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• Link Building, Link Love

  Backlinks Giveaway: 28 Free Backlinks

  10.22.07 | Permalink | 26 Comments

  After running my free backlink offer for two days, I have ended up with a total of 28 links. It was a great response (despite the site being down for 10 hours instantly after the offer) and I learned a thing or two from it that I’ll utilize in my future offerings.

  Thanks to those who submitted their links, and a special thanks to following people for spreading the word:

  • Karen Zara from Karen Zara Dwells Here
  • Steven Snell from Vandelay Design
  • Pelf from Pelf-ism is contagious
  • and Elliot Cross from ejcross.com

  Those who benefited from this offer, and those who missed, keep your fingers crossed, because a similar offer is coming very soon, which will be even better and everyone will be able to benefit from it. Subscribe to my RSS to be notified when I give away more free backlinks.

  Here are the 28 links in the order they were submitted. I’ve enjoyed reading many of these and I am sure you do too.

• Link Building

  Get a Free Backlink From Blogging Bits!

  10.20.07 | Permalink | 87 Comments

  OK guys, here’s the idea: You will link to one of your favorite posts on your blog in the comments, and I’ll include your link in the next post where I’ll compile a list of all the links submitted by everyone. The deadline is day after tomorrow (can be extended).
  Sounds useful? Great! Feel free to […]

• Blogging Tips, Building Readership, Social Media

  How To Turn Your Personal Blog Into a Semi-Pro Blog

  10.18.07 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  You know why blogging became popular? Because it let the geniuses like you and I publish their rants thoughts about random stuff online. Blogs were supposed to be personal diaries.

  Then, the cult of business-minded came along and turned blogs into online profit-turning machines, and set down a completely different definition of blogging. Of course, money feels and smells good, so everyone liked the renewed definition of blogging, leaving personal blogs behind.

• Blogging Tips, Link Building, SEO Tips

  Link Exchange Strategy: Do You Turn Down Link Exchange Requests?

  10.16.07 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  I imagine that every blogger gets link exchange requests. It’s often difficult to decide whether to accept the offer or not. Sometimes spammy requests will inundate your inbox and you’ll utterly despise the idea of link exchanges. It’s normal to associate negativity with something that mostly comes across as unpleasant.

• General

  Blog Action Day: What Would Happen If a Nuclear War Breaks Out?

  10.15.07 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  This post was written for Blog Action Day. A day when bloggers from all around the world unite to raise awareness for the environment. My topic for this post is not a conventional environmental issue, but a look at the more destructive trend that’ll destroy our environment as well as our existence.

  Astronauts tell us that when they soar far higher than the last layer of earth’s atmosphere, they see the earth as a tiny dot, among countless other dots, that looks as though it would fade into the vastness of the cosmos anytime. Our religious, national, and tribal loyalties look so frivolous when the boundaries and belief systems that separate us lose significance. At the same time, the protection and comfort of our little home seems more important than anything else in the cold and dark cosmos.

• Blogging Tips, Productivity, Writing Tips

  The Virtues Of Posting Less Often

  10.14.07 | Permalink | 49 Comments

  When I was new to blogging, I kept hearing this advice from the oldies that you must blog on a daily basis no matter what, and that if you didn’t post on a certain day, your angry, shovel-wielding readers will chase you around the blogosphere. However, now that I have some first-hand blogging experience under my belt, my conclusions differ greatly from those respected bloggers. I have also learned that all advice is not necessarily good advice, even if it comes from a reliable source. You should experiment and find out out for yourself what works for you.

  Although posting daily is essential for news related blogs (such as Tech Crunch) to feed their readers with the news and reviews about the latest happenings in their niche, it is a big no-no for the blogs that consist mostly of advice, opinions, and researched articles.

• SEO Tips

  4 Reasons Why Google Isn’t Penalizing You And You Are Just Paranoid

  10.11.07 | Permalink | 27 Comments

  Ever since Google came out openly with its stance about advertisers and link sellers who try to manipulate Google’s PageRank algorithm, there has been a great deal of unrest in the blogosphere. You can hear angry voices coming from virtually all directions.

  I really find it laughable that many of the well reputed bloggers have succumbed to the temptation of crying foul against Google. They think Google has penalized them for selling links, OK fair enough. Wait.. they also think that Google is manually penalizing their site to rank low in SERPs, and that Google has set spies to trawl through the world wide web to catch the criminals red-handed. This is where their paranoia becomes evident.

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