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Now before I confuse anyone, I purposely have a typo in the title of this post. The reason is because my 6 month old post announcing Google Knol has received over a hundred visitors from people searching for the term Google Knowl. That post is on the bottom of page two, so I figured I would capitalize on that commonly searched typo variation of Google’s new site. Google Knowl is just a typo for the real name, called Google Knol. I just wanted to add a warm welcome to all of my new readers who have found my blog by searching for Google Knowl. Thanks for not being able to spell properly!

This guest blogging post was submitted by Sharon from Piggy Bank Pie.

Unless you’ve had your eyes shut, you’ve probably noticed some momentum building around Twitter. People who didn’t get it (and I was one of those) are suddenly Twitterholics. They tweet all the time and get the shakes if more than a minute passes without an update. But what’s all the fuss about? Is Twitter just another example of social chatter that is destined to disappear without trace when the buzz is over? No-one really knows the answer to that question, but what I’ve observed is how some of the heavy hitters of the blog world are using it to create even more of a presence online.

The Link Building Cookbook was made to be the internet’s most popular free link building strategy guide, and I would say it has achieved that status long ago.

In doing so, I am proud to announce the first user-submitted link building tip from a reader of mine named Ben, who owns and operates a site called EveryCall.us.

The site Ben offered me to share with you is called AmericanTowns.com. Rather than explaining it myself, I will partially quote Ben’s email (with a few minor spelling edits to the quote).

Every day I see a ton of blog posts and articles about complex techniques on what people think are great website marketing strategies. I see dozens of people selling (as well as dozens of people buying) useless ebooks about techniques that do not work, or even worse are the ebooks or people telling others about techniques that may have worked last year, but can actually be bad for your websites now.

While I do realize that a lot of you may have already heard of Squidoo, I still wanted to make a post about it to let the users who haven’t heard about it get a chance at using it, as well as being able to use this post as a reference in future link building posts.

Squidoo is a huge community powered site that allows users to write about topics they are “experts” in. In return for writing these articles (they call them lens’), Squidoo shares half of the advertising revenue with you and also gives you anchor text backlinks inside your articles.

There is a new software being sold around that offers to have 200 bots stumble your link in return for some cash. To acquire new clients, they offer “3 free stumbles” out to test their software. Well, with a little knowledge of how Google works, we can easily cheat the system.

There are currently about 3-4 sites that run this software, and all of them offer the “3 freebie stumbles.” With a simple google query, you can search the entire web for all the sites currently running the Stumblematic script and then find the free stumbles pages to build up a one time burst of traffic in return for 30 seconds of your time.

I have recently discovered an untapped pagerank 7 blog that has an authority status in Google. The blog is extremely popular and comments inside the blog posts receive a backlink that is followed by the search engines. Every single blog post turns into a PR5 or PR6 link after the next update, and there are over 500 PR5+6 links already indexed by Google.

A good friend of mine named Max has recently started his new online startup company. The name of the site is called SiteHoppin, and it is much like Stumbleupon.com except instead of using a toolbar to vote on sites, you stumble sites inside the browser. The site dubs itself as “a browser in a browser.”