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Traffic Tactics For Your Blog

July 26th, 2010 |

By Brett Schaefer in Blogs & Podcasts

Use the right software

Selecting the right software for blogging can go a great way in making you stand out among the crowd. Custom blog software would be very useful, since users can customize it themselves.

Blog hosting

Always host your blog on your own domain. If you place your blog on another domain, it may not be able to attract public attention, build confidence, and improve rating in search results. So using a different domain is the biggest mistake one can ever make.

Title tag

Whenever you put a title tag, make sure that it is relevant to the subject matter, and is not just a random one. You put a title to attract your visitors, so ensure that it is short, and snappy.

Article marketing

Notwithstanding which area of article marketing for your blog you have ventured into, there are many public forums for that topic, which you must actively participate in. There are quite a few online communities, where you can post messages or initiate a discussion to increase your visibility, and attract a huge community of people to your website.

Tagging

Tagging is very important. You can visit Technorati for this purpose. If you have many tags on your page, then it will show in the search results.

Technorati

Testing Technorati is extremely important. You must notify Technorati whenever you have made a comment on a blog. For this purpose, you will need to ping Technorati, or else, you may take the help of Ping-o-matic, which automatically alerts Technorati whenever a comment is posted by you.

Boosting blog’s visibility

To increase your and your blog’s visibility, it has become clear that commenting on other people’s blog is extremely important. But a primary concern is that you must comment on a subject which you are comfortable with. You need to search to get across a proper blog where your comment will be appreciated.

WTF at Technorati

Bloggers are allowed to comment on why few of the topics are a hot favorite. This can be done on a Technorati feature known as WTF.

Rate and ranks

Technorati can rate and rank any blog, based on the links to the blog. That is, your blog will get a higher ranking if other blogs link to your blog.

Blog commenting

Commenting on other blogs has also become important because others will then comment on your blog. A blog becomes dry and dull if there are no comments on it.

Choose your blog topics

There are people who simply join in the bandwagon without much knowledge on what it is all about. If there is some great news about something related to your industry, it does not necessarily mean that you should jump to cover it, or even mention it. Yes, that does help to increase your popularity, and sharing something is always good. But if you don’t feel the need for doing it, simply leave it!

Intelligent linking

If you link things in your blog, then do so in an intelligent manner. Don’t link each and every issue that you want to, but maintain a fine balance between linking important topics. Both under-linking, as well as over-linking, are not good. So conventions and creativity should be used only when the circumstances so warrant.

Invite contributors

You may invite a famous person to contribute something to your blog. It may be something that he specializes in, but that will surely add sheen to your blog. by doing so, other people become aware that you have an association with famed people, and invariably, your blog will get more hits. Also, the celebrated person will feel flattered on the status you provide him or her.

Interaction

Make your blog interactive. Mere textual data becomes monotonous after a point of time. So use graphics, images and charts to make the blog appealing to the readers.

Provide answers!

Whatever niches you might be in, there are always some questions whose answer remains vague. So you can focus on those important issues and provide a concrete answer for those questions.

Tracking visitors

Software which tracks visitors can analyze the areas most frequented by visitors, the ones which hardly get any hits, etc. so these vital information can be used for betterment of your blog. Feedburner is very good for RSS purpose.

Charisma

Online, as well as offline, charisma is always valued. The voice presenting something in a blog is extremely important, as people appreciate honesty, compassion, empathy and other emotions associated with it.

Proper archives

Proper archives need to be maintained. Sorting them out date-wise or subject-wise always helps. Generally, archives must include every article that has ever been posted on the blog, but from the usability point of view, you can just link interrelated topics in a blog post.

Blog URL

URL’s are also important as it gives the readers a view of what lies on that page. The best URL’s should be short, but having enough information regarding the content of that webpage.

Sharing information

An open source on the internet is always welcome. Sharing private information on the internet is always considered a good marketing strategy.

Don’t go overboard

If you over-market all your blog posts, negative sentiments will prevail. So be cautious on this front.

Link bait

Capitalize on linkbait, if you have got it. Your website needs to be very much presentable if it hits the front page of Reddit, Digg or any other place where a constant flow of visitors will be ensuing.

Writing style

Your readers will personally take your style of writing and your focus on subjects. If you constantly modify that style, you will disappoint those segments of people who rely on you for that subject or style.

Branding tool

Building a brand is very important. A good brand is one which people feel pride associating themselves with, so such a brand must be built.

Blog submission

Blog submission to blog directories is very important. BlogCatalog.com, blogarma.com and bloggernity.com are some famous blog directories.

Yahoo feed

You must create a feed on Yahoo! This option is available under the “My Yahoo!” tab.

Google Adwords

Google Adwords is expensive, but a great marketing tool nonetheless. A low-cost option is also available with them.

Blog name

If you can, buy a domain name for the blog, which costs about $10 annually. You won’t even have to shell out money for hosting.

Frequency of blog posts

Regularly update your blog.

Signatures

Make it a habit to use signatures. Put a link of your blog in your signature, and use it while sending emails, posting on forums, etc.

