To increase blog traffic, has become the “need of the hour” for each and every person who is looking forward to make a full time income on Internet. You can find many opportunities to earn dollars online and most of these opportunities, in fact all, require nonstop traffic to your blog or website.

It takes long time to learn from different sources, how to get traffic for your blog. But today, I will share with you 10 different ways to increase traffic on your blogs. I can guarantee if you will follow these simple ways, they will bring enormous amount of traffic and perhaps will increase your earnings.

1. Write Unique Content: Unique content is the key to success in today’s blogging world. No one can stop your blog from getting on the top of the search engines and driving traffic like anything, if you spend an hour writing one thoughtful, and original post that is relevant to your target readers. Post regularly, if possible try to write 3-5 posts every week. But remember there are already other bloggers who write on same subjects that you do. So, use catchy titles and write original posts that will add to your blog content and your blog can never be ignored by the search engine spiders.

2. Thoughtful Comment: Don’t forget to spend some time and effort in finding other blogs that are related to your blog subjects. Leave some thoughtful comments to their posts and try to add some humor in your comment because people love humorous content. If appropriate, link back to your posts and with this you can gain some popularity on different blogs.

3. Use of Social Networking Sites: To get some exposure you can submit your post or content to Digg and Propeller and add their buttons on your blog post. If your post is beneficial for the readers such as guide articles, it will surely fit into the top 10 lists. Once you submit your content on these websites and if people like it they will digg or vote for your content. If you can manage to receive 100 votes within a day, your content will get to the homepage and on Netscape if you get 50-70 votes within a few hours, your content might hit the homepage. This is the easiest way to drive traffic on your blog for free. You could also use niche specific social media sites, which could bring in more visitors without much pain.

4. Do You Stumble: Another great way to get huge traffic to your website is “StumbleUpon”. There is plug-in that you can install in your Mozilla Firefox. There are unlimited numbers of people who use stumble plug-in to browse through their favorite websites. There are many blogs who get over 100,000 visits in a week to a single blog post with the help of StumbleUpon. All you need to do is pay a specific amount of fees to the StumbleUpon website and they will add your website in their software. Whenever people will select any topic related to your blog subject, your site will appear on their screen when they stumble.

5. Conduct Contests: Contests are something that many bloggers have been using to get free web traffic for years. You can come up with a prize or many prizes that would attract blog readers. Everything depends on the prize you offer, if it is useful for people you will definitely be able to get a lot of traffic. You can ask your readers to post a comment to win the prize or review your contest post in a creative manner on their blogs. To advertise your contest, try and post threads on different forums to spread the news.

6. Offer Free Stuffs: Visitors love to get free stuff. This is one of the best opportunities to make a good impression on your visitors. You can give away free stuff like software, a domain name, free review on your blog for 1 or 2 days, some gifts like T-shirts with a logo of your blog, play station or bags etc. Make sure that you mention all the guidelines of giving away the free stuff properly on your blog, so that there is no confusion.

7. Invite Guest Blogging: Inviting well known bloggers can contribute to your blog’s growth. You can ask a well known personality in your subject to contribute something on your blog like a comment or review. You will not only flatter the blogger by acknowledging their value but you will also guarantee yourself a link or joining hands with a brand can earn you readers.

8. Theme Updates: Keep changing the look of your blog every month. This will invite visitors to check your blog’s new look every month. They will look forward for new design of your blog and if it’s good and attractive, your blog can become famous.

9. Controversy: Writing something controversial can bring a lot of traffic. Although it can create negative impact among few readers because everyone has different opinions but still it works.

10. Don’t Quit: Never stop promoting your blog even when you are not in your blogosphere. You can add your blog’s link to your e-mail signature and business cards. Keep talking about your blog in offline conversations as well.

Whatever you do, do it in a way that you are making a million dollars, each and everything takes time, so does your online venture. Consider this as your destiny and be patient enough to walk through the initial phase or the initial failure because after this phase your blog future would be full of colors.

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Link building is the process of getting good quality websites to link to your website for improving search engine rankings. This can be done by reciprocal links, being listed in e-zines, search engines and directories. There are two types of link building, in-house and through outsourcing. In the present times the search marketing industry is transcending into a new era in which they are considering bringing up the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in-house rather than outsource it to a third -party.

