I observed that domain popularity at different search engines for my website is different, it’s different in Yahoo and it’s different in Google. If you remember, Link popularity was the happening thing a while back from all those SEO companies, SEO experts because link popularity was something that used to be the measure criteria for getting a page rank.

What is Domain Popularity?

But as everything good thing comes with lot of bad things, people started link spamming, link farming and link networks. It was getting difficult for Google to decide what is legitimate and what is spam. And they tweaked their algorithm a bit and now they count only one back link from one domain even if the back link is from hundreds of pages from a website. And the term “Domain popularity” became more popular than “Link Popularity”. The site wide linking became fruitless as it became equal to single link.

That’s why you see large difference between Google and Yahoo’s link popularity of your website. While Yahoo shows 57000 link popularity for my website, Google shows up 2000 odd link popularity for this website. So nothing else, but the measure is changed I believe and Google’s 2000 became as important as Yahoo’s 50000.

Where to check your website’s domain popularity?

I use these two tools to check the domain popularity, linkvendor and domain-pop. But I started preferring linkvendor.com for two reasons.

1. Link vendor does not have any limit to check the domain popularity of your website while domain-pop allows it only once per 5 days for one domain.
2. Domain-pop does not allow “/” special character so you may not be able to check popularity for your website or forum that is available at www.yourdomain.com/forum

Anyways, I check at both the places just to be doubly sure. Normally, having a domain popularity of 5000+ should be fine. Did you check yours, you can post your results here then.

You are a big business offline, you have done with almost all part of marketing campaigns but still not satisfied with the expansion of business. So you decide to go online and establish your webstore or website and start off with your new venture online. But you don’t see the same success what you see with offline business.

You are a new blogger, don’t know much about all this technical stuff online but started with a brilliant blog in your favorite niche keeping an eye on online revenue you can make. But after initial enthusiasm is over, you found out that you are writing the best you can, but you are not able to attract visitors or natural traffic to your blog.

Observe both the situations, there is something common. Yes, both of them really need natural search engine traffic to their individual businesses to boost not only their online revenue but also their moral. Many of such businesses come online and disappear in few days, due to lack of guidance or help from industry experts.

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What difference I found with them than others? Well, do you like the concept of one stop shop - then probably you would like them too. They provide all the ethical search engine optimization services that would help you to improve on your search engine rankings right from article submission service to DMOZ listing service. Improving on SERPs is not child’s play, it requires lot of efforts and time. Working on the website from all the aspects of search engine optimization certainly would take it up very high for search engine results in short time.

Link building is one of the important aspects of search engine optimization. All search engines give you certain rankings depending on backlinks for your website. This is called link popularity [Now we are seeing the new term domain popularity that I would explain soon]. SubmitEdge shall help you building your link popularity by ethical ways as well.

While I looked at various services they provide, the packages also attracted my attention. The best one is SEO friendly 1250 directory submission service. You would get almost $75 discount on original price of $250. But for low budgets, there are many more options available $15 to $115. Basically, they are trying to cater all segments of webmasters.

For webmasters, they have an affiliate program. You can make 20% of the total fees and $10 for sign-up bonus as well. I will update my affiliate link soon here to add few cents per minute to my online earnings.

First you would need to know about Entrecard credits to understand the concept of building these free links from good quality blogs. In simple words, Entrecard is the blog community to get free traffic by placing your ad on other blogs. We can earn Entrecard credits by dropping our card to other blogs and getting the similar cards on our blog as well. Earlier even reaching to 500 credits was a big task as there were not many blogs in the community but now there are 1000s of blogs, so earning 1000-2000 credits in a month is not a big deal.

Now here is the interesting thing, how to use these entrecard Credits? I would be spending those ECs on recently added blogs with good and other than EC traffic where we barely need 2-20 credits to spend but not on highly priced blogs but with low traffic rankings. Remaining EC credits, I would prefer to keep in my account. Interestingly many bloggers still don’t have many credits in their account and want them to advertise on those highly priced blogs, alright that’s fine! These blogs look for some free Entrecard credits being in ‘casual and relax’ category of EC droppers.

Now here are simple steps for you to get free backlinks offering your Entrecard credits to the participant bloggers.

