Don’t Confuse Online Marketing With Link Building
It seems like many internet marketers are confusing the specific link building process used to gain attention from search engines with true online marketing. There is a huge difference between these two methods of getting favorable results from new traffic and conversions on your online business web site. Both are integral parts of building a successful online business and growing your brand and exposure on the world wide web.
If you are interested in marketing, then you would be more likely to build a strategy to get your name in front of viewers that would not otherwise see it. The first thing that comes to mind to most, is social. This space is still growing and does largely trump many aspects of link building for traffic. Other methods may include variation of viral marketing that would allow you to offer free information in exchange for an email address or even better, true viral content that can be freely distributed by people using social!
There are many powerful digital marketing companies that can really help you put some strong concepts and techniques behind your own approach to digital marketing and if you use your own efforts in combination you can really explode your online presence in a short amount of time. It is important to investigate all marketing, link building and social media options that your business can benefit from to make sure that you are getting the most out of every launch or campaign you are working with too.
Exploring new methods of brand building can open up new doors for you online business, so make sure whatever you do, you do not get stuck in the rut or “comfort zone” of you current promotions. The only way to grow is to change and measure your results along the way!
Free Links For Bloggers
Everybody is on the hunt for the next great place to get their blog listed and more importantly where they can get free links. If you are ready to start doing some easy link building for your blog that may also turn into some very nice direct traffic, I think you will really appreciate this list of free blog directories. The information shared here is simple and to the point. Each of the websites listed below is offering a free listing int their blog directory. Some are more social oriented and others are straight up blog directories.
All of the sites offer a free link for you, it only takes couple minutes to get your site setup and registered and the great thing is that many of these sites carry a very strong Google Page Rank. So if you are on a SEO journey to get your blog ranked well and listed high on the Google SERP’s then this is a good place for you to start. Of course a strong article marketing campaign and social marketing campaign can do wonders for a sites traffic as well. If you are looking for help building an all around marketing campaign for your site you can look under our web site promotion section for more help with this. View SEO and Written For SEO are also some great resources for search engine optimization methodology and help outsourcing the work if you are looking for professional grade web site traffic solutions.
So enough already, here is the list. Make sure to get your site listed in the appropriate category to receive the best results. It is highly important that you choose an accurate category to assure that your listing is both effective for search engines and real people who are looking through the directory. This is the only way to really get great search standings and direct traffic from your listings.
Webmaster Business Plan – Blog Directories List
The list of great places to get your blog continues. Don’t stop now, you already have some great places to get your site listed, but why not take advantage of the whole list here to get even more free back links to your web blog?
Webmaster Business Plan Blog Directory List Section 2
New SEO Link Building Sources
Are you looking for an easy high PR back link?
Well, if you want to get more from your seo efforts, you know that you need high quality back links on sites that are relevant to your niche topic. The site I am talking about today is called Twine. I have been using this site for networking and for link development for a while. It seems to be a great place to meet some new people and do some link building too.
Solid links with good anchor text mixed with some simple automated link building services can be a way to boost your sites exposure overnight. Ping.fm which I discussed in a previous article found here “Social Marketing Made Easy“, I discussed how you can automate your updates to over 30 different social networks, but how about these static sites? I am not going to get into the “how fast is too fast” link building argument. I am just going to tell you what I have seen from my personal experiences with developing site traffic and favorable search engine listings. You should be careful how fast you build links, but being consistent with your weekly pace is more important in the long run.
There are not to many sites that have this high of Google page rank that just give away good links and allow you to leave a full description and screenshot of your site. Digg no longer produces as much “link juice” in Google, but sites like this one and Kontain are starting to take hold and are showing some surprising “sticky” power in the search engines. So now is the time to take advantage of these new linking methods, while they are still valid! Google’s algorithmic change that they call “caffeine” has left a lot of seo experts looking for the next way to get notices and this may be just what you have been looking for.
I have just recently started testing with some sites on Twine.com but I can already see that this site is going to be one that I will be putting in my marketing arsenal for sure. So make sure to take a look at this site and start creating your own niche link groups here to see if you can get Google to shine it’s light on your site. Link building must be done on different sites, but if you are looking to get indexed quick or just build some new links, this is a good place to start
Twine is a valid PR 6 web site and you can use this site as a social bookmarking site. So it only makes since to make “Twines” or small niche groups to post within. That is exactly what I have done and you can capitalize on my efforts. You can create your own groups or “twines” here too.
So Here It Is
Free Back Links For The Taking, I recently created these new twines, all you have to do is join for free and put your site in the right category to get your PR6 Back Link.
