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Disclosure: WordHugger and rssHugger have been acquired. Read about it here.

In an hour and a half (Midnight CST), It will officially be the 1st of December, and every month rssHugger will have the Top 100 blogs reset to give everyone a fair and equal chance at all that extra promotion. If you have not yet joined rssHugger, now is the time to join! If you already have joined, now is the time to make a blog update and get as many readers as possible to your blog page on rssHugger! This is a win/win situation because you help rssHugger by creating the buzz, and rssHugger sends hundreds of new readers back to you!

This is the 12th part of The Link Building Cookbook series showing you the best places to build links to increase website traffic.

A great way to build backlinks is from related blogs. The problem that most people run into is the blogs do not have a “Top Commentators” plugin, or do not have search engine friendly blog comments. I have run across a blog search engine that lists only blogs that have dofollow enabled. So far, the list is pretty small, but I feel it has potential and should not be overlooked. The site is called CommentHunt.com.

After the soft launch of my new startup rssHugger earlier this November, I have been receiving ample amounts of feedback from the community. I have finally responded to the popular vote by removing the $10 registration fee associated with signing up. Now if you own a quality blog, and make a blog post/review about rssHugger, you can get your own blog listed in rssHugger for 10 years for free. The same quality standards still apply, and I will still be manually approving blogs, but now you do not have to spend any money to promote your blog. If you do not want to make a blog post about rssHugger, you can opt out by paying a one time fee of $20, which runs down to only $2 per year making rssHugger the biggest bang for your buck in terms of blog advertising and promotion.

This is the eleventh post in The Link Building Cookbook series, showing you all of the hidden techniques of building links to your website or blogs to increase website traffic.

One of my favorite blogs that I subscribe to is Mashable.com. Mashable is the internet’s largest social networking blog, and frequently ranks in the top 10 blogs overall according to Technorati. Unlike most other extremely popular blogs (Techcrunch, Engadget, etc), Mashable receives far less comments on every post. This is an extremely good thing for you though! The main reason Mashable posts get less comments than Techcrunch for example is that Techcrunch usually leaves a post on the homepage for 10-12 hours, while Mashable can crank out 20 to 30 posts per day. So now that you have some background information on one of my favorite blogs, lets get down to business.

A flaw in Digg that needs to be patched:

Update: As far as I can tell, it has been patched.  =) 

A little birdie on the syndk8.net blackhat SEO forum posted this and I thought it was worthy of public disclosure.

I just got done tinkering with a lot of cool plugins for wordpress that I needed installed. The new additions include:

1. Douglas Karr’s Contact Form, for my contact page.
2. Live Comment Preview try a comment below to see!
3. Comment Subscribe - Get comments by email [Removed]
4. Head Meta Tags Plugin - Meta descriptions
5. Permalink Redirect - Redirects standard URL’s to have a “/” at the end so search engines don’t read the same page and penalize both pages for having duplicate content.

This is the ninth post in The Link Building Cookbook series that shows you the best techniques to build links to your websites and blogs.

While there are hundreds of forums running on .edu domains, few allow anyone to register and post comments threads with links to your websites. Listed below are four university forums that allow you to register and get free links to your website. To many, this sounds like a huge waste of time as all of the new posts will be PR0, but over time it will certainly be beneficial. I recommend spending 1-2 hours building links from these forums when you have some free time.  Spamming them is not what is intended, please contribute something to the forum posts, as they are being kind enough to give you a link.  If any blatant spamming continues, I will remove this post in its entirety.

This is the seventh post in The Link Building Cookbook series of finding the best places to add links to your websites or blogs to help increase website traffic.