This is a guest post by Katheryn on how blogging can help market you business. You can check out the guidelines for guest posting on our write for us page.

If you’re looking to market your business or your trade, you might want to reconsider spending thousands of dollars on a pricey marketing campaign. For a fraction of the cost, you could set up a blog to spread the word about your services. Setting up your own blog on the web is about as easy as making an account on eBay. Blogging can indeed help you market your business for free online.

Blogging to market your business

If you want to properly utilize a blog to market yourself, your business, or a certain product, you have to do what everyone else in the marketing business does to achieve success, in or out of the web: work for it. Despite the legions of bloggers praising the ease of blogging as a marketing tool, the truth is that you’ll have to commit yourself daily to your blog if you want to see any substantive results. Blogging is not a set it and forget it idea.

First things first—you need to set up your blog. Do so by choosing a clean, professional (and free) blogging platform like those offered by WordPress or Blogger.

So what’s next?

Start cranking out market-worthy content

Let’s assume that you took to blogging on the basis that you’re marketing your professional services consulting small businesses. You have a local office and you’re looking to the web to massively expand your reach in the field.

In this case, the best way to start your blog is to write regularly occurring posts offering free and substantive tips for small businesses looking for management advice. Make your blog posts pithy and informative—remember you’re looking to lure readers (and customers) browsing for services similar to yours. The last thing you want to do is bore them with writing too much content.

Aim for content that engages the reader so they can relate to your message quickly. Informative anecdotes or problem/solution posts about the industry are good examples of blog posts that hook readers.

Consider the problem/solution post: imagine a minor management issue for a small business—like a dispute between employees—and then offer a short, effective solution that would disarm the situation. This way a reader would glimpse your services in action, and may then be more inclined to contact you about in-depth consulting for their company.

Do everything to expand your readership

Blogging is about interaction. In order to further expose your services on the web, take advantages of social media networks that could spread your name to related business and professional circles. Set up accounts on services like LinkedIn, Google+, and Twitter as mobile web marketing tools to reach out to potential customers.

Though social media services differ in their interface, they all serve the same function of uniting likeminded web users. Your task as a blogger is to use your social media account to search out viable customers and business contacts that can help spread awareness about your services.

When you make an account, be sure to add detailed information about the nature of your services, your professional experience and your education background. And most important of all, post your blog url! Once you’re set up with your account, take some time to familiarize yourself with the format of the social media network’s interface.

Bear in mind that you’ll search out users on each service by using their comprehensive search features. You simply type in the topic of your choosing or the name of a prominent person in the industry, and you’ll be presented with a host of users who reference or discuss them in detail. Sift through the search results and follow the users who you think could help you the most.

You can also raise awareness for yourself and your blog by offering to guest post on blogs that talk about similar issues. Guest blogging is a very effective way to get exposure. As a guest poster, you may write about topics on other blogs to showcase your knowledge or, industry savvy, putting your spin on a particular subject.

Most blogs will tell you up front whether or, not they accept guest posts in their “About” or “Contact” section.  As compensation for your guest post, ask the blog’s webmaster to include a byline about your services and your blog so interested readers can follow your work in the future. It’s an easy chance at huge exposure to a new audience, so don’t pass it up!

Patience is a virtue, even in blogging

Just because blogging’s free doesn’t mean it’s easy. While blogging may exist in the fast-paced and constantly variable realm of the web, don’t expect your blog to become a success overnight. In the same vein, don’t expect your blog to acquire a handful of readers even in a month’s time.

Blogging requires time. The cultivation of a popular and reliable blog takes time, patience, and persistant hard work from the blogger, no matter what your subject may be. You have to be determined that your initially low (or nonexistent) readership will grow as you continue to write and network your blog.

If you’re willing to stick out months of blog posts with zero comments while maintaining a steady stream of high-quality content, you might just make it in the blogosphere. All it takes is to have one or two readers refer another reader to your blog, who refers another reader, and so on.

