1. Use lots of meta keyword tags

Use it WITH Commas. Make sure you don’t repeat the same word more than 3 times in a row. Google only indexes the first 101K of the document – so don’t use TOO many.

2. Make sure you include at least one link to Google

They need quality traffic as well. Don’t be greedy and hog it all to yourself. This can do wonders for your pages. Remember – Google may be going public soon – so the more traffic you send them the better.

3. Use invisible text but make it close

Colors like 00FF33 & 00FF66 are both browser safe, but are so close most humans can’t tell the difference. Even though Google has over 50 PhDs on staff – none of them probably know this – so use it – the bottom of the page is a good place – right above what you will learn in number 4.

4. Dots, Dots, and More Dots

Put them at the bottom of your document like this:
………….
Then link each one to your pages – make sure you link one to Google and for good measure another to Yahoo. Don’t link to other sites (other than your own) that aren’t search engines. Don’t even link to sites that used to be search engines – like AltaVista.

5. This tip is probably the most powerful one on here

Make at least three pages on your site and link them as follows:

• Page 1 >>>>>> Page 2
• Page 2 >>>>>> Page 3

And this is the kicker

• Page 3 >>>>>> Page 1

Google will give points to page 2 from page 1, then to page 3 from page 2, and then – if you link it back to page 1 – it starts all over again. I can’t even count how many points this will end up giving you. Just don’t abuse it too much – or the big sites will complain you are taking too much PR from them.

6. Use H1 Tags for your entire page (except the title and other header information)

You can use CSS Style sheets to make them look smaller and Google will give you bookoo points for having everything so big on the page (even though it doesn’t look big to the user).

7. Submit early and submit often

I prefer to submit on a Sunday. That way – on Monday morning – the Googleplex will be swamped with so much to do – my submits will slip by. See the Googleplex hard at work. Would you work to ban submits if you could get FREE goat cheese (especially after doing two days without). Wouldn’t you rather play "chopsticks" on a grand piano while getting a massage? Or look at pages all day of Britney Spears? NUMBER 8

8. Link back too other people linking to your page using link:www.example.org.

This is similar to the technique in #5, but not as powerful.

9. Be careful spelling

Words like "PENS" and "ANGINA" can easily be misspelled to be words of the male and female anatomy respectively. This will cause Google to mistake your site for an ADUL† Site – and get it banned. Noticed how I used a special character to look like the letter "T" in the word before site. Use clever tricks like this throughout your documents.

10. If all else fails

mail a 10 spot wrapped inside a number 10 envelope (make sure you wrap one layer of aluminum foil around it). Write your URL above the serial number on the front. If it won’t fit, then that’s THE problem – as Google hates long URLs.

1. Have an “Advertise with Us” Banner on your site

This is the single most important issue. It should click to an Advertising information page and have an easy way to contact you for more information and rates. Key points: Make it a graphical image or a tab. Keep it above the fold.

2. Keep the ads on your site specific to your site

Don’t have smiley ads and wallpaper ads if your site is site is about mobile phones.

3. Show them the banners

If you currently have no paid placements on your site, put up house ads or partner ads in the same spot you would run a paid spot. (A house ad refers to banners for other products or sites that you or your company own)

4. Throw up a free bonus ad

By putting a free advertisement on your site, you may not only encourage similar ads or competitors to that product, but the company you added for free may decide to advertise with you. Ask for full disclosure of the performance of the campaign in return. (Total clicks, total purchases etc. ) Key points. Put the free bonus up with a direct URL without tracking tags or affiliate tags.

5. Show your site stats

You need to show at least the basics for site statistical information: Monthly unique visitors and total number of impressions are the 2 key ones. Other less important can be Google PR & Alexa rank.

6. User demographic information. Know your audience

The bare minimum is Male/Female % and average age of your readers. Other potentially useful information includes geographic, HHI, single/married, number of kids. etc. How do you get this info? You can do site polls, survey’s, or get more detailed stats from ComScore or Quantcast.com

7. Have an ‘About Us’ section

Clearly explain who you are and what your site is about. And also why you are an ‘authority’ on what you are writing about, and why anyone should care about what you have to say.

8. Don’t use Google AdSense on your site

OK, this could be the most painful one for most people especially if you are generating a few hundred bucks a month from it already. But Google ad sense devalues your site and makes it look unprofessional. You have to ask yourself, “Do I want some real revenue from my site or Google’s table scraps.”

