Creating Links to You Blogs With Articles

If you start writing and submitting freelance articles, you may have opportunities to add links to related information. If you are also a blogger or run a website, you can use this to increase the traffic to your outside work with visitors you already know will be interested in the subject matter you are talking about. If your blog has business aspects, this could increase interest in your skills and products. If you do affiliate work, it will also increase the number of people who may take an interest in those other aspects of your pages.

When adding links to articles that you submit to various services, be careful to pay attention to the guidelines. They will differ from publisher to publisher. You should try to make sure that your links in general are related to the subject matter of your article. Many publisher's and clients don't want articles that sound like a sales pitch, but don't mind you sharing other content if it is relevant.

For instance, I play piano and write songs, and have developed a blog of notes for musicians and music lovers. You can find it at http://nicolettesmusicnotes.blogspot.com . When I write articles about piano, songwriting or music theory, I take it as an opportunity to lead people back to my personal work outside the sites I submit articles to.

"Where do I list my blog?"

Well, at first thought, you might s well list it everywhere you can come up with. Then again, if your blog is about weight training and fitness and you list it on Suzie Q's music site list, it may not help.

There are several services like the one I posted about yesterday which submit your blog or site to many different search engines at once. That's not a bad idea to invite general traffic, but my theory is that listing your site in the most popular places and the most relevant places will bring the best results.

Most Popular Search Engines:

ADD YOUR SITE TO GOOGLE
ADD YOUR SITE TO YAHOO
ADD YOUR SITE TO MSN

Once you've added your site to the popular search engines, you may want to try some other individual indexes as well as visiting sites that help you submit to multiple search engines at once.

For instance, some sites would do very well attracting attention though the librarian's internet index, particularly if your site is "safe for work" material, and educational or informative. the DMOZ OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT is another good place to be aware of.

Then, start searching for places that list your kind of blog. For instance, when I was looking for places to list my music theory and songwriting blog I did a bunch of google searches like 'list your music blog here' and music blog search' and 'music education websites', just to see what I'd come up with. The same basic concept probably appilys to most subjects.