Sometimes saying things like they should be doesn’t get the same effect as saying them how they shouldn’t be. Here goes a list to avoid getting links to your blog:

1. Leave comments in blogs about how nice is your blog and ask readers to pay a visit (try to leave more than one comment in various posts).

2. Send emails to other bloggers with depersonalized and generic text asking for links to your blog. The more bloggers get your email and the uglier your message, the better.

3. If you sent an email asking for links, be sure to send it more than once until you get a response. Don’t get lazy!

4. Post irrelevant comments in forums using a signature full of links to your blogs, saying things like “Very Nice!” or “Well Done!”.

5. Make sure your blog is full of ads and spam so nobody could read anything.

6. Make sure not to post more than one or two posts before start asking for links. Watch out! if you happen to post original and useful content, you could be linked!

7. Search for blogs that cover topics your blog doesn’t. For example, if your blog talks about your doggie, search for marketing blogs and ask them for links.

8. Create as many blogs as you can using free services and fill them all with links to your site. That way, if a blogger thinks about giving you a link, let him do a Technorati search and find out what your real intentions are.

9. If all of the above doesn’t work, become a spammer. If you are lucky enough, you could get arrested and extradited to a nice and warm country and spend some time in jail, or just be hated by the blogosphere.

There are many different blogs posting about how to find a blog niche. They are all quite right for carving blog niches that are persistent in time but most of them lack some factors when dealing with time limited niches.

Time persistent blog niches and time limited blog niches

We can distinguish two types of niche to carve for our blog:

Time persistent niches: Time persistent niches are those in which the topic is constant in time and aren’t tied to fashion, technologies, etc. Examples of these niches are personal blogs or news blogs where topics are the same or handle a variety of topics to maintain the blog alive.

Time limited niches: In these type of niches, time is a crucial factor, as it will determinate the lifetime of our blog. One example coming to my mind is an hipotetical blog about Germany 2006 World championship. After the tournament is finished, probably nobody would be interested in this blog. Other examples are game console blogs or celebrities blogs.

Google Sandbox and time limited niches

With new rules about SEO imposed lately by Google, to get a good positioning on SERP’s we need to rethink de concept of carving a niche for our blog.

Let’s take the example mentioned earlier in this post, the Germany 2006 Soccer World Championship. Suppose I start today a blog about this topic, probably a high paying one (perhaps not in USA, but it does in Europe for example), 6 months ahead the start of the tournament. I’ve got plenty of material to write many posts per day, everyday. A few months later I would have a good bunch of written pages with (mostly) original content. Nevertheless this blog probable won’t be successful at all.

Measuring the time for a blog growth.

Which is the cause of such failure to achieve success? If we recall the sandbox effect can last from 3 o 4 months to a full year, we should have been started our blog at least 12 months before the tournament, in order to get out of the sandbox and be able to have good ranking. The World Championship lasts one month so our blog probably won’t get many visits after the end of it.

This example shows how important is to consider the needed time to develop a blog niche. Whaever is news today probably won’t be tomorrow so we have to take into account these factors when carving for our next blog niche.

I decided to open this new section to be able to publish some of the posts I find original and useful to both english speaking and spanish speaking bloggers. Enough introduction.

The first post relates to a Syndrome called G.A.S.S. According to the official Adsense Blog:

Speaking to AdSense publishers at face-to-face events and in reading emails and forums, we on the AdSense team have seen a phenomenon develop that’s probably best described as G.A.S.S. – Google AdSense Stats Syndrome. The primary sign of affliction is the compulsive need to check AdSense stats every 15 minutes or so to see how much you’ve earned since your prior login. Sufferers face strong withdrawal when separated from a PC with Internet access and have been known to experience mild abdominal discomfort and general irritability.

I came up with a list of many other syndromes apart from G.A.S.S. I’m having because of Adsense:

• Adsense Blindness – I tend to avoid clicking Adsense Ads unconsciously because of the mental block I developed to avoid clicking my own ads. I believe webmasters are a lousy audience in terms of Adsense.
• The What-if-someone-clicked-from-this-IP-before syndrome This is a strange case I’ve seen develop recently and not everybody is vulnerable. Most cases are found between those who use a corporate-proxy fixed IP, dialup, public PCs or even hotspots. What if someone who used the same IP just minutes before is a great fan of your blog and a compulsive ad clicker, and after this fellow you login into your Adsense account only to see “Oh, sorry, same IP, you are cheating!”, whatif ?, WHAT IF??

I found these two affecting myself recently but I’m sure as your incomes grow new fears appear. What are your Syndromes?

Here there will be posts that might be as useful for english-speaking readers as spanish readers.