Squidoo, Hubpages, Blogger...Other Free Resources To Cast My Net?

Wikidot
Scribd
Slideshare
Weebly
Zimbio
Wetpaint

are a few that I can think of off the top of my head, there's lots more though.

Hi Kate

Sounds like a good plan - just off the top of my head:

Google Knol
Wordpress.com blog
Weebly
Ezine Articles
Go Articles

I may be back with more

Ali

Check out the 40+ free blog hosts from Mashable.com then just go down the list of each blog site here: 40+ Free Blog Hosts

The best sites are already mentioned above, but this will give you a few more to extend you content to and you may also want to add them to more article directories as well.

Tumblr
Weebly

These 2 are excellent as well.

Franck

Wow, great info guys. So to sum up so far, I've got:

- Ezinearticles.com
- Hubpages.com
- Squidoo.com
- Blogger.com
- Wikidot.com
- Scribd.com
- Slideshare.com
- Weebly.com
- Zimbio.com
- Wetpaint.com
- Google Knol
- Wordpress.com blog
- GoArticles.com
- Mashable.com
- Tumblr

Great list so far. Thanks a lot. Any more?

KateD

Can you actually get traffic from these sites or just backlinks?

Viktor,

The traffic really depends on the keyword phrase that you choose, and the level of competition it has, but yes if done correctly you can get a significant amount.

As far as additional traffic sources, I would suggest getting involved in some of the video sites, including youtube and googlevideo

Matt

create a blog on yahoo 360

hi Kate,
It's a good start in taking action. I have summarized a list myself and am planning to do the same for my niche blog and dominate the search engines
But been too lazy to start and am looking around for softwares (within my budget) to do the job.

For articles directories, i have these from my bookmarks.
Article Directory List
Article Directory List - Directory Critic
Article Marketing-20 Best Article Directories Where Each Article Marketer Should Submit Articles | Home for Profits

These are some additional directories that you can submit to.

For web2.0 networks, these will be the ones that i am planning to links my site from.

Hubpages.com PR5
Squidoo.com PR8
Wordpress.com PR8
Blogger.com PR8
Tripod.com PR7
Geocities.com PR9
MSN Spaces Live PR8
Wikidot.com PR6
Aboutus.org PR6
Weebly.com PR7
Zimbio.com PR6
Wetpaint.com PR6
Tumblr.com PR7
Associatedcontent.com PR6
Wikispaces.com PR7
Quizilla.com PR7

If done properly and gradually, I believe traffic and ranking will definitely increased..

P/S: Please also remember to ping every single post and every single site you make. This is very important.

Erickz,

Thanks for all the additional sites. I really appreciate it.

KateD

Il throw some in aswell.

Clearblogs.com
Current.com

They also rank well for me.

Any of the major article submission sites as well
as the free blog networks such as AOL and MSN
(among others) should work for you. You could
also submit some free press releases.

Give backpage.com and topix.com both a try. Under used and both have a very good PR! Good luck!

Bookmark each page at Propeller which is way outdoing Digg referral traffic for me lately.

Comment on tons of blogs that talk about what your site talks about. You will get referral traffic and 1 out of 10 blogs disable no follow so you get link juice.

OK, I'm going to ask this really bluntly. All these blog sites ... is the suggestion you put up a spammy blog at ten+ sites and point back to your main site? Or am I missing the point?

Doesn't have to be spammy, you can still sell stuff on them

I don't think anyone mentioned - clearblogs.com

I know this site is a good blog site because I have a site rank #2 in google for the keyword: Your Six Pack Quest Review

That I only promoted for about 3 hours at most
It has a PR 0 ranking and it was create less than a month ago.

you should have implemented your plans now

Have you checked out Craig Beckta's Secret Affiliate Code? He lists tons of high PR blogs you can create to accomplish your goal. In addition to that you can also check out Social Media Daily. Hit it up on Google and there are references in there for days.

Cheers,
Nando

I never said anyone had to point to their own blogs.

My intention was not to create anything "spammy" as well. My goal is just to have as many "nets" as I can.

It won't happen overnight, of course. Well, unless I outsource a lot of the content creation. But I'm not going to use an software/script to scrapge together content.

I'm going to do this with 100% original content that provides the reader with useful and interesting info.

KateD

How about this one?
Wiki - AboutUs Wiki Page

Wordpress.com is a good resouces,
other than that, you can try blinkweb.com

How about this one?
Wiki - AboutUs Wiki Page

This works very well. I use it for my affiliate websites.

Thank you all, there are 4 or 5 sites that I didn't know.

Franck

Hey don't forget article base. Roumor has it that some webmasters are getting article from this website and putting them in their pages and this is because of the HTML box below the article which enables webmasters to put your articles without changing anything .
Awesome if you really want some really great traffic.
Plus have you checked out the Alexa ranking, Buzzle, Go articles and the rest are going low and that's why i recommend Aricle base.
Hey confirm with Alexa, they keep on changing.

Here is a list of 253 free blog platforms for backlinks.

So, once you have your blogger blog with your long tail phrase with links back to your site... then what? (Besides bookmarking)

You only have one post on that one blog? Do you maintain the blog adding posts here and there?

Basically my question is: How do you maintain "feeder sites"? Or do you?

Evita
PS. Hope I didn't steal your thread, Kate, but thought my question sorta fitted in ;-)

Hi...

Your post is fine.

Actually, I am writing one blog post for each of the 5 long tail keywords (so 5 posts in total).

This is just a start up plan. There will have to maintenance as well (probably adding a new blog post every week or month to keep it semi active).

I could write another 5 posts on those same long tail keywords (all new, but about the same phrase), or find 5 additional long tail keywords to focus on.

I will give you a tip I use with Blogger blogs that I know I won't add much content to: I don't display the Post Date. So there are no dates on my blog at all.

What you don't want to happen are for blog visitors too see a date that's months, or even years in the past. The visitor will unknowingly discount some of your content because they think its outdated (even if it isn't).

KateD