Leverage Free Blogging Platforms for Your SEO

Without a doubt, backlinks are an important search engine optimization factor. There are various backlinking-strategies, some of them difficult and expensive, others very simple and straightforward. In this post, I'd like to quickly discuss one method which is often overlooked, but can provide your websites with an excellent boost in search engine positioning. Blogger and WordPress are probably the two most popular cost-free blogging platforms. A Blogger-site can also be monetized with AdSense and other methods. WordPress.com does not permit any type of monetization, however. But that doesn't matter so much; both of these blogging services can be utilized for useful off-site search engine optimization. You can simply build a free blog on each of these platforms and rather than directly monetizing the free blogs themselves, create some content on them an link back to your self-hosted blog or site. In other words: Use the free blogs to create some backlinks and monetize your main site. This can be a simple and effective tactic and you can expand it beyond WordPress.com and Blogger. These two are not the only free blog sites available. Not by a long shot. Off the top of my head, there's also Blog.com, tumblr, wetpaint, Vox, Doodlekit, Livejournal and Bravejournal. Do a search for "free blog" or "free website" and you'll easily find a dozen more. You can post content and links to each of these blogs, effectively building your own small link-network. In case you're worried about how many posts you'll have to write to build these links, just remember: You can use the same content that you're submitting to article directories and post it to the free blogs. Particularly if you're making use of article re-writing, this will be no problem at all, since all the content will be unique. It's also worth noting that there are programs and tools like Web 2 Mayhem that can automate the whole process of posting articles to many different free blogs. Free-blog-link-building couldn't be any easier than that. Give it a try and get some backlinks and traffic

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