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How to Make Money blogging- part2- best how to guide

Need more money? tired or desperately searching for free government grants?, paid-to-surf programs are boring you so much that you have decided to make some real free money to pay your bills? - So far so good, but can you really earn money online through an Internet home based business?

The ability to write a good blog depends on few basic tools and techniques of quality writing and online promoting.

The creation of a new blog:The creation of a new blog starts with an idea and a blog-content. The idea is the basis of the blog, a good blogger should continue in his mission of blogging his thoughts to the world. Every article you would write, is going to be based upon the idea while the content of the blog should be describing your idea.The idea of having a blog:

  • The idea of why having a blog is all that bloggers have: it is a good opportunity for you to reveal secrets, protest against injustice, and show everyone your opinions.
  • Money has been the reason why bloggers had forgotten their blogging idea and started on marketing a different new concept - the money making way.

The money-making way includes:

  • Tracking visitors.
  • Writing according to top keywords.
  • Writing topics to make readers interested.
  • Opening online stores.

And why not?… If your blog has made a big success on getting readers attention, you may use it to your own benefit. Blogging is rapidly changing, that’s exactly why you shouldn’t follow what you thing people might like to read, you should be writing stuff you have found interesting, or else you might undoubtedly find blogging kinda boring.

  • The followings are good ideas for topics to pick from and to write your about:
    • financial issues blog- cover the stock market or a specific share
    • green world blog - environmental issues like hybrid cars, energy conversion etc’.
    • kids blog - homework, math help,games and funny stuff
    • life & family blog - retirement, money making, work-from-home and relationships.
    • webmasters help blog - help new bloggers in getting along with templates and html codes.

What does it take to become a blogger?

  • You should be full of blogging passion, you must consistently write every day, being totally devoted to your readers. If you wouldn’t have the eagerness needed to make your blog interesting, your blog might be failed, yet, if you do have the passion, your blog could become a great success - more and more visitors would increase the number of your rss feed subscribers, more posts would be commented, and before you know it, your little has became a big Internet portal.
  • After you have decided to write a blog, the minute the blog topic and the first post content have created, you should decide on a suitable hosting/ publishing platform for you.
  • It is lucky for us to have most blog companies offering us their hosting services for free, you could choose whatever free templates you liked - blogger, word press, or other free service are capable of hosting your blog (I prefer blogger).
  • Your blogging career starts by registering yourself for having a free hosting account (update - 30/1/08 - I have just purchased my own custom domain through Google/Godaddy /Blogger, so I would be publishing my blog with Blogger while hosting my domain with Godaddy) - Google users may use their Google account to open a blogger account.
  • After you’ve registered, kindly confirm your subscription via email (it takes a second), - great! - you may begin writing your blog.
  • An important thing you should know during the blog-writing process is how to get your blog to get indexed by search engines - you can start by submitting your site to Google, and right after your site was verified (a little meta tag to be placed after the first head tag) , you would be able to sand your sitemap using Google webmaster tools.
  • The same goes to Yahoo site explorer, where you could have all your blogs listed right after a quick verification was made. (see a picture).
  • Creating your own rss feed, atom, or xml website is essential to keep your content updated and to give your new readers/subscribers the easiest way to subscribe to your new publications - read more about the definition of atom here .
  • After your blog was delightfully verified, you should enable new posts to automatically be sent to search engines , thats exactly why a site-map should be created.
An important thing is to read your post carefully before publishing,search engines don’t like grammar mistakes.

After you did all the above, you may start the most important blogging process - promoting your blog.To increase your blog traffic and visibility, you should keep sending your blog to directories and social-bookmarking networks. Your money-making-blogging journey has just started. You can join affiliate programs to enable ads to be placed on your blog.

  • You must join Google adsense program.
  • The ads content is related to yours, so visitors have the ability to get extra valuable information, while you would earn money from every clicked ad - a great service powered by Google.
  • By doing all the above, you clearly became much closer to earn good money by writing blogs from home.

