Just a quick update to let you know about two new programs that will help you get quality free one way links automatically to your site.

The first is shareapost, this is a great new free service brought to you by Jonathan Leger who is the maker of that great “must have” tool Article Wizard.

This is not only a great way to get one way links to your blog, but also a great way to post fresh content to your own blog.

All you do is signup and enter the details of all your blogs, their spider will find all of your posts and add them to their directory. If any other bloggers want to publish any of your posts on their blog they just hit submit and shareapost automatically publishes it on their blog with keyworded links pointing back to your own blog which is great for that Google love!

The second is a new service called bla.st, this is a free advertising network and directory with a difference.

Instead of just posting a banner or text ad, you place an image card, the image card shows your eye-catching offer, and not only is it displayed on their site, but also on their entire network of sites.

The image cards are far more stunning than a bunch of plain old text adds so your click through rate should be fairly good with the right offer. If you want to have your image appear above all the free image ads, then you can pay as little as $0.01 a day for as many days as you want.

Their entire site is searchable and you are allowed to enter as many keywords as you like, I listed one of my sites and to have a top listing in my category I needed to pay a whopping $3.65 for the whole year

It doesn’t matter if you are a free advertiser or not, all advertisers get a free one way link back to their site, and as I write this, bla.st is a PR5 site.

Happy linking!

Neil

Checking your statistics for your keywords and keyword phrases is very important, if you don’t know how people are getting to your site and what keywords they are using in the search engines, then you are marketing blindly in my opinion.

Tracking any marketing is so important, how can you possibly know what is working  if you aren’t tracking your results?

For instance, if I look at my search statistics for keyword phrases and suddenly see traffic for a keyword phrase I’m not really targeting or hadn’t even thought of targeting, then I get on over to Google and do a search for that keyword phrase to see where I’m ranked.

I then plug that phrase into my all time favorite keyword software (Keyword Elite) to find out how many searches there are a month and what other related keywords there are.

With this new information I will write a few articles to submit to article directories with linking text targeting the keyword phrase to the page that is ranked in Google.

Writing articles to target specific pages in your site will push that page further up the rankings.

Oh, look what I did, I started rambling again…..Now….getting listed in google in under 20 minutes…

Last night I posted a three new pages, I then went to make a coffee (it helps keep me awake ), when I came back and did my usual Google checks I found that all three pages had been listed in Google, and they held several top positions, ranked 1 & 2 for some keyword phrases, and this all happened in less than 20 minutes!!

Now this site gets spidered often, and new pages usually take around 24 hours (or so I thought!), but 20 minutes!! That’s got to be some kind of record, for me anyways, the trouble is I’m not exactly sure why.

I have several theories…..

It could be just a fluke, maybe the Google robot crawled my site just after I posted, but even so, that’s still really quick.

It could be that I have alot of one way links pointing to my site or that I when I post a blog, it gets pinged all over the net.  For that I use the Wordpress plugins Smart Update Pinger and No Ping Wait.

One thing is for sure, if this keeps happening and I find out exactly why, I will post it here for all to see for free, don’t worry, I won’t be writing some crappy ebook and selling it for $97 like the other “gurus” do.

If you have any questions or comments on the above subject, please post away!

And just for fun, check out how these guy’s used google to crack open a safe!

Here’s an article submited by one of our readers on how to write your own articles.

Take note of what Anay Kamat of AnayKamat.com has to say on the subject, and take a look at our article marketing section for even more tips and resources.

Neil

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How to write your own articles?

Everybody knows the importance of having lot of back links to their sites. The ranking of your site on search engines is directly proportional to the number of back links your site has. There are many ways you can increase the number of back links and one most effective way is to publish your articles to article directories. When you publish an article, you can put a link to your site in author’s bio field. However, you should make sure that the articles you publish are your own. This article will show you how to start writing your own articles.

Before starting, you should have a topic in your mind. Initially, you must focus on the topic you know about. This brings out one most important fact that you should be involved in the field related to the topic you want to write about. For example, if you want to write about software programming, then being a programmer and getting yourself actively involved in the forums related to computer programming will help you a lot. Getting involved will help you to understand the problems faced by other people or to know what kind of information people needs. You should also try to read as much as you can about the topic. People who read a lot normally come up with good ideas to write articles. By getting involved, you will get experience and by reading you will get ideas and some required information related to your topic of interest.

Now you know the kind of information people are trying to find. See if you can write something on it. If you are involved in the field of your interest, it is highly possible that you can always say something related to the information which people need. Target this information, and write down whatever you want to say about it in around 4 paragraphs. Don’t think about spellings or grammar at this point of time. Write down whatever comes to your mind and don’t try to stop your mind.

