Submit your Site to Free Directorys - Bloggers Toolkit Series

One of the methods that I have been using recently to promote my various sites is to submit them to free directories. Now when I first started to do this I played a little bit of hit and miss as I was searching for them on Google and was often disappointed to find that not only did the site require payment, but I was probably in for a lifetime of spam as well!

Bring on Mr-SEO - I had recently been listening to a number of great pod casts regarding Search Engine Optimization and in one of his pod casts Joe mentions a directory list that he has on his site that has been built up over time. It lists directories that are free to submit your site to and they don't even require a reciprocal link.

Now you have to be very patient when doing this as it can be a time consuming task submitting your site to directories however long term it should pay off, so just get on and do it. If you have multiple sites its quite good because you can submit a number of them at at once.

I suggest starting a spreadsheet and recording which sites you have submitted to along with any other relevant information. One of my colleagues is starting at the bottom of the list and working up, I am working my way down.

Anyway heres the link if you want to go and do some work ... submit to directories some of the sites that you will be submitting to have some pretty decent page ranks. Remember its not quick, you need to submit a fair bit of info in some of the directories so put aside an hour or two and work your way through as many as you can.

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How to Make the Technorati Top 100,000 in 90 Days

This blog made it into the top 100,000 Technorati Blogs within 90 days, by following the simple steps outlined below. There was no linking required to anything other than related and interesting sites to achieve this goal.

1st 30 Days
Write as many quality posts as you can, offer to link to like minded sites and try to comment as much as you can on like minded blogs. Focus more on getting content into your site in this time period rather than linking.

Target: Aim for 10 - 15 Blog Links in this time.

Days 31 - 60
In your posts mention that you are interested in swapping links with like minded or interesting blogs. Take time out to read other blogs and offer to swap links with any that you enjoy or compliment your own. Even just link to them and tell them you have done so - a lot of blogs will return the favour as long as you have reasonable content on your site and update it fairly regularly. Participate in Blog Carnivals as this tends to create additional and valuable links that Technorati counts. Join sites like Blog About Your Blog for additional links.

Target: Aim for 20 - 30 Blog Links in this time.

Days 60 - 90
Things tend to gather a momentum of their own if you have worked hard in the previous weeks, new blogs will start to find you and link to you. Remember where you were a couple of months ago and return the favour. Still offer to link to like minded blogs as you come across them. If you have done your job well things will start to move on their own and you should reach the top 100,000 within this time frame. To gain extra links use key words like Google Adsense in your posts and other blogs will pick up on them and post a link to your articles.

Target: Aim for 40 - 50 Blog Links in this time.

Of course if you have a like minded site to this one, or of course an interesting site, lets swap links, leave me a comment once you have placed a link to my site on yours, and I will of course reciprocate - lets help each other climb that ladder a bit more!


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What is Google Pagerank and How Does it Work?

Pagerank is an important component in the algorithm that Google uses when deciding how "relevant" a site is compared to the search words that are being used.

It is fairly simple to determine what pageranking your site has - just head to Google-pagerank and type in the URL of your site.

Pagerank goes from 0 - 10 with 10 being the best. Pagerank is worked out by how many good quality sites are linked in to yours and how many good quality sites you link out to. It is not just a matter of having 100's of links, the quality of the site determines the weight of each link, linking to "bad" sites can actually penalize you. (i.e if your page links to sites under penalty or ban, this can negatively impact the linking page’s search ranking.)

If your website has a pagerank of 0 there is no reason to be concerned, you will still show up in Googles search results, however you just may not rank as highly as other similar sites that have been around for longer and may have a better network of quality links.

The best way to improve your Google Pagerank is to provide links to quality content sites, and have good content sites link back to you - lots of them!

More information at Google by clicking here.

More Reading on Pagerank... click here

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70 Day Summary of the Million Dollar Experiment Down Under

Another 10 days has passed since our last update. Things have been a bit quiet on the Blogitive side of things which has not helped us, however Google AdSense and mylot have made small gains for us.

GoogleAdsense Total $7.53
Money4Blogs Total $29.41
Blogsvertise Total $22.06
MYLOT Total $5.54
SportsGambling Total -$10.10
Beer tasting Total $30.00
Blogitive Total $66.18

Grand Total:NZ $155.33 (US$105.62)


It has become apparent in recent times that additional pay per post type resources are going to be an essential part of future growth.

For the Million Dollar Experiment Down Under, most of our traffic comes from referrals, this is something I do not mention enough as it is a key ingredient for the ongoing success of this site. The top Five Referral sites are (in no particular order)...

Mike's Money Making Mission
How to make money by blogging and how I am doing in it!
Can I Make Big Money Online
My Quest to make Money on the Internet
money4blogs

The main surprise out of the above is the Money4Blogs site, as they actually paid me to place a link on my site. As I was so impressed with this, I wrote an article about the service that they offer. As a result of my article there is quite a decent sized comment on the Money4Blogs site, pointing to my site and this has sent a large number of visitors through.
As well as this a number of Google searches for "Money4Blogs" find there way to my site.



This is quite a strange turn about when you consider that I am getting traffic from someone who was kind enough to pay me for a link to their site! I sincerely hope that the Money4Blogs team get plenty of visits in return!

It goes to show that if you see value in a product or service, be sure to tell your readers about it, even if there is no apparent incentive. Quality recommendations will result in visits, links and good karma for all!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the sites that have linked through to mine, it is great to see the referrals coming through, and I am sure that this experiment would not even be possible without all of these. If you have a like minded blog, or an interesting one, please link to me, and post a comment saying you have done so. I will then link back to you and we can all help to enhance each others networks.

Thanks also to all those that have taken the time to comment on my articles, it is always great to read your views and thoughts.

Have a great Christmas, Enjoy the day and try not to eat to much Christmas pudding!

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How to climb the Technorati Ladder - Link to me and I will do the same for you!

It appears that to rate well on the Technorati website you need to have as many blogs as possible link to your blog.

For example a blog similar to this blog which previously had only 2 blogs linking to it, will be near the 2 million position, however thanks to some reciprocal links this blog which now has 4 or 5 blogs linking to it has moved to around the 750,000 position. My plan is climb this ladder and I need your help (if you have a blog) to do it. This is how I propose to do this.

Firstly please place a link to this blog http://millionnzdollars.blogspot.com on your blog site, then leave me a comment that you have done this, and my promise to you is that within 24 hours as long as you are a reasonable blog site (e.g nothing dodgy please) I will place a reciprocal link on this page. That way you help me and I help you. (disclaimer: obviously if I get an overwhelming response it may take me a little longer - this is a "best effort" promise.)

You can see how my rank has risen (or stayed the same unless you help me!) by clicking on this link...

http://www.technorati.com/search/millionnzdollars.blogspot.com

This will have the result of helping my blog get better traffic, and helping your blog get better traffic, most search engines look at the amount of links out there when working out the page ranking for a site.

This is a simple case of you scratch my back and I will scratch yours, it may also save both of us spending unproductive time surfing other peoples blogs to earn credits to get people that may actually have no interest in the topic of our blogs but are forced to read them!

The link will be permanent and apart from a few minutes to set up, relatively painless. Think long term!

I look forward to adding your links to my site, now off to try and drag in a few visitors........