Submit your Blog Link Building List

A quick list for you to submit your blog to:

http://www.bloglines.com/
http://www.technorati.com
http://www.blogged.com/
http://www.blogcatalog.com
http://www.blogdigger.com
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?url=
http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=ping&url=
http://www.readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx
http://www.goldenfeed.com/AddFeed.aspx
http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/
http://www.blogs.com/submit
http://www.blogtoplist.com/submit-blog.html
http://globeofblogs.com/contact#FSContact1
http://www.fuelmyblog.com/index.jsp?c=/pages/addBlog.jsp
http://www.spicypage.com/
http://www.feedcat.net/
http://www.feedsee.com/submit.html
http://www.feedage.com/
http://www.millionrss.com/add-my-feed.php
http://ngoid.sourceforge.net/sub_rss.php
http://www.postami.com/rss_submit_service.php
http://www.rssbuffet.com/submit.php
http://www.rssmotron.com/feed_submission.php
http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php
http://swoogle.umbc.edu/index.php?option=com_swoogle_service&service=submit
http://www.zimbio.com/member/appareldeals
http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php
http://www.crayon.net/
http://feedfury.com/submit
http://feedshark.brainbliss.com/
http://www.jordomedia.com/RSS/l_op=Addrss.html
http://www.newsknowledge.com/products/suggest_new_source.html
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/
http://www.rssmicro.com/FeedRank/?FeedURL=
http://www.rss-network.com/submitrss.php
http://www.solarwarp.net/submitrss.php
http://www.xmeta.net/users/
http://wholesale-apparel.wallinside.com/

Local SEO Tips 2012

After reading over another amazing David Mihm’s Local Search Ranking Factors, i wanted to include below a few of Astral Web’s favorites.

See our Favorites

– NAP in hCard / Schema.org

– GeoTagged Media Associated with Business (e.g. Panoramio, Flickr, YouTube)

– City, State in Most/All H1/H2 Tags

– Quantity of MyMaps References to Business

– Matching, Public WHOIS Information

– Velocity of Check-Ins on Popular Services (e.g. Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter)

PLUS (Astral Web Added) – Number of Citations from Same City Newspapers (for example – ocregister mention, latimes mention, etc)

A New Meaning to Image Optimization

Most webmaster and bloggers still have not caught up setting up author attriubutes in order to enhance their organic listings in Google, but for some industries (seo as an easy example) and for some result pages we are starting to fill up with author attributes and suddenly they don’t stand out anymore.

I guess there shortly will be a new definition for “image optimization” in order to raise your CTR. Maybe your image with a flying monkey or ……. We will soon find out how creative people can get and see new job descriptions -> i am a photographer and seo image optimization headshot-ist

Welcome to Google Trusted Stores

At our company we always try to encourage our clients to include “trust logos” on their sites to help with visitor confidence and higher conversion rates.

As of today, June 7th, 2012 Google just released the Google Trusted Store program for all merchants in the United States.

We wanted to include initial information about the program:

You will have to make sure that:
– You are an online business in the United States
– You are incorporated
– You have all customer service pages onsite (privacy, contact, shipping, terms, clear phone number and email)
You feel free to submit your shipping and cancellation information to Google
– You have a Google merchant account (Google Base/Shopping Account & Feeds)

Also Google Specifies that you will NOT be able to apply if:
– They are part of marketplace sites and other sites where different stores share a common domain for their store and checkout pages.
– They are unable to add JavaScript to their confirmation pages.
– They are unable to provide daily feeds of shipped and canceled orders.
– They have greater than 50% of total orders shipped without tracking.
– They offer custom and made-to-order products in which average time to ship is greater than 14 days.
– They offer subscription services or future deliveries in which payment is taken in advance.
– They offer direct to store shipments in which customers are not direct recipients of shipment.

Visit Site Google Trusted Store for more information