The V for Value

The History

It has been a long time since my last post about internet, traffic, and backlink. In this post, I will share to you how I learn to be a webmaster with this blog. Back in 2011, this blog was made without using any PC. I laughed at myself when I read a comment that said Wow, I love this blog, amazing, and I did not publish the comment.

How then? I only used my 2009 Nokia E63, and a free internet handler from opera. But, since the new blogger interface, I cannot publish my post using operamini anymore. Due to, operamini blocked javascript from the new blogger interface. Why I choose blogger? I chose blogger, because for me, it was easier than wordpress.

How can I write my post then? I just wrote my post as usual, using Quickoffice from my Nokia E63, and saved the post in my gmail unsent draft. Went to nearest internet rental kiosk, and published the post with a PC. Having an IT background, I found no problem on HTML, but I learnt a lot from W3school.

Last Easter, I had donated IDR 250,000 ($25), the first income that I received from this blog, to a Catholic orphanage. I hope I can do it again every Easter. I had proved to myself that make money online is really not a myth.

What is V for Value?

My name is Verdi, and I hope that my blog posts could give value to visitors who read my post. So, V is not just stand for Verdi, but also for Value. But, back in 2011, this blog title was first named as DV Store | Online Store. In early 2012, I changed the name to V for Value to provide more informations with wide niche, such as, health, life, alternate medicine, healthy life, health tips, therapy, cancer, diabetes, diarrhea, diet, internet, traffic, backlink, history, mental health, and motivation.

I had deleted over a hundred of my posts, in which most of them contained about products that I sold using my affiliate links, from several advertising companies. I started with only about 50 posts of my original post, when I first build V for Value, in early 2012. Amazingly, in June 2012, my blog's Google pagerank (PR) was raised to PR5.

Here what I can share to you, when you start to make your own blog. I hope you can learn from my personal experience about the SEO tricks.

The On/Off Page SEO

Having many backlinks will make a site for visible to the search engines. A link aging is also important. Your outbond links from high PR sites, that have been already indexed by the search engines, will make your site more visible. This is called off page SEO. Off page factors include, PR and outbond links.

But, you should keep in mind, that by having a high PR site, is unlikely you will have high traffic. Having a high PR will make your site more visible in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs), although it is also unlikely either. A PR3 site might also on #1 SERPs, but the PR5 site on #2. It all because the search engine algorithms.

One thing that I had learnt as webmaster, your inbond links (anchor links) to any pages, or articles within your sites, and not just to your home page, will tell the search engines to crawl the page, or the article, as a relevance source. This is called on page SEO. Moreover, the on page factors include:

• Keyword Frequency
  Keyword frequency inside your contents are the one that makes your content is the king. But, by repeating keywords in each paragraph will annoy the readers. The best site that I knew using the right keyword frequency in its contents, but still ranks high in SERPs, is wikipedia.
• Meta Tags
  Although many webmasters have ignored the use of meta tag, due to the search engines are now focused on keywords inside the contents, but having the right keywords in the meta tags is still important.
• Headings
  Title headings are those which will make your readers curious about your articles. Just like when you read a newspaper. See what is in the headline? What if the headline used small caps, or even smaller than the news? It will look awful.
• Inbond Links
  It is best that you used your keywords as the anchor text for the links, which lead to the other pages inside your site.
• Site Structure
  The site structure, the overall layout of a site, will be the first eye catch for your first unique visitor from the search engine. If the visitor did not find that what he seek, he will look to what he might benefit from your site. If he left your site less than a minute, it means that you will have a high bounce rate. High bounce rate means that your content is suck, your site is not sticky enough, and the site structure needs a change.

What if I Exchange Link?

1. Some tricky webmasters will remove your link shortly, a month or two, after you completed the exchange.
2. Your link is placed in an orphan page, in which inaccessible via home page, or any pages.
3. Your link is buried within ten clicks deep, or the link text is using the same color, as the page's background color, to make it invisible.
4. Do you familiar with this quote? You link to me first and I will link back to you! Don't bother yourself! They will never link back to you.
5. Your link is placed in a page which full of outbond links. Search engines will consider the page as a link farm, and penalized the site. A link from a penalized site, will also hurt your site.
6. Your link partners sabotage your link by adding meta tag to it, or placed your link inside a noframes tag to make it invisible.
7. Your link partners use a referral link before sending it to you.
8. Your link partners use a fake link using CSS styles.
9. You don't get any benefits, if your link partners frames the link bearing page within a high rank site.
10. You submit your link to a free web directories, but later, you find that the link is not free, and there is a hidden cost.

