Top Free Local and Business Listing Sites for US, UK, And Canada

Local SEO is a must when you have a business with a physical location and expect customers to visit. You will need to pay special attention to location-specific SEO requirements for your site apart from other generic SEO essentials.
 

US Local And Business-

http://www.focus.com
http://www.hotfrog.com
http://www.manta.com
http://www.aboutus.org
http://www.jobaba.com
http://www.myhuckleberry.com
http://www.judysbook.com
http://www.kudzu.com
http://maps.google.com/
http://listings.local.yahoo.com/
http://www.local.com
https://ssl.bing.com/
http://www.localpages.com/
http://us.wowcity.com
https://www.supermedia.com
http://www.mojopages.com
http://citysquares.com
http://www.thinklocal.com/
http://www.localizedbiz.com
http://www.usbdn.com/
http://www.freeindex.com
https://www.jigsaw.com/
http://www.matchpoint.com/
https://www.xing.com
http://www.mylocalservices.us
http://www.localeze.com
https://www.yellowbot.com
http://www.ontowns.com
http://www.localdatabase.com
http://www.yelp.com
http://www.zoominfo.com/
http://www.city-visitor.com
http://www.lookuppage.com
http://www.business-floor.com
http://www.localclick.com
http://www.yellowusa.com
http://www.magicyellow.com/
http://wowcity.com
http://www.ecademy.com
http://www.shopcity.com
https://www.cityslick.net/
http://www.ijijiji.com/us/
http://www.brownbook.net
http://hudsonvalley.com/
http://internet800directory.com/
http://www.add-page.com
http://www.addmelocal.com
http://browselocalsite.com
http://www.ziggs.com
http://www.insiderpages.com/
http://www.thebluebook.com/
http://www.zidster.com/
http://www.buyerzone.com/
http://www.thomasnet.com/
http://www.expressupdateusa.com
http://www.antya.com
http://www.xomreviews.com
http://www.gather.com
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.linkedin.com/
http://www.ziggs.com
http://www.xanga.com/
http://www.yellowusa.com
http://my.citysquares.com
http://www.insiderpages.com
http://www.superpages.com
http://www.whitepages.com
http://tupalo.com
http://www.lookuppage.com/
https://www.supermedia.com/
http://inter800.com/
http://www.merchantcircle.com
http://www.bizwiki.com/
http://www.citysearch.com/
http://www.productionhub.com/
http://www.yellowbot.com/
http://www.411.com
http://www.anywho.com/
http://www.switchboard.com
http://www.getfave.com
http://www.dexknows.com
http://www.cityfos.com
http://www.ziggs.com
http://www.yellowbook.com/
http://www.kudzu.com/
https://www.smartguy.com
http://www.powerprofiles.com
http://www.yellowpagecity.com
http://www.usdirectory.com
http://www.localsearch.com
http://yellowpages.superpages.com/
http://www.thumbtack.com/
http://www.yelp.com/.
https://www.thinklocal.com
http://eurekster.com/
http://www.my-company-profile.com
http://www.zipcode2business.com
http://www.siccode.com
http://www.killerstartups.com
http://oogads.com
http://www.yellowee.com/
https://www.referralkey.com/
https://advertise.local.com

