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When people first learn about link building as a part of search engine marketing (SEO), they run across many different offers from companies willing to get links to their websites for them, for a price. They also see high PageRank websites offering to sell links on their site on a per month basis, in order to essentially pass that PageRank onto your site, giving your site more authority in the search engines. While this is a viable method the get authority for your website or blog, it can get very expensive, and frankly, it’s out of the budget for most bloggers or beginning website owners who just bought hosting, a domain, and a website design. The good news is that there are ways to find dofollow links (ones that pass authroity onto your site, as opposed to nofollow links, which don’t). I am going to show you 4 easy ways to get dofollow links to your site.

1. Comment on Dofollow Blogs. One of the easiest way to get some authority back to your site and a good start to your link building campaigns is commenting on blogs that are dofollow. This is beneficial for a few reasons. First, like I said, it passes authority to your site. Secondly, it provides an opportunity for traffic, since the owner of the site you’re commenting on is likely to visit your site, and people reading that blog might possibly come check your blog or website out.

Here are a few good dofollow search engines and lists:

DoFollow Diver

Court’s D-list

NoDirectOn’s List

2. Submit Your Site to Social Media Sites with Dofollow. There are tons of social media sites out there. Digg and Stumbleupon are some of the most popular. But, not all social media sites are created equal. Yah, sites like Stumbleupon can bring you great traffic, but the links on their site to your site are useless for search engine optimization. You need to find and submit your blog posts or your site’s pages to some dofollow social media sites in order to not only get link authority, but also possibly some traffic.

The following are some dofollow social media sites you should use:
Mylinkvault.com
Bibsonomy.org
Mister-Wong.com
BloggingZoom.com
PostonFire.com
Bloggoria.com
SpicyPage.com

3. Lastly, and arguably the best place for building traffic (in addition to the dofollow links) is to use forums that allow you to have a dofollow signature. if you can find a forum that is related to your site that allows you to have a dofollow link in your signature, it can be huge, because each post that you make not only gives you a backlink to your site (via the signature) but also is a marketing tool for your site. If your site is about the Nintendo Wii, and you are active in a Nintendo Wii forum with dofollow signature links, then everytime that you post, people have an opportunity to see your link in the signature, and possibly go to your site. If not, you still get the backlinks regardless, and since it’s a related site, it counts more than just a regular dofollow link (though those are important also).

Here are some lists of dofollow forums:

MySEOBlog’s List

SP’s List

Hope these sites help you out in the search for dofollow links!

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The deadline for the MarketLeverage contest was yesterday, July 9, so today I will be announcing our three winners!

First of all I’d like to thank MarketLeverage for sponsoring this contest and for the great prizes donated, which include the Flip Mino, USB pen, and ML $50 gift card.

Secondly, I’d like to thank everyone who took their time to participate in this contest and took a shot at winning, so thank you!

Now it’s time to announce the winners, which were chosen randomly via a random generator, based on the points they had accumulated:

The $50 ML gift card goes to… Matthew!

The ML USB pen goes to… Mark Sierra!

The ML Flip Mino goes to… Jason!

Congratulations to the three of you! I will be emailing MarketLeverage and letting them know you won, and then they will contact you about receiving your prizes. Once again I’d also like to thank everyone else who entered: May G, Wesley, Asim, Rich Hill, Blog For Beginners, Deb, Erica, ES, Reid, Betshopboy, Bouncer, Tibi Puiu, Sherry, Bryan Bliss, and Nick.

For those who didn’t win this time, please be sure to stick around because there will be more great contests here at Super Blogging in the future. If you’re interested in sponsoring a prize, please email me and let me know - it’s greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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As you all might know, Super Blogging is currently running a great contest sponsored by MarketLeverage, in which you have chances to win some amazing prizes:

• MarketLeverage $50 Gift Card
• ML Flip Mino
• ML USB Pen

Several smart people have already joined in, because those are just some prizes you definitely don’t wanna miss out on. And if you want to be able to win one of the above items, now’s the time to enter - the deadline for contest entries is July 9, just two days away. Here are the updates for the current entrants and the amount of points they’ve acquired for the contest:

Jason: 116 points (commented, subscribed, linked, guest posted x5).

May G: 31 points (commented, subscribed, linked, posted).

Wesley: 31 points (commented, subscribed, linked, posted).

