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How Many Links Should I Put Into My Author Bio Section?

By Allen Taylor

I’ve heard all kinds of responses to this question. Some people say use the maximum number of links possible in your author resource box. Others say use just one. I think it really depends.

The first rule of thumb with article author resource boxes is to only include information that is relevant to your article. For instance, if you run a dog kennel, an IRS tax preparation service, and a day spa and you write an article about how to save money on your taxes then you want to include the fact that you are the owner of an IRS tax preparation service.

You don’t want to mention that you own a dog kennel or a day spa. On the other hand, if your article is about how to groom your poodle for show then you would want to mention that you own a dog kennel but you should leave out the IRS tax preparation service and the day spa.

I think the reason for this is obvious. People interested in one service won’t necessarily be interested in the other and it could actually ruin your credibility with your target audience to mention non-relevant interests. But that tells us nothing about links.

Based on the above principle, of course, you can reason that unrelated links should be left out of your author resource box. Don’t link to your dog kennel website in an author resource box attached to an article about the health benefits of a day spa. But what if you own a day spa and a massage parlor, two related businesses?

You could provide a link to both business websites in an article about general health and wellness tips. But should you? I’d say you shouldn’t IF the two businesses are separate businesses and not related to each other by legal status.

On the other hand, if you have a business website and a blog that represents the same business entity then you probably do want to include a link to both websites. The reason is because some people will be threatened by the website, which they know will have a strong sales pitch, but they might be interested in reading what you have to say on your blog because it is viewed as less threatening.

Ultimately, the decision is yours. But the principles that I use in determining how many links should go into my article author resource box are these:

• Are the links related to the article content?
• Are the links related to each other?
• How much space is alloted for the author resource box at the directory or website it is being submitted to?
• Which website am I more interested in driving traffic to?
• What is my target audience and how will they perceive each link?

These are all important considerations and very important when deciding what links to put into your author resource box. Generally speaking, though, fewer links is better because people are less likely to click through to any website if they have trouble deciding which link is most attractive.

Social Bookmarking Websites that use DoFollow Links

I found another list of social bookmarking websites that can help improve your link popularity because they use dofollow links.

This is from . . . (let me pause while writing this to bring you a message from Google Chrome. Hi, I’m Google Chrome and I’ve frozen for a few minutes, so you’ll have to wait to open the page you wanted to open, because being Google Chrome means I have to freeze, lockup and crash once in awhile.) Now back to your post from PromotePoint.com

Social bookmarking sites keep user busy with sharing articles and link like social networking sites. Your link can become popular fast and divert traffic to your website, If you have a good number of friends on social bookmarking site. Social bookmarking build links back to your website also. If you use bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, and Technorati, Stumbleupon properly, you allow other users to add your relevant links to their sites and marketing lists and your URLs go viral as a result of sharing these links. But you must have to share links on an dofollow website to build backlink. If you share your link on a nofollow bookmarking site that do not help building backlink.

DoFollow is the opposite of “NoFollow”. No follow tag tells search engine not to follow the links. So more do follow back links help you to get higher page rank.

Here they have organized almost 50 social bookmarking dofollow sites shorted in order of page rank.

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Blog Buzzer Review

I like simple tools. So many people write software, scripts, programs and applications and try to make them do too much. Give me a simple tool that does one thing and I’m a happy camper. Try to be all things to all people and your stuff will likely have ongoing problems to resolve.

Blog Buzzer is a simple tool. You simply go to BlogBuzzer.com and enter the name of your blog and the URL of the blog post you want to create a buzz about. Then hit submit and Blog Buzzer does the rest.

It pings Blog Catalog which is one of my favorites. It pings Blog Hub, Blog Intro, Blog Pulse, Blog Rolling, Blogbuzzmachine, BlogFlux, Blogion, Bloglines (another favorite of mine), Blogrolling, Blogsearch Argentina, Blogsearch Australia, Blogsearch Canada, Blurtit, Google Blogsearch (everyone’s favorite), Moreover, (an excellent buzz creator), Newgator, Pubsub 2, Syndic8, Twingly, Urlfan, (a good source of traffic), Wasa Live and Weblogs, (great site), in just a few seconds.

