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Earn $10,000 Per Year From Your Blog -- Getting Your Site Found
The hardest thing to do with a blog is get your blog found amongst the din of blogs in the world. There are a lot of ways to get this done.
The easiest way is to trade links with other blogs in your category. It's interesting that bloggers seem to be the only businesses willing to help out competitors in their own category. Trading links in WordPress's BlogRoll will get you on the home page of competing blogs. Not only will this get you click-through traffic, but it will also help you get important inbound links.
Read your competing blogs in your niche and when you read an interesting story on another blog, send a link to that post. After it's done, send an email to the owner of the competing blog and tell him or her that you've posted the link and would appreciate a link in return.
When it comes to ranking in Google and Yahoo, the most important single element, besides having good unique content of course, is having inbound links, also known as backlinks. Links should be from quality related sites as much as possible, although links from all sites can't really hurt you either.
It's easy to check the amount of backlinks that you have. The best way to do it is through Yahoo rather than Google, because Yahoo seems to count all links regardless of their value; Google, on the other hand, won't count all of the links, but only the most important ones. To find out your quantity of links, go to Yahoo and type in: link:http://www.yoursitename.com. It's important to check out your links once a month to see that they are growing.
One of the easiest ways to get links is to list your site in directories. Directories are usually not high quality links, but they will help get your site found by the search engines if you submit to enough of them. The bad part of link directories is that they are tedious to submit to and most of them won't do you a bit of good. If you can afford it, use Submit Edge or a similar site that will submit your site to link directories for free. Your time is better spent writing great content for your site.
Some directories are highly regarded, however. The Yahoo Directory is a must and will cost you $299 per year for a business listing. Paid sites like Best of the Web will help your rankings as it passes significant link value.
Another way to get links is to make comments on other sites and include your URL whenever possible. Like BlogRoll links, comments are valuable for click throughs, although their linking value for search engine optimization is probably not very valuable anymore.
Most of what you've read in this section involves search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. It's important that you read as much as possible about SEO and internet marketing and there are many great resources on the internet that can help you learn more about how to get your site on the first page of Google for some keywords.
About the Author Anthony Wayne is a writer for the Get Clickz blog and an employee of Olympic Internet -- a Philadelphia Main Line SEO consulting firm. Best of the Web offers a 15% discount with the promo code CLICKZ15.
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