Archive for ‘Blogs & Blogging’
Why you should not rely on free web hosting
If you have free website hosted on Geocities or a blog hosted with free blog services such as Blogger, or Blogsome, the chances are that web directories will not be too keen on listing your site or blog. This is because, as experience shows, these type of websites or blogs are perceived as lousy and fourth-class, the pariah of the internet. People who have free sites are generally lazy people who do not generally put too much SEO work. Moreover, these type of websites tend to have less information and are less reliable than websites which are on paid hosting. Search engines, and that includes all directories, will pass over a website that do not have original content or great live links.
A new way of link building
Submitting to web directories is a form of link building but with the emergence of blogs as a new medium, a new opportunity has opened up for link building. Having blog reviews on blogs and your links in these blog reviews will make it certain for each engines like Google to pick up those links. You can get listed in these search engines in no time at all. Of course one would need to go to a paid blogging service which offers a way for advertisers to get their links posted on hundreds of blogs.
Sponsored Reviews, a paid blogging service have an article posted on their blog about why one should get link building from various blogs. Among the reasons listed is to gain traffic and prominence on search engines. In addition to the reasons outlined, getting links on blog posts will enable your website Google PageRank can be increased with the addition of links on blogs that are relevant to the niche topic. So if you are interested in new ways of link building, you should check out the tips provided for enhancing link building to your website.
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Maintain a blog audience
These days it is easy to create and own a blog. But how does one maintain a consistent number of blog readers? That is a question whereby you would be able to read an interesting answer to at this blog post by Sponsored Reviews, written by Jarrod Hunt and titled 27+1 Tips for Building and Maintaining a Blog Audience. There were several suggestions were made in order to not only gain but also ensure that you have a consistent number of blog visitors. Things like making sure that SEO principles are applied to your blog template, getting the right blogging platform (I would recommend WordPress) and staying on course and blog regularly with proper grammar and little spelling mistakes are some things which may already be familiar to some. I do, however, notice that the Sponsored Reviews URL relies on the default WordPress link, so I would like to suggest to them to ensure that they should check out the readable permalinks in order for search engines like Google to spider the blog quickly and efficiently.
Japanese lead in blogging, blogosphere growth slowing
Japanese has once again taken the top spot as the language with the most blog posts, followed by English, according to a report released on Thursday by blog search site Technorati. According to this news report, Technorati says:
“In terms of blog posts by language, Japanese retakes the top spot from our last report, with 37 percent (up from 33 percent) of the posts followed closely by English at 36 percent (down from 39 percent). Additionally there was movement in the middle of the top 10 languages, highlighted by Italian overtaking Spanish for the number four spot,” concludes the “State of the Live Web” report, formerly called “State of the Blogosphere.” “The newcomer to the top 10 languages is Farsi, just joining the list at #10.” Chinese has the third spot.
New blog theme at last
We are proud to announce that after weeks of waiting, we are finally using a matching theme for Emporium Blog which reflects our professionalism and commitment to bring you the best tips and tutorials on Search Engine Optimisation, web directory submissions and online money-making & blogging. This WordPress theme matches the template of the Emporium Directory, which has been getting good submissions ever since we updated our directory with this new, Web 2.0 look.
Feel free to leave your comments and tell us about what you feel about our new blog theme. Is it too bright, too dull or simply too amazing for words? You let us know!