Video has become an essential part of the Internet. Many bloggers use video instead of written posts, videos are used as instructional aids, on sales pages and of course, since YouTube became so huge, using video as a promotional and link building tool for websites is one of the fundamental aspects of SEO. Millions of people visit YouTube everyday, as well as other video submission sites, the video’s are included in most every SERP result in Google and once again if you make sure to properly SEO optimize each video submission with keywords, tags and a savvy researched keyword title, you will be amazed at the places it will show up over a short period of time making video just one more point of entry to your websites.

Free Video Creation/Screen Capture Software
I think many people are squeamish about using video because they think it’s a complicated proposition, and they need a web cam, or some high tech equipment to create videos, well this is not true. Below is a list of the top free video creation tools that actually record what is on your  computer screen and your voice in the background and that provides a lot of options to make videos for any type of niche.

Cam Studio - The cream of the crop for open source video creation and screen capture and completely free! Add music, voice overs and more.

Jaycut – Create marketing videos or slideshows quickly with this online video editor, which is browser-based, can run on mobile  devices and free. Ability to remix and trim videos; add music, transitions, effects, captions and subtitles, automated transcoding and 1 click export to YouTube and Facebook.

Adobe Premier Express - Made for newbies, easy to use and all you need is a web browser and Adobe Flash® Player, which most of us have on our PC’s. This is an online based video creation editor that can reorder, split, and trim your video clips; add music, transitions, and titles; add your favorite photos, graphics, and animation.

JING – Make short videos, capture screenshots and add your own labels and writing to them. There is a free version and a pro version for a few bucks per year.

GFX Video Writer – GFX Video Writer is not free, but it is cheap and very useful as it converts written articles into videos. Import an existing article to create a series of slides, then format each slide with fonts, colors, etc… add images if desired and background music from the software or do slide-by-slide voice overs and much more.

Top Video Submission Sites
Here are some of the top video submission sites where you can submit your videos, get backlinks and free website promotion.

www.youtube.com – PR8 – You do get a dofollow link back to your site in your channel profile.

http://vimeo.com – PR9
www.flickr.com – PR9
www.video.google.com – PR9
www.video.yahoo.com – PR9
www.photobucket.com – PR8
www.dailymotion.com – PR8
www.scribd.com – PR8
wordpress.tv – PR8
photobucket.com – PR7
www.blip.tv – PR7
www.metacafe.com – PR7
qik.com – PR7
www.viddler.com – PR7
MySpace – PR9
Facebook – PR10
www.stupidvideos.com – PR6
www.buzznet.com – PR6
www.stickam.com – PR6
www.gofish.com – PR6
www.revver.com – PR6
www.livevideo.com – PR6
www.flixya.com – PR5
castpost.com – PR5
www.videowebtown.com/community/index.php – PR5
vidmax.com – PR5
www.thatshow.com – PR4 – How-to video guides
www.clipchef.com – PR4 Cooking/recipe videos

Automatic Video Submission Software

TubeMogul Free - This is a very interesting site that offers a variety of video submission, distribution and tracking capabilities, I think it will be very effective for video marketing.

TubeMogul OneLoad is a free service that provides a single point for deploying videos to the top video and social networking sites. Users can also leverage our Destinations  functionality to easily distribute to custom sites as well as encode and create RSS feeds to syndicate your video anywhere. OneLoad distribution is accompanied by our powerful analytics showing you who, what and where videos are being viewed. In addition, TubeMogul’s InPlay® analytics (for supported sites), provide the most advanced suite of video analytics on the market. See real-time viewership, audience engagement, geographic tracking, stream quality and much more for your videos.

VideoBot – $24.95 This is an automatic video submission software from Incansoft, a company that makes several great tools for marketers. I have not used this particular tool, but I do use SocialBot from Incansoft and I like it alot.

Video Submission Assistant ProFree! Haven’t tried this myself, but it’s free and submits video to several sites.

Video Post RobotThis is one of the most popular video submission software tools, but they are not taking new sign ups now, you can still go over and get on the alert list.

Info for Video Publishing on Your Own Sites

Google Crawling and Indexing Video – Best Practices

Video Sitemaps 101 – Making Your Videos Searchable from Google – If you are putting videos on your own sites or blogs then you should read this.

What kind of experiences have you had with video marketing? Any video submission sites or tools I missed please leave in comments.



Ever wonder how the frequency with which you post to your blogs affects your rankings in Google?

This has been discussed all over the web with two differing opinions -

1. Bloggers need to post consistently and frequently or else you have a dead blog that will fall in rankings. This basically comes from the notion that blogs are dynamic and are expected to be constantly updated, versus static sites which do not carry the same expectation.

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2. A blogger should not post just to post, and quality of content always wins over the quantity of it.

I for one have always believed in #2, and it was proven to me with this blog.

