Link Love and a Positive Post

After reading one of my regular haunts, Freelance Writing Jobs, the writer of this blog, Deborah Ng, suggested all of her readers, who are legion, write a positive post. Thank you Deb, ( I do not know Deb personally, although I have been known to give her a little grief from time to time ) for making the suggestion – quite right too – negativity is viral. What I like about Deb, is the fact that she has a genuine passion for her subject and that comes across. Despite the hard time I give her for not having things I want on occasion, she does a great job. And if you are reading this Deb, lose the text link ads, they look like this to your readers ( now that’s a positive statement if ever there was):

Anyway, in the process of making some, what I hoped were helpful suggestions to one of my blogging friends as he gets his new (ish) blog off the ground, The Tech Brief, he suggested I that I should post them, so here are some ideas to improve your blog:
1. Lose the banner ads – and this fits in with some revelations I have come to recently. Here’s why:

Banner ads are a mistake

Unfortunately, many of us have been sucked into thinking it makes our site look more like a “real” website (me included)

2. Pay these guys 20 bucks to submit TTB to some good directories:

Cheap directory submission

And deal with all the pain in the ass emails that come with it. And if you have the money, do ALL the directories.No Affiliate .

3. Make comments and generate links on other people’s blogs and spread a little link love – maybe they’ll return the favor.

4. Look at where you are placing google ads. Take a look at where I have put my adsense ads here:

Well placed google ads as per THEIR instructions

Top, bottom and to the right of the post. All of them match the look of the site and could be mistaken for links to other content on the site. This works pretty well…. and fits in with the suggestions google makes. I have not had a lot of success with amazon, but maybe you have.

6. Slow down a little – it took me 4 months to get PR for my sites – You can’t make a blog popular overnight unless you are either a, very lucky or b, spend a lot of money .

7. Encourage writers to create deep links to other appropriate posts. I don’t know if you have noticed, but I often create links in one post to another post I have made. e.g:

Deep linking

There is a good article about this here:

Why you should deep link

8.. Find out what is hot by going here:

Google hot topics

This post has been edited for negativity. Comments welcome. And you will notice, this blog uses the commenluv plugin for WordPress which automatically parses your sites feed and links back to your last post. Talk about link love. The plugin is made by FiddyP, who’s motto is “Get hits or die tryin,” so pay him a visit, the blogoshere would be a worse place without him if he died from lack of hits. And if you are interested, this blog has a google PR of 3 at the moment (unless Mr. Google discovers a few posts that may have been generated in the pursuit of remuneration.) That should fool the searchbot Nazis. So, if you want a quality link back, leave me a comment. Thank you again Deb and have a positive weekend.