Everybody in the blogsphere talk about backlinks, and may be you can’t understand what are they talking about, but really the meaning of backlink is very simple. A backlink is an incoming link to a website, is any link received by a web page, directory, website, blogs etc etc… from another website. The Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.

How are they useful to my website?

 

The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of your blog or website. While more backlinks you have, more higher will be your popularity and ranking on search engines. A backlink represent like your signature, getting backlinks for everywhere means like if you were in all those sites, imagine what would you think if you visit 30 sites and you see my banner or link for example, you probably will think “this guy is everywhere, he’s popular!”

Search engines often use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the factors for determining that website’s search engine ranking. For example, Google’s PageRank algorithm uses backlinks to help determine a site’s rank. Therefore, websites often employ various techniques called search engine optimization to increase the number of backlinks pointing to their website.

Due to the abuse of using paid links to improve Google partially updated their Page Rank Tool to pin against paid links providers and the forward link of sites. This action resulted in a significant decrease in Page Rank of many websites worldwide. However although many believe that Google penalizes people for having unrelated backlinks to their blogs/websites, this has never been confirmed.

Some techniques to gain Backlinks

There are many paths to consider when building links to your site or blog such as link baiting or blogroll link swapping. There are many techniques to get backlinks but I will provide you only the most commons.

• Submitting your blog in web directories and social networks: This is a good way to get some backlinks, submitting your blog in social networks, also in directories like BlogCatalog or Blogarama. You should search for directory sites that are indexed deep (with too many backlinks), directories that are specific to your niche/category and directories where your category is not too crowded (almost impossible). There is a list of 20 essential blog directories to submit your blog.
• Commenting on Dofollow blogs: Dofollow blogs are blogs that give you a backlink just for commenting at them, doing this you will start to generate backlinks to your site as you have no idea, but don’t be a spammer!. If you don’t know what’s Dofollow, please check my guest post on JoeTech.
• Exchanging links with other blogger: this is very common, you can see in the most of blogs a blogroll section. Try to visit and comment frequently in a blog and after some weeks, you could contact the blogger and ask for a link exchange.
• Buying Text Links or Banners: plus text links, the banners also provide you a backlink. Before to buy, try to do an exchange…

My ideas disappeared ! if you find another way to generate backlinks please comment it in this post!!

Backlink Tools

• BackLinkWatch: this website is able to track every backlink to your site.
• BackLinkSpot: this website can provide you blogs and websites with dofollow attributes, letting you to find where you can drop your link to drink some of the juice of search engines backlinks.
• Technorati: with technorati you can track your backlinks!, they call them “reactions“. Following them, you will find the blogs which drop a backlink to you.

As you could notice, is very important for every website or blog to get backlinks. This way you will improve your rank on search engines and attract more traffic to your web, attracting the people attention .

I have been seeing a new widget in some blogs, it’s called Spottt ( yes with triple t ). I feel curious and I decide to click it, linking me to the service website.

This is a new service of the Adbrite’s people, it’s a system very similar to entrecard, you can get advertise in a blog which use this widget, everything for free. But there is a lot of differences between Entrecard and Spottt, let’s check them out:

As you can see, Spottt is not an Entrecard clone, but rather it acts exactly like Blogrush for 125×125 ads because it gives you credits based on pageviews, and automatically spends your credits to distribute your ad automatically across the net on autopilot. It’s truth that Entrecard in first instance wanted to copy the blogrush model, but they broke this idea and going upper. Spottt wants to do the same, indeed sounds better than blogrush don’t you think? A 125×125 ad is most significant that a simple link, starting because you can use the image that represent your blog.

Advertising Control

Something that I dislike from spottt is that you cannot control who advertise on your site, this mean that you can sponsor any kind of blog. Also, in the other money face, you can’t control where to advertise your blog, so as you could imagine, your 125×125 will be randomly over the web no matter the niche of your blog.

The Network

In the Spottt’s network are too many kind of websites. Spottt lets anyone in the network, including myspace profiles, affiliate stores, and more. Entrecard instead, is only for high quality blogs. This insures that any Entrecard ad you click brings you to a high quality blogs.

Also I noticed that Spottt isn’t social, you can’t view who is the network, send messages, recommend someone, participate in forums, you don’t need to drop a card or something, you only need to place the widget in your site and it will start to “generate” traffic.