As most of my faithful readers know, I do not post everyday nor even every week. I do not believe in posting for posting sakes or because I am in some race to have a thousand posts a month. I take the time to do proper research and make sure that I am providing the most value I can for my readers, which for me takes time and thought and if it means only 3 posts per month so be it and my rankings are great, many of my posts are on page 1 for various keywords.

What About Readers?

Now the two opinions above are usually discussed just in relation to rankings and not so much in relation to readers and visitors (especially returning ones and subscribers).

When it comes to readers and subscribers a solid argument can be made that adding content on a higher frequency brings that freshness factor and brings them to the blog more often. I agree with that. But I also do not think it should be forced.

I read several blogs that update on a daily or every other day basis, and I have to say that the quality of content is not so great and sometimes it is quite transparent that posts are being rushed and are therefore not very useful or thoughtful.

In general, if you have something of value to post then post it, but do not post mediocre or crappy content just for the sake of posting or being bent on meeting some deadline of 1,000 posts in one month, whether for rankings or for readers.

In a nutshell, for me quality always wins over quantity, if you want to establish authority in your niche then quality, useful and spectacular content should always be your first concern.

But of course, if you can have both, quality and quantity that’s even better!!!!!!!!!

Matt Cutts Clarifies Frequency of Posting and Ranking

In the following video Matt Cutts clarifies this issue of post frequency affecting Google rankings, it’s a good watch. This video came from Google Webmaster Help on YouTube, where Matt posts videos regularly answering a variety of questions submitted by webmasters from Matt’s grab bag. It’s a good idea to subscribe as there are a variety of issues being answered all the time.

What do you guys think? Are you going for quantity, quality or both and why?



For those of you running flagship sites for topics relating to Internet marketing, blogging, make money online and SEO here are the best social Web 2.0 sites that specifically focus on those topics only and are great places to to promote that content and get some backlinks as well.

MMO Social Network
This is a great new social Web 2.0 site to promote all your online business, blogging and MMO content.

Blog Engage
Another great place to submit blogging, and Internet marketing related blog posts and engage and network with other bloggers.

BlogEngage is now an invitation only site, so to get an invite you can follow the simple steps as outlined in BlogEngage Invitation To Register Information, it is definitely worth the simple steps.

WP Scoop – All stories related to WordPress

Blogger Den – It’s Digg but for Bloggers, great place!

Sphinn
Search Engine Journal’s Web 2.0 site for submitting search engine related content, be careful they review everything and only publish really good related content.

Earners Club
All Internet marketing, make money online, blogging and online business content.

Small Business Brief
All topics of online marketing and social media marketing

SEO Tagg
Submit all your search engine optimization, search engines, SERPS and other related SEO content.

Design Float
All topics related to design, like HTML, CSS, Photoshop and they have a category for Branding and Identity.

Design Moo
All design related links.

Design Bump
All website and blog design related content.

Design Blend
WordPress, photoshop and design related content.

IM Answers
This is like the Yahoo Answers for Internet marketing, blogging and other online ventures. You can answer questions, create posts and articles and establish yourself as an authority and get some links as well.

PlugIM
All Internet marketing related content.

Social Media Today
A moderated community bloggers, PR people, marketers and media pros.

Facebook
You can really brand yourself at Facebook for your flagship blogs and sites, like Internet marketing, blogging, Make Money Online and any online business topics, and easily submit your posts and content with the Facebook bookmarklet, these will be become “posted to your wall” there providing for good exposure.

MyBlogLog
Great place to promote your blogs and even static sites, offers the opportunity to build your community and get readers and followers.

Xing.com
A New site that has bought SocialMedian, it’s all about business networking, not sure of its effects yet, but am checking it out now.

Professionals on the Web
If you are a web developer, designer or some other web techie you can network here, showcase your work and much more.

Killer Startups
This is a community driven site where online business pros, bloggers and other IM people can submit their startup to see what others think about it. Not sure how much activity is over these days, but they are a PR6.

BizNik
Biznik is a highly reputable and award winning community of entrepreneurs and small business owners dedicated to helping each other succeed, lots of Internet marketing and online business stuff over there.

YouTube
If you make video guides on your sites or blogs submit them to YouTube

Hub Pages
You can easily promote yourself and your blog by writing something spectacular, lots of traffic there and other bloggers and marketers to network with. Make sure to write Hubs that are not just promotional, but offer some expertise and authority content and then mention your link for more information.

Squidoo
Again, you can easily promote yourself with a Squidoo Lens, and it is similar to Hub Pages, but without the strict rules regarding over promotion of yourself and your sites. Learn more at: How-To Squidoo – Step-by-Step Guide on Building the Best Squidoo Lens.

If you want to start your own Web 2.0, social site, check out Pligg, they have everything you need.

What do you think? If you know of any good social sites for IM content that I missed please let me know in comments or by contacting me.



