With an article directory you are writing articles about the service or product that you website is advertising. The articles that you write need to have keywords spread throughout the article. For example if your website is selling black dress you will want to make sure that the words “black dress” is found several times in the article. To further boost the articles appeal you will also need to have several synonyms of the phrase such as the “dresses that are black.”

In the body of the article you want to place at least one link to your website. Every article directory has its own limits to how many direct links you can have in the body of your article so make sure you read the submission requirements carefully as they will reject your article if you did not follow the criteria. You are also able to add a link to your website in your bio area so take advantage of it.

The goal of article writing is this: you want to write unique and interesting articles and submit them to the directories and then wait for other people in the same business to want to use your articles for content on their website. This is a free way for webmasters to get content for their website however they must leave all of your links intact and working. This is how you begin to get quality backlinks for your site.

Now what happens as your articles are spread around the internet with your links embedded in them the search engines such as Google and Yahoo! send out their spiders and locate the links. The more links that the spiders find the higher your page is ranked and as you know the higher your page is ranked the more people will be able to find you.

Be careful though when you write your articles there are strict guidelines and each article is check for them. First you are never allowed to plagiarize another writer’s work. Secondly, use your keywords wisely adding them too many times in an article is called “keyword stuffing” and will get your article rejected. Make sure that you proofread your articles; most articles are rejected just because of spelling and grammatical errors.

The good news is that if you don’t have the time or you do not feel that you are capable of writing these articles you can find many freelance writers that will do them for you. You can find these writers all over the internet and several websites are dedicated to hooking up freelancers and clients. You will have to pay for their services but remember without quality banklinks the search engines won’t find your website.

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Digg is still a leading website when it comes to user generated and voted content. However, the site still does not cater to every niche. It is mostly a playground for techies and gadget geeks which leave those who write for other niches off the front page, and in some cases, off the website in general. Thus, more and more people are starting Digg-style sites that are niche specific.

These sites do pretty much the same thing that most social bookmarking sites do, which is to help people get their social news, while helping authors get their work exposed.

For Emarketing related content people are finding places like PlugIM.com and MarkTD.com are sending them more traffic than Digg ever has. Many websites, including Digg, are anti marketing which means that small business related topics rarely make it to the front page. However, finding and using a Digg-like site that pertains to your niche can greatly increase your traffic.

Some of theses sites offer a Digg It button to place on your site and if so, use it. The easy way for publishers to hasten their entry into the Digg and Digg-like ecosystem is to add this button or link to pages on their sites.

Surprisingly, considering the importance of Social Bookmarking, few publishers have done this. Having a Digg It button on your website encourages user participation, which increases your article exposure, traffic, and, ultimately, your sales.

Before publishing on Digg, look for “vertical” Digg-style sites to publish on because you will most likely receive more traffic from these sites because, even though they are much smaller, they are more closely related to your niche.

There are several lists online that you can use to find Digg-like sites that work for you. Simply Google your niche and the terms “Digg-like”, “Digg-style” or “Digg clones.”

Keep in mind however, that these are all communities that you have to be active in to gain the real benefits. That means submitting content frequently, voting early and voting often. Many webmasters admit to getting traffic from leaving comments on other users’ content almost as much as they get traffic from their own content.

As it gets harder and harder to reach Digg’s front page, people will be looking elsewhere for their social news. Web masters should consider trying all the Digg-like sites out there that relate to their niche to see what does well for your site’s content. And if worse comes to worse and you can’t find your niche in any category create your own Digg-clone.

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Those are good questions indeed and I’ll explain them in a moment.

But, before I do, let’s first define what a “One-Way Backlink” is.

A “One-Way Backlink” is simply a link that points back to your website from someone else’s without you having to reciprocate back.

It doesn’t have to get anymore difficult than that.

The more pointing back to yours, the higher the search engines will rank your website depending on your keyword competition and the quality or PR(Popularity Ranking) of the backlink.

These are very important factors to consider when doing link exchanges because you want the best links possible.

I know I do, and I’m sure you do to.

If your new to the Internet Marketing scene then what I’m about to reveal to you within this article will literally save you tons of time and get you those much needed “One-Way Backlinks” so you can have a fighting chance for the keywords your website is optimized for.

So… what’s the BIG Secret?

ARTICLES!!

