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Zemanta Review: SEO Link Building With The Zemanta Plugin

 

Zemanta is a WordPress is a plugin which works on WordPress, MoveableType, Drupal and Joomla. It can also be installed on Firefox, Chrome or IE web browser. One of the best reasons to use Zemanta is to help you with your link building. As you are writing your post Zemanta will suggest content which relates to what you are writing which is already indexed. This is helpful if you want to link to some content related to your post.

Zemanta will also pictures that relate to your post that you might want to embed. The plugin will also recommend popular keywords that you can include in your posts. The idea is that in the end you will be getting more traffic because you have more related keywords, interesting pictures and links in your post. It should increase the time visitors remain on your post as well since your posts will be more engaging.

Zemanta can also be an excellent link building tool. As I write my post Zemanta is suggesting related links that perhaps I should include in my post. However, nothing is stopping me from contacting the blog owner and exchanging links or even for me to put a relevant comment on his blog with a link back to my post. Zemanta usually highlights the higher traffic more authority articles so this is a good place to start in your link building campaign.

Most SEO professionals perform their own keyword research before starting to write a new post and probably already have an idea for images, but if you don’t this is a great tool. My favorite use for the Zemanta plugin is to help me find related sites to acquire links from. I start out by creating a new blog post and pasting a list of keywords I am trying to target. Zemanta scans over the keywords and makes recommendations for similar articles from their network of sites. The articles listed in Zemanta tend to have more traffic and authority, so they make great link targets.

You could also approach these related blogs for joint ventures. There are many possibilities. And what I really like about Zemanta is that it gives you the information as you go immediately. Zemanta is a time saver. Amazon affiliate support allows you to quickly link to books, music CD’s and DVD’s and earn money in the process as well as getting links.

You can download Zemanta here.