25 Alternatives To Squidoo For Link Building
Many SEO experts are looking for sites like squidoo and hubpages.
Link building is an important SEO strategy to get tell Google that your site is indeed important. The more links, the better your site will get indexed and ranks better. A popular link building strategy is to make a squidoo lens and link back to your website.
So here is a list of 25 sites, where you can submit content and get free links (and some share revenue generated by your content).
1. Hubpages.com – A popular site similar to squidoo to publish online with easy to use, non-techie tools.
2. Gather.com – a user centric information sharing website where you can put all your information.
3. 43things.com – a Goal sharing website where you can make your lists about anything, mostly what you want to do. Allows to make Free blog to publish our own articles that link with our site.
4. Zimbio – Mesh of Rss feeds and articles, mostly deals with entertainment and celebrity related content.
5. Tumblr – Allows you to create your own blogs like url.tumblr.com where you can blog.
6. Knol – Google “product” though full with health articles. I have yet to see any positive reviews from it as far as link values are concerned.
7. advogato.org The site allow us to publish articles. After having an account we can publish articles.
8. asmallworld.net A community site that allows you to publish press releases and articles. You can share your views with others.
9. Weebly Weebly is a cool website that allows you to build your own web page for free. It offers some nice, user-friendly features that make it easy to create a professional looking site that will give you increased visibility and a place to link your Hub Pages, Squidoo lenses and Knols to as well as other domains.
10. Ligit: Ligit is a search powered web application for publishers. Unify your content and make it searchable.
11. Jimdo: Create Free Web Pages. Jimdo is easy to create web-pages, just sign-up, follow the link to your own Page, integrate pictures, videos and texts in seconds, change the design with a click, add as many pages as you want
12. Oondi: Oondi is a place for writers to publish their work, without having to worry about anything else. This allows them to focus on the writing itself instead of having to build a website, find visitors, find a reliable host, monetizing the traffic and so on.
13. Spongefish: SpongeFish is the place to share and show off your personal knowledge and expertise, and learn from others. People come to SpongeFish to show what they know and win prizes.
14. LaunchTags: Build a mini-page about your expertise, interests and know-how using text, pictures, video, links and blog feeds. Earn revenue brought in by your mini-pages.
15. Viviti.com lets you create a web site easily, with drag and drop. Start by choosing one of 100′s of templates (or design your own), then edit your site in place with content management toolbar.
16. Qassia: Share Your Intelligence and get exposure for your website in return. Qassia is a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory.
17. wetpaint.com: Create your own social website with wetpaint. you can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks into a rich, user-generated community based website.
18. InfoBarrel: Write information and how-to guides and get paid
19. ScriblNotes: Education related site allows you to publish notes, upload typed documents, share study guides and earn money for top submissions.
20. Vox.com: Blogging platform which integrates with YouTube, Flickr, Photobucket, Amazon, iFilm and iStockphoto.
21. Ning.com: Ning is a social networking site that allows to create blog posts with photos, files and videos.
And of course the popular blogging and social platforms:
22. wordpress.com
23. Yahoo 360
24. blogger
25. Windows Live spaces
I’m convinced that this cannot be an exhaustive list. What would you include in this list?
Smiles,
ShriNagesh 
New Cool Tool To Find Niche Keyword Questions To Blog About
Blog Traffic Tip: The importance of long tail keywords has been emphasized and reiterated by every internet marketing mentor. This tool will make your keyword research easy and quick.
WordTracker is one of the popular keyword research tools. Now wordtracker went a step further and developed a keyword questions tool.
What are keyword questions?
People often type complete questions into search engines: if you find these questions and answer them, you could get some great search traffic. Enter a single or a short keyword to find the questions people are asking in your market.
The results are various full sentences. These can be used as long tail keywords. Once you found a question with decent number of searches, use it as a blog post title and write an informational post to answer the question.
Here is the link to the cool tool. Keyword Questions . Hope you enjoyed the post and find it useful to build traffic to your blog.
Image Search-Importance Of Image Optimization For Search Engines
Blog Traffic 101 tips series: Image optimization for search engines to drive traffic to your blog.
