There is a string attached though, you must submit your own article(s). No, this is not article marketing or just simple article submission. It’s much better and much more effective.

Site: FreeTrafficSystem

Free Traffic System is a new project that helps you to get top quality one way links for free – unlimited number of one way links, because you build as many as you need. Moreover, Free Traffic System has integrated a brand new concept of viral marketing, rewarding its members with bonus one way links.

Before getting to the viral part of the project, it is important to explain where exactly you are getting these backlinks. The backlinks are built inside real blog posts, not in the footer or blogroll – in the very body of the real, unique blog post. This is the most safe way to build one way links, because you give real unique content to the visitors in the blog posts and search engines will always welcome it – search engines were created to help people in finding quality information in the Internet.

You get backlinks from relevant sites that belong to real people in different niches. Natural, safe and smart way to build backlinks for free. You submit one article to Free Traffic System and it converts into up to 60 top quality one way backlinks! And – unlike traditional article marketing – no one will delete your backlinks from the article, like they do when stealing your content from article directories.

The viral part of Free Traffic System is simple – they reward people for bringing others into this free project. You are receiving a BONUS backlink on every 3rd post that people whom you referred to Free Traffic System are making. This means you get bonus backlink on article No 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, etc. of all people who got into the system via the affiliate link.

As every article can be republished on up to 30 sites in Free Traffic System, this means that one article with your bonus link equals to 30 backlinks from Free Traffic System. 2 articles = 60 bonus backlinks, 3 articles = 90 bonus backlinks. And this is in addition to the unlimited backlinks that you can build inside Free Traffic System yourself.

And the final perk of the viral strategy. If you add at least one WordPress blog to the Free Traffic System, they instantly increase the number of bonus backlinks by 7%.

So, in Free Traffic System you get:

- free backlinks that you build yourself
- viral bonus backlinks for affiliating people into the project
- viral bonus backlinks for adding your blog(s) to Free Traffic System

With this free backlink building power, ranking on page 1 on the search engines becomes just a matter of time.

Website: FreeTrafficSystem

Highly recommended. It’s pretty much a free article redistribution site but rather than directories, all your articles get submitted to targeted blogs which makes it much more effective. I’ve just joined the site myself and I am currently very enthusiastic about this system and can’t wait to try it to boost a few of my sites up in the search engines. I’ll write a few more posts about this system over the next few days. Join now and tell me what you think!

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The nofollow attribute for links has evolved from a way to fight blogspam to a power SEO tool. But its days in that capacity may be numbered, according to Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Web Spam team.

When it was first launched in January 2005, the nofollow attribute was described as a tool for site owners to identify potentially untrusted external links, such as blog comments. The idea was that search engine crawlers would not follow that link, not count it in calculating PageRank of the destination page, and not count the anchor text when determining relevant keywords for that page.

It soon morphed into a way for site owners to identify paid links. Proper use of the nofollow attribute was unclear, and Google tried several times to clarify the use of nofollow.

By 2007, advanced SEOs realized that the nofollow attribute could be used internally in PageRank sculpting. Using that process, the nofollow attribute is added to links to certain pages to prevent PageRank from flowing to those pages. The way it used to work, the PageRank that was saved from those links would be distributed among the other links on the page.

Here is where Google has changed the way it handles the nofollow attribute, according to Cutts.

This week at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle, Cutts joined the discussion around nofollow during the duplicate content session. According to Outspoken Media’s Lisa Barone:

A debate broke out mid-session when Matt Cutts got involved about whether or not nofollow is still effective. Of course, as soon as it got hot, all search representatives got very tight lipped about who said what and what they really meant. As far as I could, Matt Cutts did NOT say that they ignore nofollow, but he DID hint that it is less effective today than it used to be.

Later, Cutts addressed the issue again in his You&A keynote. When asked about PageRank sculpting, Cutts said that it will still work, but not as well.

Basically, using nofollow will still prevent PageRank from passing from the linking page through the nofollowed link. But that PageRank is no longer “saved” to be used by other links on the page. It just “evaporates,” according to Cutts. Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz has some visual aids to help describe the process.

This change mainly affects those SEOs that have tried to optimize their pages using the nofollow tag for PageRank sculpting. It’s safe to say that most site owners have no idea what PageRank sculpting is, which is probable a good thing, since it can quite easily be done wrong and cause more problems than it solves.