9. Keep your blog on topic

If you are all over the map in regards to topics about which you talk about, advertisers won’t know if they are a good fit for your site.

10. Keep your blog professional

If you are talking about your cat, (Matt Cutts), ranting about your drive to work, swearing or bashing every product you can think about, it will scare away advertisers.

Imagine being on the autobahn with the accelerator down and then you realize that you are driving a wrecked car. The plight is not so uncommon on the information superhighway too. Torrent users would attest to the fact that half of our time is spent looking for ‘healthy’ torrents and the other half trying to download (and a bit of upload too) at the maximum speed. The former is mandatory; the latter thankfully is within the realm of tweaking.

If you are the one who thinks that your torrent download speeds could do with a boost then keep reading. Below, you’ll find a few tips on how to speed up torrent download speed.

1. Your ISP is where it starts

Check the maximum download and upload speeds allowed by your ISP. Most ISP’s have specific bandwidths for both uploads and downloads. Obviously your torrent download speed won’t cross the cap set by the ISP. Go over to this article on Speed.io for broadband speed test. There are many other bandwidth testers like DSLReports which is included in the speed test within uTorrent.

2. Choosing the right BitTorrent client

Use the better clients out there like uTorrent, Vuze or the BitTorrent client itself. Wikipedia lists about 51 of them supporting the BitTorrent protocol. The choice of client used should always be updated to the latest version. The screenshots here depict uTorrent. The settings should be similarly configurable for other clients too.

3. Go for healthy seeds and peers

A peer is any computer participating in the download and upload of a torrent file. A seed (or seeder) is anyone who has one complete copy of the file being shared across the torrent network. A leech (or a leecher) is the person who does not have the complete file yet but has joined the network to download it. A leecher becomes a seeder when he downloads the entire file and then shares it across the network. 

For high torrent speeds, the best bet is in numbers. The greater the number of seeders, the healthier the torrent and the better the chance of higher speeds. The rule of thumb says to choose the torrent files with a high number of seeders and preferably lesser number of leechers i.e. a higher seed-leecher ratio.

4. Get through the firewall

Firewalls can block all incoming BitTorrent connections coming through. To ensure otherwise, a firewall should be manually configured to accept the connections and let it through the client. Windows XP has the Windows Firewall. Configure the firewall installed to accept the connections by checking the BitTorrent client on the allowed list i.e. Options – Preferences – Connection – check Add uTorrent to Windows Firewall. Also, check the Windows Firewall exception (if you keep it enabled) in your client too. Shutting down the firewall is not recommended as it leaves the computer open to attack. 

Note: If the home computer is behind a router, it also should be configured through the feature called Port Range Forwarding to enable torrent traffic. The router documentation should have specific information on this.

5. Limit your upload rate

A peer to peer network is all about sharing alike, but an unlimited upload rate hits the download rate too. Using the speed tests, find out your maximum upload speed and then set your client’s upload rate (Global Upload Rate in uTorrent) to about 80% of your maximum upload speed. You can also try varying your upload speeds – keep it high initially and then gradually bring it down towards the middle of the download.

Note: Mind the speed units – it may be given in kilobits per second (kb/sec) or kilobytes per second (kB/sec). 1 kilobyte = 8 kilobit

6. Go to a different port

The default port for the BitTorrent protocol is any between port numbers 6881-6999. ISPs throttle traffic on these ports as BitTorrent sharing involves high bandwidth usage. It’s easy to configure a different port in your torrent client. Use some number above 10000 to get around ISPs and also avoid problems with other applications. By default, the uTorrent port is randomized each time it starts. Set a specific port by not enabling the Randomize Port setting.

7. Increase the number of Max Half Open TCP connections

This figure specifies how many connections a torrent client should attempt to establish simultaneously at any given time. Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or newer, limits this to a default of 10 as a barrier against virus multiplication. But that’s a bummer for torrent speeds as torrents too need a large number of simultaneous connections.

A patch has been available for a while from LvlLord which modifies the TCPIP.sys file in Windows to allow a higher number of TCP connections. 

After running the patch, you have to set the number of connections in your torrent client. For example, in uTorrent go to Options – Preferences – Advanced – net.max_halfopen. Set any number from 50 to 100. But see that net.max_halfopen is set lower than the value set in TCPIP.SYS. Always check if it is still patched because Windows updates sometimes overwrite it. 

