Jan | 20 | 2008

Blog Marketing and Marketability

Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion Company blogs and blogger-produced ads have become a common marketing method. Blogs are everywhere and has such a far reach that not utilizing its potential as a marketing tool doesn't make much sense - unless your target audience is strictly offline (and right now I can't think of any target audience that with no online presence at all). The problem with blog marketing though is that the blog itself has to be packaged correctly so that the blog itself will be marketable. As I mentioned in some of my first few posts here on BlogTutorials (Marketing Your Blog: The ...

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Nov | 22 | 2007

How to make your Posts Stand Out

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Promotion, Tips I have a tip to make your post stand out and that's be different, go "against-the-flow". Ok, let's take a look at a real-life scenario, when I'm not driving my car, I usually take the train to go from point A to point B, I have an "against-the-flow" atittude, sometimes I would sit on the floor and pull out my laptop and play a game even though there are lots of free seats, or when I'm listening to my music, I sometimes forget that I'm on a train or bus, I sing aloud. Now, the people around me are getting ...

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Nov | 20 | 2007

How A-List Bloggers Build Traffic (Off-Blog) for their Blogs

Posted by Guru as Community Building, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, Tips Want to know how to get traffic for your blog? Who better to ask than the top bloggers? And this is what Jonathan Fields did when he asked them to answer this question: “If you had 2-hours a day to devote to no-cost, off-blog (even off-line) marketing for your blog, what would you do?” Wanting to share with you these bloggers' wisdom I picked those that represented most of the answers. For the full list of answers from today's A-list bloggers please visit Jonathan Field's Blog. Darren Rowse (ProBlogger.net) - Guest Posting - I’d identify a handful of other blogs in ...

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Nov | 07 | 2007

Making Your Blog More Accessible: Offer Feeds

Posted by Guru as Blogging Tools, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, Syndication Have you ever experienced being so excited about a specific blog entry you've posted that you just can't wait for people to start reading them? To be honest, I have. When I first started blogging several years back I was so excited I kept on "promoting" my personal blog to my friends. I'm pretty sure I emailed people and told practically everyone I met (who I knew went online regularly) about my then new blog. I was pretty happy with my first post since I got about 5 comments from people who I pestered enough to actually read my blog. ...

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Oct | 11 | 2007

Lazy Bloggers Get No Traffic

Posted by Guru as Blogging Tools, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, Syndication, Tips Blog syndication is not the easiest thing to do. If it was then I wouldn't need to keep myself busy learning more each day about SEO and all the new things cropping up in the blogosphere. The weird thing about many bloggers though is that despite the fact that though we do want wider readership many are just to lazy to keep in touch with the trends or make a little effort to make the most out of the services we use. Take Feedburner for instance. Feedburner didn't win the 2006 Chicago Innovation Awards just because they burn feeds ...

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Oct | 04 | 2007

First Impression is a Good Thing

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Promotion, Tips, Writing Remember the catchphrase, "First Impressions Last, What happens next is up to you." well we can use it in everything that we do, even use it in our blogs, and use it to our advantage. First Impressions can either make you or break you so better start our blog with a good first impression. Use Color Combinations wisely, color that are very irritating to the eyes, may be limited to stating points. Usually colors red, yellow and orange are used for advertisements, use complimenting colors so as not to make a bad impression. Pimp your Blog. Pimp out the First thing your ...

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Sep | 27 | 2007

Blog Rush

Posted by Guru as Blogging News, Marketing and Search Optimization, Plugins, Promotion, Software and Widgets, Syndication Unless you've been really out of touch in the blogging world then you have probably heard about BlogRush by now. BlogRush was launched only very recently (Sept 15th) but has been making headlines, and more importantly, has been getting a real rush of bloggers signing up and putting up their widget on their blogs. But what is Blog Rush really? And what will it do for your blog? Blog rush is simply a blog syndication network. With all the blog syndication networks peppering the internet what makes Blog Rush standout? Well, first of all, its claim of giving you an instant ...

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Sep | 27 | 2007

Make your Blog Famous

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, Tips How to make your blog into the talk of the town by surrounding yourself with Good Publicity or Controversy, it may be good for your blog or it might hurt it, but if you want to be the talk of the town be prepared to make a stand. Be an instant media hype by being unpredictable. I know you have an idea, just think of hollywood celebrities doing something naughty just to get to the public's eyes. You can also use that technique to make your blog famous. Not to be mistaken for misleading your readers by creating fake articles, but ...

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Sep | 27 | 2007

Guest Posting / Guest Blogging

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Promotion, Syndication, Writing A simple and useful tactic to get new, fresh readers is to do a guest post on your friend, colleague, relative's blog or even blogger that you know personally first because you have to prove your worth and build up your online reputation before you can guest post at other blog sites. This is a best way to give your blog the exposure and advertisement it desperately needs doing a guest post, be sure to post your best article, proofread it a dozen times. Plus it would also help that blogger that let you post on his blog because it would ...

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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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