Ok, let’s get down to business and talk about how you can make your site be more successful than ever before. Here’s 7 Ways To Put A Rocket Under Your Site.

1) Learn from the best. Check out the blogs and sites of those who are successful at promoting their sites and have a track record of making money. Darren Rowse may sound like a gomper loser most of the time, but he does have some great advice from time to time. His Problogger site has some pretty lame new articles, but his older stuff has some real nuggets of value. Another person to check out is NickyCakes. He’s a reformed blackhat that can teach you what you need to know to make quid dosh.

2) Use Social Media Networks. Social media is your friend. People love sharing things so take advantage of it. Make sure you have all of those little buttons from sites like Facebook, Friendster, MySpace and Hi-5. For maximum effective reach, get as many friends as possible and send out regular bulletins letting them know about your latest articles, news or offers. You can take it one step further by getting a Facebook page or even Facebook group for your site. Needless to say, you should be sharing a link to something new each and everyday. Facebook makes it easy.

3) Take Advantage of Social Links. Sites like Reddit, Digg, and Mixx offer you a way to submit a link to be voted on by internet users at large. The more votes your link gets then the more exposure it gets on the social site. The great thing about the sites listed is that those links are dofollow and can help you improve your rankings in the search engine. Not only do you get traffic from the social link site, but you also get increased traffic from the search engine. That’s an important double whammy.

4) Stumbleupon Is Your Friend. If you are webmaster and you are interested in traffic, you should be using the Stumbleupon toolbar. Stumbleupon is a social application that allows you rate sites you like and dislike. By clicking on the stumble button, you get a new site that fits your interests. By submitting pages to Stumbleupon, you can generate impressive amounts of traffic, particularly if you have a well written article that’s of interest to a broad group of users. It’s not unusual to pick up 1500 to 3000 page views in the 48 hours following a submission.

5) Squidoo Gives You Juice. Squidoo sure does give you juice, link juice that is. Putting together a Squidoo lens on your topic helps you get expert status on your topic and gives you all important rankings in the search engine results. Squidoo also gives you backlinks to your site, improving your own sites performance in the SERPs. Squidoo lenses are free so why not have one or ten. With other companies like weebly and HubPages, you don’t need to stop with just a Squidoo lens, you can put up a page on your topic on every one of these single page topic sites.

6) Articles Give You Power. Articles submitted to Ezine Articles, Associated Content and other sites give you backlinks and traffic. Articles need to be well written and compelling for maximum effectiveness. The more articles you submit, the more expert your opinions can seem on a topic. By doing this type of promotion, you can get increased exposure for your niche area.

7) RSS Feeds Galore. RSS feeds are everywhere. They offer a great way to keep your updated content in front of as many eyes as possible. Mixx, for example, has an RSS feed of all of your submissions. Every SMF forum has a feed as well. For example, the Blogovela Forum RSS Feed is http://boards.getpesos.com/rss/forum/making-money-online . Wherever there is a feed, there is an opportunity to ping it to many different aggregators. I made up a special script to do mass pingings, but you can just as easily use Pingomatic.com to individually ping every feed you have. Just remember to bookmark your ping and you can ping your feed any time by merely visiting the bookmark.

Bonus: Network With Others. No man is an island. It’s important to use a webmaster tools forum to help you get the most marketing bang. By sharing stumbles, reddits, diggs and lens rolls, you can help others while they are helping you. You can learn new ways of marketing and learn better ways to manage your site.

Are you ready to try one or all of these ways to put a rocket under your site? Now is the time to seize the moment and make the moment yours.

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Power stumbling is a way to build both your reputation on Stumbleupon as well as learn about new and interesting sites. Best of all, it takes just 30 minutes or so per session.

Ready to do some power stumbling? Make sure you have the Stumbleupon bar installed. Next, go into the options and add just about every topic you are interested in. Make sure you do have your niche interests listed so that you’ll be served up pages that might relate to your niche. Next open a text editor like Crimson Editor or notepad to take down notes as you are power stumbling. With everything set up, you can start stumbling.

Open 3 or 4 blank tabs, and then in each tab, click on the stumble button. With three or four tabs open at the same time, it’s easy check out one page while waiting for the others to pull up. It really makes your time spent more efficient.

Once a page is pulled up, it’s time to evaluate it. Do you honestly like the page? If so, give it a thumbs up. Do you absolutely hate the page? Give it a thumbs down. Don’t be afraid to give a site a thumbs down if it deserves it. Generally if I am somewhere in between, I just click on the stumble button to be given a new page. I don’t believe in cracking someone’s rice bowl unless they really deserve it. Remember, Stumbleupon is a great tool for discovering great content and it’s only as good as the ratings given.

Ok, what to do if you like the page? If the page is particularly interesting or if it has given you something to blog about, copy and paste the link in your text editor and write up a quick one or two lines about it so that you’ll remember why you listed it and why you liked it. Sure Stumbleupon has your favorites list, but it’s a bit cumbersome to find them all after several days of power stumbling.

Whether you liked it or not, just click on the Stumble button and get a fresh page. If you are power stumbling with 3 or 4 tabs, you can stumble a lot of pages in 30 minutes or so. The more stumbles you make, the more power your own stumbles have. More power = more traffic.

But power stumbling is about more than just more traffic, it’s about the blogging ideas you get while stumbling. After you have finished your power stumbling session, take a few minutes to look at the notes you have. Odds are that you’ll have several blog post ideas just from the sites you stumbled. This is probably why I do a lot of my power stumbling when I am short on writing or blogging ideas.

