22 Social Web 2.0 Sites To Promote Internet Marketing, Blogging, Make Money Online Content

Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Essential Marketing Lists, Internet Marketing, Social/Web 2.0 Marketing, Website Promotion

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.

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Link Building – 6 More Resources

Posted by JR in Link Building, Search Engine Optimization, Social/Web 2.0 Marketing

Here are more link building resources for search engine optimization and Internet marketing. I have added these to the master list: 65+ Social Bookmarking Sites.

Stumpedia - PR5
Very easy submit, picks up Meta Tags and has a bookmarklet for browsers. A human powered social search engine with 100% do-follow links, add your home pages and all sub-pages, choose categories and tag with relevant keywords.

Social Median - PR5

Easy submit with bookmarklet for browsers. This is one of the best social networks I have ever used. The key is to join news networks that are relevant to your sites, and there are many of them, or you can create your own.

When you submit your content the readers in those networks get emails with content updates. Votes on Socialmedian are called clips and it does not take too many clips to get on the front page. I always get lots of traffic from them and traffic that subscribes and buys, go check it out, there is a lot going on there.

Squidoo – PR8

I have mentioned this before but I will say it again, build some keyword rich lenses related to your sites topics and put some 100% do-follow backlinks on them to your sites. Many of my lenses are PR3+ because they piggy back on Squidoo’s page rank and the backlinks are very valuable.

Make sure to follow the lens building instructions for optimal success at: How-To Squidoo – Steps to Building the Best Lens for Website Promotion.

Wikidot – PR7

Build wiki’s or mini sites on any topic and put in your do-follow backlinks. I have not used this yet, but I hear good things.

Get it Gadget – PR0

Fairly new social site with do-follow links.

Zimbio – PR6

Zimbio will ping and publish your blog posts in relevant wikizines. You can also post articles and add links to your sites. All the links appear to be no-follow, but no-follow links are beneficial and the possibility for exposure and subscribers is there.

Do-Follow Blogs

Do-Follow Blog Search Engine

Newly launched and developed search engine to look for do-follow blogs. Updated regularly with very accurate results.

Happy Link Building!

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Link Building – 7 More Do-Follow Social Sites

Posted by JR in Essential Marketing Lists, Link Building, Search Engine Optimization, Social/Web 2.0 Marketing, Website Promotion

Hello everyone, hope all is well, sorry for no posts in a few days, have not been feeling well, I think it’s the sudden cold up here in the California mountains where I live. Will have our first snow on Monday, should be snowed in for about three days …gotta love it.

Here are 7 more Do-Follow social sites for you link building efforts, and a couple of no-follows worth checking out. I have added these to the master list of 65+ Social Bookmark Sites.

Qassia – Do-Follow. PR5. This one is really great, 100% do-follow. At Qassia you have to add articles or snippets of content, they call “Intel” on any topic and at the end of each of those you get a do-follow backlink to the site of your choice. You can add your pre-published articles or original stuff and earn Qassia dollars. The content can even be a couple of paragraphs, nothing fancy is required.

Also, you can “Screen Intel” on member’s articles with a simple rating system and earn Qassia dollars that are used to make your content rank higher and get more link juice.

In the end you can distribute your Qassia dollars between all your sites depending on those websites or blogs you may want more link juice.

Megite – Do-Follow and easy submission.

Spotback – Do-Follow. PR5 – Spotback has cool widgets to add to your blogs and websites for rating your content, simple little star boxes (see mine at the end of the post). Readers do not have to leave your blog, once they rate it, it automatically goes to Spotback, COOL!! Also mouse over it and checkout how you can add tags without leaving the blog. Spotback has several options for widgets, as well as a Wordpress plug-in.

Launch Feed – Do-Follow. PR4, no anchor text, just URL. This one only allows you to submit your site once, so you can pick home page or a subpage.

Go Zoof - Do-Follow - PR4 – This is one is good and is 100% do-follow.

Really Awesome People – Do Follow. PR2 @ $5 per link with your own custom personal page. This is Jim Kukral’s creation, not sure if it’s worth $5 but check it out and decide for yourselves.

No Follow Social Sites Worth Considering

Blogengage – No-Follow - PR3 – Blogengage is new but has some good traffic. Brian, the webmaster has also just added Adsense revenue sharing program, I think it’s 50/50. This one is easy submit with the browser bookmark button.

Wobblog – No Follow, but lots of traffic there, can give good exposure for your websites and blogs.

Kaboodle – No Follow. PR6. Shopping site links, lots of members, especially female, good traffic!

Earners Club – No Follow – IM/AM content only, still PR0 it’s fairly new but has some good traffic, brought me a few visitors to this blog.

2 Considerations for No-Follow Social Sites

1. Traffic – Some of them can bring lots of traffic like Stumble and Reddit and others are just a waste of time. This is something you have to determine on your own by testing, because some niches do really well on social sites and some just don’t!

