"10 LINK BUILDING TECHNIQUES for Google Penguin "

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-9uMeu-cDjuT02I1ZpJNHB3cY7MzTNAM9iweP_utFkZwu3yzCdqg3bv0caqbfQiboVuQfPiIV_g6h8VfTb8SCMY4tC7DXQ9D0ThFXR0CQTUxDhixz_N676Iftnij7vxJ7DTujbqi3rg/s1600/link-building.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">Link building has now suddenly came into focus once again, as Google is repeatedly trying to stamp out black-hat SEO practices. So the trend now is on building legitimate backlinks rather than buying them off a cheap package. Even so, Google Penguin is still pretty touchy, and you need to build links with care. We earlier shared some </span><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2013/07/earn-backlinks-from-edu-and-gov-domains.html" style="background-color: white; color: #289728; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">great ways to earn trusted backlinks</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">, and </span><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2013/07/scoring-relationship-based-backlinks.html" style="background-color: white; color: #289728; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ways to score relationship-based links</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">. We'll continue on with that thread, and share some more tips, this time on building links the Penguin-friendly way!</span></div><a name="more"></a><br /><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Get listed in DMOZ</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.dmoz.org/" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DMOZ</a> is an online directory that has a very high PR. Getting a link from such a website can be invaluable. You can get your blog listed in the relevant categories. So if you want to build a link, start by getting listed on DMOZ. But keep one thing in mind. While considering a category to get listed in, always try to select the most relevant one, yet one that has the least number of out-bound links (indicated by the number in brackets next to each category). This is because even though each page on DMOZ might have the same PR, but not the same value. The more the links, the lesser the value. So your aim should be the least number of links for the most value.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Blog commenting</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">Now, this is a fairly common technique, so we're not going to squander much words on it. I would however, like to show you a couple tools that can help you with commenting on other blogs. We discussed about DropMyLink in an earlier post. You can use it to find relevant blogs you want to comment on. There's another handy tool called Scrapebox, which will help make blog commenting much easier and faster. Do give it a try, and see how it can speed up your work!</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Find sites with the Disqus commenting system</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">The advantage of Disqus over other commenting systems is, it is really easy to use, and comments that you make appear instantly. Furthermore, you can post them on Facebook as well, so that your friends can see what you've been upto - hence giving you more referral traffic. So to find such sites with the Disqus commenting system, you first have to create an account. Your username will be the anchor text for your links, so you might want to create more than one account for each category you want to comment for.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">Now, you can just search Google for keywords, combined with the phrase "powered by disqus" (with quotes). You will land upon some blogs using disqus. Open a few you like, and check if they have a high PR (we recommend you install the SEOQuake toolbar). Find a high quality blog, and start commenting on it. Additionally, narrow down your search to the last two weeks or so using Google's advanced search. Commenting on pages that have no comments is recommended, because that'll give you some referral traffic as well.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Use your Twitter profile</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">There are certain sites that use Twitter data for real-time search, ascertaining social authority, Twitter lists, and so on. These sites use links found in your profile, especially in your bio, and use those links in their listings. So if you have your website links in your profile bio, and a Twitter handle as well, you'll be automatically building links! Some such sites are listed below. You can add yourself to them, and build some more links!</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; list-style: none;"><li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GBzWvrX90RKXBsQoQhKCb7B2sDM4Wvuf82kMbx5rQrfN4DdjuLESmdoYOa0dcLtPS35NdSs6R95TxfxivIQFq7wCCB-8ToCpUORQdhS3sUV8GrerkqcBurLckY2o7n6BvST4B7eDQjE/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">http://klout.com/home</li><li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GBzWvrX90RKXBsQoQhKCb7B2sDM4Wvuf82kMbx5rQrfN4DdjuLESmdoYOa0dcLtPS35NdSs6R95TxfxivIQFq7wCCB-8ToCpUORQdhS3sUV8GrerkqcBurLckY2o7n6BvST4B7eDQjE/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">http://www.twellow.com/</li><li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GBzWvrX90RKXBsQoQhKCb7B2sDM4Wvuf82kMbx5rQrfN4DdjuLESmdoYOa0dcLtPS35NdSs6R95TxfxivIQFq7wCCB-8ToCpUORQdhS3sUV8GrerkqcBurLckY2o7n6BvST4B7eDQjE/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">http://twitaholic.com/</li><li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GBzWvrX90RKXBsQoQhKCb7B2sDM4Wvuf82kMbx5rQrfN4DdjuLESmdoYOa0dcLtPS35NdSs6R95TxfxivIQFq7wCCB-8ToCpUORQdhS3sUV8GrerkqcBurLckY2o7n6BvST4B7eDQjE/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">http://twittercounter.com/</li><li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GBzWvrX90RKXBsQoQhKCb7B2sDM4Wvuf82kMbx5rQrfN4DdjuLESmdoYOa0dcLtPS35NdSs6R95TxfxivIQFq7wCCB-8ToCpUORQdhS3sUV8GrerkqcBurLckY2o7n6BvST4B7eDQjE/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">http://tweetlevel.edelman.com/</li><li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GBzWvrX90RKXBsQoQhKCb7B2sDM4Wvuf82kMbx5rQrfN4DdjuLESmdoYOa0dcLtPS35NdSs6R95TxfxivIQFq7wCCB-8ToCpUORQdhS3sUV8GrerkqcBurLckY2o7n6BvST4B7eDQjE/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">http://twtbizcard.com/</li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Copy/Pasting link building</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">Ever seen a mysterious link along with some text appear as you copied some text from a website? It is called 'attribution text', and you can do it for your website too. You'll be getting links as people copy and paste your content around the internet. Read the following guide to learn how to add attribution text.