Building PageRanked Links with BuildMyRank

Over the past couple of weeks I have been playing around with a content link building service called BuildMyRank. So far it’s been really cool to work with their site and watch my backlinks grow through the use of their site. How it works is quite simple:

1. Write up a few 150+ word articles.
2. Publish your articles through BuildMyRank
3. Keep an eye on your backlinks process.

Yes, it looks quite simple and that’s just a quick review on how the service works. To better explain, you pay a monthly fee to access their service, which is BuildMyRank publishing your article content on their network of pageranked sites. For ever 150 article you write, you get to insert one url back to your site. If you write longer articles, you can place an extra link for every 150 words. Also, if you don’t want to write your own articles, you can outsource your writing (which I will go into detail on a future post). On top of everything mentioned, BuildMyRank will then post your article links to a bunch of other directories and rss feeds to increase the link juice and exposure to your site links.

Tracking Your Backlink Building Results

First of all, the admin area for BuildMyRank is straight forward and extremely easy to use. Once you are logged in, you will see a bunch of reports, breaking down how many links/articles you have active, your top keywords used and a few other reports.

I’ve been using BuildMyRank for a couple weeks now and have posted around 120 articles, which are currently live. The way BuildMyRank posts your 150+ word articles to sites in their network is quite random. I’ve seen and talked to other people using their service who have received PR6 sites linking back to them, but so far I only have a couple PR5 links in place. You can see my currently links received below.

As you can see, the majority of these links are coming from PR1, 2 and 3 sites… but there are a decent amount PR4 sites (around 10%). It’s quite exciting when you get the PR5 sites linking back to you, but they are rare. As mentioned, I’m still waiting for my first PR6… and I know it will come soon!

Next week I will be writing a follow up post on how the next 100 article submissions perform, along with how to outsource your article marketing for cheap.

How to Use BuildMyRank for Best Results

We talked about the importance of linking in the beginning of the post, and not just about building links to your main page. Think about how many articles you’ve written for your blog or published on your site, that are just sitting nicely on the 2nd, 3rd or 4th pages of Google. They are most likely excellent quality articles, but they were just never given the chance to get the link backs that they deserve. This is exactly what BuildMyRank can do for you.

Right now I’m testing my link building efforts with 20 different sites / domains, and focusing the majority of the link building on long tail keywords and inner page content. Even within a week’s time, I’m already seeing some of my rankings creep up in the results. In the screenshot above you will see what it looks like when you have your articles in que, or already live on active sites. I blurred out the titles and keywords I am targeting, but you can clearly see the date the article was created, when it was published, if the post is now indexed in the search results and most importantly, the PageRank of the site your article and link is now featured on.

Most articles you submit will go live within 24 hours, and you can play with the settings in your account to change how many active articles and links you want to go live daily. This ranges from 1 to 10 per day, or you can go with “Random”, which will post a different amount of articles daily.

Fro what I’ve read from other people who are using BuildMyRank, it takes a lot of link building and article submissions to see any real movement, so I’m excited to see the results in the coming weeks as I continue to add more articles to create more incoming one way links.

10 Free Links Trial + The Costs of BuildMyRank

Considering how in depth and useful of a service BuildMyRank is, I don’t think it’s that costly of a service at all. If you are going to be writing your own articles, the only cost you have to pay is the monthly subscription amount, which is based on how many domains you want to promote through their site. You can see the breakdown of subscription plans below. It really makes sense to go for the 10 or 20 domains, as it’s just a few dollars more than the minimum 5 domain subscription plans. If you want to promote more than 20 domains, they have larger plans as well.

Up to 5 domains – $59/month
Up to 10 domains – $79/month
Up to 20 domains – $99/month

Right now BuildMyRank is holding a free trial where they are offering you the 10 incoming one way links to your web site or blog for free. You don’t even need a credit card! This is an insane opportunity to take a few minutes to write up some 150 word articles, and possibly bring in PR4, 5 or even 6 web sites with a one way link back to your site!

- Get Your Free 10 Links from BuildMyRank Now!

