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I can’t believe you guys! I offer my incredible expertise–free. Just ask! And 53 of you went to the survey to ask a question and then, for some reason, didn’t. Bummer. I’d really love to help you.

But…

I do have a great question from a very smart person. Here’s what she wrote:

Hi! I’m enjoying your personality and writing style in your blog! Keep up the good work

See how smart she is? Thank you! There’s a tip jar… Naw. Just kidding.

Anyway, I’d like to get a higher ranking under the category of stress relief and/or relaxation. I’ve included such words in my meta tags and phrases….as well as creating a blog. By the way, when I linked my Wordpress blog to my website, they took down my entire blog, saying that I went against their blogging “etiquette” and made me take all third party links out of my blog…so now, it’s not driving traffic as efficiently without those convenient links. You can check out both: http://www.hypno-freedom.com and http://www.hypnofreedom.wordpress.com. Thank you! ~RebeccaS

So, cool. Rebecca just got 2 one-way links pointing back to her sites for asking me a question. That can help you rank! The more one-way links you get, the better Google will like you.

But…

WordPress.com will give you the smackdown for using your blog for commercial reasons. It’s right in their terms of service, but if you’re like me, you probably skimmed over them and just missed that part. It’s there, though, because I checked it for someone else who presented the same problem about a week ago. Bummer. I hate to tell you this, but…

What you need to do, Rebecca, is to get your blog onto your own server and then, you can do any old thing you want with it. Copy your posts in the old blog and just upload them to the new one. You may be able to get a file from WordPress.com to do that, but not having an account there, I really don’t know. Just check before you shut that blog down. At worst, you’ll have to copy the entries and paste them into a text program like WordPad, TextPad, or even Note Tab.

But setting up the new WordPress.org blog is super simple, if you get hosting that has cPanel with Fantastico. I and several other marketers I know use HostGator. You get a LOT for just $9.99 a month. There’s a cheaper option, but if you’re serious about your online business, you really get a lot more for about $3 extra a month.

Anyway, when you get your hosting account set up, you’ll need to transfer your domain name to HostGator’s name servers. It’s a very simple process. HostGator will send you a welcome email with their name servers included and you just go to your domain registrar (GoDaddy, or whomever you use) and change them. (You may know this stuff already, but I want to be sure that folks who don’t know it get it, too, so forgive me for being rather elemental.)

Then, go into your cPanel control panel at your HostGator account. At the bottom of the page, you’ll see “Fantastico Deluxe.” When you click on that, you’ll see a bunch of databases you can install with a click of a button, one of them being a WordPress blog.

Your http://www.hypno-freedom.com site is very cool, BTW. I really like the look of it. But, I’m afraid you may lose some traction with your blog because you can’t keep that wordpress.com domain name.

But that’s OK!

If your website is on a different server and you link back from your new HostGator blog (providing you’re not already on HostGator for your website), you’ll have another one-way link pointing back to your website.

In every post you write, use one of your keywords to a density of around 2% and hyperlink it back to your website. That will be anchor text that tells the search engines, Ohhh… that site must be about stress or relaxation because this blog says so. It will also be a “vote” for your site. The more one-way links pointing back to your site, the better. More “votes,” more page rank and more search engine traction.

Does that help and make sense? If not, let me know and I’ll go into further explanation.

And good luck!

Two more things:

All of this is outlined in Tellman’s List Building Club. There are videos that explain all of this step-by-step, which is really cool. Plus, you can get a free trial right now at http://listbuildingpower.net. Check it out, if you need the added help.

And…

To get more traffic to your blog, join Blog Rush. (You can see the widget in my sidebar.) Put a widget on your own blog’s sidebar and you get traffic from people seeing your headlines on other blogs. It’s really cool, and it’s free. Plus, the more people you sign up, the more traffic you’ll get and it’s a new program, so… now’s the time to jump while the iron’s hot! http://easyseotricks.com/BR-920

Best of luck!

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