Search Engine Optimization

If you can build more backlinks to your blog by leaving comments on Dofollow Blogs, you can also get more backlinks by submitting your posts to dofollow social bookmarking sites. Here are some reasons why you should try using dofollow social bookmarking sites.

• Most social bookmarking sites have high Google page rank. Think of the Google juice you’re getting.
• Social bookmarking sites are frequently crawled by search engines. If your post got bookmarked with a dofollow social bookmarking site, the index rate of that page will be faster.
• Drive more traffic to your blog. Social bookmarking sites have thousands of users. If your post is good enough to catch their users’ attention and interest, you’ll certainly get a spike in your traffic. Just make sure you have enough bandwidth to accommodate the huge traffic though.
• Social bookmarking sites are free. That’s free promotion and free advertisement.
• A large number of popular social bookmarking sites are actually “Dofollow”.

Bookmarking Tips

Before we go to the list of dofollow social bookmarking sites, here are some useful tips that will help you maximize the SEO benefits of submitting your posts.

1. Install social bookmark buttons or links at the end of you posts. : It would be better and more credible if your readers submit your post to social bookmarking sites instead of you doing it. Providing them with bookmarking buttons at the end of your posts makes it more convenient for them to bookmark your post.
2. Use catchy and keyword rich titles. : You need to use a cathy title to attract more visitors to your blog. This doesn’t mean you have to resort to making attractive titles for the sole purpose of generating more traffic. You have to remember that other than pleasing humans, you also need to please the search engines. In most cases, the title you’ve used for a post you submitted becomes the anchor text. Hence, using keyword rich titles improves your search engine ranking while at the same time increases your backlinks.
3. Make sure to include a summary of your post. : Most social bookmarking sites require you to provide a summary of the post your are bookmarking. When you do this, avoid doing the mistake of copying the first few sentences of your post and pasting it in the summary. As much as possible, make a new summary. Use relevant keywords or keyphrases in your summary.
4. Make sure to use tags when available. : When submitting your post to social bookmarking sites, include relevant tags. This will help improve the search engine visibility of the post you’ve submitted. Ultimately, this would mean more traffic for your blog.

Dofollow Social Bookmarking Sites

Now that you’re ready, here are some useful list of dofollow social bookmarking sites. Submitting your post to social bookmarking sites is not an easy job but when your posts are interesting and useful enough, naturally, your readers should be doing the work for you.

• 9 Dofollow Social Bookmarking Sites - Compiled by SEJ
• 22 Dofollow Social Bookmarking Sites - Compiled by Caroline Middlebrook
• 24 Dofollow Social Bookmarking Sites - Compiled by Reviewer of Sites
• Ultimate Dofollow Lists - Compiled by Pixelrage

That’s it for today. You should be able to get more backlinks to your blog by submitting your best posts to the lists of dofollow social bookmarking sites.

You need to be careful when submitting your own posts. Some bookmarking sites are keen on spammers. If you get caught for submitting too many of your posts to the same bookmarking site in a day, your blog can get banned. It is always safe to submit one post a day!

Thank you for your time and as always, your comments are most welcome.

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As promised, here’s another blogging tip that will help you increase the number of backlinks to your blog. You may read building backlinks to your blog in case you missed the first tip to be able to understand the importance of building more backlinks and what it can do for you. Continue reading if you’re ready for another blogging tip that will help you increase the number of backlinks to your blog.

Dofollow And Nofollow Blogs

The Blogosphere has two kinds of blogs; Dofollow and Nofollow blogs.

Nofollow Blogs are blogs that implement a nofollow attribute to their external links (rel=”nofollow”). This is usually implemented on the links in their comments, which prevent search engines from crawling the website they are linking to. As a result, you don’t get any link juice from leaving your comments on them.

Nofollow attribute in comment is used by most blogging platform (i.e. Wordpress and Blogger) by default. This is done in an attempt to curb the number of spammers.

Dofollow Blogs on the other hand are blogs that don’t implement the nofollow attribute in their external links, which means to say that leaving your comments and reactions on their posts will reward you with a backlink.

How To Know Whether A Link Is Dofollow?

If you would like to get more backlinks to your blog while you leave your comments, you should comment on dofollow blogs. But how do you know whether links in the comment of a blog are made dofollow?