So, do I accept for exchanging links? No, I don't.

From where did I get my first dollar via online?

I got my first $25 online by accepting a sponsored post by an advertising company ($10), and a guy that emailed me to ask for a sponsored post ($15). I received the money via paypal. Although $25 is considered to be a small amount of money, but it will be worth a lot for orphan children.

I am not going to tell you about the advertising company that I used, because you will find lots of lists out there, just by Google it. After all, I blog is to ignore my boring full time job. Moreover, being an infopreneur, by sharing an information, is the easiest making money online strategy. Just find your niche, and start making money online!

Learn from my other posts about internet, traffic, and backlinks!

9 Free High Quality Page Rank Backlinks

9 High Page Rank .Gov Blogs

How to Gain Trust and Authority from The Search Engines

How to Get Free Backlink from PR9 Site

Internet Without Search Engine

List of 50 .edu Blogs for Building Backlinks

List of 50 .edu Blogs for Building Backlinks (2)

Nofollow Backlink, Natural Link Building

Web Counter with Traffic and Backlink

List of 50 .edu Blogs for Building Backlinks (2)

Having backlinks from .edu sites are treasures for webmasters. But, spammer webmasters had caused troubles to the .edu sites admin. Due to spam comments, many .edu blogs had closed their blogs account, or changed the URL address.

To minimize spam comments, several .edu blogs have turned off the comment form. Some .edu blog also can only be commented by registered users, such as students, teachers, and staff.

The new .edu blogs list below is the second chapter of my previous post List of 50 .edu Blogs for Building Backlinks. The .edu blogs in the list below are different from the previous list.

Most .edu blogs will only give you nofollow backlinks. But, having many nofollow backlinks will not harm to your sites. It would be considered as natural link building. Having many .edu backlinks will get your sites more visible, gain more trust and reputation from the search engines.

Just remember one thing! Do not spam! Place your site URL only on the available form, and do not use an anchor text of your URL on your comments! Also, use your real name and not keywords of your products or anything else!

1. Medical Billing and Coding Online Blog
   http://www.allenschool.edu/blog-online/
2. Ross Pendergraft Library & Technology Center
   http://blogs.atu.edu/library/
3. Senate blog
   http://academic.aucegypt.edu/wpmu/senate/
4. Facts from the Stacks
   http://blogs.bellevue.edu/library/
5. The Berkeley Blog
   http://blogs.berkeley.edu/
6. Library Sleevefacing
   http://blogs.bgsu.edu/librarysleevefacing/
7. Science at Brandeis Blog
   http://blogs.brandeis.edu/science/
8. 24700
   http://blog.calarts.edu/
9. Ask Doctoral Advising
   http://blogs.capella.edu/askdoctoraladvising/
10. HeartSong
    http://blogs.cedarville.edu/heartsong/
11. College of Charleston Admissions
    http://blogs.cofc.edu/admissions/
12. Colgate University News
    http://news.colgate.edu/
13. Climate Law Blog
    http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/
14. COBBlog
    http://cobblog.cord.edu/
15. AgSci Major News
    http://blogs.cornell.edu/agsci/
16. Cornell Fellows
    http://blogs.cornellcollege.edu/cornell-fellows/
17. Official Blog of CSN President Dr. Michael D. Richards
    http://blog.csn.edu/
18. Career Services
    http://blogs.cwsl.edu/career
19. WDCV-FM
    http://blogs.dickinson.edu/wdcvfm/
20. Undergraduate Admission
    http://press.emerson.edu/undergraduateadmission/
21. Emory Anime Club
    http://blogs.emory.edu/animec/
22. Department of Marriage and Family Therapy @ Fairfield University
    http://blog.fairfield.edu/mft/
23. Hue Too
    http://blog.fitnyc.edu/huetoo/
24. The Pollak Library Blog
    http://libphp2006.fullerton.edu/blogs/news/
25. Colleen Curran \'11
    http://cmcurr11.me.holycross.edu/
26. IE Business School
    http://master-international.blogs.ie.edu/
27. The Sheridan Libraries Blog
    http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/
28. KCAI Alumni Blog
    http://blogs.kcai.edu/alumni/
29. Wailele a me Wailani
    http://blogs.ksbe.edu/anchung/
30. Livin' Loyno
    http://blogs.loyno.edu/loynoreslife/
31. LSU Libraries Special Collections Blog
    http://hill.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/
32. Arts Alive
    http://blogs.luc.edu/artsalive/
33. Fishing in the Bay
    http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/
34. Newman Ambassadors
    http://ambassadors.blogs.newmanu.edu/
35. PowerSchool
    http://blogs.edutech.nodak.edu/powerschool/
36. Be Well
    http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/bewell/
37. Dr. Andy Newcomb
    http://blog.richmond.edu/anewcomb/
38. Notes on Design
    http://www.sessions.edu/notes-on-design/
39. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
    http://apanews.si.edu/
40. AHA!@Stanford
    http://aha.stanford.edu/
41. Health Sciences Libraries
    http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/hsl/
42. UF Forensic Science Blog
    http://blog.forensicscience.ufl.edu/
43. Monday Morning
    http://mondaymorning.web.unc.edu//
44. UNM Anime Club
    http://anime.unm.edu/
45. Assessment Matters
    http://assess.blogs.unr.edu/
46. Going Places
    http://goingplaces.blog.usf.edu/
47. UVM Blogs
    http://blog.uvm.edu/
48. Darden School of Business Admissions Blog
    http://blogs.darden.virginia.edu/admissions/
49. Ethics and Climate
    http://blogs.law.widener.edu/climate/
50. Willamette World News
    http://blog.willamette.edu/worldnews/

