Category: Blogs

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The Truth on Linking From Forums and Other Blogs

Okay, it used to be a great SEO technique to actively and aggressively link to your fledgling blogsite or website on other blogs or forums. You could get quality one way inbound links using this not talked about much technique. It was very workable. Mind that I said WAS.

Now, that technique is passé with Google’s Blogger, Typepad, and some WordPress sites automatically inserting a “nofollow” tag in any link left in comments. You simply cannot get the search engine capital you used to be able to get with blog commenting or forum posting.

There are still some sites that don’t have the no follow tag installed and for these sites you can still build capital with great comments and then a link back to your website. So how do you know which sites this technique will work on and which it will not?

Go to a site you think if a good match for authority for your site or blog. Go to a post that has a comment. If there are non, leave one yourself and then go back to the page where you comment appears. Right click anywhere on the page and then select view source. Notepad will open, using the Find feature go to a word in your comment and then go to your actual link. The link source code will have this in it. <a href=”http://www.yourweblinkaddress.com”>Your text</a>. If you see inside the a href a nofollow or external nofollow tag, you will never get organic capital from this site. If you do not see the no follow tag, better book mark this site and come back to comment often and frequently.

Now one thing about commenting. Most site and forum owners have ways to ban you or delete your comments. So, don’t be a spammer! Say something insightful about the blog post not “great post, I am bookmarking your site.” Spammers do that, actually leave something of value, a tip, a trick, another link, but always insert a link to your blog or website to deep content and include your full http://www.webaddress.com in that format to your website or blog in your signature block.

You can still get links and great search engine capital from forum or blog comment posting, you just have to be more careful about where you go to invest your time.

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New Blogging Gigs

We’ve just started to write for two new blogs this past month and wanted to share them with you.

American Boom

This blog is a “must visit” blog. I think that you will find the content interesting and thought provoking. For this blog we are writing eight posts per week and are team blogging – meaning we have three writers working on the same blog. The topics are related to the economy, outsourcing of jobs, unemployment, why Americans don’t buy American, and a watch on key economic indicators.

Visit American Boom now!

Permanently Beautiful

This blog is the brainchild of permanent cosmetics expert Melany Whitney from the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics. It provides a platform for information exchange on permanently tattooed eyebrows, eye liner, lips, and even scar camouflage. Melany is the preeminent professional in her industry and has been called “The Voice of Permanent Cosmetics”. With offices in New York City, New Jersey, and South Florida, this firm has a strong market presence. I think that you will find the information interesting and maybe something you’ve never known existed. Make sure when you visit the blog to take a side trip to her website to review the photo gallery, you just will not believe the before and after photos.

Visit Permanently Beautiful now!

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Everyone Wants to Obamasize Their Website

What’s Obamacize? Well, I call it embracing the instrument of change and introducing technology that Obama used so effectively in his campaign for your personal use. Right now everyone wants to Obamasize their website. No, that does not mean putting up donation boxes, posting flags, or showing political messages but people do want to use technology in a exciting new ways.

So how can you embrace change the same way and Obamasize your website? Here are a few tips:

1. Get going with Twitter. Then use Twitter Feed to show your Twitter news on your blog and website. The big key is to make your Twitter posts witty, short, and interesting. Don’t Twitter about what you are eating for lunch. Obama used Twitter effectively for his campaign and you can use Twitter to move your business forward just as easily.

2. Get going with Facebook and LinkedIn. Well, Obama did not use LinkedIn, but man did he use Facebook effectively for his campaign. You can too! With an aggressive friend addition program and interaction with this fun social networking tool, you to can add your Facebook badges on your blog or website. Get connected with prospects, business associates, and clients.

3. Change the home page of your website. Obama’s election brings in fresh winds of change for our country, why not take some time to embrace change in your own back yard by changing the images on your home page, add interactive elements, add a video? 

Okay, I have to say this one was a stretch, but you get the gist of it, now it’s your turn to coin an Obama  phrase of what you will be doing to Obamacize your website, blog or life now that change is on the way. Just click comments below and let me know what you are going to Obamacize.

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Blog Writing Under Your Own Name

Your pen name is your brand. Just like any brand, it should be protected. I only write articles showing my own name for my website. When I supply ghost written articles, I do not brand them with my name.

Personally, I feel that by name should only be used to promote my own services and my own website. I do not lend out my name or for that matter my content to others. I want to retain close control of my brand and my intellectual property. Before you write for someone else under your own name you may want to consider these important points.

1. Will the content you supply be changed in any way after you provide it? If it will be you may not like the changes or the meaning of your original piece may be different.

2. Is the site where your content will reside a good match for your ideologies? How about types of advertisers? Remember your name will give credibility to the site. Are the products and services one with which you would want to be linked?

3. If you are writing under your own name, remember the Internet archives all content literally forever. Will joining your name to a site or cause be a problem in the future for potential clients or job opportunities.

4. You may even want to consider receiving a higher level of compensation for any pieces that you write for other websites using your own name.

Once you let something go, it is nearly impossible to get it back again, that goes not only with your reputation, but with the value of your own brand or pen name.