<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/26bdc396-b7c4-4d48-b488-839b64057625/AC8A7CD9-FA07-4A3A-A1CE-3AB467EBB733/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.searchengineguide.com/aditya-mahesh/a-guide-to-pitching-bloggers.php" href="http://www.searchengineguide.com/aditya-mahesh/a-guide-to-pitching-bloggers.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.searchengineguide.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchengineguide.com/aditya-mahesh/a-guide-to-pitching-bloggers.php"><H1><A href="http://www.searchengineguide.com/aditya-mahesh/a-guide-to-pitching-bloggers.php">A Guide to Pitching Bloggers</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchengineguide.com/aditya-mahesh/a-guide-to-pitching-bloggers.php"><P class="MsoNormal">From an SEO standpoint, the blogosphere is a goldmine. It provides the opportunity for marketers to build targeted natural "in-content" links which are not only great for increasing search engine rankings, but also can drive significant amounts of targeted traffic.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchengineguide.com/aditya-mahesh/a-guide-to-pitching-bloggers.php"><P class="MsoNormal">Yet building links and traction within the blogosphere is a tricky process. There is a lot of competition. Bloggers receive dozens of requests for links and can choose to be very selective in what they cover and link to. Hence, as someone who has received hundreds of pitches as a blogger and built dozens of links as a marketer, I would like to share just a few of my tactics.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchengineguide.com/aditya-mahesh/a-guide-to-pitching-bloggers.php"><P class="MsoNormal">Unlike other posts on the subject that give a list of dozens of things you should make sure to do when pitching bloggers, I would like to take a different approach. I will go trough the process step-by-step giving pointers along the way.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC8A7CD9-FA07-4A3A-A1CE-3AB467EBB733/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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