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Originally posted 2009-08-18 18:58:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Traffic Tidal Wave Method # 10

July 12th, 2010 |

Author: Gerald Pilcher

<p>Video Sharing

Video sharing has becomes a much formidable method of traffic generation especially after the unbelievable popularity of YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/).

Today, there are several other wannabes that are in the YouTube mould, but for a marketer, video sharing has become synonymous with YouTube marketing.
The concept is simple again. You make an interesting video about some interesting aspect about your product and then post it on YouTube.

With its millions of viewers per month, you can be sure that your video will be watched several times.

If your video is good, you can draw visitors from your video to your website directly.
YouTube is built for marketers. It has a unique feature in which you can insert a website link into the video itself and make it clickable.

Since the viewer doesn’t have to undergo the hassle of seeing and typing the email address, you can be assured to getting more visitors.

Also, you can improve the prospects of your video through content.

YouTube allows meta tag descriptions, which means great SEO and also has content such as headlines which again you can spruce up for SEO.

You must also note that YouTube is a Google subsidiary and hence it uses the amazing Google search engine.
Another thing that you must note is that YouTube is also a social networking site.
You can make your account there and comment on videos and stuff.

This means people get to talking about your video and the product shown therein.

This leads to another awesome aspect of traffic generation, known as viral marketing.

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Originally posted 2010-02-21 18:28:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Traffic Tidal Wave Method # 19

July 6th, 2010 |

Author: Gerald Pilcher

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StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com/) is one more in the league of social bookmarking sites that intrepid Internet marketers cannot afford to ignore. This is a site where you can make people stumble upon your blog, regardless of whether they are consciously looking forward to it or not. The way to begin with StumbleUpon is to first have a blog that is rich in content and information. It is great if the blog is set within a particular niche. Once the blog is ready, StumbleUpon is used on it. This is in the form of a toolbar that you download and install from their website.

Once the StumbleUpon toolbar has been installed on the blog, people will begin rating your blog on it. The higher the rating it gets, the better are your chances of getting noticed on the Internet. StumbleUpon is very close in outlook to Digg, but while Digg is broader in nature, catering to all sectors of society, StumbleUpon is mainly used by niche marketers.

StumbleUpon Releases Official Badges (techie-buzz.com)
StumbleUpon’s New Ad Platform: An Inside Look (mashable.com)
StumbleUpon: It’s NOT About the SEO! 4 Compelling Reasons to Become a Heavy StumbleUpon User. (windmillnetworking.com)
StumbleUpon Etiquette Guide and Best Practices (techipedia.com)

Originally posted 2010-04-05 08:59:38. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Search Engine Optimizing your WordPress installation

June 24th, 2010 |

Author: Gerald Pilcher

By Ryan Edmunds in Blogs & Podcasts

If you’re obsessive about SEO you likely already have a domain name that contains one relevant keyword, an entire keyword phrase or even a targeted search term. This is a great practice if you have a website that is highly targeted to one topic or set of keywords, but there is a lot more you can do that will help to boost your search engine ranking position (SERP) and possibly outrank the sites that DO have your keyword in their domain name.

The keyword appearing in the URL is important, but more important than that is the keyword appearing in the title tag. Somewhere in between or just underneath is something called the H1 (which is not surprisingly followed in importance by H2). Naturally your keywords should also appear in the content here and there (not everywhere). If you write about your keywords on a daily basis you are probably already on top of your SEO situation, but if your blog is more relaxed topically and you like to drift and touch on anything you like, then you may benefit from doing a few SEO best practices for WordPress.

1) Title Tags

The title tags are the most important thing. It may not be most important to the Search Engines, but it certainly is to the reader. Even if something is the #1 result in Google, a reader wont likely click on a title that has nothing to do with what they are searching for. That is why it is good to serve your post headline in the title tag instead of just the blog name.

You can do this by editing your header.php to include the appropriate WordPress template tags within the HTML Title tag. This may also mean using an IF statement to determine what type of page is displaying and what tags to use.

2) The H1 Tag

There is a high degree of confusion circulating the web on the proper use of h1 tags with WordPress. The basic purpose of h1 is to let the search engine know what a page is about. The last thing you want is more than one h1 on a page. This confuses the heck out of search bots and, as a result, drops your SEO score.

The typical belief is that serving your blog title in the H1 tag is proper. This makes sense because you have your keywords in your blog title, but what about the individual posts? Aren’t the post titles more relevant than the name of your blog?

If you have a post on your blog about “99 Ways to skin a cat” isn’t that particular page about skinning cats rather than your blog’s title, which may be “catskinners.org”? The solution here is that you want to have your post titles on the single post page inside the H1 tags. Since there shouldn’t be more than one H1 per page, this means you need your title or logo inside a div.

If you have more than one post on your homepage (which most people do) then you should place your post titles’ inside of H2 tags and your logo in an H1. This tells the SE’s that your homepage is about whatever your title is, and the post headlines are the next most important thing. Once a user clicks through to a single post the most important thing becomes the title of that post.