A blog’s an investment just like any other business venture; with time, it has the potential to yield great returns.

About the Author

This guest post is contributed by Katheryn Rivas, who writes on the topics of online universities advice.  She welcomes your comments at her email Id: katherynrivas87(at)gmail.com.

Don’t forget to let us know how blogging has helped your business by posting your comments below.

This is a guest post by William on tips to succeed in a wholesale business. You can check out the guidelines for guest posting on our write for us page.

Most of the wholesale businesses fail during the first year because you fail to manage the business properly. It seems quite easy to start a wholesale business and being successful at it is harder than some of us would like to admit.

Most of us think that all we need to successfully run a business of our own is to be smart, adventurous, risk-taker and market-oriented. There is very little room for mistakes and you can absolutely not afford to repeat your errors. Not learning from your mistakes is the biggest reason why so many of us fail in our business ventures.

Tips to Success in a Wholesale Business

What I learned as a wholesale business owner myself is that by learning from our mistakes, we increase the chances of success. Most of us do not get to know about our mistakes until it’s too late. After reading the following post, you will get to know about four simple steps that can take you by the hand to your success.

A mentor is necessary in a wholesale business!

It is not impossible to be a successful wholesale business owner without a mentor. Remember, mentors play an important role in your success. A mentor can be helpful for you whenever you need advice and help you in dealing with various work related problems.

For instance, whenever you need some information about a particular business issue, you prefer leaving the query online in any wholesale business forum that brings a number of replies and you find it really difficult to trust a particular advice and apply that on your business because none of them really know about your business.

A mentor helps you in identifying relevant information and applying that according to your business needs.

Don’t focus on too many things at once!

Most of the wholesale gifts suppliers usually face this dilemma that they have numerous things in their plans and they do not understand what to finish first. There are numerous business projects that are on the go at once and the problem is that none of them get the complete attention and dedication, they require.

Therefore, we do not succeed in doing all of them together. The solution is to choose one project at one time and do it well with complete attention. Half finished projects get you nowhere – neither can you dump them nor can you proceed with them. Develop the habit of not focusing on too many things at one time and finishing the task at hand first before starting another project and you are on your way to success in your wholesale business.

Learn how to prioritize things!

Working hard or working too much on your wholesale business does not mean that you will be successful until you do not learn how to work smartly. Sometimes, you think you are working on the most important business activity by avoiding or putting another equally important task on hold. And when you will realize it, you lose your track in deciding what is more important.

To cope up with this issue, you must learn how to prioritize things. This is not just for a wholesale business but for any business that you intend to do. Before starting any activity ask as to what is the most important thing that needs to be done before anything else and work accordingly. Learn how to manage your work properly.

Believe in yourself!

Everyone longs for success but makes so many excuses for not meeting the challenges head-on. It may be because we do not consider ourselves capable enough to successfully undertake some of the most daunting tasks. And so eventually, we fail.

Always believe in your capabilities and see how much easier it becomes for you to be successful. Don’t hesitate to try again, if you fail once. Believe that you have all the energies and abilities that are needed for success.

Conclusion – Succeeding in a Wholesale Business

Just like any other business, succeeding in a wholesale business requires sticking to the basics. You do not need to re-invent the wheel. Improvise on what is already there. There are thousands of wholesale business owners who could mentor you and help you in succeeding.

About the Author:

William King is the director of B2B Wholesale Directory and Wholesale distributors. Being an entrepreneur and a passionate blogger he loves to share his knowledge and expertise with the industry people by writing for various related blogs.

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I received a mail from Google a couple of days back on their Privacy Policy, because I use a lot of services offered by Google. I am sure you too would have received one such email with the subject reading, “Changes to Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service” because you too would be using some or, the other service from Google.

Google has become a part of every internet users daily life, given the range of services they offer.

So what does this change in privacy policy and terms of service mean for me and you?