Why ‘Articles’ you ask and how do they get you “One-Way Backlinks“?

Well, first off, if you’ve been online for any length of time then you know that ‘Content Is King’, but the beauty of writing and syndicating articles is you get to include a ‘Resource Box’ with your articles that has all your website details in it along with your “URL”.

It’s that easy and if your good at writing articles and write them often and they target a specific niche that needs to be filled then they should have no problem getting picked up and spread around the Internet with all your website details and URL attached.

And… just so you know, articles are also considered one of the Best forms of VIRAL Marketing available on the Internet, so this should give you some incentive to get started as well.

Well, that covers the first question. Lets now move onto the last which is… “How do you get those high PR ‘One-Way’ Backlinks?”

Two words… “Article Directories”.

Article Directories are hungry for content and are always looking for fresh NEW content to add to their databases for their readers, webmasters and for newsletter and e-Zine publishers.

The great benefit to submitting to “Article Directories” is that they usually have high PR(between 4 and 6) within the search engines depending on if its new or not and is where you’ll benefit.

And that’s not all either. Everytime you submit a new article to an article directory it creates a NEW Optimized Page just for your article with all your website details and URL(MOST Important), so the more article directories you submit to, the bigger your network will grow with more “One-Way Backlinks” pointing back to your website from other high PR article directories.

And as those article directories are getting spidered daily by other search engine robots(known as Spiders) your new pages will get pick up and indexed within their databases as well building your link network BIGGER and Bigger.

If you see ANY potential in using this linking strategy then don’t sit on the fence.

Get started today.

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Building backlinks can be an arduous process. The most common free methods are directory submissions, article submissions, comment posting and social bookmarking.

However, articles take time to write, and writers block can be hard to shake off. Directory submissions are hard to get approved for new Page Rank Zero sites. Comment posting can be a good option. And Social Bookmarking doesnt always increase traffic unless many users bookmark it.

Fortunately, there are some easier ways to get links, and I shall be listing them in a short series of articles.

For this first article, I shall describe using public information about your site to gain backlinks.

Domain information tools such as whois.net, Alexa and domaintools.com maintain information about virtually every domain. As a result, every domain will have a backlink from these sites. However, the search engines wont know about all these pages unless theyre informed of them. Therefore, webmasters whove registered new domains can gain some free backlinks by merely pointing links at these pages. These links can be hosted on blogs, forums or any other sites that is already indexed.

As an example, I have recently registered the domain dawjee.com, and would like to add some backlinks to it. In order to get them from whois.net, Alexa and domaintools.com, I need to place the following links on indexed pages (e.g. my blog):

http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=dawjee&tld=com

http://whois.domaintools.com/dawjee.com

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=dawjee.com

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr…ils/dawjee.com

In order to get the search engines to index pages for other domains, simply replace dawjee.com in the links above.

Technorati Tags: backlinks, Easy, Information, Site, Tools, Using

One innovative way to get the clicks where you want them is take part in a Social Bookmarking site. If you have not yet heard of the phenomenon, there are sites where you can store your list of bookmarks online. This is convenient for the person who’s always hopping from computer to computer; you’ll always have all the information you need at your very fingertips. Even better, you can make your bookmarks public; you can share things like your favorite news sites, or your top ten favorite webcomics. The big advantage to this sort of service comes when you realize that you are an expert. Make a list of bookmarks that feature other sites that are like yours and make it public.

Social bookmarking sites work because of the selection involved. As more people become wise to the concept of Search Engine Optimization, they are a lot more wary of the first ten hits that come up when they check Google or Yahoo. Social bookmarking works because it has the endorsement of another real person. A real community can spring up around the idea of social bookmarking and it becomes a network of people who are trading information. With the right list of bookmarks made public, it will take a very small amount of time before your blog will be getting more hits than ever before.

To get started with social bookmarking, there are a number of sites that you can go to. http://www.technorati.com/ is one of the first sites to take advantage of this phenomenon and the interface is quite usable. You’ll find more technical bookmarked lists here, which is ideal if you have a blog on computers, televisions, or general gadgetry. At http://www.stumbleupon.com/ you will find a more social atmosphere, and there is more of a focus on entertainment. If you have a blog on the latest celebrity doings or even of your photography, this might be the place for you. Though it might look less polished than the other two, http://del.icio.us/ packs a lot punch with a history that goes back almost five years. Del.icio.us is a wonderful place for almost anything you might want to find and more and more people are using it to find the information they need.

This is also a good way to find out how people are coming to your blog. What searches are they using to get there? Once you can pinpoint that, you can can tailor your blog to meet the demand and receive more traffic as well. Many blogs also offer subscriptions, which will tell readers when you have updated, and in this way, with a list of readers at your disposal, you can play your content to an audience that you know better.

Social bookmarking is a trend that any blogger who wants more traffic to his site should take advantage of and with sites like Technorati, Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us, you have many avenues waiting for your personal touch.

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Although they happen to be powerful tools, many people overlook the potential marketing power in using Social Bookmarking as a web biz marketing strategy.

Most of this is due to the fact that very few people know how to use social bookmarking effectively. We may hear about Digg or Del.i.cious, but most of us don’t know how to use them effectively.

What is it?

In a nutshell, social bookmarking is a web-based technology that allows people, all over the internet, to share and rate internet content.

Social bookmarking ranks content by the rank given to the content by the people who read it. Traditional search engines, on the other hand, ranking system is based on the number of inbound links. In other words, the more highly your content is rated, the better.

Social Bookmarking For Your Web Biz

1. Register with a social bookmarking site. Digg, StumbleUpon, & Technorati are examples of popular social bookmarking sites.

2. Download the software. This usually a browser toolbar of some sort.

3. Submit & rank your website(s).

4. Add friends & rank/review other sites. Most critical, and probably most overlooked, step in the process.

Don’t make the mistake of just submitting your website because you get more bang for your buck if you rank and review a lot of content. In other words, the more you use social bookmarking, the better it will be for your web biz.

After all, the goal is to increase your website’s visibility and possibly gain more traffic in the process.

Some Words of Advice

Although social bookmarking has the power to drastically improve your web biz site’s traffic, it can also be used against you if you don’t heed to the following warning.

*Do NOT submit crappy content!! Spam and plagiarized, irrelevant content are all examples of “crappy” content.

Words of Advice

1. Submit quality content. Don’t copy other people’s content. Don’t ramble. It’s critical that you stay on topic and relevant. Why put yourself at risk for a low rating or review?

2. Play nice and be mindful of the kind of image your displaying on the web. It all will come back to you, either in a positive or in a negative light.

3. Be purposeful about the actions you take when it comes to promoting your web biz. Don’t just rank or review content aimlessly. Stay in your niche. That’s how you will attract targeted traffic.

Bookmark away, children!!!

Technorati Tags: Bookmarking, marketing, Social, Using

Social bookmarking is free to use and enables web users to save links to their favorite web pages that they want to visit again and share with other people. Additionally, they can vote, comment and discuss about the sites or blogs and then submit the site and get feed backs from other users. If the users like your site, there’s a chance they will visit it again to obtain information and other updates.

New features have actually been added to these types of sites. These include ratings, comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing bookmarks, web annotation as well as groups or other social network features. Although these bookmarks are public, they can be saved privately and shared only with specific groups of people or networks. People with access to these bookmarks can view them in various ways – by category or tags, chronologically or through a search engine.

Social bookmarking provides several benefits to promote your business. Firstly, web users can easily upload and save their preferred websites for other users to view. This alone is an effective way to improve your site’s traffic. Users are always clicking on banners out of curiosity. I wouldn’t be into Internet Marketing today if I hadn’t clicked on an add promoting MLM.

Users can also organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of using the traditional system of folders. Tag refers to a keyword that describes a particular site and category. By using the appropriate bookmarking tags, search engines will be able to look for your content especially when a user searches for information within your category.

What you can do then is to bookmark your own site and get a suitable tag. Once you obtain the right tag on the social bookmarking site, other people will know about your site and will visit it eventually. So this only means that when you have the proper tag, you drive more traffic to your site.

Another big advantage is for your site to be visited by search engines and indexed. A new website has a chance of being visited by search engine robots within a day of submission to social bookmarking sites. Learning the basics of SEO Optimization is important in driving traffic to your site.

Personal branding is a great benefit as well. In other words, by using social bookmarking sites, you are given the ability to develop your own page on their site. With this page, you can list all your web pages, post links to your websites and publish content on any field of interest. This then allows you to establish yourself as an authority in your own niche.

