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Title: Happy Birthday to Me
ASIN: B00KLM77FS
Published by: Changeling Press
Mason Klien, larger-than-life alpha, is just what Maxie needs to make his birthday night special.
Clancy Maxwell is an omega who is unique even to his own sub species. He's far shorter than most of the supposedly more delicate type, but the tiny redhead does not have a submissive bone in his body.
After ditching one a puffed-up alpha, the ex-stripper-turned-business-owner focuses his attention to Mason, an alpha with a small submissive streak.
But this is just a one-night stand... or is it?
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"Excuse me?" Maxie narrowed his eyes as he glared at the alpha, who was slowly but surely digging himself a deeper grave.
"Come on, Clancy." Marco grinned at him, his chocolate-brown eyes gleaming, his tan skin looking like golden sand in the candlelight. "You know I was kidding." He tried to send out enough alpha scent to make Maxie agreeable. Maxie only arched an eyebrow and gave Marco the coldest stare he could muster.
"Look, we're getting off track here, Clancy." Marco leaned in close, pushing aside a six-hundred-dollar bottle of wine he'd insisted they share -- and sent back five times because it wasn't the right temperature. "How about you come back to my place and we, you know, get a little loose." He pushed more scent that only served to make Maxie more irritated.
"Loose, huh?" Maxie asked, his voice all but devoid of emotion. What the hell was this idiot talking about?
"Back in Brazil..."
Marco was dropping places now? God, he had already dropped the names of several Vegas businessmen who really didn't impress Maxie, so now he was moving on to countries? Hell, most of the names he'd dropped were men Maxie had personally set up for private lap dances with his omega dancers. No matter how powerful they were in the real world, once you've seen an alpha trying to keep it in his boxers and not develop an embarrassing uncontrolled knot, there was something a tad less powerful about his name.
"Yes?" Maxie leaned forward. "Brazil?" Maybe he could get a good laugh out of this poor excuse for a birthday pickup. For all the fun he was having, he could have stayed back at his strip club and washed dirty thongs.
"In Brazil, we alphas have a few secrets to help us relax."
"Go on," Maxie urged. Only his strong sense of proper omega etiquette was preventing him from rolling his eyes and walking away from the huge lout.
"I have a guy who brings me -- some fun treats." He grinned and plucked a red rose from the arrangement on the table, reaching out to stroke it over Maxie's face. "That's what you pretty boys like."
Maxie stared at the red roses and wanted to strangle the grabby bastard with his own tie. This alpha was too much to be believed. "No, I don't like to trip the light fantastic, pop a pill, do a line, or pop bottles like it's going out of style." Maxie's left eye was twitching.
"Aw, babe --"
"Clancy," he returned, his patience coming to an end. "My friends call me Maxie. You may call me Clancy."
"Don't cop an attitude with me, omega," Marco growled, narrowing his eyes as he tried to stare Maxie down.
"Copping an attitude requires that I give enough of a shit about you to actually pay attention," Maxie growled, his muscles tensing as he recognized the symptoms of an attack brewing.
Marco was glaring, his respiration increasing, one hand fisting around the wine glass as the other snapped the stem of the rose in half. "You'll fucking care when I'm done with you --"
"You would do well to sit your ass down or get out of my way." Maxie slowly rose to his feet, all systems ready to repel attack. Maxie was no fool. He had dealt with enough alpha assholes during his short-lived modeling career and as a beginning omega dancer to know when things were going to get physical.
Just as the asshole was rising to his feet, Maxie preparing to punch him in the fucking throat, a large, dark hand landed on Marco's shoulder, shoving him back into his seat.
"What seems to be the problem, gentlemen?" a gravelly voice rumbled.
Maxie turned and his mouth dropped open. The sheer scope of the new alpha in front of him stole the words before they formed.
"My date and I --"
Marco's words snapped Maxie out of his shock and right back into the fray. "Oh, I don't think so, jackass. Either you or I are leaving this club, and we won't be leaving together."
Marco narrowed his eyes as Marco turned to face the huge man who was looming over them both. "You know how the little ones get -- wanting attention and all," he clarified to the stranger.
"Little --"
"Oh, I see." The stranger snorted before turning to Maxie. Maxie expected a glib comment about controlling the pushy omega bottom, but the man surprised him. He looked over at Marco and the two exchanged some sort of big man secret eye fuck before he offered a polite smile. "I think you've had enough, and it's time for you to go."
Maxie blinked as he realized that those delicious-sounding words were not directed at him.
"What?" Marco stammered, and tried to rear up, uber-masculine style, but the man merely crossed his arms, his aura enough to knock the toughest of alphas on their ass. Marco stifled his own power play and shrank in on himself when the arms of the man's expertly tailored suit jacket began to strain to confine his biceps. This new male was pushing out alpha pheromones that easily overcame the small scent of defiance Maxie's stupid alpha date had managed to muster.
