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Then there are desktop software like Quake Alert that poll the USGS website and will pop-up an alert as soon as a new “big” earthquake is reported anywhere in the world.

The Twitter and RSS feeds will report earthquake activity worldwide but if you are only interested in receiving email alerts for your own geographic region, you should use the Earthquake Notification Service.

Here you have a Google Map and all you have to do is draw a custom polygon over regions that you would like to monitor for earthquake activity. You can mark one or more regions on the map, set the notification magnitude threshold (like only send me alerts for earthquakes with magnitude of 5 and above) and save your profile.

The USGS website says that information for U.S. earthquakes is generally available within 2-8 minutes but for earthquakes outside the U.S., it may take up to 20 minutes to report the activity. Twitter may thus be a faster medium to get earthquake news but as USGS says – “it cannot provide quantitative data such as location and magnitude.”

Dear Pakistani Visitors Now Pakistan Blog Awards 2011 in your Country. So if you are Pakistani and a blogger too, and believe in awards – here’s a chance for you to get things goings. After successfully executing Pakistan’s first blog awards, PC World (with it’s local representatives) has managed to get Nokia, djuice, Telenor, Intel and Dell as partners to organize Pakistan’s second blog awards.

Rules are pretty much the same as they were last time, but just in case if you don’t know then you can nominate your blog to win award in one of following categories.

You will have to vigorously ask your FnF to vote and comment on your nomination. These votes and comments from your FnF on your page are likely to carry 50 percent weight with rest of 50 percent weightage in the hands of judges. (I hope I understood the terms well, they are mentioned here for a detailed look)

Here’s the official website for blog awards: http://pakistanblogawards.com

It appears that categories are being added uncomprehendingly, with a possibility of more changes in categories in coming days – as mentioned by the website:

Here’s the fresh list of categories:

1. Best Humor Blog
2. Best Online Community Blog
3. Best Political Coverage
4. Best Celebrity Blogger
5. Best Social Activist Blog
6. Best Fashion Blog
7. Best Travel Blog
8. Best Diarist
9. Best Gossip Blog
10. Best Literature Blog
11. Best Technology Blog-Local Technology
12. Best Technology Blog-International Technology
13. Best Sports Blog
14. Best Business Blog
15. Best Marketing Blog
16. Best Education Blog
17. Best Science Blog
18. Best Healthcare Blog
19. Best Food Blog
20. Best Urdu Blogger
21. Best Sector Coverage Blog
22. Best Photo Blog
23. Best Culture Blog
24. Best Video Blog
25. Best Music Blog
26. Best Corporate Brand Blog
27. Best Current Affairs Blog
28. Best Use of the Urdu Language in a Blog
29. Best Youth Blog
30. Best Blog from a Journalist
31. Best Aggregator Blog
32. Best Infotainment Blog

Special Djuice Award Category: Best “Agents of Change” Blog, to be awarded to a blogger who has used his/her blog effectively to raise social concerns and have conducted “Khamoshi Ka Boycott”.

Dear Visitors Today i Talking about SEO, Link Building, The All Users Need to know that how become top in Google Search Results, in this post we discuss about Link Building, As the number of online blogs continue to increase every day, it becomes more difficult to make your blog stand out from the crowd. Many bloggers want to build a strong reputation in their industry, but they just don’t know where to start with marketing and promotion.

One of the most productive things that any blogger can do is work to build links from other websites and blogs.

The quality and quantity of inbound links are two of the most significant factors that are used to determine search engine rankings. Any effective SEO campaign will include link building efforts of some sort.

If you have several links pointing to your website from other websites, it’s probable that some visitors will click through and visit your site as a result of the links. Click-through traffic is usually of secondary importance in link building campaigns, just behind search traffic.

Building links from other websites in your industry or niche will help make more people aware of your blog. Over a period of time, this can result in a better reputation and increased awareness.

Link building is key to achieving diversity in your traffic sources because it impacts search traffic, click-through traffic, as well as direct traffic (such as visitors typing in your URL) and subscribers, which can be improved as a result of better exposure and awareness.