UK local And Bussiness-

http://www.aboutus.org/
http://www.focus.com
http://www.ecademy.com
http://www.scoot.co.uk
http://www.freeindex.co.uk
http://businessfinder.com
http://www.flesko.co.uk/
https://www.gomy.co.uk
http://www.manta.com/
http://www.ukforbusiness.co.uk/
http://www.ziggs.com/
http://www.incompany.com
http://www.kentfind.co.uk
http://www.brownbook.net
http://vator.tv/
http://www.mysheriff.co.uk
http://www.118.com
http://www.brightonpages.co.uk
http://maps.google.co.uk
http://www.uksuperweb.co.uk
http://www.mylocalservices.co.uk
http://www.ukfreedirectory.com/
http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk
http://www.yourparish.co.uk
http://www.localmole.co.uk/
http://www.freeadvertising-business.co.uk/
http://www.touchlocal.com/
http://advertising.theigroup.co.uk
http://www.uktopwebsites.co.uk
http://www.4ni.co.uk/
http://www.inorthernireland.co.uk
http://www.businesspad.org
http://www.antya.com
http://www.xomreviews.com
http://www.thomsonlocal.com
http://www.citylocal.co.uk
http://www.caithness-business.co.uk/
http://www.searchme4.co.uk
https://www.yellowbot.com
http://www.yellowpagecity.com
http://www.gomy.co.uk/
http://www.myneighbourhoods.co.uk
http://www.gather.com
http://www.ikarma.com/
http://www.qype.co.uk
http://www.ibedfordshire.co.uk/
http://uk.localpages.com/
http://www.links-directory.co.uk
http://uk-local-search.co.uk
http://www.thephonebook.bt.com
http://www.alondondir.com
http://www.bizwiki.com
http://www.192.com
http://www.yelldirect.com
http://www.myspace.com
https://www.xing.com
http://www.linkedin.com/
http://www.ziggs.com
http://www.judysbook.com
http://www.xanga.com/



Canada local And Business-


http://maps.google.ca/
http://www.localsites.ca/
http://ca.local.yahoo.com/
http://www.localeconomy.ca
http://www.weblocal.ca/
http://www.aroundstratford.com
http://www.fixmyinfo.com
http://www.411.ca/
http://www.on-biz.ca
http://www1.canpages.ca
http://www.canadaone.com/
http://www.lookuppage.com
http://www.brownbook.net
http://ylm.ca/
http://www.genieknows.com
http://listingsca.com
http://www.freebizads.ca
http://www.fraservalleybc.com
http://www.everythingalberta.com
http://www.judysbook.com
http://www.shopincanada.com/
http://www.canadianbusinessdirectory.ca
http://www.hotfrog.ca
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.vendorland.ca/
http://www.productionhub.com
https://www.jigsaw.com/
http://canada.oodle.com
http://www.rateitall.com
http://www.yellowpages.ca/
https://www.xing.com
http://www.focus.com
http://www.linkedin.com/
http://www.gather.com
http://www.manta.com
http://www.ziggs.com
http://www.aboutus.org
http://www.linksite.ca/
http://www.canpages.ca
http://www.finditincanada.ca
http://www.searchcalgary.ca
http://www.goldbook.ca
http://www.canada411.ca/
http://www.xanga.com/

Note- It is important that you manually list your business in these directories by choosing the right business categories and entering consistent information throughout all the directories. Also, even though not all directories pass link juice to your site, search engines such as Google notice the citation of your business on these sites and this affects the local ranking algorithm. - See more at: http://www.linkbuildingupdates.org/2013/05/top-free-local-and-business-listing.html#sthash.Awa5MXlB.dpuf

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What is the difference between SEO and SMO ?

SMO and SEO both are different terms no doubt both have same destination and both are under the same category that is Internet Marketing. SMO Stands for Social Media Marketing, and SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.

SEO :- Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the process of getting your website ranked highly in the search engines for relevant key phrases that your customers are using to search for your products and services.The best way to drive targeted traffic to your website is by implementing an effective search engine optimization strategy.We are eager to get to work on a powerful Internet marketing strategy for your business.We handle the nitty gritty from defining your target market through to onpage and offpage optimisation including link building.

SMO :- Social Media Optimization  or SMO, is the generation of targeted search traffic through the use of bookmarking, social networking, and inbound link generation.Through our SMO services we make an effort to craft public relations through social media, online communities and social networking sites as well as we consider it as a way of engendering popularity of a website through social media.

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On Page and Off Page SEO activities list

On Page and Off page both are equally important so whenever you are doing SEO you have to perform this both task perfectly.

On Page Optimization: On page optimization is On site optimization you have to make changes on your site like Meta Tag Creation, H1 tag, Alt Tag, Internal Linking, Content Optimization etc.

