Archive for August, 2008

A list of the High-PR Social Bookmarking Sites

Aug 31, 2008 Blog Traffic, Blogging Tips

The advent of social bookmarking sites has helped a lot of webmasters and bloggers to easily promote their sites and blogs.

Here is a list of the social bookmarking sites that have high Google pagerank:

http://del.icio.us/ PageRank: 8/10
http://www.furl.net/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.simpy.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://del.icio.us/ PageRank: 8/10
http://www.backflip.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.blinklist.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://bluedot.us/ PageRank: 6/10
http://de.lirio.us/bookmarks/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.diigo.com/user/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.shadows.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.markaboo.com/ PageRank: 5/10
http://ma.gnolia.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://linkagogo.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://netvouz.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.mister-wong.de/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.spurl.net/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.rawsugar.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.stumbleupon.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.digg.com/ PageRank: 8/10
http://www.blogmarks.net/ PageRank: 7/10
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.netvouz.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.taggly.com/ PageRank: 5/10
http://www.lookmarks.com/ PageRank: 5/10
http://socialbookmarking.org/ PageRank: 5/10

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10 of the Best FREE ways to Promote Your Website

Aug 31, 2008 Uncategorized

1. Yahoo! Answers. Browse over the site for unanswered questions related to your website or any topic you are knowledgeable about and have relevant links point back to your site. It’s a quick way to build back links and actually have targeted users viewing your site.

2. MySpace.com. Create a myspace account and start marketing to the users. Some quick tips for MySpace are:

a. Never spam
b. Join as many relevant groups as possible and participate within the groups.
c. Post interesting bulletins that provide useful information
d. Send friend requests to users within the groups you’ve joined.
e. Use graphics in your posts to catch the attention of the reader.
f. Use catchy titles, anything boring will be ignored.
g. For non-targeted friends, you can look into friend trains such as friendstorm.net
h. To automate friend adding, comment posting and bulletin posting you can check friendbot.com and madderadder.com

3. Yahoo Groups. Join a Yahoo! Group related to your interest or website. You can then promote your website to your co-members.

4. StumbleUpon. The golden rule, “Do unto others what you want to others to do unto you” applies on this social bookmarking site. You can ask your friends or other bloggers and website owners to stumble your pages so you can likewise do it to theirs. Some members of webmasters forums are exchanging stumbles with their co-members. Perhaps you can join them.

5. Social bookmarking sites. You can also submit your post to other
social bookmarking site like Del.icio.us, Furl, Simpy, and other high PR similar sites.

6. Squido.com. Create a lens in Squido.com and start promoting your site through it.

7. Site maps. Always have a site map for all your sites, and ensure the site map is submitted to Google. You can create a free site map using the following site: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. Once your site map is created, then upload it to your site, then submit it to Google using the link below: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview?hl=en

8. Submit To Directories. Most people already do this, but just in case you haven’t, you should submit to directories. You can find a list of directories at StrongestLinks.com. By submitting to these directories you can acquire back links and more traffic to your site.

9. Tell a Friend. You can install a tell a friend script to your site that will allow users to “refer” your site to their friends and colleagues. The downside to this is that some spammers try to manipulate tell a friend scripts. Be sure the one you use actually has “image verification” to limit form manipulation; otherwise you may find spammers trying to use your form to send spam. The technique to attract users to use your tell-a-friend box is to create good content.

10. Article Promotion. Promote your website through article marketing. Submit articles to well-ranked sites like Article City, E-zine Articles, Go Articles, etc.

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Helpful Tips for Corporate Blogging

Aug 17, 2008 Blogging Tips, Corporate Blogging

Blogs are massive resources of information from both inside and outside companies. Businessmen survive the world of blogging because they know how and where to dig information while protecting their own secrets. Although blogging can be risky world for businesses, there are several helpful tips that can help bring success to corporate blogging.

The Importance of Training

It is important to make sure the members of the communications team. In the past, this team was composed of a small group. However, with the advent of blogging, everyone who blogs at the company is spreading a specific message about the company. People who handle the blogging for the company must be trained to avoid any spill of unnecessary information.

If by accident, important information regarding the company has been disclosed, this can put the company under the watchful eyes of the regulators. More so, inappropriate leaks can provide competitors with leverage and may lead to embarrassing revelations about the inner workings of the company and its staff.

Although the usual action to be taken is to restrict employees from blogging, this can be a shortsighted
decision. Bloggers from within the company can easily relate and make contact with potential clients and even enhance the brand of the company.

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Choosing the Right Tools for Blogging: Client-Based vs. Server-Based Tools

Aug 17, 2008 Blogging Software, Blogging Tips, Blogging for Beginners

In blogging, using the correct blog software tools can help you manage the goings-on of your blog. When it comes to publishing your blog content, there are two kinds of blog software tools that you can use, such as: the server-based tools and the client-based tools. Both of them have their own advantages and disadvantages and it is up to you to choose the one that is right for your blog.

The Client-based Tools

One of the two blog software tools that you can choose from is the client-based tools. These tools’ purpose is to aid you with publishing your blog and they are normally installed on your computer and also run from there. Additionally, client-based tools are also categorized as small blogs that are able to run from your hard drive.

Client-based tools also have text editors that allow you to perform word processing applications from your own computer. Thus, a text blog editor enables you to create and publish your own content at the comfort of your own desktop.

Obviously, the first advantage of using client-based tools, like the text editor, is convenience. Most bloggers choose to publish their work with a desktop tool rather than a Web browser, which entails logging into the blog software’s control panel and accessing the Web-based text editor.

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