Bookmarking
There’s no reason to ever be bookmarking individually. Sign up for a bunch of services, and use the same nickname/password for each. There’s 2 services for this that will allow you to do this fast. Head on over to http://www.OnlyWire.com, and http://www.SocialPoster.com. Of course, it’s a bit of a pain in the ass to sign up for each service, but it’s worthwhile, and afterwards, all of them can be bookmarked with a single click. Altough many of these are no-followed, the given anchor text can still give you a boost.
Digg Sniping
Monitor digg, and any other social news site you can. Whenever something hits the front page, comment on the article itself, not on digg. Especially if it’s a do-follow link. Most articles people comment on have very few links that go directly to that page, and hence are worth more(even if the homepage is high PR, only a fraction of the link juice gets sent to the article you comment on). If something frontpages Digg, you can be sure that it has at LEAST one high powered link going directly to it, and probably many more from all the digg rss feeds/blog posts/message boards that the article will be posted to in the next 24 hours. As a result, a link on this page passes a LOT of link juice. Netscape’s propeller, Newsvine, and Shoutwire are other worthwhile sniping targets.
Social News Sites - RSS, and Other Uses
Submit to digg, reddit, proppeler, newsvine, sphinn any you can find. Extra points for do-follow links. And don’t just submit. Promote. Get friends to vote. Use web proxies for extra accounts. If you get 2-3 votes quickly, most places will keep you on the “upcoming” list for significantly longer. Ranking on any of these sites will get you a lot of links, from both direct references, and people who syndicate the RSS feeds(the real point of this section). Add anyone who votes for your article to your “friends” list. Always remember that your page doesn’t have to get votes for the backlink to count as well. It has to appear, and not get deleted.
Create a Free Template - Sneaky Backlinks, and Normal Backlinks
Most free web template, or free wordpress template sites(or actually, pay ones for that matter), are more than happy to accept free templates. Either make them yourself, or commission someone to make a bunch of them. 10-20 if you can swing it. Add your anchor text to the bottom of the page, small as possible without setting off red flags. Make sure to say it was “coded by XYZ”, where XYZ is the anchor text and a link. Beyond that, you can also have a layer that shows up on mouseover of a certain link or image. 99% of people will delete the link, but not the layer. So chances are, you’ll still get it crawled if you set it up properly(it’s hard, but possible). This can also work for plug-ins, but it’s more difficult
Intelligent Trackbacks and Commenting - Basic
Learn to love it. http://commenthunt.com/. It lists a bunch of different blogs that have a do-follow link policy, and is very rarely wrong. Keep in mind, the blog admins are aware of this condition, and are much more anal about which comments they accept. Also bear in mind that this means they’re probably friendly admins, and are more likely to accept trackbacks. So give it a good search through before posting any blog article, and see if it sticks. Don’t be too aggressive though, or Akismet anti-spam will nail you to the wall, and then you’re completely dead in the water. Also, notice how old the entry is. Some people get annoyed with comments on excessively old, out of date articles. Remember to always reference a specific thing from the article. Not just a generic compliment. If you do something too generic, not only with you probably get stuck as spam by the moderator(Akismet again!), but the comments will barely ever stick. Also, avoid referencing, or god forbid directly quoting, the title or a line of the article. This is common by link spam programs, and will get you nailed as well.
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