May | 13 | 2008

Tags for Traffic

Posted by Guru as Promotion, Syndication, Tips Want to increase traffic to your blog? I suggest you start tagging your entries. So what are tags exactly? In the blogging sense tags are simply word(s) you use to help classify/categorize your blog entry. For example since this post is about blogs promotion I can tag this as "blog promotion." Since I'll also mention a Technorati tags later I can also tag this as "Technorati." Since in the end this is all a blogging tip I can also include the tag "blog tips." So how can tags increase traffic to your blog? Tags can help increase your blog traffic by ...

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Mar | 17 | 2008

The Wonders of Multiply

Posted by BloggurlNeedzRehab as Blog Tutorial, Syndication, Writing I have made quite a few discoveries since my last appearance on the blogosphere, and one of them is the beauty of blogging on Multiply.com. To the uninitiated, Multiply.com is a social networking blog community that offers much more than an avenue for bloggers to converge and converse, while also offering file hosting services, all for free!

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Mar | 10 | 2008

Blog Usability: Feeds

Posted by Guru as Blogging Tools, Syndication, Tips I have written about the importance of RSS and/or Atom feeds to blogs. By providing feeds you will not really be increasing the on-site usability of your blog but its overall usability. Regular blog visitors often prefer checking the contents of their favorite blogs using feed aggregators (i.e. Google Reader). The reason for this is very simple: it is a whole lot more efficient to check an RSS aggregator for blog updates than check each blog you like one by one. This is especially important to people who read blogs not just for liesure but to keep themselves updated with ...

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Nov | 15 | 2007

Are Your Blog’s Feeds Optimized? Part 2

Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features, Syndication Aside from offering full RSS feeds and using Feedburner's features to optimize your feeds other things that you can do to optimize your feeds are: Pick a Feed/Channel title that is relevant to your theme - This is pretty obvious but many still fail to do this. Make sure that the title has important keywords included. The RSS Feed's title should also be easy to read and remember. Make it catchy but not misleading...and never forget the keywords. Optimize the channel description - The description is where you get to expand the title and give readers a better idea of what the ...

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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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Sep | 28 | 2007

Addressing Duplicate Content: Part 1

Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features, Syndication We all know the dangers of duplicate content and how search engines can penalize you for duplicate content. In my post entitled "Strike that Page from the Index" I discussed one of the ways to address duplicate content and avoid being penalized for it. There I mentioned how you can block some pages from being indexed by simply specifying those pages in your robots.txt file as disallowed pages. Aside from blocking those pages though there are more ways to avoid being penalized for duplicate content including: 1. Syndicating properly - When syndicating your work make sure that you ask the ...

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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

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

Duplicate Contents

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Submissions, Syndication, Writing Duplicate Contents : it has its advantages it also has its share of disadvantages. Duplicate contents and cross posts, it give us benefits such as cutting down our work to half, increased chances of our posts being read, and our favorite subject doubles or even triples our chances of earning money. I can't lie, I've been doing some of this lately but I feel uneasy every time I do it. But the reasons we "copy" articles / posts is that it made an impact in our minds and we want to share it with other readers and hope that it ...

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