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Casual Articles - Linking Strategies for 2006
Since its inception the Internet has brought fame and fortune to many individuals. For example, news broke not so long ago, of a couple from the UK who, in double-quick time, grew an online dating agency from zero to an income of hundreds of thousands. The value of their business is reckoned to be in the multi-million dollar range.Since then, I heard of one gal who has struck gold selling bras and underwear and a guy who is making a nice living with his website on fly-fishing. Fly-fishing for heavens sake! Who would have thought there was any money in that? But there most certainly is. It’s a niche site offering a niche product. The perfect ingredients for online success!More often than not the product or service is so simple, we ask ourselves: why didn`t I think of that? I`ll bet many of you can recall similar success stories. Indeed, anyone with a spark of life inside them will think: I can do that. That is when the dream starts; to emulate these successful entrepr
Directories
Some say the days of directories being regarded as quality back links is all but over. I disagree. In fact, with the emphasis being placed on quality one-way linking, it has never been more important to consider the value of adding your site to some quality directories, even if that means paying a small fee to submit. I have included a list of some of the more affordable, yet still valuable directories for you to check out. Fees vary from $14 to $300. Do what you can afford for now and as you can add your site to some of the more expensive ones, do so. Make sure you are very careful to follow submission guidelines. Directories like Dmoz.org will not tolerate any submission that doesn't follow their particular guidelines. It is very important to ensure that your site is listed in the most relevant category in a given directory. If you can't find the right category, try contacting the author and ask that they add a new category that fits your site properly description-wise.
http://dmoz.org/
http://dir.yahoo.com/
http://www.joeant.com/
http://www.skaffe.com/
http://www.bluefind.com/
http://www.zeal.com/
http://www.goguides.org/
http://www.gimpsy.com/
http://www.wowdirectory.com/
http://www.sevenseek.com/
http://www.thisisouryear.com/
http://search.looksmart.com/
Site "Stickiness"
As we mentioned earlier, we use this term to describe
Creating your own blog account is relatively easy, especially when compared to building a website. Even if you're using a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editor to build a simple website, you will still have to design every page, purchase a domain and hosting, and figure out how to upload your work to your site. This is not so with a blog. If you create your own blog account with with a large blog network, you will actually be able to do it for free and without worry that you wont be able to figure out how to upload new pages.So how do you go about creating your own blog account? You should start by selecting the type of blog you wish to create. For instance, are you using blogs to promote your business or for to chronicle your daily life? This will affect how you go about creating your own blog account.If you're using a blog to chronicle your daily life, you may want to create an account with a network such as Myspace. Myspace will give you a simple means to
As Google began to place more importance on links pointing to your site, it became necessary to ensure that other sites linking to yours had related content and a fairly good Google Page Rank. Webmasters everywhere began reciprocal linking campaigns and found the process to be very tedious and time-consuming. To answer the call for something more efficient, software programs were developed which had the ability to automate much of the reciprocal linking process, saving considerable time for other things.
These programs for the most part, had a short life-span because Google frowned heavily on using automated programs to acquire links. It developed more sophisticated algorithms to sniff out sites that were engaged in automated reciprocal linking strategies and penalize them. Google's philosophy seems to be - "grow your site slow. Build sites that contribute something valuable to their engine's return pages. Ad quality content slowly . . . add back-links gradually."
It seems that if your intention is to follow Google's guidelines simply for the sake of increasing Page Rank quickly, you're going to have trouble.
Today, we find ourselves faced with even more stringent guidelines for acquiring back-links. Google is now taking a more sophisticated view of things. Sites that naturally acquire back-links without any reciprocity are the ones being rewarded the most for their efforts. This shift to tighten things up even further has spawned the buzz-term, "link bait." Link bait simply refers to a web site that has done such an excellent job of adding valuable content for it's visitors that other web sites are linking to it without being asked to, simply because they want their visitors to enjoy the added content of the site they have linked to. This seems to be Google's definition for "natural linking." As you can well imagine, this slows the whole process of increasing Page Rank even further.
