29 Top Video Submission Sites + 5 Free Video Creation Tools and More

Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Essential Marketing Lists, Internet Marketing, Link Building, Video Submission/Creation, Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion

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 Pro – Free! Haven’t tried this myself, but it’s free and submits video to several sites.

Video Post Robot – This 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.

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Free Automated Social Bookmarking Service

Posted by JR in Internet Marketing, Link Building, Social/Web 2.0 Marketing, Website Promotion

I want to let you guys know about a great new free service from Caroline Middlebrook, one of my favorite bloggers, for free automated social bookmarking links. IMAutomator is a really an easy to use free automated social bookmarking service that allows you get social site links and spread them our over time, which is really an added bonus.

Caroline has been working on this product for some time, and it really is a great service to have in your Internet marketing arsenal. While most social bookmarking site links are generally low in quality, they are a necessary aspect of your overall backlink portfolio and can really help to build backlinks to the often overlooked inner pages of your sites. Those inner pages should be the main focus of your social bookmark link building.

For the most part submitting to social bookmarking sites is a real pain, logging in to each site on by one, entering all the details like title, keywords and descriptions can really take a lot of time, so a free automated social bookmarking service like IMAutomater is really a life saver.

6 Main Benefits of IMAutomater for Automated Social Bookmarking

1. Easy Submission – With IMAutomater, you simply input the url you want to submit, and you can either enter your own title, description and keywords, or you can press a button and the system will fetch your Meta Tag info automatically. Then you can choose the submission frequency, which is one of the best parts of this service.

2. Submission Frequency Options – The frequency selection is a great aspect because it allows you to spread your links over time, and basically helps you to get a steady stream of links to your site on an on going basis.

1 Day – all links in one day
32 days – one link per day
96 days – one link every few days

3. No Registration with Individual Social Sites Required – You don’t have to register or login with the individual social sites, IMAutomater submits with their own information, so much less work and hassle for you!

4. Fully Automated Social Bookmarking – This is a set it and forget it system, once you submit the system takes care of the rest!

5. Easily check the submission status of your submissions.

6. It’s a totally free and automated way to submit to social bookmark sites.

More To Come

There are 32 social bookmarking sites in the system now and Caroline is adding more on a regular basis. The program is still in Beta, though I’ve been using it for several weeks, without any problems, and if you do find some bugs, Caroline is asking that you please let her know. And there is much more to come…

Ability to spin titles, tags etc to be able to rotate submission details – This is great!
Select which sites to submit to, or all of them
More submission tools, not just social bookmarking

Learn more about IMAutomater and the theories behind it at IMAutomater Articles and sign up for free today!

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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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Title Tags vs. Anchor Text – Link Attributes

Posted by JR in Blogging, Internet Marketing, Link Building, Search Engine Optimization, Webmaster/Website Optimization, Website Tools

A reader emailed me and asked for some advice about internal links:

“link titles” – that extra fill-in-the-blank box when entering a link in a post? Is there any value or is it just something nifty for the reader to mouse over?”

First, he is referring to Internal Links that are links back to your own home page and sub pages within your site’s content with the keywords you are targeting and want to rank for in the anchor text. Learn more at: The importance of Internal Link Building for On-Site SEO.

Purpose of Internal Links and
Title Tag vs. Anchor Text

1. Internal links are good for SEO. But, for SEO purposes the title tag is useless, the keyword anchor text is key to relate the page you’re linking to for the keyword you want it to rank for.

2. Improve Bounce Rate. Internal linking improves bounce rate (the rate at which visitors leave your site) and gives readers more stuff to browse on the site thereby keeping them there longer. The Title Tag, which shows up when the reader mouses over the link, is used for this purpose and is crucial to captivate reader interest and get them to read the contents of those links.

So, for example, while the anchor text (the keyword I want that page to rank for) may be Website Traffic, the Title will show more detail about the link, such as “Website Traffic that Converts are You Missing Out?”

Also, it is irritating to read a page and see internal links and not have any clue what is there, it is always good to give your readers a sneak peek.

Title Tag Code

Most softwares, including WordPress have a fill in box within the add link area for the title and then it will automatically code in HTML, but here is how the code looks:

<a title=”Sneak Peek” href=”http://domain.com/”>Anchor Keyword</a>

Here is how it looks live with the title tag appearing with a mouseover:

No-Follow/Do-Follow Link Attribute

In WordPress and most website software links created within text are automatically Do-Follow. For Google, when links are Do-Follow you are passing page rank juice to the url in the link and in essence giving it a vote of confidence helping their SEO efforts vs. No-Follow simply means that Google will not follow the link nor assign any rank to it based on your link juice to them.

When to add No-Follow:

For internal links you always want to pass your own internal page rank, also for reciprocal links and other sites that you may want to give a Google strong backlink to.

But, in reality there are several links that you may not want to do-follow and those need to be set manually as no-follow.