Now that we have taken a look at the benefits of link building we can go over some of the specific techniques that bloggers can use to gain links from other websites. Each blogger should consider his or her own situation and the goals that they have for their blog and then use that knowledge to develop a link building plan. Try to focus on just a few of the link building techniques rather than trying to do everything.

The best thing any blogger can do to attract links is to focus on posting the highest quality content. Many of the techniques that we will discuss here involve other bloggers and website owners choosing to link to you. By having high quality content, you will increase the chances that you will earn a link. There are millions of blogs out there that have average content. If you can produce content that can’t be found on every other blog, people will be much more likely to link to you. Creating high-quality content is really something that every blogger should focus on, regardless of the strategy that is being taken.

Writing posts for other blogs is a great way to build high-quality links. Almost all blogs that accept guest posts will include an author bio with a link to the author’s website or blog – so you can get a link for every article that you write. Writing guest posts does take time, so few bloggers actively use it as a link building approach. However, I can tell you from experience that it works very well.

Getting links from high-quality sites is not usually very easy. However, most bloggers are very open to publishing posts from others because it helps to take the burden off of them to produce all of the content, and in many cases, this includes quality blogs with established audiences.

The benefits of guest posting include:

If you want to get started with guest posting, visit a number of other blogs in your niche or industry. Take a look to see if they publish posts from different writers, as this can be a good sign that they would be open to guest posts. Some blogs even include a “write for us” page that provides the details for those who are interested. If you don’t see any information on the site, fill out a contact form or send an email to the blog owner to briefly introduce yourself and to ask if they accept guest posts. This is a technique that I used extensively when I launched my first blog, and it’s much more effective than most people realize.

Social Media Marketing has been widely associated with link building for the last several years. Social media sites like Digg, Reddit, and Mixx have the potential to send a lot of visitors to a submission that becomes popular, and the end result can be a number of inbound links from various sites and blogs.

With social media marketing, there are basically two different ways that you can build links. First, you can build links directly from social media websites to your blog. Every time you (or someone else) submits one of your posts to a social media site, a link is created from that site to yours. Because there are so many different social media sites out there, this has the potential to add up to a lot of links. It’s important to note that some social media sites will use “nofollow” tags on submissions, which will hurt your ability to build effective links this way. Also, there are a growing number of social media sites that focus on specific niches. If you submit your content/links to a site that is not relevant, then it will look like spam (and probably will be deleted by an administrator).

The second way to build links with social media marketing is to use the social media sites as a gateway to bloggers and website owners. The most popular items on social media sites will usually attract a number of links from bloggers and site owners who have found the content through social media. So, the links are actually coming from other sites, but they are a result of having a popular item on a social media site.

Generally the second type of link is more valuable because the potential for quantity of links is much higher and also because of the fact that many social media sites use “nofollow” tags. If you are attempting to build an authority blog and want to use social media, don’t concentrate on getting your site submitted to as many social media sites as possible. Instead, focus on helping it to become as successful as possible on your targeted social media sites and see what links you can build as a result.

There are a lot of products and services out there that will submit your links automatically to hundreds of social media sites. For authority blogs, this is generally not a good idea as it can lead to you being viewed as a spammer for irrelevant and automated submissions. These services are sometimes used with success for smaller blogs that are monetized through AdSense or affiliate programs, as opposed to taking an authority approach.

Reciprocal links (two sites linking to each other) can be effective when used in moderation. Several years ago when website owners began to learn of the importance of link building for search ranking, there was an explosion in link exchanges, and in some cases, automated software to do so. As a result, the search engines adjusted their algorithms and reciprocal linking in mass is no longer effective. However, when used in moderation, it can still be very helpful.

Most blogs include a blogroll or a friends list of some sort. It’s a common practice for bloggers to exchange blogroll or friends’ links with a few bloggers in their niche. If you limit this to around 10 or so, then this type of reciprocal link exchange can be effective and will probably not create any red flags, red flags that would suggest to the search engines that you are trying to manipulate the rankings.

