Before you do anything else with your Web site, be sure that you have these three strategies in place:

Tell ‘em about it by listing your site in Web directories

If you want people to know who you are and where you are, what’s the best place to start sharing information? Where everyone is gathered! Just like in the offline marketing world, it’s important to be diligent about sharing information about your business where your customers gather, such as conventions, networking meetings, social events, and more.

The marketing principles are the same online; to get your business seen online, be sure to promote it where people are looking, such as in Web-based business directories. Web-based business directories will not only list your business name and any relevant information about your business, but they will often also link to your business, which helps to improve your inbound traffic.

Link to your business online

Web directories provide an effective way to link to your business from reliable and credible outside sources. For that reason, Web directories not only improve your SEO because they mention your business and help to promote traffic to your site organically, but also because they link to your site.

 One of the most effective SEO techniques involves establishing as many inbound links as possible so that search engine robots can detect that other Web sites are pointing to your site. The more sites you have pointing to your own site you have, the more “relevant” your site will be to search engine robots, thereby increasing your SEO rank.

Built-in SEO on your site

Of course, one of the best methods of sharing information about your business online is to have that information located on your own Web site. After all, if customers visit your site from a Web directory and don’t find the information they need, they’re not likely to use your business or services, right?

 When you develop the content for your Web site, it is important to not only consider the information itself, but also the SEO quality of the work. Good SEO content incorporates relevant keywords in strategic locations throughout your Web pages. It also incorporates sound SEO strategy with the way the page is designed and developed as well, such as the use of anchor tags, headlines, meta tags, and more.

 www.socialrific.com provides businesses with high quality directory listings that improves their SEO ranking both organically and purposefully. List your site on www.socialrific.com when you’re ready to promote your business online through targeted and best practice methods that are easy to implement and affordable to maintain.

However, by incorporating some strategic search engine optimization (SEO) strategies into your blog, you can not only ensure that your blog ranks higher in the search engines, but you can also help make your blog stand out.

Here are three sure-fire ways to improve the SEO of your blog in just a few easy steps:

List your blog in an online blog directory

To help sift through the millions of blogs, blog directories have been established. A blog directory is similar to a phone book for the Internet, where by blogs and their URLs are listed by category. By listing your blog in a blog directory, you can help to promote your blog in two ways: 1. By driving traffic to your blog organically when visitors browse through the blog directory and click on links; and 2. Through the use of inbound links, which will register with search engine robots and help to improve the relevance of your blog.

Look for other blogs in similar industries

One great way to improve your SEO is to look for other blogs in your industry and try to link to your blog from those blogs. In some cases, you can develop a reciprocal arrangement with the blog creator in which you will post a link to their blog from your blog and they will post a link to your blog from their blog. You can also make comments that include your URL.

You can efficiently look for relevant and related blogs in blog directories. Simply browse through your blog category and click on links to other blogs within your category.

Use keywords in your posts

Even if you have links to your blogs from blog directories and have connected with related blogs using those blog directories, you still need to have relevant and keyword-rich language in your blog. This means that you should do your best to include as many keywords that are relevant to your business when you write your blog posts.

For example, if your blog is about babysitting services, be sure to not only include the words “babysitter” as often as possible (and appropriate) in your blog, but also include related words, such as “nanny,” “child care,” and more.

List your blog in the www.blogirific.com blog directory today to start promoting your blog to a worldwide audience of readers. While you’re listing your own blog, be sure to see what other blog listings there are in your category and look for ways to develop reciprocal relationships with those other bloggers. Good luck – and be sure to contact us if you need any help with your listing.

For now on, submitting a blog is now free. I don’t have any clue on how long it may take to approve/add your blog to the blog directory as all i can do is review/add one at a time, but I will get to it sometime. As well, free blog submissions cannot add their own adsense ID or add up to four affiliate ads to their listings. All ads on your blog profile page will be ours.