• Help Google find relevant internal links and crawl your site
• Bring your older and best posts back to life with your latest posts
• Improve your search engine rankings with your keyword linking

So that’s easy enough to understand, but what if you have an old blog that you have just been focusing on writing content for and haven’t been doing any internal linking? Well… there’s a plugin for that!

SEO Smart Links is Your Solution

This free plugin, which has been downloaded a gazillion times, will be your savior for when you need to start building mass internal backlinks throughout your blog. Best of all, it’s free! Head to your plugins section in wordpress, then search and install “seo smart links” and you will be setup right away. It’s super easy to use. In a nut shell, you just need to add the keywords and urls that you want turned into active links. You can visit my SEO Smart Links post on PPC.org to see the full features and screenshots, or visit the official plugin site. For anyone looking to do some hardcore internal lin building and tracking, there are also paid premium versions of the plugin available.

How Helpful are Internal Backlinks for SEO Purposes?

With all the talk about internal link building and search engine rankings, I wanted to get an answers from someone who specializes in the seo and link building business. I sent over a few questions to my friend Alex Pyatetsky from TheHoth link building service. The question was simple… “How Much Do Internal Links Help with Search Engine Rankings?”… you will find his full answer below.

Internal links count. Period.

If SEO is an election and building links is pounding the pavement and shaking hands, then internal linking is interparty endorsements. Its a way to throw around accumulated clout (e.g. site authority) and focus it on the pages that you want to win the SERP election.

Here is a true story to help illustrate.

I was recently consulting for a client who previously owned several of the top blogs in his niche. He’s in a space where keywords have very brief lifespans, roughly 2-4 weeks before everyone forgets and moves on to the next thing. Once upon a time, every post on these authoritative blogs would rank in the top 5 within days/hours. But one day, it all changed and his fat, healthy cash cows went on the Olson Twins’ diet.

Upon reviewing the site, I noticed that he had no “Recent Posts” section, which would create a site-wide link to each of his new posts. This would allow him to throw around his site’s built-up authority to the new pages that need it most, when they need it most so they can rank faster.

As we dug deeper, I learned that one of the talking heads in the SEO industry previously told my client that having a site-wide element like a “Recents Posts” widget could hurt his blog because it would count as duplicate content.

This, of course, is the epitome of B.S. Global elements like “Recent Posts,” “Most Popular Posts,”etc., create great navigational experiences for users and very strong internal link structures for crawlers to index featured pages. Its ridiculous to think that they could hurt a site.

So guess what! My client got scared and took off the “Recent Posts” widget on all of his blogs as part of a sweeping round of changes. Magically, all future posts failed to rank.

Sure enough, he implemented my advice, returned the “Recently Posts” widget, and with a few weeks he started killing it again in the SERPs.

The moral of the story is

1) Don’t listen to the talking heads. [I'm referring to worshiped industry idols who preach unhelpful dogma, not the band. The band is awesome.]

2) Internal links count. Period.

So there you have it. If you are already building internal links on your blog, awesome! If not, you can easily make up for lost time with the use of the SEO Smart Links plugin.

Answer to this question is easy enough to understand.  Anyone can do this.  The way you sell goods and services to the populace is through showmanship, and more importantly, advertising.  Advertising has been a key to commercial ventures for a long time, probably since the first people began to barter and trade with one another so many millennia ago.  In the nineteenth and twentieth century, men and women were able to purchase a variety of goods and services through a variety of avenues.  These included traveling salesman, traditional establishments such as corner stores, and drug stores, as well as mail order catalogs.

In the modern era, all of these advertising methods are still available.  However, technology has changed the game yet again, as it so often does.  The development of the Internet during the 1980s and 90s has changed virtually every aspect of human society from interpersonal communication to commercial ventures.  Millions of people spend billions of dollars every day on the web purchasing everything from books to medical insurance through websites.

If everyone is purchasing and selling goods and services on the web, then why not improve your businesses marketability through the use of web-based advertising?

