Yesterday we talked about backlinks from forums. Today I want to tell you how to get backlinks by blogging. There are many free blogging sites on the web. Today I want to talk to you about Tumblr.com Tumblr is a micro blogging site. You can use Tumblr as a full blog but I would not do that. Tumblr do not like spammers be warned. If they deem you to be a spammer they will delete first and ask questions later.

MicroBlogging vs Blogging

Micro blogs are blogs that basically are used to do quick short articles. I use Tumblr because it gives me the advantage of a Tumblr this toolbar. When I find something interesting about my chosen field I tumbl it. I copy a section that really grabs me and I post it to Tumblr. I post random stuff from other peoples blogs and websites to my Tumblr and they get backlinks from my efforts.

Share the backlink love

I also use Tumblr to write articles that point back to my website. The reason I add other peoples stuff to my Tumblr is for two reasons. I share the love and my Tumblr does not look like it is purely to promote myself. My tumblr site will get good traffic from people interested in the subject because I am adding regular good content, yet they will see my links back to my site and best of all Google likes Tumblr and I have seen Tumblr Site ranking higher than the site they promote.

More Blogging sites

Mweb is a smallish blogging community, They have a lot of sparkly brain dead bloggers with a few worth reading. Blogging here allows you to add backlinks to your blogs but expect complaints if your blog is purely commercial. If you blog here keep copies of all your posts. You have been warned.

24Blogs is another small community, Staying under the radar is easier here than most as most pages don’t stay on the front page for extended periods. If you blog here keep copies of all your posts. You have been warned. These guys are owned by the same people that own MWEB.

WordPress Do what you want here, I have not yet heard of anyone being banned or having their blogs deleted for commercial activity.

Blogger Googles blogspace, I have seen some pretty offensive blogs and know that they don’t often get censured.

Hubpages differs from the traditional blog in many respects. A Hub page is more like a wikipedia entry. You have a number of categories that you need to add content to and each hubpage is a stand alone information pack about the chosen subject.

Squidoo like hub pages is not a traditional blog site. Each lense is a stand alone info pack about the chosen subject.

If you know of more like this please add them to the comments.

Guy McLaren is an SEO and webdesign fundi. He has been doing this since 1996. If you need help with your website visit his website about Search Engine optimisation here.

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I am not listing these sites in any particular order

StumbleUpon.com
Every Article I post to stumbleupon.com gets at least 110 visitors in 24 hours. I have had as many as 600 and the best of all is my bounce rate from Stumble upon is very low. This means that most of my stumbleupon traffic sticks for at least two articles. See the Tumblr Article to see why you should stumble other peoples stuff as well.

Muti.co.za
Muti is for South African traffic. The traffic from MUTI is not as plentiful as from Stumble upon but is very South African focused. You are not likely to get a whole lot of foreign traffic from MUTI. MUTI is a community and they don’t like you submitting your own stuff. In fact it’s a big no no. Why the submitter is of importance I have no idea. If you are not submitting your own stuff its easy enough to get a friend to submit your articles. But heres the thing its a good idea to get more than one friend to share this responsibility with so that they don’t get accused of spamming the board with your stuff.

Amatomu.com
Amatomu is another South African site. I love Amatomu for one main reason. I submit my site and Amatomu grabs the feed and updates automatically. You don’t need to submit your articles manually as Amatomu is an aggregator. It spiders every site in its list and adds any new stuff. Amatomu also has some basic statistics, allowing you to compare your sites results with others in South Africa.

Afrigator.com
Like Amatomu, Afrigator is an aggregator. I don’t use it myself because I disagree with one or two of their policies. I know it definitely brought traffic when I tested it but not in such numbers that I regret not adding my sites. If things have change feel free to tell me.

EntreCard
Entrecard allows you to advertise on others blogs in exchange for them advertising on yours. They also have a visit websites in the system thing going to earn entrecard points with which to advertise. I get lots of traffic but very little sticks. The bounce rate is very high(80% plus). See they allow you to accrue credits and you may visit 300 blogs a day.

I know that If I visit 100 a day, I have enough time to scroll through the latest article and drop my entrecard. That also takes out a good 2 hours out of my day. The rewards are not worth the input im my opinion. The guys doing 300 a day must be hitting, dropping and running. In fact I have seen complaints from these big droppers about drop spots below the line.

Twitter.com
Twitter is maximicro blogging, say what you have to say in 140 characters or less. I get a good amount of traffic from my followers. I in fact am going to spend more time mining twitter for better results. Join Twitter now and follow me. Guy McLaren Twitter.

Digg.com
DIGG, like MUTI is a community, but much more cosmopolitan. Ther are DIGGers from all corners of the world. I have had minimal traffic from DIGG as I have yet to write an article that gets enough votes to gain traction. DIGG has a friends system, It may pay you to make many friends that you can use to help you gain traction. I have not put much effort into DIGG as yet. Beware of the DIGG bury squad.

REDDIT.com
Very Similar to Digg, Reddit can add traffic but recently I have seen more articles about the bury squads and that Reddit has been usurped by angry political people.

Guy McLaren is an SEO and web design fundi. He has been doing this since 1996. If you need help with your website visit his website about Search engine optimisation here.