1. Submit your blog to all of the directories listed on
http://pingomatic.com/. Pingomatic will ping 15 services all at
once.

2. Ping your blog after every post at http://pingomatic.com/

3. Here’s a real gem: Submit your blog to
http://www.pingoat.com/ Pingoat will ping over fifty blog ping
services all at once. So you don’t have to hunt for ping
services and manually ping them. Pingoat pings over fifty blog
ping servers (growing) with just one click.

4. Ping your blog after every post at Pingoat at
http://www.pingoat.com/

5. Sign up for a free account at BlogExplosion.com and register
your blog there: http://www.blogexplosion.com/

6. Submit your blog to all of the directores listed at
http://www.rss-feeds-directory.com/blog_lists.html

7. Sign up for a “My Yahoo” at http://my.yahoo.com/ and attach
your blog to your own “My Yahoo” account. This will get your
blog included in Yahoo very quickly. This is worth the effort to
stop what you’re doing right and do it, since Yahoo has a PR 9.

8. Use this code:
“http://add.my.yahoo.com/content?url=http://www.yourblog.com/urbl
og.xml” in your blog to allow others to put your feed on their
own “My Yahoo” account.

9. Sign up for a “My MSN” at http://www.my.msn.com/, and attach
your blog to your own “My MSN” account. This will get your blog
included in MSN very quickly. This is also invaluable because
MSN has a PR 8.

10. Use this code:
“http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&ut=http://www.urblogfee
daddress.com/urblog.xml” in your blog to allow others to put
your feed on their own “My MSN” account.

11. Place the link and description of your blog in your
signature, so that any posts to Forums, Outgoing Emails,
Autoresponder Courses, etc, will promote your blog.

12. Post a link and description of your blog on each of your
sites.

13. Place your blog on all the major search engines. AddMe.com
will submit your blog free to the top 14 Search engines here:
http://www.addme.com/submission.htm

SubmitExpress.com will submit your blog free to the top 20
Search engines here: http://www.submitexpress.com/

14. Use Article Directories as a resource for articles to post
on your blog. Here are a few: http://ezinearticles.com/
http://goarticles.com/ http://www.knowledge-finder.com/
http://www.informit.com/articles/

Also check out Article Marketer at
http://www.articlemarketer.com for a quick and easy way to reach
article directories and ezines.

15. Locate blogs with a lot of traffic and place useful comments
in their comment box. Be sure the blog and your comments are
relavent to both your blog and theirs. Senseless posts won’t
help you, they’ll hurt you.

16. Once you get around 5 to 10 posts on your blog, start a PR
campaign and announce it to all relevant channels.

17. Make a blog post as often as possible. More than once a day
is not really necessary. Remember, if you can’t write that much,
go to step # 14.

If you run one or more web sites, you’ve probably heard it said
many times: “Content is king!” The thinking goes something like
this: if you provide lots of high quality content on your web
pages, it will attract lots of visitors who will buy from you
and spread the word to others. You’ll end up ‘king of the hill’
in your particular niche.

Let’s examine that notion a little more closely. For existing
sites that already have listings in search engines, links on
related sites, directory listings, etc., content is the thing
that brings visitors back for more. If, however, you have a
brand new web site, using a domain name that has not been
previously used, what’s wrong with this picture? Simply put,
it’s this: the best content in the world won’t get you visitors
if people don’t know your site exists.

The Power of Link Popularity

That’s where the equally important power of links comes into the
picture. The web’s foundation is the interlinking of web sites.
Without links, every site would be a tiny island in a huge ocean
that isn’t on any map. At no time is this fact more starkly
evident than when you unveil a new site on a new domain. We’ve
all been there. Not only does your new site get zero traffic,
you can’t even hear crickets chirping - even they don’t know
it’s there!

The solution, of course, is to let people know you’re out there
by building link popularity. What’s ‘link popularity,’ you ask?
It is the sum total of external web pages with links pointing to
your site. This includes all the sites most webmasters target:
search engines, directories, related sites, and unrelated sites.

As your site’s link popularity grows, two great things happen.
First, all those links on other sites begin to drive visitors to
your site. If most of those links are on sites in the same niche
as your own, most of those visitors will be pre-screened. In
other words, they will be people with an interest in your
niche’s subject matter - not random visitors.