8. Experiment with Protocol Encryption

Some ISPs love to act like Big Brothers and constrict bandwidth for P2P protocols. Protocol Encryption in most of the torrent clients helps to override this bandwidth shaping. Enable outgoing protocol encryption and put a checkmark on Allow Incoming Legacy Connections. 

With protocol encryption, ISPs find it difficult if not impossible to detect that the traffic is coming from BitTorrent. Experiment with enabled, disabled and forced options because you could be getting better speeds with encryption disabled. Non-encryption makes a torrent connection compatible with someone who is not using encryption but as a minus it makes the torrent detectable to an ISP with a bandwidth restricting policy.

9. Bandwidth and connections

Your BitTorrent client’s settings options will let you enter figures for –

Global maximum number of connections gives the maximum number of connections that a BitTorrent client can make for any P2P exchange. Setting this too high does NOT mean higher speeds. Setting it too high would take up useless bandwidth and too low a figure would miss out on peers. For my 256kbps connection, I have a setting of 130.

Maximum number of connected peers per torrent gives the maximum number of peers that a BitTorrent client can connect to for any P2P exchange. Experiment by setting this number close to the available peers for a particular torrent. For my 256kbps connection, I have a default setting of 70.

Number of upload slots per torrent gives the maximum number of peers that a BitTorrent client will upload to for any P2P exchange. A low setting may affect downloads. For my 256kbps connection, I have a setting of 3. 

uTorrent has a Speed Guide which handily calculates the figures for a particular connection.

10. Some common sense

Most BitTorrent clients allow us to view the individual files in a download. You can selectively disable the download of files you don’t think necessary.

Familiarize yourself with the customization settings of your particular client available in the Help files or at the website FAQs.

1. Maintain at least two email addresses

You should use your private address only for personal correspondence. The public address should be the one you use to register on public forums, in chat rooms, to subscribe to mailing lists etc.

2. Never publish your private address on publicly accessible resources

3. Your private address should be difficult to spoof

Spammers use combinations of obvious names, words and numbers to build possible addresses. Your private address should not simply be your first and last name. Be creative and personalize your email address.

4. If you have to publish your private address electronically, mask it to avoid having it harvested by spammers

Joe.Smith@yahoo.com is easy to harvest, as is Joe.Smith at yahoo.com. Try writing Joe-dot-Smith-at-yahoo-dot-com instead. If you need to publish your private address on a web-site, do this as a graphics file rather than as a link.

5. Treat your public address as a temporary one

Chances are high that spammers will harvest your public address fairly quickly. Don’t be afraid to change it often.

6. Always use your public address to register in forums, chat rooms and to subscribe to mailing lists and promotions

You might even consider using a number of public addresses in order to trace which services are selling addresses to spammers.

7. Never respond to spam

Most spammers verify receipt and log responses. The more you respond, the more spam you will receive.

8. Do not click on unsubscribe links from questionable sources

Spammers send fake unsubscribe letters in an attempt to collect active addresses. You certainly don’t want to have your address tagged as active, do you? It will just increase the amount of spam you receive.

9. If your private address is discovered by spammers – change it

This can be inconvenient, but changing your email address does help you avoid spam – at least for a while!

10. Make sure that your mail is filtered by an antispam solution

Consider installing a personal antispam solution. Only open email accounts with providers who offer spam filtration prior to mail delivery.

Organic Search results appear in the non-advertising areas of the search engine results page. This is the equivalent of FREE advertising, so search engine optimization (SEO) is a very important strategy for creating a successful web site. So, it is imperative that you create an effective SEO strategy to help your web site bring you new customers. Here are 10 ways to improve your search engine optimization strategy.

1. Keywords

Develop unique keywords and relevant titles for each of your web site pages and each article or blog you publish.

2. Content

The depth of research and development applied to your content strategy will be directly proportional to the quality and quantity of traffic you receive in organic search.

"Content" includes the written word, applications, widgets, tools and other digital assets.

3. Copywriting

Adding one word or phrase in the right place can increase visibility for a particular keyword. Be careful in your approach, and consider the human element, no matter how tempting it is to over-tweak.

4. Permanent Links

Start the process of cataloging multiple redirects and campaign URL’s and set up permanent redirects to make it easier for the engines to find the "real" URL.

