Andrew from Raw-Food-Health.net

Andrew has achieved financial freedom at 26 after less than 3 years with SBI. True, he decided to live in Asia where you need less monthly income than in the West to support yourself, but that’s still a remarkable achievement.

Today I woke up to the crowing of a rooster in paradise. An hour later I was running alongside the rice fields of Bali, enjoying the unbelievable views and the friendly farmers who called out good morning, “selamat pagi!” Read more

Most Common Link Exchange Email Mistake

I got an email from Jo who was asking me for a review of his link exchange email and he agreed that I can post our Q&A.

At least I can help with one link – since they’re so darn difficult to get… ;)

Here’s our Q&A:

Jo: I’ve been doing my best on manually trying to get links, by using Yahoo site explorer. So far I haven’t gotten a single reply from the websites I’ve contacted, and although I know you think this is probably normal, I would like to send my template email to you for review just to make sure (you can find it below). Read more

The Key To Gaining Organic Links – It’s Not Only Quality Content!

The sweetest links are organic links. These are the types of links that happen without your direct effort – it simply means that someone has linked to your site or page because they liked it.

If you agree with the above statement, then notice the word LIKE.

Someone must like your site to link to it. Of course, they can simply like the content – it can simply be just very useful like the Wikipedia type of content where there’s mostly massive amounts of text on the page and very few (or none) other elements (pictures, graphics, videos, forms, etc.).

These types of sites do get organic links but they must really have an authority status and be well known to get them.

Most other sites get links from fellow webmasters and bloggers because they like the content AND they like the looks of the site.
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David from Tips4Running.com

David from tips4running.com started his first site 2 years ago and just covered the costs of running the site in the first year.

Now, he is focused on becoming free. He will undoubtedly succeed since I’ve gotten to know his work ethic and optimism through the project on which we work together…

The allure of the internet. For me, it’s all about trying to earn my freedom.

Two years ago, I started up my first site running tips at tips4running.com.  In early November, I started on my second site reviewing radiant floor heat at radiantheatreviewer.com.  Below is my journey over the past two years on the internet. Read more