Tuesday, January 29, 2013

List of 25 Best .Edu Forums (Free)

If you have been blogging for a few years, then you would surely be knowing the importance of backlinks, especially for ranking your blog high in search engines. Though there are a lot of ways to build backlinks which were extensively used by bloggers for a long time, recently Google stepped up the gas and decided to target blogs that were using unnatural link building methods, resulting in huge drop in traffic for most of the blogs.

However edu backlinks still work quite effectively in boosting SERP rankings as edu blogs enjoy an authority status on nearly every search engine, and if you targeting Google then it’s all the better. That being said, garnering edu backlinks is extremely hard as most of the edu blogs do not allow you to post comments with a backlink to your blog. However you can make use of the edu forms mentioned in this list to link back to your site and get some precious .edu backlinks.

Before you get excited, just a word of caution from my side – DONT SPAM! If you post low quality or clearly spam comments, they will most likely get deleted by the blog owners, so your effort will go to waste. It’s always better to read what the post is about and then base your comment on that.

List of 25 EDU Forums:

10 Alternatives To Delicious.com Bookmarking

It looks like your (and my) personal search engine of interesting web pages is about to go away. Yahoo hasn’t formally confirmed, but all signs point to the impending demise of delicious.com.

What are we going to do with all of our bookmarks?

There are several alternatives available and, if you’re like me, you’re going to have to test some of them out until you find the one that best fits how you like to save bookmarks and later search for them. You’ll also want to export your existing delicious.com bookmarks and, if possible, import them into the new service you choose. Instructions on that are below, but first, here’s a list of options for your post-Delicious.com bookmarking.

10 Delicious.com Alternatives

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Smart Tips for Successful Online Marketing

The internet is undoubtedly the most efficient tool for marketing your brand. With the constant changes in the scene, it’s important for an organization to update and understand techniques based on the current trends and act efficiently in accordance with the times. However, there are no fixed formats or strategies for marketing, as it purely revolves around new skills and techniques innovated each day, making it complex and diverse.
It is very important for a brand to communicate and create a valued environment for its customers. An obvious method that can benefit you is to, focus obsessively on their needs and resolving their queries and issues. In this article I have listed out a few tips which you could consider ideal for efficient online marketing: 

Using efficient SEO techniques:

SEO techniques can be very beneficial for any business today. As per a survey more than 85% of people use the search engine for looking up the internet based on their requirement. A properly implemented SEO drive can draw abundant traffic to your site, at a cheaper cost compared to the traditional promotion methods.
 With lack of high search engine rankings, your site will only get guests that find your web address through testimonials, recommendations and, other limited means.