Search engine optimization (SEO) method by blog commenting on .edu and .gov sites is still the best way to get free backlinks from high pagerank and authority sites. But, SEO is also just an opinion. No one ever knew that more backlinks from high pagerank and authority sites, will get your sites on top of search engine result pages (SERPs) for your keywords.

I once saw a new born blog with only one post, which was able to be on page 1 Google result for certain queries that I typed. How come? The Google search algorithms was responsed to the only indexed post of the new born blog from its post title.

Blog title, page title and post title are all important for your sites, or blog posts to be on page 1 SERPs. And again, SEO is an opinion, if you believe that having many backlinks from .edu and .gov sites, will drive traffic to your sites by being on page 1 SERPs for your target keywords, you better check above .edu blogs! But, please! Do not spam!

Happy Valentine's Day!

9 Free High Quality Page Rank Backlinks

A site with high Page Rank (PR) doesn't mean that the site will be high in search ranking, or search engine result pages (SERPs). SEO methods such as, posts in forums, comments on other blogs, and link promoting on social media, will increase the site's ranking on a specific keyword's SERPs.

For a new site, having many backlinks will increase the site's visibility on search engine. Moreover, if the site's backlinks are from and to high quality related sites, it will impact on the site's PR. The more high a site's PR, the more often Googlebot crawled it, and indexed its pages.

You can check how many pages that Google had indexed your sites by googling it. For instance: site:verdilaurent.blogspot.com, or inurl:verdilaurent.blogspot.com. Change verdilaurent.blogspot.com with your sites URL.

Based on this blog backlinks, here are my top 9 high PR sites that you should try to join with:

Last.fm
PR8, Alexa Rank 1,317. A music community site which had lots of forums or groups for you to join with. Sign up as new member. Update your profile and add your site URL. Fill your signature with your anchor text and URL, using BBCode, here's mine for example, [url=https://verdilaurent.blogspot.com/]V for Value[/url]. Join with some of the groups, and post your messages, or comments. You will get nofollow backlinks from the groups.

Flagcounter Forum
PR8, Alexa Rank 16,580. Flag collector forum site, where you can exchange your flag with other members. Read the forum rule before you joined! Your site must have a web counter from flagcounter. Here's rule #5 of the forum: All links added to your signature must lead to a page that contains a Flag Counter. All backlinks you get in the forum are dofollow.

Technorati
PR7, Alexa Rank 9,891. An internet search engine for searching blogs, or you might say, blog search engine. When your sites are listed in Tecnorati directory, your sites will get 2 nofollow backlinks from technorati.com and pingerati.net.

Feedage
PR6, Alexa Rank 18,375. RSS feeder where you can promote your sites feeds. The backlink is nofollow.