About Credits

Like in Entrecard, you have credits in Spottt. For what you can use those credits? for nothing!!! you have not control of them, this mean that you earn credits with pageviews and then, they spend automatically in advertising and there is no way to know where is your widget. Instead in Entrecard is much better, you can send credits to users, spend it in the shop for SEO tips, reviews and more…

Conclusion

I will try this service but if you take a look in the table you won’t like so much. However this service is new, so I think then they will start to add new features and I will be here to notice you about it.

Selling and buying links is something that every webmaster does, and now you can do it through the service that TNX.net provides.

What Is TNX.net and How it works?

TNX is a new text link broker on the scene, they help you to put your text links on up to 33 million web pages!. How they can do this?? TNX.net allows publishers to sell links from each page on their website, and for advertisers it allows to buy millions of links from other sites with few clicks, saving efforts, money and time, in just a few minutes you can have thousands of links from hundreds of high quality relevant sites linking to yours.

All that is possible with TNX credits. When you add a website to your account, you will be able to show advertiser links on your website and doing this, you earn credits which you can use for advertising, it’s simple and useful.

What you will find once you logged into the panel ?

Once you logged in, you will find at the right the tools for webmasters, advertisers and for the affiliate program.

Into the webmaster tools you will find a button to add a new site. You will need to fill some fields for this, and once you get approved ( it takes 1 ~ 2 days ) you will be able to add the TNX code to your site, which makes possible the system success. The code is quite simple of use, you only need to copy and paste a PHP, Perl or ASP code into your website and you will be showing ads and earning credits!. So as you can notice, the system is very easy to use.

Into the advertiser tools you will find some options to create campaigns and view your current campaigns. This two options are very powerful, specially to create a campaign: you can choose the number of Yahoo Backlinks and Google Pagerank sites where you want to your link appear on. The link price will be more higher while the pagerank of those sites increase, but the links can go from $0.00134 to $6.7.

And how do you pay that mount? by using credits! Current price of 1,000 (one thousand) TNX-points is $0.73 - 1.46 depending on the quantity you buy (basic price is $ 1.48), discounts start from $50.

Why To Use TNX ?

This system is quite new, indeed it’s beta. But no matter if it’s beta or not, This system is growing so fast, you can notice it by looking the statistics.

• Actually they have 44188 users (daily growth:+0.41%)

• Links in the system: 30132529

• Links created in last hour: 233556

• Number of pages indexed by TNX: 26067524

Imagine how faster is this system growing and all the benefits you can get with it. You can improve your google pagerank by using TNX, Google says: “In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages. ” and that’s exactly what TNX.net does, but they can guarantee nothing. They just offer a convenient tool that is used for mass non-reciprocal link placement on websites. Service is not intended to be used for PR growth, but to get more targeted traffic from websites and searchengines. Search engine results do not depend on the PR of your website, but on parameters of other websites that link to yours. So, results of your ad campaign depend on parameters of your campaign and your link anchors.

In general, being a publisher or advertiser you will always win, exploding your traffic as advertiser and earning cash with the tnx credits as publisher, and if you don’t want to sell those credits, you can use them for advertising in millions of sites, so how can you deny this offer??

Buy and sell text links with TNX.net and start to explode your traffic!

Hello readers, in this last 2007 year day I want to open an Entrecard Contest for all Entrecard users. Everyone who wants to expand his blog knows that entrecard is an excellent way to do it, too many bloggers stop frequently to drop their cards and trafficking of these is quite high.

How to enter in the contest ?

You can enter in this contest with some ways:

1. Dropping your E-Card. Doing this, you get one entry.
2. Subscribing to my RSS Feeds. Doing this, you get two entries.
3. Subscribing to my RSS Feeds via Email. With this you get another two entries.
4. Posting this contest on your blog. With this, you get five entries.

You can do the four things listed above and you can get up to Ten entries to this contest! Once you joined in the contest ( dropping your card, subscribing or posting ) leave your comment in this post to be listed, and if you posted about it, drop the link!

Deadline

The contest will end on January 7 and the winner of 600 Entrecard Credits will be selected on January 8 randomly, but as they say, while most participants have more opportunities to win :D. Happy week!