In my blogging work, automation means something like this: “Organization and routines that produce income streams.” I would never do a mass Twitter scheme, I would never create or use a “bot.” If you read the things in this post that I refer to as “automation” they are: Social Media, Text-Link-Ads, and ADsense. I do not support or promote software or code that illegally creates automated income. Thank you for prompting me to make that important distinction. As a teacher I have methods of automating parts of the day through routines, that is another example of what I mean. I hope that gets me out of the doghouse!

As far as the backlinks: Have you checked yours on Yahoo? It is a pretty good counter but all the engines are different numbers. You may be comparing say your Google popular number with my Yahoo! comprehensive one and they are vastly different. I decided to use Yahoo! because they had the widget I use in all three sites.

The way I actively get backlinks (and have gotten them for 3 years fairly competitively) is through writing for other sites. I routinely write stuff for about 8-10 other blogs and sites as regularly as I can. Another way is through joining Social Media and entering my link there. Those are just a couple things I do. The most important and most rewarding is to write stuff people link to.

This is a quality post, though. You have an amazing number of backlinks. How do you do that?

For that reason, I don’t want to give you a canned answer. I will say this: Your sponsored posts should not be more than every other post at the most and they should reflect your core values for why you blog.

My readers, I hope, would know by now I value cash for my family as a trade-off for time I spend blogging. Therefore I have no shame in doing sponsored posts. Last, I am ALWAYS honest in what I blog. I say that in my disclosure page.

Thanks for the heads up about blogging. I would like more traffic and am glad to know you have figured it out for yourself and enjoy sharing the Riley Method.

I was listening to “Thought It Was You” and think that our talents could still produce some more great works if we could only find the time to get together.

Eric

I do believe though that a lot of the kids who do get involved with drugs and alcohol are self-medicating themselves. Depression, anxiety and other mental disorders are much more prominent than I think anyone initially thought or wanted to acknowledge. We may see Amy Winehouse as a huge talent with the world at her fingertips, which is true, but obviously she doesn’t.

It sounds like you see these errors a lot as well :) Thanks for joining me in my plight.