But Marco was a troll for a good reason. He visibly pushed down his fear and exchanged his blush of embarrassment for one of anger. "This is a private conversation."
"Which is about to lose one of its parties." This new alpha leaned forward and growled... and Maxie felt his spine tingle with a telltale burst of arousal.
Themes: Elves, Dragons & Magical Creatures, Gay, Multicultural & Interracial, Voyeurism and Exhibitionism


Take the time to check Alexa and Google ranking of the sites you plan to launch your campaign on. And, read Google's advice on how not to do guest posts.
While it might be tempting to seek out those blogs that get a lot of traffic and having high search engine rankings and write for as many of them as possible, this isn't necessarily the best approach for driving traffic to your site. Let's say that you sell antique books and you write a guest article for a gardening site and another for a blog geared toward hockey players. Even if, by some miracle, those readers translate into visitors to your blog, the conversion rate is likely to be dismal as a majority of them will not be interested in your product.
Instead, seek out blogs that are related in some way to your nice topic. Going back to the example of antique books, you would be more successful in seeking out high quality blogs on topics like classical books, authors from past eras, history or even just general blogs geared toward those who love to read and collect books.
Some domain extensions are preferred sources of information, such as .org and .edu.
Quality is important. Are the other articles on the site long enough? Are they in-depth on the topic? Are the other guest bloggers experts in their field? Is the content on topic?
Current updates are counted. When was the site last updated?
Are there a lot of ads or affiliate links on the blog? Does it seem spammy? If so, move on to the next choice on the list.
It is also a good idea to check the site's rank. Type in a few keywords and see where it pulls up on Google. Near the top? Then, this site might be a good choice for your blogging campaign. Nowhere in site? Tread with caution.
Another way for you to research up on good and quality sites is to use tools such as Moz's Open Site Explorer tools.
With the Open Site Explorer tool, you can check the domain authority if the site that you want to guest blog and determine whether they are worth considering or not. Some of the metrics that Moz's tool will give include its traffic numbers, the value in links, and page authority.
On general, you want to go for websites with higher numbers (domain authority sites are scaled 0 to 100). Those with higher numbers are much more trustworthy and have a better online presence.
Once you've decided on a website, it's time to choose the right topic and create great content for it.
Before you do anything, it's a good idea to check on the site itself and see what can do to add value to it (i.e. add more info on popular topics, write a new topic that's relevant to their audience, etc.). Doing so will increase your chances of being published with them.
One of the ways you can use to narrow down your topic is to use tools such as Buzzsumo. Using tools such as Buzzsumo is a great way to see what types of content is currently most popular on a website or in general.
Type in the site's URL to look for the most shared content.
Once you've got your topic down, it's time to actually write it.
Write a really good headline: connects emotionally, includes action words, offers benefit to readers.
Put in relevant keyword phrases: When a content ranks well in search engines, it'll drive more traffic to the site. Research on keyword phrases using tools such as Ahrefs and SEMrush.
Put in images: Images are a great way to help underline your points and add some breaks to your text.
Format it correctly: Look at how the site use headings, text bolds, listing, etc. Keep the writing style/formatting as similar as possible to the site you're submitting to increase your chances of being published.
Does the website owner interact on social media and respond to comments from site visitors? How interactive is the site? This might seem like a minor consideration, but with Google ranking social media involvement in their stats, it can mean the difference between a guest post that receives a ton of positive traffic and one that fizzles.
Does the site have a presence on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn (at least one)?
Is this page updated frequently with posts to articles or other bits of news?
Is the social media linked on the blog? Do Twitter posts show up on the page or is there an easy link where visitors can follow on Twitter or like on Facebook?
Are others talking about this site? Are they sharing posts? Is it easy for them to retweet, for example and would they want to?
Sometimes, you will have to guess whether others will want to retweet, but some things that make it more likely are regular and creative Tweets or posts by the site owners. Also, does the site have a newsletter or other easy way to get out news to its followers? If you write a guest post, are they going to announce it to their regular visitors?
When it comes to quality, Google most definitely cares and so will your readers. If you rush through an article, you won't produce as good of a piece as if you take your time and look at all aspects of the topic. You also owe those people allowing you a forum on their blogs a really great piece that is unique and covers something in a fresh way or a more in-depth way.
It is better to write less guest articles, but write high quality articles that you want your site and your own name associated with. These types of articles are more likely to be shared by others on social media and sites like Digg and Reddit. All of these elements can add to your article's success in promoting you and your site.
I truly enjoyed your amazingly fabulous website. I would like to write a guest blog post about a topic for your site. Please let me know when I can send the post about a topic.
The vagueness of these form e-mails is almost insulting. It is obvious that the person has barely visited your site and the longest time she spent on it was to grab your e-mail address to send you this mass message. Most blog owners are tired of irrelevant pitches and won't even bother to respond to such a vague note. Would you?
