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Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

‘Yeah, yeah,’ you may be thinking

‘Free traffic? Whatever…’

But bear with me. If you’re a blogger, you’re leaving money and traffic on the table if you’re not doing this.

OK, first of all, you might have heard of my friend and blogging consultant, Chris Garrett. He wrote the Problogger book with Darren Rowse.

Well, he has a new e-book out that tells you everything you need to know to get quality authority links and a boost in traffic, all through a quick and easy approach to guest blogging.

http://www.adventuresininternetmarketing.net/guest-posting

Guest blogging is simply the idea of making a guest appearance on someone else’s blog in your market. You write them an article that provides great quality content for their readers and subscribers. In exchange, at the end of the article, you get a link from their site back to yours. This does several things
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As many of you regular readers will know, I’m a very big fan of WordPress. It’s an excellent system with a myriad of applications. In fact, I run all my sites on WordPress, ever since David Cavanagh first showed me how easy it is.

The plugins – elements that can be added to increase the functionality of the site – are part of what makes WordPress so good.

Anyway, I thought I’d share with you the 10 top plugins that I believe every blog site needs to run effectively. There are other plugins out there that do similar things but from my own testing and plenty of trial and error, these are the best ones. To get them installed on your blog, simply go into WordPress, click ‘Plugins’ on the left hand menu and click ‘Add New’. From there, just type their names into the search bar (one at a time) and then click ‘Install’ next to the one you want.

So, here’s the list for your blogging/site-building pleasure…
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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 »

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.

Hey folks,

I was just working on some material to help a friend of mine who runs an unusual business. I wanted to show him how to use his blog (hosted at Blogger.com) to give himself some backlinks to his e-commerce site. These links will help him be found in Google for the words he wants to be found for. In this case it’s ‘christening gifts for boys’ as well as several other keywords.

I figured this info would be helpful to you guys too so I put this video together. Enjoy!