Leverage Free Blogging Platforms for Your SEO
By vine | July 27th, 2011Creating back-links is the most useful thing you can do to get websites ranked in the search engines. There are numerous methods to build backlinks to your site, some quite simple, others more complicated. This article is about one simple and free method of building back-links that is often overlooked, but can generate excellent results regarding SEO.
The two most widely used and well-known free blog providers are WordPress.com and Blogger. A Blogger-site can even be monetized with AdSense and other methods. WordPress.com does not allow any kind of monetization, however. Still, both of these blogging platforms can be useful SEO resources. Simply sign up and build a free blog on each of the sites and don’t even worry about monetizing the free blogs themselves. Instead, write some posts and include backlinks to your main money site. In other words: Use the free blogs to create some backlinks and monetize your main site.
This can be a simple and effective tactic and you can expand it beyond WordPress.com and Blogger. These two are not the only free blog sites available. Not by a long shot. Off the top of my head, there’s also Blog.com, tumblr, wetpaint, Vox, Doodlekit, Livejournal and Bravejournal. Do a search for “free blog” or “free website” and you’ll easily find a dozen more. You can add content and links back to your main site on each of them, creating your own little link-network.
In case you’re worried about how many posts you’ll have to write to build these links, just remember: You can use the same content that you’re submitting to article directories and post it to the free blogs. Particularly if you’re making use of spun articles, this will be no problem at all, since all the content will be unique.
It’s also worth noting that there are programs and tools like Web 2 Mayhem that can automate the whole process of posting articles to many different free blogs. This means: Easy, free and effective link-building. Give it a try and get some backlinks and traffic going!
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