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How NOT to Build Links to Your Website: Courtesy of American Express

Bill Hartzer

Through a division called “ American Express Market 3D “, American Express is doing Inbound Link Building, Social Bookmarking, and General Directory Submissions. – Inbound Link Building: Locate 15 General Directories and Submission. Directory, and Best of the Web. © 2012 American Express Company.

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WordPress Feature Review: New Features You Missed in 2012, Part 1

ProBlogger

Today I’d like to walk you through the new features which were introduced in 2012, in WordPress 3.4 Now you can embed Twitter statuses directly into your blog posts and pages by simply entering the Twitter status URL. WordPress now offers more user-friendly login URLs. The three major releases in 2011 were 3.1

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Google Index: 6 Ways to Get Your New Website Added Fast

Kikolani

In general, we cannot make predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or indexed.”. Google states that they will crawl the URL using this method usually within a day, however, I’ve seen web pages and blog posts show up in the SERPs in less than 5 minutes of using this tool.”. 6: Submit to directories.

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Google Index: 6 Ways to Get Your New Website Added Fast

Kikolani

In general, we cannot make predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or indexed.”. Google states that they will crawl the URL using this method usually within a day, however, I’ve seen web pages and blog posts show up in the SERPs in less than 5 minutes of using this tool.”. 6: Submit to directories.

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WordPress Feature Review: New Features You Missed in 2012, Part 2

ProBlogger

was the second and final major WordPress release of 2012. It was later released in the official WordPress theme directory in between the release of 3.4 The same three options are available as before: Upload Files, Media Library and Embed from URL. Each year the WordPress platform evolves and 2012 was no different.

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Why Bloggers Need to Audit their Links

Bill Hartzer

They will be links from link exchanges, article directories, and other link farms, sites unrelated to the theme of your blog, or links in blog comments. Google responded to the possibility of sabotage by introducing the Disavow Links tool in October 2012. Alternately, the URL from the link source has a typo in it.

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The Definitive Guide to Setting Up and Marketing a Podcast to Help Grow Your Blog

ProBlogger

On December 22, 2012, I launched my latest, aforementioned podcast. Publishing your Podcast – All about creating an RSS feed and submitting your podcast to iTunes and the other directories. Dimensions change from time to time, according to the directory your listing in. Perfect if you’re wanting to monetize your blog.