5. Interlinking

Link to others web sites, have others link to yours. Writing useful articles that link back to your web site and getting others to use the articles on their home pages is one of the best strategies for improving your rankings in the search engines. As interlining is currently done mostly through social networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook, this has come to be considered more of a Social Media Marketing technique.

6. Feed submission

Determine which feeds are most relevant to your business (products, maps, etc.) and take steps to provide data to the engines. With placements like Google Maps, a feed could be a quick ticket to a No. 1, No. 2, or No. 3 natural ranking.

7. Title and Description

Creating a succinct title and description, to go with your Keywords, is an important part of your meta data strategy for SEO. There are also other meta tags (html tags) that can help build your SEO.

8. Linking Architecture

Search engines need a unique URL for each page to actually index each page separately. Using parameters like /ShowArticle.cfm?article_id=14 doesn’t work. You could have a million articles linked like this, but the search engines wouldn’t know it. Search engines do like URL constructs such as /ShowArticle.cfm/14 – if your information architect designs your system in this way, you can be assured that every article or web page will be reviewed by the search engines, and making sure each has a different title, keyword list and description will guarantee that the search engines actually index the articles and pages. This is the best strategy for getting search engines to crawl your site and index content.

9. Clean up broken links

Find and remove permanently broken internal links or set up properly configured 404 error page to improve crawling performance that lets engines know that the old link is history.

10. Make your pages smaller by removing common JavaScript and CSS code to external files

The files are then cached by the browser and your page loads quicker and the search engines can crawl your pages quicker and easier.

These are only a few of the many things you can do to help your SEO. They are free and if you can coordinate all of these things into your web site, they are also very effective.

When it comes to creating backlinks, quality is key. Even if you have the most backlinks on the net, if they are poor quality, from irrelevant sites with questionable material or SEO tactics, your rankings will be penalized. To make your marketing efforts pay off, you need to take the time to build a quality backlink network that will drive relevant traffic to your site and tickle the fancy of the search engine spiders. Here are 10 ways to gain quality backlinks:

1. Use articles directory sites

You can submit articles with relevant content to articles directory sites and include backlinks to your site. Search engines love this type of link because it is one-way to your site, and one-way links from quality content sites show that your website is also quality. The key here is to make sure that your content is relevant. Although writing good, rich content articles is time consuming, don’t waste your time by submitting tons of poor-quality articles. It will only hurt you in the long run.

2. Submit your website to a links directory that will establish one-way links to your webpage

Start with the free links directory pages you can find online, and manually submit your webpage to the correct category. You can pay links directory sites to post your website in their directory, but be careful here. You want them to still do it manually – automatic submissions will not help you as much as gradual, carefully categorized submissions.

3. In any backlink that you create, wherever possible, use keywords in the link itself

Never use ‘click here’ if you can help it. Instead, insert the link naturally as part of the text of the article. For example, if your website is dedicated to plants that attract butterflies, and your article is on how to create a fantastic butterfly garden, choose some of the words (butterfly garden, for example) as the link text. This is another signal to the search engines that your backlinks are quality.

4. Establish your own webpage on Squidoo

You can easily create a page on any topic you’d like on Squidoo, and include links back to your web page. You can even earn some additional revenue through the site’s revenue sharing program.

5. Create a free blog on sites like BlogSpot or Blogger

Google actually owns these sites, and scans them frequently for quality content and links. Build your blog over time, submitting numerous posts each week or month, all of them with a backlink to your site. Again, think quality - be sure the content of your blog is relevant to your site.

6. Post backlinks on other people’s blogs

that allow comments and that discuss topics relevant to your site.

7. Set up your own forum on a site that lets you create them for free

You can create topic categories that include your keywords, and post backlinks to your site from here as well.

8. Create a page for yourself or your website on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites

Be sure that you include content on your profile that is related to what you talk about on your website.

9. Try to create backlinks that link to your inner WebPages, not just the home page

Search engines like to see this level of specificity in your links. Remember, take the visitor to the most relevant information with your backlink and the search engines will rank it higher.

10. Finally, no matter which of the strategies you use, establish your backlinks over time

Search engines like to see ‘older’ backlinks as well as ‘newer’ ones. If you suddenly have 100 new backlinks all in 24 hours, the search engines will notice and may either disregard them or consider them as less important when ranking your site.

