April 28th, 2009
1. Create a profile on http://blogs.msdn.com and set up your signature to link to your site. - Page Rank 7
2. http://www.clipclip.org - Use Clipclip to create relevant groups (name your groups the same as your keywords) to your sites’ theme and then deeplink your sites’ pages with URLs and use many tags. Google will then quickly give you backlinks for each url AND tag that you use to describe your pages with. The links from clipclip are “nofollow” but they will be counted by G as backlinks and get you some traffic too.
3. http://www.ning.com - Go to ning and create your own FREE social network that is related to your site. Add forums and threads with deep links to your pages. Get friends and neighbors to join and have them add more photos, videos, forum threads etc. Google counts backlinks from ning almost immediately as its a massive social network.
4. http://www.simpy.com - Simpy is pretty well-known and quite huge too. Sign up and add deep link URLs with tags that match your keywords and, just like clipclip, the google will count all your urls and tags as backlinks.
By: justjeff
April 28th, 2009
Social bookmarking sites are a little different from social networking sites. Some allow you to create a profile. Most will require you to create an account with a username and password. That allows you to use the site and post “bookmarks” to sites that you like - and that you would like to share with other people. It gets really good when you realize that you can “bookmark” your own sites as easily as you can any other. By doing that, you’re essentially creating backlinks for search engines to find and index, and you’re also leaving a link for other users of the site to find and follow.
It’s great stuff - but don’t go overboard!
Do not swamp any social bookmark site with link after link. It’s best to build your links slowly over a period of time – a long term “organic” approach if you will. Most search engine optimizing (seo) experts agree that a slower organic approach to traffic and backlink building sits better with Google. In Google’s eyes (no pun intended) it isn’t natural for a site to go from 0 to 50,000 visitors in a week’s time.
We also suggest that you develop some kind of promotion journal (maybe in Excel) so that you can keep track of each action you take regarding your sites, and the social bookmarks you create for them. Remember, a vital key to successful social bookmarking is to use popular keywords as tags. When you tag your bookmarks with keywords and keyphrases that people are actually using in regular search engines, you will be much more likely to draw traffic to your sites through your publicly shared bookmarks.
By: justjeff
April 28th, 2009
Social networking sites (ex. Myspace and Squidoo) are websites where people come together to chat, interact, exchange ideas, and develop new relationships. In some ways, a modern day social networking website serves a similar function as did the “town square” or the “main drag” for your parents and grandparents.
It’s a place where people go to meet other people and to …. socialize!
From a marketing point of view, social networking websites provide an opportunity to get your ideas and products in front of a lot of eyeballs. At the time of this writing social networking websites are among the most heavily trafficked of ALL websites online.
Practically all social networking sites allow you to create a personal “profile” that reveals, among other things, your personal interests. Other people can access and read your profile online, to learn a bit more about you. Now if the idea of revealing personal details online makes you uncomfortable, just remember that you are not required to reveal your full identity, nor your location, phone number etc. You can even keep your email private if you wish – and we suggest that you do so.
When creating your profile, focus your interests on the topic or niche of the website or product you wish to promote. Then, you can carefully invite profile readers to visit your website(s) and/or your blog(s) where they can learn more about your “topic of personal interest.”
There is nothing sneaky or unethical about this tactic, as long as you are providing informational value to your readers. Just remember – direct selling and marketing IS NOT ALLOWED in most social networking sites. But you can direct interested parties to your blogs and sites if you do so with a bit of social grace.
By: justjeff