Link exchange site is a site that serves link exchange between the users. There are free version and paid version in the market. Free and paid version usually have different facility. In this article, I will give a review several link exchange service sites I have tried.
Among of link exchange sites, in my opinion these sites have the best service for free version. The difference between paid and free version, and ease of manage exchange are consideration in this review.
1. Link2Me
Link2me gives 1 credit every day for free that can be used to request exchange. For advanced, or paid version, you have unlimited outgoing request. It has facility to search exchange partner, check link status, and manage link.
2. Linkalizer
Linkalizer has complete control panel to monitor your exchange. It gives you facility to monitor new invitations, accepted invitations, waiting your link back, completed exchanges, and terminated exschanges for free user. Premium members have easy and fast to use link exchange software for your website (php/mysql required), send unlimited link exchange invitations, set and manage which categories to accept link invitations from, multi handle tools (to handle a lot of links faster in your account), link exchange invitation from all new members (in categories you accept).
Articles directories, can be used to create quality backlink. How can we do that?. If you have a quality articles, try to submit to articles directories with high PR. This can be a good alternatives to create backlinks, if it dofollow, or just spread your blog to the world. Write article, include anchor text or url of your blog as a reference in your articles, and you have quality backlinks automatically. You can use this articles directories list, try to submit to highes PR one first.
Backlink are incoming links to a web site or page. The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. Quoted from Wikipedia, Google's description of their PageRank system, for instance, notes that Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. This factor rise many SEO company that offer paid backlinks. If you have lot of money, this can be instant way to increase your blog pagerank. But if you have no money, and patient enough, you can try others ways that need no money.
There are many ways to create backlinks using paid free services.
1. Submit To Blog Directories
Submit blog to directories with high PR can be a way to create quality backlinks. Some of them are paid, some are free. Free version usually need reciprocal link. You can submit to this list of directories with PR.
2. Comment or ask to dofollow blog or forum
Comment to dofollow blog can be used to create backlinks.
3. Submit to articles directories
Submit to articles directories can be a way to spread your blog to the world. You can submit your articles with some references to your blog.
4. Share to social network, and social sharing.
Share your blog to social sharing also can be used to create backlinks. Identi.ca is dofollow microblogging with PR 8. Just write something with your blog on it, then you get quality backlink.
Many ways lead to Rome, many ways lead to backlinks. There are many ways to get backlinks. Backlinks is a way to increase blog pagerank. To get backlinks, you can submit site to directories, exchange links with your friends, or pay backlinks from SEO company. There is a more cheap, even free, to get backlinks.
Comment is a way to get backlinks. Not just a comment. You give a comment to a blog that has dofollow setting, and write your blog URL. Comment to dofollow blog with high PR can help increase your PR.
Beside good content, SEO friendly blog, submit to directories with high PR can be a good way to increase pagerank.
Some directories are paid, some of them are free. Free directories usually are reciprocal, mean that you must link back to them. You can submit your blog through this list of directories with PR.
Blogging is started by choosing a template. Many free templates from internet, from simple to premium templates. Premium templates generally have nice looks, and more choices. Not only have nice looks, a good template also need to have SEO friendly.
SEO friendly comes from title tags, meta description, and post title. These premium templates have two column, tab menu, nice looks, adsense, and banner ready. To have more SEO friendly functionality, I added title tags using posting, meta tags on each posting using post title. To make it more relevant with search engine, and have more SEO friendly, I also change post title to use H1. Also I added related posts function placed below post content so your reader can be directed to others post on your blog.
Related posts can help your have more pageviews, especially if it's placed below post content, so at the end of the post, if readers see others post related with already read post, it gives probability to read.
You need to modify home page meta description and meta keyword setting to match with your blog. Just go to Design ---> Edit HTML, find code like this,
<meta content='Get SEO friendly premium blogger templates, blogging tips to improve SEO, and adsense revenue.' name='description'/>Change with your own blog meta description and keyword. You no need to change meta description setting for every blogger post, because it's automatically inserted using post title.
<meta content='seo friendly premium blogger templates, premium blogger templates, adsense ready blogger template, adsense in blogger template, premium blogger template, improve seo, adsense revenue, infolinks optimization, wordpress theme' name='keywords'/>
1. Arthemia Template from ThemeLib
Arthemia template by Michael Jubel comes from wordpress theme. This 2 column template has nice looks, adsense ready, and banner ready at header. Sidebar has sub sidebar with 2 sub column to add advertisement banner. Header has tab menu can be filled with labels, or pages with easy, and search form. Download this modified Arthemia premium blogger template for free.
2. Bloggermint
Two column, two sub column on sidebar, banner at header, social sharing, and social connection ready.
Download Bloggermint template with SEO friendly function, and related post for free.
SEO can be started by choosing a SEO friendly template. Basic blogger templates are usually have no SEO friendly. Beside Wordpress, Blogger is a free blog platform that majority used by world blogger. It has simple template, and easy to modify. Basically, to make it more SEO friendly, a blogger template must have title tags that match with title post, meta description that describe post content, and H1 for title to make it more relevant with search engine. Most of basic blogger template have no SEO friendly setting, and need to modify it to have SEO friendly.
SEO friendly setting need to be modify in blogger template are:
1. Title tags
Some of blogger template have title tags like this:
Blog Title - Post TitleThis setting makes post title less significant than blog title, so the title tags can be irrelevant with post content in the view of search engine. Blogger template need to be modified to change title tags using post title.
2. Add meta description tags
By default, basic blogger template setting have no meta tags setting. We need to modify template so it have meta tags for main homepage, and add different meta tags automatically for every post. Different meta tags for every post can be generated from post title. Meta description give a description about the content of your blog. Most of search engine use meta description to find relevant content.
3. Post tag
Use H1 for post title to make your posting more relevant with search engine, and SEO friendly.
This is modified Arthemia Premium Blogger Template from ThemeLib with function for adding meta description on homepage, and every post, and show related posts below post content.
In order related posts function to run, you must create label for every post. Related post function will search label for every post, then will show post that have same label below post content.
I added some modification to make this template more SEO friendly.
1. Title tags
Title tags use post title so it's more relevant with the content.
2. Meta description
Meta description describe post content. Most of search engine use meta description to find relevant content. This help your blog better rank in search engine result.
3. Post Tag
Use H1 in post title it have more relevant with search engine, and SEO friendly.
Besides others SEO technique that common for every blog, there are some techniques to improve SEO for Blogger Blog.
These techniques are important for Blogger blog due to default setting of Blogger blog. Some techniques are good to be implemented for Blogger blog to improve SEO.
1. Add meta tags for Blogger blog
Meta tags tell search engine description of our blog. Google give a heavy point to meta tags, especially meta description to match relevance of search query and homepage. If you see Google search result, you can see that usually search result consist of title tags and meta description. You can add meta tags, like description and keyword, to your Blogger blog homepage to increase visibility of your Blogger blog by search engine.
2. Change Blogger title tags to post title
Because Blogger blog append Blogger blog title before post title, this is not so good for SEO. You can change title tags to post title to improve SEO.
3. Add different meta tags to each blogger post
As describe in point 1, this technique help your blogger blog to improve SEO. You can use title tags to create meta tags/meta description for every your blogger blog post, so every post has unique meta tags.