Second, link popularity plays a significant role in determining
where your site will rank at the major search engines for
searches related to your site’s theme. As you amass more inbound
links, and depending on the words used in those links, your site
will move up the rankings and you’ll see more and more traffic.
Just as with links on related sites, this ‘organic’ (i.e., free)
search engine traffic will consist of people who are actively
seeking out your site’s information. Those are the visitors you
must have to succeed! Best of all, you get those visitors
without having to pay one penny for them!

The Power of Great Content

Once you have a steady flow of visitors surfing in to your site,
the focus changes to the quality of the content they find there.
Why? Because you want as many of those first-time visitors as
possible to be impressed enough by what they find on your web
site to bookmark it and spread the word to family, friends, and
co-workers. You can’t buy better advertising than word-of-mouth
from trusted sources like that!

Of course, great content will also encourage a higher percentage
of your visitors to buy from you - your products, services, paid
memberships, etc. Put it all together and it’s clear that
excellent content will both make you more money and get your
site more link popularity. It’s like an endless feedback loop
that builds and builds as your site ages.

Why Successful Site Owners Concentrate on Both

But, the key in the beginning, when you’ve got a brand new site
on your hands, is growing link popularity. Get that trickle of
traffic started with those links; then let your great content do
the lion’s share of the work to close the deal.

The growth of your site will constantly revolve around its
dependence on content and links. Those who have made the
comment, “Content is king!” a widely known catch phrase have
really done a disservice to new site owners. A much more
accurate (but less catchy) phrase is this one: “Content and
links share the kingdom.”

© John Schwartz http://www.web-article-w
riter.com (all rights reserved )

No, it’s not a general question for all and sundry. Obviously,
there are many who would want to link to a Home Business or
Affiliate program related website and for good reason. They
would be helping their Page Rank, if that’s important any more
however, more to the point, they would be improving their
chances of a better ranking in the SERPs (Search Engine Results
Pages). But yes, you guessed it, THERE IS A PROVISO. A very
important one, that so many people engaged in reciprocal linking
programs just don’t seem to be able to get their heads around… I
must confess, I have written about this same subject, just on
twelve months ago, I think it was. My experience during the time
since would suggest that I may as well have been writing fairy
stories, for all the good it did. I get, and this is no
exaggeration, at least a dozen requests EVERY day from people
wishing to link with my (currently seven) Home Business or
Affiliate related sites, who have websites that have absolutely
NOTHING in common in any way with either topic, or in the case
of Affiliate content websites I have, nothing to do with the
subject matter or product/s concerned. The majority of these
requests, for some reason, seem to come from
‘poker/casino/gambling’ websites and those concerning
‘travel/holidays’. Why is it that the people requesting these
links don’t understand that they are, in fact, irreparably
damaging their websites and possibly harming their chances of a
decent showing in the SERPs? (Not that all those with these
types of websites practice this type of ‘free for all’ linking).
Why can’t they understand that Google the devisors of the PR and
the Search Engine with whom most are concentrating on scoring a
good ranking, quite clearly explain that “…links from RELEVANT
websites are the only kind of link that is likely to improve
your SE rankings”. They also go on to say that “using any kind
of mass linking program or ‘free for all’ method of linking is
more likely to damage your rankings”. While it’s true that your
PR will probably increase with the amount of ‘raw’ links to your
website, those links that are from websites of non-relevant
topics will NOT serve to improve your ranking in the SERPs.
Where the PR is calculated simply from the number of links, the
algorithm used to come up with the SERPs definitely includes
more complex data including an analysis of the content of the
websites from which incoming links come, not just the text of
the link. The only advantage I know of, that PR alone will give
you is a better chance of obtaining reciprocal links from other
websites. Certainly, a far better way to obtain links is to
publish good quality articles about the topic of your website,
which of course will be picked up, by and large, by websites
looking for good content of the same subject matter. This will
also serve to give you ‘one way’ incoming links, which although
Google don’t appear to mention in their pages, are widely
understood to be of more value than ‘reciprocal links’. Apart
from the reasons I’ve mentioned above, there is also the amount
of work involved in trying to do the right thing by answering
these pointless requests for links. I must say, it’s very
annoying given the time involved, which could be better spent by
all parties doing more constructive things. I have often
lamented the irreparable damage that mass linking programs have
done to many websites. After all, there is virtually no chance
of getting the links that are in place from non-relevant
websites removed. It would be a mammoth task. The types of link
building program that collect links from anyone willing to
complete the form on your website and place your link on theirs,
have turned a number of websites into mini directories, which
certainly won’t help their rankings in the SERPs. My advice to
anyone, either new or an old hand is to join one of the
reciprocal linking co-operatives like Linkmarket.net, in which
you are able to approve links from sites of YOUR choosing and
request links from sites with the same content and subject
matter. After all, links of the same content as your website are
the most likely to interest your visitors and THAT is the
primary basis of linking, to offer worthwhile information and
assistance to your patrons. Incidentally, that’s what Google and
the other SEs are primarily concerned with, sites that are of
value to THEIR patrons and they will only offer you as a choice
if they feel you have the same goal in mind. I’ve been told that
when I do anything designed to improve my rankings, to ask
myself a simple question, “would I do this if there were no
Search Engines?” If the answer is no, then it probably won’t
benefit my visitors and will be a waste of time as far as my SE
rankings are concerned.

