Link Idol
Anthologies of a Self-Confessed Link Broker

If there is one plugin that I think is a must for blogs, particularly those written in English, it is definitely the Global Translator Plugin. This plugin uses the Web’s free translation engines to translate your pages into different languages. You can choose between Google Translation Services, Promt Online Translator, Altavista Babel Fish, and Free Translator.
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I like to create another category in this blog which will contain those “non-link building related posts” and my random ramblings about other things.

For this post, I like to share the work of my classmate in graduate school, Kons. He is very adept in Photoshop and when we were in a class in Land Use (we were enrolled in an Urban and Regional Planning program), he altered many movie posters and tagged them as “Movies about Planners”. His work was very much liked by the class and I also want to share them with you. Here are the first three samples of his work.
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I want to share one of my methods of link building and web traffic generation. I created a new word out of this method, SquidMarking, since the it uses two of the famous web applications of the Web 2.0 era, Squidoo and social bookmarks.
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Did you know you can get free links with blogs with Top Commentators plugin installed and show the top commentators in the sidebar? And when you become one of the top commentators, there is a big possibility that you’ll have a free link to your site (the URL you give on your comments) from the homepage of the site where the Top Commentators plugin is installed.
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A few days ago, I boasted how this site got its PageRank even if it is just a month old. You may notice that this site is first registered on 2004 but the truth is, I just bought it last August and started this blog only this September. That’s why I am very proud that this site was given that little green bar in a matter of weeks.
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I like to invite my readers to join my recent contest of the Most Number of Stories submitted in the site I recently relaunched - RapidPicks.Com. It is a social bookmarking site with has do-follow attributes in its outgoing links so it can also give you backlinks for every stories on your sites that you will submit. As the title of the contest goes, the winners (yes, there will be three winners) will be the ones who submitted the most number of stories in RapidPicks for the month of October.
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There is an existing thread in one forum which I am a member about how bloggers monetize their websites. It is so amusing to know that there are bloggers who are too active in writing and creating fresh original content but have little knowledge or strategy in monetizing their content. Some of them are still depending on Google Adsense which I am personally do not have the same luck as far as making money online is concerned.

So what do I recommend? Link selling is definitely on the top of my list!
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One of the most important things to consider when venturing into link selling is to have an enormous amount of content with full of high valued keywords and phrases that you can use in your link selling campaign. However, not all of us are endowed with the natural of creative writing that will entice readers not only to visit our site but also to make them regular readers of our content.
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Since the advent of the Youtube craze in the past years, online video has been an effective way of marketing a specific product or service. In fact, most companies are using these online video services since almost all of them are free which entails lesser marketing and promotion costs for the companies. These video sites may not directly help you in obtaining backlinks from these authority sites, but if you are after a massive advertising campaign targeting millions of potential visitors and customers, this list is a must have.
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