Archive for the ‘Blogroll’ Category
Blog Structure And Traffic
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Monday, December 1st, 2008Finding People to Trade Links With
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
If you operate a blog or website either as your primary earnings method or as an addition to your money making ventures you might consider trading links with someone in your niche that has a complimentary product or service. You can trade links and help one another with SEO. It’s a great idea to trade blog comments and even write guest posts for each other.
Why Trade Links?
Getting links on other related blogs in cyberspace and related blog links on your blog as well can help you with your SEO and can contribute to increased page rank with search engines. The more you’re plugged into topics and linked, the the more relevant search engines will view your site as being.
Places to Find Other Bloggers in Your Niche
Blog Catalog is a great place to find bloggers in your niche. Search on a tag (category) related to your own niche and you’ll find others in that category that you can visit. You can also send private messages to others to suggest that you trade blog links with them in your blogroll.
Consider visiting forums and putting up requests for trading links as well. Webmaster forums or forums in your particular niche can be a great place to get ideas and find bloggers to do blog carnivals and niches with.
Blog Comments – Great Self-Promotion Tool
Sunday, July 20th, 2008By commenting on other blog (especially those in your niche) you can do some great things. Here are a few things you can accomplish:
Find More Subscribers
When you comment on a blog, you’ll leave a link to your own blog. People interested in what you have to say will probably come by to see what else you have to say. Write interesting and helpful comments.
SEO
Search engines like to index you when they find you in your niche so if you’re a diet blogger and want to be known that way, comment on blogs in that niche with a link back to your site and this will help your search engine rankings.
Blogroll
Many bloggers will put frequent commenters on their blogroll which can bring you plenty of visitors as well. There are some great new widgets as well in tools like Blog Catalog and MyBlogLog as well as avatar sites that let you leave your logo or face on the blog which can help bring you more exposure and entice visitors to that blog to stop by and visit you.
Reciprocating Commenters
It’s good blogging etiquette to visit blogs where people have taken the time to comment. If you do, chances are the blog owner could stop by your blog to return the favor and that can bring more activity and self-promotion to your own blog in terms of comments and links.