Link Building

I have repeatedly mentioned in this blog that link building is an essential element of blogging. Building more links to your blog does not only lead to a high Google page rank but can also drive more traffic to your blog. For the same reasons, I have been posting link building tips and created lists of dofollows to make your link building convenient.
DOFOLLOW BLOGS - Build more links to your blog by leaving quality comments (not spam) in these dofollow blogs and get quality backlinks. Spamming these blogs will not do you any good.
DOFOLLOW BOOKMARKING SITES - These bookmarking sites are dofollow, which means, by bookmarking your posts using these sites, you will get an inbound link instantly. Choose to display these bookmarking site's button at the bottom of your posts to encourage your readers to bookmark them.
DOFOLLOW SOCIAL MEDIA - If you don't have an account in these dofollow social media, create your profiles now. From your profile, link back to your blog. This is an easy way to get quality a quality backlink.
DOFOLLOW TOP COMMENTATORS - This is a list of blogs that use the top commentator plugin set to dofollow. By becoming a top commentator in these blogs, you'll get quality backlinks. Most of these blogs display the top commentators as a site wide link (link is shown to all the subpages of the blog).
FREE DIRECTORIES WITH HIGH GOOGLE PAGE RANK - If you want to ask me if submitting to directories is a waste of time, certainly NO! Provided of course, that you submit to directories with good quality. Here are some examples of free quality directories. Submit your blog to these Free directories with high Google page rank and get quality backlinks to your blog.
25 LINK BUILDING STRATEGIES - If you are looking for good tips to build more backlinks to your blog, then you might want to check out these 25 link building strategies that will help you build more quality backlinks to your blog.
LINK OPTIMIZATION TIPS - Links that you build are useless or less beneficial if you don't optimize them. Yes, you can do 5 things to optimize the links you build to your blog and make the most out of it.
SEDUCE OTHER BLOGGERS TO LINK TO YOUR BLOG - Isn't if great to just seduce other bloggers into linking to your blog? This makes link building an easier job for every blogger. Here are 9 pointers to help you seduce other bloggers into linking to your blog.
BUILD MORE BACKLINKS WITH PLR ARTICLES - Get more quality inbound links using Public Label Rights articles. Read the post and find out how you can use them to amass huge quality backlinks.
LARGEST LIST OF FREE DIRECTORIES - Are you wondering where I get the list of quality free directories I share on my blog? Check out the largest list of free directories and find out yourself.
EXCESSIVE LINK BUILDING IS �UNSEO� - Does more inbound links to your blog means higher Google page rank? Find out why excessive link building is not necessarily a good idea. This is most certainly going to appeal to lazy webmasters. That's all I've got on link building and search engine optimization. I hope you found the lists of dofollow and link building tips useful. As always, your suggestions and comments are most welcome.

Create Header Online

Using a custom made header or banner for your blog helps in building your brand. But these days, getting a decent header is becoming more expensive. There are designers that offer cheaper options but in most cases, the quality of their work is not good. Alternatively, you can just create your own header and not spend a dime. You just need to be more creative.
The header I'm using right now for TheWeblogZone is the product of my own creativity. It might not be the best header but I'm very proud of it. I didn't pay anything for it, and I think it fits my blog.
There are lots of softwares you can use to create your own banners and header. Photoshop is one of them. But if you want a much simpler tool, I personally recommend the MyTheme.com Tool, the same tool I used to create mine.
MyTheme's tool lets you do a lot of things. The interface is certainly userfriendly and practically anyone can use it. With MyTheme's tool you can:

Edit pictures and videos, adjust colors, resize images etc.
Animate images and add texts.
Add animated texts.
Draw images and do a lot more

Directories With High Google Page Rank

Here's a list of free directories I managed to compile. I was submitting my blog to free directories then I decided to come up with this list and share it with you. Some of the links are directed to the submission page so you just have to fill up the form and hit the sumit button.
In case you're wondering, submitting your blog to free directories will help boost your Google Page Rank. Submitting your blog to directories (free and paid) can also help drive more traffic to your blog. The list of free directories below includes directories with high Google Page Rank and have fast approval time (exluding DMOZ - sometimes it takes a year to get approved there).
List Of Free Directories (google page rank showen in parentheses)
DMOZ - (8)
Jayde - (6)
My Green Corner - (6)
The Living Link - (6)
Can Links - (5)
Search Sight - (5)
Free Website Directory - (5)
Miri Black - (5)
Niche Listings - (5)
Esearch Research - (5)
Master Moz Directory - (5)
Domaining - (5)
Londovor - (5)
The Shoppings - (5)
Ldmstudio Directory - (5)
Directory Dice - (5)
SEO Court - (5)
Publimix Directory - (5)
Arakne Links - (4)
Dir Submission - (4)
Websites Promo Directory - (4)
Environment Page Directory - (4)
Directory Vault - (4)
Little Web Directory - (4)
Directory 365 - (4)
123 Hit Links - (4)
A List Sites - (4)
Sam's Directory - (4)
Creative Agency - (4)
Prolink Directory - (4)
All Link Directory - (4)
Zunch Directory - (4)
One Mission - (4)
Wiki Web - (4)
Xakami Directory - (4)
Anaximander Directory - (4)
Invo Website Link Collection - (4)
Making Money Library - (4)
474 Directory - (4)
Name Directory - (4)
YHAY Directory - (4)
Ask Bee Directory - (4)
Monster Directory - (4)
PakAd Trader - (4)
Treshella - (4)
Dream Submitting Directory - (4)
Exo Spy Directory - (4)
Nick's Year Directory - (4)
Name Directory - (4)
Playground-3 Directory (4)
Seek Ways Directory (4)
Adora Directory (4)
New Web Directory (4)
Effective Project (4)
MXDU Directory (4)
SEO Web Directory (4)
Web Directory (3)
Mergi Directory (3)
Ezweb Tools Directory (3)
King Of The Web (3)
Ilushkin Directory (3)
Infignos Directory (3)
Directory Storm (3)
Directory Link (3)
Skype Media (3)
Directory Global (3)
99 Kat Directory (3)
Red Lava Directory (3)
Link Directory (3)
Promoe Lab Directory (3)
The Help Line (3)
Ipsarion Weblinks (3)
Link Directory (3)
Lite Directory (3)
Midsussex Directory (3)
Yet Another Directory (3)
Business Directory (3)
SEO Executive Directory (3)
NC Directory (3)
Trade In Directory (3)
Rank Back Links (3)
K-Links Directory (3)
Directory Mania (3)
Links Premium (3)
100 Best Online (3)
Web Linker Directory (3)
All Sites Sorted (3)
Link Add URL (3)
Elite Web Directory (3)
Web Calibration (3)
Top Dot Directory (3)
Free Web Directory (3)
Back Link Directory (3)
Gray Directory (3)
All URLs Directory (3)
One Big Index (3)
Clarib Web Directory (3)
Site Directory (3)
Link Book Directory (3)