Identi.ca
PR6, Alexa Rank 120,254. An open source social networking and micro-blogging service, similar to twitter. The backlink is nofollow.

Bloggers
PR5, Alexa Rank 144,459. New bloggers.com is intended to be a place where, bloggers find works, and companies meet marketing partners. I'm not sure about the backlink, because my new bloggers profile, that I had just submit, was still in progress.

Site Connect
PR5, Alexa Rank 338,787. A free service for getting site reviews from other members and increasing your website traffic. The higher your rank, the more traffic you get from other member reviews. Backlink is nofollow.

Warrior Forum
PR4, Alexa Rank 699. An internet marketing forum. The best place to find and learn on how to make money on the internet. There're lots of useful informations, that you can learn from lots of senior members, or so called as SEO's guru. You'll get dofollow backlinks.

W3 Directory
PR4, Alexa Rank 114,931. A website directory. Add your site by filling out the form, your blog name, blog description, and keywords which describe your blog niche. You'll get many dofollow backlinks.

Other things that you should know, after you join with 9 high PR sites above, and edit your profile page with your link. The link from your profile page, will be on a new page with no PR at all. You will gain high PR backlinks, if you place your link (on your signature) on the sites's pages that having high PR, such as, 5 star forum posts which had commented and viewed by lots of other members, or guests. The 5 star forum post is the one that ranked high on SERPs for certain keywords.

But still, having backlinks from high quality (high PR) sites will impact on your site's PR, whether it's dofollow or nofollow. Backlinks in which many SEO experts called them as the Google Juice, links that are placed in publicly viewable profiles on high PR sites. Tell me what do you think by commenting below!

Note:
The PR and Alexa Rank info of the 9 sites above are taken a day before the post is published. Image is courtesy of blaugh.com.

Update: January 1, 2015.

List of 50 .edu Blogs for Building Backlinks

When you are commenting on a blog, and placing links of your URL site, it can give dofollow link to the your sites. However, most blogs are now marked with nofollow tag, which is useless in search engines. But I disagree with that statement. Although from the post that you've already commented on, your site was not getting indexed by the search engine, Google still counted the blogs domain as your backlinks. You can see it in your Google Webmaster tools, links to your site pages.

Also it's still managed to drive traffic to your site. Your blog comment will get clicked on by the blog's admin and the readers of the blog, only if your comments are, interesting, giving curiosity to know who has wrote the comment, controversy with the blog post's point of view, or related to the discussion of the other commenters who also posted on the blog.

Although .edu and .gov sites don't improve your site PR automatically, having backlinks from them were believed by many SEO experts as the Google juice links, and might improve your site visibility in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs), due to .edu and .gov sites are having high and trusted rank.

On the list below, .edu and .ac blogs are just the same thing. I try to sort them in alphabetical order. Some blogs were auto approved enable, or without comment moderation.