Examples for No-Follow:
Affiliate Links (should always be no-follow)
Authority/Reference sites cited to support content
Referral sites provided for readers
…and any other sites that you don’t need to waste PR juice on

Manually Adding No-Follow Link Attribute:

To add the no-follow attribute you need to go to the HTML source of your web page, in WordPress it is done in the post/page editor by clicking on the HTML tab and manually adding “rel-”nofollow” as shown below:

<a title=”Sneak Peek” href=”http://domain.com/”rel=”nofollow”>Anchor Keyword</a>

Free Headers – Must See!

By the way, I did not want to do a separate post on this, but you have to check out this website I found with free website/blog headers at: Free Web Page Headers. They are simply gorgeous with tons of themes and absolutely free, just right click and save image as and then resize to fit your needs in a graphics software such as Gimp Image Software, which, by the way is also free, quite famous and a complete graphics/photo editing software.

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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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144 Do-Follow Forums – Categorized by Niche and PR

Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Essential Marketing Lists, Link Building, Search Engine Optimization, Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion

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

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.

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2 Free Directory Submission Softwares

Posted by JR in Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Directory submission is still a vital part of an overall link building strategy for Search Engine Optimization. I spoke about this in my post Is Link Building with Directories Dead? and in that post I also list a few “must submit to directories.”

With some testing I found out that directory links are helpful and all though those links have gotten a bad rap from some lately, I still submit to them. While some are looking for “perfect links” I just build links of all kinds, so just do some linkbuilding everyday from all sources:

Time Division Formula for Link Building:
40% – Article Marketing
25% – Social Bookmark Links/Forum Sig links/Blog comment links
25% – Reciprocal Link Exchange/Blogroll (related sites only, not links pages – home page or contextual links)
10% – Directories

Some Directory Submission Guidelines:

1. Some of the directories require a reciprocal link, you can be choosy here and opt out of those, it’s up to you, I usually go for the non-reciprocal required sites.

2. Go for the higher PR directories first.

3. Don’t do “bid” for links on any directory, not worth getting caught for buying links as they blatantly advertise it and there are plenty of free ones.

Two Free Directory Submission Softwares for Link Building

I have reviewed several free directory submission softwares and here are the two best ones. Easy, accurate and save loads of time.

**These are NOT completely automatic software, they only open the directory submission pages in the software window and save loads of time so you don’t have to visit each directory one by one, so you don’t have to worry about blind submission, you have total control and can explore the directories one by one and decide if it is one you want to submit to.

Make sure to diversify your anchor text and descriptions so your link building does not come off spammy and these softwares allow for different anchors and descriptions that automatically rotate.

G-Lock – Fast Directory Submitter – Unlimited websites, 150 directories submissions per site with free account, upgrade to paid for more submissions. Very easy submit!

Sliq Directory Submitter – Sort directories by Page Rank, very easy submit, 2000 directories in the database.

If you really do not have the time to deal with submitting, I also use Directory Submission Service that submits for me to directories and social sites and is very affordable.

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How-To Measure Your SEO Efforts

Posted by JR in Link Building, Search Engine Optimization, Website Tools

I got an email from a reader asking me how to measure your SEO efforts? Only one way and that is with results.

End goal of SEO: Page 1 of SERPS (search engine result pages). By the way, if you are on page 1 don’t think it’s all over, you have to stay on top of it, there are always competitors lurking around the corner.

Okay so you are link building, doing on-site SEO and developing good content… are you moving up in the SERPS?

If you answered yes then that’s all you need to know!

If you answered no:

1. Keep building links

Time Division Formula for Link Building:
40% – Article Marketing
25% – Social Bookmark Links/Forum Sig links/Blog comment links
25% – Reciprocal Link Exchange/Blogroll (related sites only, not links pages – home page or contextual links)
10% – Directories
More on Link Building Basics…

2. Add more keyword rich original content

3. Check your On-Site SEO, is it optimal?

Most Important…

4. Look at your anchor text* for the keywords you want to rank for, if it’s not in the anchor you won’t be in the SERPS for those keywords. Learn more about the Importance of Anchor Text in Link Building.

*Use Free Backlink Checker from SEOPro, shows you top 10 anchors for your links.

Great Tool to Check SERP results:

I found this great tool the other day that checks where you are in Google SERPS. Other tools I have used were lame because they only gave a position number like 100, but I want to actually see the page and where my websites are, and for a long time I would sit and manually check the SERPS myself, but this could take a while with lots of pages to check one by one.

SEOAnalytic Google SERP Checker gives you the position number WITH a link to the actual SERP page where you could see your site- FANTASTIC!!

Just jot down the results and check again after a while to see the progress of your sites in SERPS and that is how you measure your SEO efforts.

By the way, do not use this tool or the backlink checker or any other automated tools too often, don’t go crazy by using them constantly. Google does not like automated checks like this, it uses too much of their resources. For anchor analysis, you can always use Google Webmaster Tools – “What Google Bot Sees” to view your anchors without risking penalty.

PS: In general, do not get preoccupied with checking SERP stats all the time. Just keep building links and let your site age. Often people get too involved, like checking everyday and it causes stress and can lead to loss of focus.

What do you guys think? Are you checking too often? Are you seeing your SEO efforts pay off?

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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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