I saw on your company history page that you started XYZ Company because you believe all parents should have the opportunity to work from home if they would like. I couldn't agree with you more on this topic. This is the very reason I started my blog Mommies at Home, which talks about this very topic.
I see that you cover all types of parenting topics on your blog, but I did not notice an article about juggling dinnertime when you have a project deadline and crying children who are ready to eat now! I would love to write a guest post for you called "Juggling Dinner and Project Deadlines without Burning or Dropping Anything".
You can see samples of my writing at MommiesatHomeBlogGirl.com. Thank you for considering this post for your site. I think your readers will enjoy the topic and it will be helpful to them.
Which letter would you respond to?
Keywords can be a powerful tool for bloggers, but the days of adding numerous keywords anywhere you could are long gone. Use them indiscriminately and it is a sure recipe for an article that is awkward and thus low in quality. Google will also penalize you on ranking if they suspect you are trying to beat the system by filling your article with specific keywords.
Every once in a while, Google clues us into what they are thinking. Sometimes it is by a released statement by one of their algorithm gurus. Other times, we can infer upcoming changes to the Penguin beast by looking at Google's actions. Recently, Google got rid of their tradition keyword tool that webmasters have used for years to search out keywords that will work well in a given article. You could almost hear the wails of despair from SEO experts everywhere.
But, is this a signal to website owners that Google doesn't want them using specific keywords? I believe it is. While keywords will always be somewhat effective because there has to be some focus on specific search terms for the results to be valid for the browser, those keywords should occur more naturally in your writing. For example, as I began to write this article on guest blogging, I did not try to implement specific keywords, but to cover aspects of guest blogging that would be most helpful to the reader. Naturally, certain words will be used and some more than once.
The moral of this story? Research keywords if you must, use them if you wish, but do not be a slave to those particular words.
You might be tempted to write up an article or two and send that article to 15 different websites. After all, getting your article out to that many sites has to be a good thing, right? Not for the site owners and probably not for you. Google will typically recognize the first site that published the article and the others will be seen as copying.
However, this is where Google rules get murky but we know that they penalize for content that is not unique. If a website has too much content that seems to be copied, it will not rank as high. In addition, readers who are looking for unique content a topic may feel spammed by you if your article appears on every site they visit.
Even worse, some readers might think that your words were copied without your permission and file a DMCA Complaint with Google, which can get a site shut down. Or, one of the websites you sent the article too might worry that someone copied the content from their site and file one of these complaints. Just don't do this to other website owners. It is better to write three great, unique articles and post on three sites than to post one article on 10 sites.
Web Hosting Secret Revealed has covered backlinks and debated whether or not they are still important. The consensus among SEO experts seems to be that they are important, but they need to be from high-quality sites and they need to be natural.
Because the links should be natural and link to your site when it makes sense, it isn't a good idea to link back to the material at your own site every other paragraph. Instead, look at what content you have at your site that truly adds to or enhances the article you are writing.
Let's say you write an article about all things Mary Poppins. On your blog is an article about the original Disney movie and who starred in it. You might have the words "The movie Mary Poppins" in your article. Link those words back to your article about the Disney movie. This is assuming that the website you are guest blogging for is okay with a link or two, of course.
Read an article here about Mary Poppins, the movie.
Nix the word "here" from your linking vocabulary.
A good rule of thumb is no more than two links to your own site in a guest post, but you can link to other outside resources as makes sense. So, you might use the Mary Poppins link and then a link to your site in the bio. No need for overkill.
Make sure you have time to interact with a site's readers once your guest post goes up. Most blogs have a feature where you can comment and mark a box to be notified via e-mail when others post or comment on your article. This will allow you to be notified of any activity without having to revisit the page every few days. If a reader posts a comment, always respond. Here are some tips for the best ways to respond.
Thank the reader for her thoughts and add some additional bit of info. This sets you apart as the expert.
If the reader disagrees with you, still thank him for his thoughts and politely and calmly explain why you disagree. Always back up your thoughts with statistics, facts, or personal experience.
Most website owners also appreciate it if you announce your article post on your own social media and in your newsletter. This shows the other blogger that you aren't just trying to piggyback off her traffic but care about the success of her site and that your article brings her visitors. This could lead to another guest blogging gig in the future or she may mention you to other bloggers she knows.
The truth is that you may write a guest post that doesn't bring you any significant traffic or seem to attract a lot of attention from readers. Not every guest blogging campaign is successful. However, if you follow the dos and don'ts outlined in this article, you will have a better chance of succeeding at one of the single best things you can do to reach new customers – guest blogging.
Stick to the basics and follow sound post Penguin SEO principles. At the minimum, you'll have a few high-quality articles out there that are tied into your authorship and look great on Google search pages. On the other hand, just one successful blog campaign can create an influx of traffic to your site and send your conversion rates up.


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