Comment Luv is a nifty WordPress plugin that parses the commenters blog posts and places them in the comment. It is a fantastic way to network with other bloggers and build traffic and relationships with new readers.

If you write great content and titles and comment on Comment Luv blogs then you will surely attract new readers to your blog. Also implementing Comment Luv on your own blogs is a great way to attract commenters which only leads to increased popularity of your site.

Leave Useful and Interesting Comments

The bloggers that have the Comment Luv feature on their sites are generous and understand the value of networking and sharing the love. It is important that you do not SPAM them or leave useless comments because it harms everyone in the blogging community.

Plus, if you leave a good comment then it is much more likely that you will be noticed by other readers who will want to learn more about you by clicking on your blog post link.

Get the Plugin and Register Your Blog for More Exposure

Get the plugin for your blog and search for other blogs that have it enabled via keywords at the official Comment Luv Website. You can also register your blogs over there as well, so that anyone searching will be able to find your Comment Luv blogs.

List of 132 Comment Luv Blogs by Niche

These are high traffic, quality blogs that offer value and great content. They have lots of readers and commenters so the conversation is good.

INTERNET MARKETING/ONLINE BIZ/BLOGGING/WEBMASTERS

Grow Your Online Business with GrowMap
Gail also provides Do-Follow comments with Keyword Luv!

Sire at Blogging Tips, Tricks and SEO
Sire offers A LOT of link luv at his blog with Keyword Luv Do-Follow comments and Top Commenter!

Free Tools for Webmasters

Twitter, Blogging and Podcasting at Ms. Ilene Speaks

How to Make Money Online Blogging with Chris
Chris is an example of a great blogger. I just discovered his blog, it has great content and even though he has thousands of subscribers, he still replies to his commenters, unlike other “big time” bloggers.

WordPress and Blogging at Serradinho
George also has Top Commenter and the @Twitter in comments.

I’m Dennis Edell
We all know Dennis and he is also do follow and has the Twitter in comments as well!

Work From Home Resources
My long time reader Alan at his blog ReplaceYourSalary.com also has the Twitter Follow plugin for comments.

Make Money Online
Jim, aka the Net Fool shows all the love  with Comment Luv and Top Commenter!

Make Money Online at Pei Profit
A LOT of love going on here, because along with Comment Luv, the Top Commenter feature is enabled as well and…

The Pei Profit True Blue Fan Award – This award goes out to commentators who are able to hit past 40 comments each month before the counter resets and the prizes ranges from free ad spaces to e-book and reviews…What a cool idea!

Work From Home Opportunities

Make Money Online with Stephan Miller

Brad Blogging with WordPress Tweaks and Tutorials
Also offers Do-Follow comments!

Web Marketing and Affiliate Marketing with ZK
Top Commenter also enabled!

Make Money Online with Barbara Ling

Inline SEO
Do-Follow comments as well!

Gupshup Blog
Do-follow comments as well with blogging, IM and other various topics.

Blogging Tips by Tycoon Blogger
Lots of link luv here with Top Commenter, Comment Luv and Do Follow comments enabled!

Money Making Ideas with Suzanne Franco
Do-Follow comments as well!

Make Money Online with Affiliate Funnels
Lots of link luv going on here, with Do-Follow comments, Top Commenter and Comment Luv!

Young Entrepeneuer

Tips for Successful Writing and Blog Writing

NetBusinessBlog

Blogging and Internet Marketing Tips

Earning Step

Blogussion – Blogging Tips and Tricks

Derek Semmler – WordPress Ninja
Also has top commenter

Authority Domains

Make Money Blogging with Caroline Middlebrook
Also Top Commenter!

Free WordPress Themes and Social Bookmark Icons

Ask Owlbert

Make Money Blogging

SEO Marketing

BlogInTheBag

Blogging Tips and SEO with Another Blogger
Also Top Commenter, and the Follow Me on Twitter in comments.

Drive More Traffic To Your Site

Dragon Blogger – Tech News, Blogging Tips and Entertainment
Also Do-Follow and Top Commenter.

ICT Trends
Also has Dofollow, and find out how to add Comment Luv on Blogger platform blogs.

Make Money Blogging with Famous Bloggers

Blogging for Business
Keith is showing a lot of link luv in comments with  Top Commenter, Keyword Luv and the Follow Me on Twitter in comments.

2 Create a Website Blog by Lisa Irby

FM Seo

Newru – Kelly has a great tagline in her blog, You May Not Be A Newbie…But You Are Not A Guru…Then You must be a NEWRU, I like that! She also has Top Commenter!

Blogging with POTPOLITICS
John is also really spreading the link luv, with Keyword Luv, Top Commenter and the Follow On Twitter in comments!

Tips on Online Marketing with AriWriter

Social Media and Blogging Tips @ Blog Tracker

Win With 1

Website Traffic and Promotion with iWoodpecker

Website Design and Internet Marketing @ InteractOne, and is Dofollow as well!