1. allegheny.edu
   https://sites.allegheny.edu/greengator/2012/ [Error : This site has been archived or suspended.]
2. bobartsinstitute.edu
   https://www.bobartsinstitute.edu/Guestbook.php [404 Not Found]
3. butler.edu
   https://www.butler.edu/admission/student-perspectives/blogs/katie/ [404 Not Found]
4. byu.edu
   https://at.byu.edu/studentblog/?p=5 [This site can’t be reached]
5. ccsf.edu
   https://fog.ccsf.edu/~srubin/addgdec2.html [This site can’t be reached]
6. cuhk.edu.hk
   https://www-std.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~khou/wordpress/?page_id=2 [404 Not Found]
7. cuny.edu
   https://jdunn.journalism.cuny.edu/2011/09/15/20-foot-long-fingernails-land-las-vegas-woman-in-guinness-book-of-world-records/ [404 Not Found]
8. emu.edu
   https://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/ [Comment is off]
9. fudan.edu.cn
   https://homepage.fudan.edu.cn/jgying/2012/ [404 Not Found]
10. iium.edu.my
    https://blogs.iium.edu.my/cpdtrain/ [This site can’t be reached]
11. itb.ac.id
    https://stei.itb.ac.id/icccsn2012/?p=1 [404 Not Found]
12. ku.edu
    https://ctb.ku.edu/en/GuestbookForm.aspx [Available]
13. mayo.edu
    https://blog.centerforinnovation.mayo.edu/ [This site can’t be reached]
14. mit.edu
    https://advocacy.mit.edu/coulter/blog/?p=14 [This site can’t be reached]
15. moreheadstate.edu
    https://www2.moreheadstate.edu/content_template.aspx?id=4093&blogid=732 [This site can’t be reached]
16. myapc.edu.ph
    https://kbtan.myapc.edu.ph/wordpress/?p=125 [This site can’t be reached]
17. ntu.edu.tw
    https://sad.osa.ntu.edu.tw/wordpress/? [This site can’t be reached]
18. nwmissouri.edu
    https://blogs.nwmissouri.edu/sports/ [This site can’t be reached]
19. nyu.edu
    https://itp.nyu.edu/RepresentingEarth/?p=1030 [Login credentials needed!]
20. rmit.edu.au
    https://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~s3283551/blog2/?p=229 [This site can’t be reached]
21. siuc.edu
    https://ianhavermale.jlab.siuc.edu/?page_id=95 [This site can’t be reached]
22. stedwards.edu
    https://academic.stedwards.edu/socialmedia/idelacr2/2012/ [This site can’t be reached]
23. stisitelkom.ac.id
    https://adhieet.blog.stisitelkom.ac.id/2011/12/06/baliho-stisi-telkom [This site can’t be reached]
24. tamu.edu
    https://horttest.tamu.edu/academics/1/hello-world [This site can’t be reached]
25. tp.edu.tw
    https://web.tiec.tp.edu.tw/lifetype/post/1/11820 [This site can’t be reached]
26. trnty.edu
    http://blogs.trnty.edu/bvanderzee/2012/02/03/the-birthday-bash
27. ub.ac.id
    http://blog.ub.ac.id/rizal/?p=1000
28. uces.edu.ar
    http://observatoriorededucacionsuperior.blog.uces.edu.ar/2010/11/05/analisis-de-la-propuesta-de-modificacion-de-la-resolucion-no-116897-presentada-por-la-subcomision-de-posgrado-del-cin-rosario-octubre-2009
29. uci.edu
    http://ngs.ics.uci.edu/blog/?p=1437&cpage=1#comment-5114
30. ucla.edu
    http://blogs.anderson.ucla.edu/zimancenter/2012/07/the-demand-for-small-apartments-in-superstar-cities.html
31. ucr.ac.cr
    http://methesis.fcs.ucr.ac.cr/blogs/tcuhistoria/?attachment_id=178&cpage=11
32. uj.edu.pl
    http://akacja.wzks.uj.edu.pl/~06_steczkiewicz/?page_id=119
33. uky.edu
    http://ukhcforums.uky.edu/forums/blogs/markeymenu/archive/2012/06/26/why-you-need-carbohydrates.aspx
34. umb.edu
    http://blogs.umb.edu/directorofadmissions/
35. umich.edu
    http://www-personal.umich.edu/cgi-bin/guestbook/pattyb
36. umm.ac.id
    http://desyelf.student.umm.ac.id/2010/08/10/tebak-siapa-member-big-bang-yang-baru-saja-memiliki-twitter
37. undip.ac.id
    http://staff.undip.ac.id/fh/blog/archives/1
38. unhas.ac.id
    http://adywp.blogs.unhas.ac.id
39. unimap.edu.my
    http://publicweb.unimap.edu.my/~muhajir/blog/?p=27
40. unmsm.edu.pe
    http://unmsm.edu.pe/recas/?p=194
41. uns.ac.id
    http://himafarmafmipauns.ormawa.uns.ac.id/?p=64
42. unsyiah.ac.id
    http://fkip.unsyiah.ac.id/id/galeri/?
43. unu.edu
    http://mediastudio.unu.edu/en/2010/09/12/the-minature-earth/#comment-55201
44. uny.ac.id
    http://blog.student.uny.ac.id/doniextrada/2011/01/03/perkembangan-internet
45. usac.edu.gt
    http://sitios.usac.edu.gt/cunor/?page_id=244
46. utexas.edu
    http://utexas.edu/know/
47. utk.edu
    http://web.utk.edu/~dst/guestbook/index.php
48. washington.edu
    http://students.washington.edu/odphi/guestbook
49. wisc.edu
    http://wwwtest.biglearningevent.wisc.edu/study-groups/2011/11/30/helping-practicing-meditation-free-event
50. wsu.edu
    http://elec.tricity.wsu.edu/~andrew.cowell/wiki/index.php/User:ChrismanCarnell821

