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

You can have your blog up and running within an hour, all you would have to do is add content. On a new blog you should post new articles at least twice a week for the first three or four months, search engines love fresh content, if they notice your blog is providing it they we crawl your site regularly.

Anay Kamat, of AnayKamat.com , has a few good tips on how to maintain your blog effectively in his article below.

Thanks for the article Anay!

Neil

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How to maintain your blog effectively

Using services like blogger or scripts like wordpress, it’s not difficult to start your own blog. However, once you have created your own blog, you need to maintain it too. A blog created just for the sake of creating a blog is of no use. You need to use it to express yourself or your ideas while providing useful and good quality information. Also, you need to market it so that people will know about your blog and will come to read it. Let’s see, how you can maintain your blog effectively.

Nobody would like to read your blog, if you provide the same information which is also available on other websites. Thus, you need to make your blog unique. Every person is unique in terms of his ideas, approach and experience. So let your mind flow freely and start posting your experience and ideas. Make sure that you reflect your personality in your writing. Write your posts as if you are talking to your friend. While writing your posts, remember that you posts should be useful for the people who will be reading your articles.

The number of people finding your posts useful will reflect the quality of your blog. Time is important and people don’t visit blogs and read them because they don’t have any work. People read blogs because they want to search for some new information or case studies. They want to know people’s opinions on a particular topic. They want to know about a new approach of solving a particular problem. Don’t forget this while writing your posts. No one wants to know how many dogs you have or what food you like to eat. But they would surely like to know your approach of training your dog or some new recipe.

You will come to know about the usefulness of your post or its quality from the feedbacks which you will receive from people. People will read your blog only if they know that it exists. Thus, it is quite important to focus on marketing your blog too. There is no point in having a blog full of unique and useful articles when there won’t be anybody or few people to read it. So do spend some time to tell other people about your blog. There are various methods you can use to market your blog.

Don’t think that you will have to do lot of work to market your blog. It’s pretty easy to do if you follow these simple methods. For every four posts that you write, you can submit one to few article directories by putting a link to your blog in the resource box or “bio box”. When people will read those articles, they will follow the link to your blog to search for more information about the topic related to your blog. If you like to participate in forums, then you can also put link to your blog in your signature. Also, put the link in your email signature. Soon, you will find that many people will come to visit your blog.

If you start getting lot of visitors, it’s even possible to earn some money with your blog. You even learn lot of new things from the feedbacks given by people on your posts. Just keep using your blog to express your ideas and to help others by providing useful information. Do spend some time to market it too. If you follow these simple steps, you will be able to maintain your blog effectively.

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.

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.