The 1st week on YouBlog was great, I had quite a few people create posts that were very useful. To says thanks to those that contributed, I wanted to give away some awards and publish links to all of the posts here on the main site.

First off, I wanted to offer my congratulations to Barry O (website automation and monetization), whose post was promoted to the main site. If you missed that post, you can find it here: Has Web 2.0 Become Web 2.Old?

This post was great for more than one reason, but the creative image at the beginning really made is stand out. You’ll have to have a look to see what I mean, but it was hilarious and applicable at the same time.

Using images that are funny or help people to relate to your writing can really make a difference in how effective it is.

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Second place this week goes to Sutocu (Your Website Profit), who wrote ‘Coping Without Google Traffic‘. No matter what your position on Google is, you have to admit that there are a lot of other options for traffic out there. Even if you’re working with the best traffic source out there, you should never rely on it 100%.

The best websites out there get to where they need to be and then don’t need to rely on any traffic sources anymore. The sites are so useful they are promoted and maintained by their current traffic – their promotion is done for them.Take a look at this post to get a few ideas of what’s out there.

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Third prize in the weekly YouBlog Awards goes to webtools (webtools and tips) who wrote ‘How To Do Link Exchanges In A Google Friendly Way‘.

Some people believe that link exchanges are dead. I couldn’t disagree more, in fact link exchanges are a great way to get good links. Google even implies that it’s ok by saying that we shouldn’t do excessive link exchanges.

In order to make link exchanges a good method for promotion, they need to be done properly, and this post gives some good advice for doing that.

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Here are the rest of the posts that were submitted to YouBlog this week:

• How to do link exchange in Google friendly way
• How Can You Improve Your Networking Skills?
• A Few Ways To Help You Get BackLinks
• Discovery – The Importance Of Marketing Yourself!
• How Can You Find Good Keywords Using SEO Digger?
• Why Is It Important To Place Ads On Your Blog As Soon As Possible?
• Networking Ideas For Non-US Bloggers
• How To Make Your Blog Profitable
• How Do You Read Your Site Statistics?
• How To Get Everything You Can Out Of Your Blog Posts
• How Can You Move Up In Google’s Rankings?
• Make a Website That Works For You – Not the Other Way Around
• Creating The Perfect Structure For Your Blog Posts

If you are interested in having your post on next week’s list, visit YouBlog, register, and create a post. Most of the posts were approved this last week. The only ones that I didn’t approve were either copied from another location, or were 100% blatant self promotion. I would love to have as many participants as possible, but obviously can’t publish posts that don’t teach anything about internet marketing.

Here are some possible topics that you can use if you would like to write in YouBlog (you can also write anything that you can come up with):

• How To Make Your Site Stand Out In A Crowd
• Traffic, Traffic, Traffic
• How To Get Attention From Popular Sites
• How To Make Your Site Look Popular
• How To Choose The Right Keywords For Your Authority Level
• Analysis Of Bum Marketing (bum marketing is article marketing)
• How To Come Up With Creative Ideas For Topics
• Choose Your Own Topic