Bonus: 5 .gov blogs in which some were hard to be commented on, and comment moderated:

1. azpharmacy.gov
   https://www.azpharmacy.gov/guestbook.asp [404 Not Found]
2. cancer.gov
   https://blog-epi.grants.cancer.gov/ [This site can’t be reached]
3. lowellarkansas.gov
   https://museum.lowellarkansas.gov/guestbook/ [This site can’t be reached]
4. nih.gov
   https://ncip.nci.nih.gov/blog/ [This site can’t be reached]
5. tennille-ga.gov
   https://www.tennille-ga.gov/38.html [Page not found -]

One thing you should keep in mind, when you're going to place your URL links, please don't spam! Keep your comment as natural as you can, because some blogs above, in which auto approved comment enable, were filled with thousands of spam comments. If a blog full with spam comments, sometimes it might have been deleted by the admin.

Please give feedback by commenting below, if one of above links was no longer exist (dead links), so that I can replace with another.

Last Updates: June 30, 2025.
Stop spamming in comment!
All comments in my blog are moderated.

Read the second list here!

Backlink From Your Own Blog

Link building is a main based of SEO technique to drive traffic to your site. You might able to do so, is by providing a quality and useful content for your readers. Write on subject that you desire and love most, though it must be connected to your site niche.

Having a specific niche domain will get you advantages on specific targeted visitors, though it will also get you into trouble, due to lack of inspiration to write on a new blog post. My main blog niche is on alternate medicine, but my blog description is about tips (on everything) to gain better life. So, in this case, I have a wide niche to write about.

Based on Alexa website, many inbound links can help improve your rank in search engines, and can serve as a measure of a site's reputation. I was laugh at myself when I saw my blog's Alexa site linking in. A new backlink that I got is from verdilaurent.blogspot.in. When I tried to click on it, it directed me to my own blog. How could that be possible? I still didn't know why Alexa give my own blog as a dofollow backlink. If you have something like this, please share your thought!

Perhaps you can try this:
Check your blog URL with no .com/ at the end of your blog URL. Try using .in, .br, or .co.uk.

For example :
Your blog URL is http://yourblogspoturl.blogspot.com, and try to change with
https://yourblogspoturl.blogspot.br, or
https://yourblogspoturl.blogspot.co.uk, or
https://yourblogspoturl.blogspot.in.

Now, you can see where is the URL you had typed leads to!

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• Another Way To Boost Your SEO Rankings
• How to Get Free Backlink from PR9 Site
• Internet Without Search Engine
• Knowing Your Site Rank
• Web Counter with Traffic and Backlink

How to Get Free Backlink from PR9 Site

If you are a webmaster, you would have known this, The more sites that are linking to your site, the more traffic you will get. That is truly a fact, there are no webmasters would doubt it. Many webmasters are trying hard to keep their Alexa rank as lower as they could.

Though even I could not understand what are alexa based for ranking the sites. On alexa website, it only said that, many inbound links can help improve your rank in search engines, and can serve as a measure of a site's reputation.

You would also probably saw an advertising about buying link from PR9 sites. Infact you wouldn't have to spent a dime to get backlink from a PR9 site based on my experience in this blog.

Yeah!! The site is blogger.com, a PR9 site with alexa rank 89 (last time I checked). How did I get that PR9 backlink for free? If you already have Google account, whether you have blog or not, you must have a blogger profile. Fill your blogger profile with your site!

And then, if you have already blogger profile with your site on it, you must have been wondering, why my site didn't get a backlink from blogger.com?

Actually, there are 2 ways to get a backlink from blogger.com. The main thing is, you must comment to other sites, especially blogger blogspot sites, using your Google account.

The second is, your comment must be unique, so that it can drive the other visitors of the site who also read the post, to view on your blogger profile.

The more people viewed on your profile, and visited the site on your blogger profile, the faster you get the PR9 backlink from blogger.com.

The truth is, by commenting to other blogs or sites, it will drive traffic to your site, at least an exchange visit from the site owner. Moreover, if you follow others blog using Google Friend Connect, that other blog will also get another backlink from blogger.com.