Digital Point’s Coop Advertising network is really nothing more
than a large automated link exchange. Originally it was supposed
to be an automated link exchange for webmaster forums running
vBulletin software. How it works is you load code on your pages
which shows links to other sites, and then those sites load code
that shows links to your site. Its all done server side, all
random, so to a visitor or search engine it looks like a hard
coded link on your website.

Digital Point approached me about being one of the inaugural
members way back when. They explained the way it’d work is that
ads would only show on the vbulletin pages for viewing a single
post by itself.. Since viewers rarely if ever view such pages
you wouldn’t be showing yet another ad to the viewers, but
search engines do view such pages and so everyone would get the
benefit of additional backlinks.

The code assigns weight based on things like traffic and Google
PageRank, you can also get weight from referring people. The
higher your weight the more often your ad will be shown. Also,
unlike a standard link exchange, the site you put the links on
does not have to be the same site you promote with your links.
This is an ingenious idea and does make the network more useful
than had it been a standard exchange.

I signed up (it was and is free after all) and it worked well
at first with the small group of less than 10 webmaster forums,
however the network was then opened up to more or less any site
running PHP. Imagine my surprise when checking my backlinks I
saw links from places such as a fishing site. What does website
publishing have to do with fishing? Nothing, so I took the ads
down, and lost a few thousand unrelated backlinks.

We all have our own limits and definitions of what is black hat
and what isn’t, and this is one of those things where you’ll
have to decide for yourself. I personally would not run this on
any site where a Google ban would seriously hurt me. However,
Google has been erratic lately, some sites simply do not rank
well no matter what you do. In these cases you might as well
join the ad network as it’s not like it’ll hurt you in Google
and ad network sites do quite well in Yahoo and MSN, even Google
sometimes.

Yes, make no mistake about it, using this network you can
easily get thousands of links pointing to your website, and that
is going to help you. However TrafficPower, the infamous SEO
company, did something similar with their client’s web pages and
every single one of them was banned from Google eventually. I
believe their system was javascript based and so easier to
detect, but Google has a lot of smart guys working for them and
I’m sure they will be able to build an algorithm to detect and
ban sites using this system. Due to all of the above, my advice
is to use this network at your own risk. I’ve seen some amazing
results produced with this ad network, but in many ways it reeks
of spam, so you will have to decide if a Google ban is worth the
risk.

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Simply put, a reciprocal linking strategy is just exchanging
links with another website to increase both of the website’s PR
rating.

In putting together a reciprocal linking strategy the first
thing that you want to do is look at your list of keywords and
pick out the most general, widely searched keywords that relate
to your site as possible.

For example, if your site was on growing sunflowers, your
keywords would probably be a little more niche specific such as
“growing sunflowers”, “how to grow sunflowers”, “growing
sunflowers in the USA”, and so on.