The email  looked very impressive, more so the beginning which said that they are now consolidating all the policies across all the various services they offer so that there is only a single policy.

But that is not where the story ends. There is a lot more to it. What was there in the overview sent as part of the email and available at their website was only the good things. There were a few other things as well that were of more importance to me and you.

Impact of Google’s Privacy Policy Change

A change in privacy policy is certain to impact the user. If there is one thing that is negative about the internet it is about the privacy intrusion. Since you share a lot of information on the internet while you surf,your privacy is always at risk.

Though all websites follow stringent measures to keep your information private, there can still be loopholes.

Things that you should note regarding the change in Google’s privacy policy are -

• Google will now use the information that you provide while using their services both explicit and implicit, for the purposes of understanding your tastes and choices and provide better services to you in the future.
• In addition to the information that you explicitly provide them they will also collect information from your usage of their services. This includes device information, log information, location information etc.
• Google will keep these information across the many servers that they have around the globe.

Is this alarming?

Though it is not alarming, it still needs attention. Storing and using your personal information could mean that your information is readily available if somebody needs it. I trust Google to keep this secure, yet there is always that element of fear; what if it falls into the wrong hands.

It is hence that this change in privacy policy has a severe impact of the users.

Is there something you can do about it?

Probably not too much, if you cannot do without using Google.

Read the complete changes to the privacy policy here.

My WordPress blog was hacked a few days back. There was nothing unusual about it, because this happens to thousands of WordPress blogs around the blogosphere.

Wondering what this blog post is all about, if that was normal?

First let me explain the entire incident.

I wanted to add a code to the header section in my theme. I hence logged into the theme editor section and opened the header.php file. I observed something very strange in the file. There was some code added to every line that started with <?php. It looked like a base64 code to me, but I was puzzled as to how this code was added to the theme, when originally I had no such code.

That was enough for me to conclude that it was the act of a hacker.

About 3 weeks back, I had received an alert from Hostgator, saying they suspected a security infringement in my hosting and that they had cleaned everything. They also asked me to change my passwords, which I very smartly decided to ignore.

The consequence was evident in less than 3 weeks.

WordPress blogs are the most sought after by hackers and many a times they are successful in hacking it too, not because of a problem with WordPress. Instead because of sheer ignorance on the part of the blogger, primarily because most blogs lack a robust WordPress backup and security.

In one of my earlier post I had spoken about another attack on my WordPress blogs (that was more than a couple of years back). My hosting provider was as lazy as me and had not put enough security measures in place. They did not even have a good backup mechanism…Consequence, I lost all my content of about 19 months and had to restart from scratch.

I learnt my first lesson; Choose a good hosting provider who has

• start of the art protection from spammers and hackers.
• Has a scheduled backup mechanism in place.

This is how I ended up with Hostgator because they were the best in the industry when it came to hosting you websites, especially WordPress websites.

(You can get a discount on your first month at Hostgator – Use the coupon code:DKSPEAKS10)

How to Secure your WordPress Installation

If you are running a WordPress blog, it is extremely important to ensure that you keep your installation secured. WordPress is an extremely robust platform and the creators ensure that they keep upgrading their files to ensure that they are out of the reach of hackers.

You might want to look at some of the below tips to ensure that you blog is protected.

Update your WordPress Installation to the latest version

WordPress keeps releasing updates from time to time. It is extremely important that you update your blogs to latest version. These upgrades are to plug any loopholes that may exist in earlier versions. The WordPress team ensures that you are informed of these upgrades by displaying it on the dashboard of your blog.

Ensure that all plugins are also updated

Plugins too are very prone to attack. There are a lot of plugins that are outdated and are no longer support by the creators. Periodically check your blog for such plugins and uninstall them.

Also update all other plugins to the latest version.

If you are somebody like me who run multiple installations, keeping a track of updates and updating your blogs could be a tiresome task.

