Dassana Jayalath asked:


So you have a blog and want to market it and make it a successful blog. How do you do this? How do you go about getting your blog out there to be seen and known by others? How do you draw readers and keep them coming back for more? There are many ways to get your blog out there and known by others. This can be known as challenging for some and just quite easy for others. If you have ever had a successful blog before then you know what it takes.

You are not going to get anywhere by just setting up a blog and hoping that people will find it and read it. You are not going to gain any links, nor a higher search engine ranking by just having a blog. This is all part of blog marketing. Anyone can do it, even you.

Successful blog marketing tip number one. When you first create a blog, of course it is unheard of. No one knows anything about the blog unless you give them the link and show it to them. However, for a new blog that has never been seen, there are many ways to get it out there and known. You just need to know how. The first thing that you can do is to allow RSS feeds be taken from your blog. Allow other websites and blogs to publish your same exact blog. When you do this, they are giving you a link back to your blog, and also telling their readers all about your blog. You will get more traffic than ever with this tool. RSS feeds are wonderful for promoting and getting your blog out there.

Blog marketing tip number two. Update your blog frequently. We can not put enough emphasis on this tip. If you tell your readers that you are going to update your blog daily, then do it. If you tell them that you will be writing in your blog weekly, don’t let them down. Your readers are what makes your blog successful. You may not realize this in the beginning, and you will have few readers in the beginning as well, but you will eventually build a readership base and have people checking out your blog regularly.

Maybe you do not plan on telling your readers how often you will update your blog. That is ok too. However, think about this, if you were reading a blog on a weekly basis, and you expected to see the blog that you like to read updated at least once a week, you would be very disappointed to find out that it was not. Sure, things happen that might prevent you from updating, and that is expected, and excused, but week after week can hurt you and cause you to lose readers. If you don’t have enough content, we recommend you join a private label article club sub as Turbo Membership.

Tip number three. While you are working on your readership base, and trying to gain readers, you are going to find that commenting on blogs that are relevant to yours will surely help. Find a blog that is on the same topic to yours, or close to it and leave comments. You can also make a track back with your blog postings to comment on your own blog. Doing so will probably more than likely give someone else the urge to track back to your blog. Which will be good for it as well. Commenting on blogs that get many comments will make yours be seen by those interested in that market. You will gain traffic and readers that way, and it is easy as well as free.

The fourth blog marketing tip. Learn and apply SEO to your blogs. SEO is search engine optimization. You are going to find that if you want your blog to go anywhere, you need SEO, and you need to know how to use it to the advantage of your blog. Just like a website, a blog will be better off optimized.

Li Ming Wong asked:


So you have a blog and want to market it and make it a successful blog. How do you do this? How do you go about getting your blog out there to be seen and known by others? How do you draw readers and keep them coming back for more? There are many ways to get your blog out there and known by others. This can be known as challenging for some and just quite easy for others. If you have ever had a successful blog before then you know what it takes. You are not going to get anywhere by just setting up a blog and hoping that people will find it and read it. You are not going to gain any links, nor a higher search engine ranking by just having a blog. This is all part of blog marketing. Anyone can do it, even you.

Successful blog marketing tip number one. When you first create a blog, of course it is unheard of. No one knows anything about the blog unless you give them the link and show it to them. However, for a new blog that has never been seen, there are many ways to get it out there and known. You just need to know how. The first thing that you can do is to allow RSS feeds be taken from your blog. Allow other websites and blogs to publish your same exact blog. When you do this, they are giving you a link back to your blog, and also telling their readers all about your blog. You will get more traffic than ever with this tool. RSS feeds are wonderful for promoting and getting your blog out there.