However, for the purposes of reciprocal linking and finding
prospective sites you can trade links with, you’d also want to
include general keywords that are related to your website such
as “gardening”, or “sunflowers”.

The cumulative list of your specific and general keywords will
be the keywords that you want to use to try and find potential
linking partners.

If you want to see exactly how popular your keywords are (the
number of times that they are searched in a month), or to get
some more keyword ideas, check out the Overture Search
Suggestion Tool (http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
) or Wordtracker ( href="http://our.affiliatetracking.net/wordtracker/a/phase1media"
rel="nofollow">http://www.wordtracker.com).

Both of these websites will show you how often your keywords
have been searched and will also give you a few other ideas for
keywords.

Now, grab your list of keywords and open up your web browser.

Head over to Google and type in “[insert your keyword here]
submit link”.

Be sure to replace the [insert your keyword here] part with your
keyword, and make sure you actually have quotation marks around
the whole phrase you see above. Using quotation marks gives you
more exact search results.

This will bring up a list of pages that are related to your
keyword, where you can submit your website’s url.

Be sure to have the Google Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com/)
installed in your browser to check the site’s PR value.

Now, go ahead and click on the first few sites that come up
under your search term and check the PR value that the Google
Toolbar gives them.

What often happens with a search like this one, is that the
pages returned by the search engine are the actual pages having
a form where you can submit your url to their site.

Now submit your website’s url to these sites, then try other
variations of your Google search such as “keyword submit link”
without the quotation marks, or try something like “keyword
submit a link”.

Once you have added your website’s url to as many sites as you
can at Google, do the same thing at the other major search
engines, such as Yahoo, Msn and so on.

Be sure to keep track of the different sites that you have
submitted your website’s url to.

Now, while this is the cheapest way to get some backlinks, it
can take up quite a bit of your time, and it doesn’t guarantee
that you will be able to find sites with a high PR to submit
your url to.

A much easier and more effective way that I have found to do
this is to use Seo Elite (http://www.newseoelite.com)
. It automates the whole process for you. You can just input
your keywords into the program and it will search the web (using
all of the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN,
AltaVista etc) for websites that you can submit your site to.

When it’s finished, it lists all of the websites by their PR,
and provides a specific link to each website where you can add
your url. Seo Elite (the new version) will even fill in the url
submission form for you automatically.

Many of these sites will want you to provide a link to their
site on your website in exchange for your url being listed on
their site, so you’ll have to build a links page and add their
url to it. If you have Seo Elite, it will build a links page for
you, but if you don’t have Seo Elite, you’ll have to do it by
hand.

So go ahead and do some research and then start putting together
a linking strategy that will blow away your competitors.

Let me tell you a story set in the future which illustrates why
it is essential that any Internet marketer worth his salt will
set up a link exchanging strategy. It may seem a bit ‘out there’
to begin with but I promise it will make sense in the end.

Imagine that 1000 years in the future due to global warming man
has had to leave Earth. With Jupiter being the largest planet it
has been chosen by many to make their new home. If Jupiter were
hollow it could contain over 1000 earths (Google has many uses!)
so land is no problem and people happily settle down in giant
pods to protect them from Jupiter’s elements. Some join their
pods together to form communities others set up in near
isolation.

Due to Jupiter’s high velocity winds flying is too dangerous. To
travel therefore humans have created giant highways that
interconnect the pods first joining the large communities and
then over time the more isolated settlements. People travel
along these highways in their space cars from their communities
to visit pods containing shops, services, leisure facilities
etc.

I hope this you’re still with me it will all make sense
soon!

Within 50 years of colonizing Jupiter there are thousands of
settlements / businesses / leisure facilities connected by these
highways. They have been joined together into a network - much
like the internet is today (see I told you there was a point -
thanks for staying with me so far).

It is in Jupiter’s 55th year as a human habitat that you decide
to set up you business on there. You buy a bit of real estate
that is big enough to build a living pod as well as a shop pod.
Your shop you decide will sell rocket boots. Everything from
rocket boots for work, rocket boots for leisure and rocket boots
for fashion.

