25-30 Best ever Social Bookmarking Websites for SEO for 2014-2015

Top 25-30 Primary Social Bookmarking Sites:

A passport to gain the highly wanted SEO benefits

High PR and high DA (Domain Authority bookmarking sites with PR5-PR9) for 2014

SEO and Bookmarking:   List of 25 best Social Bookmarking websites on the Internet for 2014 (Updated).  Social Bookmarking websites are very good for SEO. Period.  But, the quality is more important while making bookmarks of your web properties to these kind of social sharing sites. 

 Article Updated (8th November, 2014)- This list needed a little cleanup and some more additions. 

So, have updated this reputed list of bookmarking sites that have been used by several thousands of SEO users since its publication in July 2011.  

Best social bookmarking sites with their Google PR, DoFollow, No dofollow tags status and Alexa ranks. 

Top 20 Best Blogging Platforms & Free Blog Sites 2014-15

Best Blogging Sites- What are the top 20 Blogging Platforms for creating a free blog site? 

List of the most used free blog making sites based on open source CMS (Content management System) 

Create your own blog site for free!

Blogging sites here include: CMS based blog sites , Micro Blogging sites, Web 2.0 Sites

Last updated- Dec 2014

Best Blogging Platforms-Best blogging sites- Most popular blogs-Here is this new and fresh list of the 20 best blogging platforms and popular free blog websites to create your free blog. All the listed blogging sites here are free and you can instantly start blogging on any of these CMS blogging platforms without paying anything to create your blogs! Blogging sites are for all- whether you are a beginner or expert,  kid or young, painter or photographer! 

Free blog sites mentioned here are reviewed for 2014-2015. Blogging platforms included in the updated list could be divided into many categories as per their capabilities, scope and usages. Initially, we have only talked about webs that offered blog creation services in tradition sense. But, now, the things have changed a lot over the past few years. Now, Twitter is also called as a micro blogging site.

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Almost every beginner or novice blogger needs free blog writing platform where she/he can get free blog hosting,free (sub) domain name and blog designing platform based on WYSIWYG blog designing platform. 

The free and paid blogging platforms list includes the 20 blogging platforms for 2014. some blogging platforms such as WordPress and Blogger are very common and popular names among all the top blogging websites. 

All the blogging platforms mentioned in this top 20 list are world's best blogging platforms for free blogging and some of them are exclusively available only for paid members (like, typepad ). Even if you are a novice blogger, you can kick start your blog writing after free registering with any of these free blogging platforms. 

Most of the new bloggers start blogging using such free platforms for creating their blog posts. Later on when their blog writing skills start evolving and when they have got good enough blogging techniques-they prefer blogging with a blog that offers them self hosted, self owned blog domain names, and with a professional looking premium blog templates (external).

And all this can be achieved with any of the below mentioned blogging platforms. Though,roughly speaking,  world's more than 60% of all the blog posts get created using these free blogging platforms websites !

All the best free blogging platforms listed here are very popular among most of the novice and intermediate level bloggers , in terms of user base mainly in the following countries : - US, UK, India, Germany, Japan, France,Canada, Brazil,Australia, South Africa and some Asian Countries !

These blogging platforms are popularly versatile and writing blog posts using them could provide your blogs high foundability (through search engines). Blogs written using these best free blogging platform get really good search engines rankings since these blogging platforms are high with their Alexa rank, rich in backlinks, and have loads of  organic search engine traffic.

So, read through the below given list of top 20 free blog sites and start writing your own blog today, if you haven't started yet!

#1 WordPress

Wordpress is the grand master of all the free blogging websites. It offers free as well as paid blogging services to millions of bloggers around the world. Wordpress.org is a world renowned free CMS provider (content management system).

Free Wordpress blogs are also popular due to their SEO and user friendliness. Free WordPress is truly a pioneer free blogging platform and has the biggest online community of bloggers! 

WordPress is mostly used by webmasters, developers, programmers, SEO experts, technical bloggers. If someone has some knowledge of HTML,CMS, PHP language, Javascript, CSS, and web designing, then WordPress could be a best blogging platform to create fcustomized and free blog. 