Well, do feel you haven’t learned enough on how to start making money blogging, here’s a great guide which includes 28 ways of making money with your blog.The guide was written by dailyblogtips- a great blogging tips blog. The writer has gathered together every top money-making ways available , letting you decide which is the best way for you. The thing I liked the most, regarding this guide is the availability of great links to every sub-guide mentioned, for instance the tip on how to sell your blog came together with a suitable linking to the best resource the writer had found describing that topic.Blog design:The official Google blog came up with a great entry about how to design your blog, to dream big and make smart design decisions.Before you start blogging, you should be reading its instruction here.If you need some great tips on how to save money on blog design - read my post here.Related articles:

  • Best blogging secrets
  • Make money blogging - how to become a top blogger

43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid

There are several lists of web design mistakes around the Internet. Most of them, however, are the “Most common” or “Top 10” mistakes. Every time I crossed one of those lists I would think to myself: “Come on, there must be more than 10 mistakes…”. Then I decided to write down all the web design mistakes that would come into my head; within half an hour I had over thirty of them listed. Afterwards I did some research around the web and the list grew to 43 points.

The next step was to write a short description for each one, and the result is the collection of mistakes that you will find below. Some of the points are common sense, others are quite polemic. Most of them apply to any website though, whether we talk about a business entity or a blog. Enjoy!

1. The user must know what the site is about in seconds: attention is one the most valuable currencies on the Internet. If a visitor can not figure what your site is about in a couple of seconds, he will probably just go somewhere else. Your site must communicate why I should spend my time there, and FAST!

2. Make the content scannable: this is the Internet, not a book, so forget large blocks of text. Probably I will be visiting your site while I work on other stuff so make sure that I can scan through the entire content. Bullet points, headers, subheaders, lists. Anything that will help the reader filter what he is looking for.

3. Do not use fancy fonts that are unreadable: sure there are some fonts that will give a sophisticated look to your website. But are they readable? If your main objective is to deliver a message and get the visitors reading your stuff, then you should make the process comfortable for them.

4. Do not use tiny fonts: the previous point applies here, you want to make sure that readers are comfortable reading your content. My Firefox does have a zooming feature, but if I need to use on your website it will probably be the last time I visit it.

5. Do not open new browser windows: I used to do that on my first websites. The logic was simple, if I open new browser windows for external links the user will never leave my site. WRONG! Let the user control where he wants the links to open. There is a reason why browsers have a huge “Back” button. Do not worry about sending the visitor to another website, he will get back if he wants to (even porn sites are starting to get conscious regarding this point lately…).

6. Do not resize the user’s browser windows: the user should be in control of his browser. If you resize it you will risk to mess things up on his side, and what is worse you might lose your credibility in front of him.

7. Do not require a registration unless it is necessary: lets put this straight, when I browse around the Internet I want to get information, not the other way around. Do not force me to register up and leave my email address and other details unless it is absolutely necessary (i.e. unless what you offer is so good that I will bear with the registration).

8. Never subscribe the visitor for something without his consent: do not automatically subscribe a visitor to newsletters when he registers up on your site. Sending unsolicited emails around is not the best way to make friends.

9. Do not overuse Flash: apart from increasing the load time of your website, excessive usage of Flash might also annoy the visitors. Use it only if you must offer features that are not supported by static pages.

10. Do not play music: on the early years of the Internet web developers always tried to successfully integrate music into websites. Guess what, they failed miserably. Do not use music, period.

11. If you MUST play an audio file let the user start it: some situations might require an audio file. You might need to deliver a speech to the user or your guided tour might have an audio component. That is fine. Just make sure that the user is in control, let him push the “Play” button as opposed to jamming the music on his face right after he enters the website.

12. Do not clutter your website with badges: first of all, badges of networks and communities make a site look very unprofessional. Even if we are talking about awards and recognition badges you should place them on the “About Us” page.

13. Do not use a homepage that just launches the “real” website: the smaller the number of steps required for the user to access your content, the better.

14. Make sure to include contact details: there is nothing worse than a website that has no contact details. This is not bad only for the visitors, but also for yourself. You might lose important feedback along the way.

15. Do not break the “Back” button: this is a very basic principle of usability. Do not break the “Back” button under any circumstance. Opening new browser windows will break it, for instance, and some Javascript links might also break them.

16. Do not use blinking text: unless your visitors are coming straight from 1996, that is.

17. Avoid complex URL structures: a simple, keyword-based URL structure will not only improve your search engine rankings, but it will also make it easier for the reader to identify the content of your pages before visiting them.

18. Use CSS over HTML tables: HTML tables were used to create page layouts. With the advent of CSS, however, there is no reason to stick to them. CSS is faster, more reliable and it offers many more features.

19. Make sure users can search the whole website: there is a reason why search engines revolutionized the Internet. You probably guessed it, because they make it very easy to find the information we are looking for. Do not neglect this on your site.