Blogging and Make Money Online with SmartBloggerz, also has Top Commenter and Keyword Luv for do follow.

Blog With Power with Don Power, is also Dofollow!

Don is also a co-author of BloggerLuv.com, which is a collaboration of 9 bloggers who share the “link luv” and it too has all the goodies, Top Commenter, Commen Luv and Keyword Luv for dofollow!

DMarketing Spot – Jonathan also has Keyword Luv!

Blazing Minds – Blogging – Also Top Commenter, Twitter username in comments and Keyword Luv!

I’m Just Sharing

Hot Blog TipsKeith also has Keyword Luv and the Twitter follow in comments.

Blogger Illustrated Video BloggingAlso do follow.

How to Make Money At Home with The University Kid. Jason the blog author does not waste time with BS posts, he provides the most useful and hands-on content for making money online, I suggest you go and sign up.

INSPIRATION/SUCCESS/LIFESTYLE

Lifestyle Design for You - A very useful blog full of great inspirational, lifestyle and general success and motivation articles. Make sure to read Gordies posts.

HEALTH/WEIGHT LOSS

Free Diets and Weight Loss

Weight Loss Plans

Men’s Playbook
Family, career, money, health and relationships for men.

Healthy Weight Loss

Gluten Free Health – Celiac Disease Info

Healthy Diets

Best Acne Treatments and Skin Care

Acne Scar Treatment

Health in Life

Kitchen Table Medicine

PSP Living – Organic and Healthy Living

GENERAL TOPICS

Blog About Everything
Also offers do follow comments

Mommies Magazine
Health, style, shopping, family and more

BestInformationAbout.com

Life, Universe and Everything with Mark Knowles

DEBT CONSOLIDATION/LOANS/MONEY/FINANCE

Got No Dough – Saving Money in Slim Times

Debt Consolidation Tips

Cheap Credit Cards

Debt Free Life at Money Relationship

Top Finance Blog

Personal Financial Planning – Debt Reduction

REAL ESTATE

Foreclosure News - PR2

News About Real Estate and Foreclosures - PR3 and dofollow comments too!

Investment Property Blog

Real Estate News

Tempe Real Estate

GOLF

Golf Store and Blog

House and Home

Building a Home

RECIPES/FOOD/COOKING

Vegan Soapbox

Traditional Russian Food Recipes

Family Friendly Recipes

Cook Local

TriniGourmet

Coffee Reviews

SHOPPING

We Magazine for Women

Grechens Online Shopping Blog

PARENTING/FAMILY

Dad’s House

Simple Mom

TRAVEL

Travel Wires

Travel Advice

Jennie En France

Wine Food and Travel

TECH/GADGET/COMPUTERS/LAPTOPS

Browse Easy

Laptop Guides

Computer Security and Virus Software

Notebooks and Laptops

Worthy Tips for Technology and Blogging

JoeTech

My Lovely Gadgets

Dragon Blogger – Tech News
Also Do-Follow and Top Commenter.

BEAUTY/WOMEN/MAKEUP/FASHION

Short Haircuts Pics and Hairstyle Guides

Fashion Blog, Purses and Handbags

Makeup and Beauty Blog

Beauty Fool

Makeup and Beauty Reviews at MakeUp4All

Fashion Grail

POLITICAL

Caffeinated Thoughts

WRITING

Men with Pens

Writing Forward

Solutions for Writers

Tips for Successful Writing and Blog Writing

Get Paid to Write Online

CELEBRITY/ENTERTAINMENT/MOVIES/MUSIC

Blazing Minds – Music Reviews, Films – Also Top Commenter, Twitter username in comments and Keyword Luv!

Celebrity VIP Lounge

Online Movie Watch

Music Reviews

First Class Fashionista

PETS/ANIMALS

Cool Dog Pictures and Breed Information
Very cool site, with some awesome doggies.

Pet Insurance Reporter

French Bulldog Breeders Blog

DiscussingDogs.com

GrokHorses

I tried to cover the most popular niches for blogs with Comment Luv plugin enabled, if I missed your niche please search at the official Comment Luv Website. Make sure to register your Comment Luv blogs over there as well!

If you own or have a favorite Comment Luv blog that is not on this list please leave the info in comments, thanks!












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Okay, a quick post here to refer you to a new site that is all about networking with bloggers for guest posts. Guest posting on other blogs and allowing them to post on yours is a fantastic way to build authority, and get precious backlinks and to alleviate some of your own workload by getting fresh, unique content that is NOT written by you, whew!

The site is My Blog Guest and it really is the perfect solution to finding blogs to post on and getting fresh content for your sites. There are lots of members all ready and they just launched recently and new members joining all the time.

Highly recommended by the authority SEO site, Search Engine Journal, My Blog Guest is a sure winner.

