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While I do realize that a lot of you may have already heard of Squidoo, I still wanted to make a post about it to let the users who haven’t heard about it get a chance at using it, as well as being able to use this post as a reference in future link building posts.

Squidoo is a huge community powered site that allows users to write about topics they are “experts” in. In return for writing these articles (they call them lens’), Squidoo shares half of the advertising revenue with you and also gives you anchor text backlinks inside your articles.

This post is a little satirical, please do not use it as solid advice. It is more of an accidental case study that happened to me and I wanted to share it with my readers.

Back on March 15th, I made a simple one paragraph post mentioning that I bought an iPhone. For those of you who didn’t know, the iPhone was one of 2007’s most hyped online product launches, and nearly every technology blog in the world was keeping tabs on iPhone news. This also means that since it was being searched for a lot, there were a lot of blackhat search engine spammers trying to steal their piece of the pie by their use of content theft. They scrape blogs around the world that mention the word iPhone and then post a piece of that blog post on their blog hoping it will rank for long-tail keywords.

I have recently discovered an untapped pagerank 7 blog that has an authority status in Google. The blog is extremely popular and comments inside the blog posts receive a backlink that is followed by the search engines. Every single blog post turns into a PR5 or PR6 link after the next update, and there are over 500 PR5+6 links already indexed by Google.

This is part two of the Miscellaneous Link Building post. These two posts are quick posts, and their only purpose is to show you websites where you can build links to increase your blog’s rank in the search engine. Since most of these methods are quick and simple, I have thrown them into one (two) quick posts.

Here is a few link building posts to increase your rank in the search engines. Unlike what most bloggers do, I am not going to rehash the content as my own in hopes of increasing my readership, but rather just send you to the actual sources.

Over the last few days, I have seen many people selling the “secret location” where you can get free PR9 .edu links. The threads on the DigitalPoint forums have had tons of sales ($50 each), and with such a high price you can be sure that people searched every nook and cranny to find if it was legit. Just by using a lot of free “questions” that were brought up in the thread, I did a little research. People in the forum thread were complaining that the site was running SSL (httpS://), stopping the search engines from viewing it.

Grazr is a web2.0 service that allows you to create widgets to “monitor online sources and share the results.”  What the heck does that mean?!? Other than sounding a lot like an RSS clone, I have no idea.  If you really want to figure out what the heck they do, go visit it, but being the vigorous internet marketer and link building deviant that I am, I only see the great link building capabilities. Grazr is a pagerank 6 authority site in the eyes of the search engines, and you can easily get a few pages on the site that link to every new post you make. In a nutshell, it is like an untapped RSS syndication that links to your blog posts the moment you write them. It is this site, along with the other popular ones in my RSS feed directory list that allow my blog posts to be cached by Google in under three hours.

4/21/2008 Update:  Right now, the site is redirecting to lifehack.org.  Either the site has closed down, or the website was temporarily hacked.  Try visiting listible.com and if it redirects you, then you can save your time by skipping this post, as it would be no longer valid.

For those of you who love building thousands of links from my different methods, you are in for another treat. While normally I blog about secret techniques that nobody else is talking about, this one has been a bit popular on Digitalpoint. I cannot take credit for this one (21/22 is a pretty good record I would say), I still want to tell you about it. Every single link counts and so I wanted to let those who haven’t heard about Listible join the fun.