Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Just a quick ‘cool tool’ for you today. This is an excellent and very simple tool, whether you’re a blogger or just a blog commenter.

As you may know, blog commenting is a great way to get a little bit of traffic from other blogs, but also to build backlinks to your site from other related authority sites.

I always saw that some of the commenters on blogs had a photo (avatar) next to their comment. It made them more engaging and made them seem more transparent. Also, the fact that they have a photo when most commenters don’t, makes them look more professional. All of this makes me want to find out more about them, especially if they look approachable.

A good comment that adds to the discussion on a blog, plus a good photo, is a far more effective way of commenting on blogs and having your comments approved. If you Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I posted the start of a very cool list put together by Craig Caron and posted on The Warrior Forum.

It shows you A LOT of excellent ways to get more traffic to your blog. So, without further delay….

Here’s Part Two!

WARNING: Some of the techniques are a bit maverick and not condoned by me and this blog (although they did really make me laugh – just look out for the airport and the eBay ‘stunts’).

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I was browsing through The Warrior Forum as I tend to do more or less daily and stumbled across an awesome post which I wanted to share here.

A discussion had started about traffic generation – the science of getting visitors to your website. The thread started with 9 very good methods of getting traffic, but then Craig Caron wandered onto the thread and blew everyone away with the following methods.

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I was chatting to a friend of mine who has recently set up her own fashion and beauty magazine-style blog. She mentioned that – like many people online – she wanted to spread the word about it and build the amount of visitors to her site.

As usual, this got me thinking…

She’s already got writers who are creating great original and targeted content for her. All of these great articles are going straight onto her blog for her readers. I realised that she’s not making the most of this stream of information.

You see, if you’re a blogger, the articles (or posts) that you’re creating can also be published on article directory sites. There are several top sites (which you can see below) that get massive traffic. You can also have your article re-published by other people on their blogs, thus creating a viral effect with the same article.

The best part of submitting your articles to sites like EzineArticles is Read the rest of this entry »

This is very clever indeed.

Imagine if you could get your blog in front of the key players of big news sites. That would be cool, right? Read on…

I’ve been working with a couple of companies over the last few weeks and months, trying to get their blogs and websites more traffic.

The thing with blogs is that, if you have one (ideally on WordPress or Blogger), then the search engines tend to love you that little bit more.

You see, unlike a standard website where the content only changes rarely, a blog can be updated several times a week with new, unique content. The ‘unique’ part of that equation is why the search engines tend to love you more.

They’re always looking for good quality, unique content to give their users and if your stuff is targeted to a niche and is of good quality, then you can be sure to get more traffic.

However, I’ve now found a fantastic way of potentially getting a deluge of traffic to your blog.

http://www.blogburst.com/index.html

You submit your blog to the BlogBurst service. If they approve it (they decide that it’s good quality and the sort of thing their people want), then they syndicate or distribute your blog content to sites like TimeWarner, The San Francisco Chronicle andThe Chicago Sun Times.

These sites get a shedload of traffic daily. One of your posts appearing on their site could make you a blogging star virtually overnight.

http://www.blogburst.com/index.html

Best of all, it’s free to sign-up and submit your blog. How good is that?!

So go ahead and register and good luck!

http://www.blogburst.com/index.html

You can thank me later…

Or just send me some Green & Black’s chocolate.

YouTube is a genius system. It enables you to put your own content up and have people all around the world finding out about you and what you love.

The best thing of all is that you can share those videos on your blog, so visitors don’t have to go to YouTube to see them.

Here’s how to put the videos (yours or someone else’s) on your blog: