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45 Link Building Tips To Help You Promote Your Blog

45 Link Building Tips To Help You Promote Your Blog

by Janith · 146 comments

in Blogging Tips & Tricks

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

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

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

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

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

List of 45. Starts Here.

Getting Links for Writing Content

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Freebies/Giveaways for Link-Baiting

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

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

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

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

Connecting With Communities

14. Become active and post on relevant forums

15. Become active and comment on relevant blogs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

22. Build on your Technorati Profile

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

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

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

Directories, Social Bookmarking + Discussion Groups.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Direct Link Building

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

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

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

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

Paid Link Building

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

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

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

Using Blogussion for Link Building

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

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

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

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

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

That’s it!

There’s many more link building techniques and tips that I haven’t mentioned in this post, but these are just some of the ways you can always rely on for Link Building.

Naturally, following these tips will reward you with a higher PageRank too!

Lastly, is there anything you want to add to this list? Please leave us a comment below :)

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1 Jackin February 22, 2009 at 4:17 am

Thank you for sharing all this great 45 points, and if anyone follow this tips surely he or she will get good traffic, page rank and backlink for his or her blog.

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2 Janith February 22, 2009 at 11:01 pm

Most definitely, I try to follow as many of them as possible for Blogussion too.
Unfortunately, we didn’t launch soon enough for the last PR Update, that kinda sucked. However on the other hand, we have/had a full 3-month period to work on our back-links.

In fact, I’ve tested some specific techniques on specific pages, and if after the update these specific pages – get a good PR. I will surely share it with our community :)

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3 Niche February 22, 2009 at 7:29 am

Nice blog. Comprehensive list

I use just a handful of the methods you described above with very good results

Thanks

Niche’s last blog post..Google Insights. Great Keyword Tool

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4 Janith February 22, 2009 at 11:04 pm

Thank you for the compliments, Niche! Which methods take your fancy?
It’d be great if you can share with us the methods that work for you too :)

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5 niche February 23, 2009 at 2:21 pm

I tend to go for content, frequently updated; Social bookmarking and community participation. Seems to work
Oh and SEO

niche’s last blog post..Some Free Methods To Promote Your Website

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6 Sacramento Weddings February 22, 2009 at 9:33 am

Great advice, if you do just HALF of the 45 things, you’ll be at PR 4 in one year!

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7 Janith February 22, 2009 at 11:05 pm

Definitely PR4 in a year, if not more!
Any particular techniques you like to use SW?

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8 affiliate.solutions February 22, 2009 at 9:43 am

Great Article … I’m definitely going to use this for a good reference. Maybe I will also write a quick review for my readers….

Thanks

affiliate.solutions’s last blog post..49 FREE Online Internet Marketing and SEO Tools – Part I 13 Google Tools REVEALED!

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9 Alex February 22, 2009 at 1:34 pm

That would be great to see a review. Let us know? :)

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10 Janith February 22, 2009 at 11:07 pm

Awesome, if you do link to us ~ don’t forget we allow trackbacks :)
I hope you and your readers can use some of these techniques to see better SERPs!
If you do write up the review, I’d love to drop by and leave a comment – just let us know :)

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11 Alex February 22, 2009 at 11:26 am

Fantastic list Janith! I was really surprised you wrote such a comprehensive list like this! Great tips here, you know I’m tweeting this. ;)

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12 Janith February 22, 2009 at 11:08 pm

Oh no! I forgot to tweet about it..
I better start practice what I preach!
Thank you for your compliments, Mr. Alex :)

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13 WindowsPimp February 22, 2009 at 1:31 pm

excellent 45 tips! thanks a lot
they should certainly improve pagerank when followed :)

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14 Janith February 22, 2009 at 11:09 pm

No worries WindowsPimp (awesome name man!)
Glad you found it resourceful, if you have any tips to share – please do let us know :)

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15 Alik Levin | PracticeThis.com February 22, 2009 at 4:11 pm

HAHA, Liked “Write with a touch of conspiracy” ;)

Alik Levin | PracticeThis.com’s last blog post..Check Point For Aspiring Blogger

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16 Janith February 22, 2009 at 11:38 pm

Haha, this little tip did get me in trouble a few times in the past. A few times, much deeper than just a few raised eyebrows ..
What can you do right? It’s all a learning experience ;)

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17 carey February 22, 2009 at 5:03 pm

great post. please

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18 Blogging News February 22, 2009 at 5:14 pm

Good article with more than enough useful tips on how to get backlinks. This article isn’t just linkbait, it’s the real stuff. Recd Up !!

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19 Janith February 22, 2009 at 11:36 pm

Nothing here @ Blogussion is ever linkbait, it’s everything we want to share with out readers :)

Also, thanks for the bookmark over @ Recd! I hadn’t heard about it till now, will definitely check it out :)

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20 Yu-kai Chou February 22, 2009 at 8:36 pm

This list is awesome! I tweeted a link to our Viralogy followers about it :)
Great job and keept i up! :D

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21 Janith February 22, 2009 at 11:34 pm

Thank you for the compliments, and I’m glad you found it useful.

Appreciate the tweet, Yu-kai ~ if you don’t mind, share with us, your twitter :)

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22 Alex February 28, 2009 at 8:38 am

I saw your tweet and I followed. Much appreciated!

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23 Sky February 22, 2009 at 10:23 pm

Great….
But I Have a question. Does purchasing links will benefits?
It’s against the Google webmaster guidelines.

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24 Janith February 22, 2009 at 11:32 pm

It is definitly against the Google TOS. It’s a very huge risk that many bloggers take.
If you get caught out, you’ll loose any place you have on the SERPs – thereby destroying the sole purpose you bought the link in the first place.

I wouldn’t recommended it, unless of course it’s a no-follow link. This can help your site get discovered, but serve no PR-value.

Like I said before, it’s very risky but people still do it – and as long as Google doesn’t find out, everything will be fine for them.

I wouldn’t recommended doing it though, because to get back on your feet can take a veryyyyy long time! Besides, there are heaps of better ways to get links without spending a dime, just like we do here @ Blogussion :)

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25 Evan February 23, 2009 at 2:21 am

So what exactly is the deal with the purchasing links? I think I have the right idea, but I’m not sure. Does purchasing links mean that you go to a popular blog and you pay the webmaster and in turn they put a link to your blog/website on their blog? If so, why is it against Google’s TOS?

Also, if you were going to spend money on purchasing a link, why not just by an ad? I know I’m probably wrong on this, but just sharing my thoughts! ;)

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26 Janith February 23, 2009 at 7:41 am

Your right on the money with why people why buy paid links. It’s simple – your SERPs and PageRank depend on how many websites link to you, so most people go to popular blogs that are authoritative and well established and offer a certain price for a paid link.

Now, this link will be do-follow and it’s meant to “trick” the Google crawler into thinking that the popular blog is actually linking to your blog, legitimately. So, passing on the link juice – your site will be placed higher on the SERPs and granted a healthy PR.

What if someone with enough funding, buys a lot of quality links – what’s the purpose of a Search Engine Result? That site could have garbage information, but with so many in-bound quality links, Google ranks it high.

On the other hand, Ads are no-follow links – so they have absolutely no SERP/Link Juice value what-so-ever.

Hope that clears it up a bit, tell me if you need any further explanation Evan – I’d love to help you out :)

27 Evan February 23, 2009 at 2:28 am

This post is simply amazing! I already learned a lot on how to promote and advertise on your previous posts, and the info just keeps on building.

I like the reasons under “Directories, Social Bookmarking + Discussion Groups” and also under “Connecting With Communities”. I can honestly say that sites like Digg really help because I’ve used them in the past and they can really help in increasing your blog’s traffic if you know how to utilize such sites. Forums also help too. There are very few that I participate on, only one of them has to do with blogging but still! Forums are a great way to learn about topics that interest you, but I think you pretty much got that idea covered Janith! ;)

I think I might also register with Twitter seeing as how it looks like a great tool to utilize. Once again, thanks for the great post!

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28 Alex February 28, 2009 at 8:40 am

You won’t regret joining Twitter. I, like so many others never saw any point to Twitter. But now after I have a few hundred followers, I understand that it is a great marketing tool. But best of all, it’s a great place to make friends. I’ve talked with a lot of cool people on Twitter, and am glad I did join it. :)

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29 Joan February 23, 2009 at 7:36 am

Thanks for the useful tips! I have been avoiding the social networking, but now I guess I need to dive into that too.

Joan’s last blog post..Talk about Natural Medicine

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30 Alex February 28, 2009 at 8:41 am

Social networking is a totally different source of traffic then traffic from a forum, or another blog. It’s a really valuable thing to be a part of, so get to it! :p

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31 mySolopop.com February 23, 2009 at 7:49 am

Thanks for sharing these tips, more grease to your elbow. :)

mySolopop.com’s last blog post..We Are On Twitter!

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32 Alex February 28, 2009 at 8:42 am

Thanks for the comment. Is there anything up there you have never tried, and this article has taught you?

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33 Marketing February 23, 2009 at 8:06 am

Thanks for sharing. Nice content

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34 Alex February 28, 2009 at 8:42 am

Appreciate the comments! Is there anything you would say differently, or even add to the list?

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35 bobit February 23, 2009 at 8:11 am

Thanks for this TIPS

I will try to follow

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36 Alex February 28, 2009 at 8:43 am

You definitely should try to follow these tips, they have great benefits to following them.

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37 Jigsaw Maker February 24, 2009 at 6:18 am

Very useful list. I’ve found link at webmasters forum.

Jigsaw Maker’s last blog post..Wooden logs

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38 Alex February 28, 2009 at 8:43 am

Thanks! Which forum did you find us at? DigitalPoint I bet? :D

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39 Janith February 28, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Are there any other Webmaster’s forums? :P

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40 Janith February 24, 2009 at 8:31 am

Thanks for your heart-warming compliments everyone! We really do appreciate your thoughts.

Everyone that took interest in this topic, should perhaps check out our later addition to spreading the world in the OFFLINE world.

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41 Shirazi February 24, 2009 at 10:12 am

I am going to try these practical tips.

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42 Johan February 25, 2009 at 7:19 am

Some really nice tips, Thanks mate im going to try them for sure.

Johan’s last blog post..Dell XPS M1330 Notebook Review: Features, Configuration & Performance

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43 Ships February 25, 2009 at 7:20 am

Good and interesting tips and all will bring good pr and traffic to you, but actually not enough.
Everything is well known and used by many webmasters, so to bring high traffic and SERP you ill need to find new way for this. Years of working over one website is sure prove for high possition in Google. Everything other is due to every different person.

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44 Janith February 25, 2009 at 7:35 am

That’s such a valid point, these methods are been used by everyone ~ but still we can’t afford to neglect them.

These tips will promote your blog undoubtedly but if you really want to spark some attention, you really have to do something out of the ordinary – something that will grow in viral :)

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45 D a v e February 27, 2009 at 8:31 am

Thankyou for the good post. Its just like everything at one place.

D a v e’s last blog post..15 Firefox Addons for productive Blogging

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46 p@r@noid February 28, 2009 at 6:19 am

Very nice article I was missing few tricks here….
Stumbled!!

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47 Janith February 28, 2009 at 4:01 pm

Thanks for the Stumble, P@r@noid :)
Glad you found it useful too!

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48 Blogger Inc. February 28, 2009 at 10:27 am

Very useful… we look forward to more of this kind…

Blogger Inc.’s last blog post..60 Google Products & Services You Probably Don’t Know

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49 Alex February 28, 2009 at 11:48 am

Glad you found it useful. We will surely be rolling out some more posts like this in the near future for sure. :D

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50 Janith February 28, 2009 at 4:00 pm

We just scratchin’ the surface ;)

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51 Jennifer Eden Cruz March 1, 2009 at 1:33 am

Hi,

That’s a very useful tips. Using trackbacks is one of the most useful strategies that most are not using.
Maybe you can share also a list of blogs with track backs i found it very interesting and very effective strategy in building links. Great Post!

Jennifer Eden Cruz

Jennifer Eden Cruz’s last blog post..PPC Is a Sham? Stay Away?

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52 Janith March 1, 2009 at 6:52 am

That’s an awesome suggestion Jennifer, I’ll definitely look into a few lists that I might be able to build up!

Thanks for the recommendation and also your kinds words :)

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53 carey suante March 1, 2009 at 2:55 am

Fantastic list. Will be reading again and again!

carey suante’s last blog post..Jackie Chan – Kung Fu Panda of Forbidden Kingdom!

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54 Janith March 1, 2009 at 6:54 am

Nice to see you found it so useful, Carey and there’s no harm in reading it over and over again.
I find it that reading something for the second time, you pick up on things you might have missed out the first time around, it helps :)

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55 Zulu March 2, 2009 at 4:47 am

Great post, there’s so much information here for people to work off and develop quite respectable organic campaigns. A couple of points I am slightly dubious to 100% agree with: reciprocal links should be used as a last resort – one way, inbound links to your site are of much greater value. Secondly, we try to steer clear of paid links – as you say Janith, this is a bit of a risky technique.

I personally think that it’s testament to any SEO company if they are able to optimise a website whilst conforming to best practice – which means, being able to abide by Google’s T’s and C’s.

I think a great thing about this article and infact, the whole site, is that the comments posted are genuine and contribute to the overall feel and value of the stories posted. This content is then rewarded with do follow links, and lets face it, with the strength of this article, the next PageRank update will undoubtedly be generous. Everyone is a winner.

I will undoubtedly be highlighting this article as a reference point in my own blog articles, so please feel free to contribute your thoughts at http://www.zuludigital.co.uk/blogs.php.

Keep up the good work! Thanks again!

Zulu’s last blog post..A few Email Marketing pointers

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56 Random9 March 3, 2009 at 8:43 am

I think I’m going to be very busy for the next little while implementing some of these tips. Great work thanks.

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57 Evan March 4, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Just a quick question. Is it cheating if you use the same post to guest post on several different blogs?

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58 Alex March 4, 2009 at 6:03 pm

That’s called “duplicate content”, and you can get penalized by Google for having the same content on different sites. It hurts your SEO, so make sure that whatever content you post anywhere is fresh and not a copy and paste.

Good question!

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59 Janith March 6, 2009 at 7:45 pm

Alex really hit the point home, and there isn’t much I can add to it except maybe;

If you look into article marketing – it’s all about writing articles and submit it to large directories such as eZineArticles or GoArticles, because they will link to you.

Now, honestly – writing a quality article for a near-traffic-less back-link doesn’t seem too feasible to any blogger – hence we take one article; reword it and submit it to different article directories.

Personally, I don’t bother with them – because I find it better to post that article on your own personal blog and promoting it otherwise – tends to be more productive ;)

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60 Evan March 4, 2009 at 8:32 pm

Ahh, thank you! It’s amazing how Google can track all this stuff through a blog post!

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61 Janith March 6, 2009 at 7:41 pm

Google knows everything, you can’t hide anything from it :P

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62 EnvewGave March 10, 2009 at 2:29 am

Hello, I can’t understand how to add your blog in my rss reader
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my blog: http://werato.ru/

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63 Janith March 10, 2009 at 5:05 am

Oh, just visit our Feed URL and on the top right hand corner, there are several ways you can subscribe to us :)
Just select your favorite RSS Reader and follow the prompts! :)

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64 jakki March 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm

Hi, Thanks for writing a useful article.
It definitely will help me to get PR and higher traffic to my sites.

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65 David March 10, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Hey thanks for the great Tip’s to increae PR.

This is great for all not just newbies

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66 Zhana March 10, 2009 at 3:07 pm

This is a great post. Thanks for all these suggestions.

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67 Dendy Young March 11, 2009 at 10:37 am

Thanks for sharing, its really helpful.. waiting for the next advice :D

Dendy Young’s last blog post..Samsung OZ Double Folder Phone Review

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68 Janith March 12, 2009 at 8:47 am

No worries Dendy, glad you found it useful!
Your going to love our next “Tips & Tricks” post ;)

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69 Suganindia March 12, 2009 at 6:02 am

Hey i’ve read it somewhere before…
Anyway thanks you seem to own it

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70 future weapons March 12, 2009 at 1:58 pm

where to get the top commentator plugin?

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71 Alex March 12, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Check out this URL for Top Commentators plugins.

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72 miccy March 12, 2009 at 7:47 pm

Thanks for the post, and your blog’s comment is dofollow, thanks! :D

miccy’s last blog post..Real Crisis

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73 Master March 13, 2009 at 2:34 am

Really Nice info.. thanks for sharing..

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74 Ryan Persad March 13, 2009 at 1:35 pm

Thanks man thats some neat info their, i will try and implement some of those on my site

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75 Felicita Vazquez March 18, 2009 at 7:38 pm

Definitely a must read post for all people whom are making an incursion on building website traffic using SEO technique.
Right now I’m designing a new blog base on Wordpress and for sure I will include the majority of these technique in my promotional efforts.

Queen007

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76 ~Kat~ March 23, 2009 at 8:54 am

Another plug in that I really like that rewards commentors is Keyword Luv. It allows your commentors to enter their name as name@url. It then separates the name and creates a very nice keyword link that doesn’t look spammy. I use it on all of my blogs.

Great list BTW. I really need to work more on the social networking side of things.

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77 Alex Wrobel March 23, 2009 at 2:54 pm

Great post! Lots of relevant content and information that is sure to help anyone get their blog ranked higher.

Alex Wrobel’s last blog post..Getting your blog indexed on google

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78 Simon | Teenius March 30, 2009 at 12:39 pm

Awesome post, Janith, was great to read and had some tips in there that I hadn’t thought about. Regarding post 31-33, is Twitter honestly that great? I mean, I had a Twitter resource site a while ago.. had a nice following on Twitter and hardly received any traffic from it.

Everyone raves about it, but I think I’m missing something. :(

Simon | Teenius’s last blog post..Tips For Commenting On People’s Blogs

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79 Janith April 6, 2009 at 9:05 am

Twitter is a bit of a bumpy ride – where it’s almost like a mini blog.Just like getting RSS Subscribers, you need to work on getting followers.

Only once you have a solid follower-ship, can you start benefiting from it – it’s not easy but I’m learning too :)

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80 teenwebguru April 8, 2009 at 9:14 am

Wow, great in-depth post. It will take a while to do all these link-building techniques. Thanks for all the tips.

teenwebguru’s last blog post..40 Common Negative Thoughts

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81 Janith April 8, 2009 at 11:53 pm

Glad you found it useful, TeenWebGuru – if there’s anything you want to add; please be our guest :)

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82 Linn April 9, 2009 at 10:22 pm

excellent information, I love it.

I like the way you divide the categories too.. very informative and useful.. I also allow do-follow commenting.. and have done about 30 of them you mentioned, but I will also try to utilize the rest of them, so that it will get better.

cheers

Linn’s last blog post..Earn Money Online – Easy and Effective Bidvertiser Referral

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83 Janith April 10, 2009 at 3:29 am

Glad you liked it too, Linn!
Hope you can utilize all of these techniques :)

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84 asghar April 10, 2009 at 1:54 am

Ok, as per your suggestions I’ll try to get more backlink from different websites. thnx for your suggestions.

Asghar Paracha

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85 Janith April 10, 2009 at 3:23 am

No worries, Asghar! Great to see our readers still benefiting from this post :)

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86 William Claxton April 11, 2009 at 12:08 pm

Great post. I need to figure out a real direction that I want my blog to go in first, then I’ll start the link hustling!

Have subscribed to your blog and look forward to more great posts.

William Claxton’s last blog post..What I find annoying about Twitter & what they need to improve.

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87 Freelance Designer April 13, 2009 at 5:28 am

This is a great post. Thanks for all these suggestions

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88 Hanna @ slumdog millionaire April 13, 2009 at 6:51 pm

Keyword Luv is the greatest WordPress plugin. I can’t imagine blogging without it and I don’t understand why other bloggers don’t use it as well.

Hanna @ slumdog millionaire’s last blog post..About Us

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89 almir April 15, 2009 at 7:11 pm

these are great tips this for sure is worth a bookmark because i learned a lot of ways in which it can help me in the process of building backlinks to my website

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90 Seth October 24, 2009 at 1:43 pm

Great we are glad you liked it!

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91 Keith (Freebird) Freeman April 27, 2009 at 11:02 pm

Thanks for the useful information. Working on your tips is one of my projects for this evening.

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92 SERPGenius May 5, 2009 at 5:28 am

You should consider breaking the Comment Section into pages…took me ages to load this page – took me longer to scroll to the bottom..

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93 Linn May 5, 2009 at 10:51 pm

very comprehensive tips.. Loving it.

nice read.

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94 MeiYah May 8, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Helpful tips…. nice one…

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95 Zulfikar May 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm

Great tips and well written.

I like the idea behind point 10 to 13 and the last part point 41 onwards was a above and beyond the call of duty :)

Cheers for sharing and keep up the good work *thumbs up*

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96 Hanna @ Watch Live Soccer May 15, 2009 at 5:05 pm

I feel so accomplished because I actually utilize most of your 45 tips. However, haveing it all organized in a list is very helpful. Thank you for making the effort.

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97 Zdeno Ceman @ 8bitmagazine.com May 23, 2009 at 5:37 pm

Very very useful article. I learned lot from this post. Some of this techniques am using from earlier. My blog is new too. This is my second month and already i have almost 1000 visit a day, thanks to just a few methods mentioned in this post. Maybe that is not much for someone but i am more than satisfied with my progress. + i am lazy writer. So even lazy people can benefit from this :P

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98 Nick Tart May 24, 2009 at 10:14 pm

#4) You’re definitely right about the lists. The number “45″ is the central selling point of this article. Additionally, I was watching a video by Michael Dunlop (of Retire@21.com) and he actually outsources list articles to companies because they are so effective at drawing traffic to his site.

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99 Alex May 25, 2009 at 10:56 am

I know Michael, and he said he was dyslexic, so that makes sense for him to outsource then for sure.

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100 Management College In Indore May 29, 2009 at 1:32 am

Really the information is provided you is very helpful and thanks for sharing it.

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101 Joe June 15, 2009 at 8:34 am

Regarding paid link building. We’ve had some success with purchases sponsorships in local chambers of commerce. The link is usually dofollow, traffic generating, and relevant to our website.
Joe´s last blog ..Kennewick WA Homes for Sale

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102 Charles June 18, 2009 at 2:10 am

LOL! I like #37. DON’T ask Darren Rowse, ShoeMoney, Matt Cutts… for back-links.

Actually you can, but you need to first get to their level. Meanwhile, try to get in a guest post. Or become friends with them. Maybe they’ll like you and give you a link ;-)
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103 Janith June 18, 2009 at 4:06 pm

That’s certainly true, but I guess once you reach their level – you won’t really be needing any SEO help from a link. At that stage, I think it would more for “traffic-reasons” because let’s face it; I doubt any of them even need SEO to keep going. Their fanbase and reputation is well known through out the blogging community at large. That said, they still follow strict guidelines of course ;)

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104 Richael | Domain Marvelous June 21, 2009 at 2:58 pm

Col tips, no wonder you got so many comments on this post :)
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105 Web Design Lincolnshire June 30, 2009 at 8:00 am

Some excellent tips here. I love to do some videos and place those videos online. Social media is a great way to promote your products, services and websites.

communities are great to help build an online presence.
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106 Pinyo July 10, 2009 at 1:44 pm

Just found your site today and love it. Impressive work for someone as young as you. This is a nice ideas list, thank you.
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107 SEO Company July 13, 2009 at 6:20 pm

These are some great tips for bloggers. I especially like the 45th tip about paid reviews.

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108 ZQ | Travel Blog August 7, 2009 at 8:15 am

Great tips esp. (9. Release a Press Release) – not sure how that can applied to my blog – hopefully the link provided will help

ZQ
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109 Chris Mollo August 14, 2009 at 7:26 am

Wow! You are very talented. You have a bright future in writing and blogging, Janith. This post was incredibly helpful to me. I’m 34 and just started blogging, and I’m using Blogger. I’ve set goals for myself to progress to my own domain and hosting account once I hit certain traffic levels. I want to make sure I have a knack for it before I invest money. Great blog here! Thanks.
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110 Dayo Nurudeen August 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

I am one of your biggest fan, I came here from Problogger.net , Good Job man.

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111 Goran Web August 30, 2009 at 11:30 am

Thank you for the list SEO Tips.

I am hoping you could help me. I have spent the last few months looking for a really simple tool. I was hoping you would know of one that could help me.

I have a list of urls that we have added a link to, we have the anchor text, and we have the links that the anchor text is pointing to.

Every program that I have tried requires that we add a SINGLE DOMAIN and then it verifies that the link is pointing back.

I would like to upload a list of different domains that different links are pointing to.

Thus, I would add a csv containing the link where the url is, the anchor text and the url the link is pointing to and the software would verify that this is correct.

Thanks.

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112 Anna @ Best Mineral Makeup September 3, 2009 at 8:08 am

Wow – what a great list. If I can nail just 10 of these Im sure Ill see an increase in my SE rankings. Im currently trying to get going with twitter and social media. So far its going well but its a massive learning curve. Should I expect decent traffic from these types of social media ordo they serve purely as a link for SE rankings?
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113 Hakeem - technology and gadgets September 6, 2009 at 11:48 pm

I’ll try to follow as many as possible.
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114 Joel Libava September 8, 2009 at 11:14 am

Thank you so much for all of these great tips. I am always open to learning!

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115 iklan baris gratis September 18, 2009 at 3:19 am

Just found your site today and love it. Impressive work for someone as young as you. This is a nice ideas list, thank you.
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116 Volksphone September 19, 2009 at 9:26 am

Wow, what a nice seo list. This is awesome. Thanks i print this page out and try to get this things done.
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117 oes tsetnoc September 24, 2009 at 2:41 am

I really like your link building tips, what i dont like is the paid link building which you can buy your link to other website like paid reviews etc.. I think google and yahoo are not like that link building tactics.
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118 Mike Kirkeberg September 26, 2009 at 10:14 am

I catch some of the best ideas on blogging from your stuff. I started blogging later in life with a focus on boomers. Link building is one of those things that has remained just a little out of my reach. You’ve offered some ideas that II can always put into action right away. Keep it up.
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119 Seth September 26, 2009 at 11:26 am

Thanks, just like in offline business who you know is important. Building links is really just building a network of blogs and sites that are willing to share your blog with others. Good luck and hope to see you around some more!
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120 Joe October 5, 2009 at 2:35 pm

Personally I’m not a blogger, Im a website kinda person. But I still found these tips helpfull !

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121 swasa October 15, 2009 at 1:57 am

Thanks for providing the very nice tips about building links to promote your blog.

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122 Candi May October 19, 2009 at 8:47 pm

Great article. I will use this great info with my blogging Meetup group. Keep up the good work.

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123 Seth October 24, 2009 at 1:45 pm

Thanks, we hope this helps and that you find many more articles useful on Blogussion.
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124 buytextlinks October 30, 2009 at 1:34 pm

Incredibly comprehensive list. I noticed you mentioned squdoo, but none of the other hosted blog solutions. There are several of them, including weebly and blogspot. I like to create pages on several sites like this, and syndicate my content from my main blog, adding a link that goaes back to my main site in each article. I also like to add an occasional unique piece to each site, and build a few quality backlinks to each.

The advantage to this is that sometimes you get get several of your sites on the first page of a serp, increasing the odds that someone will trickle down to your main site.

Can you imaging having 4 of of the top 10 resutls on a SERP? Talk about blowing your competition away.
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125 Fuzzygalore November 1, 2009 at 10:16 pm

It’s funny how as a blogger you can share a piece of yourself with the world yet feel shy about actively promoting it. At least that’s my predicament. Hopefully I can learn to follow some of your great tips. Thanks bunches-
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126 henry Mueller November 25, 2009 at 2:52 am

Great promoting ideas, especially first ones. I am glad I get to know to about this page and learn more about blogging. This is the perfect I am doing my tasks with the help of these ideas. I thought I was a beginner, now I feel like an expert blogger. Keep up good work. Thanks again. Also try this one egnut link building

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127 Patrick Kallie December 11, 2009 at 1:58 pm

These are very good ideas to get you more traffic. I think a lot of times is that people get so frustrated that they are not getting traffic that they quit before they even get started. You must have plenty of patience to build up your reputation on the net, and when people begin to trust you that’s when you will begin to see more traffic and more sales.

Try not to spend to much time on the social networks, their good but they can really use up a lo of your time if you are not careful. If you are just starting out on the web, make sure that you set up a time schedule because you will be much more productive. With out a schedule you will find your self wasting a lot of your valuable time just surfing the web. For all of the people just starting out their is a learning curve that you have to go through until you get comfortable with what you are doing. If you are trying to blog to make a income you have to treat it like a business.

When I first got started with my site, it took me about a good 2 months before I saw any kind of money from adsense. One thing that I have learned that i will share with you is that checking your adsense stats every day is not a good thing to do when you are first starting out. Most people that don’t see a big jump in their adsense totals will get discouraged and mabe quit. The first month is when you will see if this is something that you want to do for profit or not.

But i can tell you this much if you stick with it you will greatly be rewarded, but in the beginning you can expect to be working for free or less than that. LoL If you plan on blogging make sure that you are blogging about something that you have a lot of passion for. If you start blogging about something you are not passionate about it will show up in your content.

Remember in blogging that it is all about content, if you content is not great who is going to want to subscribe to you site? Who is going to want to buy your products or services? Before you do an anything make sure that you have killer content to keep people coming back for more. With killer content you give them a reason to come back and also bring a friend or two with them, this is the way viral marketing is suppose to be. It’s also good to network with other marketers so you can bounce ideas off of each other. Maybe you will be the next millionaire marketer on the net who knows?
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128 aks December 14, 2009 at 4:10 pm

thanks for your tips and suggestion after a long time i read this type of article. thanks again.

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129 scheng1 December 16, 2009 at 9:09 am

I should have read this long ago. I dont understand the concept of back links until a couple of weeks ago!
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130 Patrick Kallie December 16, 2009 at 3:23 pm

You will be learning a lot as you go, you will never know it all no matter how long you have been on the internet.

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131 Boris December 22, 2009 at 9:13 pm

Thanks for yoru useful tips!

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132 Patrick Kallie December 22, 2009 at 10:27 pm

Boris just use some of these tips, find the ones that work for you!

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133 Brian J Cody, author December 24, 2009 at 10:29 am

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134 Brian J Cody, author December 24, 2009 at 10:32 am

Very sound strategies for link buiding ideas. I am using many of those strategies myself. Feel free to follow me on Twitter @=>
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135 Nezine December 24, 2009 at 1:31 pm

Very informative! Thanks for the comprehenive points.

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136 MyPinoyOnline January 5, 2010 at 2:12 pm

whoah!

talk about great lists of tips. this will definitely hit my site.
thanks for sharing.

all my heart!
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137 JakartaWeb January 18, 2010 at 8:29 am

Great tips!
It’s really help me as I’m working on my website SEO.
Still on progress for the SEO. http://www.jakartawebhosting.com
Regards,
Jun.

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138 Budget Van Lines January 26, 2010 at 1:10 pm

awesome tips..thanks for making your blog do-follow!

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139 Serita Saugis February 7, 2010 at 3:49 am

amazing stuff thanx Such a usefule blog…wow !!!!

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140 Website Optimisation February 11, 2010 at 4:56 am

Some really good tips here. Thanks for posting it. I think the “100 best/worst…” type blog titles certainly tend to show up well and are good material for submission to Digg etc. too.

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141 Tharun February 17, 2010 at 8:20 am

Thanks for the great article……

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142 Used Smart Cars March 4, 2010 at 2:30 am

Thanks for making this impressive list for making proper & quality link building.

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