Dot Com Note

You should try hard to get inbound links from authoritative sites. The inbound link is the holy grail of web traffic. Getting inbound links from government and university sites is a testament to the quality of your site.

You accumulate inbound links not only to increase traffic, but also to establish your site for providing high value to visitors. However, getting inbound links by link exchange or buying text links is not going to get you anywhere. You need to abandon those archaic ideas and jump forward with an inbound link strategy that provides high value authoritative links.

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To obtain high value authoritative links, your site must provide high values to its visitors. Original authoritative articles and tools to solve everyday problems are a few ways to provide a lasting value to web surfers. Before you embark on your link-building mission, create something valuable.

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Create a list of top 10 science fiction bloggers, top 10 celebrity bloggers, top ten humor bloggers, etc. That is what NxE has done with their top 50 most influential bloggers.

Topping the list is Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media that owns popular blogs like Gizmodo and Lifehacker. He also owns the porn blog Fleshbot. Fleshbot’s Alexa ranking stands at 5,000.

The most popular political blog in the list is Zuniga’s Dailykos, a progressive blog under attacks by conservatives. Ariana Huffington and Michelle Malkin also sit on the top 20 list. But they are better known as columnists and commentators rather bloggers.

Listed on the 20th position is one of the oldest blogger on the Net, Jason Kottke. Jason writes about anything and everything and he is doing it almost daily since 1998.

The list includes authoratative Google voices by Matt Cutts. Webmasters analyze Matt’s writings to glean information about Google and search engine optimization.

I was glad to see one of my favorite blogger Steve Pavlina in the list. He is a personal development blogger but his 2006 article “How to make money from your blog” has inspired thousands to try out their writing skills.

I like the list and some of the blogs I subscribe to are mentioned in the last.  The list is a good one in the sense that it covers bloggers of a wide variety of topics. It is a kind of Who’s Who of the blogging world.