Blog marketing tip number two. Update your blog frequently. We can not put enough emphasis on this tip. If you tell your readers that you are going to update your blog daily, then do it. If you tell them that you will be writing in your blog weekly, don’t let them down. Your readers are what makes your blog successful. You may not realize this in the beginning, and you will have few readers in the beginning as well, but you will eventually build a readership base and have people checking out your blog regularly. Maybe you do not plan on telling your readers how often you will update your blog. That is ok too. However, think about this, if you were reading a blog on a weekly basis, and you expected to see the blog that you like to read updated at least once a week, you would be very disappointed to find out that it was not. Sure, things happen that might prevent you from updating, and that is expected, and excused, but week after week can hurt you and cause you to lose readers.

Tip number three. While you are working on your readership base, and trying to gain readers, you are going to find that commenting on blogs that are relevant to yours will surely help. Find a blog that is on the same topic to yours, or close to it and leave comments. You can also make a track back with your blog postings to comment on your own blog. Doing so will probably more than likely give someone else the urge to track back to your blog. Which will be good for it as well. Commenting on blogs that get many comments will make yours be seen by those interested in that market. You will gain traffic and readers that way, and it is easy as well as free.

The fourth blog marketing tip. Learn and apply SEO to your blogs. SEO is search engine optimization. You are going to find that if you want your blog to go anywhere, you need SEO, and you need to know how to use it to the advantage of your blog. Just like a website, a blog will be better off optimized.

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Karl Sultana asked:


Here are some myths that many webmasters faithfully follow. Test results show proof that these are no correct theories. They may be understood incorrectly or invented by wanna be gurus seeking attention. So let us start with the number.

Link exchanges are dead myth.

This practically means that you loose thousands of backlinks if you deny link exchanges.

There are certain guidelines to follow when doing link exchanges however they are great link building method. They are highly effective as well, you cannot say link exchanges are no longer that effective. They still are as much as they were. That was going to become some new theory as well. By effective one understand they are very easy to get and search engines consider them powerful.

What is dead for sure are blog comment posting probably, since almost all blogs are now using nofollow tags. The two most effective methods to get links are article submission and link exchanges. Obviously article exchanges are much better than link exchanges, but they are not effective, since it is too difficult to make at least one article exchange. So you cannot say they are more effective or more powerful. The reality is they are not.

Make link exchanges with only related or relevant sites myth.

This is big one, because even some popuplar people mention it, so webmasters believe into it more quickly. However luckily not everyone believes this theory. Again, results show that you can get links from any website. The more links you have the better.

It can be good idea to create a highly focused link directory first, but then you can expand. However if you are very familiar with link exchanges, and you can get many of them very quickly, you can get from any theme instantly.

Make link exchanges with websites that have a specific pagerank myth.

It means one thing, you loose a ton of links, denying certain websites. It does not matter if the site has pagerank zero or ten, it is still an important link to get. This will only affect your rankings in a positive way by exchanging links with all websites.

Ok, some have pagerank zero and you did all that work and have a pagerank of four. So what? Do you no longer want backlinks because you have a higher pagerank? Everyone needs backlinks, no matter your pagerank.

Article submission myth.

There are many things wrong, including the duplicate content theory. It strictly does not exist, webmasters simple understand it wrong. Submitting the same article to all article directories and everywhere is a great thing, you get all those one way links.

Spinning titles, descriptions and so forth is not required. No article, webpage or website will get banned by doing this.

However if you grab an article from some directory to put it on your website, it is a good thing to do if you link to the source. Not only because you should give credit to the author, but spiders appreciate it.

What you need to make unique is meta tags. I am not saying you can have exactly similar webpages on your website. That is not a good thing to do, obviously.

Making sure you do not fall victim to invented theories or incorrect ones is important. A new theory is created out of nowhere every now and then. This is happening all the time and these spread like a virus. People seems to love talking about what works and what does not.

However what is important is to stick with what works and avoid believing into new things as if they are some strict rules.

Jeremiah OConnell asked:


Constantly applying link-building strategies that boosts ones site link popularity will significantly render assistance in transforming your search engine rankings. Link building is an endless technique and should consequently be part of ones web site optimization schedule.