Asim: 31 points (commented, subscribed, linked, posted).

Mark Sierra: 26 points (commented, signed up, subscribed, posted).

Rich Hill: 26 points (commented, linked, posted).

Blog For Beginners: 16 points (commented, subscribed, linked).

Deb: 6 points (commented, subscribed).

Erica: 6 points (commented, subscribed).

ES: 6 points (commented, subscribed).

Matthew: 6 points (commented, subscribed).

Reid: 6 points (commented, subscribed).

Betshopboy: 1 point (commented).

Bouncer: 1 point (commented).

Tibi Puiu 1 point (commented).

Since keeping up with this amount of entrants is often times confusing, I’ve double checked all bloggers and all the points they’ve earned, but PLEASE let me know if I’ve missed anything or made an error anywhere, and I’ll correct it immediately.

If you’d like to have your name included and a chance at winning one of the amazing prizes listed above, then all you have to do is enter (click here to do so, do NOT enter on this post, it won’t count). There are several things you can do to rack up points, including simply commenting on the entry post, to signing up with ML, to guest posting. The more points you earn the more likely you are to win, but it’s all up to you!

The contest ends in just two days, and then the THREE winners will be announced. Hurry and get in on this contest sponsored by MarketLeverage, join in here. And thanks to all of those who have entered, good luck!

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Hi and welcome to another edition of The Best of the Blogosphere, a resource to find all the great articles and updates from around the web lately. If you ever have a post or news you’d like to be featured here, don’t hesitate to contact Super Blogging - I’ll be glad to help you out and give you a mention. Enjoy!

The Internet Marketing List: 59 Things You Should Be Doing But Probably Aren’t at Conversation Marketing.

Use Your Own Products To Make Money Online at The University Kid.

How to Level the Playing Field with Digg at Skelliewag.

Cut Out The Middle Man: Direct Blog Ad Sales at Lost Art of Blogging.

How To Make More Money By Posting LESS at Blogging Fingers.

7 Ways to Increase Your Creativity in Web Design at Vandelay Design.

5 Blogging Goals Worth Chasing After at DailyBlogTips.

Extending Your Blog: Offer Services to Increase Your Income at Traffikd.

How to Analyze and Improve the Bounce Rate for Your Website at Dosh Dosh.

5 Easy Tips for the Beginning Guest Blogger at Winning The Web.

12 Tools I Use Every Day as an Independent Web Designer at Mirificam Press.

The Importance of “Pause Points” On Your Blog at ProBlogger.

Information Sources for New Blog Content at Blogging Experiment.

New Rules for Domain Names at Blogging Sueblimely.

Hiring Blog Design Writers, $50 per post! at Pro Blog Design.

And don’t forget to enter Super Blogging’s conest sponsored by MarketLeverage, the deadline is July 9 so there isn’t too much time left if you wanna get in on those excellent prizes. Click here for details.

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Super Blogging’s current MarketLeverage contest is in full swing, and there are already several entrants who are competing for some great prizes. If you didn’t already know, the amazing MarketLeverage is generously sponsoring this contest with these prizes: a ML $50 gift card, a ML Flip Mino, and a ML USB pen. These items are must-haves for every blogger, so get in quick and there’s a chance they could be yours!

Here’s the updates for the current entrants:

Wesley: 31 points (commented, subscribed, linked, posted).

Blog For Beginners: 6 points (commented, subscribed).

Deb: 6 points (commented, subscribed).

Erica: 6 points (commented, subscribed).

Betshopboy: 1 point (commented).

Tibi Puiu: 1 point (commented).

The more you do, the more points you get, and the more likely you are to win those fantastic prizes from MarketLeverage! Entering is simple, the least you can do is leave a quick comment on the announcement post - and other ways to enter include subscribing, linking, posting about the contest, submitting a guest post to Super Blogging, etc. You can do as much or little as you like, it’s up to you.

Also, note that when you enter, you will be linked to from SuperBloggingTips.com in a post AT LEAST once. I’ll link out to all current entrants in future contest update posts, and then will link to everyone in the final post announcing the three winners.

So if you’d like to enter, click here to do so! (Note that entries in comments on this post DO NOT COUNT!) And a huge thanks, again, to MarketLeverage! Be sure to head on over to their site and sign up (that’s also a way to get points for your contest prizes too).

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