Anyways to make a long story short I updated the Free Blog Reviews post so go check it out if your are looking for places to get your blogged linked to for free. Some of the sites do them for free, or require a reciprocal link back.

Also it looks like the list has dwindled down to about 11 or so bloggers, so if you do free blog reviews then leave me a comment or contact me.

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Sung to the tune of ‘What a Wonderful World‘ by Sam Cooke.

I don’t know much about PHP
Now don’t know much about Directories
Don’t know much about Google juice
Don’t know much about Wall’s E-book
All I do know is I link-love to you now
And I wonder if you’ll link to me too
Ooh what a wonderful web this could be

I don’t know much about Javascript
Now don’t know much about page views or hits
Now don’t know much about Alexa scores
Don’t know what forum sigs are for
But I do know 1 + 1 is 2
Now and I wonder if you’ll link me, too
Ooh what a wonderful web this could be

I don’t claim to be an SEO student
But that’s what I’m trying to be
But by using, the right anchor text, baby
Looks like i could win some SERPS for me

I don’t know much about PHP
Now don’t know much about Directories
Don’t know much about Google juice
Don’t know much about Wall’s E-book
All I do know is I link-love to you now
And I wonder if you’ll link to me too
Ooh what a wonderful web this could be

I don’t claim to be an SEO student
But that’s what I’m trying to be
But by using, the right anchor text, baby
Looks like i could win some SERPS for me

I don’t know much about Javascript
Now don’t know much about page views or hits
Now don’t know much about Alexa scores
Don’t know what forum sigs are for
But I do know 1 + 1 is 2
Now and I wonder if you’ll link me, too
Ooh what a wonderful web this could be

Google, I been trying
I been trying, I been trying…

If you didn’t get the ‘1 + 1 is 2′ part it was referring to blog comment captcha questions. And I’ll um, refrain from singing any more so that I don’t kill off any readers that bang their heads into the keyboard from this.

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While the best way to get your site linked to is to write quality content. Sometimes you want that extra exposure or specific keyword to rank in.

These sites are sorted by their current page rank.

PR 5 – Untwisted Vortex
PR 5 – Blogging Ads – Registration required
PR 3 – Blogsweluv
PR 3 – Blog A Day – Link back required
PR 3 – Inspirit Blog
PR 3 – The Weblog Review
PR 3 – Darn Good Reviews
PR 2 – Our Blog Review
PR 0 – Free Blog Reviews
PR 0 – Cikgu Azleen – Link back required
PR 2 – The Review Bunker
PR 0 – Aya’s Blog Review
PR 0 – Digital Point Product Reviews
PR 0 – Blog Review Daily

If you do free blog reviews, please feel free to add your site to the list by leaving a comment.

Updated:
1/18/08 – Added two new blogs to the list [Blog Bady, Manic Tasty Bites]
1/24/08 – Added Fat Kid Unleashed
2/14/08 – Added Aya’s Blog Review
9/23/08 – Cleaned out all the broken links, and updated pageranks.
9/26/08 – Added Digital Point Product Reviews, Blog Reviews Daily

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I had a nice big rush of traffic from Google at the beginning since it was a newly created page, and then the SERP went down slowly no visitors a day after about two weeks or so. That’s the Google engine for you, giving new engines good ranking for a day or so after release. Then sticking it into the infamous sandbox. I don’t blame them though, the site only has nine back links so I’m still surprised that its even getting hits at the moment.

Anyways it looks like Yahoo finally indexed the page recently, and I’m seeing a steady steam of visitors daily from that search engine now for the keyword free 3d mmorpg. The other one I have for Team Fortress due to all the clan sites, and gaming site promotions isn’t fairing well. This stream of people looks like its also pushing the Squidoo rankings back up as well. At its peak in October my Metin 2 site had around a 1400 ranking. This was just from being indexed in Google initially. Until recently I think the site has been sitting in the 25,000th position, but climbing back thanks to Yahoo Search to a currently around 9k. On Google for that term I don’t even show up in the top 50. On Yahoo my site shows up as #4. How you like them Apples now?

Since Squidoo does the payments about a month out I finally get to see what type of money comes in from just having two pages. (well I’m just going to count one since the Team Fortress page doesn’t bring in anything).

A nice sum of [drum roll please]: $2.07

Not bad, for a single page with only 9 backlinks, most of that being my own blog with the rest from my re-syndicated on some splog or rss sites. I think its especially good when the top earning lenses only earn about $10 from Squidoo.(they earn the rest via affiliate advertising) I think I should go back an maybe change a few things on that web page to help it out. And Yes there is an affiliate link on the site for the Metin 2 page I made on Squidoo. Also even if not many people visit the site, I’ve had 363 clicks outgoing clicks logged. Meaning this is a great free site to get pre-sell visitors to your affiliate links. I’ll have to take a look at this site again to make some landing pages for more Clickbank offers I think. Its definitely cheaper than paying for 300 clicks via Adwords.

If you haven’t made a Squidoo lens yet, sign up for one. At the very least to create a nice back link to your website for keywords on Yahoo, that you can’t quite rank well on Google with.

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Lets take a look at their about page.
“rssHugger is a unique website that aims to bring bloggers and readers together. rssHugger aims to provide blog owners with a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic, building backlinks for search engine optimization, as well as attracting new rss subscribers if the content is interesting to the reader.”

Why should I join now?

Its FREE now, previously rssHugger was a pay to join directory. (you may still join by paying $20 if you wish to skip the write a post about rssHugger part of application, and receive a manual review).
What are the benefits to me as a blogger?

Besides just a directory how does it help get me more traffic?

