It’s time to step up the evil blogging! Having previously exposed how your MyBlogLog avatar can be used a promotional tool for your site by choosing a marketing-friendly avatar, it’s time to put that avatar to work and get yourself thousands of dollars worth of free advertising on top blogs!!

Yes! Free advertising!

How is this done? With top blogs selling links for well over $300, the situation occurs where every pixel on a site is worth money and many top bloggers are unknowingly giving away free pixels by using the MyBlogLog “Recent Readers” widget to display the avatar of recent visitors.

They see “community building”….I see “evil money making”!

With blogs who display the avatars at full size, you’re actually receiving your own 48 x 48 banner on the site whenever you visit it. With simple links selling for $300 - this colorful, large piece of advertising space could easily be valued at close to a thousand dollars!

Why top bloggers keep it installed is not only due to it’s sense of “community” but because they believe that due to their high traffic levels, the avatars get pushed off the page quickly and don’t present any long-term value to the avatar owner.

Wrong!

How to keep your avatar on their site

To keep your avatar on another blogger’s site indefinitely, all that is required is a little browser extension that automatically refreshes your page. For Firefox, you can use the ReloadEvery extension that has the ability to refresh your browser window every 10 seconds.

By letting the browser continually refresh the page, you are keeping your avatar in the ‘Recent Readers’ widget and effectively giving your site thousands of dollars worth of free advertsing!

I got free advertising!

To illustrate this technique, I installed the extension and visited the blog of one particular A-lister who I find to be rather arrogant and condescending. I set the refresh option to ‘every 30 seconds’ and waited…and waited…and waited a full 24 hours. While it chewed up some of my bandwidth, the result was that my avatar was visible on the site for a full 24 hour period.

I know this blogger charges $300 per month for a single link, so even at those prices I effectively got $10 worth of free advertising. Do it for a month, and you’re getting $300+ value from one site!

Of course, I didn’t get any PageRank from the site, but I did get a fair chunk of his traffic!

Won’t they just ban you?

The blog’s webmaster has the ability to ban your avatar, but if that happens you haven’t really lost anything. These sites have lots of traffic and you’d only be losing 30 seconds of visibility which isn’t worth a lot.

The other downside is that when a user clicks the avatar, it leads to your MyBlogLog community page rather than your site’s homepage. Most of this traffic will continue to your site, but an easy way to compensate for this is to simply promote your domain on your avatar which helps your branding and site recognition.

After creating 15 separate accounts and opening a few browsers, you might even beat me:

You’ll never buy advertising again!

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