Though, Wordpress is equally popular among technical and non technical bloggers.There is no such technical knowledge is required for creating blogs.  

WordPress Resources-   

Learn Wordpress here if you are new to it 

#2 Blogger Blogspot

Blogger is a free, cool, and versatile free blogging platform and its owned by none other than search engine giant Google itself! Blogger.com has got all the features a blogger may desire. Above all, your Blogger blog posts get lots of SERP love from Google.

As most of you may know, this Weblog is also made on Blogspot

Though it offers you free sub-domain and blog hosting, but you can opt for your own custom domain which could be for as low as $10 per year. 

Blogger has become a hub place for the bloggers who blog for making money.Blog creating at Blogger is so easy that you can create a blog in just 1minute and can start blogging instantly after that! 

Blogspot Resources- 

6 ways to promote and rank your Blogspot blogs

#3 Tumblr

Tumblr is The most simple and is an easiest micro blogging platform.Takes only 1 minute for free signup and you can instantly start blogging on Tumblr. Tumblr is meant for smart,cool,easy, and ' images are more appealing than the texts' styled blogging. Its different from other classic blogging platforms in many aspects. 

Tumblr is mainly a micro-blogging website similar to Tweeter and Facebook. Tumblr is hosting 58 Million Blogs and 24 billion blog posts!

Tumblr is a great blogging site for beginners  and it could be lot of fun writing small micro blogs at Tumblr.Tumblr has blog writers with different purposes in their mind. Some write for fun, some for business, and others are the professional bloggers promoting their other blogs, websites, products, or online campaigns .

Interestingly, you can see some really cool photographs all over the Tumblr blogs. Photographers love to blog at Tumblr and the latter has made a mark in having most of the awesome photographs filled blogs entries.

Typepad is also known for their photographically stunning blog posts.

  

#4 Movable Type

Movable Type is an open source as well as commercial CMS provider on an individual as well as industrial basis.Owned by renowned company Six Apart, Movable Type offers free blogging services, but mainly its popular for its commercial use by big industries on multiple scale.

Movable Type can handle multiple blogs in a single account and provides effective ways to make combined changes on multiple blogs. Movable Type is popular mostly among expert,professional bloggers.

#5 Express Engine

Like Wordpress(WP), Joomla, and Drupal, Express Engine(EE) is also a CMS. Express Engine is also available in free version, but mostly its a commercial blogging platform used by developers and expert bloggers.

EE is used to operate multiple blog sites through a single account and its widely used by companies and organisations. Expression Engine is not recommended for novice bloggers.Whatsoever, EE is among the best 5 blogging platforms.    

#6 Joomla !

Joomla is an open source content management system for online content creation and publishing. Joomla is an award winning free CMS which is vastly used by developers and expert bloggers for sophisticated online content publication. 

Joomla is one of the best options to start a free blog site.

#7 Posterous

Posterous is similar to tumblr and is very popular among micro bloggers. Posterous is owned by micro blogging leader Tweeter! Posterous is famous for online sharing and mobile blogging. Posterous is a free and cool blogging platform to start your own blog site for free.

Update- Posterous is No longer available for blogging

#8 Drupal

Drupal was started in 2001 and since then has been very popular among bloggers and developers due to its impressively strong CMS features. Drupal is an open source CMS using PHP language and is absolutely free to use and develop its CMS. 

Drupal has made its own stand and bloggers base who loyally use Drupal CMS to create a free blog site.

#9 LifeType

Life Type is also an open source CMS backed by PHP and MySQL. Life Type offers multi-user and multiple blogs support through its CMS. Life Type is mainly used to handle multiple blogs on a single account. 

LifeType is used to create blog sites by a specific group of blog writers, webmasters, and content developers.

#10 Friendster

Friendster is a social blogging,networking,and gaming site. Friendster has around 110 million users and its mainly popular in Asian countries. Its a community based blogging platform and your blogposts are shared among its own community.


 

#11  Penzu

Penzu is not a blogging platform in tradition sense as we find in Wordpress,Blogger,etc. Penzu is used more like a online personal blog diary. Penzu is very simple and sober blog creation platform.   