So where does that leave us today? If you are limited as to what you can do to influence Page Rank by only acquiring back-links naturally, what else, if anything, can you do to speed up the process without sounding an alarm with the se's? Well, fortunately for us, adding valuable content does not necessarily just mean to the pages of our site alone. There are several other ways to get people to add a link to your site from theirs.
Article Writing
One of the fastest ways to acquire links is to write and submit articles based around the knowledge you have of your sites theme and submit them to Article Directories such as - www.articles.com & www.goarticles.com . You can usually add a certain number of articles to their data base for free and after that there is a nominal charge for submission. Other webmasters who are looking for valuable content to add to their pages that don't feel they can write very well themselves are happily picking-up articles from these directories to add to their sites. In the guidelines for using articles from these sites is that webmasters must include the authors by-line in the article. If you include a link to your site in your by-line, then you will naturally acquire much needed back-links.
The only draw-back to this method is that you have no control over which sites pick-up your articles. Not being able to control this factor leaves some authors worried about their articles being posted on sites which may be considered 'bad neighborhoods.' My own feeling about this is that for every 'bad neighborhood' site that posts your article, you'll get a back-link from 10 sites that aren't since the whole point of adding valuable content is compliant with the se's in the first place.
I once wrote 2 articles with a pet theme and submitted them to only 2 article directories. The results over the next few months were astounding! A quick search in the se's using my name or the article name revealed 100's of sites that had added my articles.
Not only will this method of acquiring back-links help but you'll find that you'll become regarded as an 'expert' on the web over time, in your particular field.
Article Swap/Bartering
In some cases, if you have written some excellent articles, you may be able to find another web master who is willing to trade for some advertising space on his site. You provide him or her with several articles to post for his visitors and he in-turn would allow you some space to advertise your own web site. Or perhaps the webmaster has articles of his own that you could swap, thus adding much needed fresh content while at the same time adding a valuable back link for both of you.
Press Releases.
A Press Release is a great way to attract almost instant attention and get exposure by announcing your business to news wire services all over the globe. Every news wire service that picks up your Press Release and adds it to their RSS feed means a back-link for you. So here, not only are you creating an opportunity to share with others the announcement of your new business, but you're also indirectly going to boost your web linking popularity as well. I use the service provided by the folks at www.prweb.com . They will actually let you send a limited exposure Press Release for free if you can't afford to pay. The more money you contribute, the greater the exposure your Press Release will get, as well as some other added features.
Take some time to learn how to draft a great Press Release, after all, it is going to be looked at by journalists all over the world. It has to be newsworthy and it has to have appeal to as broad an audience as possible.
Directories
Some say the days of directories being regarded as quality back links is all but over. I disagree. In fact, with the emphasis being placed on quality one-way linking, it has never been more important to consider the value of adding your site to some quality directories, even if that means paying a small fee to submit. I have included a list of some of the more affordable, yet still valuable directories for you to check out. Fees vary from $14 to $300. Do what you can afford for now and as you can add your site to some of the more expensive ones, do so. Make sure you are very careful to follow submission guidelines. Directories like Dmoz.org will not tolerate any submission that doesn't follow their particular guidelines. It is very important to ensure that your site is listed in the most relevant category in a given directory. If you can't find the right category, try contacting the author and ask that they add a new category that fits your site properly description-wise.
http://dmoz.org/
http://dir.yahoo.com/
http://www.joeant.com/
http://www.skaffe.com/
http://www.bluefind.com/
http://www.zeal.com/
http://www.goguides.org/
http://www.gimpsy.com/
http://www.wowdirectory.com/
http://www.sevenseek.com/
http://www.thisisouryear.com/
http://search.looksmart.com/
Site "Stickiness"
As we mentioned earlier, we use this term to describe a
Who do you know?Hopefully, your customers...I read "Obvious Adams" again the other night because its a quick read and a great refresher for the mind. It causes "accurate thinking" as Napoleon Hill calls it. I'm beginning to think that I need to send a copy to each of my clients just to help them think a little more accurately. Like a cup of coffee for the subconscious mind, perhaps.Every business coach has a list of standard things that they ask their clients in one situation or another. The reason for this is that...your business is NOT different, even though everyone thinks theirs is.One of the things I ask is "tell me about your clients". I use it when I've been asked to help them figure out how to improve their existing lead generation efforts, find new sources of quality leads and improve their sales performance with those leads. It's yet another one of those "Why'd he ask me that?" questions.Rarely do I get a really good qu
So where does that leave us today? If you are limited as to what you can do to influence Page Rank by only acquiring back-links naturally, what else, if anything, can you do to speed up the process without sounding an alarm with the se's? Well, fortunately for us, adding valuable content does not necessarily just mean to the pages of our site alone. There are several other ways to get people to add a link to your site from theirs.