20. Avoid “drop down” menus: the user should be able to see all the navigation options straight way. Using “drop down” menus might confuse things and hide the information the reader was actually looking for.

21. Use text navigation: text navigation is not only faster but it is also more reliable. Some users, for instance, browse the Internet with images turned off.

22. If you are linking to PDF files disclose it: ever clicked on a link only to see your browser freezing while Acrobat Reader launches to open that (unrequested) PDF file? That is pretty annoying so make sure to explicit links pointing to PDF files so that users can handle them properly.

23. Do not confuse the visitor with many versions: avoid confusing the visitor with too many versions of your website. What bandwidth do I prefer? 56Kbps? 128Kbps? Flash or HTML? Man, just give me the content!

24. Do not blend advertising inside the content: blending advertising like Adsense units inside your content might increase your click-through rate on the short term. Over the long run, however, this will reduce your readership base. An annoyed visitor is a lost visitor.

25. Use a simple navigation structure: sometimes less is more. This rule usually applies to people and choices. Make sure that your website has a single, clear navigation structure. The last thing you want is to confuse the reader regarding where he should go to find the information he is looking for.

26. Avoid “intros”: do not force the user to watch or read something before he can access to the real content. This is plain annoying, and he will stay only if what you have to offer is really unique.

27. Do not use FrontPage: this point extends to other cheap HTML editors. While they appear to make web design easier, the output will be a poorly crafted code, incompatible with different browsers and with several bugs.

28. Make sure your website is cross-browser compatible: not all browsers are created equal, and not all of them interpret CSS and other languages on the same way. Like it or not, you will need to make your website compatible with the most used browsers on the market, else you will lose readers over the long term.

29. Make sure to include anchor text on links: I confess I used to do that mistake until some time ago. It is easier to tell people to “click here”. But this is not efficient. Make sure to include a relevant anchor text on your links. It will ensure that the reader knows where he is going to if he clicks the link, and it will also create SEO benefits for the external site where the link is pointing.

30. Do not cloak links: apart from having a clear anchor text, the user must also be able to see where the link is pointing on the status bar of his browser. If you cloak your links (either because they are affiliate ones or due to other reasons) your site will lose credibility.

31. Make links visible: the visitor should be able to recognize what is clickable and what is not, easily. Make sure that your links have a contrasting color (the standard blue color is the optimal most of the times). Possibly also make them underlined.

32. Do not underline or color normal text: do not underline normal text unless absolutely necessary. Just as users need to recognize links easily, they should not get the idea that something is clickable when in reality it is not.

33. Make clicked links change color: this point is very important for the usability of your website. Clicked links that change color help the user to locate himself more easily around your site, making sure that he will not end up visiting the same pages unintentionally.

34. Do not use animated GIFs: unless you have advertising banners that require animation, avoid animated GIFs. They make a site look unprofessional and detract the attention from the content.

35. Make sure to use the ALT and TITLE attributes for images: apart from having SEO benefits the ALT and TITLE attributes for images will play an important role for blind users.

36. Do not use harsh colors: if the user is getting a headache after visiting your site for 10 consecutive minutes, you probably should pick a better color scheme. Design the color palette around your objectives (i.e. deliver a mood, let the user focus on the content, etc.).

37. Do not use pop ups: this point refers to pop ups of any kind. Even user requested pop ups are a bad idea given the increasing amount of pop blockers out there.

38. Avoid Javascript links: those links execute a small Javascript when the user clicks on them. Stay away from them since they often create problems for the user.

39. Include functional links on your footer: people are used to scrolling down to the footer of a website if they are not finding a specific information. At the very least you want to include a link to the Homepage and possibly a link to the “Contact Us” page.

40. Avoid long pages: guess what, if the user needs to scroll down forever in order to read your content he will probably just skip it altogether. If that is the case with your website make it shorter and improve the navigation structure.

41. No horizontal scrolling: while some vertical scrolling is tolerable, the same can not be said about horizontal scrolling. The most used screen resolution nowadays is 1024 x 768 pixels, so make sure that your website fits inside it.

42. No spelling or grammatical mistakes: this is not a web design mistake, but it is one of the most important factors affecting the overall quality of a website. Make sure that your links and texts do not contain spelling or grammatical mistakes.

43. If you use CAPTCHA make sure the letters are readable: several sites use CAPTCHA filters as a method of reducing spam on comments or on registration forms. There is just one problem with it, most of the times the user needs to call his whole family to decipher the letters.