Features of My Guest Blog for Guest Posts

1. All niches included.

2. The site uses a rating system (blog power) to rate members sites, based on PR, subscriber numbers, Twitter followers, Facebook fans and age of the site.

3. Also has a rating system to rate members social media power, based on various social media site activity for the individual.

4. Shows how many guests posts members have done.

5. Search for blogs to post on by keywords and categories.

6. Add all or one of your sites to accept guest posts on

My Blog Guest is really a great place to network and build up your sites.

Also, if you are looking specifically for SEO niche sites that accept guests posts then check out:  10 SEO Blogs accepting guest posts.

You also get the chance to guest post on Blogussion, a high traffic, quality blog.

If you really want to learn about guest posting and get a super opportunity to guest post, Ramit Sethi, best selling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich not only accepts guest posts, but has the most comprehensive, helpful guide I have ever seen on how to write effective posts, and how to get published by big name bloggers, check it out: Write Guest Post on I will Teach You To Be Rich, really a must read!



For most Internet marketing endeavors there are two main subjects of great interest, SEO and traffic and images are powerful tools for both of those goals.

1. They are really good for the look of the site design, look and enhance the visitor experience, especially with product guides and tutorials of any kind.

2.  They are great for on-site SEO because they add keyword relevancy via image alt tags and this includes any header graphics for site-wide keyword relevancy.

3. They can also bring you lots of website traffic and money.

Search engines cannot read images you must use alt tags for descriptions, which should be keyword relevant to the page. By the way, it is blackhat to give inaccurate descriptions for the purpose of SEO trickery in the Alt Tags.

Image HTML Code:

<img src=”http://mydomain.com/image1.jpg” alt=”Keywords- Descriptions”>

Link Image to URL code:

<a href=”http://mydomain.com/”><img src=”http://mydomain.com/image1.jpg”  alt=”Keywords- Descriptions”></a>

The above code is for images that are hosted on your servers. With WordPress you can upload images directly from your computer via the Browser Uploader and the Title area in the Image dashboard is the Alt Tag.

The Traffic Connection via Images

The best benefit of images is traffic. Google often shows image results when people search particular keywords.

Lately I think they must really be doing more of this than before because I have 3 new sites that have been getting a lot of traffic from Google Images and its converting to sales.

To make sure my images show up in correct keyword search results I name the image file in detail, for example:

SonyEricsonMobilePhone.jpg
SonyEricson350.jpg

And, I also make sure the Alt Tag is there with the correct descriptive words.

I launched a new site last week and within 4 days I had something like 2,000 visitors all coming via Google Images and 6 sales and that is pretty good for a new site. I think this is especially good for shopping sites that use product images.

What I like to do is place at least 2-3 images on my content pages that are related to the topic of that page. They really make the content pages look better and more professional, especially with guide type pages.

I also make sure to have several images on my home pages like around the welcome message, that is a great place to provide keyword relevace for the sitewide keywords.



Give your blog a voice with free podcasts and extend your blogs exposure and readership.

What is a Podcast?

A podcast is a series of audio media files, usually mp3′s, which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer. So basically a podcast is the voice RSS of your posts and allows people to listen to your blog via computers, iPods, and basically any device that can play MP3′s. If you are not sure what RSS is, here is a complete guide – What is RSS?

Basically, free podcasts give visitors another way to subscribe to your blog, and more exposure via free podcasts submission sites, where people go to search for and listen to podcasts.

How to Get a Free Podcast

A basic and free way to turn your blog into a podcast and get free podcasts is with Odiogo. They will convert your blog posts to podcast voice posts and do it’s free. There are other free podcasts conversion services, but this is the only one that actually played my posts without error and breaks in audio, so I prefer Odiogo.

They also provide a Podcast WordPress Plugin that adds a “Listen Now” button to your blog posts (see it at at the top of the post) which allows visitors the option of listening to your posts and anoptional “Subscribe to Podcast” button for the sidebar.

More important, the podcast gives more exposure to your blogging via the many free podcasts sites where people go to find podcasts, including Apple iTunes! Many of these podcasts sites have very high membership and traffic!

Also, bloggers use podcasts in innovative ways on their blogs, Yaro Starak of Entrepenuers Journey, wrote about What is a Podcast and How Can I Use One?, where he discusses how much influence the podcast has in engaging listeners, how podcasts can beat out radio stars and how he creates entire podcast shows for his blog.

How Effective is a Podcast for Bloggers?

Well, take a look at the popularity of ipods, the membership and traffic of the podcast sites, how many high traffic blogs produce podcasts and even weekly radio shows and also the fact that SEO Book Keyword tool shows a daily search estimate of 1,090 for the keyword “podcasts”, that’s 32,700 searches a month.

It will take about an hour of your time to set up a free podcast and submit to these websites, and it will spread your content further and give it more exposure so what do you have to lose?

