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.

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)

Boosting Search engine rankings with SEO

If you have a blog and you are ready to start increasing traffic to your site, you need to start focusing on search engine optimization.
Make sure to develop your website with proper search engine optimization techniques. Any cheats will be caught and your blog will be penalized.
Here are a few good on-page optimization SEO tips.
Properly formatted Meta Tags - Your sites meta tags, including your title tag, description tag, and keywords tag, are important for classifying your website and communicating to the major search engines the content of each page. Although meta tags are not as important as they once were, they are used for many purposes including how your listing appears in search engine results
Focus on keyword density - If you are trying to optimize your site for a keyword or key phrase, you need to concentrate on your keyword density. Keyword density is the percentage of your keywords on a particular web page. Keyword density should range between 2 and 8%. To determine your keyword density on a given page, divide the number of times your keyword appears by the total word count of the respective page.
Good page formatting - Search engines seem to love emphasis on keywords. You can identify your keywords with tags such as title tags, h1, h2, etc., and properly formatted text. Using bold, italicize, and underline in your keywords at least once on the page you are trying to optimize will help as well.
Be persistent- By applying SEO (search engine optimization) techniques on a regular basis, you will improve your search engine placements.
SEO Tools to Help You Make Progress In Your SEO Efforts:


* Keyword density and word depth calculator
* Link Popularity Check
* Search Engine Saturation

Submitting your blog to Technoratti

Technorati is a popular search engine for blogs. The site scours the web to find the most popular and relevant blogs.
To submit your blog to Technorati, first join the site for free. Once you confirm your email address, you will enter your blog URL to claim it. After you do that, you will then need to add code to your site which allows Technorati to verify your blog. Once that is done, your blog will be claimed and added to the Technorati index.
Two other free places to submit your blog:

Blogz
Read A Blog

Forum Posting

These days, there are online forums about almost anything. And a great way to drive traffic to your blog is through becoming active in a relevant forum.

The first thing you must do is find a forum that is directly relevant to your blog. After signing up to become a member, look for posts whereby you can add valueable insight or information. Make sure you add a signature, which includes a link to your blog. This way, each time you reply to a forum topic, your blog and link will be shown for free. This can get you traffic and also it can help increase your popularity in the search engines eyes.

Another way to take advantage of forums is to get hired from another website or blog to get paid to make forum postings for them. You can usually negotiate a rate whereby you get paid per forum post.

How to estimate a blogs traffic

There are several ways to estimate how much traffic a blog gets. Here are some free tools that will help you estimate how much traffic any given blog or website gets:
1) Compete.com - Go to this site, enter the blogs URL, and click on get site analytics. You will then see a chart with a monthly unique visitor estimate. Do keep in mind that this is just an estimate.
2) Alexa - Go to this site, and click on traffic rankings in top nav bar. Then, enter the domain name and click search. Then click get traffic details under the URL. This will give you the Alexa traffic rank. Basically, Alexa ranks every page on the web. For example, Google is ranked 2, Cnn.com is ranked 50th, and millions of other sites are ranked based on traffic. You may find you site to be in the top 100,000 or the top 1 million. Again, this tool is just an estimate, and not a guarantee.
3) trafficestimate.com - Go to this site, enter the URL, and click on Estimate. This will give you the estimated visits over the past 30 days. Again, use this tool only as an estimate

