Part three of the Building Links to Your Blog Series is on article submission. As I’ve discussed previously, one way links to your blog is key to your success as a blogger. Google, Yahoo and other search engines are well away of link exchanges and even triangular link exchanges so they are much less significant than a one-way link is. The problem that you and I face as bloggers is that creating one way links can be a very tedious process. Getting a one-way link to your blog requires that someone else must choose to link to you for some reason or another. Most often that reason is because you (and your blog) is unique or has some sort of useful information on it. The Catch 22 of it is that in order to get other web sites to find your blog you need to increase traffic to your blog, but in order to increase traffic you need to have more people find your blog. So what is a blogger to do?
Write articles.
Articles are an outstanding way to begin the process of building one way links. Here’s how they work:
First, you write an article about something. The article should be at least 300 words and should somehow be related to the topic of your blog. So, if you’re writing a blog and you focus primarily on new automobiles then you might write an article on features on the latest new hybrid vehicle. Ok simple enough so far…
After you have written the article you are allowed to attach an About the Author section in which you can post a link back to your blog. In the About the Author section write something like, “For more information on hybrid vehicles and other new vehicles visit http://www.MyReallyGreatCarBlog.com.”
Then you just submit your article and the About the Author section to a few different article websites (I’ll provide a short list below). These articles sites in turn allow other website owners to download your article and post it as content onto their website. The only rule is that anyone that posts your article must include the About the Author section which has your link in it. For every person that posts your article on their site you will be getting a one-way link in return.
Give it a try and post a few articles on some article sites. Let me know how it works and also post a comment if you know of any other good article sites.
Article Sites:
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