You set up your shop (Rocket boots ‘R Us’) and finish it with a
great big neon sign advertising it’s presence on the frontage.
You open up and wait for hoards of people to arrive and buy your
products. Unfortunately very few people come and those who do
seem to have come by accident and leave rather quickly hardly
even looking at your goods let alone buying them. You’re a bit
confused as to why no customers are arriving when you have such
a great set up with great products.

You spend a small fortune on a ‘Jupiter business adviser’ as
business is bad and you need help. The problem is he says that
atmosphere of Jupiter is very gaseous and your business can’t be
seen from more than a Kilometer away. So although highways and
other settlements surround you you are in fact an island that
few people know about. Due to the gaseous atmosphere your shop
is all but invisible and people will whizz along the highways
not even knowing you exist.

The adviser goes through a list of marketing methods that will
bring in customers to your shop. Unfortunately you have used
your last money in hiring the adviser and all these methods cost
money. You tell him you need a way of bringing in customers that
doesn’t cost money.

The adviser pauses for a moment then tells you something that
will go on to change your life.

What you need to do he says is to build some highways between
you and other pods. At the start of each of these superhighways
you can put a bright flashing signpost telling people where the
highway finishes (your shop) along with a short description of
what the destination pod contains. He says that many pod owners
will be happy to build a superhighway connecting your two pods
along with one of the sign posts as long as you put a
corresponding flashing signpost at your end of the highway
advertising their pod.

He says he has a another customer who sells ‘Rocket Boot’ fuel
who would be happy to set up a superhighway between his pod and
yours as the two products you sell obviously complement each
other. He would pick up customers from your customer base and
you from his. He gives you his number.

You give him a call and after a brief chat you both agree to
that setting up a superhighway between your two pods would be
mutually beneficial. Within a week the superhighway is built
along with flashing signposts at each end.

On the first day you get several enquiries from people who when
looking to buy fuel for their rocket boots saw the flashing sign
advertising your Rocket boot shop and decided to check out your
shop before going home. On the second day you get several more
and make a couple of sales. You go on to get at least 10
visitors a day from people who having visited the Rocket boot
fuel shop see the sign to your shop and follow the highway to
check it out. About 20% of these visitors turn into sales.

This gets you thinking if you get 10 visitors a day from one
Rocket boot fuel shop why not set up superhighways with other
shops of the same genre. Looking in you Jupiter directory you
find 150 such shops and make try to make contact with their
owners. Many owners don’t return your call, some do to politely
decline but 22 owners reply saying they think it’s a good idea.
By the end of the month you have gone from 0 superhighways
coming into your pod to 23 and the amount of customers has risen
by 1000%.

Over time you strike up relationships with owners of ‘Rocket
boot Repair’ shops and ‘Rocket boot cleaning’ shops before you
know it you have over 100 superhighways coming into your pod all
bringing customers on a daily basis. As your shop becomes better
known shop owners come to you requesting a superhighway to link
your two pods, some just build a superhighway to your shop
without requesting a flashing sign at your end as your shop has
now got a good reputation and they are keen to be linked to you.

All these incoming highways bring in thousands of customers each
day and it’s not long before you hire more staff to keep up with
demand.

5 years later down the line you have expanded into other fields
buying several more pods and start each venture by linking them
to other pods in the same way. They grow as did your original
rocket boot business

As you sit back one day in your luxury habitat pod bought with
the profits from your several businesses you recall with a smile
the day the business advisor gave you the advice ‘the best way
to bring customers to your pod without paying money is to link
to other pods’.

Ok you might ask if the author of this article is insane - the
purpose of this article is why you must have incoming links to a
website. You may be right on the insanity charge but if I say
from my story :-

The planet of Jupiter is the internet - the WWW

The pods are websites

The superhighways are links between websites

The flashing signposts on the superhighways are the
descriptive anchor text to the links.

Then (hopefully) you will see the futuristic analogy I have just
described.

The simple fact of the matter is that to have a website with
lots of targeted traffic you must set up a reciprocal linking
program. It is the one best way of getting targeted traffic to
your site with no cost except your time. It will also help with
your Search Engine rankings.

If you don’t set up a reciprocal linking program you will either
have to pay a fortune on advertising or like the rocket boot
shop in the beginning get but a few lost soles who will leave
your site as soon as they arrive basically rendering your
website a ghost town.