Backlinks to Your Website Using Blogs

If you are interested in blogs, then you know of the benefits is the number of backlinks you can get to your website using blogs. Some you can create yourself, if you use an off-site blog. But now there is a new service that will get them for you, in addition to being the easiest to use blogging platform that I've come across.

Ken Fox has created what he calls a "global blog network". When you join his membership site, you get 10 blogs of your own choosing, that will in part be promoted for you by the network. And of course you can also find link exchanges in the members-only forum that comes with this.

But you get *tons* more than just a bunch of blogs. There are extensive training videos and free ebooks on hand to help you with every aspect of your blogging. You get to submit 4 URLs (any of your other sites, affiliate links, whatever you want) for automatic promotion on the blog network. And each month you get a potential "authority site" built for you, on the them of your choosing.

You can submit your affiliate IDs, your adsense ID, and request to have data feeds included on the site that they build for you on your own domain. But not only do they build the site - they continue to maintain and promote it as long as you are a member. And if you ever leave the membership, you get to take your site(s) with you.

But as long as you remain a member, they continue to promote not only the sites they have built for you, but also the blogs you've created on the system *and* the additional 4 URLs you are allowed to submit every month for free promotion on the network.

I can't begin to do justice to this - visit the site and see for yourself how easy it is to build or promote a website using blogs.

Happy Blogging!

John

First Spam, the Spim, Now Splogs - What's Next?

Here's One More Thing to Hate: Splogs - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com

The article quoted here points out a problem that arose from the sudden popularity of the "blog and ping" strategy that grew up in 2005. In case you don't remember, "blog and ping" was the strategy that called for you to develop hundreds, if not thousands of blogs, post to them automatically with software, while linking to another site you wanted to promote, and then pinging the Blog Directories like crazy.

As with many things, Blog and Ping is a viable strategy that was taken to its extreme, and then ruined, by those who chose to abuse it. Like Instant Messenger "spim", and email spam, "splogs" are the junk blogs that are left behind by those who abused blog and ping.

I say that in the past tense, since the search engine experts have long since caught on, and de-indexed not only the splogs, but the semi-legitimate sites that they deep linked.

Word has it that thousands of splogs have been deleted from free services such as Blogger and similar services, and those that remain have been "de-indexed" by the search engines, meaning that they are effectively banned, and can no longer get placement in the Search Engine Results Pages.

It's up to all of us to act responsibly. Unfortunately, the more powerful the tool, the more likely people are to try to abuse it. And of course, the abuse eventually gets tracked down, and then we *all* lose, since what was once a good tool in the right hands has been rendered useless.

Keep it clean, and Happy Blogging!

John