How Blog Buzzer works…

BlogBuzzer helps bloggers automatically submit their blogs to the top blog search sites and blog directories.

Once you enter your URL and title of your blog, it is pinged and picked up by the appropriate blog directories or search sites and gets indexed.

Bloggers can ping up to 5 blog post URLs per day or can purchase the Premium membership that allows unlimited pinging and submissions to search engines.

It will also ping in 5 different languages. They are still developing the website and updating pages, but the pinging system is already working. I recommend trying it out. A few more links will never hurt you.

Interior Linking Strategy

I read a good article at Site-Reference.com I thought I’d share with you here. The article talks about the best methods for interlinking your web pages together.

I talk about this fairly often and advise clients not to depend on the navigation menu. Your navigation menu is not a good way to get your visitors to where you want them to go and the links there don’t really help you all that much from an SEO point of view.

It’s the links within the text on your website that gets people to click. It’s also those links that help you with your SEO efforts.

According to the article;

Google is no longer giving as much weight to links within the navigation and footer areas of your website. In the past, webmasters have been achieving incredible results by placing keyword rich anchor text in the navigational areas and the footer of their website. But Google is no longer weighting these areas nearly as highly as they used to.

hey now put much more emphasis on the actual content area.

So if you want to get really good rankings in Google, you need to take it a step further with contextual links…

Contextual links will send more link juice and ranking power to those particular pages.

Read more: http://www.site-reference.com/articles/General/-1-Secret-to-Maximum-Google-Love.html#ixzz0gArdsVy6

I agree with them 100%. What’s your opinion?

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Google Knol Pages and the Knol Buddy Extension for Google Chrome

What is a Google Knol Page? I have to start with that question because not everyone knows about Google Knol Pages. Google didn’t really push their Wikipedia style article directory very hard.

You can set up a Google Knol account or search for Knols on any topic here.

Why would I want to build Google Knol Pages? There are probably several answers for that. Link building is not one of them. Google Knol Pages use the no follow tag, so it will not help create one-way inbound links.

I use it for article marketing. Through Article Content Provider.com, I have written thousands of articles for clients and submitted them to thousands of article directories. However, I can get more impact from using an article to build a Google Knol Page than I can from submitting that article to 1000 article directories.

1. You can put links in the body of the article with a Google Knol Page. You can’t do that in article directories.

2. I can add images, audio and video to a Google Knol Page. You can’t do that in article directories.

3. I can use social bookmarking to drive traffic to the Google Knol Page. Visitors to my Knol Page are ten times more likely to visit my website than readers of my article at an article directory.

So, if you are doing article marketing, I suggest you use some of your articles to build Google Knol Pages rather than submitting them to article directories.

Don’t do both with the same article. Build your Google Knol Page with unique, original content that is not duplicated elsewhere. Google Knol Pages can rank very well in the search engines if you do it right.

What is a Knol Buddy? Knol Buddy is an extension for users of the Google Chrome Browser. When you are on a web page, you click the Knol Buddy button in the browsers toolbar and it will find Knol pages that are similar to the content on that page.

Have you built Google Knol Pages yet?

If so, what results have you achieved with them?

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Social Networking Websites That Use DoFollow Tags

Social Bookmarking can bring in a lot of traffic. The quality of that traffic is improving as we go forward and more people begin using social networking. But many of the bigger social media websites use a NoFllow tag for links.

Bookmarking at these sites is still important because of the traffic it can bring you and the fact that those you shared your link with might also blog about it on their own blogs.

But the social media websites below help you achieve this and they don’t use the NoFollow tag, so you can be building links while you bookmark. Here is a short list of DoFollow Social Bookmarking sites.

The credit goes to WebQuirk.com