A few more..

44.Do not use hidden text.

45.Do not link to banned sites. Google is strict on this.

The ones you can do…

46.Place your ads at the top. They tend to get clicked more. The ones on the right are next in line to get clicked.

47.Get listed in dmoz and yahoo.com. Google specifically mentions this.

48.Get into adwords. The tools given are a great help.

49.Try tools at seomoz.org. They are the best for picking up keywords from your site.

50.Choose a specific theme for your website. Do not alter the theme midway. If you have multiple themes, choose anothere website. Of course, you have to do this considering the monetization aspects.

51.Start a blog. Keep posting one article a day.

7 Points to Consider Before Blogging for Money

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Whenever I mention my blog people roll their eyes or smile in an “I don’t understand but okay” sort of way. When I mention the fact that I make money blogging, however, I suddenly have their attention.

The concept seems simple enough. I write about topics that I enjoy, people read it, and I make money off the advertising. To those of us who’ve been doing it for a while, it is simple. To the novice blogger who’s just getting into the business, however, it’s important to realize what you’re getting into.

If you’re new to blogging and interested in doing it for profit, here are a few things to keep in mind before committing yourself.

  1. Blogging is easy. Blogging for profit is more difficult. I won’t go as far as to say it’s hard to draw a secondary income from blogging, but it’s definitely harder than most people think. It’s not just about producing content and slapping up some ads. Good writing, proper templating, ad placement, developing an audience… there are a lot of skills required to make a blog profitable, all of which you’ll need to learn.
  2. Blog for the long haul or not at all. A huge majority of blogs fail in the first few months, falling into neglect and disuse. More to the point, few blogs see any profit during the first few months. Unless you can stick with it for at least a year, you’ll probably never see any return for your effort.
  3. Pick a niche that you love and stick with it. General purpose or multi-topic blogs have difficulty developing a readership. Brainstorm the topics that you care about most, then pick one and blog about it exclusively.
  4. Start with one blog. If you have a lot of items on your list of possible topics, don’t give in to the temptation to start a different blog for each one. By dividing your effort between several blogs, you increase the likelihood that all of them will fail. Put all of your effort into one blog to start. Once you get the hang of things, then you might consider branching out with additional blogs.
  5. If you’re unsure, test drive. The fact is that many people don’t have the drive or stamina to blog for profit successfully. If you’re not sure, try a starter blog on a free service such as Blogger or Wordpress.com. Feel it out for a few weeks. If, by the end of this time, you’ve stuck with it and feel like blogging is right for you, go ahead and commit to the effort. This advice applies equally well to test driving new topics if you’re unsure what to write about.
  6. Place ads wisely. Some people recommend not placing ads on a blog until it has matured somewhat. Others recommend putting them up right away. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches. Just be sure to place your ads tactfully so as not to overwhelm your readers. Put the user experience in the first place.
  7. Enjoy yourself. This is the real key to successful blogging. If you pick a topic that you love and blog about it with passion for months and years on end, your blog will build a readership, generate income, and generally be a success. If, however, your blog becomes a chore to maintain, it will inevitably fail.

The main point I want to convey is that many people try to blog for profit and fail. If you approach the task with the right expectations and some proper planning, you will succeed.

Make Money Online Blogging With A Niche Blog

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Did you start your blog to make money or to share a passion without any plans to make money with your blog? Since you are reading this make money blog, I think I can safely assume you are blogging to make money. Starting a make money blog to make money blogging is a big mistake since a make money blog is one of the most difficult and competitive ways to make money blog with a blog.

That’s also one of the main reasons why so many bloggers who start make money blogs fail and give up. A better way to go about to make money with your blog is to start a niche blog with other topics and not a make money blog. If you can find a niche that is also your passion, then good for you. But mostly, if your objective is for your blog to make money, then you need to put passion aside to find out on what people want and focus on meeting that demand.

It’s pointless to start a niche blog about something that no one except you is interested in. You can use your personal interests as a starting point to search for a niche by using free online keyword research tools such as WordTracker and Google Keyword Tool.

See how many searches there are for a particular topic and see if there are any advertisers when you key in the term to do a Google search. If there are many advertisers spending money to sell products and services in your chosen niche, it means there is substantial interest.