I am not telling you to engage in the absolutely ludicrous, wholly ineffective, totally annoying type of advertising which necessitates the transmission of the blanket-e-mails across the Web.  This type of advertising is wholly outdated, and viewed as a nuisance by many of us went the Internet on a daily basis, because of the fact that these bulk-email-advertisements constantly fill our Internet e-mail boxes, and are usually deleted without ever being opened.

Does this sound like a surefire way to sell your products to the public? I think not.  There is a much more effective type of Internet-based advertising, which has become prevalent throughout business world recently.   Pay per click advertising, or PPC, is one of the only types of advertising available on the web, which allows business owners to make a profit through their advertisements, while also allowing them to increase their customer bases exponentially through ever-increasing public exposure.

Furthermore, the types of advertisements generated by PPC software such as Google AdWords allows business owners to set up target audiences based on factors such as ethnicity, religion, gender, interests, as well as other factors.  At the same time, these types of software also allow the business owner the ability to track the effectiveness of any PPC advertisements on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, which in turn allows business owners and their employees to constantly revamp and rethink marketing strategies in an effort to improve their products’ overall marketability.  PPC software is among the most difficult software to operate on the web.

However, many corporations offer well-organized tutorials, which will greatly increase any users understanding of the software.  At the same time, privately maintained websites such as www.PPC.org also provide discussion forums and articles, which offer a copious amount of PPC tips and PPC tricks for anyone’s use.

This is your chance to look back at our top posts, catch any that you may have missed, or refresh your memory of those that you may have forgotten. These posts include tips for increasing blog traffic, getting motivated, making money from your blog, and marketing / promoting your blog.

High School Drop Out – Makes Six Thousand a Month From Passive Income

“One of my great friends I’ve been knowing since high school and which also dropped out our sophomore year. Contacted me about three years ago because he was seeing the success I was having online and wanted to get into internet marketing.”

How YouTube Brought Me 1.1 Million Video Views

“We all know that YouTube is the leading video site online for over six years now and counting. Millions of people go to YouTube everyday to view videos on all types of videos. I’m here to talk about our subject which is the form of building traffic to a given website.”

3 Lessons I Learnt from Getting and Losing Traffic to My Blog

“I have also discovered that the more traffic and visitors I lose the more lessons I learn and the easier it becomes for me to make effective use of the traffic I get to my blog. This article will be explaining some great lessons I learnt from getting and losing thousands of visitors to my blog.”

4 Types of Blog Posts You Can Write that Will Always Be Popular

“I have discovered 4 types of blog posts that always work on my blog and I have been using them with success more recently so I see that there is no point in keeping these tips to myself and I have decided to share them here. Below are 4 great types of blog posts that will always be popular.”

Motivation Can Play A Big Role In Your Sucess

“We all have something we are passion about in our lives. Whether its family or some type of talent you like to show off at times. We all have something that keeps up from going in sane and on the right path of making our dreams come true. You must reach deep down and grab on to what makes you the best at what you do.”

5 Things You NEED to Know About Your Website Visitors

“Google Analytics is amazing. It’s a free, powerful, and a tool that everyone should have on their blog. But not everyone has the time to sift through all that data. So if you’re making a quick dip into Analytics, here are the 5 things you should know out about your website visitors.”

Guest Blogging – Are You Making These Mistakes?

“One great thing about blogging is that it doesn’t matter how great your content is you won’t go anywhere without traffic, hence, the need for marketing your blog. As someone who has written hundreds of guest posts I can attest to the power of guest blogging and I can assure you that it is one of the most effective ways to build traffic to your blog.”

5 Great Ways to Get Sued as a Blogger

“The Internet has changed the game in terms of personal publishing. Unfortunately, very few bloggers have had any kind of mass media law training to prepare them for the responsibilities that come with reaching out to such a large audience and many end up running afoul of the law, often resulting in them being on the wrong end of a lawsuit.”

5 Solid Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog

“It doesn’t matter how great your knowledge of monetization is or what kind of influence you have; if you don’t have enough traffic to your blog your blog can’t go anywhere. This post will be giving you five solid ways to get traffic to your blog.”

High School Taught Me Crap About Being Successful

“Recently I talked about should high schools teach internet marketing because of the lack of successful people coming out of college in today’s market due to the economy and more. People are leaving high school and going into college and finishing in four years and can’t get a job.”