Off Page Optimization: In off page optimization you have to submit your site link/Content to other sites. You can submit your content/link to Directory Submission sites , Social Bookmarking Sites, Article Submission sites this all are the off page activity. For more detailed information about On page and off page activity check below list

Here is some of On page and Off page Steps.

On page optimization

1. Site Analysis
2. Keyword Research
3. Keyword Density
4. Title tags
5. Meta Tags
6. Meta Description
7. H1 Tags
8. ALT Tags
9. URL Structure
10. Internal Linking
11. Original, Effective & Keyword Reach Content
12. Sitemaps
13. Robot.Txt
14. Blog installation & posting
15. W3C Validation
16. Track of target keywords

Off Page Optimization

1. Directory submission
2. Classified Submission
3. Social bookmarking
4. Article Submission
5. Press Release Submission
6. Blog submission
7. RSS Submission
8. Forum posting
9. Link Building
10. Reciprocal linking
11. Do Follow Blog Commenting

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Google's Matt Cutts Warns About Linking Too Many Sites Together

Yesterday, Google's Matt Cutts posted a video answer to the question "If I have 20 domains, should I link them all together?"
The short answer is, most likely no - you should not link them all together.
As I explained at Search Engine Land with my article titles Google's Matt Cutts: Linking 20 Domains Together Likely A "Cross Linking Scheme" - it may be considered by Google as a cross linking scheme - at least those are the words used by Matt Cutts.
Here is the video:

As you can see, the overall theme and feeling you get from Matt is that it is typically a bad idea.

So the next question I will hear is what about linking 18 sites, or 15 sites, or what about 10 or 5 sites together. I love those questions. Those asking those questions are linking the sites for one purpose, ranking.

So what about it? :)

Source : Google's Matt Cutts Warns About Linking Too Many Sites Together

Image credit to BigStockPhoto for circle of chains

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Google AdWords Keyword Tool Is Shutting Down

Google decided to shut down their one of best service “Keyword Tool”
Ohh, really is it?
Yes ! recently i opened Google AdWords keyword tool and there i saw the message says that : “In the coming months, the external Keyword Tool will no longer be available. To get keyword ideas, sign in to your AdWords account and try Keyword Planner.”  There is not described any fix date but there message said it will not available in the coming month.

Now, how we will know the good keywords for our blog? we have to search for any alternatives ?
No!   Google has recently launched new tool called “Keyword Planner” after the coming month, keyword tool will replaced with keyword planner. there are many good features available,  The new keyword planner is designed to make it easier for advertisrs to create new campaigns and ad group from within the planner. we can use it freely, like we used keyword tool. but it only available for those who logged into AdWords.

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2013 Google Ranking Factors From Netmark

Yesterday we covered the 2013 ranking factors from SearchMetrics, now let us share with you the Google ranking factors from a different company named Netmark.

You can learn about Netmark’s methodology for determining these ranking factors over hereand you can see all the ranking factors over here.

Here the top 10 ranking factors from the study:

 Netmark also shows you the top ranking factors broken down by backlinks, social media, on-page, authority scores, by search volume, and ratio.

Source :  2013 Google Ranking Factors From Netmark

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Google Places Warning: Do Not Edit Those New Categories On Your Businesses Listing

Jade Wang from Google's local business team announced in aGoogle Business Help thread that if you see new categories in your business listings, please refrain from updating them.

Jade explained there is a bug (don't be surprised) that they are working on fixing and if you edit those categories, it may cause more issues.

Jade wrote:

We've found a technical issue affecting some users that causes a handful of new categories are showing up in Places dashboards. We're working on a fix and will come back with an update when we can. Please do not edit these categories for now while we work on the issue. Please note that these categories do not show on the publicly-available listing.

So be warned. Jade has not yet said when it is safe to go in and editor those categories.

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Google AdWords Keyword Tool Redirecting Some Users To Keyword Planner Instead

Frederic Chanut shared on Google+ an interesting Google AdWords bug with the keyword tool.

Some are reporting that when you login to your AdWords account and click on the tools drop down and select the keyword tool, Google won't take you to the keyword tool. Instead of Google taking you to the keyword tool, Google is taking you to the new keyword planner tool.