RSS - http://www.twine.com/twine/1320yhzdm-37q/rss
Movies - http://www.twine.com/twine/1322zf104-3j9/movies
Internet Marketing - http://www.twine.com/twine/13298z3cr-1vg/internet-marketing
Travel - http://www.twine.com/twine/138vnnhj0-2fc/travel
Technology News - http://www.twine.com/twine/1395j6hhr-1wh/technology-news
Weight Loss Help - http://www.twine.com/twine/139b4mhg3-1zq/weight-loss-help
I will be adding some new groups shortly. If you have a topic that you would like me to add here, just let me know and I will do so. If you have any questions or comments leave them here or you are welcome to contact me on twine as well.
Kontain – This site is cool for few reasons and is becoming one of my favorite places to spend my time when it comes to social networks. However, this high PR site has got some crazy link juice on Google so it is another great place to get some back links to your site. I would create an account here and start getting the most out of your links today!
Enjoy adding your links into these awesome groups and feel free to connect with me here too.
To Success,
Nick Simpson
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Read MorePing From Skype or Gtalk!
If you read the Webmaster Business Plan blog, you have most likely heard me talk about ping.fm and how it is a great tool for webmasters and internet marketers to keep updated on many social networks easily and effectively. Well there is something that I just noticed, no it’s not new, I just finally looked at the bottom of the page and noticed it. So some may already be well aware of this feature and heck you may already be using it.
The feature I am talking about is of course the ability to update your ping.fm account and then in turn all of your social sites from your Skype or Gtalk clients. All you have to do to set this up is login to ping.fm and look at the bottom right. you will see links to these services. They give you an email address/account name to add as a contact. Then you will send one message to make your account verified to use the ping. fm api using your credentials and you are done.
Now any time you send a message to this new contact in your IM app of choice, all of the social networks that you have setup with ping.fm will be instantly updated for you! This is a great way to get the word out about a new blog post, specials you are running or anything for that matter.
You can see what I am talking about in the image below, just click the thumbnail to open the full size image.
Well if you are always chatting on gtalk and skype already, now you can blast social networks very easily too. Now that is what I call being productive.
This is just one more little trick you can add to your arsenal of social marketing tools. I hope you enjoy this new found feature as much as I did,
Nick Simpson
Read MoreSocial Marketing Made Easy
There are so many social networks out there today, it seems to be a “job” just to stop by and check your inbox and friend invites. I know the feeling, I am part of many social networks myself. The problem for many webmasters and internet marketers is that this is still a very effective method of getting the word our about news and your business. This can make for a very hectic and unfocused work environment. Trust me, you don’t want to get caught in a loop of updating your statuses at all these social sites, when you could be spending your time writing solid content for your site, building relevant back links and hopefully dealing with all the sales coming in. The internet is by itself a very distracting place and there is no reason to allow it to make you loose your focus. Keep reading and learn how to spend less time on social sites and more time working with your business, where your focus should be.
The power of your social marketing campaign will come down to 2 simple factors:
- Quality Of Information
- Expansion Of Syndication (across many networks)
If you are getting any results from working with one social network there are many more places you can get the same results, it just comes down to a matter of time. If you are not taking the time to add value to your presence on social networks, you will not be getting the results you are looking for either. That is what makes these the 2 golden rules of social marketing to me.
If you are sending out a bunch of junk and you are only sending it to 5 or 6 people, my guess is that you are not selling much and probably not driving a lot of traffic to your websites either. This is fine if you are only using social sites for fun and to keep in touch with your family and friends. However, if you are trying to use the power of social sites to get your information out to the world, you may need some extra syndication power to give you more bang for your buck as far as time spent on your social marketing efforts.
I have a couple of suggestions to get your social marketing campaign rocking really fast. I have listed the top resources below.
Professional Social Marketing Tools
There are a few paid tools out there to help you get your information out to all your social sites and to twitter effectively and the biggest one on the market today by far is, Socialoomh.com pronounced “Social Oomf” and it does a great job, allowing users to que up tweets and messages to be sent out in the future to many social networks. This allows you to manage and maintain many accounts on many social networks with ease. The fees here are well worth it. This site has a great back end to make sure you can keep your messages personal and get your messages out when you want them to appear from a company you can trust.
Free Social Marketing Tools
There may be a few different free tools on the market, but I can tell you that you will not find one that is easier to use, more powerful and more flexible than Ping.FM This service is seriously a killer when it comes to distribution of your information across multiple social networks with one click. I have used this service for some time and I have nothing but good things to say about their marketing power. Oh and did I say, this is FREE!
I know the title was a little misleading to this one, but to be honest I am not going to waste your time or mine to list other free services that just don’t compare to the power of the Ping.FM service. So if you want to take your social marketing power and syndication to the next level, get over there now and don’t forget to post a thank you down below.
Nick Simpson
Read MoreFree Web Site Tools