For people who want to be reviewed/added almost instantly, I have added this option for a low fee of $4.97. With this fee you can add your own Google adsense ID and up to 4 1×125 affiliate ads as well. (For people who don’t have a Google Adsense ID or use any affiliate ads, you can choose to not have any ads at all on your blog profile page). I feel this is a fair incentive to the people who wish to pay a small fee.

If you just don’t have the time to fill out the form to submit your blog, we can do it for you for only $9.97. If you want to purchase a blog directory listing for a friend or fellow blogger the price is the same. More info about the gift/we can do it for you option can be found here.

Whichever option you choose, I want to thank you for taking the time to submit your blog. Thank you.

Wishing you all a happy spring!

Rick and Lisa

Who’s a blog directory really for? One can argue that a blog directory is for the bloggers. Bloggers can get a backlink to their blog thus raising their Google page rank and search engine rankings. In some blog directories, bloggers can also connect with other bloggers in a forum like setting. Both of these reasons and maybe a few other benefits blog directories give bloggers, are good reasons why a blog directory is for the bloggers. We don’t agree. Well, not totally.

If a blog directory were to be divied up into 6 parts, we believe a blog directory would be 1 part for the owner, 2 parts for the bloggers and 3 parts for the visitor who is looking for interesting blogs to read.

1 Part the owner? Sure! Why not? They have to make a living too.

2 Parts for the bloggers: Like Dazzlin Donna said Getting your blog listed in directories is one of those standard tasks that all bloggers should do in order to gain links and traffic to their blogs. Directories are easy to find and easy to submit to, so there’s no reason not to take advantage of listing your blog in many of them. Not all directories have the same value, however. Some provide value to the blogger beyond the standard URL, Title, and Description.” Submitting your blog to a blog directory is a good idea for serp rankings, page rank and extra exposure. The majority of bloggers want people to read their blog, otherwise you probably wouldn’t blog at all. So a blog directory listing is a definite plus for the bloggers.

3 Parts the visitor: People visiting a blog directory are more than likely searching for or browsing for a good blog to read. Visitors shouldn’t be subjected to sift through a bunch of spammy blogs to get to some really good blogs. We believe a visitor to a blog directory wants to find a good blog on topic to what he or she is interested in. They also would be intrigued to see what a blog has been posting lately or see their most recent tweets so they can make a better decision to visit that particular blog or not. Some visitors also want to connect with a blogger through an arrayment of social networking avenues such as Twitter or Facebook. It’s a social world and people want to engage with people one on one now more than ever, so a visitor would also like to know how to reach a blogger on a more personal level.

Another argument about blog directory prices, especially the one’s that charge over $50/year or more is that they value their site high, for various reasons. They may place a high value on their directory because they have a higher page rank then some or receive good traffic, which is great! We plan on Blogirific.com having both in the near future. Having said that though, no matter what our page rank or how much traffic we receive in the future, we prefer to place value on bloggers and our visitors.

Once we decided to place more value on bloggers and our visitors it was an easy choice to charge less. Wed prefer to attract as many good bloggers as we can than to charge a ridiculous price and turn off the majority of good bloggers. We didn’t stop there though. Staying true to making Blogirific.com about bloggers and our visitors, my wife and I decided to try and make it easier for bloggers to get their admission fee recuperated by letting bloggers display their OWN Google Adsense ads and their OWN affiliate banners on their profile page. We knew we couldn’t afford to not charge a fee, but we also knew we had to give bloggers a chance to get that fee back.

In conclusion, we truly believe that putting value on bloggers and our visitors is the right thing to do and that’s why we charge less then most. We hope we made our point and that the majority of you agree with us. Thanks for visiting, have a great day!