One mistake that many new bloggers make with link exchanges is that they contact the most popular blogs in their niche to request an exchange. These popular blogs receive tons of requests for links and there is really no incentive for them to exchange links with a new blog (unless they are a friend of the blogger). As a result, your chances of getting a popular blog to accept a link exchange as a new blogger are slim to none. It’s much more effective to focus your efforts on securing link exchanges from bloggers who are at a similar stage.

Article marketing through directories like Ezine Articles and Go Articles has been used for years by internet marketers, but is generally not used by bloggers. As you submit articles, you will be able to get links from the directories you submitted to plus links from any sites that re-publish your articles. One of the main benefits is that you can control the anchor text because you will be able to set up your own author bio which gives you the ability to target keywords and phrases of your choosing. On the down side, most of the sites that re-publish your articles will not be very high quality links, although some of the directories themselves have a decent PageRank.

Over the past year, I have experimented with article marketing through a service called Unique Article Wizard and had some very positive results for clients. Article Marketing has the potential to bring in a lot of links to any website or blog, but it does take considerable time to submit your articles to so many directories, and with duplicate content issues the results may not always justify the time. As a result, there are a number of programs and services that allow you to submit your articles to a large number of article directories, and Unique Article Wizard is one of them. In the case of UAW, the submissions only go to sites that have agreed to receive their submissions. These sites utilize techniques that help to avoid duplicate content issues. When researching article submission services, I have read a lot of positive things about UAW. So far, I have been very pleased with it, and my clients have loved the results. UAW is not cheap ($67 per month), but if you consider the time that it saves, it is a bargain. There are a number of other similar services out there for a wide range of prices, however, I have no personal experience with them to make any further recommendations.

Many bloggers have been able to leverage freebies from their blog to build links. For example: you could give away free blog themes, e-books, Firefox extensions, Photoshop brushes, or whatever is relevant to your audience. People love getting quality things for free, so freebies have the potential to attract a high number of links from other sites.

A blog carnival is essentially a group of links on a related subject. The list of links is published at a blog that is the host of the carnival, and other bloggers can submit their posts to be included. In essence, you would publish the post on your own blog and then submit a request to the carnival host to include a link to your post. All you have to do is find carnivals with related topics and then submit posts that you have recently published. It’s an easy way to build some links to your blog, especially for new bloggers.

To see the biggest collection of carnivals, visit BlogCarnival.com. Each carnival will have a date, so if it is still in the future, you can submit your link for consideration.

Sites like HubPages and Squidoo allow users to publish content, which can include links to other sites. Many site owners set up pages on these sites about topics that are relevant to their own sites and include a link to themselves. It’s similar to article marketing, but only on one site at a time. Each site has it’s own rules and regulations, so be sure that whatever you are doing is within the guidelines. HubPages also gives a score to users and to each hub (a hub is a user-created page). If the user’s score drops below 75, “nofollow” tags will be placed on outgoing links. Some people also set up free blogs on WordPress.com and Blogspot.com to link back to their own website or blog.

Most blogging engines use “nofollow” tags on any links within the comments by default, but some bloggers have reversed this so that links are not “nofollowed”. These bloggers generally do this to attract more comments by giving added incentive to commenters, so if you want some easy links, you can comment on these blogs. You can find lists of “dofollow” blogs by going to sites like DoFollowBlogs.com and FollowList.com. Google recommends that links in blog comments include “nofollow” tags, and they can tell when links are coming from comments. As a result, these links are generally not worth a whole lot in terms of SEO even when they are dofollow because Google has reduced the weight that is given to them.

If your blog uses a very high-quality custom design (not a theme used by other blogs), you may be able to rack up a lot of links by submitting your site to design and CSS galleries. There are literally hundreds of sites out there that showcase great design. You can submit your site for inclusion manually, or if you would like to save some time, you can spend about $15 – $20 to have it done for you. Services like The CSS Gallery List will submit your site to about 100 galleries for a one-time fee. However, this does not guarantee inclusion in any gallery, just that your site will be quickly submitted (saving you time).

I’m interested to hear what readers have to say about link building and to learn more about what you have done to build links to your own blogs.