If done right, tagging is a great way to get some extra traffic to your blog with very little effort.
What is tagging?
Tagging is when you mention other bloggers in your posts or invite them to participate in something you have taken part in. It’s commonly associated with blog trains and carnivals however you can tag people in any of your posts. A good example is the ‘8 things about me’ type post which has been circulating around blogs lately, bloggers wrote 8 things about themself in a post and at…
Blogging would have been a much easier job if all you had to do is just write great posts.
Try that you may, but you cannot really avoid that phase of blogging - to find readers to your blog. It’s a general notion that if you write great articles, traffic would automatically come in. Well, not really.
There are two ways of driving traffic to your blog.
- Hunting readers and
- Baiting them
Both strategies are unique in it’s own way. The hunting strategy is more aggressive, while baiting is more strategical. It’s like playing Mortal Combat…
When I say specializing your blog, I mean taking your blog from no-topic to one topic. So many blogs have seen the light of day because of it, and so many blogs fall away because they don’t.
There are (at least) two kinds of blogs:
- Personal blogs
- Specialized blogs
If you are running a personal blog, odds are you aren’t all that interested in who reads and subscribes to it. Odds are you also don’t stick to any set topics or writing schedules: you write as you can and however you want to. Your…
Comments tell you as a writer what topics are important to your readers. Many bloggers use comments to develop new articles and find new niches. Out of all your readers though, only a small portion take the time to share their thoughts and when your starting a site, your reader following is small enough. Here are some tips to get your readers to step up and contribute.
Evoke Emotion
Taking the time to post a comment for the average reader takes a lot. You need to evoke an emotion and a reason…
I came across an interesting article today and I thought I would bring it to the attention of all of you guys (the article was posted 5 days ago).
The article was written by Dan Thies of SEO Fast Start and in it he explains how there is a bug in google which allows a web page to be completely taken out from the google search results.
In June of 2006, while working to resolve some indexing issues for a client, I discovered a bug in Google’s algorithm that allowed 3rd parties to…