2. Yahoo and MSN ignore the no-follow tag and so they are still worthwhile for backlinks with those search engines.

As a rule, I always submit to do-follow social sites for the links, but the no-follow sites I usually submit to on a case-by-case basis after some testing.

Happy Link Building!

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Link Building – 11 More High PR Do-Follow Social Sites

Posted by JR in Link Building, Search Engine Optimization, Social/Web 2.0 Marketing

All of a sudden these do-follow social bookmarks are just coming at me left and right. I have added these to the original post 50 Social Bookmarking Sites, which is now 65+ Social Bookmark Sites. Remember that social site links are a critical part of an overall link building strategy as well as the benefit of their ability to bring traffic to your sites.

Magnolia – Must Have! PR7 No-Follow Social Bookmark. No categories, just add tags. I just realized when editing my list that I had not put Magnolia on it, not sure how this happened, but this is one of the best Social Bookmarks for link building, even though it is a no-follow counts strong with Yahoo backlinks and when you join groups it can bring traffic to your sites, brought me traffic time and again.

Googletop - PR3 Do-Follow Social Bookmark. Various Categories. Googletop could have a few more categories for my taste, but it’s a good one for link building.

Oopza – PR2 Do-Follow. Thanks to my friend Suzanne for turning me on to this one. Lots of categories, all though some of them are oddly specific. I found the submission process to be a little tedious since it did not automatically parse my Meta tag information, but worth the extra effort.

Lipstick – PR7 Do-Follow News Site. Celebrity related content only.

Dzone – PR6 Do-Follow News Site. Web developer related content only. Link is do-follow on inner page, not front page.

Plime – PR6 Do-Follow News Site. Categories remind me of Digg, so be careful what you submit, you might get banned for spamming.

Listible – PR5 Do-Follow. This one is different, no categories instead there are lists, find a relevant list and add your links OR if there is no relevant list you can create your own and add all related content to that.

Humsurfer – PR4 Do-Follow News Site. Submit anything, no category limitations. Primarily this site is an Indian community news site, (that is the country) all though I did find many US stories.

Care2 – PR6 Do-Follow News Site. Categories include, tech, green/environment, wellness, animals, off beat. Link is do-follow on inner page, not front page.

Hugg – PR6 Do-Follow News Site. Green related content only.

Shoutwire – PR4 Do-Follow News Site. Usual categories, tech, politics, biz…and then there is girls…where you find everything from Christina Applegate to Sarah Palin to Epic Boobs …webmaster must be a guy!

Remember to anchor your links correctly with your keywords. Also, remember to submit deep pages and not just home pages especially to the bookmark sites.

Cool Anchor Text Trick for Deep Pages: When anchoring your deep pages you can use this format Page Title | Main Keywords, if your site title contains the main keywords then you are all good, if not, make it appear as if it does.

For example, my laptop site’s main keywords are cheap laptops, so I can add a deep page anchored like this, Laptop Buying Guide | JR’s Cheap Laptops. Some sites won’t accept such a long title, but most do and this way you get your site-wide KW for every link.

Also, submitting to social sites can be very time consuming that is why I use Social Bookmarking Submission Service to submit for me. It’s a great service, submits to over 125 sites, really saves a lot of time and is very affordable.

Here’s to Link Building!

Anyone have any more to add to the list? Leave the info in the comments. Anyone have a favorite(s) where they have seen great results?

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Social Marketing – 65 + Social Bookmark and News Sites

Posted by JR in Essential Marketing Lists, Link Building, Social/Web 2.0 Marketing, Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion

Here is a list of 70 + Social News and Bookmark Websites. The Social revolution is hot on the net and these sites are great for Internet Marketing and some low level SEO, and can be beneficial in promoting your websites and content. They are not the best links in the world, but they are an important part of an overall link building profile.

Submit your website content and get backlinks, both dofollow and nofollow, promote your websites and expose your stuff to high traffic platforms.

The News sites, like Digg, basically allow you to submit news type stories and articles from your website to theirs and the members vote for them, the more votes the more exposure your submitted content gets.

The Bookmark sites are where you submit content/websites as a bookmark and the bookmark can be marked public so that other site members have access to your profile, bookmarks and a link to your sites.

You should also add these site’s “add” buttons in your own sites so your visitors are given the opportunity to vote from within your own sites. You can get the buttons individually by visiting the respective sites one by one, or you can add an all in one bookmark that you can get the code for at AddThis. You can see this button at the bottom of each of my posts.

If you have lots of websites, or you want to save time, then use the service that I use to submit to many social sites for me, for as low as 19 cents per bookmark, check them out at, Social Maximizer.

If you Internet Marketing and Online Business specific social submit sites, please visit: 22 Social Sites To Promote Internet Marketing, Blogging and Make Money Online Content. Looking for More Do-Follow Resources, please see: 144 Do-Follow Forums By Niche and PR

DO-FOLLOW BACKLINK SOCIAL WEBSITES

Post On Fire – PR 4, Blog posts only, various topics.