Rick and Lisa

1.)  Greatness exists in all of us.
2.) There’s no shortcut to success.
3.) Talent is natural. Skill is not.
4.) Lay one brick at a time.
- Don’t start out saying “I’m going to build a wall”. Start out saying “I’m going to lay this one brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid”. You do this every single day and soon you have a wall.
5.) Focus on making a difference.
6.) Represent an idea.
7.) You have to believe.
- The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, you have to believe it.
- There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.
8.) Nothing is unrealistic.
9.) Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas are physical in the universe.
10.) You really gotta focus will all of your heart, all of your fibre and all of your creativity.
11.) Attack your fears.
12.) Be willing to die for the truth.
13.) Protect your dream. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. If people can’t do it themselves they want to tell you that you can’t do it.
14.) You want something, go and get it. Period. Take action!

Will Smith has a great time with his life and he wants to share it:

There you go. Now you shouldn’t need to buy an “Self Help” book, video or course. Follow Will Smith’s advice and you’ll do just fine.

This reminds me of an email I got awhile ago. It was titled “Every Self Help Product Ever Created…Summed Up In 4 Sentences”.
Here it is:

Every Self Help Product Ever Created…Summed Up In 4 Sentences:

Know What You Want. (Insert Infinite Ways To Do It Here).
Face Your Fears. (Insert Infinite Ways To Do It Here).
Be Persistent. (Insert Infinite Ways To Do It Here).
Take Action. (Insert Infinite Ways To Do It Here).

BONUS:
Buy My Backend Products. (Insert Infinite Ways To Do It Here).

So true…

Anyways, my point is that if you just don’t have the money to pay for a service like AWeber or anything like it, you can use http://freeautobot.com I know quite a few people using it and they have yet to have any problems with it. (Well, no major problems. Any service or software will occasionally have small problems, even the one’s you pay big bucks for, but you know that.)

So head on over to http://freeautobot.com and get your free autobot today!

When you submit your blog to our blog directory we will also add your blog and blog RSS feed to BlogPeek.com.

We have decided to charge you $1.37 (a price of a coffee) to get listed in our blog directory. If you have your own Google Adsense account, you can also add that as well which means the probability of recouping your investment of $1.37 could be recouped very quickly! We mainly charge to make sure we don’t get spammed as we just don’t have the time or resources to deal with it all.

So, yes we do charge a little bit to get your blog listed, but we are trying our best to make sure your return on investment is high. Our main goal is to get you/your blog as many visits as we can send you.

Why Pay For a Listing?

Listing your blog on Blogirific.com is a wise investment for many other reasons other than obtaining a backlink.
Think of it like you’re buying us 1 coffee a year. Mmmmm…coffee!

Here are the top ten reasons why you would want to submit your blog:
1.) You will gain more exposure and traffic to your blog.
2.) Your Adsense code will be displayed enabling YOU to make money.
3.) Your blog will also be added to BlogPeek.com.
4.) You can also link to your various social networking profiles like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and more making it easier for our visitors to connect with you.
5.) You can list your last six tweets from Twitter. This makes it easy for our visitors to see what you’re up to, what links you have posted (if any) and allows our visitors an even easier way to follow you.
6.) Our visitors can view your last 10 blog posts. This way our visitors can either connect with you through your main page or through individual posts.
7.) You can post links to the discussions you are currently having on any given blog post through our discussions portal. Our visitors can find discussions you’re having on your own blog and engage with you there.
8.) Our layout is appealing to the eye, easy to read and understand for any age group that visits us. Our visitors come back time and time again.
9.) We make sure you are in good company as we do not and will not list any spammy websites. Your blog will be a welcome addition!
10.) Your listing on Blogirific.com as well as taking advantage of our discussions portal should, over time, increase page rank and unique content on your blog through comments/discussions.

As well, we try to do as many other things to promote your blog and listing here at Blogirific.com. We will post your link on our Facebook fan page, on our Squidoo page and on numerous social bookmarking sites including Del.Ici.ous and Stumbelupon. We’re always thinking of new ways to help our members – Our work never ends and we’re sure you can see the many benefits you will receive by listing your blog on Blogirific.com.

Thank you very much for the coffee.
We appreciate it and can’t wait to visit your blog! 

Why Pay For a Listing?