What is Squidoo? Squidoo is a service that allows you to make a single page website on a single, highly targeted topic. A Squidoo lens will get you traffic and link juice and only takes a few minutes to make. They several modules that you can to help drive traffic to your site while keeping the lens fresh and active.

I have several lenses up and running right now on topics as varied as El Paso, gold prospecting and even Saipan business.

It’s easy to start up a lens so I think a warning is in order. It can become addictive. You’ll want to limit yourself to just one or two new lenses per day to keep yourself from taking away too much of the time you should be devoting to your main income sites.

About making money on Squidoo? It’s best for links and traffic. While you can earn royalties from the traffic to your lens, the earnings seem quite low. As long as you keep focused on the aspects that will make you the most money, you should be just fine.

There are PHP caching addons that we can install in our VPS or dedicated server to reduce the amount of cpu cycles a particular WordPress blog is using and pile even more sites onto our server. There are several to choose from including eaccelerator and APC. I have personal experience with both of these and my personal favorite is APC. In fact, Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is going to have native support in PHP 6. It works well with all versions of PHP and once installed, it just works.

I have put together a couple of tutorials on installing APC on a couple of different platforms. Of course my preferred platform is Ubuntu, but I have also included a tutorial for installing it on Centos 5.2.

Have fun:
Installing APC On Centos 5
Installing APC On Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

First off, you need to update your apt-get files so run the command:
sudo apt-get update

Next, you need to install the dev files that will prepare your server to install APC.
sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pear apache2-threaded-dev

Once you are done with those, now it is time to install APC itself. Once again from your SSH shell, run this command:
pecl install apc

You’ll be given an installation option, just hit enter to continue.

Next, you need to tell your PHP file just where your APC extension is. For this, you’ll need to copy and paste some code and stick it into your php.ini file.

So, copy this code:
extension = apc.so
apc.enabled = 1
apc.shm_size = 48
apc.include_once_override = 1
apc.mmap_file_mask = /tmp/apc.XXXXXX

Next open your php.ini file:
nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

At the top of the file just paste the code. All that is left to do is to enable it. Just restart apache with this command:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

You now have a working PHP cache. You will reduce your server load and serve up your pages even faster.

First, you need want to make sure you have the most update to date PHP so go ahead and update your PHP using yum.
yum update php

If you are using Plesk, you may want to use these commands instead.
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh | sh
yum update php

Next, you need to install some dev files. Go ahead and install these one line at a time.
yum install php-devel
yum install php-pear
yum install httpd-devel

Once you are done with those, now it is time to install APC itself. Once again from your SSH shell, run this command:
pecl install apc

You’ll be given an installation option, just hit enter to continue.

Next, you need to tell your PHP file just where your APC extension is. For this, you’ll need to copy and paste some code and stick it into your php.ini file.

So, copy this code:
extension = apc.so
apc.enabled = 1
apc.shm_size = 48
apc.include_once_override = 1
apc.mmap_file_mask = /tmp/apc.XXXXXX

Next open your php.ini file:
vi /etc/php.ini

At the top of the file just paste the code. All that is left to do is to enable it. Just restart apache with this command:
service httpd restart

If you are interested in having a graphical look at what your cache is doing, you can copy the file below to a web accessible directory. Just remember to move it out of web accessible directory to keep prying eyes away;

/var/cache/php-pear/APC-3.0.19/apc.php

You now have a working PHP cache. You will reduce your server load and serve up your pages even faster.

Amazing, right? I’ll just say how I did it. I guess I should preface this by saying that this was for a straight html page.

The first thing I did was create an rss.xml file (RSS feed) for the single page site and put a link to it from the page.

The second thing I did was write up a post about the site, with suitable links, on a wordpress.com blog that I keep primarily for this basis. I chose the tags for the post carefully. I chose related tags that are quite active on wordpress.com and a few that were less active.

Next, I used a pinging script that I got a year ago for some website. I had it first ping the wordpress.com blog to 23 sites that accept pings. Next I pinged my new site and its RSS feed. I waited about 30 minutes and manually edited my site’s rss.xml file to show an updated post time and then resubmitted the site to the 23 sites that accept pings.

Within two hours of doing the first work, I checked in with Google and sure enough, the site was already indexed. I was shocked! The previous best time had been 2 days.

Now there are things more important than search engines and one of them is maximum usability. XHTML means that your site is usable on even more formats. This could be very important in the future. Another great thing is the sense of accomplishment. There is nothing like the accomplishment of having your theme validate.

You need to lay a foundation. Sign up for webhosting with a big name provider like bluehost, hostgator or dreamhost where they let you host unlimited domains on your account. Customize a wordpress theme to fit just the look you want and one that optimizes your adclicks.

Now you are ready to LRR
1) Research a niche. Find a niche that you know a little about. Blood pressure monitors is a good example. Purchase a domain, set up a wordpress blog and write up 5 or 6 targeted posts about it and post them on your blog. This will take you a few hours, depending on how fast you write.

2) Promote the site, at least in the Search Engines. That means writing a few unique article about your niche and posting them on EZine Articles and several other article directories. Submit your site to as many web directories as possible. This will take several hours.

Total time for both steps is about 5 to 6 hours. When I measured my time, I spent 2 hours writing up posts for the site and two to submit to article directories. I spent another 2 hours submitting to web directories and social bookmarking sites and another hour submitting to article directories.

3) Repeat Steps 1 and 2.

Maybe do 1 site a day for two months and you will have more than 50 sites. Total investment will be $450 or so, but you could push it under $400. After you make the sites, just let them sit back and earn money. You can basically make them and then forget about them, but updating them every month or so increases your income.