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Direct Traffic with Posterous’ Bookmarklet

Bookmarklet is a web browser add-on from Posterous that allows you to create posts quickly using web content. It’s not scraping, it’s sharing, the format makes the difference. Bookmarklet is Posterous’ social bookmark for any web content, from videos to photos to text. Posterous pulls the content you select, you title it, add any comments, click ‘post’ and you’re done!

Posterous already made blogging easy via email, with Bookmarklet, they’re enabling you to direct traffic in an instant.


How to Blog via Email

If you’ve been thinking of setting up a new blog site, a second site, or just looking for a way to making updating your Facebook, Twitter, WordPress or Tumblr site more efficient, you have to check out Posterous.

The publishing platform is just over two years old, free to use (you can pay for upgrades) and shocking simple. You send an email, Posterous does all the work.


How to Improve Backlinks with Anchor Text

We’ve gone over some ways to find more link sources, and now we’re going to tell you how you can improve the backlinks you’ve already got.

Anchor text is vital to your linking success. In fact, SEOMoz.org ranked the top five factors in search engine optimization (SEO) and keyword focused anchor text from external links came in at the top of the list.

It actually ranked higher than external link popularity. That means that the words anchoring the backlink are more important than the site the backlink is on!

So now that you understand how powerful anchor text is, how can you harness it?


Backlinks: How to Improve Your Weaknesses and Increase Your Strengths

Link building is a necessary long-term task for the success of your website. Search engines like Google use inbound and outbound links to evaluate your site, and where your site ranks in the count affects where your site appears on the search engine results page (SERP).

Whether you’re focusing on search engine optimization (SEO) for your existing site, or you’re just beginning your online business and want to get started on the right foot, finding your link strength and weaknesses is important.

Once you discover what areas need improvement, you can focus your energy and build a strategy to upgrade your links and boost your site’s traffic and ranking on the SERP.

Over the next few days, we’ll cover the four main backlink categories; diversity, anchor text, link juice and authority. We’ll also go over common areas of weakness and the steps you can take to strengthen your links and improve your site.
Check out definitions of the categories after the jump.


How Niche Social Media News Sites Can Help Your Business

Social media sites are great; they can drive traffic to your site, helping you gain wider exposure, and build your backlinks.

But Digg, del.icio.us, and the rest, pull from the whole word wide web. That means your page, post or picture has to get A LOT of bookmarks to make it to the front page and get a rewarding traffic surge.

That’s where niche social media news sites come in. These bookmark sites are topic-specific, so not only are you only up against your competition in the niche, the users who click through to your site are your target customer!