The first thing you can do is to view the page source of a particular page. Look at how links in the comments are coded. A nofollow link has the “nofollow” attribute in it and it looks like any of these:

<a rel=”nofollow” href=”External Link”>Anchor Text</a> or
<a rel=”external nofollow” href=”External Link”>Anchor Text</a>

The other method is to use Mozilla Firefox as your internet explorer and download and install the Search Status Plugin. The Search Status Plugin will enable you to quickly check on the Alexa Traffic Rank and Google Page Rank of every webpage you view.

Using your mouse, right click on the “Q” icon found just before the Google page rank and choose “Highlight Nofollow Link”. All Nofollow links of every webpage you view will be highlighted in pink. For a more detailed information, you can read my previous post on Search Status Plugin.

The Easier Way - Dofollow Blog Lists And Dofollow Search Engines

Of course there’s always an easier way. That’s to use existing compiled lists of dofollow blogs or use custom made search engines.

1. Dofollow Blog Directory
2. Bumpzee - Dofollow Blogs
3. D-List Blogs

You can also use blog search engines that will find dofollow blogs for you. All you need to do is use a search term (keywords or keyphrases) and it will return you with a list of dofollow blogs.

1. Dofollow Driver
2. Dofollow Blog Search
3. Digerati Blog Search

Keep in mind that SPAMMING is not good for your blog. Don’t waste your time spamming because there’s a good chance that your comment will never see the light. Instead, comment on relevant blogs and add something of value to the post/discussion.

What are you waiting for? Go ahead and try the lists above and start building more backlinks to your blog. Like always, your comments are most welcome. Thank you for your time.

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Backlink, otherwise known as external link, is a link to your website from another site. This is important to your website for three reasons:

1. Backlinks improve your Google page rank.
2. Backlinks improve your ranking on search engine result page.
3. Backlinks drive more traffic to your website.

For the month of June, I will be blogging on building more backlinks to your website. I will be sharing the tips and tricks I have used and have found effective in generating more backlinks. To kick things off, I’ll be sharing one of the easiest methods I’ve been using over the course of my blogging career.

Article Directories And Link Building

You probably read somewhere else that submitting articles to article directories is an effective link building strategy, especially when you submit your articles to highly indexed and highly ranked article directory sites. Doing this however, is time consuming because you need to spend a considerable amount of your time to make several articles for submission. Then you have to painstakingly submit your articles to as many article directories as possible.

What makes the entire process even harder is the need to avoid getting penalized by Google for duplicate content. In other words, if you use one article and submit it to as much article directories as possible without rewriting it, you’re risking yourself from being penalized by Google for duplicate content. You see, Google wants to return quality search results to their users and the idea of a duplicate content just doesn’t meet their standards.

If you would like to take full advantage of the benefits of building backlinks from submitting articles to article directories, then you have to edit or rewrite your posts before you submit them. This can be done by a combination of any of the following:

1. Changing the title of your post.
2. Replacing some words with synonymous terms.
3. Changing the (sentence or paragraph) structure of the article.
4. Remove or add information.

Use Public Label Rights (PLR) Articles

Public Label Rights or PLR, grants you the right to use content written by someone else as if it were your own. Public Label Rights article accords your the right to:

• Modify or re-write the material any way you like.
• Insert your own name as the author.
• Sell or distribute the material to others.

Since I started blogging, I’ve been using PLR articles to gain more backlinks for my blog. Rather than spending more time on writing unique content, which is time consuming, I simply modify or rewrite PLR articles and submit them to different article directories.

There are tons of Public Label Rights articles you can find online. They usually come in packages of 100 or more articles. Some are expensive (exclusive PLRs) while others are cheap (lesser exclusivity). But the good news is, there are tons of PLR articles that are free.

Free Public Label Rights Articles From PLRSpot

PLRSpot.com has been my source of Public Label Rights articles. It’s an excellent resource for free PLR that you can use. Joining is all it takes to gain access of their free PLR articles, and since it’s free, there should be no risk involved.

PLRSpot has a huge collection of free PLR articles from different topics. Some of the topics include; affiliate marketing, technology, product reviews and many more. You can visit PLRSpot.com now, register and start using their free resources. Just remember to modify or rewrite the articles before you start submitting them to article directories. And of course, don’t forget to include a link to your website from the post you submit… that’s the whole point of submitting an article anyway.

There you have it. One simple tip that will help increase the number of backlinks to your website. Visit TheWeblogZone tomorrow for another doze of link building tip. And like always, your opinions and comments are most welcome.

