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There are many “SEO Gurus” that will tell you commenting on blogs can boost your pageranking a lot. These gurus are also the ones with page rank of 0. My blog is only one month old, and it is already PR 2. While there are people who claim they can get PR 4+ in less than a month, I am here to tell you what really works to increase your page rank FREE.

Your link to your site inside blog comments does not matter much to Google! It matters more to some search engines, but definitely not Google. It does not matter if the blog is DoFollow or NoFollow because Google is not looking into it seriously. I posted so many great comments in DoFollow blogs, and they did nothing to boost my page ranking. Trust me, I looked up DoFollow blog lists on Google, and commented on hundreds of blogs. If blog commenting mattered a lot to Google pageranking, wouldn’t a lot of people have high page ranks by now since there are quite a few of blogs that are DoFollow with 5+ page ranking.

You might be asking this question to yourself, “Why should I even bother with commenting then?” Because you want to get noticed! Posting comments like “nice post!” will not get you noticed. You want to add value into the discussion, and that will get the author of the blog to notice you. Ask good questions or let the author know about something that was missing in the post. Those two are just basic ideas.

What happens when you get noticed? The author might write a post base on your comment. The author might write a review post about your site. The author might write at the end of his post, “Check out this website (link), you can learn a lot from this guy about making money online”. The possibilities are endless. Basically, when someone writes about you or your website, they would generally add a backlink to your site inside the post. If the person did not add a backlink to your site, you can ask nicely to include one. You have a much better chance of getting noticed when your site has a similar niche as the author.

Although Google does not care much about links inside comments, Google cares about links INSIDE the posts. Get people to notice you, and they will eventually write about you and your site. Links inside posts are the best quality backlinks you can get. To sum it all up, always write great comments if you are going to write them, and you will be rewarded sooner or later.

Facebook is a brilliant tool for aspiring writers to attract new readers. Through the social networking mechanic, blog publishers can generate incremental page views without the need for technical knowledge or costly marketing. With a few quick tips, you can use Facebook to drive traffic to your blog.

“Like” and “Recommend” buttons

Through its now-ubiquitous “Connect” service, Facebook has added social networking integration to external websites. Every major blogging platform now includes the ability for Facebook users to highlight specific blog posts to their friends. As a blogger looking to generate traffic, be sure you have turned on the social networking and promotion features available through your blog publisher.

Enabling these features will automatically embed Facebook buttons onto the bottom of each blog post. Readers who appreciate a specific post will be able to “Like” or “Recommend” the post. Your post will then appear on the Facebook wall of the reader and be displayed throughout the newsfeed of the reader’s network. The Facebook “Like” and “Recommend” buttons are free advertising that require no effort on your part and will help drive traffic to your blog.

Cross-posting headlines

Facebook is also effective at driving traffic to your blog through its unique newsfeed. If you post a new item on your wall, your Facebook friends see your activity appear on their newsfeed. In addition, the newsfeed will show a blurb about the post and can include a direct link to your blog. You can take advantage of this feature to drive visitors to your blog.

By posting a headline from your blog onto your Facebook wall, all of your friends will see that teaser in their newsfeeds. Anyone who is interested in the headline will be able to click on the embedded link and be driven directly to your blog and the relevant post. The key to driving traffic to your blog through Facebook is to post only a headline or teaser sentence. You want your Facebook wall to be advertising that entices readers to click through to your blog for additional information.

Targeted Facebook Ads

If you are willing to invest a few dollars to drive traffic to your blog, consider placing targeted Facebook advertisements. With the simple Facebook Ads Manager, it will only take a few minutes to setup an ad campaign. Facebook ads can be run with an investment of low as $10 and you can target your ads to a very specific audience. If, for example, you blog about being a single mother of two children, you can target your Facebook ad to be displayed only to single mothers who have two children.

The Facebook Ads Manager allows for even further level of detail if you want an even more restrictive audience to view your ads and be drawn to your blog. You could, as an extreme, run an ad campaign focused on single mothers who are fans of Canadian football, raising two children, and attending a community college in northern Arizona. While this would clearly decrease the potential size of your audience, it also substantially reduces the cost of an ad campaign and can be very effective to match your blog with a specific demographic audience. In addition, your new audience will be very receptive to your blog since they were pre-screened by the Facebook Ads Manager.

Social networking allows even small, amateur bloggers to generate significant traffic on a shoestring advertising budget. By using “Like” and “Recommend” buttons, cross-posting headlines, and running targeted Facebook ads, you can use Facebook to drive traffic to your blog.

The Google blog service is a very important service that was introduced by Google in 2003. Google is the largest web search engine in the world and is doing a huge service. Google also provides many other services to its users; the Google Blog is a well known service. The blogs are hosted at a sub-domain of Google BlogSpot. Through this service the common people can create their own blogs that are made freely available to everyone in the world. Many educational institutes have developed their own blogs where students visit to get information about what is happening there. In this way people get in touch with each other and with the news of their institute.

Google blogs are very simple to create. You simply have to sign in through your Gmail account and choose Google blogs on the home page. Google provides different tools to create and edit the blogs. Pages can be easily uploaded or downloaded using the simple web tools. Google provided different kinds of templates and services in this regard. Relevant ads are placed alongside by the Google.

This service has been highly useful for many students who have made their own blogs and share it with others. In this way a portal has been provided to the budding authors who earn by writing blogs. In this way this is a kind of part time job for them. The blogs are available in various languages including English, Urdu, and Arabic, Portuguese, German, French, Hindi, Chinese and many others. You can create a blog in the language of your own choice.

Moreover many customization options are available. You can change the font, color, style and type of your script. Certain options of putting a comment and sending the blogs via mail to the subscribers have also been provided. In this manner you can share the blog with your other friends via mail. Also you can create archives that can easily be retrieved from the net. In this way you can not only benefit from the recent work but also enjoy the previous one.

Recently all the blogs have been placed at the Google servers which mean now a better and reliable back end is available. Also new features have been incorporated in the editing interface that has the blogger service more users friendly. New web feed options are available which are efficient and easy to use. Additional features include several new options for viewing, editing and tagging.

By using all these features the users can create unlimited number of blogs. Additional storage space of 1 GB has been provided for adding pictures using the Picasa Web albums, and each individual page of 1MB can be easily created. Also with the help integration with Google Ad Sense and Amazon people can easily generate revenue. The blogs can be easily edited online and offline with the help of Microsoft Word.

In this manner the blogger service of Google is one of the great services introduced by the Google Inc. Such services are a positive initiative for the further progress of the people.