Central to any blog’s success is building up links back to your site. This is no easy task unless you have something that will grab people’s attention and get them linking to you. Most of us don’t have something revolutionary to say, and I certainly haven’t developed any plugins or anything that are going to get people coming here, so I’m starting up by building up links the hard way.

A post on www.DoshDosh.com by Maki lists fifteen ways to starting building up link backs. One of the methods that looked pretty simple for a new blog is submitting to blog directories. Maki linked to a page that listed more than 900 blog directories.

I added my blog to about 25 of these directories before the slow process made me want to cry. I don’t think it’s necessary to add your blog to every directory out there, but if you want free link backs this is a good way to get started. Don’t spend all your time doing this though; better to actually write a few blog posts than spend hours filling out forms on the net.

Some of the directories require that you supply a reciprocal link. I created a reciprocals page for this blog and just stuck all the links in there. My reciprocals page won’t be linked to anywhere on my main blog so other than an abundance of outgoing links, it doesn’t do too much harm.

I’ve had enough blog promotion for one day. This making money online business is hard, slow work. Let’s hope the rewards are there at the end.

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