Jean Asta is a full-time writer & management analyst. She has produced thousands of articles, e-books & operational report. eCasinoDirectory is a free articles and links directory where you’ll be able to freely submit gambling articles and gain valuable inbound links.

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If your site takes an age to load, in the words of Jeremy Clarkson, that’s not good. You don’t want to wear on your reader’s patience before they’ve even started reading. In this post we’ll explore ten ways to speed up your site, with tricks ranging from easy to even easier; none of the stuff in this post is difficult, so there’s no excuse for a slow-loading blog after reading this!

1. Delete Any Unwanted Plugins

If your site is loading slowly, look at how many plugins you’re using. If the answer is more than ten, look at the plugins you’re using and ask yourself whether you can integrate them directly into your theme. 

While you’re at it, also ask yourself whether you really need the plugin. If you can do without it, do.

2. Remove Unnecessary PHP Tags

If you’re using a theme that you didn’t make yourself, then chances are it’s full of php that doesn’t need to be there. For example, your header could have something like this:

This is telling WordPress to get the stylesheet url every single time someone loads your page. You can very easily replace this with something like this: (Remember to replace yoursite.com with your address).

This is just one example – there are many many more times you can do this – have a hunt round your header.php and other theme files and you’ll be amazed at the number of unnecessary queries you can eliminate.

3. Use WP Super Cache

One of the better known techniques for speeding up WordPress is to install the WP Super Cache plugin. It caches your site for super-quick loading. It’s as simple as that. Install it and forget about it (and then promptly remember it when you wonder why your design changes aren’t showing next time you edit your theme files!).

4. Optimize Your Database

You’d be surprised how much you can increase your load time simply by optimizing your database. As always, you could do it manually or just get a plugin that does it for you!

The manual way. Login to cPanel, find phpMyAdmin, select your database, click ‘check all’ at the bottom of the page and then in the drop down box in the middle of the page (see the image below), select ‘Optimize database’. And you’re done. 

The other option is to use a plugin: the Optimize DB plugin from yoast.com does what it says on the box.

5. Optimize Your Images

If images aren’t optimised, both your blog’s bandwidth and load time will be affected. Both are bad. The solution? Optimize your images. It’s easier than you may think; in Photoshop click ’save for web’ under the file menu or in the free GIMP, save the file as a .jpg and you’ll automatically be given the option to compress your image.

As a benchmark, although obviously depending on what the image is, on my blog I aim for in-post images to be 40kb or less (although don’t sacrifice quality too much!). If for whatever reason you can’t use an image editor, all is not lost! Yahoo have a free service called smush.it that you can point at a web page and it’ll optimize the images.

6. Compress your CSS and JavaScript

Again, something that is very easy to do: compress your CSS and put your JavaScript into a single file.

To compress your CSS, you can use an online tool, such as styleneat.com, which will get rid of the white spacing and neaten everything up. You might not notice any difference to start off with , but it will make a difference to your blog’s load speed; these things all add up.

Something else do is to put all of your JavaScript into a single file and then load it at the bottom of the page (in the footer.php file). This ensures that the styling is loaded first, then any fancy JavaScript you’ve got loads last.

7. Disable Hotlinking

As I said earlier, if your images aren’t optimised then your using up bandwidth unnecessarily. It’s bad enough having to keep images optimised for your own server’s sake, but say someone else copied and pasted the url of the image, putting your images on their site?!

That’s called hotlinking, and via the .htaccess file (which you’ll find in your root directory), disabling hotlinking is easy.

First, backup your .htaccess file. I can’t stress how important that is! Next, add the lines of code below, changing the appropriate lines to suit your blog. The last line is an image that will display instead – how about an advert for your site?

• #disable hotlinking of images with forbidden or custom image option
• RewriteEngine on
• RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
• RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
• #RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ – [F]
• RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/stealingisbad.gif [R,L]

8. Keep Spammers Away

The .htaccess file is a very useful tool. It won’t just stop hotlinking, but it can also be used to keep spammers away by blocking referrers from certain sites. At this point, you’re probably thinking “great, pity it’d be impractical to implement this.”

Well, yes, it would be. The good news is that over at Perishable Press, Jeff has complied a list of over 8000 of the web’s spammiest referrers, which you can download here and just copy and paste into your .htaccess file.