A bigger problem arises for those who are using it for its original intention, blocking comment spam. Under the new rules, a blog post that allows URLs in comments will lose most of its “link juice,” since there will be many links on the page using up PageRank, but not passing it on. If there are two links in the post, and 98 links in the comments, the links within the article will be devalued, passing only 1/100th of the PageRank, instead of the 1/2 they used to pass.

Google has said all along that the benefits of PageRank sculpting may not be worth the time involved to do it. Cutts wrote on his blog last year, “if you design your information and site architecture well, it’s not something that you need to worry about at all…there’s an opportunity cost to sculpting and that the vast majority of people would get more benefit from spending their time working on making their site more compelling (so they got more links/PageRank) rather than obsessing about how to move around the PageRank that they have.”

So there you have it. As Cutts himself Twittered this morning: “Hey, did you hear our latest inside tip? Make relevant content. ;)”

- Article From SearchEngineWatch

Well here’s my top ten list of sites to submit articles to in no particular order.

1. http://www.goarticles.com/ – (PR 5)

2. http://www.ezinearticles.com/ – (PR 6)

3. http://www.bukisa.com/ – (PR 4)

4. http://www.buzzle.com/ – (PR 5)

5. http://www.articledashboard.com/ – (PR 5)

6. http://www.associatedcontent.com/ – (PR 6)

7. http://www.helium.com/ – (PR 6)

8. http://www.constant-content.com/ – (PR 5)

9. Okay I got No More

10. Honestly!

#7 and #8 provided by SpikeTheLobster / Scrawl Bug

Yep well I honestly only got six article directories that I submit my articles to. However they’re all PR4+ and you can even earn money with some of them! Three of them to be exact… Bukisa, Associated Content and ArticleDashBoard.

If anyone else got any article directories they’d like to recommend, let me know below! I’ll add the sites on #7-#10 and give you credit for it along with a backlink to your site on this page. Do-follow of course.

Did Yahoo change it’s algorithm? Can’t be cause the my results are dropping from the Google search engine.

Hmm… something’s up and now I gotta find out what it is. In the meantime gotta also grab some more backlinks for the 2 sites that dropped off. They were decent autopilot sites.

Now if anyone knows what’s going on, let me know – thanks.

Is it the decrease of counting Social Media as backlinks?? Hmm =/

I don’t actually believe it works but it takes only a minute so there’s not really anything to lose – try it yourself.

http://www.google.com/profiles

Yep, a backlink from Google itself. I’m quite skeptical of this of course but I am skeptical of everything so… ya… let me know what you think!

There’s actually 2 ways to put your links there and if this is a loophole (I doubt it), Google will close it soon.

There might actually be a few great ways to make money online with this… I’m gonna go test it, lemme know what you guys think about this below.

If you don’t want to take my word on it, just check out EndlessCorner.com. I’ve tried the coop network for 2 weeks (?) and now I think this site is stuck at PR0 forever.

I know there’s still some people using the co-op network but that’s just cause they’re using it to spam their parasite sites and what not… oh… maybe the Advertising Network isn’t useless afterall…

Now there’s a new script that will get you thousands of backlinks automatically for you over time and even avoid the “sandbox”. The WordPress Commenter.

It’s not free by any means but I do believe it is quite a good investment for anyone who owns a website or even sell affiliate products. It’ll post your comments to thousands of WordPress blogs for you while rotating the URL, anchor text, email, comment and proxy to avoid spam detection.

There are many different ways you can use it to earn money or simply increase your search engine rankings (which equals earning money again). You can post comments with the URL set as your website or even an affiliate link. Now the webmaster and anyone who visits the site will see and click on your name to get redirected to your site especially if the comment is good.

The problem with having backlinks built automatically for you is that usually you’ll get such a huge surge in backlinks that Google decides to penalize you for it. WordPress Commenter seems to take care of this problem -

1. Will My Site Get Sandboxed Or Get Deindexed From Using WordPress Commenter?

No, it’s IMPOSSIBLE for your sites to get deindexed or get placed in the sandbox from using WP Commenter alone simply because of the way it’s designed. WordPress Commenter is designed to post your comments to random posts so it’ll actually take the search engines a while to find all your links. Plus before your comments show up, the blog owners must also approve of them so your links will show up at different times allowing your sites to avoid the Google “Sandbox”

For example, I’ve used WordPress Comm. on one of my sites on February 12th and on April 7th, I was STILL getting comments approved. Imagine having backlinks pour into one of your sites over a 2 month period!

