Ping.fm
This is a great site. The idea behind it is great and hopefully it will make my social marketing a much easier experience.
in reference to: Ping.fm / Your Dashboard (view on Google Sidewiki)Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Sunday, February 3, 2008
icefishingpro.com
Check out this awesome blog that is all about ice fishing.
http://www.icefishingpro.blogspot.com
I'm quite impressed with it.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Article Marketing is Frustrating
I just posted a new article online.
Article: GoArticles.com
So once again I am sitting here trying to figure out what to write and hoping that something insightful will come to my mind. So far it is not going very well but I have made very few grammatical or spelling errors. I'm trying to write another article about ice fishing but there is only so much that I can actually put into words. I have created a website all about it and now I am just trying to get the word out about it. If you type ice fishing pro into google you will find it and I'll definitely add a link at the end of this article. It is so tough but I guess I just have to put in a lot more hours into it.
Something that I have notice about letting my articles freely propagate throughout the net is that some webmasters are so rude that they will just post it up on their crappy sites without giving me proper credit and a link. I don't think that it is so much to ask and I would definitely give credit for the work that some poor sucker did. All I could do was just ask them to add my link. I was polite. But I just did that this morning and will probably never get any responses.
I have been at this article marketing thing for about two months now and have posted four articles online. I'm quite pleased with my work and it has actually gotten me about six extra hits a day but only one back link. I don't know if that is any good but I'm going to keep at it for as long as it keeps increasing my traffic. I really want this to work. Sitting in front of a computer and watching money roll in is my idea of the perfect job. I have signed up for quite a few of those make money online programs but the problem with those are that they all say the same thing, post online advertise and make money. Well that is a bloody brilliant scheme but it is not quite that easy. If it was, everyone would be millionaires. That would be a pretty scary world to live in.
Back to article marketing. I have found about a hundred or so site that will accept my submissions but when I check search engines I find no trace of my submission through their site. I have whittled it down to about a half dozen site that I submit to. I do this not to limit my exposure but to prevent myself from wasting time.
Article marketing can be a double edged blade. One side is the bit of added exposure that your site will get but the other side is the amount of time and creativity that it takes to actually make these silly things. Oh well, I'm going to keep at it until I figure out a much easier legal way to spread my messages across the net. I think you should too, although it may be frustrating it is definitely worth the small amount of work that you actually have to do.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
How to Build Backlinks
I found this article at http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-build-backlinks-article-16.php and thought it deserved a backlink.
It is out of question that quality backlinks are crucial to SEO
success. More, the question is how to get them. While with on-page
content optimization it seems easier because everything is up to you
to do and decide, with backlinks it looks like you have to rely on
others to work for your success. Well, this is partially true because
while backlinks are links that start on another site and point to
yours, you can discuss with the Web master of the other site details
like the anchor text, for example. Yes, it is not the same as
administering your own sites – i.e. you do not have total
control over backlinks – but still there are many aspects that
can be negotiated.
Getting Backlinks the Natural Way
The idea behind including backlinks as part of the page rank
algorithm is that if a page is good, people will start linking to it.
And the more backlinks a page has, the better. But in practice it is
not exactly like this. Or at least you cannot always rely on the fact
that your contents is good and people will link to you. Yes, if your
content is good and relevant you can get a lot of quality backlinks,
including from sites with similar topic as yours (and these are the
most valuable kind of backlinks, especially if the anchor text
contains your keywords) but what you get without efforts could be
less than what you need to successfully promote your site. So, you
will have to resort to other ways of acquiring quality backlinks as
described next.
Ways to Build Backlinks
Even if plenty of backlinks come to your site the natural way,
additional quality backlinks are always welcome and the time you
spend building them is not wasted. Among the acceptable ways of
building quality backlinks are getting listed in directories, posting
in forums, blogs and article directories. The unacceptable ways
include inter-linking (linking from one site to another site, which
is owned by the same owner or exists mainly for the purpose to be a
link farm), linking to spam sites or sites that host any kind of
illegal content, purchasing links in bulk, linking to link farms,
etc.
