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mj: I"ll provide this for you, naturally way of building backlinks is the best, I"ll do that for you.
PR 7 - 3
PR 6 - 5
PR 5 - 5
Total = 13
Delivery one week.

The big question is "how"? Blog commenting is a dead technique, if that's what you're looking at.

Only guest posting is cutting it presently as far as getting QUALITY backlinks is concerned.

OP, you'll do yourself a lot of good by adhering strictly to all the pieces of advice you've been given so far.

OP, welldone.
But I can provide you with evidences that ALL your tips can't rank a website on number 1 within 2 weeks.
If you'd like it, let's perform a 2-week experiment. Let's set up a new blog and do everything you listed. And we'll see if it gets to number 1 in 2 weeks.
OP, all these tips are dead. Check out the blogs and websites ranking tops for most keywords, how many of your tips are they obsessing over. I can only agree with backlink building, but not through blog commenting. Commenting is dead!

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I stand to be disagreed with.

[b]1. If you're still using the ..com domain rather than a more professional .com one (Don't tell me LIB is on a . Linda was just lucky. Besides, she had a very brilliant idea and she started well before most Nigerians knew what blogging was all about. And FYI, Linda Ikeji doesn't own that blog. It belongs to Google, and Google can do anything they like with it - anytime.)

If you're targeting an international audience, know this: most people don't click on ..com links because there's a general impression of unprofessionalism about them

2. If you're blogging about entertainment news and gossip. This niche is already saturated, especially in Nigeria, and you'll never beat the likes of Nairaland, LIB, and other monster sites to it. So, simply choose another niche you have interest in. There are loads of other less competitive niches.

3. If you think you can run a serious blogging career without spending a dime. Well, if you're a web designer, a very good writer, and you have lots of free time, you'll spend much less. But you'll still need money for hosting, domain registration, etc.

4. If you've been copying and pasting content onto your blog, expecting Google to rank you for such stolen content.

5. If you started blogging out of desperation to make cool cash simply because you've heard that NL and LIB are money spinners.

6. If you think you can just publish some posts, then fold your arms, and watch traffic increase and advertisers coming to you. (You're such a joker).

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ace1: Depends on how you use it bro. WordPress is more than just a blogging platform now

Please learn to read between lines. I wrote "more suitable for blogging", not "suitable only for blogging."

Well, I'll recommend the "Constructor" theme. It's very easy to customise to suit your taste. And you don't need to be code-savvy to customize it.

COUNTAWO: Do you understand what real estate means?

FYI, I've written blog posts on real estate for American clients. So, I'm very familiar with the topic.
I'm only asking if you want to run a blog (as in publish posts on a frequent basis) or you want to design a static website.
If I may ask, do you understand Wordpress? Do you know it's more suitable for blogging?

Well, the choice of a theme depends on the intended content.
Do you intend publishing articles (blog posts) on it, or you're building just a static website.

COUNTAWO: Hello webmasters, please I need a real estate theme that I can install on wordpress.
It is needed urgently.

Just the installation and I will pay you - - - - once you instal.

I will do the editing. I dont want any signature on the footer.
Thanks.

Do you mean a theme that would work fine for a real estate blog, or there's a them named "real estate"?

Afam4eva: Are we supposed to guess the the name of the blog and the url?

I've modified the post by adding the URL. Thanks for the observation. I left it out by mistake.

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Thanks.

Hello, I just sent you a text from 08187***069

The simple fact is that most bloggers are desperate for quick results and are therefore not patient enough to apply the right tactics.

Even "SEO experts" are no longer getting it right these days. All the shortcut, automated strategies are no longer fooling Google.

Only natural, real, and high quality tactics are now working.

1. Frequent publishing of high quality content (longer posts of 1000+ words are doing better in Google these days)

2. Guest posting (ignore this one and you'll die of failure!)

3. Optimizing your posts for ultra-specific, long tail keywords.

If you're persistent in these 3 for just six months, you'll start generating tons of traffic, and you'll start making huge profits from your blog. It's a guarantee!

Yeah. I agree with you, OP, that most SEO strategies that worked like crazy in the past are now dead.

Google is getting smarter by the day, and no longer are there shortcuts to Google's top ranks.

Content marketing remains the only strategy for long-term SEO and traffic generation benefits.

Unfortunately, most bloggers are still running after blog commenting, social bookmarking sites, forum profile links, and stuffing posts with keywords.

Others are buying tons of useless Twitter followers and Facebook fans, thinking they can convert them into traffic. This tactic was never alive. It has always been dead.

The only strategies that are working for SEO and quality traffic on today's internet include the following:

1. High quality content (not crappy 300-word posts). Not content copied from other sites.
2. Guest posting
3. Submitting articles to high quality directories (not the likes of Ezinearticles and goarticles)
4. Optimizing your posts for long tail keywords

Here are things you must avoid:
-Link exchange
-Buying backlinks
-Publishing copied content
-Targeting competitive keywords
-etc. (I just can't exhaust the list here).

Elance all the way. But what services do you intend rendering on these sites?

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She's talking out of confidence that they'll rig.

GEJ's talking out of confidence that he'll rig.

Anyone - young or old - with the needed qualities should be chosen.
What I hate to hear is people's clamour nowadays for younger people.
Responsibility - in politics - doesn't hinge on age.
Even the young ones have disappointed and performed woefully (Etteh, Bankole, Akunyili, etc.)
So, anyone with integrity should be chosen, irregardless of age. But that person, I just can't recommend.

Stu.pid governor! He sent a letter to the speaker, informing him of his decision to "proceed on leave".
See blatant lie.

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Lol! That's one of the reasons why I hate working for Nigerian clients (I'm a freelance writer, BTW).

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OP, let me start by advising you that free autoresponders are not good, for 2 reasons:
1. They run adverts in your mails
2. They have very low deliverability (i.e. most of your emails will end in your recipients' junk/bulk/spam folder)

Secondly, if you opt for a free autoresponder, you may be unable to import your list if you later decide to opt for the reliable and professional ones like Getresponse, Aweber, and Mailchimp.

Oh, I just remembered this: Mailchimp has a free plan that allows you to send 12000 mails to 2000 subscribers per month. So if you have up to 2000 subscribers, you can send them 6 emails each.

But if you want something larger, and you still insist on the absolutely free ones, just Google the words, "free autoresponder service" and you'll get loads of them.