The Blog Resources Directory

Link and Traffic Exchange Resources

• Blogmad - Fast Growing, stylish traffic exchange site with an incredible credit pay-off ratio of 1 : 1
  
• BlogExplosion - Veteran traffic exchange site with a 1 : 2 ratio. Plus large number of members
  
• BlogSoldiers - 1 : 2 ratio traffic exchange with huge credit giveaways
  

The Blog Community

• Technorati - The must-be-in blog community. Go and get registered now.
• TTLB - Widely regarded as a definitive blog ranking system. Fun and appealingly fresh. Get in now!
  

Pinging Tools

• Ping-O-Matic - Ping upto 20 services with the click of a button
  
• Pingoat - Ping upto 40 services from one site
  

Feed Tools

• FeedBurner - Provides high-quality feed services
• Bloglines - Free web-based feed reader
• NewsGator - RSS Aggregator
  

Future Watches

• Exlinks - Self proclaimed ultimate exponential site exploding system. Yet to be launched
  
• Agloco - A Global Community. Yet to be launched. Promises high pay-backs
  

Blog Directories

• Directory 2.0 - A must-be-seen-at blog directory. Register now
• Today - A well-sorted directory
• DMOZ - The ultimate directory to get listed on. VERY tough to get into. Good luck
  

Blog Tracking and Statistics

• CrazyEgg - Find out what visitors are doing on your site. Must see
  
• SiteMeter - Track the unique visitors coming to your site. Plus their location, referrer, etc.
  
• Statcounter - Track the number of pageloads in your site. Plus a host of other info
  

Blog Search Engines

• IceRocket - Comprehensive blog search
  

Miscellaneous

• Gravatar - Globally Recognized Avatars
  
• Brilliant Button Maker - Make buttons like this one ->
  
• Take The Internet Back - Own a piece of the Internet and make money(Thanks Jane)
• Google Gadgets - Get high quality gadgets/widgets to add in your blog
  

Monetizing

• ClickBooth - High pay-out ads. Tough to figure it out though
  
• Adsense - Easy to install and one of the most popular advertising agents
  
• Text Link Ads - Place text links and earn money. Tough to get into though

SEO/Blog Development

• Link Popularity Check - Check the number of inbound links you have. Invaluable tool
• Site Score - Evaluate your site and check for problems. Amazing reports section
• Google Analytics - Learn how visitors find you and how they interact with your site. Detailed Analysis
• Webmasters Central - "One-stop shop for comprehensive info about how Google crawls and indexes your website"
• Paypal - Invaluable tool for bloggers. Lets you transfer money within the internet and you can request a payout when needed. A sort of online bank!
  

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This Directory and work on this directory isn't complete. Not by a long shot. I have just thrown together a few sites that I personally know of. When more and more people view this page and think that some site is missing, all they have to do is add a comment showing the URL of that site and I'll get into it immediately. Thanks and happy blogging....

WORK IN PROGRESS - GO SLOW

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I'm Back

Whew! Exams are finally over. I must say, it wasn't half bad. Couldn't get my posts in on time. By the way, watched the movie Babel recently. One word: Amazing. On tv, been watching Prison Break and Heroes too. Both cool serials. Prison Break is turning out exceptionally well. Waiting for Scrubs' next (6th) season (starting in January I think).

When I returned, I found 4 people agreeing to exchange links with me. A huge thanks to MyBlogCanBeatUpYourBlog, BlackWyrm, Dave Dragon and Mr. Disgruntled. Guys, I've already added links to your site on this blog.

When I returned, my Technorati ranking had more than halved due to this link exchanging. ClickBooth showed a $ 0.12 increase in my account. Got a few referrals.

My total incoming link count more than doubled on Altavista and Yahoo! Still no incoming links according to Google though. Wonder why. Moreover, no change in TTLB. They haven't even been able to read my traffic despite having a SiteMeter account. Any thoughts?

Until next time, happy blogging.

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Higher Rankings Anyone?