You should not have to place your site link, using html text, with an anchor text, for an intention to get dofollow backlink from the site. It would be considered as a spam comment, and the site owner would not publish your comment.

Update: December 26, 2014

Internet Without Search Engine

How would it be if internet without search engine?

The 1st time when I was shaking hand with connections called internet, was on the year of 1999, it's when Y2K was the biggest thread on every PCs around the world. Back then, Google's search engine was not so popular as now, the #1 search engine that is now used by all internet users. In the past, I used to rely on my search using Yahoo's search engine, which @yahoo.com was became my second accounts that I used for an email account.

My first email account that I used was from @usa.net, which now is no longer hosted for free email account. Much news I got from Yahoo news, back then. I never got used to on using search engine to get what I needed to read. I always relied on my books, which my grandmother gave me in 1999, after I insisted on asking for it. 21 books of Encyclopedia International, copyright © 1975 by Grolier Incorporated. My very precious legacies from my late grandfather, who had passed away in 1996. None all of my aunt and uncle were managed to read it. That books were just became a shelf decoration, and always me, the one that used to read it, everytime I visited my grandfather's house.

Ok! Back to topic! I had read on many SEO advices about using the right keywords for your site. The best way to attract search engine attention to crawl to your site. How about if there's no search engine like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, etc.? You named it! What's your strategy to drive traffic to your site then?

I recently found a site on the internet that haven't used search engine on it, for an intention that search engine won't crawl the site. The text in the bottom of the site said that. So, how do people including me are managed on finding their sites? I was carried to that site after I used Google on my search, then I landed to a site, I was arrived to that 'uncrawled by search engine' site after I clicked to that site's link that attrached me to visit. It's strange for me to see a site that never want to be index by search engine.

My own conclusion is, that the site was never meant to be easily to find by everyone, although that site got higher Alexa rank for traffic. Last time I checked, it's ranked by Alexa below 2,700 with more than 5,000 sites linking in, PR 5 with Google backlink, and also Alexa top 500 sites rank in Indonesia. Now, I know why the site didn't want search engine to index the site, cause it was already indexed. I wouldn't say that site's name here.

Based on my last post Another Way To Boost Your SEO Rankings, your web design might attrached your visitors to revisit your site, besides all your site contents and keywords to be crawled by the search engine. Some people I found in such forum said, that a web design with dark (black) background color with white, or orange text, like mine here, was really hurting their eyes. I laughed at myself to read that, and not hesitated on commenting to their thread.

You know why I choosed black and white for my blog? Orange is an optional color for a link text in my blog. Black and white is my favorite colors, it also means a lot for everything in all of our lifes. The good and the bad, better or worst, happy and sad, angels and demons, etc. If you ever went to Bali Island or asking to an Hindustani people about the meaning of blank and white colors, you'll know what I mean!

Web Counter with Traffic and Backlink

Looking for a web counter or hit counter for your wesite, is the first thing we usually do after we create a website. There are many service providers of web counter on the internet. Sometimes we wonder, where does our visitors come from? Although blogger are already had statistic page that show it, but we usually unsatisfied with the stat result. There is only one web counter I knew, that can drive traffic and also give a backlink to your website.

A web counter that I love most is flagcounter from boardhost. I'm become the one from millions of fanatical fans of flagcounter. You can see here in my blog, there are 5 types of flagcounter from boardhost.

As an Indonesian, I should be proud because Indonesia becomes the fourth country that frequently access flagcounter site. This is seen from the flagcounter.com master counter here.

You can collect 51 regional flags from United States and 13 flags from Canada using free flagcounter. If you upgrade to become Pro user, you will have the ability to collect regional flags from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, and many more. For example, 33 regional flags from 33 provinces of Indonesia.

In addition, Pro users can make their flagcounter become private and can't be seen by their visitors. Pro users can also eliminate the flagcounter logo.

Flagcounter is only a simple image of html without having a javascript. It can be place everywhere on the site that support image. But on Facebook page or profile as far as I know, you can't place a flagcounter.

By avoiding too many widgets with javascript, will get your site index by Google bots faster. It will have resulting on the SERPs. That's the basic SEO that I've learnt.

One way to get more visitors or traffic to your website as well get a backlink from boardhost.com is by joining in the flagcounter forum here. By placing your website URL on your signature, it will give backlink to your website.