3)Inbound/Outbound links

A huge part of blogging is sharing the link love and creating conversations between one blog to the next. It is typical in the blogosphere to see someone quote a post from another blog, add their own 2 cents and then link the blog where the topic started. This is a fine thing to do and it will even help you gain a few links yourself as your own sharing attitude encourages others to share. You just have to be careful not to have too many links out and balance it with your links from your blog pointing to your own blog.

People often forget that a link to your blog from your blog still counts as a link to your blog (how was THAT for a sentence?). Since one of the best things you can have linking to your blog is some good relevant anchor text that contains your keywords, why not go ahead and link any of those words within your posts back to your homepage?

Here are some more things you can do to make the best use of your internal links:

Linking from your posts to older posts (when relevant)
Linking from your posts to your homepage (whenever possible)
Keep your navigation consistent across the whole site
Link every page to your homepage at least once (more is ok too)
Use a sitemap template that includes all your single posts and pages as well as the date and category archives

4) Anchor Text and Keywords

You probably already know at this point that one of your main goals in offsite SEO is to get links with your keywords in the anchor text (the text that makes up the active link). This is one of the single most important factors to both your SE for your determined keywords and your PR. The more links you have, the better your PR. The more links you have containing your keywords, the better your SERPs for those keywords are. It is healthy to mix them up and use different combinations of your keywords to help monopolize your grip on a given topic.

We’re almost finished. There is one more important spot we need to place our keywords. If I were a keyword where would I be? In this blog post! You can have all the SEO you want on your WordPress template but it isn’t going to matter much if you don’t talk about your keywords in your blog posts. You obviously don’t want to come off as a spammer so be wary not to simply randomly throw in long and short-tail keywords in every single sentence. However, there is nothing wrong with using your full keyword search term whenever the opportunity arises. For instance, if you have the option to use a pronoun or the actual keywords you should choose the keyword.

You can optimize your WordPress for search engine rankings quite simply by sticking to some of the concepts we’ve covered here. It can be done over time or all in one shot. However, it would be handy to come back to this little guide each time you are setting up a new installation of WordPress. Remember that not all WordPress themes are search engine optimized so you may have to get your hands dirty and shine up the code of each template you use on your blog. A good start is making sure the markup is semantic and Google recommended.

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Originally posted 2009-08-18 19:03:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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The Best Ways to Make A Income on the Internet

June 22nd, 2010 |

Author: Tara Millar

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The best way to make money from the comforts of your home is on the Internet. When individuals usually think of the Internet, they don’t think that people make a living off of it. In fact, whenever somebody thinks of the Internet the first word that comes into their mind is scam. What people need to realize is that the Web is simply another place to showcase items or products. People create billions upon billions of purchases every single year on the Web and this is only going to increase in the future. If you want to make cash on the Web then now is the time to start. There are 1,000,001 totally different ways to turn a profit, but you’ve got to put in the hard work and dedication now if you wish to see the big bucks in the future.

Probably the best way to make cash on the Web is to sell items on eBay. You can sell almost anything nowadays on eBay. As long as it’s within the contents of the law, everything goes. The hard part is not selling items on eBay though, it’s finding the items to sell. If you do not have ready access to a drop shipper or wholesaler, don’t worry because there’s a solution.

People sell digital items constantly on eBay. Although it’s against eBay’s terms of service to sell digital items you’ll be able to get around this by simply putting them on a CD and shipping the CD to the customer. Some of the most bought things on eBay are e-books such as do-it-yourself guides and how-to guides. If you’re an expert in a certain field, why not try making your own e-book and selling it on eBay? The nice thing about coming up with a new product is that there can be no competition for it since nobody has resale rights. Once you have made a great deal of cash from your e-book you can then permit other individuals to sell it and you take a profit from every sale. It takes a bit more work to try and do the sales share method, but it isn’t very hard once you know what you are doing.

Another fast way to make cash on the Net is to begin blogging. Blogging is a easy concept where you retain an on-line log and talk about whatever your heart desires. Of course, to make money with this you will need to sell products. All you have to try and do is make a blog about Xbox 360s and then have advertisements for Xbox 360s on your website. You’ll find that you will build lots more sales for an item if the blog is about that item. Blogs only take one day to make, but they can make you thousands of dollars each year if you know what you’re doing.

One final way to make money on the Net is to render your services for someone. The Web is most likely the best communication device in the world. You can work for anybody under the sun on the Internet because you’ve got an instant connection with them. Primarily what you would be doing is operating for yourself, but having an employer overseas. For example, if normally you were a salesman for a corporation, you can still hire yourself out for this company, but do all your work from home. This is becoming a very popular methodology on the Internet because companies can afford to hire people for more money because they don’t have to pay the overhead costs anymore. In this case everyone wins.

As you can see there are plenty of best ways to make money on the Net and the best way to make money is the one that you’re best at. Find what skills and what knowledge you can apply to numerous jobs to make the most profit on the Internet.

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