Beware Plagiarism!

Watch out, watch out, there's a thief about!

Content thieving sites are out there stealing your content. They then use it on their own crappy sites that are full of adsense ads. But you can hit back and turn this into your advantage.

In every blog post, make sure you place a few anchor links back to your own blog, like this one to The Honest Way Blog. So that when these low-lives steal your content, they inadvertently give you a free backlink! Even if they delete your signature at the end of each blog post (where you should always include a link to your blog), by placing the links throughout your post, you stand a very good chance of getting a backlink.

And duplicate content?

The search engines accredit your blog with the original post thanks to the time and date stamp of the article, so the plagiarizing sites get hit for having the duplicate content, not you.

So it's one of those things that you can fight fire with fire and have the last laugh.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Honest Way to Make Money

The Honest way to make money is a difficult path to go down.

Why?

Because while people respect honesty and integrity, they don't throw money at it. I've found this to be true since getting involved with internet marketing almost a year ago. While I've made money, it hasn't been a great deal. At the same time, I see others who resort to less than honest tactics to make money do so in much greater amounts than my honest methods.

What does that tell me?

I need to work harder at what I'm doing. The search engines don't help you when you're honest - at least that's the way it seems.

I've been trying to gain a decent page rank for The Honest Way blog so that I can use it to make money the honest way by writing paid reviews and by attracting text ads. But despite attracting a good regular readership, lots of good backlinks and a decent Alexa ranking, Google hasn't lifted that blog off the PR0 floor, so my potential earnings from honest sources is still very limited.

I'm the eternal optimist, however.

I'll simply keep slogging away, writing my ass off to keep the content fresh and interesting over there and call in here every so often to let off steam!

So if you're here reading this and you want to learn how to make money the honest way, then please head over to my main blog The Honest Way (or the two satellite blogs I also set up called Make Money and Make Money Blog) where you'll find between them an absolute ton of free information!

Here's to your success

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

WidgetBucks

I just read in my travels that self-styled top blogger John Chow has unveiled yet another fantastic way to make money online with your blog. It's called WidgetBucks.

I was well impressed by what I read at first, so I went straight over there and signed up! It looks like it could be a desperately needed replacement for either Auction Ads or more importantly Adsense, especially if you are a blogger outside the US.

I just blogged about it on my Make Money blog, so if you want to read the full post with what it's all about, head over there now by clicking HERE


Note: This service was taken down and is no longer in existence. Don't bother going to look for it, you won't find it!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Articles and Content Are the New Kings

Over at The Honest Way I'm still posting regular updates on the blog to keep the momentum going and to try to get Google to see what a great, content packed site it is, so they'll graciously give me some PR.

After all, the word on the street is that Google are still tweaking their algorithm in favour of good quality, content packed sites that offer lots of information and entertainment for their readers.

This means that content is indeed king!

So I've got my finger crossed that all that hard work and writing tons of informational articles into the wee hours of the night will eventually pay off and The Honest Way and it's post-packed blog will get the PR they deserve!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

Don't Waste $100 on This Rip Off!

Over at my main blog, The Honest Way, I expose a new rip off that's spreading across the internet marketing world in the form of a "Buy a page on the million dollar wiki site for $100".

The promise is that once you have your page, you will have a ton of traffic flooding to it's doors courtesy of the main high profile site the page is attached to.

Unfortunately, all that will happen is that any traffic your page generates will go to increasing the rank of the hosting site. You will have to generate that traffic yourself - it won't just come to you without any work.

So you might as well create a free blog and do the same thing.

The difference?

$100!

Read the full account over at The Honest Way Blog

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way