45 Link Building Tips To Help You Promote Your Blog

In an ever changing approach by bloggers to keep up with the Google SERP algorithms, many of us get carried away with our “SEO Techniques.” It’s not a surprise nor a shame, because without this experimentation, we are bound to hit a plateau in progress.

Unquestionably, even here at Blogussion – we try many new things, in combination with the old to help build on the traffic from search engines. Whether it be validating the site using the W3C Markup or just typing a new category-description, Search Engine Optimization is a never-ending process that evolves on a regular basis and it is our duty to keep up with it.

However, in trying new things – we shouldn’t forget that some techniques will never die out and must be practiced as regularly as possible. I would just like to outline 45 tips that will help you build quality back-links to your site, with minimal to no costs!

Quality back-links serve two main purposes. Firstly, it helps crawlers find and locate your site. Once this is accomplished, the search engine crawler goes about indexing your site. The next purpose; back-links help crawlers identify how important your blog really is.

The first purpose obviously only applies to new blogs, but the second one will still be valid even 10 years down the track. These back-links also help the Google Crawler to assign your pages with a Google PageRank. Simply to put, the more authoritative websites that are linked to your site, the more important it is perceived to be.

List of 45. Starts Here.

Getting Links for Writing Content

1. Write content that is useful – Writing resourceful content will always attract links, hands down. If you write an article that is overflowing with useful and resourceful information – people will link to it.

2. Don’t forget trackbacks – This handy feature for WordPress can be great way of returning the compliment for a dedicated link.

3. Remind your readers to link to you – After each posts, just throw in a quick reminder that your article can be socially bookmarked or linked to.

4. Make a Top “X” List – Alex’s post on “100 Lists To Become A Better Blogger” is the most successful post on Blogussion, to-date. This just goes to prove how much people love “lists posts” such as your “Top X [Something]”

5. Debunk a Myth – There’s only one thing better than coming up with an idea, is to prove someone else one wrong. People love opposition and to see a debate bubble up, so don’t be afraid to challenge other people’s opinions.

6. Write with a touch of conspiracy – Just reinforcing tip #5. If you can create that atmosphere of retaliation, it will always raise a few eyebrows.

7. Spread the Love – Dedicate a post or two per week to link to other blogger’s posts that you found useful. More often than not, they will tell their readers “Mr.X linked to my post, how cool!”

8. Trade articles with webmasters – Similar to guest posting, just swap articles with a fellow webmaster.

9. Release a Press Release – This guide shows you how to write + submit a good Press Release.

Freebies/Giveaways for Link-Baiting

10. Hold a contest with an incentive. Contests are great for link-baiting because when people talk about it, there will always be “Check it out here” tagged along with it.

11. Release a free design. If you can make/buy a custom WP-Theme then release it for free to your guests, you can really kick off on a viral market. Just don’t forget the “Designed by [YOUR LINK]”

12. Release a free plugin. This serves a similar purpose as a design, but not so much with a direct back-link. Instead, if your plugin is useful, the incoming links will just grow exponentially.

13. When running a contest, reward your referees that bring the most referrals. This will encourage them to blog about your contest.

Connecting With Communities

14. Become active and post on relevant forums

15. Become active and comment on relevant blogs.

16. Try not to forget your signature on forums, otherwise the whole thing is an epic fail.

17. When commenting on blogs, try to use post URLs instead of just your Blog URL – This can help regulate your links evenly amongst your blog, and not just solely to your front page.

18. DON’T spam communities with your links to your site, offer a reason for them to visit and contribute with a purpose.

19. Submit your blog to directories – These are still helpful when it comes to getting indexed, especially these directories listed here.

20. Search up DoFollow Blogs/Forums – These will carry the most significant back-links.

21. Browse Craigslists and they can provide you with a free or cheap link.

22. Build on your Technorati Profile

23. Become a Sponsor – Whether it be a theme, whole website or a small project; the sponsors always get mentioned.

24. Run for Charity, and request others to help spread the word.

25. DON’T spam. This tip cannot be reinforced enough. A deleted comment will server no purpose.

Directories, Social Bookmarking + Discussion Groups.