27 Free Podcasts Submission Sites

Once you get your podcast created on Odiogo, they will send you an email with your control page and your personal podcast url. Save this email so you can access your control page in the future, and then use your podcast url to submit to these sites. I spend some time researching and these are the best ones that I found:

Apple ItunesNote: You must have and be logged into an iTunes account to submit your podcast.

Podcast.com

PodcastDirectory.org

PodSeek

Digital Podcast

Podcast Directory

Podcast Blaster

Podanza

PodFeed

Podomatic

Pod Blaze

Syndic8

Get a Podcast

All Podcasts

Idiot Vox

Pod Lounge

Fluctu8

Hard Pod Cafe

A Podcast Like That

Daily Splice

Pod Submitter

Podcast Pickle

Podcast Ferret

Small Business Podcasts

Podcast Alley

Podcast Bunker

Tech Podcasts – Tech subjects only

Happy Podcasting!



Participating in forums relevant to your niche is one of the best ways to get relevant and targeted traffic to your sites and blogs.

Internet forums are so widely used and have thousands of members that ask questions and engage in discussions and that large audience can turn into targeted traffic that can lead to lots of sales and subscribers. If you have not utilized the power of forums in your Internet Marketing endeavors that you are really missing out.

Plus the fact that any good Internet marketing strategy involves a diverse backlink portfolio, so getting links from different IP’s and domains that are related to your site is the best way to higher SERP ranks, and forum sig links are decent places to get some links.

Posting in do-follow forums can give you a nice backlink for link building and search engine optimization. The do-follow forum link comes from a link you set in the signature option of your profile, referred to as a sig link. This sig link appears at the bottom of your forum posts. So, every time you post that’s a backlink! Remember to use a good anchor text for SEO but also make sure it is eye catching for the forum audience to get the click!

Make sure to read the TOS and Posting Rules to make sure that you will not get banned. Also check out all the topics available in the forum many of them have a section for website promotion, guides, articles and how-to’s where you can refer to your sites within the post itself.

Make sure to sound like an expert (no typos ) this can bring lots of traffic!

Getting targeted traffic from forum sites is one way to make money online right away, while waiting for SEO to take affect and SERP ranks for the organic traffic. Since most of the forum traffic is highly targeted they are much more likely to buy.

Do-Follow Forums with PR by Niche

Webmaster/SEO/Internet Marketing Do-Follow Forums

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/ – PR7
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ – PR7 – Post requirement prior to sig link
http://forums.seochat.com/ – PR6
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/ - PR6
http://www.zymic.com/forum/ – PR6
http://www.googlecommunity.com/forum/ – PR5
http://www.smallbusinessforums.org/ – PR5
http://forums.site-reference.com/ – PR4
http://www.websitebabble.com/ – PR4
http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/ – PR4
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.dreamteammoney.com/ – PR4
http://www.wickedfire.com/ – PR4
http://www.v7n.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.webdigity.com/ – PR4
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.ewealth.com/ – PR4
http://forums.seo.com/ – PR4
http://www.webmasterforums.com/ – PR3
http://siteownersforums.com/ – PR3
http://www.internetmarketingforums.net/ – PR3
http://www.webmasterdesk.org/ – PR3
http://www.internetmarketingforums.net/ – PR3
http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ – PR3
http://www.im4newbies.com/forum/ – PR3
http://www.webmasterize.com/ – PR3
http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/index.php – PR3
http://w3seo.org/ – PR3
http://forums.seochat.com/ – PR3 – Member for 30 days before sig link
http://www.affiliateseeking.com/forums/ – PR3
http://www.webmaster-forum.net/ – PR3
http://www.webmasterforumsonline.com/ – PR3
http://allcoolforum.com/ – PR2
http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/ – PR2
http://9mb.com/ – PR2
http://www.searchbliss.com/forum/ – PR2
http://www.decentdiscussions.com/ – PR1
http://www.inboundlinksforum.com/ – PR1
http://www.directoryjunction.com/forums/ – PR0
http://www.webmastershelp.com/ – PR0
http://www.frogengine.com/forum/ – PR0
http://www.capitaltheory.com/ – PR0
http://www.gptboycott.com/forum/ – PR0
http://www.thegreennation.com/forums/ – PR0
DNForum.com – All about domains – PR4

International Webmaster/SEO Do-Follow Forums

Australia – http://www.australianwebmaster.com/ – PR3
IRISH – http://www.irishwebmasterforum.com/ - PR3
UK – http://www.davidcastle.org/BB/ - PR2
Phillipines – http://forums.seo.ph/ – PR0

Blogging Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.feedburner.com/ – PR7 – All Feeds Topics
http://forum.newsgator.com/ – PR6
http://www.feedforall.com/forum/ – PR5 – “Favorite RSS Feeds” thread to promote your blogs
http://www.bloggerforum.com/ – PR5
http://www.bloggertalk.com/ – PR5
http://www.bloggeries.com/forum/ - PR4 – Has a Show of Your Blog Thread!
http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.wtricks.com/ – PR0
http://www.blogodirectory.com/forum/index.php
http://www.rss-forum.de/ - PR7 – German Based Forum