As you can imagine, this can be frustrating for advertisers and also scary. It might be a sign that Google may replace the keyword tool with the planner tool?

Here is a screen shot of the behavior:

Personally, logged in or out, the keyword tool works and does not redirect me to the planner tool.

I am not sure if this is a sign that the keyword tool will be replaced by the keyword planner or if this is a weird bug upsetting a subset of advertisers?

Forum discussion at Google+.

Author Bio : Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry is also the founder of the Search Engine Roundtable and the News Editor of Search Engine Land. He is well known & respected for his expertise in the search marketing industry. Barry graduated from the City University of New York and lives with his family in the NYC region. You can follow Barry on Twitter at @rustybrick or on Google + and read his full bio over here.

Source : Google AdWords Keyword Tool Redirecting Some Users To Keyword Planner Instead

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Google's Matt Cutts Confirms Some Type Of Update Happening

For the past week or so, I've been seeing a lot of chatter around a Google updating happening. The thing is, it is hard to tell what is going on right now.

The WebmasterWorld thread has a lot of chatter that symbolizes an update but that chatter has been pretty steady for the past couple weeks or so. In addition, the monitoring tools, such as MozCast shows higher signs of volatility than normal. Here are the temperatures 73° on June 24, 86° on June 23, 77° on June 22, 71° on June 21 and 72° on June 20. So pretty hot days this week and the week before.

The kicker is on Friday, Matt Cutts tweeted that there is an update being pushed out over multiple weeks. Matt said:

Multi-week rollout going on now, from next week all all the way to the week after July 4th.

I think this is in response to spam algorithm and not the softer Panda algorithm - although, they both might be updating now, as well as other things might be going on at the same time.

The reason I think it is spam algorithm related is because @screamingfrog tweet about a [car insurance] query was what Matt responded to.

I will see if I can get more details from Matt Cutts and will let you know the details when I hear back.

Source : Google's Matt Cutts Confirms Some Type Of Update Happening

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How to add pictures in Facebook Comment box

Hi Readers, #Facebook announced now allows you to comment on posts with pictures and not just words. Just click on camera button which will show in comment box and pick your image and post it.

#Facebook now allows you to comment on posts with pictures and not just words. pic.twitter.com/KN73cauXFL
— Kamaldeep Singh SEO (@KD_Singh007) June 20, 2013

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How to Edit Google AdWords Sitelinks Descriptions

Hello Readers,  Now you can edit  Google AdWords Sitelinks Descriptions, Google announced on the AdWords blog that you can now "nominate specific text for your sitelink descriptions" within your AdWords ads.

To do so, you need to have upgraded to the enhanced campaigns.

Here is what you can control:

 

Here is where you can control it:

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Tell Google Spider not to catch specific section of the content

Tell Google Spider not to catch specific section of the content 

To avoid duplicate content  we can have following things

1)      Making the URL not to index in Google , but this would really drop the visitors

2)      Telling Google Spider not to catch  Specific section of the Content  

è Having I frame (spider can’t catch the content )

è Having  Google off and Google on tag

Having this tag

Ex:

         <p> But for US auto General Motors, that is a mere footnote. The Sail U-VA launched in India last week is its litmus test, a make-or-break launch. Its success will determine whether GM’s 2-year-old tie-up with China’s SAIC works in terms of direct product launches in India. </p>

 

                    <!--googleoff: index-->

 

         <p>The facia is accentuated in places with lines and creases that make it appear big and muscular. There are no surprises at the rear, either, and a lack of inspiration becomes evident. The high strung vertical tail lamps are a doneto- death design, and from the back the car looks boxy. Design is not adventurous or eye catching, but functional.</p>

 

                    <!--googleon: index>

index - content surrounded by “googleoff: index” will not be indexed by Google

   

Let make the URL , Meta description , Heading Unique by adding some relevant dynamic one words    

Ex:

Sulekh News : Chinese checkers against the Samurai - Chevy Sail U-VA – Review  in http://cars.sulekha.com/chinese-checkers-against-the-samurai-chevy-sail-u-va-review_424236_review

