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 
Web and Ecommerce Marketing
Search Engine rankings are a serious topic for every website/blog/ecommerce site.
Finding ways to attract more visitors to your Shops is the basis for your success as a Shopkeeper. Let us therefore talk to you about ways to make your shop(s) and their product pages (or any other webpage, for that matter) more attractive for search engines.s
The following ideas come from the French Website Plume Interactive, which we highly recommend you read in case you speak French.
1. An optimized page should contain at least 100 words. Don’t hesitate to let your imagination run wild when it comes to the description of your products, thus creating quality content. Keep in mind that the first 30 to 50 words of a page are essential for that page’s rankings.
2. Strategic keywords should be placed at the beginning of the page, preferably within the first paragraph. For even better results, it is also recommended to use the feminine and plural versions of these keywords.
3. Keywords are more effective when they are emphasized in the following ways :
- put the keywords in bold script
- create a hyperlink on important keyword
- create a bold hyperlink, in order to achieve maximal efficiency
4. Repeat the most strategic keyword three times in the product description page. The perfect keyword density index score (that’s the number of occurrences of the keyword divided by the number of words in the page) is about 3 %. Try to reach a density of 2 % to 5 % with your important keywords.
5. Use the right words for your links. The word used for your link must be highly relevant to the content of the website it links to. It is totally ineffective to use words such as “read more” or “click here” for your links. Furthermore, you should always choose words (i.e. text) for your links, instead of an image.
6. Aim at quality of content instead of quantity. The more interesting and original the content of your product pages on your Zlio Shop, the more people will point “naturally” to your website, without you having to create partnerships or link exchanges with those other sites. The more quality links point towards your shop, the better your shop’s ranking in the Search Engines. If you want to participate in link exchanges, you should choose content-oriented partnerships that will offer real added value for your visitors.\
Original article source, zlio blog.