 |
|
|
|
We would like to thank the local libraries, schools, and universities for recommending students
to visit us when doing research on any of our information topics.
Please check back frequently as new topics are added and current topics are updated daily. |
 |
 |
|
Place your TextLink AD here free
|
16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
You've got your blog set up and you've started posting pithy,
useful information that your niche market would benefit from and
enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and
your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?
Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to
start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no
particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to
get traffic moving to your blog.
1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and invite
everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends,
colleagues, clients, associates.
Http://www.bloglet.com
2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly
spidered by the Yahoo search engine (see tutorial on
http://www.biztipsblog.com)
http://www.my.yahoo.com
3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target
niche. Don't write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write
intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.
4. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every
time you publish.
http://www.pingomatic.com
5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines:
http://www.submitfire.com
6. Submit your blog to blog directories. The most
comprehensive list of directories is on this site:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/
Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this can take
several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day for
submitting or hire a VA to do it for you.
7. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.
8. Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.
9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to
your blog in every issue.
10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all
outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales
letters, reports, white papers, etc.
11. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and
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 as Really Simple Syndication. It is a
document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available
for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as 'feeds') may
be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show
headlines only or both headlines and summaries.
To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, see this site:
http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-readers.htm
13. Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come
back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to
other blogs, articles and websites in your posts
14. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog
posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a
message from one server to another server letting it know you
have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link
to your blog is now included on their site.
15. Write articles to post around the web in article
directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box
(See example in our signature below).
16. Make a commitment to blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can
help increase your traffic as new content attracts search engine
spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same
time.
Tip: Use a hit counter to track your visitor stats: how many
unique visitors, how many page views, average length of visit.
You can get a free hit counter at http://www.sitemeter.com
Denise Wakeman of Next Level Partnership, and Patsi Krakoff of
Customized Newsletter Services, have teamed up to create blogging
classes and marketing services for independent professionals. You
can read and subscribe to their blogs at http://www.biztipsblog.com,
http://www.coachezines.com and
http://www.bizbooknuggets.com
MORE RESOURCES updated Sat. July / 27 / 2024
 |
|
|
RELATED ARTICLES
It Really Is Simple
RSS
I have 'Googlebot' coming to my site every day since a
month ago I put up my first news feed, since then I have
put up yet another. I never used to see 'Googlebot' much
before, so it goes to show that if you want to be noticed
by the search engines, you need to put up a 'news-feed'.
Blogs As A Marketing
Tool
Blogs are the biggest things to happen to the Internet
since personal home pages. Blogging software has made it
easy for the average Joe to create his own blog,and the
thriving community of bloggers have spurred designers to
release completely free, and professionally looking
templates.
RSS Directory
Submission: The Key to Blog Promotion
According to Technorati, there are over 15 million blogs as
of July 2005. And during July, an average of 80,000 new
blogs were created each day.
Introduction to Really
Simple Syndication (RSS)
Really Simple Syndication is exactly what it's name states.
A very simple way to syndicate your websites contents to
other websites and news reading programs.
Blogging on Ecademy Will
Boost Your Web Site
For many people blogging is the way in which they are able
to update their web site with new information and fresh
content. As such, blogs are a great way of gaining
returning visitors to your web site.
Advertising in RSS
Feeds: Are we risking disaster?
Advertising in RSS feeds is something that Google is
considering offering to its Adwords and Adsense customers.
RSS stands for Really Simply Syndication and is a really
easy way for a webmaster to share their news and
information stories to the world wide web.
To Blog Or Not To
Blog
Web logs, commonly referred to as "blogs," represent all
the rage right now in online publishing.Not really a
newsletter or traditional html page publishing, blogs
resemble more of a web-based diary where the creator
records their thoughts, posts links, or responds to
questions.
Using Feedburner to Add
Statistics to Your RSS Feed
Out of many of the free RSS and blogging services that I
have tried one of the most useful has been Feedburner.
Feedburner allows you to publish your RSS feed and provides
circulation statistics about your RSS feed.
Find Out How Microsofts
Plans Could Make Your Subscribers Beg You for RSS
Content!
Microsoft recently announced that they will be releasing a
new browser version sometime this summer. The new browser
version was to be released with Longhorn, the code name for
their next operating system to replace Windows XP, but they
decided that they needed to release it sooner than that.
Google Does
RSS
Has Google finally embraced RSS with their new XML powered
Sitemaps program? Well, sort of, but it seems more like a
hug than a strong impassioned embrace!It does use XML
technology which allows for the crawling and updating of
your site's web pages. You can even include your entire web
site (all urls) with this indexing program.
What is
Blogging?
Blogs have been around for many years but have recently
become somewhat a new 'craze'. A Blog is short for Web Log
is basically an online journal.
Blogging
Tutorial
Let's start at the beginning. What is a 'Blog' and why
would you care?Plain and simple.
The Key To Marketing
With Blogs
I've spent months answering questions from marketers about
blogs and blogging and how they fit into the marketing mix.
Still, 99% don't understand the power of blogging.
RSS for
Bloggers
While syndication has many applications, we will deal
specifically with its use for blog content and some
technical information will be included at the end of this
article.If you have any interest in blogs or weblogs as a
publishing format, then you have undoubtedly come across
the term R.
RSS, Feeds, and
Aggregators
When you work online all the time, immersed in bits and
bytes, hands automatically resting on the keyboard, where
the lingua franca is a mish-mash of acronyms and
abbreviations - it is easy to forget that the average
person has no clue what we talk about. It can be very
daunting for the Internet neophyte with all these terms,
technology and hardware.
5 Easy Ways To Use RSS
On Your Site
You hear so much talk about RSS these days on the Internet
and in the media. Everyone is acknowledging it's importance
in boosting your site's presence on the web.
Update Your Websites
Content Automatically 24/7 Using RSS(Real Simple
Syndication) and RSS Feeds
RSS(Real Simple Syndication) is the newest form of content
syndication to hit the Internet and is widely becoming the
best known way online to deliver fresh targeted content to
your website(s) to whatever audience you're targeting
24/7/365.Now for those of you who aren't quite up to speed
on "RSS" here's the basic definition -- RSS is an acronym
for "Real Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", and
the .
Why you should be using
RSS
RSS opens up a whole new channel of communication between
you and the browsing public. If at the moment you do not
have an RSS feed then there is a whole community of people
who do not know about you.
Who needs T.V. News,
Newspapers and Radio News?
T.V.
3 Ways to Publish
RSS
As RSS news syndication gains popularity among users, new
ways for publishing RSS are emerging. In this article, I
examine the three most popular methods, and help you decide
which one works best for you.
|
free amv format video downloads amv format video downloads amv format videos