26. Write content for Article directories – Publish content for directories such as eZineArticles, GoArticles or iSnare. In the “About Author’s” area, you can leave a link to your website.

27. Build a Squidoo Page – It’s easy and if you have the time to develop it, it can be very authoritative. If you don’t there’s heaps of services out there to help you out.

28. Join Discussions over at Yahoo! Answers – Providing useful answers, along with a link is an easy way to earn a back-link.

29. There’s also Google Groups – It’s almost the same as Yahoo! Answers, but owned by Google.

30. Submit your voice on Digg – First build a solid profile, where you have a network of loyal diggers. If you can hit the Digg front page, you are likely to get linked to by a lot of web-masters.

31. Build on your Twitter profile then link to your site using your “Bio Area.”

32. Tweet about your posts using Twitter, then request retweets from your followers.

33. Offer a “Tweet This Post” link on every post your write, this will make Tweeters easier to tweet about your article.

Direct Link Building

34. Contact your fellow bloggers with a personalized email – asking for an reciprocal link exchange. However, keep this to a minimal and be very selective in who you choose to trade with.

35. Post around on forums asking for reciprocal link exchanges, but yet again be warned on your selection.

36. If you are a part of organizations, clubs or schools – Ask them if they can link to you, because these types of websites are more often than not; authoritative.

37. DON’T ask Darren Rowse, ShoeMoney, Matt Cutts or Yahoo, MSN and Google for back-links. It’s just a waste of time, especially the last three “contacts”

Paid Link Building

38. Buy a Review – Most sites that offer reviews will naturally link to the reviewed product/site.

39. Many webmasters buy links on popular blogs for authority, even though it’s against the Google TOS (Use at your own risk)

40. Rent links from others website – Text-Link-Ads is most likely your best option.

Using Blogussion for Link Building

41 Leave a comment – All our comments are do-follow, so the link you chose as your URL will get link-love automatically.

42. Top Commentators  – As you can see on the sidebar, we use this awesome plugin. Every month, our most contributing members will be rewarded with a link.

43. We use CommentLuv – Every comment you post, will carry a link to your latest blog posts.

44. Link to our posts – We utilize the uses of ‘trackbacks.’ Hence any links to our posts, will automatically be rewarded with a back-link to them! So, Why not share this post with your readers and followers?

45. Buy a Paid Review – We link to our reviewed sites/products.

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Article Marketing Strategy: How To Get The Biggest Return Out of Your Articles

Article marketing is the original form of website promotion that has been around since the dawn of internet marketing. Many people believe that it has lost its effectiveness, but that is simply not the case. It just takes a little more work then it use to.

Article marketing has the ability to drive traffic to your site and boost your search engine rankings at the same time. When done properly each article you write has the potential to drive in hundreds of visitors to your site every day.
The average person will submit one or two articles to one or two article directories and sit back and wait for the traffic to start pouring in, and when that doesn’t happen they give up and dismiss article marketing as an effective marketing strategy.
They don’t get the results they were hoping for because they did not give their articles enough exposure to be effective. When you write an article, you want to get it in front of as many people  as you possibly can so you can generate as much traffic as possible to your website, sales page, opt in page, etc.

Here are the Steps to Explode Your Article Marketing Campaigns

1. Write a great article (350 – 500 words). Don’t just say anything or put down nonsense, really add some value for the reader. You want to build trust and respect in the readers eyes so that they want to hear more from you and become much more responsive to your sales letters.
2. Develop a good author resource box directing traffic back to your site using your target keywords in your links
3. Submit your article to EzineArticles.com for approval (can take up to 2 weeks) then once its approved bookmark it on all the social bookmark sites out there.
4. “Spin” your article so you can submit a unique version to other article directories
5. Submit your uniquely spun versions of the articles to as many article directories as you can find, but not until it is approved and posted on EzineArticles.com. Then, social bookmark those articles as soon as they are approved.
6. Submit a unique version of your article to social media sites like Squidoo.com and Hubpages.com and be sure to include a link back to your site using your target keywords. Then social bookmark them as soon as you get them posted. Notice a pattern here
7. Contact related blog owners and ask if they would like unique content for their blogs and give them a unique version of your article to post and then, yep you guessed it, social bookmark the articles as soon as they are posted.

