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I hope everyone had a great 2007, and I wish you all a happy new year.

First I will start with my blog statistics, and then move on to my monthly earnings.

Blog Statistics: (Brackets are stats for last month)

Alexa Rank: 110,051 - (448,730).
Technorati Rank: 61,585 - (174,961).
Technorati Authority: 106 - (45).
Total Visitors: 7,392 - (3,995).
Total Pageviews: 16,908 - (10,886).
RSS Subscribers: 119 - (60).
79 Posts, 537 comments, 869 spam blocked.

Blog Earnings - $87.08 [$2.81/day] ($8.84 last month).

Adsense:
$12.08 (Last Month: $8.84).
Private Ad Sales:
$75.00 (Last Month: N/A).

December Total Earnings: $1194.57 - [$38.53/day]

Adsense: $49.57
This is very low because I sold my biggest Adsense websites right before I started this blog.

Paypal: $1145.00
The majority was Paypal payments from the new features of rssHugger and from gaining new micro investors over at WordHugger.

For those who are interested, here are my November earnings.

In conclusion, my blog has grown quite a bit in the last month and all of the stats have improved. So far my blog has a very healthy growth rate that I hope I can continue for many months to come. If you have not already, I recommend you subscribe to MMA’s RSS feed or else get your blog updates by email. How much did you earn this December?

If you are a webmaster like myself, you know that time is everything. I am pretty lazy when it comes to doing tedious work for little gain, so I tend to avoid a lot of small things that would probably help in the long run. I have just discovered a website called SocialMarker that aims to fill in that void. SocialMarker is a website that is basically a browser for submitting links to over 25 different social news and social bookmark websites.

Here’s what it does:

You go to SocialMarker’s website when you have a blog post, website, or featured news article you want promoted. You enter in some tags, a description, and a title (keyword links to raise your rank on the search engines). SocialMarker will then bring you to around 30 websites that all allow you to post your link. The first time you use the service it may take 45-60 minutes to sign up to all of these 30 websites that you are posting on, but in the long run you can get your next few submissions down to about 10 minutes. These 30 websites all are aged and have pagerank/authority, so it is a great place to get anchor text backlinks from. You can submit all of your best sites with SocialMarker and you will save ample amounts of time, and gain all of these backlinks with ease. Now that I have already registered with the sites, it only took me about 8 minutes to submit the link building cookbook to the 30 sites. This will help that page rank higher in the search engines for link building cookbook and ultimately just Link Building.

Most of the 30 websites you will be submitting to are crawled by the search engines extensively, so you can expect 30 quickly crawled backlinks to get your site indexed very quickly as well.

Not only does SocialMarker increase the speed at which you can submit your sites to these websites, but it is absolutely free. Most of the sites it uses are also social news websites, so if someone happens to vote for the post you submitted, you might even hit the frontpage which would bring tons of traffic as well. All in all, this is a completely free method that is very easy to use and can be replicated over and over again. Many products try to sell a similiar system, but I use SocialMarker because it is easy to use and completely free. It nearly does all of the work for you by filling in the forms and having a copy paste section at the bottom. Try it out and tell me what you think!

This is part nineteen of the link building cookbook series that shows you the best ways to build links to increase website traffic and ultimately make money online.

I’d just like to thank my top commentators again for this month for all the awesome replies you leave on my posts. Enjoy a free link and a bit of traffic.

Sudarshan
Bihn Nguyen
James Pong
Ethan Christ
turtie
J. J. Merrick
Smith
Fadi

Also have a happy new year!

For all of Mixed Market Art’s readers who are search engine optimizers or link builders… this post will surely help build your pagerank quickly and easily. I recently discovered a Linux site called the Linux Counter where they are tracking how many people are using Linux, where they are from, and a few other statistics. I was toying around with the site and signed myself up to be tracked. As a test, I signed up stating that I was located in Antarctica where only three other people had listed themselves to be shown publicly. There was no email verification to join and they even provided a search engine followed link to the URL I specified.  If you want to build hundreds of links you can submit yourself once to every country (205 countries at the moment). All of the aged pages are PR2-4, so if you spend a decent amount of time submitting your sites to the entire list, you can expect a great PR update for minimal work when Google starts doing their updates. This is a very quick, easy, and most importantly free method towards mass link promotion. I recommend that if you are going to be using this technique, try doing a few per day on a set schedule so that Google does not penalize your site for building tons of links one day, and then very few the next few days.

This is part eighteen of The Link Building Cookbook series showing you the best places to build links to increase website traffic.