John Ciampa moderates eComXpo panel “Dirty Little Secrets: Taking The Lid Off Affiliate Marketing And Assessing What Creates Value”

The power of blogs ranking better than regular sites in search engine results made a bunch of fake blogs come out as pages called Flogs, a 3 million dollars a month industry that’s creating a stir through fake blogs.

The content publish on a lot of those site is copyrighted content from other websites with a ads and links to merchants products and services to generate money. What they are trying to do is push themselves up in the search engine on other people’s content and keywords.

Social Media is all about transparency, credibility and originality. Using fake content or fake bloggers to talk about you product and services might work out really well at first for traffic proposes. but at the end of the day the risk of being reported and having your site banned from search engine will probably wont be worth it. Besides that, the damage you can generate for your brand reputation is probably irreversible.

Another problem caused by people just copying and pasting others people content is generating duplicate content, what can make your blog or site to be penalized by Google. Read the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog to understand more about how to deal with duplicate content or how to report Google about people using your content.

To learn more about how far black hat affiliate marketers go to push the envelope on a Google controlled system you must register to the next eComXpo and join the panel “Dirty Little Secrets: Taking The Lid Off Affiliate Marketing And Assessing What Creates Value”.

Check out a few topic that are going to be discussed on July 8th, at 4:20pm, which will be moderated by John A Ciampa, from Bloggers School:

• How can the affiliate industry help search engines to get flogs knocked down and prevent content duplication?
• Will actions of the FTC deter black hatters from engaging in unethical practices?
• Assess the impact of black hat practices on affiliate marketing in a time when affiliate marketing is the most cost effective and efficient marketing channel companies can use
• Devise a breakthrough marketing program by taking the creativity of black hat and applying it to marketing and creating value

Are part of the discussion panel:

• Jay Weintraub, CEO, LeadsCon
• John Reel, Internet Entrepreneur & Developer, www.GoTryThis.com
• Steven Richter, President, Media Breakaway
• Todd Malicoat, SEO & Social Media Expert, Stuntdubl.com

Visit Bloggers School virtual booth at the next eComXpo, July 8th-9th

This is the event that kicked it all off for Bloggers School. It was like a blessing to find info in this format for free. We are talking powerful information here, so on time with the changes in the e-commerce world. The info came from heaven above at a time when money was tight for me. Going to the free eComXpo gave me the knowledge I needed to start my own business.

I have been word of mouthing them ever since. Bloggers School Radio even had a chance to interview Caleb Chase, the spokesperson for eComXpo.

They contacted us based on our past promotions for them and offered us a booth at their next virtual event on July 8th-9th 2009.

What to expect when you attend the eComXpo? Keynote and classes on all of today’s online relevant topics like blogging and new media. You will also stumble upon top online companies, they avatars and booths on the eComXpo exhibit floor.

And don’t forget! By visiting our booth you may win a full pass for the third edition of the BlogWorld & New Media Expo, next October 15th-17th, in Las Vegas! That is another show that you should definitely check out!

The picture above is the eComXpo virtual floor.

How to Get Product Reviews That Can Drive Traffic And Affiliate Sales to Your Blog

The picture below is of Pineapple Jerky from Jerky.com

Check out our first review on Pineapple Jerky Review on our Camping Stories blog.

Product reviews are hot right now and can help you and the company your reviewing drive traffic and Affiliate Sales if you like the product. Also it will help drive links to the authority page 1 of Search engines like Google. By adding Videos and internet radio,pod casting and Social networking in the mix what will start to emerge is your own media company. Product reviews, affiliate marketing,Press releases, Sponsorships,ad campaigns and more.

How do you get started doing product reviews?

1) Look over your blogs topic see where you can fit in there are plenty of companies who do get the point and learn to harness this new power of the Internet web 2.0

2) When you find your topics and have keywords in mind go to Google and search for the product you want to work and just add review to the end of the search.

3) When you find your topics market reviews then link those products to their companies4) Also you can just Google search on product review for bloggers this should help you find companies who Dig what you do and understand its power.