You are probably thinking that is a lot of steps and must take a lot of time to complete, well your right. If you were to try and do all this manually you would probably never finish. Just manually setting up one account on all the social bookmark sites can take a full day.

But, don’t worry I am going to show you how you can get all this done in a mere fraction of the time it would take to do manually, but first you need to understand why we are going to all this trouble in the first place.

What do you mean by “Spin” my articles and why do I need to do that anyways?

It would be great if you could just write an article and submit it to as many places that would take it. Unfortunately, Google has something called the duplicate content penalty, that penalizes sites that display the same content that is found somewhere else on the web word for word. Many article directories are human moderated and reject articles that are already displayed on another site.

There are two ways around this problem.

• You can write a different article for each article directory you want to submit to.
• Or you can “Spin” your articles so that they are not picked up by the duplicate content filters.

The first solution is extremely time consuming or, expensive if you out source your article writing and is not a practical way of doing it.
The second solution is still somewhat time consuming, but in about the same time it would take to write one brand new article you can literally turn your original article into thousands of unique articles that you can submit all over the web with out fear of the duplicate content filter. That is what Leveraged Internet Marketing is all about, getting more return for less work.
Spinning an article means to rewrite it in a way that it will not trigger the duplicate content filters.

Submit, Submit, Submit
The next step would be to start submitting you unique articles to as many article directories as you possibly can. This can be a painstakingly tedious and long process when done manually and even if you use an article submission software that helps automate the process, you still have to spend hours, day after day, submitting articles.
I would venture to say that you don’t have that kind of time to devote to submitting articles, no one does.




Fortunately There is a Better Way
There are a few good services out there that will submit your articles to thousands of article directories and blogs all over the web, automatically. All you have to do is upload your spun article to their site and they do all the work for you. Asides from them writing your articles for you as well, it doesn’t get much easier than that.

• Unique Article Wizard: Submits articles to primarily article directories, but also to blogs and other sites that request articles from them for content for their sites. They send daily submission reports and weekly search engine index reports so you can keep track of the whole process. Each article I have submitted so far has gone out to 1000+ directories and other sites.
• Article Marketing Automation: Submits articles to only blog and other content sites, no article directories. They offer the same tracking and notification services as UAW. Articles submitted here usually go out to around 500 – 1000 sites.

Why do I use both services? Because by using UAW and AMA together guarantees my articles complete coverage across both the article directories and blog networks maximizing its exposure and my benefit.
On a side note, it is a good idea when using services such as UAW and AMA to set it up so that they submit your article at a frequency of about 50 per day, so that you build back links over time to appear more natural to the search engines.

Bookmark Like Your Business Depends On It. Because it Does
The next thing you need to do is ensure that your articles are found by potential buyers and the search engines.  The easiest way to do this is by social bookmarking your articles across all the social bookmarking sites.
This ensures that your articles will be indexed by the search engines quickly and allow your articles to start ranking for search terms as well as start passing the link juice back to your linked sites within the articles and help it rank for its target keywords even faster.

There are 3 ways this can be done

• Manually sign up for all the social bookmark sites and then manually submit all you articles on all the sites that they appear on. Doing it this way would eat up every last second of your time, every day and just isn’t humanly possible.
• A better alternative to manual submissions is by using the free service at SocialMarker.com which helps to automate the process so you can submit one site across about 60 social bookmark sites in a period of about 15mins. But, you still have to manually sign up for memberships to all the sites and you still have to be involved throughout the entire submission process which still eats up a lot of your time.
• The best way to get all your articles bookmarked is by using an automated submission software. I currently use Bookmarking Demon and love it. This software save hours upon hours of my time. It automates every aspect of the submission process. I can create multiple accounts across about 100 social bookmarking site in a matter of minuets and it has the ability to submit multiple sites at once completely hands free. It also has a built in feature that allows you to bookmark from RSS feeds and randomize the accounts it uses to submit your sites to. This helps keep you from being banned from the bookmarking sites for being a “self promoter” and help your submissions feel more natural.

