comment on the blog post with your thoughts (link below). You can make it as crazy or realistic as you want! I’ll keep the comments open until Tuesday morning and then choose a winner at random. The winner can choose a lifetime Pro license to any one of our products. You could be auto-tagging, auto-commenting or auto-publishing by Wednesday! So, think about, what would your dream plugin do for you? ps. Plus if we build it I’ll send you a free copy of that plugin too http://blogpig.com/news/your-dream-wordpress-plugin/#comments All the best. Gary, Fiona & Alex Your BlogPiG Team You are receiving this email because you are a member of BlogPiG.com Unsubscribe rosimassy@gmail.com from this list | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Our mailing address is: BlogPiG Diva Media PO Box 5134 Leamington Spa, Warks CV31 9HA Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2010 BlogPiG All rights reserved.