Many people have been spending money just to ensure a high page rank in search engine results but with Social Bookmarking, there’s no need for that as it provides a one-way link to promote your site to other web users at no cost at all. This should, however, be coupled with credibility and a good reputation so that people will learn to trust you and your business. People ultimately do not buy into your product because it solely benefits them. They largely buy into it because of you.

Technorati Tags: Bookmarking, Drive, Massive, Power, Site, Social, Traffic, Using

Backlinks are links placed on another site which link to yours. The best ones to have are one way backlinks, meaning that they have links to your site, but not the other way around.

Forums are one way to create these high quality backlinks. These links can get traffic to your site as people click your links which are on the forum, further raising your stock with the search engines. When using forums to generate web traffic, you need to be judicious in your use of links lest you be branded as a spammer, which will probably result in your membership to the forum being closed. If done right, though, this can be a great way to generate traffic for your site.

Step 1: Find relevant forums

Relevant is the important thing to remember here – in internet marketing and especially where search engines are concerned, relevance is everything. To find forums which are relevancy, simply do a search on Google for your niche along with the term “forum”, like so:

coin collecting forum

You do this for two reasons. One is that search engines will pay more attention to your links if they come from a site whose content is relevant to that of your own site. Also, you will get more traffic from these backlinks if you post them in a place where people are interested in what your site is about.

Step 2: Find the best of these relevant forums and join them

Once you’ve managed o find some relevant forums, you should investigate these and choose some to join up with. Have a look at the top five to ten results from your search. You should ignore any which require you to join before even being able to look at the forums. Most forums will let you do this though, so read away!

What you are looking for in forums to join is popularity. Check the number of users on each forum and compare; you should also look at how many of these members are active on the forum. Look in some of the more heavily trafficked categories on the forum and look to see when the most recent postings were made. Generally speaking, this information will be listed in the tight hand column of the table containing the threads on the forum. If there have been a lot of posts within the last day, then congratulations!

You have found a forum which has many active members, which is exactly what you want. This means that search engines will look at this site often, so your links will quickly be noticed by them. Search engines are particularly fond of sites with frequent updates. Join this forum and any others which are very popular.

However, before you actually go ahead and join, make sure that this forum will allow you to use a signature in your posts. Look at one of the more frequently posted-to threads and have a look to see if anyone has a signature beneath his or her posting. This is usually a line under the posting with some text or sometimes links. Most people just have a quotation, but links are sometimes seen as well. Not everyone will use a signature, but if there are some there, then you know that you will be able to get your links on the site – go ahead and sign up.

Once you’ve located a forum which is popular and allows signatures, all you need to do is follow the instructions to become a member. If you can get signed on to three or four forums, that should be plenty to begin with.

Step 3: Set up your signature

After signing up and logging in, you should be able to edit your user profile – here you can edit your avatar, biography and other preferences. What you are looking for specifically is a link titled something along the lines of “edit signature”. You will then have a input field where you can place your signature, including backlinks to your site!

Forums use a certain type of code for formatting posts by members. This code is called BBCode and is very easy to use. Copy and paste the examples below, just change the URL and text to your own URL and whatever text you’d like to use. Then, save and your signature should be as you want it.

Link to your website or blog with this code:

Learn how to start [url=http:/ /www-dot-mycoinblog-dot-com/]Coin Collecting[/url] the easy way.

In this code, you can see where your text and URL will go. In the example above, the phrase “Coin Collecting” is the place where your link should go. Your keywords will be here as well.

To make your signature appear in bold type, simply add the bold tags around it like this:

[b]Learn how to start [url=http:/ /www-dot-mycoinblog-dot-com/]Coin Collecting[/url] the easy way.[/b]

Almost all forums will allow you to put your signature in bold type. If you put the bold tags around your signature and it does not show up in bold, then you will know that this forum does not allow bold formatting.

Some forums may let you have the text of your signature in the color of your choice, though the text in your link will usually be the default color for links (in most cases this is blue). To change the text color:

[color=red]Learn how to start [url=http:/ /www-dot-mycoinblog-dot-com/]Coin Collecting[/url] the easy way.[/color]

You can even combine these formatting tags, which in this example below would make your signature both bold and in red (the link text though, will still appear as blue, though it will be bold).