Generating Free Website Traffic

If you have a website I am sure you already know that a website with no traffic does no good at all. To begin generating income from your website you are going to need a steady flow of site traffic.
If you do not have a budget for advertising what are your options? Actually you have many! There are ways to generate free traffic to your website.
Since you can find good free advertising, all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the perseverance to do hard work and do a lot of research to generate traffic for your site. Free advertising does take time and also takes patience and the willingness to work. But, if you need the exposure, what do you have to lose?
Today I want to talk about a few ways I have used for years to generate free traffic to my websites…
Exchanging Links:
Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.
A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche as the other site. For example, if you have a candle website exchanging links with a dog bakery is not going to help you very much. You want to make sure any links you exchange are with a site that has a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.
Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results, but you must make sure you exchange links with relevant and quality sites.
Traffic Exchange:
In a traffic exchange, you earn credits via visiting websites in a given network. You can then use those credits to place your website into the given network, which thus would increase traffic to your site. There are also banner exchanges, whereby you place banner ads on your site and earn credits each time the banner gets viewed. You can then use those credits to have your banner ad displayed on other websites.
Traffic Swarm is a popular traffic exchange website.
Write Articles:
There are many e-zines and online article directories that accept articles. Webmasters use the articles submitted on their websites and newsletters.
You should write articles that are themed similar to the niche of your website. Write something that you have expertise on so that when the users read your article, they can see your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to visit to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site is about.
Include a resource box at the end of your article, which you can use to publish your link which will help with traffic and your search engine rankings.
Here is an article that talks more about article marketing
Create a Newsletter:
This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name published within your newsletter.
As your newsletter gets passed around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that may regularly visit your website.
To get subscribers to your newsletter, offer a discount for all new subscribers or some kind of goodie to excite people to join.
Join Online Communities and Forums:
You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche within your site.
At the end of each post you make on a forum, you can list your website as a link in your signature. This way, each time someone reads one of your posts on a community or forum, they will also see a link to your website.
Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are within the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by users.

When it comes to getting free advertising, you have nothing to lose at all! Take some time on day and check out these resources!

Free Traffic plus a professional review for your blog

Are you looking for some advice for your blog? Do you need some traffic? or Quality Backlinks? I have here an tip for you. All you have to do is find forums/websites/blogs which offer free website reviews. You can ask them if your blog is good enough for a review.

A free review can give you free traffic to your blog. No one will ever find your blog without traffic building techniques applied to your site, no matter how good the content, layout, color scheme or the product is.

A free website review can also be a good source of quality backlinks. Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or webpage.

For a free website review; you should contact other blog and website owners to see if they'd be willing to write about your website or blog. If the website owner thinks that your blog can be a resource to thier users, they may be willing to write about your blog. Make sure you don't get discourage if some website owners decline you, as eventually, you should be able to find some websites and blogs to give you a review. And, of course, the more helpful your blog is, the better chance that it will get reviewed by other sites.

How to Increase Blog Traffic for Free

Learn how to get more readers and promote a website by using social networking sites, directories, newsletters as well as creating a user friendly blog.

With blogs now being so easy to set up there are so many competing for attention. Alongside good quality content, certain free methods can increase readership when used effectively. Promotion is a skill and knowing how to use the web in a way to increase traffic can create a successful website.

Create a Reader Friendly Website

Make it easy for blog visitors to bookmark and link to the website in their browser. Use easy to read fonts and ensure the background is not distracting, a professional looking design is important to create a good image. Easy navigation means a reader is likely to read more and recommend the site to others, so ensure content is organised and simple to find. Highlight the most popular posts, and use good keywords in post titles to get more traffic via Google. Use Google Analytics to identify where traffic is coming from to understand which traffic-increasing methods are successful.

Social Networking to Build Reader Relations

Sites like Facebook, MyBlogLog and Twitter are powerful tools in generating interest in a blog. Blog posts should be linked immediately on Facebook and Twitter and this gives people a chance to comment on the post and have the opportunity to discuss it with the blog owner. Facebook Fan pages are a good way to generate publicity and inbuilt forums are useful in creating a community of readers. Submit posts to multiple social bookmarking sites using OnlyWire. It is important for visitors to be able to submit a blog post to social bookmarking sites.

Posting in Related Forums

Posting in a forum is a good way to attract readers to a blog. This tends to work best when a relationship is first built with targeted users and trust is built. It is best to visit forums in a related niche. Keep the blog URL in the signature line of each post to increase web site traffic quickly. Often people in forums do not seek out information and ask questions so be sure to answer questions when possible. Making friends in a forum is likely to lead to more regular blog readers.

Send Out Email Newsletters

Creating an email list means subscribers can be informed about the blog and any offers. Many find email is an invaluable way of building a relationship with readers and some bloggers use it as a way to get feedback to further improve their blogs.Email is one of his most effective ways of promoting his products. Reply to any questions from readers by email and try to be as helpful as possible to gain their interest.