The more visitors you send to your rssHugger page, the higher you will rank on the Top 100 page. To keep everyone on an even playing field, the Top 100 blogs page resets everyone back to zero on the 1st of every month. This will allow those that actively participate or promote their page on rssHugger to receive much more promotion in return.

How does one send visitors to their rssHugger page?

Your page has the following address:
www.rssHugger.com/YourBlog.com

For example my page there would is:
http://www.rsshugger.com/moneyne-ws.blogspot.com

So if you go to my page you raise monthly votes by 1, which will then hopefully raise me up a rank or two in the listings.

A free service that gives you backlinks to your posts, and more exposure for your blog. If you think that’s a good deal, sign up with rssHugger now.

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1. Submit to Search Engines – Its free, and it can bring in a hefty amount of traffic. Google & Yahoo are two major ones, if your site isn’t indexed submit to them here and here. The best thing about search engine traffic is that it is targeted traffic, meaning the people who come from this method is looking for what you got to read, show or sell. Optimize your site for these search engines by using your keywords
2. Submit to Directories – While a good directory can send you traffic, getting links via this method builds up your backlinks, which eventually push up your rankings in searches. Higher ranking in searches means more traffic for you. If you are looking for a list of free directories, I found a good one that doesn’t charge here.
3. Are you a blogger? Submit to blog directories – Tip#2 is good for business websites, but there are directories made just for blogs. The only downside to this one is that many require reciprocal link backs. I’ve submitted myself to the directories listed listed down at the bottom part of my page. While its not big traffic, it is some traffic which is better than no traffic.
   
4. Join a community – There are many different types of communities out there, and some of the more famous communities are Myspace or Facebook. Lately I’ve been getting a lot of hits from blogcatalog. I see quite a few people joining MyBlogLog, though not as many as before. One thing to note though is that even if you join a community you have to do something in it. Add comments, join discussions, give good advice or reviews. It all adds up, and you end up with someone liking your advice, which goes to your profile, and someday becomes a reader/customer.
5. Social Bookmarking – Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Del.icio.us, Furl, News Vine. These are a few of many great places to generate hits, and fast. Places like Digg can generate plenty amounts if traffic if you get on the first page, but all of that traffic usually doesn’t stay. You’ll need great content to make them readers and/or customers.
6. Make it Relevant – Its good to join communities or get bookmarked, but check where you are posting in, and what you are posting about. People discussing pet grooming won’t usually be interested in your site about new drivers for Linux.
7. A picture is worth a thousand words – Overlooked by many this method is great for attracting new visitors. This works especially well when used correctly with Stumble Upon or Digg. Search engines also pick these up, how many times have you done a Google image search, and then landed on someones page to see if there are more images on that site that are relevant to what you were looking for?
8. RSS – Syndicate, and promote your feeds. What is RSS? In Web 2.0 its stands for really simple syndication. What’s it do? It lets people read your content via an rss reader or an aggregator. What can I do with my feeds? Your feeds can be used as a site-map for Google in their webmaster tools to make sure they crawl it often. You can submit your feeds to different feed submission sites to get your posts better exposure. You can send people your most recent news if they sign to your feeds via e-mail. I personally use Feedburner to help with adding social bookmarking tags along with the feeds.
9. Article Marketing – Article marketing is a powerful way to bring traffic to you. Write howtos, or reviews, or even write up opinions on current trends. What happens is that you build credibility in your field. You also receive nice back links from authority sites about the topic. If you have a new website, these articles from publications will show higher up in the search engines rankings letting you get more traffic from them too.
10. Track Backs – For bloggers or news sites. These are a great way to find out who is linking to you, while at the same time creating a link back for the person who posted about you. Wordpress bloggers have this built in, while those of us who use Blogger have backlinks(which require both you and the person posting about you to be indexed by Google) Blogger users however don’t have a way to notify non-blogger users about posts automatically so we have to use products like Haloscan. Andy Beard had a nice explanation of it here.
11. Blog commenting – This method has become prone to plenty of spam, however it is still a good way to build long term traffic. Provided that your comment is useful, informative, or adds to the conversation, people will usually click on you or the link you provide in your comment to find out more. It also provides another link back to your site to help with your search engine rankings too. Rule #6 applies here as well. Don’t comment about irrelevant things as the comment will most likely be removed as spam.
12. Instructional Topics – People are always looking for ways to do things. Use this as a means bring people to your site. Teach your audience something useful, and they will come back to see if you have anything else to learn.
13. Review Past Topics – This lets your readers go through another page on your site, which is another chance for them to find something interesting on your web page. If you do this regularly you let your reader easily access other pages that they may have overlooked, or weren’t planning on visiting before.
14. Link Bait – People are always looking for freebies, whether its cash, prizes, coupons or even a review. Throw a contest with a prize, and then ask people to help you promote it. There are sites/blogs that promote other people’s contests. Use them means as a way to bring people to your site. Oh did I mention that its a nice way to get more links to your site?
15. Its all about Content – Content is what makes a visitor come back to to your site, it makes a visitor talk about your site, it makes a visitor want to share your site to other people. People link back to useful information if it is good information regardless of how old the content is. If you think you have the content, share it via tip #4, 5, 9 and 11.
16. Entrecard – I posted about it here, and so far its brought in quite a few visitors. Its a great way to start showing your blog around to people. Sign up for Entrecard here.

Building good web traffic takes time, so take the time to build good links.

Some people opt to go with paid traffic to bring in thousands of visits. This type of traffic isn’t very useful for most people, and many times can get you penalized in programs like Adsense.

I’m sure there are countless other ways to bring traffic to each person’s site. If you have one that isn’t listed here please comment, and let me know. If you find this post useful please feel free to repost it, but please do link back if you decide to use it.

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