In-house link building is all about explaining and educating your internal management system about link building’s concept and for support and further link buildings as link building is a tedious and exasperating task and you need to set aside a specific daily routine to get a good website link to your page or website. There are many advantages of SEO in-house as it makes Search marketing a top priority and thus ROI gains much more importance.

Your own people have much more insight about the company and its products than any third party does. Another thing to be noticed is this, that outsource parties are more concentrated on the traffic rather than the quality of the traffic. Some more of the combined advantages are long term cost savings (you don’t have to pay the expense for the third party) and long term conversion/revenue improvement and have course expertise available on hand for all stages of the online marketing projects. An in-house SEO expert familiarizes you all the in-house technologies and business couture. It helps you to execute the best recommendations for your business needs in the SEO terms, which have the least amount of hard work and the largest SEO impact.

However, in-house link building in a way also depends on the company and the scale of its crusade. Search marketing is divided into two parts. First, is Paid Search marketing and second is Natural Search Marketing. When the search campaigns are handled by the in-house, a vendor is appointed for the bidding part in both the cases. They are usually hired for more manpower utilization with the bigger sites. Therefore, this is good option for the companies when going for SEO.

Then we have outsourcing which does have its own advantages in this sector. Many companies rely on this third party for good links and ranks for their website. The prime cause as to why outsourcing has deep rooted its hold on SEO industry is its industry experts who give away quality links to your content and site.

There is a reduction in the cost of infrastructure and time saved as you can deliberate on other jobs while the experts of the outsourcing company do their job for you. Getting your site into a good outsourcing company saves your headache to work on the frustrating link building and the cost is worth the effort. Your link popularity will gain gold in a few days for sure, as you are paying the third party for it!

Advantages of Outsourced link building are that they provide you links based on your themes and from relevant industries as they examine your site or page. They know the good SEO friendly places, which will be beneficial for your site and spontaneous. They also take good care in Reciprocal link Building (if required for your site or page) which is a good example of symbiotic system. You have to put the link of the website which is putting your link in their website.

In all ways, their sole work is quality link provision and they know the turns and tricks in the trade. Therefore, if they are responsibly taking your site’s job, they will search and examine all new vistas to give good work to you so you keep coming back to them for more. As for the outsourcing companies, once you win the trust of your clients, they will become regular and the traffic for your appointments will increase.

So, who wins it? Both the resources have their goods and bads. It really depends on you and the SEO Company for the type of work you want to do or require and the situations aloft.

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Plagiarism-as the name itself signifies.it is a great platform the seo`s to compete in the market field,As we all know SEO services are used to promote the popularity of one`s creativity.In today`s ambiance where everything is so competitive ,one cannot think of lagging behind,once you have got an idea-sit down write it on a piece of paper get it published,use the SEO services to promote your article-see the increase of popularity .

The SEO services can prove beneficial for the plagiarism policy in the following manner :-

1. The initial concept or the idea should be pure.
2. It should provide some benefit to the social community.
3. There should be continuous feedback from the viewers worldwide through the internet/comments should always be acknowledged .
4. There should also be regular discussions over the article,so that it should be well within the reach of others too.
5. Discrepancy should be avoided,although the graphs or figure might be imported,the research work can also be taken into consideration.
6. The use of social community sites make the article popular well enough for the person to remain on top of other creators who may be having a similar kind of idea.

Thus following the above process.I think that it is very easy for a person at entry level to reach the top in much shorter span of time.Also the SEO services will put him ahead of several of the ones having similar kind of ideas.

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A latest announcement from the Google Webmaster Central Blog tells us that Google bots can now fill the HTML forms according to their algo and crawl the HTML forms.

More about it here..

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Today morning I logged on to my Digg account only to find that MrBabyMan the #1 Digger and Zaibatsu the #2 Digger had their accounts swapped. Looking first I found it really confusing, MrBabyMan showing name of Zaibatsu and his profile picture and Zaibatsu displaying his.

This is MrBabyMan’s profile:

This is Zaibatsu’s profile:

Then I dugg more and found this post, and a comment on Zaibatsu’s profile..