 

Chinese checkers against the Samurai - Chevy Sail U-VA – Review   the original one in http://travel.sulekha.com/chinese-checkers-against-the-samurai-chevy-sail-u-va-review_424236_review

 

Adding <Sulekh News : > in front of the Heading tag will  avoided Duplicated issue similarly we can do it for  URL, Meta tags

 

And the body of the content in <!--googleoff: index--> tags  or in Iframe

Hence our URL get index , avoid duplicity in Body of our page, get visitors  

 

Note : Iframe content can cached by Google but not by yahoo & bing  So if we use iframe and <!--googleoff: index--> tags together  then we can avoid Duplicate issue for all major search engine 

Source : Tell Google Spider not to catch specific section of the content

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Seo Search Terms For Seo

There are the google seo search,google blog search,google search tips,google search tricks,google search terms for seo beginners.

FINDING FORUMS

inurl:viewtopic your keyword
Powered by Phbb your keyword
Powered by vBulletin your keyword
Powered by SMF your keyword
Phbb your keyword
powered by IPB your keyword
MyBB your keyword
powered by PunBB your keyword

FINDING DIRECTORIES AND SUBMISSION SITES

intitle:add+url "your keyword"
intitle:submit+site "your keyword"
intitle:submit+url "your keyword"
intitle:add+your+site "your keyword"
intitle:add+site "your keyword"
intitle:directory "your keyword"
intitle:sites "your keyword"
intitle:list "your keyword"

GETTING LINKS FROM SQUIDOO

site:squidoo.com "new links plexo" "add to this list"
site:squidoo.com "your keyword" "add to this list"

FLICKR

site:flickr.com "your keyword"
http://digg.com/search?s=flickr.com

STUMBLEUPON

site:stumbleupon.com "your keyword"

DIGG

site:digg.com "your keyword"

.EDU AND .GOV SITES

site:.edu inurl:wp-login.php +blog
site:.gov inurl:wp-login.php +blog
site:.edu "your keyword"
site:.gov "your keyword" - "you must be logged in" - "comments are closed"
site:.edu "no comments" +blogroll - "posting closed" - "you must be logged in" - "comments are closed"
site:.gov "no comments" +blogroll - "posting closed" - "you must be logged in" - "comments are closed"

PROPELLER

site:propeller.com/member keyword

GETTING LINKS FROM SLIDESHARE

site:www.slideshare.net keyword "comments 1"

BLOG

site:.com inurl:blog "post a comment" - "comments closed" - "you must be logged in" "ADD YOUR KEYWORD"

site: .org inurl:blog "post a comment" -"comments closed" -"you must be logged in" "ADD YOUR KEYWORD"

site: .gov inurl:blog "post a comment" -"comments closed" -"you must be logged in" "ADD YOUR KEYWORD"

site: .com "powered by expressionengine" "ADD YOUR KEYWORD"
site: .org "powered by expressionengine" "ADD YOUR KEYWORD"
site: .edu "powered by expressionengine" "ADD YOUR KEYWORD"
site: .gov "powered by expressionengine" "ADD YOUR KEYWORD"

site: .com "Powered by BlogEngine.NET" inurl:blog "post a comment" -"comments closed" -"you must be logged in" "ADD YOUR KEYWORD"

site: .ORG "Powered by BlogEngine.NET" inurl:blog "post a comment" -"comments closed" -"you must be logged in" "ADD YOUR KEYWORD"

site: .edu "Powered by BlogEngine.NET" inurl:blog "post a comment" -"comments closed" -"you must be logged in" "ADD YOUR KEYWORD"

site: .gov "Powered by BlogEngine.NET" inurl:blog "post a comment" -"comments closed" -"you must be logged in" "ADD YOUR KEYWORD"

The Yahoo Code

linkdomain:yourdomain.com -site:yourdomain.com

WORDPRESS

powered by wordpress your keyword
powered by wordpress intitle:your keyword
powered by wordpress inurl:your keyword
If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account your keyword
site:blogspot.com your keyword
powered by wordpress your keyword -comments are closed

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Google's Matt Cutts On Disavow Tool Mistakes

What are common mistakes you see from people using the "disavow links" tool?

