Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Up to a few years ago there were really only a couple of ways to promote your website successfully, link directories and requesting backlinks from other website owners. There was some mileage to be gained from article marketing but no one was really using it to its full potential. Over the past few years more methods have appeared and been developed into efficient site promotion methods. The first of these was the infamous blog and ping method which basically consisted of adding a link to a blog and allowing the blog to ping various sites such as PingGoat and Technorati. This was sure to bring a load of website spiders to your site. Unfortunately this method was abused to the point that it was no longer effective. Blog and ping was largely ignored once people realised that social bookmarking was a useful way of getting backlinks to your site. However the dreaded “No Follow” rule has taken some of the shine off this method although social bookmarking...