Promote the Blog Everywhere

Answering questions on forums and Yahoo Answers related to the niche with a link to a blog post that answers the question. Attract readers by commenting on other people's posts, and often the most effective way is to make friends that are interested in a similar topic. Word of mouth is very effective, so tell friends and family about the blog and encourage them to tell others. Here are some other ways of promoting the blog:

• Publish videos on YouTube with the blog URL at the beginning and end of the video.
• Put the blog URL on everything from business cards, to mailing labels.
• Join writing sites such as Hubpages and Squidoo and post links to the blog from articles.
• Provide Wikipedia articles with any relevant links to the blog.
• Submit the site to free website review sites such as Cool Site of the Day.
• Ensure that the post title and URL is submitted to blog directories such as BlogCatalog.
• Participating in blog carnivals is a good way of getting publicity.

Increasing traffic to a website or blog involves getting attention and developing a relationship with readers whether via social networking, forums or directories. The key is strong content with good keywords and links- and then making sure that people can find the content via search engines and directories.Visit here to know few more

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4 Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic

 One of the most common complaints that I hear from bloggers is the fact that no matter how hard they try, they can’t grow their blogs past 100 or so daily page vies. Those early days are indeed the hardest, because you need to put hard work in without the certainty of achieving results.
If you are in that same situation, here is a simple strategy that will certainly increase your blog traffic and make you break the 1,000 daily page views mark. In fact, the strategy could be used even if your are already over that number but have reached a traffic plateau lately.
Just make sure to execute the 4 steps as planned and to spend the two hours and a half every day (obviously if you have more time available you can expand the time spent on each of the four steps proportionally).

First Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day)

Spend one hour brainstorming, researching and writing killer articles (also called linkbaits, pillar articles and so on).
Notice that your goal is to release one killer article every week. If that is not possible aim for one every 15 days. So the one hour that you will spend every day will be dedicated to the same piece. In other words, expect killers articles to take from 5 up to 10 hours of work.
If you are not familiar with the term, a killer article is nothing more than a long and structured article that has the goal of delivering a huge amount of value to potential visitors. If you have a web design blog, for example, you could write an article with “100 Free Resources for Designers”. Here are some ideas for killer articles:

• create a giant list of resources,
• write a detailed tutorial teaching people how to do something,
• find a solution for a common problem in your niche and write about it, or
• write a deep analysis on a topic where people have only talked superficially

When visitors come across your killer article, you want them to have the following reaction: “Holy crap! This is awesome. I better bookmark it. Heck, I better even mention this on my site and on my Twitter account, to let my readers and friends know about it.”

Second Step: Networking (30 minutes per day)

Networking is essential, especially when you are just getting started. The 30 minutes that you will dedicate to it every day could be split among:

• commenting on other blogs in your niche,
• linking to the posts of bloggers in your niche, and
• interacting with the bloggers in your niche via email, IM or Twitter.

Remember that your goal is to build genuine relationships, so don’t approach people just because you think they can help to promote your blog. Approach them because you respect their work and because you think the two of you could grow together.

Third Step: Promotion (30 minutes per day)

The first activity here is the promotion of your killer articles. Whenever you publish one of them, you should push it in any way you can. Examples include:

• letting the people in your network know about it (don’t beg for a link though),
• letting bloggers and webmasters in relevant niches know about it,
• getting some friends to submit the article to social bookmarking sites,
• getting some friends to Twitter the article, and
• posting about the article in online forums and/or newsgroups.

If there is time left, spend it with search engine optimization, social media marketing and activities to promote your blog as whole. Those can range from keyword research to promoting your blog on Facebook and guest blogging.

Fourth Step: Normal Posts (30 minutes per day)

Just like a man does not live by bread alone, a blog does not live by killer articles alone. Normal posts are the ones that you will publish routinely in your blog, between the killer articles. For example, you could publish a killer article every Monday and normal posts from Tuesday through Friday. Here are some ideas for normal posts:

• a post linking to an article on another blog and containing your opinion about it
• a post informing your readers about a news in your niche
• a post asking a question to your readers and aiming to initiate a discussion
• a post highlighting a new resource or trick that you discovered and that would be useful to your readers

While killers articles are essential to promote your blog and bring new readers aboard, normal posts are the ones that will create diversity in your content and keep your readers engaged.Visit here to find more

Thanks to dailyblogtips.com