I found a very simple software that can do this for you. This software can update your WordPress installation and you plugins as well at a single click. I have created a video that can show you how this software does all this. Read the post here.

You can check out WP Update Robot for more information.

Protect your WordPress Database

If you have installed your blog using the Fantastico installation in your hosting account, then this is for you. All such installations create databases with simple names like xxxxxx-wrdp1, xxxxxx-wrdp2 etc. where xxxxxx is your hosting login.

Such databases can be easily broken into by hackers. Hence it is important that you change the database names for your blogs to something that is not that easily de-codable.

Periodically backup your blog using a Good WordPress backup plugin

It is important to always backup your wordpress blog. This was one of the mistakes I did when my blog was first hacked and consequently I lost all my content.

Set a schedule to backup your blog. If you publish posts very frequently, then you should backup your blog at least twice every week. There are numerous plugins that can do the job for you.

WP-Backup is one the best free plugins that I found. You can also schedule these backups and get them emailed as well.

I prefer Backupbuddy in addition to the above said free plugin. Backup buddy is the best when it comes to backup and restore. It has numerous customization options and restoring your wordpress, if at all it goes down is a matter of a few minutes.

Order your copy of Backupbuddy today.

In addition to all this, it is also important that you host your wordpress blogs with a good hosting company.

Don’t forget to let us know how you keep your wordpress installation secured.

This is a guest post by Britney on Effective SEO techniques that you can learn from Google. You can check out the guidelines for guest posting on our write for us page.

Anyone who has taken a close look at their own Google Plus profile may have noticed something a little weird. The profile immediately ranks highly in the search engine for searches including their own name.

In other words: while you may have several other online identities (I have at least four), which you have built up naturally through months or even years of hard work – your Google identity has pipped them all to the post and taken number one ranking. That’s in sharp contra distinction to the received wisdom about social media SEO – namely that it takes time and effort to build a profile that starts to have an effect.

It is not just profiles either. Google Plus posts are also ranking highly when I search for my name.

So is Google cheating? No. It is simply using extremely savvy and effective SEO techniques to beat the competition. That’s hardly a surprise. Google ranking is the be all and end all for most SEO campaigns, so it makes sense that the company whose algorithms we all spend so much time trying to beat is head of its own league table.

Google’s Effective SEO Techniques

While we know that Googles uses very effective SEO techniques, how can I benefit from them. The secret is to crack those SEO techniques and start to use them for yourself.

Here’s the lowdown:

Make an Incentive out of Your Inbound Links

Google will let an author display a photo with a link, if that author agrees to add a Google Plus link to their page. Which of course delivers a range of extremely high quality, influential links. No wonder Google’s own engine likes its Plus One profiles so much! Very effective SEO techniques indeed.

Link Internally 

Google Plus is the paragon for adding internal links. On your Google Plus profile, you can be in as many circles as you have interests – and it is really easy to include people in your own circle too. While you can struggle, in the other social media streams, to build a notable amount of followers, Google Plus lets you do it almost instantly.

Here’s the thing: having 1,000 followers is not practical in a social sense unless you intend never to do any real work again. But in an SEO sense it is gold. The more followers you have the more linking opportunities you create. Score two for Google Plus.

Make Sure Your Content is Easy to Index

The more information you can give to a search engine, in your social media profile, the better you are indexed. It’s that simple. My Google Plus profile, which does not suffer the character limitation imposed on you by Twitter (so I can go on and on, putting in as much stuff as I deem appropriate), means I get indexed for my post text, my photos and all my links – whether those links are from people who have added me to their circles or from the things I have plus one’d online.

It’s the old story – the more content you have, the more meat and drink there is for a web bot to get its teeth into. Google Plus One allows you to structure your information cleanly too, which means the web spiders can index it with ease.

Never Forget How to Optimise Your Own Pages

On page optimization is still one of the pillars of good SEO. Descriptive title tags are better than non descriptive ones. When you use Google Plus to post, it creates a title tag for you that includes your name in first spot in the title tag description strong.