 

 

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21 Off-Page SEO Strategies to Build Your Online Reputation

As we all know, the Search Engine Optimization field is booming day to day with new inventions and innovations. People may not know that much of what they have learned yesterday will be out of date by tomorrow. Unless one updates his knowledge by reading SEO news/articles, there is no doubt he'll lag back in the SEO race.

Being an SEO Professional, I hereby suggest some the factors that deal with off-page SEO. I found this forum to be the best suited place for sharing. Below is a list of some things most people may be familiar with, but I have also added a few advanced things that you may not know. Try these Advanced Off-Page SEO Strategies to market your website, get ranked in search engines, and to build online reputation (branding) for your company/website so that you can survive in this competitive SEO world.

Note: These things have to be done after the completion of on-page SEO. Before doing these things you must be aware of your competitors who can able build a negative reputation against your company/website.

1). Community Creation in Social Networking Sites

Also known as online reputation management, this is the first and foremost step with which you have to initiate your process. Try to become a member of the most popular social networking sites like Orkut, Myspace, Facebook, Linked In, Ecademy, etc., and create a profile of your own. By doing this you can extend your network online, get connect with your friends, share things with each other, and promote your company/website to build an online reputation. This is most likely the same as Web 2.0 (Participatory Web), 

which means you have to show your active participation on a regular basis.

2). Blogging

This is one of the most powerful ways to promote your company/website online. Write a blog of your own for your company/website and include lots of unique content. Be precise in what you're trying to convey for the users in your blog entry and promote your blog in blog directories and blog search engines. You can also promote your blog/website by posting comments in other service-related blogs which allow links in the comments section that are crawlable by the search engines (these blogs are commonly identified as Do-Follow Blogs). If you're not very good at writing content for blog posts, hire a guest blogger for your blog and ask him/her to write precise and unique content so that your blog can gain more credit from a search engine point of view.

3). Forum Postings

Create a forum/online discussion board of your own and start a discussion or share topics with your friends. You can also post/reply to a thread in other service-related pre-existing forums that allow links in your signature which can be crawled by the search engines (aka "Do-Follow Forums").

4). Search Engine Submission

Submit your website to the most popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, Alexa, Alltheweb, Lycos, Excite, etc., to get listed for free.

5). Directory Submission

Many people may say that directory submission is dead. As far as I'm concerned it is still alive. It is purely based on how effectively we are selecting those directories and how efficiently we are choosing the category for submission. Of course, I agree that it gives quite delayed results, but it is worth doing it. Submit your websites to the topmost quality directories like DMOZ, Yahoo Directory, ZoomInfo, One Mission, Pegasus, etc. Nowadays many web directories may offer paid listings but don't go for it.

6). Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is yet another powerful way of promoting your website, but nowadays most people are spamming social bookmarking sites without knowing how to use them. Since content in these websites update frequently, search engines like these types of sites and often visit them (this is commonly termed as Tagsonomy & Folksonomy in Web 2.0). Do some social bookmarking in popular bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Propeller, etc. You should be very careful while doing this and you must properly handle the tags which are very essential to broadcast your news on a wide area network. This may increase your website traffic based on how effectively you have participated.

6). Link Exchange

Exchange links with service-related websites (this is commonly termed as Thematic Link Exchange) that can help increase your link popularity, which is a major factor of Google's PageRank algorithm. Beware of Black-Hats while doing exchanges.

7). Link Baiting

Suppose you have copied/published another website's news or content in your blog/website. Don't forget to place their website link as a reference. Do it for others and, if your content is trustworthy, let others do it for you. This is another way to increase your link popularity.

8). Cross-Linking

Link to internal pages within your site wherever necessary (this is commonly termed Internal Linking). This increases your internal link popularity ,which is another major factor of Google Page Rank algorithm. The best known example of successful internal linking is Wikipedia. Also try to get a content link from websites/blogs that are related to your site theme. Try getting a link from within their site content using a targeted keyword as anchor text (much like Wikipedia does). We know that this strategy can often be hard to implement, but these types of links have more weight from a search engine point of view.

