Money through blogging

All of this information is available in many places online. As always, abuse and spam will get you nowhere in SEO!

If you're doing nothing more than just posting things all over the place all you're doing is spamming. But if you are doing a lot of other things right and you want to experiment by increasing the number of search-engine recognized appropriate inbound links to your content without adding a lot to your workload, try some of the listings below.

If you'd like to learn more about link building in social media, do follow or not, read How Social Media can help improve Organic Search Rankings.

PR	Alexa	Site
9	9,508	SlashDot
8	293	Digg
8	554	Squidoo
8	1,746	Propeller
8	50,162	Mister-Wong
7	784	Mixx
7	22,374	Furl
6	10,362	JumpTags
6	63,724	FeedMeLinks
6	116,527	FeedMarker
6	119,921	Bibsonomy
6	119,991	Spurl
6	140,909	BackFlip
5	2,851	Lycos IQ
5	7,148	GiveALink
5	25,242	SpotBack
5	29,938	CoRank
5	42,285	Searchles
5	50,023	BlogMarks
5	69,059	MyVMarks
5	108,472	BookMarkTracker
5	126,563	LinkaGoGo
5	133,798	Connectedy
5	168,321	BuddyMarks
5	201,602	MyLinkVault
5	275,738	IGooi
4	30,895	ShoutWire
4	38,314	Oyax
4	43,871	BMAccess
4	49,048	BUMPzee
4	52,303	MyPip
4	55,952	Tagza
4	64,624	NetRocket
4	70,500	SyncOne
4	112,857	Ez4U
3	52,877	Yattle
3	65,232	PlugIM
3	85,696	Dizzed
2	63,894	Tedigo
2	64,427	Ka-Boom-It

Blogs that doFollow

I've always felt that if you're writing about something you care about, and participating helpfully in conversations on other blogs that care about the same thing, the natural growth of links back to your content is a good thing.

Spamming doesn't work here. Most of these blogs won't even let you in the door unless you can prove you have a real contribution to make. They moderate like crazy. Look for blogs you would read and contribute to regardless of follow policy.

• http://www.dofollowblogs.com/


• http://www.blogsthatfollow.com/

Semi-automated bookmarking services online

These have been used/tested by Web Success Diva during their social bookmarking activities. I don't use these myself.

• Post Toaster: 60 social bookmarking and social news sites. It’s a little quirky when you first start using it, but does help speed up your social bookmarking once you get the hang of it. It’s one of the few that semi-automates the most sites.


• Socializer: 50 sites. Functions much like Post Toaster.


• OnlyWire: 30+ sites, but has a much more friendly user interface. You can sign-up for all your accounts in one easy place, and it’s one of the few that actually automates pretty much the entire process. Great for those new to social bookmarking.


• Social Marker: 40+ sites, with a friendly user interface.

Realize that links to your content that are ignored by people are also pretty much ignored by search engines. And that links that sprout up in large numbers suddenly from what are obviously automated services are often especially ignored.