I haven’t announced the winner to my competition yet but I will. I’ve been a little out of commission lately but I’m back. Today I’m going to be talking a little bit about organic traffic and how much I love it. But first let me talk about..

Social Traffic:

Social traffic is traffic obtained through means of…being social. Think social networking sites like Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, Digg, and more. Some sites are well suited for social traffic while others aren’t. I’m not a fan for actively pursuing social traffic because most of the time you work hard for menial results. Not all of the time, but a lot of the time.

I’d also like to mention that some sites are better suited for social traffic whilst others are not.

What is Organic Traffic?

Organic traffic is a bloggers best friend. In fact – it’s any webmasters best friend. Organic traffic is pretty much traffic that comes from an unpaid listing (search engines or directories). Most of the time we’re talking about search engine traffic though. Organic traffic is free promotion…free traffic which if used correctly can lead to free money.

Why?

If you’re not taking advantage of organic traffic by now then your website is missing out on a lot of traffic – which could also mean you’re missing out on a lot of money. As I said in my ebook Adsense Pirate organic traffic was bringing in around 95% of traffic to one of my main Adsense money makers. I had not promoted the site for one day. So the next question is…

How?

The best way to get organic traffic is through SEO. Search engine optimization. Those are three very important words for any blogger who wants to go far. SEO isn’t as hard as some people make it out to be. It’s a lot easier to start a blog using good SEO practice than it is to convert a blog. Things such as title tags, keywords, and what not you need to pay a lot of attention to. I’m going to do a post on SEO in the future. If you rank high in Google for the keywords your site is based on – and they aren’t crappy keywords of course – then you’ll see some traffic coming your way.

Anyways – I haven’t updated in a while so I thought I would throw this post in just to get your mind wondering. I was looking for World Cup tickets today..meh no good teams left…I’ll wait till the next phase of ticket sales. Anyways – stick around. Stay thirsty – peace.

Anyways – I challenged myself to create a blog in one day a few days ago. Did it in about 8 hours from bottom to top. SEO to content to images – EVERYTHING. It got indexed pretty quickly and today – it actually has more hits than this blog has gotten this week combined. I guess I was just in time. So now my main goal is to climb higher and higher in Google because believe it or not – with all those hits that website is on the second page of Google! That’s driving me nuts and it’s because I was so late to join the race.

The cool thing though is it’s already pulling in a little Adsense revenue. Since I’m on my major money grind I need to continue raising as much money as possible before October. I’m going to give myself a quota to reach and find multiple hustles (that are worth my time) and I’m going to put anyone who reads this blog on. So be sure to subscribe and don’t forget about the contest..Read the last post

So on with it – How To Add A Favicon To Your WordPress Blog in just a few simple steps. It’s not hard at all just follow these steps and you’ll be good to go.

Step 1 – Find the image you’re looking for (your logo, a pic your like, or whatever).  I’m using a pic I got from @Bookerx3‘s website TGTMoney.com

Step 2 – Once you’ve found your image visit http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ – Guess how I found this? I did a Google search for Favicon Maker – I am a f**king genius. Pay me.

Click browse – find the image you want to make your Favicon - and finally click Create Icon.

Download it.

Step 3 – Now you’ve got your Favicon on your computer. Using your FTP software upload the favicon.ico file into your public_html folder. 

Step 4 – Go into your Theme Editor and edit header.php adding this code 

Step 5 - Refresh your browser. Clear your cookies etc.. and it should appear.

Sorry for the lack of pics.

I’m about my online and my offline hustles. You gotta do what it takes to make that money. In one of my other posts I mentioned how people don’t know the value of their own goods – and some people don’t know or are just too lazy to do some basic tech stuff to their iPhones. Well this is where Craigslist and getting on your local hustle comes in.

