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e_Marketing Blog More High PR Links I constantly get asked how to get links from high PR sites. There are somewhat conflicting views on how important the Page Rank of the sites linking to you are, but I don't think there is any question that higher Page Rank sites get crawled more often, and they are considered more "authoritative" than those with little or no Page Rank. Both of these factors should make it worth the effort to try to get your content on high PR sites. But the question is "How"? One very useful approach is to leave comments or feedbak on interactive sites such as blogs or social networking sites. These links will usually be in the form of comments left in response to posts, stories, videos, etc. Unless you are happy just leaving meaningless spam comments, leaving legitimate (or even semi-legitimate) comments on blogs takes time and effort. You have to actually go to the blog, read the posts, do a little bit of thinking, and then write a comment. I don't know what the average time would be for doing this, but I'm pretty sure if you were to try to create an efficient "system" for commenting, it would be difficult to get the process down to less than 5 minutes per comment. Yes, I know there is software that will find blogs, isolate posts according to keywords, and then let you create comments right from within the software shell. I've looked at this sort of thing and have not been convinced it would make the actual commenting time shorter. The three most important criteria (from the "link value" perspective) for taking the time to create comments (either manually or semi-automatically) are: 1. The "authority" of the blog (measured in Page Rank) I have already briefly commented on the "authority" question. I know that PR is not the be all and end all when it comes to ranking in the SERPs (results pages), but it does indicate potential link value, at least in my experience. From the perspective of link value "relevance" is probably not as important as most people think. See my previous link relevancy post for more on this. But from the "I-actually-know-what-I'm-talking-about" point of view it makes quite a bit of difference. If you're taking the time to read the posts you're commenting on, you might as well read something you're interested in and are likely to learn something from. You will also be able to create comments more quickly because you'll have something intelligent to say. On the "do follow" question, you have to know a bit of history to understand the significance of this. A couple years ago Google tried to clamp down on comment spam by encouraging bloggers to add the "no follow" tag to links embedded in comments. The "no follow" tag tells the Google bot not to follow these links - making them much less desirable from the link juice point of view. Many bloggers obediently fell into line because they were intimidated by Google threats. But some resisted either silently or openly and left their comment links intact. These are usually referred to as "Do Follow" blogs. If you can find a "Do Follow" blog that still has Page Rank, leaving comments on sites like that is generally considered worth the effort. If you'd like to take a stab at building links this way, check out "How to Get a Free PR10 link". This will take you to a free report from Angela Edwards. Angela also has a subscription service where she sends you 30 new high PR blogs every month where you can get "do follow" links. Watching Widgeteers About a month ago The Widgeteers advertising network went live. The deal sounded so good I became a paying member almost on the spot. It works like this: members load ad blocks on their sites. Ads look similar to Google Adwords. When someone visits a page that has an ad block on it, that visit is recorded as a view. In return for showing other people's ads you get to run your own ads on other peoples' sites. In other words, you can get "free" advertising, just by putting a few ad blocks on your websites. Even though this kind of advertising gets a notoriously bad click thru rate, the paid option seemed like a no-brainer: 5000 views per month for an entire year for something like $150. Obviously quite a few others thought so too, because the network went down after a couple of days, presumably because of an overworked server. The initial problems were overcome by changing to a different server, and since then I've been keeping my eye on the performance of the ad network. Unfortunately I can't say I've seen a lot of traffic from the Wiedgeteers ads, but I'm hoping things change for the better next month as problems continue to get worked out and new advertisers jump on board. If nothing else, the free Widgeteers option is worth checking out... Free PR10 Backlink - Get Yours We do links at Linknet, so we're always on the lookout for ways to get quality backlinks. Here is a report by Angela Edwards detailing exactly how you can get a backlink on a PR10 site. This is not BS. It's free, so definitely worth the little bit of effort. Angela will send you other sources of high PR links too. Go to FREE PR10 LINK |
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will hold its 31st annual Building Energy Conference and Trade Show at Boston’s
Seaport World Trade Center on March 7-9, 2006. The show is expected to draw 2,000 participants for activities including: workshops, sessions, lectures, networking, a free public forum, and a trade show for renewable energy and green building professionals. The event is recommended for architects, developers, investors, policy makers, engineers, builders, city and town planners, building systems designers, real estate professionals, and other professionals interested in renewable energy and green building practices. MacWorld to feature usual slate of innovations MacWorld, to be held in San Francisco, Jan 9-13 2006 will feature a strong focus on music and audio. This is not surprising, considering Apple's success in this area over the last few years. Music-related exhibitors will include Harman Multimedia which introduced an award-winning line of companion products for the iPod, as well as Musitek showing off the latest release of SmartScore music-scanning and music-scoring application. Others features include Guitar Center, showing off the latest recording software and hardware, music creation and editing tools. Other displays will feature a Podcasting Stage where attendees can listing to leading podcasters, and the MacWorld Auto Show featuring specially fitted cars demonstrating the latest in iPod integration. Government Officals Debate Technology Options at CES The International Consumer Electronics Show to be held in Las Vegas, January 5-8, 2006 is one of the most important shows of its kind in the world. It features cutting edge displays of new consumer technology, with a focus on audio, video, mobile electronics, information technology, wireless communications, home networking and much more. Because of its importance to the global economy, this year more than 100 top federal and state government officials from states across the U.S. will be in attendance to "hear, touch, undertand, and debate the hottest technology products and services." Government officials include members of the US Senate, as well as the House of Representatives. Officials from the Whilte House, FCC, and other government agencies will also attend. Debates and presentations will focus on the environmental impacts of technology, secuirty issues, and contentious issues such as Music Industry vs File Sharing Consumers. (c) Linknet News Marketing News Digest. Reprints must leave credits and links intact, and include this notice. |
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