Spotback – PR5 – Spotback has cool widgets to add to your blogs and websites for rating your content, simple little star boxes (see mine at the end of the post). Readers do not have to leave your blog, once they rate it, it automatically goes to Spotback! Also mouse over it and checkout how you can add tags without leaving the blog. Spotback has several options for widgets, as well as a Wordpress plug-in.

Stumpedia - Best! PR5
Very easy submit, picks up Meta Tags and has a bookmarklet for browsers. A human powered social search engine with 100% do-follow links, add your home pages and all sub-pages, choose categories and tag with relevant keywords.

Squidoo – Best! PR8

Build some keyword rich content pages called lenses related to your sites topics and put 100% do-follow backlinks on them to your sites. Many of my lenses are PR3+ because they piggy back on Squidoo’s page rank and the backlinks are very valuable.

Make sure to follow the lens building instructions for optimal success at: How-To Squidoo – Steps to Building the Best Lens for Website Promotion.

Wikidot - PR7

Build wiki’s or mini sites on any topic and put in your do-follow backlinks.

Launch Feed – no anchor text, just URL. This one only allows you to submit your site once, so you can pick home page or a subpage.

Go Zoof - PR4 – Bookmark

Searchle It – Bookmark

Furl.net – Bookmark

Spurl.net – Bookmark

Folked – Bookmark

Diigo.com – Bookmark

Connectedy – Bookmark

A1 Webmarks – Bookmark

Blinklist.com – Best! Bookmark

Mister-wong.com – Bookmark

Backflip.com – Bookmark

MyLinkVault – Bookmark

Jumptags.com – Bookmark. Highly crawled site, submit an inner content page for a new site and Google will find it and crawl quickly, which usually results in fast indexing.

Megite - Bookmark

Buzz Tagz – Bookmark

Googletop – Bookmark

Oopza – Bookmark

Bibsonomy.org – Bookmark

Linkagogo.com – Bookmark

Buddy Marks – Bookmark

OYAX – Bookmark

Wirefan.com- Bookmark

Wagg It – Add your blog posts and site content

Get it Gadget – Fairly new social site with do-follow links.

Shoutwire – News Site

Listable – This one is a little different, no categories instead there are lists, find a relevant list and add your links OR if there is not relevant list you can create your own and add all related content to that.

Dzone – News Site - Web developer related content only. Link is do-follow on inner page, not front page.

Lipstick - Celebrity related content only (PR7)

Plime – News Site – Categories remind me of Digg, so be careful what you submit, you might get banned for spamming.

Humsurfer – News Site - Submit anything, no category limitations. Primarily this site is an Indian community news site, (that is the country) all though I did find many US stories.

Care2 – News Site - Categories include, tech, green/environment, wellness, animals, off beat. Link is do-follow on inner page, not front page.

Hugg – News Site - Green related content only.

DIZZED – Lots of categories, including Internet marketing, technology, entertainment and more.

WAGG IT – Some odd categories, and they are picky about choosing relevant ones for your content, but worth checking out.

Really Awesome People – PR2 @ $5 with your own custom personal page. This is Jim Kukral’s creation, not sure if it’s worth $5 but check it out and decide for yourselves.

StumbleUpon - Boookmark - All possible categories – Lots of Traffic

NO-FOLLOW BACKLINK SOCIAL WEBSITES

Sphinn.com – Internet Marketing categories only

Yahoo Buzz – Yahoo’s version of Digg without the attitude!

Plugim.com – Internet Marketing categories only

Del.ici.ous - Bookmark - Lots of Traffic

Reddit.com – News Site - Versatile with many categories

Propeller - News Site - Variety of categories

Digg - News Site - Several categories, but they will easily ban for spam so be careful what you submit.

Slashdot.org - News - Nerd and Geek categories

Technorati - Submit Blogs

Twitter – Set up your profile, add your site, follow people

Tagza.com - Categories: Science, Politics, Tech, Sports

Fark.com- News - Weird Stories and Articles Only

Newsvine.com – News - Categories: Science, Politics, Tech, Sports.

Swik.net - News - Theme: Open Source Software

Ximmy – News - Lots of categories

Health Ranker – News - Health categories only: Fitness, Nutrition, Diseases

Ka-Boom-It.com – News - Internet Marketing categories

Mixx.com – News - This one is great for fast indexing of your sites, just add an inner content page and Google will crawl your new site fast. Various categories.

IndianPad - News - Limited categories, Good for Tech type Sites

Fetch – News - Small business categories, including Internet Marketing

Danogo.com – News

Links Marker – News

Google Bookmarks – Bookmark

Faves.com – Bookmark

Netvouz.com – Bookmark

Music Movie News – For entertainment/music and movie related content only.

Blogengage – PR3 – Includes a 50/50 Adsense sharing. This one is easy submit with the browser bookmark button.

Wobblog – Lots of traffic there, can give good exposure for your websites and blogs.

Kaboodle – PR6. Shopping site links, lots of members, especially female, good traffic!

Earners Club – Internet marketing related content only.

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