9). Photo Sharing

Publish/share your website product pictures and make them public. Let your friends see them and comment on them too, which will help drive traffic towards your website. Do this in major photo sharing websites like Flickr, Picasa, Photo Bucket, Picli, etc.

10). Video Promotions

Like with photo sharing, you can publish/share your product videos, expert opinions, and reviews of your product and make them public in YouTube, Metacafe, Dailymotion, etc.

11). Business Reviews

Write reviews about others businesses or ask your friends/clients to write a review of your business in major business review sites like RateitAll, Shvoong, Kaboodle, Stylefeeder, etc.

12). Local Listings & Yellow Pages

Instead of going global and facing huge competition, make your website local so that search engines can easily view your website and fetch the content. This will help you to reach a targeted audience. Submit your website to Google Local, Maps, Yahoo Local, Yellow Pages, Superpages, Hotfrog, etc.

13). Article Submission

Write articles of your own and submit them to popular article sites like Ezine, Go Articles, Now Public, Buzzle, etc. This will help you to attain some deep links for your website (though it's usually a slower process).

14). Press Release Promotion

If you are a business/service provider then go for PR submission in popular PR websites like 1888pressrelease, Open PR, PR Leap, etc. This will help you to publish your site in Google News.

15). Classifieds Submission

Do some classifieds submissions to advertise your products for free. Try Craigslist and other major classifieds sites like Kugli, Myspace, iMadespace, Vivastreet, etc.

16). Social Shopping Network

If you own an e-commerce website, this is a good strategy for advertising and easily branding your products for free. Submit your products to Google Product Search, Yahoo Online Shopping, MSN Online Shopping, and other major social shopping network sites like Kaboodle, Style Feeder, Wists, Five Limes, Buzz Shout, Ohmybuzz, etc.

17). Answers

Participate in Answers by asking and answering relevant questions and placing a link to your website in the source section if necessary. If you don't spam, this is another great way to increase your link popularity (Yahoo Answers, Cha-Cha, Answer Bag, etc.)

18). Document Sharing

Share your website documents like business documents, information brochures, and slides in Google Docs, Slide Share, etc. This will help you brand your website.

19) CSS, W3C & RSS Directories Submission

If you have a web design site or offer services related to web design, submit your website to CSS and W3C website directories which may drive traffic towards your website. Also submit your website to RSS feed directories which, again, will help you attain more traffic.

20). Widget / Gadget Development

Develop some interactive and innovative widget/gadget applications (such as an online poll or game widgets) for your website and publish them on your blog/website or in other popular social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace. Let your friends and others vote/play/use the widget/application, which will help you increase your branding and website visits.

21). PPC Ad Campaign

When none of the above strategies work for you, go for a PPC ad campaign with your targeted keywords. Remember that you have to pay to drive more traffic towards your website through PPC.

Note: Always keep in mind that you have to be very careful while implementing these strategies. You should not spam or overdo it. Whatever you do, just plan and execute. Otherwise, you can see adverse effects.

Thanks for reading! 

Source : 21 Off-Page SEO Strategies to Build Your Online Reputation

Author Vaidhya

SEO Team Leader at ANGLER Technologies India Pvt Ltd in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India 

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Google: Using Rel=Author Can Help Fight Search Spam

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Here is a summary of what Matt said, I pulled out the snippets:

I'm pretty excited about the ideas behind authorship. Basically if you can move from an anonymous web to a web where you have some notion of identity. And maybe even reputation of individual author. Then web spam, you kind of get the benefits for free. It's harder for the spammers to hide over here and in some anonymous corner... If Danny Sullivan writes something on a on a forum or something like that I'd like to know about that even if the forum itself doesn't have that much PageRank or something along those lines so... so I do expect us to continue exploring that. We might be able to help improve search quality... and I think will continue to look at it to see how to use rel=author in ways that can improve search experience.

Here is the video:

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