Website: WordPress Commenter

It was SO obvious, I had a link that said “Get Featured Here For $5/Month”.

I was selling links and Google HATES sites that sell links. So now I will no longer be offering the option of purchasing a paid link on my sidebar.

I just need to update my Advertisement page now to go with the new theme/template and remove the paid links section.

Anyway, Google I want my PR back now – kthx.

So my advice is to stop following those more popular sites who sell links BLATANTLY – they seem to get away with stuff we can’t.

P.S – Oh, and my Alexa rank is slowly recovering too – yay.

I thought it was quite interesting especially the advice to use STRONG and not BOLD. If you don’t know what those are, it simply bold words like this.

Honesty, I still use <b></b> to bold my texts. I still don’t understand why’d they change the new standards to <strong></strong>. I mean <b></b> works the exact same way, is shorter and people have already gotten used to it, why change something that isn’t broken?

If anyone knows, mind shedding some light in the comments below?

Oh by the way, here are the lyrics to the SEO Rap -

Your site design is the first thing people see
it should be reflective of you and the industry
easy to look at with a nice navigation
when you can’t find what you want it causes frustration
a clear Call to action to increase the temptation
use appealing graphics they create motivation
if you have animation
use with moderation
cause search engines can’t index the information
display the logos of all your associations
highlight your contact info that’s an obligation
create a clean design you can use some decoration
but to try to prevent any client hesitation
every page that they click should provide and explanation
should be easy to understand like having a conversation
when you design the style go ahead and use your imagination
but make sure you use correct color combinations
do some investigation, look at other organizations
but don’t duplicate or you might face a litigation
design done, congratulations but it’s time to start construction
follow these instructions when you move into production
your photoshop functions then slice that design
do your layout with divs make sure that it’s aligned
please don’t use tables even though they work fine
when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time
make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide
remove font type, font color and font size
no background colors, keep your coding real neat,
tag your look and feel on a separate style sheet
better results with xml and css
now you making progress, a lil closer to success
describe your doctype so the browser can relate
make sure you do it great or it won’t validate
check in all browsers, I do it directly
gotta make sure that it renders correctly
some use IE, some others use Flock
some use AOL, I use Firefox
title everything including links and images
don’t use italics, use emphasis
don’t use bold, please use strong
if you use bold that’s old and wrong
when you use CSS, you page will load quicker
client satisfied like they eating on a snicker
they stuck on your page like you made it with a sticker
and then they convert now that’s the real kicker
make you a lil richer, your site a lil slicker
design and code right man I hope you get the picture
what I’m telling you is true man it should be a scripture
if it’s built right you’ll be the pick of the litter
everyone will want to follow you like twitter
competition will get bitter and you’ll shine like glitter
if you trying to grow your company will get bigger
design and code right man can you get with it

-End Of Lyrics-

Just like you wouldn’t want to be butt-naked in the middle of the streets, neither exactly do your links. Looking around on the internet, blogs, forums etc, I see many people leaving their affiliate links “naked” and I must ask, WHY?!

Are you just too lazy to hide your affiliate links or do you not know about the dangers of leaving an affiliate link “naked” in the cyberspace?

The Dangers Of Affiliate Hijackers.

For everyone who’s leaving their links “naked”, I’ll assume you have no clue whatsoever about Affiliate Hijackers. By leaving your links wide open, you also leave them vulnerable to get stolen. What this means is that when people click on your link, instead of getting your commission or referral, someone else does. Your commissions and referrals got “hijacked” into someone else’s account.

Do you normally have a steady commission from some site but suddenly it dropped a huge percentage? You probably got hijacked. Noticed that you never earn any commissions at all but have a ton of click-throughs? Yep, probably got hijacked.

How To Prevent Your Links From Being Naked And Vulnerable On The Cyberspace

Use link cloakers, for example check out http://www.SlamUrl.com which is my personal favorite. It’s safe, simple and effective, best of all, it’s free!

Here’s an excerpt from SlamURL.com:

2. Safer – SlamURLs’ best feature. We protect your privacy by hiding the referrer! What does this mean?

First check out this link created by TinyURL – http://tinyurl.com/6x4uz

Now check out the exact same URL created by SlamURL – http://www.slamurl.com/testreferrer

See the difference? We hide and protect your privacy by blanking out the referrer! Read more about why you should hide your privacy…

Start being smart, stop losing commissions and start cloaking your links!