Publicize Everything

The more social media posts you make publicly, the more they will be crawled by search engine spiders. Sharing information with the web bots is what gets you noticed. Remember that when your posts are private no-one knows you are home.

Google’s Effective SEO techniques – What we learnt?

Who better to learn SEO from that the grand daddy of SEO. In fact all that SEO that we all do; isn’t it to impress the Google God. So when that is the real story why not learn from the author himself.

Having said that, there’s a problem with what Google is doing – which is that soon everything you search for will be a Google result. Unless other businesses start to use Google’s own tactics in their social media SEO.

About the Author:

Britney Danila is a Freelance and Staff writer who writes informative & creative articles on Television and Technology for various technology related companies including broadband expert. Her expertise is in writing articles related to technology, SEO and PPC articles for SEO Company , etc.

This is a guest post by Stan Horst on starting a home based business. You can check out the guidelines for guest posting on our write for us page.

Starting a home-based business can be an exciting and profitable option for earning a living. As a person with a thriving home business, I am always interested in why people decide to strike out on their own.

Here’s what a small sampling of home-based business people told me about what motivated them.

Flexible Schedule

For several people I spoke to, a home-based business provides the flexible work schedule they need and want. Think about it. If you are a single parent raising school-aged children you need to be able to visit their schools and take them to lessons, sports practice, and doctors’ appointments. A sick child means you can’t go to work if you work outside the home.

A few people told me they wanted flexibility because they are in school. Working at home allows them to take classes whenever they are offered, not just at night or on weekends.

If you have a passion—maybe you want to ride horses, race cars, or become an opera star—a home-based business lets you follow your dream and support yourself along the way.

Other Responsibilities

In today’s multi-generational households, home-based businesses allow family members to stay home and take care of their young children or their aging parents. They can fit their work around their other important responsibilities.

Work Anywhere

If your spouse or partner is in the military, works for an international company, or moves frequently for any other reason, you don’t have to stay behind for your 9-5 job. With a computer-based business, you can take your work with you just about anywhere in the world.

Many workers cannot afford to say no to a job transfer right now. If that’s your spouse being transferred, you don’t have to worry about finding a new job in a new location, because your business is portable.

Best Option

Home-based businesses are among the better options for earning a living in times of high unemployment. A number of people told me they make more money with their own businesses than at the low-wage jobs available to them.

Disability

A person with a temporary or permanent disability that prevents him or her from leaving the house regularly can make a living and participate in the community through a home-based business.  A teacher who lost her hearing now has an online tutoring business, for example. You can start back at work way more quickly after an illness if you work from your house.

Economics

Think of what you can save—what you don’t have to spend money on—when you work at home. No commuting costs, no work clothes, no lunches out. No pitching in for parties, birthdays, and coworkers’ kids’ fundraisers. Believe me, it can add up!

Freedom

Tired of having someone looking over shoulder? When you are your own boss you can decide how and how much to work. You are not under anyone’s thumb. For some, freedom means you can take a break whenever you want and go sit outside on your favorite teak furniture by Kingsley Bates.

Creativity

If you have an idea you want to pursue, you can do it on your own. You don’t have to be constrained by a corporate vision and company values that you do not share. The sky’s the limit when you make your own decisions.

What’s Your Reason?

Before you decide to start a home-based business, think about your reasons. Keeping in mind why you started your new venture will help get you through the tough times.

About the Author

Stan Horst runs a cabin rental business in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. His home-based business gives him time to enjoy the great outdoors with his wife and two children. Stan used to be a furniture maker; now he likes to share his knowledge through a website to help people find the perfect storage benches made for outside  (www.betterbenches.com).

In the past couple of months you might have noticed quite a few product launches focusing on the mobile marketing. What could be the reason for this?

