Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
What “Sandra Bullok” Taught Me About Building Links Through Email
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This is a guest post by Brandon Hopkins
When I first got the email from “Sandra Bullok” I was excited. Did she want me opinion on Jesse James? Was she looking for a movie recommendation? Did she want my opinion on Beiber??
Unfortunately, it wasn’t the real Sandra Bullock, just a spammer. However, for the record I think Beiber gets a bad rap!
A Few Updates to My Lists for Building Backlinks
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I haven’t been posting for a couple weeks but I have been working on things. Here are some updates to my lists. There may still be some sites that don’t belong, but all are valid urls now. And they all have PageRank and Alexa Rank numbers now. The increase of sites in each is approximate since I really wasn’t paying attention:
- I added about 70 free blog hosts to my free blog host list
- I added about 300 bookmarking sites to my bookmarking site list
Building Links Through DoFollow Forum Signatures
I haven’t written a link building post in a while, because for the most part, I was off investigating other things. And getting way too complex. When I realized it’s the things I think are simple and run-of-the-mill that people really are looking to learn about. So as people ask me questions, I note them and try to write a post. I used to hate questions. Taking someone from “What’s a signature?” to viewing browser source in one sitting may be hard, but hopefully, it’s not impossible. Now I realize these questions are the master key to the type of traffic I want at this blog. So off we go.
Looking at Links
There is more than one way to get traffic to your blog. I see a lot of emphasis placed on what I consider dynamic links. This is traffic from commenting on blogs that use nofollow, getting stumbled, getting your site on Digg and the like. These type of links depending on someone physically clicking the link to get to your site. This is a great source of traffic and deserves just as much attention as any, but I think that using it at your only source of traffic is limiting.
The Ultimate DoFollow Blog List
I figured I had to go over the top with this one. Not quite sure if I have. You tell me.
I have been using Fast Blog Finder to find dofollow blog posts for me. It helps and then it doesn’t. I don’t spam. I like getting beneficial links back to my site. I use tools like this because they simplify the process. But sometimes the posts are a little bit old. And I am not quite sure of the etiquette involved. Is an older post OK to comment on? I could see refering to it from a blog post. But after a post has 20 comments, how much do you really add to the conversation if it has ended? Read more... (469 words, 3 images, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)