Yet, Link building is oftentimes looked upon as a hard and endless activity and is consequently invariably precluded. Declining to regularly implement link building ideas will come out in weaker search engine rankings. As a Webmaster myself I consider reciprocal link building is difficult to achieve so I have decide on for some less repetitious and more resourceful methods of building links to my web site.

In this article I’m going to unwrap 3 strategies of link building that not only give me added back-links, but also adds creditability and boosted targeted traffic to my blogs as well.

Link building strategy #1 – Article Marketing

Writing and submitting appropriate and informational articles to top article directories, is an ideal way to progress link popularity, increase creditability and direct targeted traffic back to your web site. Not only will you buildup backlinks from the reports directories, but you will also receive backlinks from other websites and newsletters that disseminate your report.

Link building strategy #2 – Forum Marketing

Comparable to the article marketing method above, forum marketing will also help increase creditability, inbound links and traffic. Assuming you submit quality and productive content while always including a link to your site in your sig file, readers will see you as an authority and will want to visit your site for more information.

Link building strategy #3 – Blog Comments

This last method is mostly useful if you host a blog on your own website. Consider popular blogs in your chosen market and supplement to their content by offering relevant and useful comments. Always include your website URL when commenting. The better quality of comment you make the more traffic you will obtain. Now here’s where this method gets really interesting. The largest blog directory on the Internet ‘Technorati’ will assemble these back-links to your blog and classify them as authority inbound links, on balance amplifying your blog popularity and link building efforts.

John Sullivan asked:


The secret to getting good rankings in the search engines above all other methods is the number of incoming links to your sites, there are many ways to get links, such as writing articles that will normally be submitted to article directories that allow two or three links in the author’s bio where you can link back to any sites you choose.

Many article directories will not allow direct links to affiliate sites, so you will have to link to another site first such as a blog and then perhaps write a review about an affiliate product and then add a link to the affiliate sales page.

Bookmarking articles on social bookmarking sites is another way to get traffic and also good quality links back to your sites. There are various methods that produce the best results from this such as using various accounts with each site and not only bookmark the same sites all the time as this can get your account suspended.

Writing a blog and keep updating the content is another way to get links as there are various techniques that can be used to get the search engines to visit your blog such as pinging after each new post you make. If you update often then the search engine spiders will visit often to find your new content.

Another technique that can be used with blogs together with static sites is to use RSS and add your blogs feeds to RSS aggregators that will result in getting more links also.

It is possible to set up sites on free web 2.0 sites that will allow you to post content with links back to your main sites. There are many high page rank sites that are available to start this process.

The problem with most of the methods that result in getting links to your sites is that is very time consuming. You have to either write lots of articles, blog posts etc or have them outsourced which can be a good idea if you have the funds to do so as this will result in faster results.

The other option that is available is to join a membership that allows linking between members sites; the problem with this is that this type of membership has been very expensive with monthly costs of anything up to $800 depending on the services offered.

But now it is possible to join one of these sites that will offer automatic linking for you without writing any articles or blog posts apart from what you already have written for a very reasonable price.

The links are added slowly as the search engines like to see and the results are very good for anyone looking to automatically add links over a continuous period while concentrating on other tasks to build their business.

You no longer have to pay hundreds of dollars a month to get this type of linking system working for you sites. This is the most effective system in terms of cost and money to build your sites rankings in the search engines with an automatic link building plan.

You just have to submit your sites details add some simple code to your sites and then you will start receiving links to your sites without doing any other work. You can forget about this and all you have to do is keep checking how many links have been added to your sites and see your rankings improve in the search engines.

Murray Hubick asked:


One way link building can be done very easily and quickly by building your own software and submitting it to software directories via a pad file. Sound complicated? Only if you are under 3 years old and if that’s the case you are probably not going to understand much of what I am about to say.

Barring that, it really is that simple. The only thing you have to do is fill in a form and use a wizard that does everything for you. There is literally nothing more than that to it and when you’ve finished you will have a massive amount of quality high page rank links back to your site.