How will this help your site load faster? If spammers aren’t getting onto your site then they aren’t using up your resources, freeing them up for everyone else to use, so the site loads faster. It will stop spammers from barraging your server with hundreds of requests. You can read the full explanation on the post at Perishable Press.

9. Turn Off Post Revisions

Post revisions, introduced in WordPress 2.6, haven’t been a big hit with everyone, especially those with single-author blogs. Why do they slow down your site?

Every single time you save a post, a new row is created in your wp_posts table, so if you save your post ten times, that’s ten new rows created.

Is the 10th one missing? Why don’t you use some of your skill and complete the list?

The internet is full of money making opportunities. The problem is it can be very hard to find them and get started. Here is a list of 10 ways to make money on the internet that you can start right away if you like.

1. Start a web store on the internet

Sell wholesalers products online and have your own web shop. You can make good profits with this one, especially if you find a good and reliable wholesaler who doesn’t overcharge.

2. Start a blog for money

You can start a blog on a subject that interests you and others and get paid for each click you get on the ads on it.

3. Paid to participate sites

Get paid to write for a web site like associated content. They pay you for each article that you submit.

4. Flip web sites

 People will pay really good money for a decent web site. You can set it up and create content for it. You do not have to worry about getting traffic to your site as it is the content of the site that is important.

5. Sell domain names

This is a good one and similar to flipping web sites. The difference is that you are only selling the domain name itself though. Short and memorable domains are the most sought after.

6. Become a freelancer

You can use your skills and get a virtual job online by becoming a freelancer. You get paid for doing all sorts of one off jobs for people.

7. Be a virtual assistant to an individual or business

Sometimes a business will need the advice of someone or jobs done on a more permanent basis than a freelancer.

8. Write for money

There are plenty of websites that are looking for writers to create their content for them. They will offer a revenue sharing system or pay for each post or article.

9. Buy and sell on eBay

This is perhaps the best way to make money on the internet. You can buy new products from a wholesaler or buy products that aren’t very well listed on eBay and then list them properly for a profit.

10. Create your own product and sell it over the internet

It could be a digital product like an e-book and you won’t have any running or start up costs.

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The beauty of creating a blog is that you can add it to your current web site or use it as a standalone website. If you don’t constantly market your blog you won’t attract many visitors or make many sales.

Here are the top 10 ways to attract web traffic to your blog:

If you consistently add new content you will not only attract regular readers but also the search engines. Try to add new content to your blog at least 3 times a week.

2. Optimize your content

Make sure you optimize the titles, paragraphs and links within your content. This means you must first do keyword research to incorporate keywords related to your content.

3. Include keywords in your tags

WordPress allows you to include tags below each post. Place your most popular keywords in these tags separated by commas.

4. Add meta tags

Use the headspace or seopack plugin to add title and description meta tags to each post. Search engines place great emphasis on title tags that contain your keyword at the beginning.

The description meta tag is what visitors read about your site when they find it in the search engines. Make sure the description of your page will get the reader to click to your content.

An individual post won’t get much traction in the search engines unless you get links pointing to it. If you have related content from other areas of your blog create a text link (anchor text) within that post that links to your current content.

Your blog post ranking will increase in proportion to the number of links pointing to it.

6. Encourage commenting

Include questions within your content and encourage readers to leave a comment. This increases blog interactivity. Readers will see it’s an active blog and will want to read the comments and provide their own feedback.

Find blogs that have content related to your own and write a comment that compliments their post or is in response to others’ comments. With each comment include a link back to your own blog.

8. Use trackbacks

A trackback is a procedure for notifying the original blog poster that you have linked to their blog post from your blog. Create lots of trackbacks to popular blog posts from your own blog. This will encourage those you trackback to do the same for you and will increase traffic to your site.

9. Submit to blog directories

Google "top directories to submit your blog" to get a free list of the top 100+ blog directories you can submit your blog to.

10. Submit RSS Feed to RSS Directories

To submit your blog or RSS feed to a list of RSS and blog directories, Google "top rank RSS blog directories."

Blog marketing is a process that must be done consistently to reap great benefits. By employing the strategies mentioned above you’ll see a steady flow of web traffic that will increase over time.

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Herman Drost is the Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) owner and author of http://www.iSiteBuild.com Affordable Web Site Design, Web Hosting and SEO.

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