In a buyout of epic social media proportions Mrbabyman and Zaibatsu have transferred accounts on digg. Quoting Zaibatsu: “I get free Disneyland tickets for life!”

Hmm…pretty interesting!

I don’t know what the reason behind this would be, I really loved this prank!

Happy April Fool’s Day!

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One of the things which we’re experimenting over here at SEO MegaCorp News Blog is starting a SEO questions section. I keep getting questions in SEO through emails, instant messenger and via phone. Today I’m replying to a question asked by Mr. Ravi Ranjan Singh about country specific SEO.

Q. How can I rank my site in my country?
A. Getting ranked in a country domain requires the following things.

1. Physical Address: Putting a physical address on your site will help search engines know where you live and give preference on that domain (like www.google.co.in/search?q=seo+expert).

2. Using Google Maps: Address and listing it on Google Maps. Put your site on Google maps, this specifies your location.

3. Country Specific TLD: Get a country specific TLD. Like get an Indian domain name .in if you want to rank better on www.google.co.in

4. Country Specific Hosting: Try to find out where your server is located and if it’s not located in your own country, try to get hosting from there. Like get a hosting from India to do good on www.google.co.in

5. Country Specific Links: Try to get links from other sites with the country specific TLD. Preferably from within your field!

I invite you to share your thoughts on this.

PS: Support me on the seocontest2008.

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Blogging is ascending and becoming popular these days. It is general issue that most of the articles on blogger relations only focus on tendency to treat bloggers like traditional media, and also a focus on tactical pitches or initiatives. It is not a right approach, also a due to the bad media relations trend where hits matter more than relationships.

Blogs are becoming more important sources of information and competition for bloggers time and attention against mainstream media. So it is very important thing to make a healthy relationship between the bloggers.

I am starting here with the comment of Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion.com who provided some useful comments on a recent pitch he received from a PR person acting on behalf of a software company.

When pitching a blogger, however, the stakes are much higher. Someone can easily cut, copy and paste your email into a blog post and put it up on the Web lickity split - like I just did. Although not everyone will be as nice as I was in cloaking the identity of a pitch’s author. The lesson here is that the rules of engaging citizen journalists are in some ways similar to working with the pros, yet vastly different.

Well friends I am starting with defining the blogger relationship and then I will discuss some principles here to make a good healthy relationship between bloggers.

Blogger relationship is the relationship between people, customers involved which are influenced by blogging in any specific industry. Bloggers relationship is build in relative industry bloggers, An industry falls in a community of the peoples which has target to a common purpose so a better relationship may be formed. As example the blogger of search marketing may make a better relationship to the blogger involved in same community, If he wants to make relation with stock market blogger then he can not survive it for long time. Related communities may also establish better relationships as search marketing, internet marketing, link building, social media bloggers may form better relationship between them.

1. Know the art of relationship:
If you have better knowledge about industry then you will definitely make better relation to others. But here only knowledge not counts, for making more strong relationship to others you must to be transparent, honest, and trustworthy, and do not treat your fellow blogger as your competitor.

You have not the “right” to pitch bloggers, so really think about it before you approach any blogger. Read his blog, analyze it’s relevancy, collect other involvement of blogger, Know his social presence. Then go for pitch him. No one likes to sold “to” or marketed “at”; each person needs to hear things differently, so think about that.

When you go for conversation to others then it is expected that you from PR field. So, you must have good PR skills. You must know what to talk, how to talk and how to manage impression. This is about doing PR in the Long Tail so that you can develop more meaningful relationships that have a more significant impact on the brand, business, and customers service (the perennial Quality vs. Quantity question). Change your thinking about about PR in terms of pitches and audience. Pitches and audience is dead now.

2. Reach to bloggers through Social Media and Promote them also:
Social media sites is a good platform for establishing a good relationship. Every member on social media sites wants to make him/her reputation, if you help them and appreciate them on social places then they will never ignore you.

Help them on social sites by submitting and sharing their posts, articles and appreciate them by your comments on social sites such as Digg, Reddit and Stumbleupon.