It’s all about back links. Specifically one way back links. Why? Because Google and all the other search engines (SE) prefer one way back links. Generally speaking it has always been thus. Originally the emphasis was on reciprocal linking which is a method of linking where websites trade links; I link to you if you link to me etc.

Now, in an ever changing cyber world such is no longer the case and reciprocal linking really doesn’t count for a whole lot. In reciprocal linking you are only trading links with another willing site and that says nothing about who or what you are. One way back links however, mean that the site linking to you is saying you have something to offer. Why else would they be doing it?

The SE’s essentially want to give the user the best viewing experience they can. They want to make sure that that individual sees exactly what he/she asked to see because only then will they come back for more. Simply put, the more sites linking to you means the more you have to offer, the more you have to offer the more the SE’s want you. If you add into that mix high page rank authority sites linking to you this can be one seriously good thing.

There are any number of different method’s out there to achieve this. You could write articles and submit them to directories, do a blog and again, submit it to social bookmarking sites; you can leave comments on other people’s blogs that link back to your site or blog. In all every one of these methods have two things in common; they provide one way links back to your site and they are all, without exception, a lot of work.

If you haven’t done it I have and believe me it takes a lot of time and effort and then even more time to actually see any results. Quite frankly that’s much too much work for me. I’d rather be doing other things. Fortunately, there is a much better way and that way is creating and submitting software to software directories. Doing this you will Get large numbers of free, high page rank back links as easily and quickly as is possible and you will be amazed at how quick the results will be.

Lou Drake asked:


You’ve built a great website, loaded it with fantastic products and services, and now you’re wondering to yourself how in the world do you get visitors to see it ? Building up a good amount of links into your site from other websites is an excellent way to increase the traffic to your website. So how do you build links ? There are many ways to build up links into your site. In this article I’ll go over ten ideas that should help you with building links and traffic to your site.

1. Reciprocal Links – Do some research, find other websites that are related to yours in some way and contact the webmaster about a possible link exchange. Don’t spam a thousand sites bugging for links. Take your time and write up a professional request. Remember that quality is better than quantity, choose the sites you exchange links with wisely, don’t just swap links with any site you come across.

2. Website Directories – Submit your site to website directories, most offer free links. This can be time consuming, but it’s well worth the effort. Some website directories charge a small fee for links, only you can decide if the link that it will provide for your website is worth paying for.

3. Blogs – Posting comments on blogs is a great way to build back links. Don’t just comment and leave nothing but a link to your site, be sure the comment you leave is relevant to the blog post, and your link back is not done in a spammy way.

4. Forums – Most forums allow signature links, not only do you gain a link back with your signature but you also gain a lot of exposure because your signature shows up every time you make a post in a forum.

5. Buying links – There are many, many sites that offer link sales. You can purchase links on their home pages, sub pages and some will sell site wide links. Again, you should be choosy when deciding whether or not to buy links on a website. Be sure the link you’re buying is a good value for you money. You want your back links to benefit you, not hinder your efforts. Don’t buy links on sites that seem spammy, or shady.

6. Offer Something Free – Free clipart, free templates, free web tools, anything free. People like free and WILL link to it !

7. Write a “How To” on a popular subject – A good “how to” will be read and people will “Digg” it, this will bring you even more traffic and back links.

8. List your site on the popular Social Bookmarking sites, such as Digg, Reddit, Spurl, De.lici.ous.

9. Write an authoritative article – Write a great article and submit it to the top article directories. Remember, the key to getting link backs this way is in your “about the author” box. Be sure you link back to your site and choose good anchor tags !

10. Pay a Link Builder – If you just don’t think you have the time, energy or motivation to do all the steps above you can always hire a professional link builder. Professional link builders will charge based on the amount of submissions they do for you usually. Do yourself a favor and check references before hiring any link builder, you do not want to hire someone who submits your site to thousands of free for all links pages, these are considered link farms and will not benefit your site in any way.