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A List of Free Blogging Directories
Previously, I’ve talked about the importance of submitting your site to directories. Aside from being a free source of traffic, it is also categorized, hence, you are building quality inbound links for your site, which are loved by search engines. I’ve listed below the most popular directories that you can submit your new blog to.
Blogarama
Link: http://www.blogarama.com
Blogdigger
Link: http://www.blogdigger.com
Blog Catalog
Link: http://www.blogcatalog.com
Blog Hub
Link: http://www.bloghub.com
Blog Rankings
Link: http://www.blogrankings.com
Blog Street
Link: http://www.blogstreet.com
Blog Search Engine
Link: http://www.blogsearchengine.com
Blog Wise
Link: http://www.blogwise.com
Blogz
Link: http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/
Blog Lines
Link: http://www.bloglines.com
Bloogz
Link: http://www.bloogz.com
Blog Pulse
Link: http://www.blogpulse.com
Blog Universe
Link: http://www.bloguniverse.com
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Easily submit your sites to web directories using free softwares!
Why is it important to list your website in web directories? Web directories were hot before the advent of search engines. Previously, people go to these directories to find quality websites, a potential referring traffic for web masters. However, these days, search engines made it easier for internet users to find what they’re looking for; directories were forgotten since then, sadly, even by webmasters.
SEO giants have long been stressing about the importance of building inbound links through web directories. Submitting your site to good and high-PR directories is one way of getting quality links that are highly valued by the search engines. Web directories are mainly human edited, thus a website must pass a strict criteria to get listed, hence quality links are only listed. These links are search engine friendly. Since they are organized in highly focused categories making them an invaluable resource for search engines to measure the quality and the relevance of a website.
Web directories are, thus, important not because they give direct referral traffic, but because they are given importance by the search engines to qualify and rank web pages and determine their relevance.
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Enhance your blog posts with Zemanta
- Image via CrunchBase
The way your write and the way your post looks like adds attraction to your readers to stick to your blog. There are many ways that you can enhance your blog posts.
1. Pictures. Adding pictures relevant to or descriptive of your blog post is one of the proven ways to attract readers, make them stay and read your posts further.
There are several options you have to add images to your posts. You can either manually search for photos then post the image to your blog (what you call hot linking) or upload it directly to your website; add your hosted images from image-hosting websites like Photobucket, ImagesHack, and the like; and use an amazing plugin for WordPress users called Photodropper.
2. Relevant links. Adding relevant links will serve as reference or source of your posts. This adds credibility to you as a writer. Furthermore, you build camaraderie among your fellow bloggers for giving them link love.
3. Articles. Similar with giving relevant links, citing articles serve as a reference for your post.
4. Tags. A tag is a keyword used to describe the topic of a blog post. This serves importance in search engine optimization, categorization of posts, and on pinging Technorati, Google Search, Pingshot, and similar sites.
For you to integrate these “enhancers” to your posts, you have to be resourceful. Good thing that a new web 2.0 startup was created to make it easier for bloggers to add relevant links, articles, pictures and tags to their posts.
About Zemanta:
Zemanta is building a platform for assisted on-line content production for any web user. Our solution is best demonstrated by taking a text (a blog, an article or a web page) and feeding it into our system. The system recognizes the content and returns suggested images, smart links, keywords and relevant related stories from the Internet. It can be referenced from a user’s preferred content publishing platform through a simple plug-in.
You can try a demo from their page on how the service works. Basically you only have to download a browser plugin (currently available for Firefox browser only).
Zemanta works on WordPress.com, Blogger, Typepad and on self-hosted WordPress blogs. It seamlessly work on the new WordPress 2.5 version.
So get your blogs Zemified now!
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How to Take Advantage of Free Hosting Sites?
The existence of free hosting sites are becoming a trend these days, they now come with cPanel, Direct Admin and other website managers, which used to only exist with paid hosting. Free hosts also offer huge space, which may reach up to 10gigs and bandwidth. You can also use your own domain or they offer you a free subdomain. These free hosts are PHP- and MySQL database-supported. Other features may include Fantastico which contains auto-install scripts that allow you to install PHP programs and a lot more, depending on your host.
But many people worry about the stability of these sites. They may worry about how do these free hosts exist without the members paying? Simple. Some free hosts offer an ad-supported plan, which means that you agree to display their banner in the form of text link ads such as Google Adsense, or they offer plans that requires you to make a certain number of posts for a given plan. You may wonder how do they make money out of those posts. The discussions created by the members will show relevant ads for their text-link ads and it will also reflect the activity of the forum, which serves as an attractant for more members, more traffic, more earnings. Some advertisers also opt to advertise their products in these sites because they are well-visited.
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Ways to Bypass Rapidshare Download Limit and Waiting Time
Here are some tips to bypass these limitations:
1. Tech-Recipes teaches us some “Hacks to Beat Rapidshare Download Limits and Waiting Time“. The hacks provide tips on how to bypass the waiting time by altering your IP address and using a proxy service.
2. Use Rapidshare tools. Tools provide some additional features like managing the downloads, changing proxies, simultanious downloads by using more than one proxy and much more.
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Tagalog/Pinoy Friendster Comment Graphic Codes | Greetings | Funny | Quotes | Layouts
Bored of the usual text comments for Friendster? Then you can try graphic comments. Graphic comments make your Friendster greetings and comments for special occasions like birthday, Valentines, and others much more exciting, colorful and creative.
These greetings are much better if expressed in Tagalog because it brings more sincerity than the usual English-written comments in my humble opinion. Also, funny friendster comment graphics are a lot more humorous or funny if in Tagalog.
I’ve been looking for Tagalog Friendster comment graphic codes, greetings, funny comments, and quotes to send out to my friends during special occasions or even for everyday greetings. I found Pinoy Disenyo.net or Pinoy Comments.com which offers Tagalog Friendster comment codes.
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Send Automated Messages with Getmooh
I found a good website, called Get Me Out of Here that can help you get out of a situation where you really need to escape, say a boring date perhaps. Get Me Out of Here is a free automated callback service that will automatically call you on your phone, at your pre-specified time and playing you a recording which will either instruct you on what to say to elude your tormentor(s), or which will simply give a convincing sense of you being on an important call.
However, you can also use the service to turn things otherwise, like sending a birthday message to a friend, or sending sweet nothings to a date.
Signing up is free but your network provider may charge you for every call generated.
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Create a free scapbook online with Photobucket
Photobucket, one of the leading image hosting sites, currently launched its new feature in coordination with Scrapblog.
Now you can create your own multimedia scrapbooks online with your videos, pictures and texts using the numbers of available frames, shapes, text arts, stickers, backgrounds and other fancy addons to your creative scrapbook.
Create your first baby book, your own magazine cover, your yearbook, your first movie poster, birthday cards, wedding invitations, etc with Photobucket’s Scapblog with its own scrapbook builder.
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