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; list-style: none;"><li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GBzWvrX90RKXBsQoQhKCb7B2sDM4Wvuf82kMbx5rQrfN4DdjuLESmdoYOa0dcLtPS35NdSs6R95TxfxivIQFq7wCCB-8ToCpUORQdhS3sUV8GrerkqcBurLckY2o7n6BvST4B7eDQjE/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;"><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2012/07/add-credit-links-to-text-copied-from-your-blog.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Add attribution links to text copied from your blog</a></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Find out when someone has mentioned you without linking</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">Often times, people will talk about you, or mention your brand without actually linking to you. In such cases, you probably want them to link to you properly. To find out whenever this happens, you can set up Google Alerts.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">In the Search query section, exclude all the websites you actively contribute to (by combining the minus - operator and the site: operator). Then, you can add a keyword (such as your name, etc). For example,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; list-style: none;"><li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GBzWvrX90RKXBsQoQhKCb7B2sDM4Wvuf82kMbx5rQrfN4DdjuLESmdoYOa0dcLtPS35NdSs6R95TxfxivIQFq7wCCB-8ToCpUORQdhS3sUV8GrerkqcBurLckY2o7n6BvST4B7eDQjE/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">-site:mybloggertricks.com -site:smartearningmethods.com -site:richincomeways.com -site:techeclipse.com Qasim Zaib</li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">Set the 'Result type' to Everything, and 'How Often' to As it Happens. This way, whenever Google comes up with something new that fits into the search query, it will alert you. So if someone mentions me on their website, I'll get to know about it via email as soon as Google finds that content. I can then contact them, and ask for a link (refer to our post on relationship-based backlinking for details on how to do this).</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Recovering lost links</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">This tip is a lot like the previous one, but in this case, you want to look for an actual mention of your url instead of your name or keyword. For example, someone might have mentioned mybloggertricks.com without actually linking to it. In that case, you don't need a Google Alert, since you want to find mentions that've already happened (you could set up alerts too if you like, as in the previous tip). Simply search Google for something like "intext:mybloggertricks.com -site:mybloggertricks.com", and you'll get a list of all the sites that match the search.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">Now, you can export the search results using a bookmarklet such as SERPs redux. Export the list into text file, and then use the Screaming Frog tool to crawl those links. You will want to add filters, such as Does not contain link (that you mention, i.e. mybloggertricks.com). Now you already had a list of all the links that contained your website's URL in the text. Now some might have that as anchor text, which is what you wanted all along. So you needn't check such sites. But once you crawl the links using Screaming frog, you'll get a list of webpages that don't have your link in them, even though they have the text.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Second-level links</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">Here's the basic concept. In this technique, you basically help other websites (that are sending a lot of traffic to you) get a better rank in SERPs, so that in-turn, your own traffic increases. Now this might take a lot more time, but could be worth it if the traffic coming has a high conversion rate. For example, let's suppose we have a page where people purchase an eBook. Now, I can see from my analytics data, that a Blog 'X' is sending the most numbers of users, who are buying this eBook. Now if that blog 'X' doesn't rank #1 in SERPs for the specific keyword, I probably want it to rank #1, so that more people would visit blog 'X', and hence more people would come to our site to buy the eBook. See?</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Second-level prospecting</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">The basic concept behind this technique is that, if it is too hard to get a related backlink from your niche influencer, or if it will take a lot of time, then you probably would want to get a backlink from the sites that your niche influencer links to.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">To find such sites, you'll have to have the Screaming Frog tool we've talked about, and the SERP redux bookmarklet. First, enter the URL(s) of your niche influencer(s) in a text file in list format, and then import the file into Screaming Frog. Now, you'll have to crawl those URLs, but first, let's do a few settings. Make sure you check the 'Check External Links' option, along with the 'Follow External nofollow' and 'Ignore robots.txt' options. Also set the Search Depth Limit to 1. There, you'll get a list of all the websites your niche influencer links to. You'll benefit a lot from getting backlinks from those websites as well.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">mybloggertricks.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><a href="http://bloggeringnews.blogspot.gr/" target="_blank"> <span style="display: none; visibility: hidden;">.</span></a></div>

