Link Building with Flickr
A lot of my readers have been giving me excellent feedback stating that they love my link building strategies that I give away in the link building cookbook. Link building is important because nearly every blog wants additional search engine traffic, and building links is the best way to get it. I thought I would feed everyone’s link building appetite by releasing yet another tip that you won’t see anyone else telling you.
Introduction to Flickr
Flickr is a free image hosting site that is now owned by Yahoo. It stores thousands of images and serves millions of visitors every month. Flickr allows users to make comments on the pictures that are uploaded by other users.
Welcome John Chow Readers
Welcome to everyone who is visiting for the first time due to John Chow’s review. Feel free to look around and find a few inspiring blog posts! I will be going back on topic tomorrow but wanted to throw a few quick notices out for my readers:
1.) I had a typo in the “RSS by Email” link, so if you previously tried to receive your blog posts by email and received an error, it has been fixed.
Build links with DP Coop
A few years ago the giant forum we know today as Digitalpoint developed a mass link exchange program called the DP Co-op Advertising Network (aff). After signing up, you then add 3-5 links on every one of your pages, and this earns you more linking power (coop weight). The more weight you have, the more links to your site you receive from other members in the coop. You can choose up to 15 anchor texts and there are over 30,000,000 available links in the network today. Sites have been using it to rank #1 for “Debt” “credit cards” “bankruptcy” and “loans.” Such a simple method is allowing them to outrank massive authority sites like Wikipedia, but the main concern is how long will this gravy train last and when will Google do something about it?
Weekly Winner Number 1
After launching my weekly blog contest, it is finally time to announce the first Weekly Winner.
The $25 paypal goes to the homebiz resource bukiki blog for their entry. Please contact me as soon as you read this and I will gladly send over your money as well as your bonus.
Bonus Prize:
A kind fellow named Ethan Christ has sponsored the bukiki blog with a $50 adwords voucher. Enjoy all the free advertising!
SEOMeter graphs your Google crawl rate
SEOMeter is a new analytics tool that tracks how often Google is crawling your website, and they win my gratitude as being the first to order a paid review. SEOMeter displays graphs of your blog/site and the related crawl cycles (CC), which are how often Google visits your blog for new content. If you have a crawl cycle of 1.0, then Google visits your blog once per day. With this in mind, the lower your CC the more trusted Google finds your blog. If that introduction was over your head, you can check out their FAQ page which might explain it better than I can.
Technorati Sucks
I was planning on writing one final blog post announcing my Technorati milestone of getting my blog into the top 25,000 blogs of all time, but I decided to change it to a negative post after I have finally been fed up with Technorati.
Technorati has always been attacked by spam blogs, but only recently has it been overrun with them. It started when the pharmaceutical companies started their Technorati Favorites spam campaign. Technorati and their staff didn’t seem to do anything about it, so as you can guess, the spammers evolved their techniques into a more hostile spamming campaign. Keyword spammers seem to have also taken siege, and I have not heard about any new features coming out. Even the new versions of WordPress have switched from utilizing Technorati reactions over to using Google Blogsearch listings.
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