I recently got an iPhone 3G 16GB off of Craigslist for $375 . Do you know how much they’re going for on eBay? Around $500 to $600 if you jailbreak and unlock it. Thats anywhere from $100 to $200 profit. If you haven’t figured out what I’m getting at already then I don’t know what to tell you. There are many people who don’t know or just want to get rid of their stuff quickly. I know the general concern is - what if somethings wrong with it?

This is just where you have to be smart when you buy. Ask questions (is it still under warranty? How old is it?) – don’t get too excited when you see an unbelieveably low price – and don’t get jumped or jacked either. Heard about the Craigslist killer in Boston yet?

All you need is a little start up capital to buy them, the software to jailbreakand unlock  it, and then the ingenuity to sell them and you’re on your way.

Here’s how to get started:

1. Go to Craigslist.com and choose your City and State.
2. Use the search bar on the left and type in: iPhone
3. Look for steals/deals and give them a call.
4. Meet them up – inspect – and make your decision.

I’m not going to tell you how to jailbreak it here but Google will definitely hook you up with that knowledge or you can always send me an email.

The other hustle I was thinkin’ about getting on is the iPhone unlocking service. It’s really easy once you get the hang of it.

Make sure you know the difference between a 3G and a 2G an 8GB and a 16GB. Do all your research before you spend a dollar so you don’t waste any money.

Why am I so late? Because I had a G1 and wasn’t interested in iPhones at all. I have to admit though – I’m falling in love with them.

*Update – 3GS are also out now too. This hustle is still strong and with the new iPhones coming out this summer it will only pick up.

The video says it a lot better than I could ever say it. I love the way they make their videos. Jazzy music in the background and what not.

Check it out:

I told you I love icons. Know what I love more than icons? Free icons. These are hot free hand drawn icons that I think everyone should have their hands on. Janko from Jankoatwarpspeed.com created these “Handyicons” and I just think they’re amazing.

I’m sure we’ve all heard the saying – it’s the little things that count or make the difference or whatever. He has every icon in this kit I want and more – the only one he’s missing to me is a myspace icon. But who cares.

The set has icons for Facebook, Blinklist, Feedburner, Flickr, FriendFeed, Furl, Gmail, Google, Heart icon, Last FM, Linked IN, Magnolia, Newsvine, PayPal, Skype, Sphinn, Twitter, Vimeo, Yahoo and You Tube icons.

Get Handyicons 1 Here
&
Get Handyicons 2 Here

Janko is the Hustler of the Week even if I am late.

I’m in Austin for soccer today, wish me luck.

I upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1 and all I have to say is it’s better than my girlfriend. No really, it is. If you are scared to upgrade because you think “it needs time” or something, don’t be. I’m normally like that but this time I decided to try it out. And it was definitely worthwhile.

The features are just amazing. My favorite feature is the quick edit (posts) feature. Say you wanted to change the category on a bunch of your posts (like I did yesterday). Instead of opening all the posts one by one, you click quick edit and it opens up some of the setting of your posts such as your post slug, categories, status, date published and more.

It also very easy to navigate WordPress 2.7.1. It comes with easy drop down menus to the left of the dashboard so no more clicking around (even though if you had WP Admin Bar plugin you wouldn’t have to.) 

2.7.1 also comes with a Tools section and they defintiely come in handy. If you use Firefox or IE WP 2.7.1 also support Googles Gears which will help speed things up by storing certain things locally. You can find more about this here http://gears.google.com/. 

Another tool that I love is the built in auto-upgrade unfortunately I have yet to use it but I’m going to check it out one of these days. I still use the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin, but now that I’ve noticed this. Hopefully, I can scrap the plugin. I love the way that they’re slowly making a more and more complete platform. 

Want to UPGRADE but don’t know how?

There’s an easy way and a hard way. I’m only going to show you the easy way. 

1. Follow this link and download and install this plugin – WordPress Automatic Upgrade

2. Activate the Plugin. You should see a link closer to the top of the page that says “Click Here to Automatically Upgrade WordPress to latest Version”

3. Click there and follow the steps.

4. If you have problems visit here. You may need to make certain folder writable.

Better functionality and usability. And of course more secure. It’s the way to go if you have WordPress. Hardly any complaints from me. What do you think about it so far?