Article Writing
One of the fastest ways to acquire links is to write and submit articles based around the knowledge you have of your sites theme and submit them to Article Directories such as - www.articles.com & www.goarticles.com . You can usually add a certain number of articles to their data base for free and after that there is a nominal charge for submission. Other webmasters who are looking for valuable content to add to their pages that don't feel they can write very well themselves are happily picking-up articles from these directories to add to their sites. In the guidelines for using articles from these sites is that webmasters must include the authors by-line in the article. If you include a link to your site in your by-line, then you will naturally acquire much needed back-links.
The only draw-back to this method is that you have no control over which sites pick-up your articles. Not being able to control this factor leaves some authors worried about their articles being posted on sites which may be considered 'bad neighborhoods.' My own feeling about this is that for every 'bad neighborhood' site that posts your article, you'll get a back-link from 10 sites that aren't since the whole point of adding valuable content is compliant with the se's in the first place.
I once wrote 2 articles with a pet theme and submitted them to only 2 article directories. The results over the next few months were astounding! A quick search in the se's using my name or the article name revealed 100's of sites that had added my articles.
Not only will this method of acquiring back-links help but you'll find that you'll become regarded as an 'expert' on the web over time, in your particular field.
Article Swap/Bartering
In some cases, if you have written some excellent articles, you may be able to find another web master who is willing to trade for some advertising space on his site. You provide him or her with several articles to post for his visitors and he in-turn would allow you some space to advertise your own web site. Or perhaps the webmaster has articles of his own that you could swap, thus adding much needed fresh content while at the same time adding a valuable back link for both of you.
Press Releases.
A Press Release is a great way to attract almost instant attention and get exposure by announcing your business to news wire services all over the globe. Every news wire service that picks up your Press Release and adds it to their RSS feed means a back-link for you. So here, not only are you creating an opportunity to share with others the announcement of your new business, but you're also indirectly going to boost your web linking popularity as well. I use the service provided by the folks at www.prweb.com . They will actually let you send a limited exposure Press Release for free if you can't afford to pay. The more money you contribute, the greater the exposure your Press Release will get, as well as some other added features.
Take some time to learn how to draft a great Press Release, after all, it is going to be looked at by journalists all over the world. It has to be newsworthy and it has to have appeal to as broad an audience as possible.
Directories
Some say the days of directories being regarded as quality back links is all but over. I disagree. In fact, with the emphasis being placed on quality one-way linking, it has never been more important to consider the value of adding your site to some quality directories, even if that means paying a small fee to submit. I have included a list of some of the more affordable, yet still valuable directories for you to check out. Fees vary from $14 to $300. Do what you can afford for now and as you can add your site to some of the more expensive ones, do so. Make sure you are very careful to follow submission guidelines. Directories like Dmoz.org will not tolerate any submission that doesn't follow their particular guidelines. It is very important to ensure that your site is listed in the most relevant category in a given directory. If you can't find the right category, try contacting the author and ask that they add a new category that fits your site properly description-wise.
