Sep | 20 | 2007

Joining Memes: Link Love and Traffic

Posted by Guru as Community Building, Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, Tips Memes are one of the easiest and least expensive ways of getting traffic to your blog FAST. Sure paid advertising will get you in the front page of SERPs quickly but you will need to fork out some money each time someone clicks on the ad. Don't get me wrong. Paid listings are great and is perfect for business blogs. But if your budget is really small or non-existent, or you just love being a cheapskate, like I am, then memes might do it for you. Memes are really simply to join. generally the only thing required is for you to ...

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Sep | 17 | 2007

Blog Marketing Ideas

Posted by Guru as Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, Tips There are so many ways you can promote your blog. Here are some of the easiest ways you can promote yours. 1. Email Signature - Put your blog URL in your email signature. Of course, the feasibility of this will depend on the nature of your blog and the people who you correspond with thru email. You wouldn't want to put your personal blog on your signature on your company email although your tech blog or business blog might be appropriate. 2. Link Love - Link to other bloggers on your entries. This way the blogger who you link to will see ...

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Sep | 05 | 2007

Gaining Traffic and Earning thru Blogs

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Linking, Monetization, Promotion, Tips My blog : the QuickStop has been receiving steady traffic for the past few months and lately I've noticing that my Google Adsense clicks have been receiving a steady amount of clicks a day. I now I earn about $2-$5 a day at my blog it's small compared to the big players but heck it's a start... It's better than $0.13 a week or about $0.92 from the previous months since I started the QuickStop Project... hehehe. What you need to do to make people click your ads is a steady flow of traffic and commitment. You may ...

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Aug | 30 | 2007

My Opinion on Link Baiting

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Creating a Blog, Linking, Opinion, Submissions, Tips, Writing Because of this post on Guru's post on succesful link baiting it came to me as an idea that there is also one form of link baiting which I do often. I post exagerated articles like this for example : A Day without Coffee at the QuickStop. I know , I exagerated a bit but heck it did give me a whole lot of traffic, I didn't lie. I just added a couple of hours, to make my post seem more exciting. Plus, another successful form of link baiting is debunking rumors or news about something which is accepted as ...

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Aug | 30 | 2007

A Quick Look at Some Successful Link Baits

Posted by Guru as Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, SEO Features, Software and Widgets Informative Hook Jennifer Laycock’s “Zero Cash, A Little Talent and 30 Days” Project Ok so it started with a forum post at SmallBusinessBrief and not a blog post. However the project gave rise to The Lactivist, which was proof that the project did work. The project became popular for several reasons: 1. The title is really catchy. 2. People all over the world can definitely relate to the zero cash part. 3. The whole project, as it progressed yielded lots of useful information. 4. The results of the project showed its effectiveness. 5. The entire project was just interesting to watch unfold. 6. Jenn, the ...

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Aug | 29 | 2007

Successful Link Baiting

Posted by Guru as Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, SEO Features, Tips Ok so we all know that you need a hook to be able to be successful at link baiting. However, I think it is still important that I expand a little on each hook, which I mentioned very briefly in my previous post. Informational hooks - Also usually referred to as resource hooks this will entail you as a blogger to pack a single post with a whole lot of information. Jaren's suggestion in What to Do with Old Posts, which I saw just a few minutes ago is a good example of this. Wow your readers with all the ...

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Aug | 28 | 2007

Link Bait and Paid Listing: Ways to Get Lots of Traffic Fast

Posted by Guru as Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion Link baiting is perhaps the fastest way to get tons of traffic...but only if you get it right. Of course, as usual it's the getting it right that's really difficult. According to Wikipedia there are 5 basic types of link bait namely informational hooks, new hooks, humor hooks, evil hooks, and tool hooks. While some may subscribe to the idea that informational hooks are the best kind of link bait in my experience all of these five hooks are equally effective with just one post required to give your blog a boost. Note though that if the rest of ...

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Aug | 23 | 2007

The Fall of Article Directories

Posted by Guru as Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, SEO Features, Submissions, Syndication One way you can promote your blog is by submitting articles to article directories. However, this method might not do much good for your blog or website. A few years back submitting an article to ezinearticles or some other big article directory did wonders for ones page rank. However, anyone who's been using this technique for some time now can attest to the fact that it has become less and less effective to the point that many have decided to stop submitting articles altogether. The problem with article directories is pretty much the same problem that permeates the whole internet ...

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Aug | 04 | 2007

Don’t be a Tagboard Whore

Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Linking, Promotion, Tips Tagboards are very useful for a beginning blogger for two chief reasons: They provide the blogger’s readers a hassle-free venue to give feedback or compliments; and They allow the blogger to easily build relationships (e.g. link exchange) with other bloggers by commenting on their tagboards. While there is nothing wrong with the latter – going around the tagboards of people and saying hello – this tactic is often abused (consciously or unconsciously) by many bloggers. There are bloggers whose obvious purpose is just to advertise their own sites, leaving messages such as “Dropped by”, “Visit my blog”, or worse, just smilies. For regular visitors ...

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Jul | 24 | 2007

Google OKs Underscores as Word Separators in URLs and More SEO Tips

Posted by Ia as Blogging News, Linking, SEO Features, Tips Still wondering if you should use dashes or underscores in your permalinks? Worry no more; Google considers both as legitimate word separators. This was announced by Google geek Matt Cutts at WordCamp 2007 yesterday among several other pearls of SEO wisdom he dished out to the WordPress crowd.

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