Before we get into discussions on what these products were, let us look at some mobile phone user statistics:

• Total number of mobile phone subscribers – 6 billion worldwide.
• Countries with most subscribers – China (963 million subscribers), India (900 million subscribers), USA (325 million subscribers).
• Mobile broadband subscriptions of ~1.2 billion worldwide.
• Leaders in mobile broadband usage – South Korea and Japan.
• ~$6.3 billion venture capital investments in the year 2011. This was about 42.4% of the total budgets.
• Google, Millennial Media, Apple, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Jumptags lead the mobile ads networks in revenue.
• In 2011, Google made ~$2.5 billion in mobile ads revenue.
• eBay forecasts customer transaction (including purchases and sales) of $8 billion of merchandise for 2010.
• PayPal forecasts $7 billion mobile payment volumes in 2012.

(stats courtesy: mobithinking)

That was too much of stats. Isn’t it?

But one thing is evident from the above stats. Mobility is the next big thing. With social media sites like Twitter and Facebook generating a good amount of subscribers on mobile phones, the bundle becomes an exciting thing to explore and mobile marketing is what will make you money in 2012.

Mobile Marketing – Make Money using Mobile Phones

All the while Internet marketing has been evolving. What was working a couple of years ago is no longer working. Whatever the changes, the basics still remain.

But it becomes imperative for an internet marketer to evolve  as technology evolves. Mobile marketing is one such evolution.

How can you make money using mobile phone ads and mobile marketing?

You can find quite a few handy products at Clickbank which will explain you a hundred different ways to make money using mobile marketing to mobile phone consumers.

Mobile Marketing is extremely economical in comparison to marketing to conventional internet users.

A few easy forms of making money is as follows -

Affiliate ads to Mobile Phone Users

Advertising on the internet has become extremely expensive. Google Adwords and such other CPC options are now a distant dream for average affiliate marketers.

It is here that advertising to mobile phone users can come in handy.

There are numerous advertising networks that offer you an option of advertising to mobile phone users. The costs are extremely low and if you can work out some good campaigns and carefully select the niches, you can see extremely high ROI on your ads.

There are some good courses out there that can teach you how to do all this, I mean pick niches, design mobile friendly websites and create advertisements for mobile phones.

You can check out Mobile Monopoly which is a recommended resource to make money with mobile marketing.

Mobile Marketing by Building Websites for Mobile Phone Users

Mobile phones have small screens in comparison to a PC or, laptop. Hence you normal website will not render well on a mobile phone. You will have to design something that is specifically meant for mobile phones.

There are a lot of things you need to keep in mind when designing these pages for mobile phones. You can outsource them or, do it yourself. There are thousands of softwares out there that can help you accomplish this as well.

Once your mobile friendly website is built, you can market all kind of products including affiliate products to your mobile phone users. You can even add Google Adsense ads to these websites and make money through that route as well.

My Mobile Money Pages is a good software that can help you built mobile friendly pages and also help you in mobile marketing by promoting these sites to mobile phone users. Though it is not a 2-minute activity as promoted by the vendor, it is still a good software that can simplify a lot of these activities.

Pay per Call marketing to mobile phone users

Pay per call is the latest addition to the mobile marketing. Pay per call basically is an option where an advertiser has to pay for every call made to the advertised phone number.

This is a very good option to affiliate marketers as well. Pay per call has extremely high payouts to affiliates and hence is a lucrative option. Since promotional activities is pretty much the same, returns could be very high from Pay per call offers.

You can signup to promote pay per call offers with any of the leading affiliate networks that provide this option. A few good affiliate networks that we found were commission junction, Google Affiliate Network and Direct call network, all of which offer this opportunity in mobile marketing.

For people who are new to this concept, it is important that you understand how this works. I would recommend that you check out a good course on making money using pay per call. You can find a lot of information on the internet, All that you have to do is search on Google.

Mobile Money Bandit is one of the best courses around that can help you tap into this market and make money from mobile marketing using pay per call.

