I recently came across Worio which is a relatively new search engine that brings some new twists to the search engine game, and I’m pretty impressed. The layout and feel of the site flows nicely with a clean web 2.0 feel in both the design and social interaction. Worio is set out to not only provide the way we search as we know it, but also influence how you find things through friends, new blogs and other social media aspects. This search engine was developed in my homeland at the University of British Columbia and they do a decent job of not getting the word out locally. Worio learns about your interests and dislikes through your searching habits, so the more you search and tag, the better you’ll get the content you’re looking for.

What does “Worio” mean? Worio is an acronym based on “Web of Research”, the name we gave to the group of researchers that came together at UBC to develop this project.

You can also search the oldies but goodies like Google, Yahoo and MSN through Worio to further the learning experience. Now the links within the search results are dofollow, as well as popular links within the right sidebar but I’m not sure if you’ll see much link love. Currently the search engine only has a couple hundred pages indexed so I wouldn’t expect to see a lot of traffic or links just yet. As a SEO consultant I love seeing how other people are trying to come up with ways to bring my search results, and I hope Worio succeeds in the long run.

Earnersclub is a great hub for the SEO/SEM/Webmaster community and provides a new source for traffic to your blog. The links are not dofollow, but I’m after the traffic that’s involved here and I’ve been using the site more and more lately. Not only does this dive into the realm of what Sphinn covers, but it also goes into the money making niche deeply with a vast section of great links to information I don’t normally come across….and it’s all about making money. They also have a vast array of buttons for your website, browser plugins to easily submit content on the go and of course a handy Wordpress plugin to let your readers vote up your stories. I’m kind of in a toss up to switch it over from Sphinn, but for now I’ll try and get this added to my socialize this plugin for Wordpress. I highly recommend all your folks out there in these niches to join up and start voting and submitting your good content.

JigJak is a cool social bookmarking site that I’ve discovered lately, so it may be new to some and old news to others! I’ve been using it to bookmark some quality articles on here and I’m happy to say that JigJak is dofollow and I’m enjoying the link juice to my content. The community on the site seems very active and serious about keeping the quality in order on the site. JigJak also has around 6200+ pages indexed in Google so that’s a good sign they’re doing decent and aoff to a good start. I really liked the member community section which shows a visual map of the world and where most of the active users are, it ads a nice little touch. They also offer blogs to members so you can write your own content on the network and get it promoted within the site. This website is absolutely free and you can go ahead and sign up, but please do not spam.

We Build Pages is one of the most respected and known link building companies on the web who can get the job done right. Jim Boykin and his team offer a very comprehensive link building solution that is all about snagging high quality and authoritative links, this is not your run of the mill article/social bookmarking/directory submission service. Your campaign is well though out and if you want to see what I mean, check out their link building services. What I really like about the folks at We Build Pages is how they go about their analysis on your site before commencing the work. A lot of people have way to high of expectations and want to rank #1 for really tough keywords, for little money as possible. To put it in their words exactly, read this snippet from their website;

We believe that honesty is the best policy.
We’ll be honest with you when we review your first month’s report. If your expectations are way too high, or your timeline is much too fast, or your site is too new, or if there are other main factors that you should be aware of, we’ll let you know. We don’t want to take money from someone on a monthly basis if it doesn’t look like it’s possible to achieve what you’re seeking in the timeline you’re seeking. However, if the prospects for your link building Return on Investment (ROI) look good, then let’s continue. Our goal is to do our part to help ensure that you can easily continue to afford our monthly services. It’s that simple.

As you can see honesty is the foundation to any link building campaign and I wouldn’t expect any less. I’ve modeled my business practices around this philiosophy and it hasn’t failed me yet. Their prices are not the cheapest, but for the quality of links you get and the expertise of the staff on hand you can bet it’s worth every penny. I highly recommend contacting them or at least checking out their blog for a wealth of great information. This post is in no way paid for or requested by We Build Pages and I don’t even personally know anyone from their company, I just recommend them for when I’m too busy. It is an easy recomendation  because they are one of the most respected companies in the game.

Here’s another hilarious cartoon from Kevin & the Googlebots with a hilarious spin on paid links. I wish we could just pay Tyler to work on these cartoons everyday because they’re always hilarious. Click on the image to get it a little bigger, but for all his fine work go to his website and leave him a comment.