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Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World

ProBlogger

This affected anyone who used article marketing as a way to build links and drive traffic to their websites, since article networks were hit the hardest , though some—like HubPages— regained their rankings in subsequent updates. One advantage blogs have over other websites is the ability to submit to tons of various blog and RSS aggregators.

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Should We Continue To Trust Google? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

Here are others: HubPages Buzzle Associated Content Articles Base Find Articles These are all sites that can be referred to as “article directories&# under the traditional definition of article directory. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Only recently have Google not approved of them.

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How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google

Viper Chill

Utilise Free Content Sites Another link source that I don’t really love but I see doing well for a lot of sites is utilising free content sites like Squidoo , Gather and Hubpages. It would be far more powerful for ViperChill to have a homepage link from Problogger than it would be to have a link from Hubpages or an automated link farm.

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