Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

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!

I was looking over my other websites (mainly the one for the London magician business that I’m giving up this year) and stumbled across a plugin that I’d forgotten about.

As you know, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is largely based on getting good links both within your site and from good, high-ranking sites.

This plugin mainly helps you to sort out the internal links, leaving you time to manage the external links. If you have multiple sites on WordPress, you can use it to create mutual links between them.

http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-smart-links

It works by automatically linking your site up, by finding keywords and phrases that will link from your posts and pages to other parts of the site. As you post new stuff, the plugin sets up more links.

You can also program it to find specific instances of your own keywords and always have them link to the same place every time. As I said, this is awesome if you have other WordPress sites as you can use this to create mutual backlinks between them all, bringing them all up to the same levels of links and Google juice!

Every time that word comes up, you get a new link, either internal or external.

http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-smart-links

This is good stuff and once you set it up, you can forget about it until you change or add to your keywords.

And as you may have worked out, set-and-forget is my favourite.

Get this, it’s invaluable.

http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-smart-links

I’m sure you guys have noticed that more and more companies are bringing out mobile phones that can surf the internet at greater speed.

That means that they can search Google and find blogs they want to read whenever they like.

I was recently at Mark Anastasi’s Listbuilding Masterclass and during lunch, I decided to have a look at some of my favourite internet marketing blogs. The result was pretty astounding…

They were totally illegible. Couldn’t read a thing on them. Nothing. Nada. Rien.

Now, as all my sites are built using WordPress, I wondered if there was a way to make my sites compatible with this new wave of technology.

Turns out there is and you can get it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-pack/

Alternatively, go to the Plugins section of your WordPress site, click ‘Add New’ and then in the search bar type ‘WordPress Mobile Pack’. It’ll be the top search result. Click ‘Install’ and then ‘Activate Plugin’ and you’re good to go.

Mobile browsers around the globe (all 34 million of them) can now read your blog.

Sorted!