This is an interesting story I found on this website http://www.takeoverpageone.com/blog/web-20/image-search-brings-in-17500-visitors by Tim
An Image Search Brings In 17,500 Visitors And HubPages NoFollow Tag Rules
Hi all,
We’ve have a couple of interesting finds in the past few days that I would like to share with you.
Firstly, I happened to see an email come in from hubpages (I use this site a lot in web 2.0 promotion, and suggest you should as well).
If you’ve used it, and signed up for their newsletter, or whatever it is, you get an email from them every now and again.
I usually delete the emails without looking, but this one caught me eye.
Your Hubs have been viewed 24,356 times.
WOW !
A website that we threw up in January of this year, and have never been back to since had received over 24,000 visitors!
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Linkshare and WordPress Integration Made Easy
LinkShare is a leading provider of full-service online marketing solutions specializing in the areas of Search (SEM), Lead Generation and Affiliate Marketing. As the online marketing industry continues to evolve at a fast pace, advertisers and publishers are turning to LinkShare for technology innovation, experience and a passion for driving results.
The following plugins will set your linkshare affiliation on uber speed.
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Great Blog Traffic Tips By Yaro Starak
In every bloggers life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader – you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.
Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.
Top 10 Tips
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Blog Traffic Tip: Blogger’s Vision and Focus
Blog Traffic Tip: 8 Vision and Focus
“A person with clear sense of purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road”: – Thomas Carlyle. :heart: that quote.
It has been proven that Vision is “the thing” in any success formula. Every outstanding accomplishment begins with an idea, a dream or vision. The key distinguishing factor I found common with virtually all of the successful professional bloggers, is their passion to follow their vision.
The successful individuals have one thing in common: their focus and commitment to the dreams in their life. If you are going to succeed to become financially successful, you need to do so by investing your life into a product/service and by becoming absorbed in every aspect of the process. You might need to work longer hours and harder, knowing that whichever financial status you attain in life is by choice.
Vision, as defined by Warren Bennis and Nanus in their book “Leaders – The strategy to take charge of a desirable realistic future state which does not currently exist”. So if you want to succeed as a blogger, your vision about your blog’s destiny is not an option.
Your reward in life is determined by the Quality of your product or service. Your vision will compel you to render quality service to others and in the end receive substantial reward from the rest of the world.
Make it a policy for your blog to always look out for that extra thing that will make your blog, products or services look extra nice to your readers/customers. Your vision should compel to bring out the best in you.
If you haven’t chalked out focused blogging goals, now is the time. If you want a prototype to get you started, feel free to download my Blogger’s goal sheet. :present:
If you need any help, you can :callme: or :@: me shri (at) smartadvise (dot) info.
Blog Traffic 101: Proof that commenting on authority blogs drives traffic
Blog Traffic 101: Tip 7:
It has been reiterated time and again that commenting on blogs drives traffic. Authority blogs are sure-fire ways to massive traffic. :yawn:
Here is a video (by problogger, Darren Rowse) proving this strategy:
Watch the video.
You might want to read my previous post on blog commenting.
Top 10 reasons why you must comment on blogs
Did you love the video and wish you could have the feature on your website / blog? Subscribe to my RSS feed and become my elite friend and I’ll pass on all the info soon. You’ll :inlove: it.
Blog Traffic 101: RSS to SMS Enable This Feature To Entice Mobile Readers
Blog Traffic 101: Tip 6:
Pingie is a free RSS to SMS service that allows users to forward RSS feeds to mobile phones. It works with any cell phone that can receive standard text messages. No installation required. All you need to do is, register your RSS at pingie.com. Get a code for the widget or link and paste it on your blog.
blog traffic 101: rss to sms
The readers type in their mobile number and receive your RSS feeds through SMS.
Features for the users:
- Subscribe to as many feeds as you want.
- Get updates on multiple phone numbers and email address.
- Supports most of the major phone carriers.
- The service is available to US users only.
- To unsubscribe click “Edit Account” in your profile or simply text “Ping Stop” to 95495.
- Note: Standard text messaging fees may apply (depends on your mobile plan)