Thank you for your time.

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Videos are now a must tool for online entrepreneurs. Over 75% of online traffic from North America and Asia are spent on video sites like YouTube. Harnessing the huge traffic from these video sites can potentially increase your site revenue. Unfortunately, the competition of using video has become intense as the number of online entrepreneurs using it increased. Hence, the need for innovation.

I was searching for videos on design coding tips at YouTube when I came across this video. This video provided some useful and practical tips when coding and designing your website. What’s unique with this video is that the coding design tips were presented in the form of a rap music. Personally, I like the video and the manner that the design and coding tips were presented.

Hope you’ve learned something from this video as much as I did. Did you like it? What do you think? Should online entrepreneurs start to be more innovative with their marketing and do something like the one shown in the video?

Do share your thoughts in the comment. Thank you for your time!

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Here are some simple truths about SEO that alot of you seems not to know.

1. Excessive link building harms your website. (You don’t really need to submit your site to all the directories on the list.)
2. More back links does not necessarily translate to a high Google Page Rank.

What is Excessive Link Building?

Excessive Link Building happens when an unusual accumulation of link for a website takes place in a short period of time. This is of course relative to the age of the website. So if your website is just 1 week old and it gets more than 1000 backlinks in a day, that is obviously a case of excessive link building.

Excessive link building is usually a common problem with new bloggers who have just created their first blog. After knowing the importance of Google page rank for a website and how this can be achieved by building as much backlinks as possible, newbies tend to be agressive with their link building strategies. They end up submitting their blogs to hundreds if not thousands of directories, comment on dofollow blogs and spam forums. These link building strategies are no doubt effective in boosting your site’s backlink, but contrary to popular belief, these strategies harm your blog.

How Excessive Link Building Harms Your Blog?

Excessive Link Building is treated by search engines as an “unnatural” phenomenon especially when your website is relatively new. It’s just impossible for a new website to get tons of backlinks not unless the owner resorted to any of these methods:

• Used Review Sites (PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews, ReviewMe and Smorty)
• Purchased Links from Text-Link-Ads, LinkWorth and related websites
• Used Directory Mass Submission services
• Spamming

By using the above strategies to boost backlinks to your blog, you only catch unwanted attention from suspicious Google. Remember that these methods violate Google’s prescribed Webmaster’s Quality Guidelines. As soon as Google finds out that you’ve violated their webmaster quality guidelines, expect a penalty, which might not take effect immediately but in the next two to three months.

Google’s recent reported crackdown of websites participating in selling links and doing sponsored posts are some proofs that Google is seriously against these methods. Google hired the best engineers and programmers for this purpose. Unfortunately, Google relies heavily on its established system to make sure that those who violate their quality guidelines get the penalty they deserve. Google’s systems, however, are mere programs so even if you generated backlinks to your blog by painstakingly submitting to free directories, there’s not guarantee that Google’s system will distinguish your method to be different from those who purchased links. That explains why even if you have tons of backlinks, your Google page rank is lower than other sites with fewer links to them.

Higher Backlinks IS NOT EQUAL To Higher Google Page Rank

One of the common misconceptions about Google Page Rank is that the more backlinks you have, the higher Google page rank you get. While to some extent this is true, it’s not always the case. Google is using a complex system to identify the page rank of certain pages of a website. Backlink is just one of the factors considered.

If you have been observing and keeping track of your competitors, you might be surprised that they have higher page ranks despite the fact that you have more backlinks. Since no one really knows exactly how Google calculate page ranks, I came up with some conclusions from my personal observations. I will talk about them in my succeeding posts so make sure to visit Blogging Mix often or better yet subscribe so you won’t miss any blogging tip.

Suggestions And Recommendations When Building Links For Your Blog

1. Avoid submitting to free directories at the same time. Submit your website gradually to avoid suspicion from Google.
2. Avoid using ‘Directory-Mass-Submission’ services promising to submit your website to thousands of directories in a short period of time. (They’re usually scams!)
3. When building links, quality is better than quantity. Quality links are links obtained from relevant and of good quality websites.

This post should come as a good news to those who find link building a time consuming task. Now that you know that the best approach to link building is doing it moderately, you don’t have to force yourself to submit your websites to all directories you come across with.

What are your thoughts on this matter? I would love to hear what you think. Do leave your opinions and reactions through the comments.

Thank you for your time.

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