I’ve finally got myself an account on FriendFeed.

For those wanting to connect to me on FriendFeed, I’m at http://friendfeed.com/anujseth

Its been a while since I spread some link love. Here are some useful articles:

• PhotoDropper allows you to add images from Flickr from right within the WordPress Dashboard. There is no need to go to Flickr to search for images any more! I’ve just installed this plugin, and hope to include it as part of my post writing routine in the coming days. You can read more about it at ProBlogger. You might also want to have a look at this article at Skelliewag on using Flickr Images.
• TeachingSells is currently giving away complete access to its archives for a little as $1 for the 1st week. Do go ahead and take advantage of this opportunity.
• Do you like BlogRush? If you do, you might want to have a look at Spottt - a new service launched by AdBrite, which seems to be quite similar to BlogRush, except that they use 125×125 graphic images. I’ve running it on this blog currently. Have a look at it in the sidebar.

More later…

So you want to rank #1 in Google for keywords that best describe your blog or website?

Given below is a consolidation of recommendations from a few sources.

1. Don’t buy (or sell) site wide links for serps. Buy links from individual pages. Links from individual pages are far more effective when speaking of improving serps, not PR.
2. Don’t look for high PR links only - start your campaign for a new site with PR 0-1 and slowly move up each week as you see your rankings improve.
3. Control link placement speed. Remember of “Too many links at once” Google filter.
4. Control the number of outbound links on your pages and on pages where you place your links, avoid link-farms, links to gambling, pills, etc.
5. A link from a relevant website is excellent, but a link from a quality site of other niche or other language can also boost your ranking - so don’t ignore such links.
6. Make links look natural. Use different link anchors, promote not only your main page, but your deep pages too.
7. Don’t do reciprocal link exchange. [Source for the 1st 7 points: TNX at DigitalPoint on how to rank #1 in Google Searches for your keywords]
8. Get inbound links.
9. Have a good title tag for your page
10. Have good content, and keyword density in your pages.
11. Have meaningful ALT tags in your images [Source for Points 8-11: How to Improve Your Search Engine Ranking on Google]

The concept is quite simple:

• Submit your blog
• Look for similar blogs that you want to write a review for. Click on the “Trade Reviews” button next to that blog listing. If the trade is accepted, both you and the other blogger writes reviews about each other’s blog!
• Neat concept for getting free reviews of your site.

So, if you’re looking at generating incoming links to your blog, this could be a simple solution where you don’t have to spend a dime. Yes! You will need to spend some time writing reviews for other blogs!

From their about page:

The tag links directly to your website. This is great for your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and will improve your ranking with the search engines.

• It free!
• High traffic
• You can choose how must spend on your tag
• Using image tag you can express your website to internet world.

I’ve submitted this blog to the directory. Lets wait and watch how much traffic it generates.