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PBWiki is a free website that allows you to create your own wiki about anything you want. It is like being able to create your own niche clone of wikipedia. You control all of the content on the pages, and you can build in-content links. I originally found this method of link building when my twitter marketing page had an anchor text backlink from a PR5 page.

If you are smart, you could make blog posts around related PBWiki niches that have high pagerank, and include a deep link to the page/blog post you wrote about, much like how my twitter blog post is linked from a high pagerank twitter pbwiki.

A very powerful link building technique that few people talk about is buying existing websites/domains and then redirecting them to your own website.  There is a thing called a “301 redirect” which tells the search engines that your website has moved domains permanently, and it forwards all of your ranking and backlinks to the new domain.  A perfect example of this is the 301 redirect I setup to send mixedmarketarts.com to CollinLaHay.com.

All of my rankings will eventually transfer over to the new domain, and mixedmarketarts.com will rank no more.

As many of you have probably noticed by now, there is a “listen now” button under the titles of each of my posts (unless you are reading this from your RSS reader or your inbox). This is a free service by Odiogo.com that grabs the text from your RSS feed and turns every post of yours into a robot-generated podcast so that you can listen to your favorite blogs (this one?) at work or whenever you bring your iPod/music player. While I have no objections to people listening to my blog posts on their iPods, this little widget was installed on my blog to do a little bit more than just turn my blog into a podcast.

The mammoth shopping site eBay.com needs no introduction. Being one of the top 20 most popular websites of all time, millions of dollars worth of auctions go through it every year. Today’s post is not about how you can earn a part of that money through software like BANS, which I will leave for another day, but rather how you can utilize this massive authority site to bring your measly little website more search engine traffic.

Sure, you could create an ebay auction trying to sell something, and secretly put a link to your website in the thread, but a few months after the auction ends, when your thread finally receives some decent pagerank, the thread would expire.

The news just broke…. Link Building Bible is no more.

R.J. Adams, the blogger over at the Link Building Bible, has just sold his blog.  The Link Building Bible was one of the few other do-it-yourself niche blogs, so it is a shame to see him go.

The new owner who has acquired his blog is going to be transferring R.J.’s posts over to her blog and redirecting it, so the link building bible brand is officially over.

At the end of January, I made a post about how you could use Flickr to build massive amounts of insanely powerful links. Well, Flickr later added the nofollow tag to all external links, making them useless for raising your rank in the search engines.

End of story… or is it?

Today I discovered that the nofollow links are only added to comments on public photos. The “Groups” section is still all search engine friendly links. You can find related places to add your comments in the group section, or you can create your own group.

Naymz is a free website that allows you to register a profile centered around your name and reputation. They say they allow you to “promote your good name online.”

In my opinion, the site is like LinkedIn.com, but not even close to being as good. The reason I am mentioning it in a post however is because you can link to your website or blog to increase your website traffic from the search engines.

For the speed readers:
Visit Naymz.com, sign up, create a free profile, and add your blog under the “links” category.

The following is a paid review and is my complete and honest opinion. If you would like your own paid review on my blog please visit the advertise page.

We all know link building is a very painful task that all webmasters have to go through if they are trying to get their websites to the top of the search engines. It is so boring in fact to do that most people give up on it after a few short months as it takes forever to see results and when your website does not increase fast enough in the rankings, well you know the rest as I am sure we have all thought the same things from time to time.