Next Idea for appreciating them is link to their activities, posts, articles, sites. If you do so then they respect you and believe in you. Comment on their content before reaching to others, share you ideas to do make better than they are doing.

3. Social tools are best way to contact bloggers:
Prefer the mode of contact that blogger wants. It may not be contacting him/her by email, prefer social his/her social profiles to contact them as Facebook, Yahoo Mash, LinkedIn. It will show them that they are popular in social places and they will also able to see your social profile on these social media sites. They will be much familiar to you by this way than contacting by email.

4. Creativity attracts everyone:
Creativity is the jewel in PR and business. A different thinking can profit you more if it involve some knowledge based research. Here you have to attract the blogger and members of your community. So, think different than others and create some different thing which may distinguish you from the huge crowd.
Show your creativity in making Videos, Podcasts and social bookmakings this will minimize your work effort in your industry.

Create some short, innovative and creative video demos and introduction. If you will make specific videos for the people you want to reach they will automatically come to you. Invite bloggers to co-host any event, invite them as a guest for your organized fest, interview them or call them on such as BlogTalkradio. Think differently and create some useful thing for the bloggers. Bookmarking may also help you here if you bookmark such content which are useful to bloggers on Stumbleupon and del.ico.us.

5. Look for helping peoples:

You can know about the users who are talking about your company, your industry, about you and your competition from the Google Alerts. Blogpulse tells you about the blog and bloggers who has strong authority in relevant field so, make you update with Blogpulse and also go for discovering blogs on Technorati for your keyword.

6. Read and listen your favorite blogger and blogs:
Read the blog of your favorite bloggers of your industry, and also comment on their update news and articles. Reach to their blog roll and know that why they are linking their blogs or why they give them space in their blog roll. Subscribe to their feeds and be updated yourself for their blogs.

7. Six C’s of blogger relationship:

Concept:You must know about the thing what is your and other blogger plans to achieve their targets. Provide them your help for achieve their target and appreciate their work.
Context: Your context must be so that the bloggers for whom you are looking
can understand that how they can be relevant to your work.
Consumption: Create a package that makes it easy for bloggers to write their story.
Credibility: Become an expert of your field which will make you credible.
Community: Join the relative community and discuss your new ideas with others and hear the ideas of others too.
Conversation: You are not invited to the conversation as a marketer. This is about people, so be articulate, responsive, honest, smart, and resourceful.

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There is no shortcut to success. At least that is what most of the people around us believe. Well, I would say that instant success is not that arduous in Search Engine Marketing. Quality link building is very important for Search Engine Rankings. Focus on obtaining links from high value websites such as authority, relevant, and industry leading websites. I do agree that getting good quality links from relevant sites can be very irksome but here are a few tips that can do wonders to your search engine rankings!

1. Contextual Links:
Contextual links are the links that are present in between the article or post. Any link surrounded by text is a contextual link. Such links are more valuable than the links that are not included within the text. Providing contextual links on your site makes these links perceivable. Create posts relevant to the content of your site. You may write articles on your blogs related to the content of your site and include your links within. You can also buy a few links from good blogs. For higher rankings emphasize more on high quality links rather than quantity. The links must be topically relevant. Having many links is of no use if the links are not relevant. While searching for a particular keyword and clicking on a link leads to a completely irrelevant site, it would irritate the user and this could do in numerous harm to your site’s ranking.

2. High PageRank Links:
A link from a high PageRank site gets a high rank itself. A PageRank is a standard of popularity to make your site visible on the web. High PageRank sites have the power to bequeath PageRank to sites they link to. Try to get links from high PageRank sites. You could do this by providing some value on your site like some link worthy content, etc. Quality is more important than quantity. Instead of having many links from a low PR site, it is better to have a few links of high PR sites. One link on a PR 5 site is more valuable than 5 links on a PR 4 site. Getting links from a site having high Page Rank on Google would axiomatically draw higher rankings for your site.

3. Site Wide Links are UGLY!
Site Wide provides links to your site on all pages of the site you are taking site wide links from. This creates same anchor text on all pages. The site wide links can be easily discovered by the major search engines and this would have a inopportune effects on your ranking.

