Missed Church? Have some link love instead.

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I’ve been disobeying my own instruction to focus on my link building efforts, and doing a lot of blog hopping lately. Granted it’s still technically link building, but not really. Today isn’t Thursday either, so I can’t exactly call this Threadless Thursday and get away with it either. (I think Sunday is as far from Thursday as you can get actually) But since it is Sunday, and I know a lot of you may have missed church (I know I have – for 32 years) I thought I would lay on the link lovr for you.

I can’t believe how much awesome content I have been finding! Can’t figure out if the standards are improving or if I’m just getting better at finding the good stuff. Either way – I have a few links to share today, and in the usual Keyword Blogger fashion, I will lay on the link love – and of course give you my 2cents first – just in case you suddenly lose the ability to formulate your own opinion.

Pop-Up form survey update

But first – an update from the Pop Up Abomination (thanks Jean ) Poll. Only had 23 votes so far – very poor form, but surprisingly 60% of those who voted said they are not fussed either way. Interesting. Only 26% said they actually hate them so I am seriously considering adding one to my site, but if I do it will NOT be this PUD plug-in. It will also not pop up until you have been on the site for a minute – so that by then you have had the chance to decide whether it was worth your time or not. Anyway, that’s a while away now.

Link building and getting ranked in Google

My first shout out goes to one of my favourite bloggers John Paul Aguair. He is always producing awesome posts and this is no exception. I am in the middle of writing a killer resource showing heaps of sites and services you can use to leverage your content once it’s been published. JP beat me to it Maybe not, but he was kind enough to share his secrets with us. Find out how John Paul leverages his content here: My Crazy 7 step plan to promote a blog post. and follow in the footsteps of an already successful blogger.

While you’re there, check out this post titled: 9 Proven steps to improve your Google Ranking’ Where JP takes it one step further and shows you the SEO needed on the page. He combines this with his 7 step plan to promote a blog post and then gives screen shots showing first page ranking. Yes it really is that easy guys, and JP shows you proof. Heck, just sign up to his list while you’re there. You get awesome tips, and he emails you all his best blog posts. Doesn’t try to sell you anything either!

I’ve really been building a steady stream of backlinks to both this blog and my niche sites, and one of the bloggers who has been a wealth of awesome information is Ana Hoffman. Ana is the owner and founder of the Traffic Generation Cafe (a great name I might add) where she writes about generating traffic. She doesn’t write about coffee, but her posts are like a shot of intellectual caffeine all the same

I have two great posts from her that I strongly recommend you check out if you are interested in building quality backlinks and not wasting your time with what is not working. The first is a hot tip on where to acquire quality backlinks, I strongly recommend checking it out.  Ana came with the goods on this next one, outlining how important (and easy) it is to know what keywords and posts are getting the most Traffic. Titled Find out who your blog fans are – it is a great read and you should check it out. Oh to hell with it, sign up to her list too! You get an awesome resource on link building and like John Paul, she doesn’t try to sell you anything – just links you to her awesome posts and traffic tips.

Are you ready to laugh?

OK this is not link building, but it’s character building! OK it’s not character building really – but it’s the funniest post I have read – maybe ever, and if you are in need of a good laugh then I seriously recommend you check it out. Joshua is a great writer, and in this post I think he just wanted to jump on the ‘list based post’ bandwagon, but had nothing particularly insightful to list. I am SOOO glad that was the case! Check out his Big Ass List of 101 Things you should not do‘ and turn your brain off for a while

Who ordered the Analogy?

I love analogies. They make learning new things and understanding processes so much easier since they paint a physical picture that you can relate to. So when I found this latest post where James King talked about generating traffic and likened it to the transport system in Britain, I was stoked. I really found this post useful when grasping the complexities of traffic to and from a blog – and his analogy was top notch -and I don’t even live in England! Check out his awesome post titled ‘Who else wants a high traffic blog’ and open your eyes to the why of the whole process.

The Keyword Blogger’s final words and HOT TIP

I can’t let you leave without a hot tip of some description so today I wanted to share with you a great tip I picked up from Glen Allsop, the 21 year old owner and founder of ViperChill and all round niche marketing guru.

Want to find out exactly what backlinks are helping a site rank in the search engines? Go to Yahoo Search Engine and Simply type LINK: followed by the URL of the site you are spying on and voila – a list of pretty much EVERY LINK pointing to that site appears.

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