4) Call their PR or Marketing team introduce your self and your brand. You may have to talk with someone who wants to know more before you talk to the right person. These are the gatekeepers they mostly just don’t get it when it comes to new media. Don’t give up find your way through you to the one who will listen you can do it.

5) Once you got your contacts at the company see what they may have in lines of product reviews.

6) Now You have a product to review be honest don’t think because you are sent something that you have to be nice if the product is unsafe, taste bad or anything else let it be known.

7) Don’t be mean about a bad product be professional about your finds. Work with the company by providing feedback before posting a bad review. If you post a bad review you should let the company know so the can participate so they can grow from the user feedback.

Create good titles keyword rich, Carry major keywords into the post at the start of any paragraph then make it bold this will help spiders find it more easily.

9) Always provide a brief description of any pictures or video you post on your blog. This again helps Google see what’s in Video and Pictures, Also name your pictures with keywords when you first save them to your computer this all helps with Search Engine Strategies.

10) Always find out what the company wants your anchor text to be it is so important that you don’t just put Click here this has no SEO Value at all. It needs to be like Beef Jerky or Pineapple Jerky

to learn more about Search Engine Strategies in our Bloggers School post

EcomXpo is back: Learn eCommerce and Affiliate Marketing for free joining virtually the exhibition

I get so excited every time the eComXpo comes to town.  Well maybe not exactly to town. The eComXpo is a virtual online exhibition that is taking place this year on January 28th and 29th 2009 .

You can register for eComXpo for free and keep yourself so far ahead of the loop. Probably being this far ahead makes others don’t understand what you are talking about. It will catch up. When I had started Blogging no one understood the concept. have I seen a report on CNN Money and then I jumped in starting a few blogs. Shortly after that I learned about the eComXpo so I registered for a free 3 Day keynote and Expo hall where the latest companies were to network.

OK, here is the thing: eComXpo is not a place to bring  your body, but more like a place to let your Avatar run loose. Everyone there is an Avatar.

The eComXpo virtual campus view, where your Avatar can learn and network on the Expo

Exhibition Hall - Visit and interact with exhibitors on the show floor
Presentation Pavilion - View webcasts and presentations
Resource Center – View your digital library to browse content from exhibitors
Lounge - Network with your peers via interactive group chat

During the event companies use video presentations with other way cool stuff, like prizes giveaways. This event will teach you where the market is heading before it full goes there, and this is powerful information. After the full 3 days all the presentations and discussions will remain available in archive format through April 29th 8PM EDT.

I know one thing: after this show you will be hunting down the playback info. But don’t worry, a lot of info is around and you will be fed during event.

The Flip Out Mino HD Challenge And Review

The Flip Out Challenge and review is simple, fun and will help you to create killer content for your visitors and make them become regular readers of your blog.

The original content is King for bloggers who want to do this full time. Maybe you want to be a Citizen Journalist and get nice stories for your own Social Media blog or website.

Today it take very little to get started: an URL, a host and you are off to the races. If this is what you love, then there has never been a better time, so put your game face on get moving. There are plenty of new opportunities opening up.

We have a president that embraces the New Internet Revolution and communications and has just released the White House Blog.

Good luck! Now Flip Out everyday. If you don’t have a Flip yet that’s great because they just came out with the new Flip Mino HD. We have received for review in the mail, and so far I am impressed.

So after you get your new customized Flip Mino HD from The Flip Store with the picture you want on it, do a review or a commercial for your business or brand. YouTube is has more page views than Google each day. Read The Flip Mino HD Camcorder Bloggers School Review.

Check out the new Flip Mino Camcorder Designable

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I was checking out The Flip’s website and learned about this new model that has been just release, The Flip Mino. In this picture you can see a Flip Mino personalized with my picture, Carolina Frederico.

The Flips are already known for being the Bloggers best friends, for being easy to use and make the uploads to the web faster. The new Flip Mino is smaller and thinner and has the same exact performance as the Flip Ultra. The Flip MinoHD, however, has 4GB of internal memory and promisses high-definition quality videos.

The new Minos, the new Bloggers Sweetheart can only be purchased from the Pure Digital Inc. Site and the models are available in black or can be personalized with pictures from your personal archive.