Web Design/Development/Code/Photoshop Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.mysql.com/ – PR7
http://www.zymic.com/forum/ – PR6
http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/ – PR6
http://www.htmlforums.com/ – PR5
http://www.geekpoint.net/ – PR5
http://www.talkfreelance.com/ – PR4
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.talk-mania.com/ – PR3
http://www.webmastershelp.com/ – PR0
http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/?ogn=EN_US-gntray_comm_forums – PR9 – Adobe and Flash topics

Electronics/Gadgets/Computers/Digital Hardware/Software/iPhone/Tech/IT Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.cnet.com/ – PR7
http://forums.amd.com/ – PR7
http://forums.microsoft.com/ – PR6 – choose Country and Forum Topic
http://forums.afterdawn.com/ – PR5 – Digital Media/DVD, Digital Cameras etc…No-Follow but allow sig link and very high traffic
http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/ – PR5
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/Community/en-us/Forums/ – PR5
http://forums.windowsforum.org/ – PR4
http://forums.xandros.com/ – PR4
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/categoryHome.jspa?categoryID=84 – Various PR
http://www.cultofiphone.org/forums/ – PR0
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/ – Various PR

Humor

http://www.funnyforum.org/ – PR0

Laptop/Notebooks Do-Follow Forums

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ – PR5
http://www.techsupportforum.com/ – PR5 – I think it’s no-follow but has mass traffic
http://www.notebookforums.com/ – PR4 – Not sure if do-follow but allows sig link and has mass traffic and bonuses for posting

Video Gaming/Gaming Do-Follow Forums

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/index.html – PR8
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/default.aspx – PR8
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/index.html?sid=1 – PR5
http://mygamebuilder.com/forum/ - PR3 – Has a special section for link dropping
http://forums.gentoo.org/ – PR0

Books Do-Follow Forums

http://www.bookforum.com/ – PR7
http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/ – PR3

VOIP Do-Follow Forums

http://forum.skype.com/ – PR6

Wedding/Bridal Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.onewed.com/ - PR4 – Sig link allowed after probation period and it’s no-follow, but big traffic.
http://www.bunchobrides.com/ – PR2 – Not sure if do-follow, but lots of traffic

Tatoo/Body Art/Piercing

http://forum.tattootattoo.info/ – PR2

Work at Home Moms/WHAM Do-Follow Forums

http://www.wahm.com/forum/ – PR4

Science Do-Follow Forums

http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html – PR7

Forum Software Do-Follow Forums

http://bbpress.org/forums/ - PR7

Owners and Admin of Online Communities Do-Follow Forums

http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/ – PR5

Math Do-Follow Forum

http://mathforum.org/ – PR8

Comics Do-Follow Forum

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/ – PR5

Photo Related Do-Follow Forums

http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/ – PR8
http://forums.photobucket.com/ – PR7
http://opensourcephoto.net/forum/ – PR3
http://forum.hot4s.com.au/ – PR3 (Australia)

Home and Garden Do-Follow Forums

http://www.gardenstew.com/ – PR5 – Blog link below each post and parses latest posts
http://www.blossomswap.com/garden-forums/ – PR4 – Parses latest posts near your username in forum posts
http://www.gardenweb.com/ – PR4 – Lots of Traffic!
http://www.homegardenguides.com/garden-forum/ - PR2

Education/Schools Do-Follow Forums

http://chronicle.com/forums/ – PR8

MIDI/Music Mixing/Musicians/Entertainment Do-Follow Forums

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/ – PR5
http://www.votefortheworst.com/forum/ – PR4 – American Idol Vote
http://www.ableton.com/forum/ – PR3
http://forum.hot4s.com.au/ – PR3 – Australia based

My Space Forum

http://forums.myspace.com/s/4.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewsubforum = PR6

Credit Cards/Banking/Money/Investment/Finance Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.wsj.com/ - PR6
http://paymentprocessing.cc/ – PR6
http://thehyipforum.com/ – PR4
http://www.diggsamachar.com/adrforum/ – PR2

Cellular/Mobile/SMS Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.cnet.com/ – PR7
http://cellphoneforums.net/ – PR5 – No-follow but lots of traffic
http://www.cellphonehacks.com/ – PR3

Dogs/Pets Do-Follow Forums

http://www.i-love-dogs.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.globalpaw.com/forum/ – PR4 – No follow but great traffic
http://www.chazhound.com/forums/ – PR4

Health/Vitamins/Weight Loss Do-Follow Forums

http://www.publichealthforums.com/ – PR3

Travel Do-Follow Forums

http://www.travelforum.org/ – PR4
http://forums.travel.com/ – PR4
http://forums.touristclick.com/ – PR3

