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Here’s another quick tip for creating targeted, dofollow backlinks - write Xomblurbs and Xombytes at Xomba.com.

What is Xomba.com? It’s just another site you can write for on the ‘net - and get a share of the revenue through your AdSense account. This makes it ripe for writing short articles that feature your own website - full of targetted backlinks.

There are two types of articles on Xomba - Xombytes and Xomblurbs.

Xombytes are typical articles. They should be a couple hundred words (or more). If I write a Xombyte about one of my websites, I use the same tactic that I use on Associated Content - I write an overview of a topic and include links to two or three of my own articles. For optimal SEO, I usually try to sneak in a link to my front page as well on a targeted keyword like “PHP,” “programming,” or “web design.”

Xomblurbs are even simpler. They seem ripe for backlink generation. They’re essentially social bookmarking articles - you submit a link and a short description. That description can contain html.

So in a Xomblurb I write a short title, add the link to my own article, write a two sentence intro, and then end with something like “This is one of many web design and traffic improvement articles located at the site.” In the last sentence, I link to two of the categories on my blog.

Although I only write a couple of sentences, I can quickly generate three backlinks to my site - two with nicely targeted keywords that are good for SEO.

There’s probably not a whole lot of PR in these pages, but it’s a ridiculously simple and easy way to generate backlinks to your site. I’m going through and writing one or two Xomblurbs a day on my old articles, and I plan on posting most of my new articles there as well. Seems well worth the investment in time for a bit of SEO.

Here’s a sample Xomblurb if you want to check it out.

Tags: backlink, blog, links, seo, xomba