Interview with a Successful 10 Year Old Blogger

“The interview below is with Bradley Nordstrom, a 10 year old affiliate and blogger who is very well known for commenting on several Internet marketing blogs. While juggling his homework, after school activities and just being a kid… we were lucky enough to snag this exclusive interview.”

10 Marketing Strategies You Can Implement Today

“If you run an online business, blog or website you know you need to be marketing. Maybe you aren’t sure where to start. These ten tips are things you can start implementing right away to grow your business and start getting the word out about your product or service.”

The Secret to Making Money Online

“I recently displayed my monthly income report on my blog but a question that bothers most of my readers was how I was able to achieve such within a short period of time. If I were asked if there is truly a secret to making money online, ethically, I will tell you there isn’t.”

The Most Essential Blogging Tips That You Must Know

“These days, many people are trying to make money online with their blogs. However, not everyone knows that a blogger can become successful if he or she applies some specific – and in most cases unwritten – rules that relate to blog posting. Thus, if you intend to brand yourself as an expert within your niche, you must comprehend a few important details that can help you to become a very successfully blogger.”

Promote Your Blog With a Facebook Banner from Fbanners.com

“By now, I’m sure you’re aware of the new Facebook profiles and how they add your tagged photos to the top of your profile. Fbanners.com allows you to create your own profile banners which makes it a great tool for branding your Facebook profile. You’ll just need an image with the approximate dimensions 493 (width) x 68 (height) pixels.”

How to Really Get Results as a Blogger

“I’ve gotten emails from people who have been blogging for years but couldn’t make a cent online. It sounds impossible, but believe me, it happens. A lot of these people ask me what I’m doing to get the results I get so fast but the truth is THERE IS NO SECRET.”

Should Bloggers be SEOs?

“One great and controversial question that has been in the blogosphere for a very long time now is that of whether bloggers should focus on SEO or if they should focus only on delivering quality content. Every side to this argument has a valid point but I’ll be giving you my opinion below.”

Increase Traffic to Your Website With a Simple Button From RemindThis

“The concept of RemindThis is simple: Install a button on your website that, when clicked, will set up an email reminder for visitors to return to your site. This is a great way to encourage repeat visits and increase traffic to your website.”

5 Blog Directories That Are Great For Backlinks

“I’m sure you all know that link building is a huge, important part of being a blog owner. Not only do you want to build backlinks to your blog, but you want them to be high quality and relevant. So here are 5 blog directories that are not only useful but also affordable.”

21 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog

“Getting traffic to your blog is one of the most important things you need to do as a blogger but it is no surprise many bloggers still find it difficult to build blogs with high traffic even though they’ve read countless of articles on the subject. The best part of getting traffic to a blog is taking action and this post will be giving you 21 simple ways to get traffic to your blog,.”

Happy New Year to all of our readers and we wish you lots of continued success with your blogs in 2012!

Feel free to share your favorite Blogging Tips posts with us in the comment and/or let us know what you would like to see more of.

This post will cover a few things you need to do to build your list, but it will also give you a daily plan to get it done.

Things you need to start list building:

The first thing you need is a newsletter of some sort. If you don’t have a newsletter or some other reason to email your list, what good will your list do?

This is not a tutorial on setting up your autoresponder.  Here is a tutorial if you need help with that.

Once you have all that in place you need to create some emails that will go out to your list, the welcome email and a few follow up emails are fine to start with.

Now what? Now you start getting people to your website and signing up.

Put a sign up form at the bottom of every blog post and ask the reader to sign up. Not using a call to action has been one of my biggest mistakes. Make it easy for people to sign up.

If you use WordPress you can get a nifty little plugin, TinyMCE Signature, that allows you to put your opt-in form on each blog post. I really like it!

Now that all of that is set up, you’re ready to start a weekly action plan to get traffic and subscribers. This is a very basic, yet simple plan. It shouldn’t take any more than an hour per day to implement. You can use it week after week. After this plan becomes easy you can add more tasks to it, write more articles, etc.

