The number one way to build traffic to your site is through building links. The internet lives by links and all sites need them to survive. Out-links, In-links, Solicited links, any links will help your site to grow and get exposure. So how do you get them?
Simple.
I found this article yesterday, "24 Killer Link Building Strategies for your Blog". Some of these suggestions are pretty geeky, like building a wordpress theme, but I believe that you can still get some good info out of this article. My favorite is "Comment on much smaller blogs in the same niche". We all love comments and engaging new wine bloggers, food bloggers or any blogger can pay off big....
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Since the revamp of Wineblogger, we have been adding new international blogs daily. Many have voiced their enjoyment of the new look, while others, are simply appreciative of the tool itself, providing a single location where all of our sites can congregate. With any luck, we hope to continue this momentum, updating, tweaking and reorganizing in order to better enhance the functionality of the site.
That said, we do have a few announcements and questions for you.
It looks like the Japanese section is going to be growing by leaps and bounds. Now the question is, do we leave it in Kanji or in Roman letters? Hmm. It could be/should be a resource for both, so ...
It's finally done! Well, not completely, as this is a never-ending project, but at least we've created a solid foundation. Over the past month, we have given Wineblogger an extreme makeover, providing it with a cleaner design, a better layout and more functionality. With 500+/- links to wine blogs and growing, lumped together as one, there was no way to differentiate blogs by either type or language. Now you can!
All blogs submitted to wineblogger.info have been placed into a category based on language, and in some cases, type. However, as this project is by the wine blogger and for the wine blogger, we need your help!
We've collated wine blogs from Vinography, Wineblogger, Alawine and Google searches. That said we put into effect a rule that they had to have been updated in 2008. In 2009 we'll begin to remove even more ...