Once you have finished writing, its time to give it finishing touch. Read it yourself and see if there are any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Don’t forget to correct them. If you feel that certain sentences belong to some other paragraph then move them to appropriate paragraph and read the whole article again. Do this, until there are no more errors and your article has a good flow of information. Once you are done with it, think of a title that suits your article. Your title should be such that it tells the reader what your article is about. There goes, you have your own article that you can publish to article directories.

There are many other alternatives to writing articles on your own. You can rewrite existing PLR articles, but that won’t make your articles unique in terms of information. The reason to get involved in the field of your interest is to get experience, information and ideas. Experience, information and ideas are three basic things you need to come up with your own information rich, unique articles. Don’t worry if you find it difficult. Keep writing and practicing. Remember that practice only can make you perfect.

Anay Kamat is a software developer having experience in developing web applications in .NET and PHP. You can find many articles related to web hosting, website design, Ajax and PHP programming on his blog. Visit his blog at AnayKamat.com.

Thanks again for your contribution Shelley!

Neil

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3 Points To Consider When Commencing As An Internet Marketer

When you first decide to become an Internet Marketer, there are a lot of questions that come to mind on just exactly what is important; what is not; what can wait, what can’t. Even though as a casual surfer of the net you could be forgiven for thinking that a career in internet marketing is an overnight journey to untold riches, it is not really like this at all. In fact it can be quite daunting for someone who is just starting out and to that end, after researching numerous internet marketers, both successful ones and those who are still trying to get their business moving, I have determined that the 3 following points should be seriously considered and implemented as soon as you can after starting your business.

#1. You Need A Website

This is without a doubt the most necessary tool you will require in your internet marketing endeavours. It is your first point of contact with your prospects and it is the tool you use to build your credibility in your chosen field. By developing a professional, easy to navigate and most importantly helpful website, that is completely targeted to your niche, you can be sure that your visitors will spend time on your site getting to know you and the products or services you are offering.

As your business begins to develop, ensure that the information and content you provide on your site is original and appealing to your visitors. You can achieve this in a number of ways, but the most popular, easiest and cheapest methods is by posting relevant articles. If you think about it, most people initially start browsing the net looking for information first, and then consider purchasing if they find what they are looking for as a secondary process. So by providing relevant and regularly updated information, you set yourself up as a credible expert in your niche, and in doing so establishing a trustworthy reputation, with the resulting outcome being that your visitors will be more inclined to become your customer by purchasing products or services that you recommend.

#2: Provide Incentives To Your Visitors

Given the number of internet marketers who are vying for your attention on a daily basis, there is a trend to provide incentives or gifts for visitors to receive when they view, join or agree to receive additional information about the product. To this end it is a good idea for you to also provide your visitors with free items that are beneficial and complimentary to the product or service you are selling. These things could include, free membership to a newlsetter or ezine, free software, free tips or advice; anything really that makes your product ‘value added’. This is also an excellent way to get people to sign up for your opt-in list which should become the backbone of your business.

#3: Generate Link Popularity

Traffic is probably the key ingredient to becoming a successful internet marketer. Without visitors to your website you are not going to be able to sell your product or service. Instigate a campaign to generate as many one way links to your website as you possibly can. This linking is highly regarded by Google and other search engines to determine the popularity and quality of your site.

This can be achieved in a number of ways, either free or paid. Some of the best free methods are to post high quality, relevant articles to numerous article directories, ensuring that you include a link to your website in the author’s resource or bio box. The more directories you post to, the more webmasters are likely to pick your article up for their website, thus creating a link back to your site. Post advertisements in forums with your link and include your link in your signature for both forums and emails. Develop a blog and link back to your site from there. There really are many, many ways to generate links to your website without spending a lot of money, so make sure you spend some time properly research and implementing this strategy.

When developing your business, be imaginative, creative, resourceful and most of all determined. Learn as much as you can, but be conscious of your budget. There are so many free resources on the internet and many of them are very useful, so don’t be scared to try them. As you gain experience and your business is starting to grow, explore further and deeper to increase your knowledge which will further help you to become a successful internet marketer.

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Reciprocal links (exchanging links with other websites) can help you rank well depending on the sites you are exchanging with and how many other links are on that page etc, however oneway links are far more powerful, these types of links can really push you up the search engine rankings.

But did you know that posting comments on other peoples blogs is one of the easiest ways to get those links?

There is a small catch though! It’s the dreaded NOFOLLOW attribute.

The NOFOLLOW attribute simply tells the search engines not to follow your link from their page, in other words, any websites that you post your links to that are using this attribute aren’t doing you any good in terms of ranking, the search engines just ignore your link.

However, there is a way to find all the websites that allow you to post comments and that don’t use the NOFOLLOW attribute.

You learn how to get hundreds of free high ranking oneway links here.