#12 Blog.Com

Blog.com offers a free,paid, and really nice blogging services to its bloggers. You can create advanced and sophisticated looking professional blogs easily on Blog.com blogging platform.

Below are some more free blogging platforms which are commonly used by bloggers as free online blog creation tools.       

#13 GetSimple

#14 Xanga

#15 Multiply

#16 Textpattern

#17 SquareSpace

#18 Symphony-Cms

#19 WolfCms

#20 Zotonic

What is the best free blog site?

The best free blog site would be that offers:-

1. Best content creating features.
2. Ease of use along with full availability of Help/tutorials.
3. vast online forum/community to help an user blogger regarding any technical issue. 
4. Good SEO tools,techniques,tips.

" Dear bloggers/readers, please input your own tips , experiences, suggestions regarding these top 20 Best Blogging Platforms so that this blog post could be more useful for other users who are desperately seeking a nice peace of real advice on the topic. Thank you." 

PS-

There are many other good and better blogging sites, but i haven't mentioned them here since they are paid blogging platforms, such as TypePad. 


TypePad is the best of them all, if you don't have any HTML or coding knowledge. You don't need to worry about anything. You can completely concentrate on your blog writing.
Don't need to worry about hosting, templates, coding etc :)

It's a paid blogging service that is worth your money and time both! 

Top 10 Best Social Media Networking and Sharing Websites 2014-15

List of Social Networking Sites- Top 10 Social Media Sharing Sites 2014-15

List of world's most favorite social networking sites-This is a fresh list of 10 best social media networking sites 2014 (SMN)-best social media websites (SMW) with reviews, Alexa ranks,and popularity rankings. Social networking sites are invariably in super demand and no one is left behind in using social media sites whether he/she is a normal internet user, blogger, internet marketer or simply any one who wants to make their presence felt on Internet ! Social media has become the prime source of web traffic for most of the websmasters now-a-days and they don't leave any stone unturned to get traffic from them. Most of the online publishers use these sites as primary tools to get social traffic

Social media sites : Top 10 ranked Networking sites for 2014-15

What is BEST Web Browser-Top 10 Internet BROWSERS for 2015

Best Browsers List-Which is the Best Browser among 10 Top Internet Browsers?

Web Browsers List- Top 10 Web Browsers- This is an updated and new "Best Internet Web Browsers List" created to showcase the best Top 10 web browsers available on the internet today, and as well as to provide the answer to those who are curious to know, "which is the best internet web browser?" Currently there is a war going on between all the top listed 5 best web browsers on- 'which is the best browser and which browser provides the best web features', add ons and security to their users. No doubt, Internet Explorer still has the highest global market share ( hence according to global usage statistics , Internet Explorer is still considered as the best browser among the top 10 list of best browsers in the world) of web browsers usage while Mozila Firefox is the choice of most of the web developers, add ons users, bloggers and web masters. For this recent high growth rate of Firefox started indicating it as the best web browser presently.

An unspoken war has started between Google Chrome and Firefox for becoming the best and most popular web browser among the common users, developers, designers, tech people and web masters.

Firefox is backed from its strong security features,popularity and support features for providing the highest no. of best and most popular add ons and plug ins, whereas Google Chrome has got the extra back up from the reputation of Google along with its other popular features.

10 Best Types-Techniques of Online-Advertising

Effective online advertising: 10 best tips-types-techniques of hit marketing

online advertising tips and techniques

For "effective online advertising" it becomes mandatory to have knowledge of all of the best types and techniques of online marketing and advertising that are prevalent in today's time. Online marketing techniques are one of the most effective and significant tools and weapons for any online marketing, affiliate marketing, blog and website promoting campaigns. I have mentioned here "9 types of over all advertising" and 7 types of online advertising.

After reading these types and techniques of online marketing you will be able to utilize any types, techniques or tricks of online marketing and advertising to your favor. All the types and online advertising techniques described in here are very popular and effective for any online brand promotion, online marketing, and online product sales for a multi-directional online visibility improvement! 

