Today I have an alternative to that called back-linking. This is a fast & easy to implement trick.

All you need is a web site of your own. Yes, if you have a site, you can add your blog URL to it. The only requirement would be that both urls are in the same niche or sub-niche because you don’t want to have a link on a cat-related site going to a dog-related blog.

Know what I mean?

This is an often misunderstood tactic which most bloggers and site owners rarely apply to their sites.

Here’s why you’d want to add the blog url to your current site:

1. Blogs are tracked in real-time. As I publish this post, blog search engines like technorati get notified about this blog entry. This means your new entries get linked to instantly.

2. Blogs are much easier and more often updated than regular web sites. That’s not a secret anymore. You don’t have to create a new page for each and every new article you write. You simply write the post and publish it. WordPress will take care of this all by itself. Your increase in content will boost your visibility and get you more links.

3. Blogs get linked by other blogs, period. If you run a regular web site that isn’t a blog, you will have a harder time getting links from bloggers because we mostly read and follow other blogs which have up-to-date content, and rarely link to stand alone sites.

Your mission right now is to implement this tip. If you already have a back-link to your blog url on your site, congratulations!

Here is other related information and external links targeting back-linking topics:

Backlinks – What Are They?

Backlinks: Don’t Believe Most of What You Have Been Told

15 Link Building Tips for New Websites

Why that site with 50 backlinks beats your site with 1000 backlinks.

Link Building Tip: Build Backlinks to Internal Pages Too

Whatever questions, comments or suggestions you might have, feel free to post them in the “Comments” field at the bottom of this post.

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Let’s see what others are thinking about Technorati. Could it be better than Google?

Let’s take the blogosphere pulse and find out, shall we?

First of all, let me share with you what Technorati is. The Google’s alternative for blogs (in a nutshell).

If you want to read wikipedia’s definition : “Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.[1] The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals.”

When you read Technorati’s “about” page you’ll quickly notice two major advantages:

1. you could get your blog indexed FAST in their huge database

2. you could receive a ton of free exposure just by being there and receiving links from other blogs

If you go even further you could talk with other bloggers listed on Technorati, make new friends, grow your readership and have fun.

Isn’t this enough, or what?

Not for me. So let’s find out even more.

Could Technorati help you get more traffic to your blog.

Could it be the hottest traffic strategy out there?

TechCrunch.com guys think that Google might ‘ban’ Technorati tags..

“But what really matters here is what Google thinks, and whether they will take steps sometime soon to remove those results from the Google index. If that were to happen, Technorati’s traffic would plummet. And their lucrative traffic party would come to an end.”

Read the full story here – Technorati When will the Traffic Party End @ TechCrunch

T. L. Pakii Pierce admits..

“This is yet another way to drive relevancy into the blogosphere and it’s fantastic and filter it.”

Find more here – Technorati TAG! Your It! Information Clustering Among Social Networks @ BlogforFunandProfit

Dan @ TheWrongAdvices.com is negative about it..

“If your blog happens to be about Britney Spears or American Idol then you might be able to develop some consistant traffic but for most of us it looks like Technorati is a dead end.”

Read more about this now – 3 Steps To Getting Technorati Traffic – If You Want It @ TheWrongAdvices

Tinu @ FreeTrafficTip.com even wrote a free book about it and here’s a cool tip..

“12- Link out to the littler. If you have one link in technorati, link to people who have none. They love and need you more than someone who is ranked in the top one hundred, and they’re likely to link back.”

Read other quick tips here – Today Three Technorati Traffic Twist Tips @ FreeTrafficTip

I guess that Om Malik @ GigaOm.com got tired of it?

“So this is where I lose the plot – I tag my post, Technorati benefits, and despite all that, my tags help spammers who clog my RSS readers gain more readers. That’s absolutely rotten!”

Find the truth here – The Dark Side of Technorati Tags @ Gigaom

UPDATE – would you like to receive no-cost Technorati updates via twitter? Click here!

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I got inspired by 5 Ways to Imitate the 10 Most Popular Blogs so let’s start:

The top 10 blogs on technorati are probably receiving a ton of traffic otherwise they would not be at the top.

What makes them so popular… Why people link to these blogs very often…

Is there a secret recipe? Can anybody copy their model?

Let’s see…

Secret #1 - It’s in the Publishing FREQUENCY

Top 10 blogs get more traffic because they’re publishing more often.

Each and every time you publish a new post, Google and other RSS/Blog directories are notified thus sending
spiders to crawl your blog.

You also receive traffic from your (already build) RSS or list subscriber database.

Plus, not to forget about SEO traffic. Within hours after publishing new postings you could score high in Google and other SEs for long-tail key terms, thus bringing you (even more) traffic on autopilot. At no cost at all!

Just imagine that some blogs do quite a few postings per day, NOT per week! For example, caradvice.com bloggers do about 10 per day.

Secret #2 – It’s in the CONTENT

Most bloggers think that to make a blog successful would mean to publish content whenever and about whatever.

That’s totally false. You have to learn A to Z about your target audience.

Who’s your “ideal” prospect? Did you create his profile already?

Once you know who’s your prospect, you’ll be able to TALK specifically to his most pressing problems, needs and wants.

If you don’t know or don’t do this, there’s no wonder why making money online will see impossible.

I teach about creating your “ideal” prospect profile and your target audience 5 key elements in my blogging mentoring program, “Guaranteed Blog Profits”.

Sidebar – that’s why I did not publish anything on RB blog lately. I’ve been busy coaching my students on their way to make $300… $3,000… and even $30,000 per month with their blogs; and hope to coach you too asap.

Secret #3 – It’s in the BUZZ

Want more traffic? Then you have to talk about what’s hot in your niche. What is the trend, what’s the buzz?

Relate that to your niche topic subjects and you’re on the right track to getting more traffic.

You probably won’t make it in the TOP 10 blogs on technorati, but you’d definitely boost your traffic like never before.

UPDATE – because my schedule is tight and I’m (almost) booked coaching students in the 60-day INTENSIVE mentoring “Guaranteed Blog Profits”, I’ll stop publishing new content in the Monetize Your Blog section for awhile.

The thing is that my mentoring already contains everything you need to know to make real money with your blog, so it’s smart we focus on that.

I’ll continue the regular publishing for Get Content Ideas and Receive Free Traffic sections though. Plus, I’ll be doing some red-hot interviews with remarkable bloggers asap (so you learn from one of the best in the field and have fun) and crank some top priceless posts too.

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