"10 LINK BUILDING TECHNIQUES for Google Penguin "

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"Google Payment Banned in Pakistan by Western Union"

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt=""Google Payment Banned in Pakistan by Western Union"" border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLqTCip8HUMAgbZ3pkyrZIPEThnuQZQw-3h18n8z-y8N_EOHhaqeEZ7-AYSd-JA6WQt8Bj0BziuZ-VIQncYWA_L3YmHT_rCYVbztxTtNSwUaPa0YbsUSM90kZU7A1WNNexRFyxmbBunZM/s400/google+banned+western+union.png" title=""Google Payment Banned in Pakistan by Western Union"" width="400" /></div><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">We just discovered that On 29th June 2013,</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.westernunion.com/pakistan" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Western Union</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"> issued a notice to all its franchises in Pakistan to stop payments and transactions made by</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"> Google Inc</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">. </span><br /><a name="more"></a>Whether you are a Google employee or AdSense Publisher, unfortunately you can no longer receive payments from Google through Western Union Quick Cash. We discovered this news today when I was shown the official notice which stated that due to<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"> several fraud cases</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"> being reported, Western Union has decided to cut down all transactions made by Google in Pakistan. Neither can a customer send money to Google as Sender nor receive a payment as the receiving party. So far Publishers living in Pakistan especially in cities like Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad are not yet informed through any communication medium. Neither have we heard anything from </span><a href="https://plus.google.com/118177668521021834088/posts" style="background-color: white; color: #289728; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; outline: none; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Badar Khushnood</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">, the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">Country Google consultant</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">. The information is undisclosed and both parties are trying to keep things confidential. We have not heard any print or electronic media reports on this so far.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><br /><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">I discovered this news today when I visited the nearest WU franchise near my home in order to withdraw our company's monthly AdSense payment. Somehow we are really disappointed to know how badly the country is losing its trust and credibility day by day. With up to 80% AdSense Accounts banned each year in Pakistan, this is yet another set of a horrible news that embraced us today.</div><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">Now its time for all bloggers and webmasters to edit the Payment method using AdSense Account. This tutorial is aimed to help publishers from Pakistan to continue receiving payments from Google without using Western Union Money transfer system.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Change Payment Settings in AdSense</h3><ol style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;"><li>Log in your AdSense account</li><li>Click <b>Account settings</b></li><li>Under <b>Payment settings</b> click the link that says "<b>edit payment method</b>"</li></ol><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;" /><img alt="change Adsense payment method" border="0" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvSFP7fgmzV3rvbWD3wmQAV6TnI_Sa5VnKi0XUf5dvt00NrRBkP6SHGcRreyL4biGrI5bn2xeL29LYoGtAO8NrB5iFzmvuqnM5DHOt3c5Lt0-uzTVUgvJ75albl7Sw28EdLzzgASjoFGA/?imgmax=800" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; border-width: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; float: none; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 10px;" title="change Adsense payment method" width="395" /><br /><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">   </div><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">4. Under the check options you will see two radio buttons. <b>Standard delivery</b> checks are sent by regular country mail and it often takes around a month but if you want to receive the payment as quickly as possible within 4-5 days then choose the <b>Secured Express Delivery</b> however this includes a charge of $25 which is the processing fee.