Conclusion – How to proceed with Mobile Marketing

Evaluate if mobile marketing fits into your scheme of things. If you need to tweak your business plans, do it because mobile marketing can only better your income. It is the next generation of making money online.

Once you have done the ground work to jump into mobile marketing, take up some basic course which can give you an idea of what all this is about so that you don’t find yourself in unknown land.

Mobile marketing can give you amazing results if done correctly. Hence spend some time to work out  a plan and make money with mobile marketing.

Social Bookmarking has always been one of the biggest source of backlinks and traffic for internet marketers. Yet it is one area that has been underutilized to a great extent by newbie internet marketers. Very few people know how to use it effectively to get traffic.

It is because of this lack of knowledge that such newbies struggle in getting traffic to their blogs and websites.

What is Social Bookmarking?

Rather than defining social bookmarking, let me quote a few names -

• Digg
• Diigo
• Stumble upon
• Reddit
• Myspace
• Delicious
• Bibsonomy

That should be enough. You should, by now have understood what social bookmarking is all about. Primarily, social bookmarking intends to bookmark valuable sites and links and then circulate it amongst it millions of users, thus creating a viral effect to each of these links.

Why is Social Bookmarking Important?

Most of these social bookmarking sites are high PR sites. They are all credible and a link from them carries a lot of value in the eyes of the big search engine gods like Google.

With the latest updates to Google algorithms and their future plans, social bookmarking is becoming even more important. Google has plans of implementing a ranking algorithm which will give weightage to sites and links that have a high social presence. This in a way means that if your site has a better presence at these social bookmarking sites, then it is highly likely that your site will get a much higher valuation by Google.

These social bookmarking sites are the easiest to get high PR one way backlinks from and carries value like no other backlinks.

Why does IM newbies fail at this?

Social Bookmarking requires you to create accounts with each of these services. There are more than 200 high value social bookmarking sites out there on the internet. Creating accounts with each of these services is something that will take months. More so because you will have to create multiple accounts with them to get value.

IM gurus have enough money to outsource all of these activities. Newbies do not outsource. If at all they do, they do it to cheap outsourcers, which in turn results in a cheaper and valueless service.

After having burnt their fingers a couple of time, they just decide to let go of it because of the efforts and time required to do it and turn to other modes of getting traffic and backlinks.

The alternative – A reliable Social Bookmarking Service.

The alternative, in case you are looking for one is a reliable social bookmarking service which can do the job for you.

So, the next obvious question is where to find one?

You might want to look at the following service which has been very reliable and which is something that I have been using for some time now.

FREE Social Bookmarking Services -

Social Monkee:- This is a free service and they also have a premium version to which you can upgrade. The difference in the two is the limit to the number of links you can submit and also the number of sites you can submit them to. Join their FREE service here.

IM Automator:- This is another free service which you might want to check out. They submit a very limited number of links and to a very few but credible social bookmarking sites. They too have a PRO feature which provides you with a lot many other features. You can visit IMAutomator here.

Paid Social Bookmarking -

If you are ready to shell out a few dollars to get some good backlinks, then there are quite a few services that can do the job for you. I am listing a few of them here.

Bookmarking Demon:-

This is a software that can automate a lot of the activities and build thousands of high quality backlinks from social bookmarking sites.

The best part about Bookmarking demon is that it also creates all your accounts on automation, so you don’t have to spend hours creating them. Add to it the fact that it also submits to a lot of scuttle sites and you have a winner at hand.

Priced at $147 for a limited time, this could prove to be slightly heavy on your pocket. But considering that it is a one time investment, it is worth it.

Check out bookmarking demon here.

Fiverr:-

Fiverr is a service where you can find a lot of services being offered for only $5.00. You will also find a lot of people offering social bookmarking services at $5.00. They usually provide you with a detailed report on the submissions they have done, so you can rely on them.