Day 1

Write an article for an article directory like ezinearticles, articlesbase or any others you can find.

ArticlesBase has changed their submission rules due to Google’s latest algorithm update. Be sure to read that if you plan to use them. It’s nothing major, but it is important.

Use your resource box to send them to your sign up page with a message like, “John Does runs mydomain.com which specializes in your field. For more information sign up for his/her weekly newsletter by going here*.”

*Make sure the link to your form is in there.

Don’t just send them to your website, send them to your sign up form!

Share this article on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. You should also add some tweets that you’ve started a newsletter and link to the sign up form.

Day 2

Write a guest blog post and treat it just like you did for the article directory using your bio to call the reader to action.

Share your guest blog post on social media sites when it’s published.

If you haven’t found a blog to write a guest post for, write another article and submit to a directory.

Day 3

Create a Squidoo lens with relevant information about your topic and put a call to action at the bottom–just like your bio or resource box mentioned above.

Share it on social media sites.

Day 4

Repeat Day 1. This will give you at least two articles per week that you will submit to article directories. If you submitted the first one to ezinearticles, then submit this one to a different directory.

Don’t forget to share on social media sites, promote your newsletter, etc.

Day 5

Comment on relevant blogs to gain exposure and get a link back to your site.

Some blogs are no-follow. You can find out how to check for that here.

Share the blogs you comment on in social media sites. If they’re worth commenting on, they are worth sharing.

Following this plan should be extremely easy, especially if you’re a beginner. If you have any other simple tips for list building, please share them in the comment section.

Working on your team, should you choose to hire them, are the experts from Link Proz. As you might be able to gather from the firm’s name, one of their primary services is to help you get quality backlinks, helping your website’s overall search engine rankings.

Get High PageRank Backlinks

Link Proz offers a series of other related search engine optimization services, which I’ll briefly describe in just a moment, but the meat and potatoes comes down to link building.

On-page search engine optimization certainly helps, but getting high quality backlinks to your site using targeted keywords can be so much more powerful. That’s why the link building services from Link Proz are so important.

The Full Search Engine Optimization Package

Beyond acquiring a series of backlinks for your site using your target keywords, Link Proz says that it offers a comprehensive SEO solution for business of all sizes. Among these services are SEO content creation, website analysis, social media promotion, and more. They even dabble in website design as part of the portfolio of services offered by Link Proz.

A series of testimonials are shown on the homepage of Link Proz.

The Results Speak for Themselves

Among the clients of Link Proz are such notable names as Newegg.com, Nine West, and Match.com. They have been able to assist these companies rank quite high for their competitive target keywords. They are currently working with BloggingTips.com as well and we are looking forward to seeing a jump in search results.

Since there are no contracts and Link Proz only charges on a month-to-month basis, you can opt out of their services at any time. Get a quote, try them for a month, and see what kind of SEO results you can get.

Link: LinkProz.com

I had the chance to try out a new service called LinkTrackr, and they actually have a very nice and advanced system. Let’s breakdown their services and what they are all about.

Right when you get to the site you are given a quick run down of how affiliate marketing works, and much easier it could be using LinkTrackr for tracking links and campaigns. The basic concept here is that if you promote your own product, blog or web site using a direct url or a simple redirect, you are potentially missing out on a ton of viral traffic.

Once you sign up for an account it really easy to get started and create a few links. I recently came out with my own free affiliate blogging guide at SixFigureAffiliateBlogging.com. Instead of sending people directly to that site, I can send them to a viral enabled link using LinkTrackr. Here’s how…

The setup is really self explanatory. Just fill in the blank fields with your site info and how you want the viral options to work, then you would be setup with a url like the following: http://moneyreign.linktrackr.com/sfab. You also have the option of using your own domain name for better marketing and branding.

Once you visit that tracking url, you will see that your blog or landing page would have the following viral bar on top of the page. Feel free to try it out and event “tweet” or “facebook like it” using the toolbar.

The top portion of the page may be cut off a bit, but other than that, the site is fully functional and your visitors now have the option to tweet, facebook share or facebook like the post. Even if only 1-3% of your visitors decide to share the content, it could result in a great amount of extra and free viral traffic back to your site.