</div><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">Standard delivery is done by <b>Pakistan Post</b> but Secured delivery is often done by a reliable courier service which is often <b>TCS</b> and rarely<b> DHL</b>.</div><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">   5. We have chosen Express delivery option. You may choose as per your timely requirements. Hit continue and you are all done!</div><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;"></div><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;"></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Why this alternative method Sucks? <span style="background-color: yellow;">Updated Section:</span></h3><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">Google payment checks are issued by Citibank Only. Pakistan is lucky in this case because<strong>CitiBank</strong> is offering services here for the past 50 years. But what will surprise you more is that  <strong>Google checks can not be cashed out, they can only be deposited</strong>! This creates problems for Students and for those who don't have their Bank accounts. But wait the story does not ends here. Unfortunately Google AdSense Checks sent to Pakistan are in US Dollars only which means you must have a Dollar account , transaction of Dollars can be made on a Dollar account only. PKR account wont work with Google Checks. </div><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">Luckily in our case, we recently registered our company and have opened both PKR and Dollars accounts at <strong>Standard Chartered Bank</strong>. It takes only a day to open a Dollar account, you just need to fill up some formalities.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Will you be paid this month for your June Earnings?</h3><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">Since AdSense has a strict policy for monthly payment cycles, therefore if you are editing the payment method today then you will get June and July payments together at the end of July. We are a little late because payment settings must be changed 15 days earlier before the closing month. Therefore finger crossed for June earnings but be glad that at least you have set an alternative payment method.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">Why Google does not pay via PayPal or Bank Wire?</h3><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">We still don't know the exact reasons to this but as far as we know, Google like many other big corporate firms don't use an Online Transaction method like PayPal in order to avoid hidden commission costs and charges. PayPal charges about<b> <span style="background-color: yellow;">2.9% + $0.3</span></b> <b>Per Transaction</b>. On contrary WU charges much less i.e. Just <b>$10</b> for a payment under <b>$500</b>. Google makes sense in case of PayPal but what about Online Bank Wire Transfer? Why can't publishers receive money straight in their bank accounts?  This is where AdSense doesn't make sense at all!</div><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">I just hope Google offers more flexible ways of Online transaction to its users and sort out this newly erupted problem in Western Union Pakistan.</div><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;"></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(78, 85, 90); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #4e555a; font-family: Verdana, arial; line-height: 20.796875px; padding: 3px;">When will Western Union Lift the Ban?</h3><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">Not sure if this is a temporary ban or permanent, only time can tell. Since it's a matter of some serious fraud cases being caught and reported therefore unless Western Union recovers all the loses or make a new silent business policy deal with Google, we can't expect the ban to be lifted that soon.</div><div align="justify" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;"><br /></div><div align="justify" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20.78125px;">mybloggertricks.com</span></span></div><a href="http://bloggeringnews.blogspot.gr/" target="_blank"> <span style="display: none; visibility: hidden;">.</span></a></div>

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5 smart tips to get Edu. And Gov. Backlinks to your site