• Host a Entrecard credit giveaway contest asking for just a backlink from their post and declare the price of Entrecard credits [around 500 EC credits to 1000 EC credits should be good].
• Another way of hosting the contest is to give away the EC credits to everyone who would write about your blog or give you a simple backlink.
• Drop messages to the friends and blogs at Entrecard from categories like blogging resources or Internet marketing - where the blogs are about web traffic, blogging, marketing, making money online etc.
• Submit your blog contest link to contest bloggers, contact them directly or comment on their post.
• You shall see participation from your fellow bloggers depending on your marketing tactics and spreading the word about the contest.

Certainly, you would see increase in your backlinks & apparently increase in your technorati rankings as well. What did you spend to gain these quality backlinks, nothing else but your free entrecard credits, isn’t it? You would know the value of each backlink, when you would be asked to pay anything between $5 to $40 for backlinks from quality blogs. Then why not to get it for free by spending some of your free Entrecard credits.

Are you one of those new webmasters who are running after backlinks, backlinks and backlinks? You want to get your PR0 page to PR4 or PR5 in next Google PR update? Are you thinking in terms of numbers that you need 100 backlinks to get at PR3 and 1000 backlinks to get at PR4 and 10000 backlinks to get PR5 for your website? Then this article is specially written for you.

There are different ways to work on the search engine optimization of your website. Either you can get lot of backlinks for your website or you can get quality backlinks. But this can be optimized by getting the right links than the volume.

Getting the links in volume is never ending game and you would be always running in a rat race with your competitors and still at the end of the day, you would be ahead of someone and behind of someone. Most of the times, you end up getting backlinks from untrusted websites and get in eyes of Google for bad practices in SEO.

But what you understand by trusted backlinks - the links which search engine trust. Here the links are known by their good neighborhood. Search engines look for neighborhoods and check where you stand in this neighborhood - are you somewhere at the corner of the neighborhood or right at the center surrounded by nice neighbors. Let’s have a look at the link network below.

So now you understand even if 39 has only 3 backlinks, it has good neighborhood. The websites at the authority point in the neighborhood are well recognized by the search engines even if they had very few backlinks but yes, quality backlinks. The websites at the corner, might be having 1000s of backlinks [the websites at the corners might have many of them] - but they miss being at the authority position and end up having low ranking in eyes of search engines.

The bottom line for every SEO is, get natural quality back links than tons of links in quantity - because volumes may not lift you up to the heights.

After recent chop down in Google PR for many of the blogs, it looked like the viral link trains have been almost stopped. But not like that - I am still seeing a viral train running with superfast speed on the web. That’s Prija’s train speeding with a different look - with a prize to win in a contest and with NoFollow tags to avoid any bans or punishments from Lord Google. Prija, the sneaky bastard is my blogger friend and one of my favorite bloggers, so even if I don’t have much liking towards the trains lately, I am doing it only for him probably. And yes there is one more reason - this way my reader will get a chance to enter in a contest to win the popular book “4-Hour workweek”

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Prize

1. Free 4-Hour Workweek Book.

2. A chance to have a permanent link on front page of Blogging The Movie dot com.

3. Sign the Records Book as it travels to 10 different winners.

Contest

This contest is sponsored by BloggingTheMovie - A featured documentary about Bloggers. This contest contains no-follow links. So it is Google friendly and by creating an original introduction you won’t be dinged for duplicate content. This is an ongoing marketing campaign. There will be 10 winners at which each winner will be able to host their own contest which will be sponsored by Blogging The Movie. 1st Winner: Susan Suarez | 2nd Winner: Investing Adventures | 3rd Winner: Can be you!

Rules

1. Write an original short snippet introduction to avoid duplicate content.

2. Just copy the section between the start and end.

3. Add your 3 favorite blogs with rel=”nofollow” in between the link on the code page. i.e. <a href=”http://www.url.com/” mce_href=”http://www.url.com/” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”url name”>URL.com</a>. This is extremely important to ensure that Google won’t ding us. Make sure you contact the bloggers and insist they participate so they can keep this going.

4. Email your URL of your blog post to Free4hourWorkweek@gmail.com

[Deadline: 12/31/07 ]

Favorite Blogs

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If you were not tagged, you can still copy the list and add yourself on. No worries, it’s a win-win for everyone. So lets get ready. Get on the list to become the 3rd winner on the Train Contest

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