As a member of LinkTrackr, you will also have access to videos, guides and tutorials on how to use the system, though I picked everything up within minutes of joining the site. You will also have access to other areas of their site which offers a wordpress plugin for link management, pdf reports on blogging and affiliate marketing, and you can also help promote LinkTrackr as an affiliate and earn 40% on all referred sales.

So what does all of this cost? As mentioned, there are a lot of programs out there that offer link management and redirection services, but none that really blew me away. LinkTrackr costs $27 a month (through paypal), but also has a one month trial for only $1. I would recommend you give the one month trial a run and see how much free viral traffic you can bring it.

In the end, I think it really comes down to your web site, offer or blog traffic. If it’s really good content, people are going to want to share it, but if it’s a general offer where you make a quick buck, I wouldn’t expect anyone to share the offer.

Head over to LinkTrackr. Try out the 30 day trial for only a buck, and at the least you can download their free report to discover the “7 Sins of Affiliate Marketing”.

There are a ton of Photo Hosting Services and as bloggers we should be making use of great photos on our blogs. Photos capture eyeballs quickly because users scanning posts will more likely pause when they see a photo that is compelling. If you take photos then you’re going to need a place to store them.

You can upload and then store them to your blog through the upload media option in WordPress and Blogger (and probably other ones too) which is fine. However if you do just host the photo on your blog then you could be losing out on possible traffic to your blog. Let’s say that you took a photo of a dog, like the boxer above. You upload that photo to your wordpress blog so that you can use it in a blog post. That’s it, you are done. Photo on a blog end of transaction.

But you could get more out of that photo.

Now let’s suppose that you take a photo of that boxer and you upload it to Flickr and you add tags to the photo such as “boxer”, “Sticking out tongue”, “dog”, “funny” and “funny dog”. In the caption of the photo you leave a link to your blog post. This means that if someone was doing a search on Flickr for funny dog photos or sticking out tongues then they may find your photo. They click on the photo and want to see it clearer, on the photo page they see a link to your blog post about your funny dog and they click that link. Bang. Traffic.

Ramp it Up

But suppose that you host that same photo to multiple sites. Flickr, Picasa, Buzznet and Zooomr all give you the option to add in captions which include links. They also allow you to tag the images with keywords. So this means that the users within those communities can easily find your photos and your blog post. The services I listed above are the ones I use on a daily basis to host my daily photo, I also post my photo to Facebook and ShutterCal. Each of them drives traffic to my blog.

Which is my favorite?

Each site has its own strengths and weaknesses.

Facebook – You can add links to your photos but not tag them with keywords, you can tag them with people though. Can’t post photos from Facebook to your blog.

ShutterCal – Simple interface, organizes photos on a day by day basis in a calendar. Only post one photo per day. Sort of the point of the site and all.

Buzznet – Got way too hip and focuses more on really hipster things like music and movies and less on photos. However you can still generate traffic from the site.

Photo-A-Day #1213 08/03/08

Zooomr – Offers free infinite uploads but not a hugely popular platform even though they offer near as many options as Flickr.

Picasa – Free and you can pay for additional space but don’t need to unless you run out but as Google gets bigger you get more space. Plus Picasa has a very cool desktop program that can catalog and sync all your home photo directories. There is also a face detection option which is currently at 8% completed for me because I have over 250,000 photos for the software to sort through.

From 4th Annual Scoop The Herring Day

Flickr – Probably one of the most well known and most used photo hosting sites out there. It integrates with nearly everything and there is a fee if you want to go pro.

What Photo Hosting Sites Do you use? Which do you like the best?

I’m also not the kind of guy who gives glowing reviews, everything is usually tempered with a mix of good and bad, an attempt to find balance and deeper understanding.

But there is at least one service that I am truly grateful for, Diigo.

You see, when most people think of social bookmarking, they think of Delicious due to its popularity. However, for me and my specific needs, Diigo has been a savior, providing a much-needed service that’s simple, reliable and attractive.