You can ask for other flagcounter forum members to visit your website, by posting with title 'Need a flag' for example, on flag requests section. But you must remember! You should also visit their website in return!!

Another Way To Boost Your SEO Rankings

A bad post is worst than no post at all

Did you ever heard the sentence above before? I'm 50% agree with that idea. You know why? Your blog content might be become the king, and then your blog design appearance should be the queen. If no post is better than a bad post or just a huge image on a blog, then why do you make a blog? Blog at first time was a kind of digital diary. People were posting to their blog to express their thought, mind, and share their expertise, and experience. No matter if there any readers that visit their blogs.

Back to the topic. If blog appearance is the queen, a way to beautify your blog is by creating slideshows. A beautiful and functional slideshow to improve your website performance, you should try SlideDeck.

SlideDeck is available as a jQuery Slider Plugin or WordPress plugin. There are two versions for both plugins: Lite (limited) version and a Pro (feature rich, customizable) version. SlideDeck is a powerful jquery slider plugin made for web designers. Automatically animate through your SlideDeck when visitors arrive on your website. You can use SlideDeck to explain how your web app works or let a user visually browse your blog posts. SlideDeck can actually boost your SEO rankings. The content from each slide is cleanly organized in your code and is automatically indexed by search engines.

With SlideDeck, you can organize any type of web content into a beautiful, user-friendly slider, and provides a great way to draw attention to your web content, while maintaining full search engine optimization. It is designed to provide understanding of a concept in less than a minute.

Knowing Your Site Rank

Having a site but doesn't have any visitors? What then??

Submit your site to the search engine! 1st of all check your site rank at alexa.com. Just type your URL there, then you'll see the result of your global rank. How many sites that are linking to your site? The best keywords based on your site contents. Also percentages of keywords that used on search engine recently. By linking your site to Alexa site will increase your site rank.

Download the Alexa toolbar for free to have best rank on search engine, also you can monitor your site page rank. Having Alexa Site Audit will give your site better rank. Alexa will crawl and analyze your website to give you an in depth view of your site's visibility to search engines. Provide insights into the optimization, monetization and overall health of your site.

But.... Wait a minute..

Sometimes SEOs and site owners encounter some problems. Their sites were suddenly going down in the search engine results pages, for no particular reason. It's hard to figure out why your rank dived to the last pages. Let's consider possible reasons and solutions to the problem.

• Got penalized or banned by Google
  As stated in Google Webmaster Guidelines, one must not participate in link schemes. Buying/ selling links, create doorway pages, or use hidden text. These are considered illegitimate SEO practices and may bring Google's wrath.

  If your site gets penalized, find out what might have caused this. Read Google's Webmaster Guidelines and remove whatever is in violation from your site.

• Search engine algorithm has changed
  Search engines are trying to keep their search results as relevant and SPAM free as possible. By increasing number of websites on the Internet today, search engines are forced to tweak their search algos to keep spammers at bay. Google's algorithm Panda was intended to do away with sites that provide poor quality content.

  It also affected groups of sites that have significant duplicate content by nature, such as e-commerce sites, online directories, etc. First of all, if you are doing SEO and you really mean it, you should be informed about what's new in the Search Engine.

• Your website's content got stolen or got banned for copyright infringement
  If your rank suddenly dropped, that could be because someone has stolen the content from your site and posted it somewhere else on the Web. Search engines sometimes lower both sites's ranks. Eventually, they are likely to start ranking your site as high as they used to before the incident. Once they realize who copied whose content. This may take some time.

  Banned for copyright infringement that is your site used somebody else's content to boost your site's rank. The owner of the content may have filed a DMCA request or reported your site to Google for copyright infringement. Then you should remove the duplicate content.

• Competitors beat you in the SERPs
  Your rank may go down just because a competing site manages to boost their rankings to a substantial degree. If this is the case, analyze competitor's site and see in what way they are better than yours. Pay attention to their backlinks, keyword density, social media popularity and act.

• Your site backlinks have been removed
  Due to backlinks with top Google positions pointing to your site's being removed, resulting your site rank drop. Check the backlinks pointing to your site. If this happens, you should get these links back or get similar backlinks from other websites.

Sometimes unexpected things happen. Google removed 11 million domains from its index, all on one day. Hope that will not happen to your site.