http://dmoz.org/
http://dir.yahoo.com/
http://www.joeant.com/
http://www.skaffe.com/
http://www.bluefind.com/
http://www.zeal.com/
http://www.goguides.org/
http://www.gimpsy.com/
http://www.wowdirectory.com/
http://www.sevenseek.com/
http://www.thisisouryear.com/
http://search.looksmart.com/
Site "Stickiness"
As we mentioned earlier, we use this term to describe
If you ask me how much Bobby will sell this month, there is only one way to tell. It isn’t by what Bobby wrote on his forecast sheet. However, with the right information, this is an equation I can get into. If we run the sales activity numbers, we can pretty accurately determine where Bobby will end up this month, quarter and year. As the numbers and ratios change so will the final results. This can be exciting, when we are interested in managing sales and our business through sales activities.Sales activity numbers are an important indicator of success and failure. The problem associated with calculating sales activity is that many salespeople and sales managers don’t keep track of the vital numbers to make the analysis. The numbers aren’t that difficult to track but many people are afraid of what the numbers will reveal. There is a dark side to numbers when used to point out only the negatives.Let’s go back to old early algebra scenarios. We ask Bobby how many sale
The only draw-back to this method is that you have no control over which sites pick-up your articles. Not being able to control this factor leaves some authors worried about their articles being posted on sites which may be considered 'bad neighborhoods.' My own feeling about this is that for every 'bad neighborhood' site that posts your article, you'll get a back-link from 10 sites that aren't since the whole point of adding valuable content is compliant with the se's in the first place.
I once wrote 2 articles with a pet theme and submitted them to only 2 article directories. The results over the next few months were astounding! A quick search in the se's using my name or the article name revealed 100's of sites that had added my articles.
Not only will this method of acquiring back-links help but you'll find that you'll become regarded as an 'expert' on the web over time, in your particular field.
Article Swap/Bartering
In some cases, if you have written some excellent articles, you may be able to find another web master who is willing to trade for some advertising space on his site. You provide him or her with several articles to post for his visitors and he in-turn would allow you some space to advertise your own web site. Or perhaps the webmaster has articles of his own that you could swap, thus adding much needed fresh content while at the same time adding a valuable back link for both of you.
Press Releases.
A Press Release is a great way to attract almost instant attention and get exposure by announcing your business to news wire services all over the globe. Every news wire service that picks up your Press Release and adds it to their RSS feed means a back-link for you. So here, not only are you creating an opportunity to share with others the announcement of your new business, but you're also indirectly going to boost your web linking popularity as well. I use the service provided by the folks at www.prweb.com . They will actually let you send a limited exposure Press Release for free if you can't afford to pay. The more money you contribute, the greater the exposure your Press Release will get, as well as some other added features.
Take some time to learn how to draft a great Press Release, after all, it is going to be looked at by journalists all over the world. It has to be newsworthy and it has to have appeal to as broad an audience as possible.
Directories
Some say the days of directories being regarded as quality back links is all but over. I disagree. In fact, with the emphasis being placed on quality one-way linking, it has never been more important to consider the value of adding your site to some quality directories, even if that means paying a small fee to submit. I have included a list of some of the more affordable, yet still valuable directories for you to check out. Fees vary from $14 to $300. Do what you can afford for now and as you can add your site to some of the more expensive ones, do so. Make sure you are very careful to follow submission guidelines. Directories like Dmoz.org will not tolerate any submission that doesn't follow their particular guidelines. It is very important to ensure that your site is listed in the most relevant category in a given directory. If you can't find the right category, try contacting the author and ask that they add a new category that fits your site properly description-wise.
http://dmoz.org/
http://dir.yahoo.com/
http://www.joeant.com/
http://www.skaffe.com/
http://www.bluefind.com/
http://www.zeal.com/
http://www.goguides.org/
http://www.gimpsy.com/
http://www.wowdirectory.com/
http://www.sevenseek.com/
http://www.thisisouryear.com/
http://search.looksmart.com/
Site "Stickiness"
As we mentioned earlier, we use this term to describe
So you want to make money with Adsense but the first thing that you need to do is select the right keywords and phases to put in the content of your pages. Knowing the right keywords to use is critical to you making lots of money because that will determine how much you get paid for every click. In this article, I will reveal to you the top 150 keywords that can generate large sums of money for you. Now you can easily make money online. The top paying keyword goes for around $75 per click, while the bottom keyword go for around $21.62 per click. Use this information to your advantage.Rank Keyword1 mesothelioma2 cheap auto insurance3 consolidate student loan4 life insurance quote5 cheap car insurance6 refinance home7 car insurance quote8 refinancing9 online car insurance10 online insurance quotes11 criminal defense lawyer12 debt consolidation13 refinance home mortgage14 medical
Press Releases.
