Increase link popularity instantly.

Opinion may differ but there is a semblance of truth in the effectiveness of increasing the link popularity through reciprocal link exchange.

There is a widespread opinion that reciprocal link exchange has fallen out of Google's favoritism. Why then Google is giving a widget to host your own blogroll in your blog? Some (many?) say that reciprocal link exchange should be done with only related blogs.

I beg to differ. I really like to visit several blogs on a regular basis that are not in my blog's niche. Why shouldn't I include them in the list of my favorites?

Blogosphere is a big community of helping each other and I think it is ethical to exchange links with the blogs I like.

If you agree with me, use Links Pal to exchange links. It is free. You can exchange links with blogs in your niche also as the links are neatly categorized.

Automatic link swapper and traffic generator

Everybody needs more traffic to the blog. It increases income and improves site rating in the search engines. Experts claim that a very good blog with proper structure and nice format and content has a chance to get maximum Google PageRank as PR3. To increase it more, you need multiple links from other sites to your blog to be in place. But how can you persuade other bloggers in your niche link to you? That might be a challenging and long range process. There are multiple ways to boost the linking, some of them even legitimate.

BlogLinker.com is offering a way of increasing your blog exposure. It is absolutely free tool to increase traffic to your blog by making use of automatic reciprocal linking: others linking to your blog if you link to theirs. Note that the bloggers who misuse the service are removed from this platform on a regular basis.

Here is how it works:
1. Sign-up to blogLinker, then copy a special line of code into your blog template.
2. Find others like you on blogLinker and link to them.
3. They links will now appear on your site and yours will appear on their blogs.

You have an ability to approve all link requests, and you can hide or delete links you do not like. You can also customize their look and feel to match your site interface.

Example to review how the Bloglinker block looks like:

Automatic link swapper

Sign up: http://www.bloglinker.com/

Cross link exchange.

By-passing the new comers to the blogosphere, I am calling attention to all the experienced bloggers who have this burning desire to get backlinks.

You all probably know that getting backlinks from similar niche is very important than getting backlinks from all and sundry. I know we still give in to such links too because something is better than nothing.

If you want to gain exposure through cross promotion partnerships with like-minded blogs and sites, please go to Link Like. As the name suggests, we can get links from other blogs of the same category as ours.

There are plenty of categories that include personal blog, consumer products, business services, professional blog, user services and shopping.

LinkLike is a social networking web site for folks who run web sites. It is a sort of you scratch my back and I to do the same type. They say that heir site is a a metered ad exchange service which means for every user you send to their site, they must send a user to your site.

Meet the Links Engineer.

I like the name Links Engineer. It shows they are able to think and approach differently. They are ready to try new strategies.

Personally, I am yet to try link exchange through organized sector like Links Engineer. I have exchanged links with several people through blogging communities.

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Don't buy links anymore.

The Internet's most hot topic of discussion today is John Chow and his blog that has fallen out of Google's ranking.

I don't know the what it means by this is what I could understand:
When you search for JohnChow or John Chow, his Google adword is not appearing at the right side of Google's search results.

Here is a blog post in Blogstorm that mentions about Google Webmaster Guidelines:
“Buying links in order to improve a sites ranking is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results.”

Matt Cutt's has more on paid links but you get the general idea - Google doesn't like people buying and selling links.The paid links on the right hand side are totally unrelated to his content so stand out like a sore thumb.

My immediate concern was about the sponsors who are buying paid to blog posts.

“Yet another “pay-for-blogging” (PFB) business launched, this time by Text Link Brokers. It should be clear from Google’s stance on paid text links, but if you are blogging and being paid by services like Pay Per Post, ReviewMe, or SponsoredReviews, links in those paid-for posts should be made in a way that doesn’t affect search engines. The rel=”nofollow” attribute is one way, but there are numerous other ways to do paid links that won’t affect search engines, e.g. doing an internal redirect through a url that is forbidden from crawling by robots.txt.”

Now look at what Mashable says:

Most readers would disregard a sponsor post entirely, and could put the blogger and their reputation in jeopardy as a result.

I wrote to Vin of betabloggerfordummies and asked his opinion on two questions:

1. Is it still advisable to remove 'No Follow' tag?

2. Is it ok to join certain bloggers network like 'Blogging chicks network' and 'I follow' network.

His reply is given below:

“That article does not say anything about 'No follow' tag.
It is your blog and you can do anything you like in it except copyright and other violations.
As far as I know Google has nothing against no-follow. If you find anything let me know. You can join any network you like."

So, what do you make all of it bloggers?

Thank you Vin, Mashable, Matt Cutt and Blogstorm.

Technorati rank building.

Is it some sort of coincidence?

Of late, I have been reading a lot of blog posts about technorati exchange. I participated in few.

I feel we should rush things up. A sudden spurt in technorati links will not look natural. I will be selective only in accepting offers. I hope, people will take it in the right perspective.

For example, I am ready exchange technorati favorites and text links with other blogs that are on anything about blogging such as blog promotion, blogging community, blogging for money, blog directories and so on.

I also invite blogs that deals with widgets, web tools, blog forums etc.

Interested persons can directly email me and email id is at the top right of this blog.

Thank you readers.

What is a Blogroll?

In most of the blogs you might have seen a link title ‘BlogRoll’ under which there are several links to other blogs.

By this way a blog owner has indicated that he is reading those blogs. This is also an opportunity to exchange links with those blogs he has mentioned under Blogroll.

This blogroll can be created by engaging the services of a professional link manager.

There are quite a few link managers but you must exercise caution while using a link manager.

A sudden burst of incoming links to your blog will make the search engine suspicious.

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