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXXNbNDv7Tih3CUzbLpNKexmAz7CBjhBlqXZSTrz1eQZ7tlzyhczWt7ClkTZhBCKWyJTbXWNV4pZ1T6SBt_BxkudF1nKghyphenhyphenFsWLjOq-3IFYC7S9F0YgxbPTCtLHDUs8mf-BGUZJkrp7zQ/s320/edu+gov+backlinks.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most people don't know how beneficial .GOV and .EDU backlinks can be, or whether they're useful at all for a website. It is easy to confuse theirimportance with that of other TLDs (Top Level Domains) such as .COM, .NET etc, and you'd figure that since .COMs are the most popular and the most expensive, ergo they're the most important. We'll, you'd be wrong to think that. A website's trust rating is far more important that what it cost to set it up. And as you can imagine, .GOV and .EDU top level domains enjoy a special level of trust which is regarded very highly by search providers such as Google, Bing and Yahoo. And backlinks from such domains can take your website's rank to another level. Here are some *best techniques to get .GOV and .EDU backlinks* for your site.</div><a name="more"></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1. Comments</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the many ways you can build backlinks is by commenting on other blogs. There's nothing quite like it when you get the conversation going. To start off creating a .gov and .edu backlink profile or your blog, start finding such blogs to comment on. A great website that'll help you do that is Drop My Link</div><div style="text-align: justify;">. You can search for blogs based on the desired keyword. But more importantly, you can select the type of blogs you want to see from the drop-down list. From there, you can choose .edu or .gov blogs, and get the relevant blogs based on your keyword!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Drop My Link</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can then filter out your results. Go for blogs with a high PR first, because commenting takes time, and you don't want to waste time on low ranking blogs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Recognize .edu bloggers</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Aside from comments, getting a proper dofollow backlink from .edu and .gov blogs can be very difficult. One strategy is to feature some such bloggers in a post of yours, so that they'll link back to you in return out of gratification. For example, you could create a list of 'the best university bloggers', or 'the best students blogs in the U.S' etc. Small recognition awards like these are sure to get attention, and hopefully a backlink.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To find such blogs, here's a Google Search trick. If you search Google for <site:.edu> (without the angled brackets), you will run a search for all domains with a .edu extension. You can also search a specific site using this method <site:yoursite.com>. If you search Google for <inurl:blog> (again, without the brackets), you will land all webpages with the term "blog" in their url. You can combine the two to run a search for .edu blogs - <site:.edu inurl:blog>. Moreover, you can add individual search terms within quotes to refine your results according to keywords <site:.edu inurl:blog "technology news">. This way, you can feature 'top university technology blogs'</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3. Find resource pages</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If your website provides useful information on a particular subject, then you may use that to get inside a university's resource page. Resource pages are there for linking out to other sites where students can find useful information regarding a particular subject. So if you are a computer guru and know your way around Linux development for example, you could contact computing institutes' web team to put out a backlink to you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can use the same search trick you used earlier to find resource pages. For example, run a search for <site:.edu inurl:resources "technology"> or <site:.edu inurl:links "Linux"> (without brackets), and you'll find out plenty of universities you could contact.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4. Do some volunteer work</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I mean not like charity work. But you can help some university web team design or improve a component on their website in return for a backlink. Now this, of course, requires you to have some web development skills, but you can hire a freelancer to do the job for you too.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All you have to do is, find a university or college site, and look through it if it looks poorly made. Not every university has a full time web design team. Often times, they only intend to give out valuable information, without caring much about how their webpages look. For example, I was recently reading about some research proceedings about a new type of lens technology in cameras at a university, and I couldn't help but notice the colourless, bland design. Now the webpage itself had a very high traffic and the university was very reputable. But in all fairness, researchers working behind the new camera technology most probably wouldn't know about web design, which makes it the perfect opportunity for people to contact them, and offer to redo their design in return for a backlinl. Such researchers wouldn't even care about the backlink, as long as they're getting a better design.5. Hire college studentsNow I know this one is unconventional, but hey, so long as it works! In some colleges and universities, students have access to .edu domains, where they are allowed sub-domains of their own. You can set someone up to create a student blog for their college, and then link back to your own website.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many ways you could hire a student to do your bidding. You can use the Reddit ForHire</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> section to post your gig. You can also post a classified on Craigslsit. Or, you could always go to one of the many freelancing websites available, where you can post a job.</div></div>

5 smart tips to get Edu. And Gov. Backlinks to your site

Most people don't know how beneficial .GOV and .EDU backlinks can be, or whether they're useful at all for a website. It is easy to ...

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