If I’m going to rave about any service I use, Diigo would be it and as the U.S. celebrates Thanksgiving, I want to celebrate one of my favorite tech services and how much it has helped me.

Why Diigo?

Diigo, which is pronounced “dee’go”, is a social bookmarking service similar to Delicious in that it allows you to store your bookmarks on the Web. Using either a browser extension or bookmarklet, you can add links to your Diigo account, tag them and share them with your friends on the service.

But if you’re someone who just needs basic functionality in a bookmarking service, Diigo probably is not for you. Delicious is probably going to be less intimidating to use and has a larger userbase. But it is the features beyond the basic set that really make Diigo stand out.

Specifically, there are two features that really make Diigo special.

1. Annotations: Diigo makes it possible to highlight and add notes to any page that you bookmark and choose who to share those notes with. This is very handy for returning to a specific passage in a page or adding notes to your bookmarks for later. Since annotations can be shared, it’s also great for group research projects.
2. Lists: As someone who does regular podcasts, Diigo has been a godsend when it comes to creating show notes. It’s lists function allows you to easily create an ordered list of sites, add notes to each article and, as mentioned above, highlight key passages. The lists can be shared easily and even have a “Webslides” feature that allows you to view the pages in order, full screen, saving you from having to open all the links in new tabs.

In short, Diigo is built for capturing, marking up and organizing information, especially in a social environment. For that purpose, it works well and has a feature set I haven’t found elsewhere. It’s been a great find for my podcasting and linkroll work and I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Tiny Quibbles

If I had to nitpick the service, I would first note that it can be intimidating to use at first, especially after first installing the Diigo toolbar to find annotations all across most of the more popular sites. Also, with more options come more choices and that can breed confusion. Though Diigo’s bookmark interface isn’t any more complex than Delicious’, the bookmark library can be intimidating with multiple views and tons of options.

Also, Diigo’s tagging system is both weak and inconsistent. Lists, for example, are comma separated tags when you create them but bookmarks themselves are space separated. That, in turn, adds a bit to the confusion and also means that, when trying to tag bookmarks, you’re much more limited, especially when confronted with multi-word tags.

However, the awkward space separated tags is an issue Diigo shares with Delicious and a fairly minor issue in the big scheme of things, especially given the service’s power and features.

Bottom Line

Diigo isn’t a bookmarking service that is for everyone. It’s not for those who just want a simple, basic bookmarking system or feel the need to use the most popular site. Though Diigo’s community is nothing to sneeze at, Delicious is still clearly number one in that area.

However, number one doesn’t necessarily mean best, especially for power users who need the advanced features Diigo provides. If you bookmark a lot of links, need to make notes or otherwise want more features in your bookmarking, Diigo is a good place to look.

However, if you’re a big Delicious fan, there isn’t much to lose. Not only can you import your Delicious links into Diigo, but you can tell Diigo to submit your bookmarks to Delicious, keeping the two in sync that way. If you try it and don’t like it, you can switch back without missing a beat.

All in all, Diigo may not change the world, but it certainly can make your bookmarks much more useful. If you do sign up, be sure to add me, especially if you’re interested in copyright-related links.

• 10 Twitter Hacks For Your WordPress Blog – A fantastic roundup of Twitter related hacks for WordPress.
• 15 Ways to Rework Your Next Blog Post Title – A great post about improving your blog post title.
• WordPress 2.8 Beta 2 – You can now download the 2nd beta version of the upcoming 2.8 WordPress release.
• How to Change the Category for Multiple Blog Posts With WordPress – A good explanation of the new bulk post editing feature in WordPress.
• 5 Things to Do With a Blogging Day Off – A good post from Jonathan about what you could do on your day off!