Moreover, since Fiverr is a feedback based service, you will be able to read a lot of feedback about the services provided by an individual before you decide to order it.

You can check out Fiverr here.

SocialBoxed – A unique Social bookmarking Service

SocialBoxed is in a pre-launch stage. I am launching this service in Summers (April/May in India). I had always been looking for a social bookmarking service which I could customize according to my needs. SocialBoxed is a result of this.

I am a full time blogger and I wanted something that could help me in my blogging. Hence I customized this social bookmarking service according to my needs.

There are two different service on offer -

Single Submission Service-

This service will submit one post to the various social bookmarking services. As of now the submissions are to 24 of the top bookmarking services. All you have to do is give us the the following details -

• URL to Submit
• Tags
• A short post

Once the submission is done we will send you a complete report of the submissions.

Price = $20.00 per submission.

Unlimited Submissions Service -

This service is suitable for bloggers who keep adding new posts to their blogs.

In this service we install a plugin and configure it for you. This will keep submitting your posts to all the social bookmarking services as and when you publish a post.

Note:- This will not submit historical posts.

Price – $30.00 per month

Order one of these and take advantage of the social bookmarking revolution.

For those of you who thought that my blog is changed to a salespage, my apologies. My objective was only to grab your attention to the wonderful product that I am reviewing today – WP Update Robot.

Not too many of your might have heard of this software. WP Update Robot is a very handy software for people who manage multiple blog installations.

You would know the amount of work you have to do when WordPress releases a new update and you have to update all of your blogs. Add to it the updations that you have to do for all your plugins and you have almost a complete day’s work lined up before you when an update is released.

This software can help you reduce the amount of work you will have to do. Watch this review to know how.

The price of this handy software is only @27.00 now. This price may go up anytime. Why to wait and see the price going up.

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This is a guest post by Megan on a new service called as SocialFolders. You can check out the guidelines for guest posting on our write for us page. 

For social media users, a version of cloud computing is done everyday. With the enormous popularity of social networks, many people consider “their lives” to be online; boasting profiles with years of picture, text and video content.

As accessible as this information has become it’s not without an Achilles heel—if you can’t get online you can’t get any of it. Sure, the growing clouds storming across the Internet does a great job of reaching across multiple platforms, but find yourself in a dead zone and the information is as non-existent as your internet connection.

SocialFolders – The Answer

SocialFolders is looking to change that. Founded by Philippe Honigman, this Internet start up vies to store all the bits and pieces of your social media life. However, these folders will be accessible online as well as (hold your breath) offline. The basic service will be free, allowing users to interact with three of their favorite platforms and store 500 files.

A paid version of the service will assist users in connecting up to 5,000 files and sync to all available services. The company hopes to also collect fees by acting as a secure web delivery system for payroll, bank statements or other sensitive information such as commercial real estate records and income property documents.

Cloud computing has created a movement that allows users to hold on to vast amounts of data without occupying their own hard drives.  By putting data online people are making their information social, but also protecting that information from any malfunctions their machine may experience.

Recently, posting something online has become an end point. Content on the web is shareable, steady and safe from the daily destructive forces of lost phones and erased memory cards. Honigman, however, thinks it is just too far out of reach.

What does SocialFolders do?

SocialFolders is aptly named. The program will not only store your information, but also keep the data talking to each other. Folders used to store your content will sync to social networks automatically. Any updates made to your data while offline will immediately be reflected in the online versions once a connection is found. This allows users to work on shared documents or edit photos anywhere, instead of having to hang near a connection.

Having online media aggregate to one place will allow users to rapidly update multiple social networks. SocialFolders allows platforms to talk to each other as well. Pictures that a user puts on Facebook could be uploaded to Flickr and Instagram at the same time. This will help users keep their social presents consistent and updated.

SocialFolders is scheduled to launch on December 22^nd.  Honigman has been running ftopia, a similar program, for the past three years. His experience in the industry should make for a clean opening for SocialFolders.