[color=red][b]Learn how to start [url=http:/ /www-dot-mycoinblog-dot-com/]Coin Collecting[/url] the easy way.[/b][/color]

One last tip about your signature – don’t make your signature look like spam, as this will led you to be tagged with the “spammer” label. Don’t crowd your signature with text and links. Get people to want to click your link by posting good content.

Step 4: Participate!

Up to this, all we have been covering is preparation. Participating in the forums is the important part. Make sure your posts are well written and thoughtful; this will get people to use those backlinks. Answer questions and generally be helpful to fellow forum members.

Each time you post, you will have given yourself another backlink to your site. The better your post, the better that backlink will be for your Google rankings. Google actually examines the text around a link to calculate relevance, so good content is important here. By just being helpful on the forum and answering questions, this should be no problem.

An that’s all there is to it! Remember that you can change your signature anytime you like – you can change the text on occasion to see if something will get you more clickthroughs.

Technorati Tags: backlinks, Build, Forums, Using

I often get asked if there is any backlinks software that people can use to promote their websites or blogs. Of course we all know well that any website that doesn’t get some inbound links is never going to be that popular with the search engines.

Now if you look around the internet there’s lots of automatic submission services or software available but inevitably all these do is submit your website to the thousands of free internet directories on the web.

The value of appearing in these sites is at the very best negligible, Google often states that the value of links from these sites is worthless simply because free directories don’t offer any value at all to the searcher.

I suspect if it wasn’t for the possibility that people would submit their competitors sites to these directories then many of the search engines would actually penalise websites to having links from these directories. The origin of the backlink is of utmost importance in boosting your website, you should only try and obtain backlinks from reputable sources.

There is of course a fundamental problem with getting backlinks for your website, ideally you would be best to obtain these links from important websites in your own particular area. However it’s fairly obvious that these are quite possibly your competitors and the webmasters are unlikely to give you a boost by linking to your site. The importance of getting one-way backlinks is well known to most webmasters and everyone wants them.

There are many other ways of getting links however and the ever adaptable SEO industry is always coming up with some new method.

Some methods of Gaining Backlinks to your site

Yahoo Directory- a link in Yahoos Directory will definitely give your website a huge boost. Unfortunately there is quite a high cost of $299 for a year but if you want ot invest in your website you should consider this. If your site is non commercial though then submit as it’s completely free!

Forum Posts- try and hang out in forums on your specific subject. Answer questions when they occur and try and be helpful, in your signature include a link back to your website

Blogs – There are blogs on just about any subject you can think of. Join in discussions with useful posts and where appropriate use a link back to your website to illustrate a point
An example of a great way to get a link is to sign on to something like Yahoo answers where you can attempt to answer peoples questions. Search for questions in your area and put a link in the resource box at the bottom to a page on your site that helps answer the question. It’s also a great way to get ideas for new pages as real people are asking these questions and looking for answers.

There is one more great way of obtaining good quality bookmarks to your blog or website and that is by harnessing the power of Social Bookmarking. There are hundreds of social bookmarking sites which can give you many quality backlinks to your website and boost your traffic. These sites are actually great for getting your new website pages indexed quickly as well as the search engines spider these sites many times a day.

Technorati Tags: backlinks, Getting, More, Software, Traffic, Using

The easiest way for you to overcome this is to employ the use of social bookmarking automation software. This will help to cut down on the amount of time that it takes to get your webpages listed on the social bookmarking websites and to get them listed in the search engines themselves. Since there are a lot of different options as far as the software is concerned, I thought that it would be important to cover some of the basics of the software and discuss some of the options so that you know what to look for.

First of all, any good Social Bookmarking automation software is going to be fully automated, every step of the way. After all, the last thing that you want to do is to try and automate a process and then to have to manually go in and micromanage every step that you take. A good software program is going to get you signed up on the social bookmarking websites automatically, post the links automatically and then follow up on any changes that come about in the social bookmarking websites themselves. This is the only way that you’re going to find your success by using one of these software packages and not end up frustrated in the process.

Looking for various reviews of social bookmarking automation software will help you to be able to make a wise decision. After you have the software up and running, you would be surprised with how efficient it is and how much time you will be able to save by not doing these things manually. You will then be able to take the time that you save and put it into efficiently running the rest of your business.

Technorati Tags: Automation, Bookmarking, Generate, More, Sales, Save, Social, Software, Time, Using