Listing your blog on Blogirific.com is a wise investment for many other reasons other than obtaining a backlink.
Think of it like you’re buying us 1 coffee a year. Mmmmm…coffee!

Here are the top ten reasons why you would want to submit your blog:
1.) You will gain more exposure and traffic to your blog.
2.) Your Adsense code will be displayed enabling YOU to make money.
3.) Your blog will also be added to BlogPeek.com.
4.) You can also link to your various social networking profiles like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and more making it easier for our visitors to connect with you.
5.) You can list your last six tweets from Twitter. This makes it easy for our visitors to see what you’re up to, what links you have posted (if any) and allows our visitors an even easier way to follow you.
6.) Our visitors can view your last 10 blog posts. This way our visitors can either connect with you through your main page or through individual posts.
7.) You can post links to the discussions you are currently having on any given blog post through our discussions portal. Our visitors can find discussions you’re having on your own blog and engage with you there.
8.) Our layout is appealing to the eye, easy to read and understand for any age group that visits us. Our visitors come back time and time again.
9.) We make sure you are in good company as we do not and will not list any spammy websites. Your blog will be a welcome addition!
10.) Your listing on Blogirific.com as well as taking advantage of our discussions portal should, over time, increase page rank and unique content on your blog through comments/discussions.

As well, we try to do as many other things to promote your blog and listing here at Blogirific.com. We will post your link on our Facebook fan page, on our Squidoo page and on numerous social bookmarking sites including Del.Ici.ous and Stumbelupon. We’re always thinking of new ways to help our members – Our work never ends and we’re sure you can see the many benefits you will receive by listing your blog on Blogirific.com.

Thank you very much for the coffee.
We appreciate it and can’t wait to visit your blog!

The fact is that the majority of real scientists know that global warming is a scam. It’s all about the money, especially for Al Gore who gets millions of dollars for selling carbon neutral credits. In fact, people like Al Gore, the IPCC (United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and even this BS company only push this agenda of theirs to make millions upon millions of dollars off of you. It’s just one big scam!

Some scientists have been threatened for their lives if they speak out and tell the truth. Some, like the weather channel founder and Internationally repected gentelman John Coleman have spoken out on numerous occassions. This interview was done in 2008:

Al Gore sued by over 30,000 Scientists for Global Warming Fraud:

Listen, please don’t get me wrong. I do think we can all do things to help out the environment. I am certainly not against anything that will help us all create clean cities, help our furry friends in nature live long and healthy lives and things like that BUT this global warming (er, sorry, now “their” calling it “cimate change”) thing is a scam just to get a boat load of money for the elite. That’s it. That’s all.

This post isn’t too long and I didn’t put too much thought into it, but all I really wanted to do was to get you to view those videos about global warming above. I encourage everyone to post those videos on their blogs and websites. You can link to this post even with a no-follow if you’d like or steal my code and post it as your own, I don’t care – Just get people to see these videos and to start thinking for themselves. I’ll do another thoughtful post sometime in the future.

In the meantime ask yourself this question:

If this was a new topic and nobody had heard of it before, who would you believe? Would you believe a politician who will make millions off of this if he can get you to believe it? or someone else who won’t make a cent and just wants to tell the truth?

RULE 1: Life is not fair; get used to it.
RULE 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
RULE 3: You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn it.
RULE 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
RULE 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
RULE 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about mistakes, learn from them.
RULE 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents’ generation, try “delousing” the closet in your own room.
RULE 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
RULE 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employees are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that in your own time.
RULE 10: Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
RULE 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

See rule #8 above. I went looking for these rules by Bill Gates because my wife and I found out that our son was to have handed in an assigment last Monday (almost a week ago) but instead of getting a mark of 0, his teacher has allowed him to hand it in this Friday with no marks being taken away for tardiness.

I really don’t want my son to receive a zero but I also want him to learn rule #8. If I tell his teacher to give him a mark of 0, then he’d at least learn rules #1,2 and 6 pretty fast as well.

I know what we’re going to do, but what do YOU think we should do?

Thanks for your opinions.