Well, who wants a better blog ranking? I am inviting you to exchange links with me. For the uninitiated, this is a win-win deal. You put my link on your site and I put yours on mine. This is called reciprocative linking. Getting as many links to your site as possible is important. More the links, higher your search engine rankings. And reciprocal links are one of the best ways to get quality inbound links.

So if any of you are interested in reciprocal linking, just add a comment and your url and I will add a link to your site on this blog hoping that you would do the same on your's.

Just in case, my url is given below. Happy Blogging...

http://dasimpleblog.blogspot.com

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What's The Deal With eXlinks?

I've been following this new exponential website growth site that has been prelaunched. It is from the creaters of BlogMad. I feel that is reason enough for me to join it. But they are extremely tight-lipped about it. Except for a few leaked screen shots, I don't think anyone knows anything about this site. All they are saying is that

eXlinks is the ultimate, exponential link-swapping, site exploding system, and is completely free.

It seems people are signing up fast. No one wants to risk not being involved in potentially what (just maybe) might be the next blog revolution. Atleast that is what they are leading us to believe. Plus they proclaim some gifts for those who sign-up now. This is what they are saying:

Signing up now will guarentee you a spot in the beta, updates through the newsletter, and a few extra benefits.

Whatever it is, I'd sign up simply because the leaked screenshots look amazing! Keeping fingers crossed...

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A few more Directories...

These are the few sites that I have submitted my blog to. I suggest that if you haven't already, you should go ahead and submit to these sites. The more directories, the merrier! I will be adding this blog to more directories soon. Its just that my exams are starting on friday and I am a little short on time. Until next time, happy blogging...

1. Today - A very important site. Will require a reciprocal link.
   
2. Blog Street - Enter your url.
   
3. Ice Rocket - Ping them your url.
   
4. We Blog A Lot - Ping them your RSS feed if you have one.

Any doubts will be welcome...

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Ingredients of a good blog

By ingredients of a good blog, I mean what you need to make money from your blog. What it takes to stand out from the crowd. This list is by no means complete. But just a foundation stone. It will be updated as this blog progresses...

1. Content is king. You have good content and people will come flocking to your blog. Its a fact.

2. Traffic is queen. When your aim is to make money, traffic is what you have to aim for. If traffic is high, then everything else falls into place almost automatically.

3. Links are the princes. Links, links and more links. You can't have enough of it. Get as many inbound links as possible. I guarantee you'll never regret it.

4. Ads are the ministers. Choose wisely when it comes to ads. I will be doing a detailed feature of ads in the near future. Don't forget to check it out.

That's all for now. Use the permalink if you want to see future updates to this post.

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Links and SEO

To understand the importance of links to and from your site, you will have to know a little about how search engines work. I will give you a brief idea about search engines, but if you want in-depth analysis, check it out at HowStuffWorks.com.

Ever wondered how search engines search the net so fast and retrieve thousands of results within seconds? I will explain how the majority of the search-engines do this and by majority, I mean Google! First and foremost are the bots. The bots are scripts that are designed to scour the net for new and changed information. They are also called spiders. These spiders jump from page to page and index the pages onto their servers.

Now how do they jump from page to page you ask? LINKS! Each page usually has at least one link to the outside world! As soon as it spots a link it goes through to that page and indexes it. So now you know how important a link is! So the more links you have for the spider to find the more the spider likes you. And you know you have got to be liked by the spiders! On the net, they're the one's you should befriend if you need fame and fortune!

Anyway those are only outbound-links. What we really need are solid inbound-links. These are the links that will help your blog. The reasoning is that if there are a few inbound links, that means that you have something interesting on your site. But if you have more than a few links, then that means that your site has something very popular. So you rise in ranks in the search-engine. The higher the rank, the more traffic you are likely to get. The more traffic you have, the more profitable your site is gonna be! See, links are an indispensable part of fundamental Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In my next post, I'll tell you how to get some quality inbound-links to your blog. don't forget :

QUALITY INBOUND LINKS -> MORE TRAFFIC -> HIGHER PROFITS!

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