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No matter what type of blog that you have, one of the best places that you can advertise your blog is to join a blogger forum. After all, everyone who posts there has a blog and thats the main subject. It’s a great place to meet other bloggers and to advertise your blog.

One great thing about blogger forums is the blog showcase or show-off-your-blog categories or forums where you can literally show off you blog, extract constructive criticisms from your fellow members helping you create better. In this way, you are also advertising your blog. Several good reasons why you should join blogger forums are provided by problogger, Darren Rowse.

There are quite a few blogger forums that you can sign up for on the Internet. Here are of the highly-trafficked and great blogger forums that can be potential sources of traffic.

1. Bloggeries lets you show off your blog to almost 2000 members (over 900 are active). You can also ask for a blog review and find lots of tools that you can use for your own blog. Bloggeries also added the option add your RSS feed to your profile and your latest posts will be added on your blogger profile. You can also list your blog on their directory.

2. Blogger Forums also has the forum category “Show Off Your Blog” where you can your blog to thousands of active members.

Blogger forums are a great place to advertise because everyone in them are of the same mind and want to make certain that their blogs get noticed and read.
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You can’t just put your website on the net with right keywords and all the right touches and expect your traffic and ranking will remain constant. As the web is an ever changing landscape, you have to keep track of your own web results like what is happening with the competition and also the best and highest ranked sites. There are many useful tools to help you find out what exactly is happening.

1. A tool which you can use to test your own website links or other websites for broken links:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

2. With this tool you can check search engines for the number of back links to your URL i.e. other web pages linking to your site:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/

3. It sometimes becomes important to know where the servers of your hosting company are physically located. Because, some search engines like Google have the ability to filter search results based on their physical location called geotargeting. This could be used to determine why your site is showing in only a certain country. This link can also be used to research the country location of a particular competitor’s website:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/website-country/
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