• Publish Your Blog To Amazon Kindle & Make Money – You can now publish your blog on Amazons popular Kindle device. Amazon set a subscription rate (usually a few dollars a month) and give you 30% of the profits (which is very low in my opinion). Still worth uploading your blog though.
• Contributing to WordPress, Part IV: Ideas, Opinions, Feedback – Sarah tells you how you can tell WordPress developers your ideas for the blog platform.
• Twitter Hummingbird – I take a look at the latest Twitter software which everyone is raving about.
• How to Effectively Plan a New Blog Post – Some good tips on how you can plan out your next blog post.
• Decrease the Twitter Drop Out Rate & Increase Retention – Some basic tips on how you can market yourself better on Twitter.
• First Page Google Ranks are easy as spamming the page title – Analysis – An interesting look at the first page of the Google SERPS.
• The Power of a Pillar Article – A great summary of what writing a pillar article is all about.
• Are You Passionate and Excited Enough to Handle Rejection? – Some great advice on why you shouldn’t let rejection get you down.

• How To Earn Money Online as a Freelance Writer – A good article which is full of lots of useful links about working online as a blogger.
• Do some people think Twitter is a Fad? – With Twitter growing at an incredible rate everyday, is it in danger of becoming a fad?
• Types of Paragraphs: Introductory, Development, Transition & Concluding – Think you know how to use paragraphs correctly? Think again!
• I Support the Future of Sponsored Posts – Chris Brogan explains why he supports sponsored blog posts.
• Not Good or No Good? – Interesting post from Maeve about whether you should use ‘Not’ or ‘No’.
• How To Increase Your Chances of a Twitter Follow Back – Some good tips on how you can get more followers on Twitter.
• What You Got – ShoeMoney tells it like it is. Stop making excuses and put in some hard work!
• What If the Blog Outranks the Company Website? – Daniel answers an interesting question.
• The Three Essentials of Breakthrough Content Marketing – A good article from Sonia Simone regarding copy marketing.
• My 8.7M pixel display – An interesting look at how Matt Cutts works at home.
• Why It Pays to Befriend the ‘Little Guy’ – A nice little post from Brett Borders.
• 25 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Blogger – A fantastic list of applications, products and services which will make your blogging life more enjoyable.

What have you been reading in the last week? Feel free to share some good blogging posts with fellow readers in the comment area

• 135+ Ultimate Round-Up of WordPress Tutorials – A fantastic roundup of WordPress tutorials.
• Email is the New Offline – Do you only communicate by email when your contact is offline?
• 82 Essential Blogging Tips, Tricks and Resources – A massive list of blogging resources and articles.
• Short Spark: How to Say ‘No’ While Helping a Friend – Do you find it hard to say no to your readers?
• The First 6 Months Of Blogging – Promotion – A very good post by Dragos.

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee published the proposal that would eventually become the World Wide Web. A lot has changed since then, but one thing remains the same: Linking is king. Quality links are the life blood of the web, not only for drawing traffic to you but for leading your readers to other resources that will serve them well.

To help with this, several services have popped up that suggest content related to your blog posts. One of those companies, Zemanta, just released a bookmarklet so that you can use their service from Safari, Google Chrome, or just about any browser. Previously available as a plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer, the new bookmarklet allows you to add Zemanta links, photos, and more from any browser to your blog posts and email messages. The interface looks nice, and gives you control over what content you use.

Whether or not Zemanta is useful for you, be sure to check out their mashup with the Guardian API. They’re using the Zemanta API to enhance content pulled from The Guardian’s Open Platform.

Have you used Zemanta or another content enhancement service? What was your experience? Let us know in the comments.

• 30 Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks – A great collection of commnt hacks for WordPress by Daniel Adams.
• Promoting Your Blog Offline – T-shirts and Business Cards – Suzanne Franco talks about how you can promote your blog offline.
• How to Use WordPress for Bookmarking – A very good tutorial about bookmarking by Dustin Boston.
• Does The Way You Twitter Cause You Stress? – A good post about users Twitter habits from Marianna Paulson.
• Social Media Marketing FAQ – A fantastic collection of social media questions and answers from Traffikd.
• Blog SEO Tips: Top SEO Mistakes to Avoid – A good post about SEO mistakes bloggers should avoid.
• How To Create An eBook For Your Subscribers – A good introduction for those who are looking to create an ebook for their readers.

If you are an active affiliate marketer, then you might also be interested to know that Tyler Cruz has now launched his new affiliate competition site PublisherChallenge. Worth checking out.