Actually, these are most prevalent and the best types of online advertising. You can use these great types,tips and techniques to promote  any type of your marketing campaigns for online selling, marketing, or brand making.


8 types of online advertising techniques described below have best ROI ( return on investment) When it comes to selecting the types and techniques for your online marketing campaigns, the main trick is to find out which type of marketing techniques to adapt and which to avoid, which techniques could be the most rewarding and what could might prove mere wastage of time. There are so many types and techniques available on and off the internet for any type of advertising including online advertising.

All 10 Types of Advertising

 In today's modern time there could be existing n number of forms and types of online advertising as it is an ever-evolving field. 

1. Television Advertising. (big,best, very costly-most effective for mass-marketing)
2. Radio Advertising (Based on geography,tastes, specific genre)
3. Print Advertising (very popular and widely used mode of marketing)
4. Online Advertising (Internet based, increasingly popular,online promotion)
5. Street Advertising ( very old style, still in existence for local products)
6. Covert Advertising (limited visibility-mainly used with Entertainment Media)
7. Billboard Advertising (Quite popular in local places)
8. In-store Advertising (less used-only popular with big brands)
9. Refferal Advertising (offline, online referral based advertising)
10. Word of mouth Advertising  (This will always work ! )

9 Types of online ads

Though, you can't  predict the number of existing "types of online ads" as online ads posting is an ever evolving field and every then and now new features are introduced into online ad posting in order to make it more effective and result oriented.But, as of now there are types of online ads based on their features and purposes they serve to the online customers whom to attract the online ads are being created or posted.

1. Text ads. 
2. Banner ads- Banner advertising is probably the most popular form of online advertising, and it could be sub categorized in a) static banner ads B) Flash banner ads and c) blinking ads. 
3. Text link ads.
4. Signature ads.
5. HTML ads.
6. Video ads.
7. Pop up ads.
8. Musical ads or sound enabled ads.
9. Bookmarks ads.

7 Types of online advertising

1. Pay per Click(PPC)-Google Adword is an excellent example of PPC .
2. Affiliate marketing-one of the best type of online advertising.    
3. Local places or local listings (like Google places, Hot Frog, yahoo listings).
4. Content advertising- Text, image, and video advertising.
5. Social networking advertising.
6. email advertising through email marketing.
7. Online advertising through ad posting on classified sites.

First of all, you need to be aware about what all good types and techniques exist that have proved to be effective and have been tested and tried by leading online marketers. Then, find out what all advertising techniques could be most suitable for your own online advertising campaigns, i mean find the niche advertising techniques for your product. Knowing all types of advertising is different from using all types of advertising. Taking all is not well.Only the best suited ones.   

If you have done these two things-You are ready to kick start your online advertising for your online ad campaigns effectively to improve online visibility of your brand.

I have mentioned about some common types of online advertising techniques in details. There could be many more online advertising techniques that are becoming popular and surely lot more are in pipeline as the field of online advertising is evolving at a high pace due to the immense importance of online advertising in marketing and promotions for any type of business. 

#1 Niche Advertising Technique

Amazon and eBay are the best examples of this theory that are utilizing this technique to their astounding sale profits.

Niche Marketing has become one of the most effective and popular types of advertising in the current marketing trends. And it has turned into a very significant and popular technique for effective online marketing. Niche advertising technique is strongly based on the concept of catering the very specific user group and it involves the concept of targeted advertising. It's increasingly becoming  popular among online marketer, advertisers, webmasters, bloggers due to its sheer success in grabbing the targeted traffic for their blogs, website, or any online products !

Niche marketing is mainly based upon 'The Long Tail Theory' . This theory says that it's very effective to sell large number of unique items in comparatively small quantities. In short, this technique is based upon the idea of 'sale less of more'

In brief, there could be countless types of online marketing tricks available to you, the trick is that you should select only what exactly suits to your niche product, and this is the essence of following niche advertising techniques. Narrowing down your marketing campaigns to target only the ‘most potential customers’ is the crux of niche marketing techniques.

#2 Social network marketing (SNM) 

The most popular online marketing strategy available today!