A Press Release is a great way to attract almost instant attention and get exposure by announcing your business to news wire services all over the globe. Every news wire service that picks up your Press Release and adds it to their RSS feed means a back-link for you. So here, not only are you creating an opportunity to share with others the announcement of your new business, but you're also indirectly going to boost your web linking popularity as well. I use the service provided by the folks at www.prweb.com . They will actually let you send a limited exposure Press Release for free if you can't afford to pay. The more money you contribute, the greater the exposure your Press Release will get, as well as some other added features.
Take some time to learn how to draft a great Press Release, after all, it is going to be looked at by journalists all over the world. It has to be newsworthy and it has to have appeal to as broad an audience as possible.
Directories
Some say the days of directories being regarded as quality back links is all but over. I disagree. In fact, with the emphasis being placed on quality one-way linking, it has never been more important to consider the value of adding your site to some quality directories, even if that means paying a small fee to submit. I have included a list of some of the more affordable, yet still valuable directories for you to check out. Fees vary from $14 to $300. Do what you can afford for now and as you can add your site to some of the more expensive ones, do so. Make sure you are very careful to follow submission guidelines. Directories like Dmoz.org will not tolerate any submission that doesn't follow their particular guidelines. It is very important to ensure that your site is listed in the most relevant category in a given directory. If you can't find the right category, try contacting the author and ask that they add a new category that fits your site properly description-wise.
http://dmoz.org/
http://dir.yahoo.com/
http://www.joeant.com/
http://www.skaffe.com/
http://www.bluefind.com/
http://www.zeal.com/
http://www.goguides.org/
http://www.gimpsy.com/
http://www.wowdirectory.com/
http://www.sevenseek.com/
http://www.thisisouryear.com/
http://search.looksmart.com/
Site "Stickiness"
As we mentioned earlier, we use this term to describe
Quite a few years ago I needed a used pickup truck . . . well, I wanted one anyway. The need wasn’t urgent and I wasn’t searching daily for one, but periodically I would drive past the used car lots and see what was available. Then I found one. It was a few years old, in good condition, and the price was right.Now, finding a truck and buying a truck are two different things. I knew I could buy the truck, but I what I really needed was to justify the purchase to myself and my to wife. I thought about it. Within ten seconds I came up with a business and marketing plan . . . for my wife.My wife had just quit a job that she liked, but where she was vastly underpaid. She was looking for another job. She had a friend in similar circumstances: both young housewives and mothers looking for spending cash. I bought the truck and drove home. As I was driving I tweaked the plan a little bit and prepared my presentation.I walked into the house and told me wife, “I’ve got a
Directories
Some say the days of directories being regarded as quality back links is all but over. I disagree. In fact, with the emphasis being placed on quality one-way linking, it has never been more important to consider the value of adding your site to some quality directories, even if that means paying a small fee to submit. I have included a list of some of the more affordable, yet still valuable directories for you to check out. Fees vary from $14 to $300. Do what you can afford for now and as you can add your site to some of the more expensive ones, do so. Make sure you are very careful to follow submission guidelines. Directories like Dmoz.org will not tolerate any submission that doesn't follow their particular guidelines. It is very important to ensure that your site is listed in the most relevant category in a given directory. If you can't find the right category, try contacting the author and ask that they add a new category that fits your site properly description-wise.
http://dmoz.org/
http://dir.yahoo.com/
http://www.joeant.com/
http://www.skaffe.com/
http://www.bluefind.com/
http://www.zeal.com/
http://www.goguides.org/
http://www.gimpsy.com/
http://www.wowdirectory.com/
http://www.sevenseek.com/
http://www.thisisouryear.com/
http://search.looksmart.com/
Site "Stickiness"
As we mentioned earlier, we use this term to describe a web site that has done such a great job of providing useful content in a simple to access that other sites will simply want to add a link to it for their own visitors to enjoy. Sites like these don't have to worry much about making an effort to add back links because it just happens for them. This is 'natural linking' at it's finest and if you can build a site with a popular theme and add fresh content on a regular basis that is useful and holds the visitors attention , then you'll enjoy the benefits of hundreds of back links without even trying to find one.
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