ArticleRanks comes in just at the right place.  By submitting your article to ArticleRanks, your article will be posted on the sites that registered to post your articles.

It is not spamming. ArticleRanks distributes your unique content onto users sites that request it.

Its just like writing an article and then spending your valuable time approaching bloggers or site owners. AR simply takes the leg work out of this and gives you access to these blogs/sites instantly.

As a blog owner, you can also register as a publisher.  Once you have published an article, you will receive credit.  And you can use these credits to publish your article.

Sign up now.  It is free to join.  On your way to easier link building.

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LinkWorth‘s products consist of text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text links, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages, article submission, directory submission and many more.

They also have an affiliate program – which you would be paid when you have reached $100. The account control centre has provided you with all you need – banners, text ads, stats etc.

Again it is free to join, and you can start earning in 5 minutes. Sign up now!

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Qassia is another site that you can submit articles that links back to your site. It is quite similar to Squidoo, but it is easier to use.

All you have to do is to open an account and get started. You do not need to place a batch on your site, although I highly recommend you do. By placing a batch you will be able to enter the ‘sticker mania promo’. When your site is crawled by Qassia you would gain credit.

To ‘show off your talent’ you can write articles, named ‘intel’, and publish them on the Qassia website.  By writing articles you can start building links to your website – note the Qassia website has a pagerank of 5 at the time of writing.

You can also make money – you can enter your own Adsense ID and the ads shown on your Intel would be under your adsense account.

Qassia is free to join. Join NOW!

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It is very simple to join this service.
1. Go to and sign up.

2. Submit a new blog. Please note that if your blog is already in Text Link Ads you would not be able to submit.

3. There is no step 3.

Simple is it? If you want to earn extra money, you can also join their affiliate program. All your clicks and earnings would be tracked. You can also run it alongside with other ad programs including Adsense.

There is also no minimum payment set for Paypal. If you prefer a cheque, it would be $25.

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Hubpages is where you can easily publish information on a topic you love to write about.

In the world of HubPages, a hub is like a webpage, containing an article that you can write whatever you like on your favourite topic.

To start writing is pretty simple.  After signing up, you just need to create a hub and start writing on it.  With their easy-to-use interface, you can load content, photos, video and links onto your hub.

Thousands of people interested in your topic would be able to read your hub.

Best of all, for those who are interested in some extra cash, you can join their loyalty program.  They have a traffic referral program AND you can also earn affiliate commission of Adsense, Kontera, eBay & Amazon.  You can also setup an Analytics account to track traffic information.

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Off-page SEO is really refering to link building.  As you probably would know, search engines counts the links pointing to a website as votes to its importance.  The more links pointing to it, the more important the site is, hence the PageRank would increase accordingly.

To qualify for a high PageRank, it is important to:

1. Obtain natural links – make sure your links are not ‘bulk buy’ links from crap sites or link farms.  (One saying is that you can’t really control who links to you, so Google can’t really penalize you.  Well, that’s true.  But still, try to avoid anyway.)

2. Obtain links from relevant websites – if you sell cars, you may want your link is from automobile related sites.

3. No pay links – search engines don’t really like paid links.  If you want to buy links, well, it is not encouraged.

Quality of the links are more important than quantity.  But quantity is also very important.

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Contests, contests, contests… Have you ever thought of why there are suddenly so many contests happening?

Market Leverage, John Chow, John Cow and many others are doing this for a few reasons:

Increase number of Comments

John Chow asked us to leave a comment to gain the first ticket to enter the contest.  A large number of comments surely reflects the popularity of the blog.

RSS / Email Subscription

To gain another ticket, they have asked you to subscribe to their RSS feed.  That is an effective way to increase their number of subscribers.

SEO – Link Building

To gain extra tickets, you have to blog about the contest linking to John’s.  By specifying the link text they have gained a quality / juicy backlink, which search engines count for ranking.

They have also asked to link to Market Leverage.  Again, another juicy link, but this one is to ML instead.

Affiliate Marketing

To gain more tickets, you have to sign up with Market Leverage using a referral link.  This way when you earn money through ML, they would get a commission.

What have you gained?

By placing a comment on their popular blog you have also gained yourself a link.  If you have put your targeted key phrases onto the link then you got a higher quality link.  I am not sure if they have got nofollow enabled though.

And of course, you have gained more chances to win the present!

At the time of writing, John Chow has gained 712 comments and John Cow got 74 (oops big difference).  That effectively means they would have gained a large number of links as well.

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A preview version should be available for MSDN and TechNet in a very short time (probably within a few days).

Not a surprise – this new social bookmarking site allows users to:

• Bookmark a site on the web
• Tag it
• Bookmark a site on the upcoming “My bookmark” tool

Why is there another social bookmarking site?  MS reveals that the new site should open another stream of advertising income, and also to collect tag data to improve search result relevancy.

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You can decide which directories to choose base on a few factors.

1. Google PageRank- although many people don’t really see it as important, it is however a good indication of how search engines view the directory website.  The higher the PageRank, the better.  When you submit, you may also want to have a look at the PageRank of the particular page / category that you are submitting to.

2. Ranking of the directory – type in a few keywords like ‘internet directory’, ‘business directory’, ‘online directory’, or ‘[your niche] directory’ and see what comes up on the first few pages of search results.

3. Relevancy – as I mentioned before, the links from websites with higher relevancy are more important.

4. Link verification – it is better of the verification process is manual.  Usually the auto-processed directories are likely to attract spams.

5. Site quality – have a look at the websites on the directory and see if they are poor quality sites.

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To define good links, they have to be:

1. From a website relevant to your topic. If you have a jockey club website and asking for a link from a web designer, it is less valued. If you are a web designer asking for a link from a web host, then it is probably considered a better link.

2. From government and educational websites. It is generally believed that links from .gov or .edu links are better.

3. From a page with less links. Try to ask for a link placement on a page with less than 10 links. And of course, higher pagerank.

4. Key phrase rich. Something you see very often: click here, buy now, www.website.com etc doesn’t help. Search engines wants to know what is on the website that it is linked to, and to do so, they read the anchor text.

Don’t get a software that submits 5,000 links for you in one single click. It is not going to do any good for you. In fact, you site might be banned by search engines if you do so.

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