I’ve told you all my plans already about writing an E-Book sometime last year. I hadn’t had the chance to settle down and begin writing it until recently. Since it’s my first E-Book I decided not to make too long. I’m looking to write something short, informative, and useful for people who are trying to make a couple extra hundred bucks a month using Google’s Adsense.

So I decided I’m going to go by  My New Years Resolution: The 7-Day Plan. Tell me you’ve tried it before? So far I’m on Day 2 of my 7 days and I’ve written two chapters. The book is coming along well and should be finished within 2-3 weeks. The point is to finish the rough draft within 7 days.

I’m excited about the launch and even if things don’t work out. It’s all about putting yourself out there and giving yourself opportunities. At least I can give it away for free to people as a reference guide to making a couple dollars on the side. Good thing I’m not printing it out because I don’t want it to be used as a substitute for toilet paper

I was reading The University Kids post on how 20% of your time yields 80% of your results. If you think I’m taking more than an hour and a half on a chapter, you’re mistaken. I have a list of goals to complete everyday in order to become a success on the internet and with this blog. I’ll list them out in the future.

7 Days – 7 chapters is the goal. Have you tried the 7 day plan yet?

You’d be surprised what YOU can do in just 7 days.

Do you have more than one Twitter account? I sure do. I have 3, one that I used for my first blog to network with other bloggers of that niche. Another which I used for my business (great fail), and the last one which I use on this website. I have around 450 followers on all 3 accounts combined and I don’t like seeing anything go to waste. I needed an way to use all 3 Twitter accounts at once, and I think I’ve found it.

Splitweet is the name, using multiple Twitter accounts at once is its game. This is probably one of the coolest things my friend Google found for me. The website advertises itself for corporate Twitter users but it doesn’t seem to have a corporate feel at all. When you reach the site you’ll notice that it’s layout is more fun than business. I mean..it’s purple. That really doesn’t matter to me, it’s all about usability.

I found my way around it quite easily. Sign up, log-in, hit manage accounts, add as many Twitter accounts as you like and then start Tweeting. For a second I was worried that I may have the same followers on 2 of my accounts (that would be embarassing) but you can select which accounts you want to Tweet on so it’s works out well.

All I’m saying is – use Splitweet if you need to be on multiple Twitter accounts at once. I guess you can be in two places at once.

Oh yeah – Follow Me

I normally don’t receive presents for Xmas. I normally don’t give presents for Xmas. Am I a Jehovahs Witness? No. Am I stingy? No. I don’t know why, I guess it’s just a mutual agreement between me and my friends, associates, family.. etc. But this year I received probably the coolest gift and I gave it to myself! Bet you can’t guess what it is?

If you guessed CutePDF Writer, you are correct! You’ve just won a million dollars. But really, this is officially THE coolest program on the internet that I have run into lately. If you don’t know already I have some E-Books that I’ve been planning on How to Make Money Online (the ways I do). It’s funny because I planned to make E-Books but had not the slightest idea how to write a PDF file. Cute PDF solved that in literally minutes.

I met up with a good friend of mine, his name is Google. I asked him if he could find me a Free PDF writer, he did. His first search result was actually a website which goes by the name Cute PDF. How Cute PDF works is by taking your word document and pretty much sending it through a machine and converting it into a PDF ready for use.

Using Cute PDF -

To get Cute PDF visit: http://cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/Writer.asp

Install it. Once you’ve installed the program and the converter (it will ask you during setup to install the converter) don’t go looking for the program under your program list, you won’t find it.

Simply open up a word document, type what you need to type, and then go to print. Select PRINTER – and choose Cute PDF – It will then give you an option to save your PDF file and that’s it. You’re done.

New favorite program. Get it!

Btw, the fish is cute too.

(Photo Credit: Tanakawho)