Site wide links may not always be detrimental. If your site already has plenty of links and you take non-keyword site wide links from a site with lesser number of pages and hence links, it would not improve your rankings but it would increase the number of links you have.

On the other hand, if you are a newbie and your site does not have many links, site wide links are an absolute NO!

Say if ‘site M’ has 100 links and 50 pages indexed on Google and ‘site P’ has 1700 links and 200 pages indexed on Google, now, if ‘site P’ gets a site wide link from ‘site M’ it would have effect shown on its rankings but if we consider the opposite case when ‘site M’ takes site wide links from ‘site P’ it would have ruinous effects on the site’s ranking. Your site may even be flagged for having unnatural links. As your site would be getting hundreds of links in no time. This filter of Google is called “Too many links at once!”

4. Reciprocal Links are DEAD!
Reciprocal links are the link swaps when two sites link to each other. I link your site to mine and in turn you link my site to yours, this is how reciprocal links are created.

Reciprocal links are no longer useful for increasing your Search Engine Rankings. The major search engines such as Google do not apprize such links and you could be castigated for doing so.

Instead, you can try three way links. If A links to B, B links to C and C links to A, none have ‘link-backs’ or reciprocal links and therefore if a search engine scrutinizes your links it would find only one-way links.

5. Links from Authority Sites:
Undeniably relevant sites are the best, but high authority sites are also worth a look. Authority sites are the government sites or educational sites or sites that have been trusted by Google. These are high PR sites. Getting links from such sites is highly consequential.

If the content on your site is found relevant and interesting and worth discussing by some authority site, it will link back to you. Such links play a major role in improving your Rankings. One link from a ‘.gov’ site is more esteemed than many links from low trusted commercial sites.

If your site has links from authority sites, while ranking the sites the Search Engines will acknowledge the relevance of the content of your site and this would inevitably result in higher rankings for your site.

Slower, The Better:
Well begun is half done. If you are a beginner, do not try to create too many links at once. Try to make your growth look natural. Natural links are more efficacious than paid links.

If your blog post are enriched in content and a blogger finds it interesting and links back to your site, you will get topically relevant and natural links.

When ranking sites, major search engines take into account the number and quality of sites that link to you. With opulent number of natural links you can leapfrog your Search Engine Rankings.

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Articles are contents which cover any topic of any specific industry. Everyone knows the power of article in blogging and in the Internet industry. A poor article has a short life but an awesome article may cause link rain and traffic for your site/blog. But you should know that how to make clouds of link from you writing skill. In next some paragraph I will discuss about what should an article must contain for attracting the attention of people and for link love.

An article is formed by the several elements and they have their specific importance. These elements are:

1. Title
2. Introduction
3. Body
4. Conclusion

These are the constructive parts of any good article so, if you will take attention on these elements and tackle as important segments then you can write a catching article.

Write a potential title for your article:
Titles are very important in any article. They must be so written that they must attract the readers. It must have some characteristics which are must needed for a killer title.

Make your titles Strong and attractive. They must able to show whole picture of article in the mind of readers. Implicit in the title should be the reason why your audience should read your article. Think of your article as a tangible object. What statement would you put in a newspaper if you were trying to sell this object? Your title should be formed in the same way. Your title must be written after thinking about the thing “Who is your audience? What would they need to hear to make them want to read your writing?” A bold statement or claim is a good way to get your audience’s attention.

Make your title simple and clear. Titles that are too long, no matter how witty and clever, get passed over. When a reader skims through a list of titles and sees a bunch of long ones, and one shorter one, which one do you think they will read first? Laziness is human nature. We are attracted, at least initially, to the easy way, the shorter title. Shorter titles that are direct and to the point, they catch the attention of readers but long titles are not much bad because they explains whole the topic.

And lastly, use tricks. Put part of your title in bold. Italicize things you want to stand out. Make your title look different than all the others. Don’t be afraid of exclamation points. Whatever you can do to draw attention to your title, will make reader’s take notice.

Good article titles are not only attract your readers but also attract the users of social media sites. You can see here How to make killer title for digg. Follow these suggestions, and any others you can think of to make your titles more attractive. The better the title, the more interest you will attract and the more people who will read your writing.

