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16 Ways
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You've got your blog set up
you've started posting pithy, useful information
your niche market would benefit from
enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments
your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?
Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion
start driving traffic
your site. Here are 16 steps,
no particular order
importance,
you can start doing now
get traffic moving
your blog.
1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form
your blog
invite everyone
your network
subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates.
Http://www.bloglet.com
2. Set up a feed
MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by
Yahoo search engine (see tutorial
http://www.biztipsblog.com)
http://www.my.yahoo.com
3. Read
comment
other blogs
are
your target niche. Don't write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link
your blog.
4. Use Ping-0-matic
ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.
http://www.pingomatic.com
5. Submit your blog
traditional search engines: http://www.submitfire.com
6. Submit your blog
blog directories. The most comprehensive list
directories
this site:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/
Tip: Create a form
track your submissions; this can take several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day
submitting or hire a VA
do
you.
7. Add a link
your blog
your email signature file.
8. Put a link
your blog
every page
your website.
9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link
your blog
every issue.
10. Include a link
your blog
a standard part
all outgoing correspondence such
autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.
11. Print your blog URL
your business cards, brochures
flyers.
12. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to.The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some may consider its meaning
Really Simple Syndication. It
a document type that lists updates
websites or blogs available
syndication. These RSS documents (also known
'feeds') may be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines
summaries.
To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, see this site: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-readers.htm
13. Post often
keep attracting your subscribers
come back
refer you
others
their networks; include links
other blogs, articles
websites
your posts
14. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer
other blog posts. What
TrackBack? Essentially what this does
send a message from one server
another server letting
know you have posted a reference
their post. The beauty
that a link
your blog
now included
their site.
15. Write articles
post around
web
article directories. Include a link
your blog
author info box (See example
our signature below).
16. Make a commitment
blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can help increase your traffic
new content attracts search engine spiders. Put
your calendar
a task every day at
same time.
Tip: Use a hit counter
track your visitor stats: how many unique visitors, how many page views, average length
visit. You can get a free hit counter at http://www.sitemeter.com
Denise Wakeman
Next Level Partnership,
Patsi Krakoff
Customized Newsletter Services, have teamed up
create blogging classes
marketing services
independent professionals. You can read
subscribe
their blogs at http://www.biztipsblog.com, http://www.coachezines.com
http://www.bizbooknuggets.com
a Change Agent
changing
way companies
individuals deliver
consume content
macro scale, let us first remember how content
traditionally delivered
consumed.People subscribe
e-mail newsletters or e-mail update services
get content delivered directly
their inboxes.
Journalism
emergence
a new style
journalism, based
a 'raw feed' directly from
source. And
common notion that surrounds
emergence
serving 'raw feed'
that
journalists testing
new waters are bound
wreak havoc
institutionalized media.
Its Free
Blogs
Yahoo
you get 236 Million Results.A Yahoo Search
RSS yields 558 Million Results.
my local Internet Cafe yesterday, I like
get away from my 'home office' from time
time
it's a great place
go
a cup
Espresso
meet interesting people. The rather attractive lady sitting next
me was typing away furiously and, when she had finished, I asked her what she was writing - I'm interested
learning how other people use
Internet.
RSS? To begin with, it's one
those things everyone says
easy
understand. And
is,
soon
you have your own 'ah-ha' moment.
Use It (part 1)
explain RSS
simple terms that, begins well, but soon descends into confusing jargon or information overload?
If so, take heart, I was
same place a few months ago.
Often
best way
understand something,
use it.
Get Started Blogging
5 Minutes or Less
a long time because I thought
would be hard. I thought
would be technical.
get started with RSS marketing, here's a basic 7-step plan that should provide some needed guidance. Use these steps
your personal RSS marketing checklist
get your started
help you see whether you're
right track.
Blog He Keeps
soul
wit. The best source
literature can be now found
blogs.
growing interest
blogging
a means
online promotion
branding, a lot
marketers are starting blogs
promote their opinions, products, books
services. But a blog
like a website.
Use It -- Part 2
part 2
article that aims
give you just enough information
help you understand RSS
start using it.
Part 1 gave you simple instructions
how
read
subscribe
an RSS site feed, part 2 will give you simple instructions
how
publish your own.
world
up with
world of blogs? Blogs are meant
be this great new technology where people can share their ideas
interests with others around
globe. As far
I'm concerned
state of blogs
one of chaos, confusion,
anti-interactivity.
Reel
Web Site Visitors by Building Your Own Blog
other day asked
me, "Aren't feeds
bigger companies with IT people
staff?" All they knew about feeds was that bigger companies , news providers etc., were using them.
Blogging?
short for Web Log
basically an online journal.
blogs or you are sure you are now going through one of
blog. You might have seen blogs
search results and would not have noticed it.
a web page that contains brief, discrete hunks of information called posts. These posts are arranged
reverse-chronological order (the most recent come first) and each
uniquely identified by an anchor tag which
marked with a permanent link that can be referred
by others who wish
link
it.
abbreviation of Web Logs (online journals), are becoming more and more popular all
time. People are starting new blogs at an astounding rate so it's safe
assume that there are constantly people out there who want
know how
get a blog going.
case study conducted by Pheedo, an advertising company
use of RSS Feeds advertising versus email advertising.The difference
results were staggering.
a weblog, well simply put a weblog
a journal that
kept online. In it's simplest form a weblog will have an article every day or week that says what
person
doing.
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