When I think of a successful internet Entrepreneur, I think of my friend Colin McDougall. I remember first hearning him speak about a year and a half ago at an Internet Conference. He was not planning to speak but was coaxed into talking about how he was making over 5 figures a month on his website crediteria.com. Even though he stuttered and stammered a bit on his first public appearence, I listened like a hawk because I knew this 'guy' was for real and not trying to sell me something like a lot of the other speakers.
While he has moved on, grown and learned a lot since then, one thing has not changed. He is dedicated to creating a 'real' business on the internet. No smoke and mirrors. Colin is one of the most down to earth people I know and he has recently started a small club to help people learn how to make and create a real business on the internet.
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Blog carnivals are a great and easy way to gain exposure and back links for your blog. I hope everyone has read my article 101 
Everyone who has a website or blog should know about social media/bookmarking sites by now. If you don’t, it’s a great traffic generating opportunity you are missing. Many people submit to sites like propeller, digg and stumbleupon. Getting on the top page of these sites can generate some great traffic, however, it may not necessarily bring you the conversions that you want, and in the end you may be disappointed and stop social bookmarking all together. I have unfortunately known several people who have. That is why much attention here at 
When creating a post or article, there is a delicate balance between writing for our readers and writing for search engines. In the end we want to have the reader gain useful information from our article, stick around for a while, and ultimately return. However, we must also be cognizant or aware, that in order for people to find our blog articles, search engines must be able to index and categorize our posts. The best advice I can give is to write first for your reader, then for the search engines. Here are a few basic steps for optimizing a blog post. 
First of all, I should tell you, most of my sites are on my own server along with some of my friends sites. About 6 or 7 months ago our server was grinding to a slow crawl. Between me and the server administrator, we tweaked out all the PHP, Apache, and MYSQL settings we could think of. This worked for a while, but getting to top pages on places such as propeller or slashdot, and getting massive Stumbles, started to bring our server and blogs to a crawl again. I was determined to find a solution without having to throw more memory at the server. Here is what I found…
I really don’t like the term Link Baiting as it makes it look like you are trying to do something deceptive. This is not necessarily the case. I think of linkbaiting as more like fishing. One puts out good quality content or information and then see what you will catch. For those new to online marketing, the main purpose of link baiting is to have other websites want to link to your site or page. Good link baiting provides information or a product that will make your visitor want to come to your site, stick around, and ultimately return.
In order to be successful on the internet, one needs to treat their Internet business as a business. So what do I mean by making or treating your Internet business as a business? Most people are drawn to the Internet buy dreams of throwing up a website, having tons of visitors, and making a lot of money quickly. Well there are those lucky few, and I still envy them. However, for the majority of us it takes a lot of work to be successful, and that is why a lot of people fail. They hop from one idea to another, and then they wonder why they are not making any money or losing money. I suggest treat your Internet endeavors as a business.
Just because you build a website does not mean traffic will come. I found that out the hard way. Over the past several years I have tried many ideas. Some winners and some big losers. I have compiled a list of 101 ideas that have helped generate internet traffic to my websites.