Social network marketing is the best type of online marketing available now-a-days which has been successfuly popular for the last few years and it's increasing day by day as most of the online users are using social networking sites for maintaining their social-personal as well as professional connections. Social media marketing is very effective and targeted since you have all the demographic information of the users. Hence you can precisely decide where to ad and whom to suggest what. Social networking could be very specific, unique,  and particular. You may advertise on social networking sites through free as well as paid advertising methods.


Everyone is very well aware about the power and potential of social networking sites. For eg. Facebook has more than 750 million registered members on their site and advertising on Facebook could generate really awesome leads for your online as well as offline business or products. You can create free Facebook pages where you can have your products advertised before the people who give a 'like' to your page. Also you can take advantage of paid advertising on Facebook that could surely boost your product sales in no time along with creating a strong online presence for your products or online business.Go ahead and embrace the facebook advertising mania. Its worth it !


Other than Facebook, you should try My Space, Twitter, Friendster,Bebo as social networking sites for best online marketing types, and techniques that really work for your online advertising campaigns.

Find here the list of top 10 social networking sites of all the best and most popular social networking sites

#3 Social bookmarking- Quick, easy, and free!

Every online business, produts turns to bookmarking sites to submit bookmarks of their webpages so they can be easily found to potential customers!  

Social Bookmarking sites are a great source of online traffic and you can use these social bookmarking sites to market your online products/business in many ways. Once you write any article/blog/promotional ad, you can simply bookmark it to the many well established,popularly big social bookmarking sites where there are thousands or millions users can access your landing page through bookmarking. Online marketing through Social bookmarking sites can provide you a huge number of backlinks and unique daily visits to your main landing page/site/blog page. There are billions of online websites on the Internet and users are simply accessing thier favorite web pages through bookmarking those pages. In return, your bookmarked page can rotate good number of visitors through bookmarks sharing and distribution process.

For an example, if an article or blog page is submitted to Digg, it can get thousands visits in a single day from Digg alone. Such is the effectiveness and popularity of online marketing through social bookmarking sites. Other than Digg, you may use Del.icio.us,  Technorati,  Diigo, Reddit, SquiDoo, Google Bookmarks, Yahoo! Buzz, etc. I have mentioned here about the 25 most prominent social bookmarking sites for your online advertising campaign.

After seeing and experiencing the quick results, effectiveness, popularity, and usefulness of the social bookmarking sites for online advertising campaigns, i have written a blog post comprising of the list of 100 + most popular top best social bookmarking sites. 

#4 Google-Places : Local advertising technique

[Google Places and yahoo Local have resulted in an excellent type of effective advertising techniques for promoting your business to Local area users.]

Google Places ( another one of the best products from Google ) is the best of all Local Online Advertising Types and Techniques. Google Places is increasingly becoming a very popular technique of effective advertising among local businesses (offline+online).The best part : This premium service is all free for use !

If used smartly, Google Places could be very effective technique for advertising your business or products to a rather more local and highly potential customers. Google Places is an ideal advertising tool that comes for free and has the potential to deliver the desired results for your ad campaigns significantly. And, in terms of search engine traffic,it can send a large number of unique visitors to the product site on daily basis, if your product is ranking good with Google Places.

 
If any user searches any item city-wise on Google then first 3-5 items among top 10 search results will be only from Google Places. This strong traffic towards Google Places makes it very effective technique for Local business owners. Without spending a single penny on Ad posting.

To sign-up for Google Places all you need to do is sign up through your Gmail account and create a free business listing on Google Places with uploads of Images and videos from You Tube ( or your own custom made).

#5 Video marketing: You Tube advertising technique

(Concept of 'Visual-Advertising-Technique')

This one is one of the most visual type of online advertising techniques and doesn't need any introduction. Googles's You Tube is not only the number one video media site but also a hub place for online activities that involve product marketing, promoting, and branding of millions of products from small to big-sized companies across the world (online and offline alike). You Tube's visual advertising is completely video-based. You can find n number of videos on any topic you might imagine, like videos in the form of : tutorials, stories, lessons, interesting clips, etc. You know that Google shows lots of special affection to videos uploaded using You tube and it shows them near the top of the pages of any Google search results. You Tube marketing methods are very effective and capable of creating huge viral traffic and quality backlinks to your webpage or blog post that could be finally converted in instant product lead generation for preselling and selling.

eBay, Amazon and all other online affiliate marketers mostly rely on You Tube for Online Adverting/promotion of their niche products.
You just simply can't ignore You Tube video-marketing techniques if you seriously want to create good viral traffic for your online product campaigns.

