SEO - Bloggers unite in acts of kindness

Getting plenty of backlinks pointing to your website is a very important search engine optimization technique. One of the ways you can do that is to participate in online activities such as BlogCatalog's Blogger Unite in Acts of Kindness. All you need to do is to to do something good offline — an act of kindness — and then post about it on your blogs. Subsequently, post the URL of these posts to Blogger Unite Group to receive your backlinks and start a chance to win attractive prizes such as 8GB of Apple iPod Touch. It's that simple! Today my act of kindness was that I rekindled my colleague's interest in her work.

SEO - bloggers against blog abuse

As mentioned previously, having plenty of backlinks pointing to your website is a very important search engine optimization technique. There are many ways to get backlinks and one of them is to participate in activities such as BlogCatalog's Blogging for a Great Cause Challenge. For this activity, all you need to do is to blog about putting an end to some sort of abuse on Sept 27th (you decide what kind of abuse to blog about). In return you will receive a link to your blog post from the Blogcatalog blog when they will list everyone who have participated. Since I'm very enthusiastic about blogging, I would like to blog about putting an end to blog abuse. Using blog as a platform to promote child pornography, racial discrimination, violent and hatred is being socially irresponsible. We should refrain from blog abuse.

Online awards

One of the search engine optimization techniques is to get your website an online award. An online award not only adds credibility to your website's content, it also helps you to get more backlinks at the same time. There are many websites that give out online awards and one of them is favourite website awards. If you own a blog, you can also try your hands on some blog awards such as those given out by Best of Blogs and Bloggy Award.

Art of commenting (2)

Continue from my previous post "Art of commenting (1)" I'm going to highlight some more pointers about leaving your URL on other websites' comment section in an attempt to gain more backlinks. Try to leave your URL in the form of keyword/s e.g. SEO instead of just URL e.g. http://seo-hub.blogspot.com/ as search engines tend to give a higher value for backlinks that are like the former as compared to the the latter. However, more importantly you should try to leave your URL on websites that have high page rank. There are many free tools and websites out there that allow you to check a website's page rank. Personally, I recommend Google toolbar.

Art of commenting (1)

One very important step in search engine optimization is to increase your website's link popularity, i.e. the number of websites out there linking to your website (backlinks). There're many ways to increase your website's link popularity and one of the ways is simply to comment on other websites. Many websites, especially blogs out there allow you to leave comment on their websites. Simply comment on these websites and leave your website URL on them to increase your website's link popularity. However, there are a few important pointers to take note when leaving comments on other websites. When you leave your URL on other websites' comment section, check whether the backlink is a direct link or a redirect link. A direct link is more valuable than a redirect link, thus you would want to focus your effort on commenting websites that offer direct backlink. To check whether a website offers direct backlink, simply place your mouse over any URL left by the previous comment and see whether your browser status bar shows a direct URL or redirect URL to that website.