Posting comments on related blogs can be a source of traffic and backlinks to your website. Most blogs use the “no follow” tag, which prevents your link from being counted by the search engines. However, we are not sure to what extent this is implemented. And in the long run, may be there is a chance that these links may be counted.

If you have a blog, you might have already come across many spam blog comments. You will probably delete most of these spam comments right away. So posting meaningless comments will not get you any benefit. You have to post true meaningful and useful comments, so that your link stays alive.

Why create a web directory in the first place ? There are many good reasons for creating a web directory. Some of these are:

• A web directory can be a good source of income if you can get good pagerank and search engine traffic.
• It is a good way of bookmarking your favorite sites. Furthermore, you can share these sites with others very easily.
• A good link exchange strategy.

So, here are the merits. Now the question: How do you create a directory ?

Social bookmarking is the hot these days. Social bookmarking sites are very popular and attract millions of unique visitors. You might have come across numerous discussions on social bookmarking at forums and blogs. You might have also seen many digital products like ebooks and software related to it. But did you know that social bookmarking can improve your website’s pagerank? And it can be used as an effective tool to divert targeted traffic to your website ?

This is a very simple trick. Here is how you proceed:

• Search for as many social bookmarking sites as you can.