You can then use this basis to start your blog to make money and monetize your blog in a variety of ways and effectively turn it into a make money blog. For example, you can sell advertising space on your blog, sell affiliate products by blogging about them.

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Video Sharing Sites That Pay

Video Sharing Sites That Pay

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Here’s another way to make money without a blog. Videos have taken off in a big way and there are many video sharing sites that let you make money by sharing revenue.

The amount earned is usually based on either the number of views you video attracts or on AdSense revenue sharing. If your video is popular, the potential to make some real money can be mindboggling.

Most video sharing sites that pay however require that your video be an original work. Some sites are less strict and accept re-edited videos. If you’d like to try out this way of making money online, here are some video sharing sites to check out.

  1. MetaCafe
    This is one of the most popular video sharing sites with their videos regularly appearing on the popular video list at Digg. Your video starts earning after it has passed 20,000 views. A quick glance sees that the top earner of the week has made over $1,000.
  2. Break
    If the site owners think that your video is great, they will feature it on the front page and you will get paid $400 and the site will own your video. If you don’t want to give up video rights, you get paid $200. There are a few other money making plans similar to this.
  3. The VideoSense
    This is an AdSense sharing video site so you need to have an AdSense account before submitting your videos.
  4. Flixya
    It is a social network site that pays 100% AdSense revenue. In addition to earning with videos, you can also share blogs and photos. There is a bidding system for advertisers to appear on your site using AdWords.
  5. ShareAFlick
    An AdSense sharing video site that lets you submit video links from all other video sites to make money.
  6. Revver
    An ad is attached to your video and the earnings generated are split 50/50. Revenue is generated only when ads are clicked and not when the video is viewed.
  7. The NewsRoom
    This is a viral syndicate network whereyou display a video on your blog or site from The NewsRoom. Videos are paid by per thousand impression, that is if your video is viewed 1,000 times, you get paid a certain amount. At the moment it’s $4.00.
  8. MegaVideo
    Has a membership and rewards point system which can be a bit complicated. Allows videos from YouTube and other video sites.

Note that each site has its own requirements for video formats, payment terms and other details so it’s best to head on over to each site to see what kind of videos are being submitted and read the terms and conditions of each video sharing site.

Top 7 Make Money Online Forums

If you make money online and use online forums on making money to attract blog traffic, you will know posting in forums can be very time-consuming.

You should narrow down your forum marketing activites to the top forums on making money online.

This way, your link and traffic building efforts are more concentrated and become more effective instead of diluted across a wide spectrum of forums.

Here are my personal favourite forums in no particular order.

  1. DigitalPoint.com - Webmaster community where one can learn to make money running a website. A good place to find freelance money making opportunities.
  2. SitePoint.com - A webmaster haven. Many great internet gurus are here.
  3. WarriorForum.com - One of my favorite forums on internet marketing in general. Many useful posts on making money and affiliate marketing.
  4. EarnersForum.com - Great community to discuss SEO, making money online and internet related topics.
  5. Talkgold.com - Get pass the tons of ads to find the forum which focuses on HYIP and forex with sections on other money making ways.
  6. Moneymakergroup.com - All kinds of investment and money programmes including sections on programming and job offers.
  7. GeekVillage.com - Really good section for making money online, as well as other related topics.

When posting in forums to build traffic, remember to observe proper forum behaviour to gain respect and reputation. Above all, be a useful member who gives back to the forum.

Top 9 Lessons In Blogging To Make Money Online

Starting a make money blog is easy. There is a weath of information on ways to make money online by blogging, selling affiliate products and offering services in make money forums. It’s continuing a blog that’s hard.

Blogging for money is a long-distance marathon and many blogs will fall by the wayside after the initial burst of enthusiasm wears out. Finding content that is fresh and relevant for your blog also becomes more difficult as you go on. If you are thinking of starting a make money blog, here are some realities to expect.

  1. Content that helps people solve a problem keeps them coming back.
  2. Make your blog stand out from the rest - this is one of the most difficult things to do for a make money blog.
  3. Blogging takes not only time and effort but also talent. If writing is not something you enjoy, don’t start a blog that requires constant updating.
  4. There will be times when you run out of ideas completely no matter how hard you try to find something to write about.
  5. Your content will get stolen. Make money blogs are popular targets. It’s just a matter of time before scrapper blogs find you.
  6. Don’t exchange links with just anyone who asks. Check out their site first.
  7. Give a different perspective on things. There is no point in repeating what all the other make money blogs are saying.
  8. Don’t over monetize your blog. Being blatant with ads drives readers away.
  9. Make your blog pleasant to read by reducing clutter. Get blogging tips on how to make your posts more reader-friendly.