The first step in building backlinks is to find the places from
which you can get quality backlinks. A valuable assistant in this
process is the Backlink
Builder tool. When you enter the keywords of your choice, the
Backlink Builder tool gives you a list of sites where you can post an
article, message, posting, or simply a backlink to your site. After
you have the list of potential backlink partners, it is up to you to
visit each of the sites and post your content with the backlink to
your site in it.
You might wonder why sites as those, listed by the Backlink
Builder tool provide such a precious asset as backlinks for free. The
answer is simple – they need content for their site. When you
post an article, or submit a link to your site, you do not get paid
for this. You provide them for free with something they need –
content – and in return they also provide you for free with
something you need – quality backlinks. It is a free trade, as
long as the sites you post your content or links are respected and
you don't post fake links or content.
Getting Listed in Directories
If you are serious about your Web presence, getting listed in
directories like DMOZ and Yahoo is a must – not only because
this is a way to get some quality backlinks for free, but also
because this way you are easily noticed by both search engines and
potential visitors. Generally inclusion in search directories is free
but the drawback is that sometimes you have to wait a couple of
months before you get listed in the categories of your choice.
Forums
and Article Directories
Generally search engines index forums so posting in forums and
blogs is also a way to get quality backlinks with the anchor text you
want. If the forum or blog is a respected one, a backlink is
valuable. However, in some cases the forum or blog administrator can
edit your post, or even delete it if it does not fit into the forum
or blog policy. Also, sometimes administrators do not allow links in
posts, unless they are relevant ones. In some rare cases (which are
more an exception than a rule) the owner of a forum or a blog would
have banned search engines from indexing it and in this case posting
backlinks there is pointless.
While forum postings can be short and do not require much effort,
submitting articles to directories can be more time-consuming because
generally articles are longer than posts and need careful thinking
while writing them. But it is also worth and it is not so difficult
to do.
Content Exchange and Affiliate Programs
Content exchange and affiliate programs are similar to the
previous method of getting quality backlinks. For instance, you can
offer to interested sites RSS feeds for free. When the other site
publishes your RSS feed, you will get a backlink to your site and
potentially a lot of visitors, who will come to your site for more
details about the headline and the abstract they read on the other
site.
Affiliate programs are also good for getting more visitors (and
buyers) and for building quality backlinks but they tend to be an
expensive way because generally the affiliate commission is in the
range of 10 to 30 %. But if you have an affiliate program anyway, why
not use it to get some more quality backlinks?
News Announcements and Press Releases
Although this is hardly an everyday way to build backlinks, it is an approach that gives good results, if handled properly. There are many sites (for instance, here is a list of some of them) that publish for free or for a fee news announcements and press releases. A professionally written press release about an important event can bring you many, many visitors and the backlink from a respected site to yours is a good boost to your SEO efforts. The tricky part is that you cannot release press releases if there is nothing newsworthy. That is why we say that news announcements and press releases are not a commodity way to build backlinks.
Backlink Building Practices to Avoid
One of the practices that is to be avoided is link exchange. There
are many programs, which offer to barter links. The principle is
simple – you put a link to a site, they put a backlink to your
site. There are a couple of important things to consider with link
exchange programs. First, take care about the ratio between outbound
and inbound links. If your outbound links are times your inbound,
this is bad. Second (and more important) is the risk that your link
exchange partners are link farms. If this is the case, you could even
be banned from search engines, so it is too risky to indulge in link
exchange programs.
Linking to suspicious places is something else that you must
avoid. While it is true that search engines do not punish you if you
have backlinks from such places because it is supposed that you have
no control over what bad guys link to, if you enter a link exchange
program with the so called bad neighbors and you link to them, this
can be disastrous to your SEO efforts. For more details about bad
neighbors, check the Bad
Neighborhood article. Also, beware of getting tons of links in a
short period of time because this still looks artificial and
suspicious.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Obstacle Course - CollegeHumor video
Obstacle Course - CollegeHumor video
This game show looks so much better than American Gladiators ever could be.
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