Everything you ever wanted to learn about list building but never found the courage to ask can be found in a list building blog. People keep trade secrets. Try to hang on to their knowledge about their specialty. However once they start to write in a personal blog they can’t stop opening their hearts to perfect strangers. You can learn many things in the blogs of reputable list builders. Success is sweeter when you share it. Failure is less painful if there is a shoulder to put your head on. So they share all their successes and failures in their personal blogs. The real problem is how to find those blogs among millions of sites crowded with key words, written only for search engine optimization.

Once you start to search the Internet for a popular subject like link building, all kinds of web pages pop up in the results page. There are several methods of separating real sites from advertisement traps, spam sites and links to other search engines. I’ll share some of my methods. I used to look at the titles of the result pages. Now they have scripts putting your search string directly to the title of the page. So while searching I change the order of some words. For example if I am looking for \”eye of the tiger\” I just write \”eye\” and \”tiger.\” (And please don’t ask me where \”eye of the tiger\” came as an example to my mind from…) In the results page if the titles were \”eye tiger\” instead of \”eye of the tiger\” I don’t click those links.

Another method I use is to check the URL’s of the result links. Especially if my search term was a long one, sometimes I see URL’s with plus sign between the words I searched. For example if I searched \”survivor eye of the tiger lyrics\” and the result URL is like \”www.sitename. com/ survivor+ eye+ of+ the+ tiger+ lyrics. html\” I know for sure that I won’t be finding the lyrics at that site. (Don’t ask, once started with one example there is no turning back, the song is even playing in my head now.)

There are also some words in the page titles that mean the page is probably bogus. You can guess these words. “Free”, “download”, “mp3”, “full”, “multi”, “original” are the words I filter automatically. After a short time your brain starts to function like a highly developed spam filter. If there are more than 10 pages on the search engine results, I sometimes start from page 10 or 20. The quality of sites that can be found in those pages may shock you.

When you search for “List Building Blog” with quotation marks, there are 66,000 results in Google. At least 10 out of 66,000 sites must be useful for my purposes. The real problem is to be able to find them. Refining your search adding new words may also help. However fishing for a whale using a rod might be easier. (A better example at last!)

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Category: Marketing
Keywords: List Building, List Building Blog