It’s a good idea to have several sources of income, especially those that are recurring and don’t require constant marketing or maintainance. You will have to experiment and try out different ways to see which methods work for you.

A good balance of ways to make money online comprising of selling affiliate products, providing online services and a make money blog works for many.

20 Killer Tips For Buying One Way Links

20 Killer Tips For Buying One Way Links

The more one way backlinks you can get for your blog, the higher authority it will have with search engines resulting in your site getting listed higher in search engine results pages or SERPS.

Apart from using great content and creating linkbait to get one way links and increase blog traffic, there are more direct methods of getting direct one way links. Methods such as buying links from a blog network, submitting your blog and posts to web directories, article marketing and social bookmarking sites.

However, sometimes these methods used to obtain one way backlinks can either end up harming rather than helping your blog or are just useless links. Here are some things to take note if you are using any of these methods to get one way back links.

Buying Links On A Blog Network

  1. If you are buying links on a bog network, make sure the blogs are on unique C-class IP addresses meaning they are hosted on different web hosting servers. A large number of blogs that link to each other on the same server will be seen as a link farm.
  2. If you are submitting articles to these blogs with anchor text links pointing back to your blog, have the articles rewritten in as many versions as possible since these articles will be viewed as duplicate content by search engines and will harm your blog.
  3. Ideally, these blogs should be in niches related to your blog and your anchor text links are “dofollow” links to allow pagerank to be passed on.
  4. Another point to note is that adding links gradually is preferable to gaining several hundred links in a few days.

Submitting Your Blog To Web Directories

  1. Many web directories have high pagerank but your blog url is listed on a sub-category page which won’t have as high pagerank. In fact many have zero pagerank but it can still be useful to get listed just to increase the number of backlinks.
  2. Check to see if the web directory you are submitting to has SEO friendly links. There are several sites which list SEO friendly directories such as here and here.
  3. Submitting to web directories generally do not pose the problem of gaining many links too suddenly since many directories take anywhere from 1 to 3 months to include your link.
  4. But be sure to vary your site title and description. Many directory submission services allow up to 5 different titles and descriptions.

Using Article Marketing

  1. If your main aim is for better SERPs, submit to directories that allow html links with “dofollow” tags or that are SEO friendly. Most online article submission services used for article marketing to increase backlinks allow 3 or 4 anchor text links in the author’s resource box at the end of each article.
  2. But these links would be useless if the article directories are not SEO friendly. An example is the largest and most popular article directory, EzineArticles whose html links do nothing for SEO although they are still useful for driving traffic to your blog.
  3. Worse still are article directories that remove your html links altogether. If you use an article submission service such as iSnare Article Distribution or Article Marketer, chances are that your article will end up on some of these non-html directories since you have no control over where your articles go.
  4. If you are using Firefox, you can install the “Search Status” plugin that indicates “dofollow” links.
  5. Alternatively, there are article submission services that submit to SEO friendly article directories although they may cost more on a per article basis.

Submitting Blog Posts To Social Bookmarking Sites

  1. Social bookmarking sites are primarily used to increase blog traffic but if the sites allow “dofollow” tags in their links back to your blog, they are useful for improving blog SERPs.
  2. Some social bookmarking sites that are SEO friendly can be found here and here.

Submission Services On A Budget

  1. Professional submission services can be costly as many require you to subscribe on a monthly basis. So what can you do if you are just starting out and don’t have a big budget?
  2. You don’t have to do your submissions manually although many swear that it is the best way since it is slow and adds links naturally. It is also very time consuming if you have many posts to submit. Your time could be better spent on other tasks such as writing articles or blog posts.
  3. There are many submission services offered at DP Forums under the “Services” section. Be sure to check out the seller’s rating first or read other people’s reviews for the service before buying.

Article Submitter And Directory Submitter Software

  1. Alternatively, you can get your own article submitter software and directory submitter software. These software automate many of the tasks such as pre-filling in forms and categories so that submission becomes very fast.
  2. The good thing is that you just make a one time payment and the software can be used for as many submissions as you want. Another major advantage is that you can select the directories you want to submit to and build one way links gradually.

If you use the above link building methods diligently over a period of time, you can increase your one way backlinks to succeed in better SERP results for your blog.