The Blogging Fool » Link Building http://www.bloggingfool.com Blogging tips for beginners on increasing traffic and monetizing a blog... Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:54:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Article Submission Helper Review http://www.bloggingfool.com/2010/01/article-submission-helper-review.html http://www.bloggingfool.com/2010/01/article-submission-helper-review.html#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:53:58 +0000 admin http://www.bloggingfool.com/?p=102 If you do any article submissions for link building (which I strongly encourage you to) then you need to check out Article Submission Helper. Not only is it free, but its been a huge time saver for me getting unique articles out there with minimal effort.

With ASHelper you can quickly setup accounts with a few hundred article sites. Then anytime you have a new article ready to be published you enter the article text and submissions are rapidly done. Pretty sweet.

The software also allows you to “spin” articles which means placing a number of options for text in spots of the article and then the system will randomly pick one of the options for each submission. For example, if you had”{a lot|hundreds|thousands|tons} of {people|users}” in your article then one time it would submit as “hundred of users”, the next might be “tons of people” and then next perhaps “a lot of users”. This is huge for taking a single article and making it into many different ones.

Again Article Submission Helper is completely free so there’s no real risk in giving it a try. Let me know what you think.

]]> http://www.bloggingfool.com/2010/01/article-submission-helper-review.html/feed 3 Rapid Link Building Tip: Spin Articles http://www.bloggingfool.com/2009/09/rapid-link-building-tip-spin-articles.html http://www.bloggingfool.com/2009/09/rapid-link-building-tip-spin-articles.html#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:16:17 +0000 admin http://www.bloggingfool.com/?p=97 If you’re looking to ramp up your link building efforts I strongly suggest article submissions. The links you get from submitting the articles can really help you rank for less competitive keywords.

So here’s what you wanna do:

1. Write a good article on a specific topic. Pick 1 medium to long tail keyword and focus on that as you write.
2. Proofread and make sure the article is pretty solid.
3. Submit to EzineArticles and wait for it to be approved. EzineArticles is the best article site out there and only accepts unique articles so you have to publish there first.
4. Now use Article Submission Helper (free at http://www.articlesubmissionhelper.com) to ’spin” new versions of the article. By “spin”, what you do in Article Submission Helper is rewrite a few sections in the article to give various options for those sections. Then Article Submission Helper will randomly pick from the various sections and come up with a unique article.
5. Also in Article Submission Helper you can submit to a ton of different article sites and even rotate (“spin”) your bio to get different types of anchor text.

To give it a try head over to http://www.articlesubmissionhelper.com. Again, its total free and definitely worth a try.

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Best Free Blog Directories

Blogged.com – Nice, easy to use site. Free listings and a decent place to find other bloggers.

Spill Bean – Like this one a lot especially since it took the blod step to not have ‘blog’ in its name. Bravo SpillBean.

Bloggapedia – Not a lot of blogs listed, which could be a good or a bad thing, but its worth a try.

Blog Catalog – Make sure your blog has a bunch of content before you submit, but once it does Blog Catalog is well worth submitting to.

Blogging Fusion – The header reads “Total blogs approved this week: ( 2 )” and its Thursday currently, so although its free I’m not sure many sites get let in.

Best Paid Blog Directories

Best of the Web Blogs – If you pay for any blog directories, this is the one to pay for.

Eaton Web – Probably the next best paid blog directory out there. $34.99 to list but its unfortunately an annual fee.

Bloggeries.com – $39.99 seems a bit steep for a mediocre site, but it is a one time only fee which is nice and would be a nice link to snag.

Worst Blog Directories – Avoid These

BiggerBlogger.com – Total waste of time. You have to register just to find out it costs $1/month to be on the site.

]]> http://www.bloggingfool.com/2009/06/list-of-the-best-and-worst-blog-directories.html/feed 0 Article Submission – Building Links to Your Blog Series #3 http://www.bloggingfool.com/2006/07/article-submission-building-links-to-your-blog-series-3.html http://www.bloggingfool.com/2006/07/article-submission-building-links-to-your-blog-series-3.html#comments Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:09:00 +0000 admin http://www.bloggingfool.com/wp/?p=22 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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Free Blog Directories

www.technorati.com
www.blogdigger.com
www.weblogalot.com
www.blogshares.com
www.blogrolling.com
www.blogstreet.com
www.blo.gs
www.newhome.weblogs.com
www.bloglines.com
www.blogdex.net
www.bloghub.com
www.blogcatalog.com
www.blogarama.com
dir.blogflux.com
www.blogrankings.com
www.blogexplosion.com
www.synblog.com
www.britblog.com
www.blogdirs.com
www.blogsweet.com
www.findingblog.com
www.blogmad.net
www.bloggernow.com
www.blog-search.com
www.blogwise.com

]]> http://www.bloggingfool.com/2006/07/blog-directory-list-building-links-to-your-blog-series-2.html/feed 3 Submitting to Free Directories – Building Links to Your Blog Series #1 http://www.bloggingfool.com/2006/07/submitting-to-free-directories-building-links-to-your-blog-series-1.html http://www.bloggingfool.com/2006/07/submitting-to-free-directories-building-links-to-your-blog-series-1.html#comments Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:26:00 +0000 admin http://www.bloggingfool.com/wp/?p=20 Submitting your blog to free web directories can provide a lot of free one-way links to your blog. Doing so can be a very time consuming process but if you’re serious about increasing traffic to your blog then submitting to at least some of the free directories is a must.

Resources for Submitting to Free Directories

To make submitting to directories easier check out RoboForm, an automated form filler so that you can enter your blog’s info once and have RoboForm fill the same info in for every directory.

]]> http://www.bloggingfool.com/2006/07/submitting-to-free-directories-building-links-to-your-blog-series-1.html/feed 0 Building Links to Your Blog Series http://www.bloggingfool.com/2006/07/building-links-to-your-blog-series.html http://www.bloggingfool.com/2006/07/building-links-to-your-blog-series.html#comments Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:22:00 +0000 admin http://www.bloggingfool.com/wp/?p=19 One of the most crucial elements of building traffic to a blog is creating incoming links. Not only do incoming links create traffic when people click on them but they also factor heavily into search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc.) ranking systems for websites.

Over the coming weeks The Blogging Fool will be highlighting various methods for creating links to your blog and also further detail the reasons for doing so.

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