#6 Yahoo ! Answers: one of the easiest online marketing tricks

(It can answer to any types of requirements for your product’s online advertisement and promotion- if used smartly and serenely !)


Yahoo ! might not have initiated its now popular ' Yahoo Answer' section as a platform to promote things, ideas or anything else. It was started as a platform where the Yahoo community users could find answers for their queries/problems with the help of the other community members. But, this is true that many of 'Yahoo Answers' users use it as a an effective marketing technique to promote their affiliate marketing products , blogs or websites. This is because of only the single reason that a large number of 'Yahoo questions and answers' show in the top search results of many search engines.

In Yahoo ! Answer section search questions with keywords and answer it and your answer will be showing up with your link in it and If your answer is chosen to be the best, then it will bring a lot of targeted traffic .

In your answer or advice section there is a place for you to write about your source and that's the place to put your link in.
Briefly Yahoo Answer is a great advertising technique to increase the targeted traffic for your blog or website- all free of cost !

#7 Blog and forum commenting : Prime technique to get organic and viral online traffic

It can successfully create great backlinks and a viral traffic for your products page

Posting relevant comments in various forums and blogs has become very effective and popular link building technique in the recent years. Yes, commenting regularly on blog posts and forums that are relevant to your own blog content with your niche signature can bring you a lot of targeted traffic without spending any money, like on paid advertising. Search for blogs and forums using the keywords that you want to use as your link sugnature too.  

Just keep two things in mind while commenting: Blog-forum commenting could be a great tool to generate free traffic to your online campaign, but if it went wrong then could be very paintaking as well. 
#1-Do not post comments that seem like spams, and 
#2 always choose the relevant blog and forums before you start posting your comments. 
Great technique. It's tested and tried. And it works !!

#8 eMail marketing techniques 

eMail Advertising is considered to be a great weapon for creating instant, loyal and long term Traffic Base !

eMail marketing type of advertising techniques are your sure shot way to immediate success in creating base for consistent, constant and long term traffic generating source.
I am not only saying this from my personal experience alone but recently there is a report published by WebTrends® regarding advertising techniques, which says that , retailers ranked email marketing as the most important demand-generation activity for holiday success, with Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ranking second and third respectively.
So consider email advertising technique as a very effective weapon in your marketing arsenal.

#9 Online ad posting: A mean of free advertisement

Free and foremost way of effective online advertising

• Posting classifieds ads on various ad posting sites could result in an effective, impactful,and powerful marketing method that could pave the way for long lasting marketing success.. 
• As you might have seen that almost all of the top 10 results in several major search engines for most of the keywords belonging to different product and categories are dominated by classifieds sites. If you have your ads posted on these sites, certainly they will also receive part of the clicks made by potential consumers. 
• You should post classifieds ads on at least 50-100 best classified sites using multiple content, formats and keywords. And post ads on a daily basis to stay near the top of page in search results for your niche topic. If you don't know what are all the best free sites to post free ads, you may try this list of 100+ top best free classified sites for ad posting.     

                              

#10 Link-signature : Carry your marketing weapons wherever you go!

Used effectively in eMail Marketing and contented-commenting in forums and blog posts

Well, some might find this a too small in importance to mention it as a type of advertising techniques. But believe me this type of advertising technique can prove to be a very good traffic generator if used in a planned and effective way while posting contented comments in various popular forums and blog posts. 

Link-signature technique is a basic and integral part of any email marketing strategy. It is used by all online affiliate marketers as well as any online marketer intended to generate traffic for their links . So, never miss to put your link signature on all out going emails to generate good click rate to your links. And finally good traffic to your original content. 

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