Movies/Video Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.metacafe.com/ – PR6
http://www.movie-list.com/forum/ – PR5

Sports Do-Follow Forums

http://addictsports.com/baseball/ – PR4
http://www.baseballtalkpro.com/forum/ – PR2

Pagan/Witchcraft/Herbology Do-Follow Forums

http://www.paganforum.com/ – PR3

Cooking/Chefs/Food Do-Follow Forums

http://www.cheftalk.com/forums/ – PR4
http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/ – PR3
http://www.cookingjunkies.com/- PR3
http://www.cookingforums.net/ – PR2

Hosting/Web Sales/Domains/Design Do-Follow Forums

http://www.freehostforum.com/ - PR3

Real Estate Do-Follow Forums

http://www.realestateforum.com/ – PR3

Satellite TV/Dish Do-Follow Forums

http://dishnews.medianetwork.co.in/yabb2/YaBB.pl – PR2

Joomla Do-Follow Forum

http://forum.joomla.org/ – PR8

Horses Do-Follow Forums

For my friend Glenda
http://forums.delphiforums.com/dreamhorse

Various Topics

http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=index&webtag=delphicomz

If you guys know of any do-follow forums I missed please leave links in comments or contact me and I will add it to the list.



Want more blog traffic? Often times blog traffic, like website traffic, can be elusive. Being proactive in getting blog traffic is an important part of blogging.

You can use the usual methods of getting traffic to your blogs, like article marketing, social bookmarks and other link building methods that bring traffic. But, you can also take advantage of the RSS feed technology that comes with blogs and promote them with special RSS/Blog submission sites.

Because blog’s have feeds and are updated regularly with fresh content, RSS sites exist to promote such content to their own members, and that means BLOG TRAFFIC for you.

Blog Traffic
Many of these RSS/Blog directories have lots of members and so they can bring you tons of blog hosting traffic and especially targeted blog traffic since most of these sites categorize the blog submissions by niche, topic and/or subject. Also, many of these sites automatically update on their sites as you post content, so your actual posts get exposure.

Backlinks
Many of these sites are high PR, some 4, 5, 6 plus. And while most are probably no-follow, Yahoo ignores the no-follow tag.

Over 500,000 people searched for blogs this month alone and submitting to these sites is just another way to gain access to those searchers and get blog traffic!

So here is a list of 100 of these RSS/Blog Directory sites that will bring lots of blog traffic. Make sure when you submit to them that you use the appropriate category for your blogs when available and always add your main keywords as tags (if applicable), tags is how many people search for blogs on these sites.

Don’t worry, this list is long but it will not take that long to submit, since quite a few of these sites fetch your info from your meta tags.

100 RSS Submit Sites for Blog Traffic

My Blog Log
Top of Blogs
Feed Bees
Read a Blog
Feed Fury
Suggest Soft
LaunchFeed
2 RSS
5starblogs
88 Feeds
Blawg – Legal Blogs Only
Blloggs
Blogarama
Blogbib
Blogbunch
BlogCatalog
Blogcode
Blog-collector
Blogdigger
Blogdir
Blog-directory
Bloggernow
Blogexplosion
Blogflux
Bloggapedia
Bloggernity
Bloghop
Bloghub
Blogintro
Bloglines
BlogPulse
Blogs.com
Blog-search
Blogs-collection
Blogooculars
Blogscholar
Blogville
Blogz
BoingBoing
Chordata
Day Pop
Feedage
Feed Cat
Feednuts
Feedest
Feeds 2 Read
Feedza
Feed Hoster
Feed Fury
Find RSS
Feed 24
Feed Base
Feed Cycle
FyberSearch
Globe of Blogs
Golden Feed
Gnoos
Icerocket
LSBlogs
Jordomedia
Million RSS
Plazoo
Pressradar
ReadAblog
RSS Mountain
RSS Motron
RSS Feeds
RSS Mad
RSS Feedz
Redtram
RSS Around
RSS Micro
Regator
RSS Network
Syndic 8
Tailrank
Technorati
Today
Topix
Octora

Wilsdomain
We Blog Alot
Yahoo Blogs
Blogs Feeder
Feed Stumbler
Feed Plex
RSS Buffet
Blogoriffic
Blog Toplist
Flookie
Blogion
Blog Burst
Blog Hints

Aspin – ASP applications type content only

Blog Street – Only blogs that about India or written by Indian authors.

Blog Traffic – Auto RSS Submitter Software

Here is an auto submission RSS software, RSS Submit 2.40, but the free version only submits to a handful of sites and I was not that impressed with it.

Blog traffic is important so I suggest submitting manually with the list, it takes time but it is better to control what you put in and make sure your submissions took since many of the sites require email and confirmations to avoid spammers.

Now Go Get Some Blog Traffic!!






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