Introduce the readers about your article:
Firstly must write a brief description about the topic under which your article is to be written. Provide a brief history of your topic and explain how it relates the current article.

Write a first sentence that draws in readers. Write introduction such a manner that it include asking a question, using a quote or stating an amazing fact. Write one or two sentences that answer the questions who, what, when, where, why and how. Consider a final sentence to sum up your article. Revise the paragraph. You may want to play with word choice and order to make it as readable as possible.

After the title and the introduction your 40% work will be over for writing a beautiful post and next thing is article body. You must pay attention on some rules of article body writing. Which are discussed in some next paragraphs.

Article Body: Mirror of your writing skill
Best practice in article writing is the short and decorative sentences. Do not loose control over the sentences. Always take them in limited length, which make it easy to understand. Easily understanding articles are more liked by everyone. This will make your article memorable to others.

Next step in your article writing is linking skill. Linking to others article may be beneficial in many ways.Your article resourcefulness not depend on the length of article, but depend on your linking strategy. As much links you will provide in your articles to the related articles of others your article will be so resource full.

Don’t create seriousness in the article. Always show calmness in your article and maintain a continuous flow. Putting some humor in article writing may make your article more interesting. Then never loose humor inside the article. Use the simplest possible word and sentence structure it will be helpful for you in writing killer blog posts.

Where ever you are providing list in your article then must bullet the points, use table or images for showing list.

Use of images in your article may helpful to attract the attention of the readers and make it ready for effective linkbait. Interesting images may cause stickiness in your article. A good humorous image may made your article more popular. So, if possible must use images in the article.

Conclusion section also important:
It is generally one paragraph for concluding the above discussions you made in your article. It might be many paragraphs or even pages long depending on the how long your discussion made in the article. Conclusion section provide the sense of closure and completeness. That the interest or question “opened” by the introduction has now been “closed” by the body of the paper. The concluding paragraph makes it clear how this is true, and uses some way of indicating completeness of the writing.

Write the conclusion which contain such content that must prove your title is significant. It is highly unusual to introduce new ideas, new arguments, or new evidence in the conclusion. Frequently, a conclusion will connect to the introduction by answering questions raised there, or through writing devices such as returning to a story or anecdote used in the introduction. In all cases, the purpose is to release the reader from the act of reading and return the reader to the world with some sense of having gained something from reading.

Additional Tips
There are some tips which are helpful in editing your article to make it more attractive.

1. Read the whole article loudly before pressing publish button, it will show where fluency is breaking and where sentences are unusual.
2. Conduct spell check and grammar check before publishing the article.
3. Nothing is more daunting to a reader than a dense block of text. Add some breathing room with white space between paragraphs, bold subheads and (where appropriate) bullet points.
4. Make sure that paragraphs must be not longer and must not contain same information in above paragraph. Each paragraph must contain some differentiating content than above.

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There are several places where your need for links may be fulfilled. One another thing you look at these places that they must provide you quality links. And if you are looking for links then this post may be useful for you.

I think there are many places where you can get quality links, but you should know where you can find them. Power of links is known to everyone. Links very important in SEO and at many other places, and an effective link building strategy is compulsory to beat your competitors. In the market place of link I recently hear about TNX.net, which is outstanding source of quality links. They have one of the best sources to get links from.

TNX.net has combination of both beneficial blog reviews and links on content pages make them a real deal. Contextual links are the most effective links which are helpful and responsible for your better rank rather than your competitors, but only one thing you should know how to deal with it. With the recent Google penalty on paid reviews, people are not interested in paid reviews these days because of Google penalty over paid reviews.And if any one has to review
any other site then they must use nofollow tag, which are not able to benefit the link love you desired. TNX.net provide you in-content links, contextual links which will improve your rankings. On TNX You can register in two categories, for Bloggers and Advertisers. Bloggers could make a healthy sum of money with the help of TNX. There is main advantage for advertisers is that the price of links are reasonable on the basis of your benefit because
of the ability to promote hundreds of keywords with just few clicks. You can find some of other advantages on the homepage of the TNX.net.

They are starting so offering free links. Resister now and experience the power of good quality links. Join their affiliate program and boost up your earnings too.

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