Well that’s it for now, I hope that this article on getting the most out of your article marketing campaigns was helpful and allows you to kick some article marketing ass,  get more traffic, and make more sales in the process.
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7 Blog Promotion Strategies That Work

I just finished looking at my stats and thought I would show you where my traffic is coming from and what marketing tactic I used to get it.
Below are only the things that produced visitors to my site in the last 48 hours. Nothing theoretical whatsoever.

1) Search Engines
Yesterday was my biggest day yet with this new site platform and the performance is unlike anything I have ever experienced before.
I had more search engine traffic from more phrases in one 48 hour period than ever.
From very nice short tail keywords like “video syndication” to fat long tail phrases like “how to get more friends on myspace.”
And everything in between.
How do I do so well in the engines?
I use the very best publishing system on Planet Earth. Nuff said.
2) Article Syndication
LOL – right? Wrong. Article syndication is still a very powerful traffic driver if you do it properly.
Rather than try to be on every article directory on the web, I go for the most important article directories on the web.
I also write the best content I can on highly relevant, topical, hot issues in my niche.
I do not wirte and syndicate articles for links. I write for traffic. Huge difference most people completely ignore.
I syndicated this article over the weekend and am getting traffic from the following article sites:

• GoArticles.com
• Ezinearticles.com

I will get traffic from many others, but I am only showing you today what happened to drive real targeted traffic in the last 24 hours. (People don’t do this anywhere else that I know of by the way!)
I syndicate my articles exclusively with SubmitYourArticle.com.

3) News Readers
Because I have several feeds to choose from, and a wide range of related topics I publish on, I have feed subscribers on all kinds of readers.
In the last 24 hours I have gotten traffic from people using feed readers from:

• Yahoo
• Google
• Bloglines
• Delicious, and
• different versions of desktop readers like MyWebTop.com.

4) Links
I’ve gotten significant traffic in the last 48 hours from sites such as:

• BradFallon.com
• CreativeBits.org
• WillieCrawford.com
• MichelFortin.com

and many many others.
These are link partnerships or just people pointing to specific posts here and commenting on their blogs.
The better your content, the more people comment and trackback your site. So good content equals good link traffic.
5) TrafficSwarm
I get a good amount of traffic each day from TrafficSwarm, which is no new kid on the block.
I have tested the traffic from this service and opt-in rates are good, meaning the traffic isn’t junk traffic, if you were wondering.
They have a free and paid version. Don’t bother with it on the free level. It is extremely inexpensive traffic compared to Adwords and Co-registration, and there are other benefits of membership aside from direct traffic and subscribers.
6) Video Syndication
I have been doing screen capture blog marketing videos lately and syndicating them on all the free video sharing sites available.
Since I started (I have only done 4 so far) I can attribute top 10 rankings in Google for terms like “blog marketing videos” and many others to this marketing tactic alone.
Since video sharing sites are all popular (none of the sites I syndicate videos to are under PR5, most PR6 or higher) the links are worth a lot and the traffic is great each time I submit a video.
Video syndication will be one of the buzz phrases of 2007. Glad I am in the top 10 for that phrase too!
7) Tagging and Pinging
Or simply posting properly and showing up automatically (and practically instantly) in places like Technorati which track blogs, is a big daily traffic driver.
Right after I post this I will see traffic from Technorati and other sites that I ping.
Kind of encourages me to post regularly knowing every post brings me more traffic and another chance to score in the engines for more keywords.
If you don’t know how this is all done, the best information available on the subject is from Sean Wu.
Again, the above tactics all resulted in real, live, free targeted traffic to the Friday Traffic Report in the last 48 hours.
Thought you’d like to see what is working based on my actual log files rather than more theoretical pieces from people who don’t necessarily use the tactics they push to drive traffic to their own sites.
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