2008 March

Blogging Tips Competition: The Winners…

Written by Andy MacDonald from Swift Media UK on March 5, 2008

After receiving only four reviews and view-points on my blog, Swift Media UK, it’s time to announce the winners of the prizes available.If you missed the competitions introduction, you can read it here and view the review comments directly. There were 5 prizes available, but since there were only four actual reviews, the final prize will go to the best review submitted below. All you have to do is go to my blog, and submit a review on its Design, Content, Promotion, SEO & Readership by leaving a comment at the bottom…

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Three Easy Ways to Market your Blog and Get Good Traffic

Written by angela from Blogging For Dollars on March 5, 2008

Want more traffic for your blog? I’m sure you do. However, you also want results from that traffic. You want “good” traffic, traffic that does something for you when it gets to your blog. What you want your traffic to do varies - perhaps you want your visitors to buy a product, visit your online store, or click on a link.

So although the Web 2.0 social-networking traffic generating methods can be effective, they usually fail the “good traffic” test. Your visitors from Digg zoom through your blog, and vanish, like…

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What does a comment mean to you?

Written by Mani Karthik from Daily SEO Blog on March 5, 2008

Many of us are comment lovers, I haven’t come across a blogger who doesn’t like them. Some of us don’t allow them on blogs but that’s not because they don’t like them, that’s a psychological approach to get you thinking about the blog.

But, that’s not our topic here. What does a comment mean to you? What can you learn from comments on your blog? Is comment management essential or can they be avoided? A lot of questions to answer.

Let’s ask ourselves a question. Why do you like comments and how…

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Blogging For Success: Make an Impression

Written by Andy MacDonald from Swift Media UK on March 4, 2008

Even the greatest writing in the world won’t be of much value if no one gets to read it. If you take into consideration the factors that affect how findable your posts are, you’ll see your readership grow.

There are several techniques that can increase the likelihood that people will find you when they search, as well as choose your writings over others.

Writing Findable Content

When striving for maximum readership, one of the most critical choices you can make is how you decide to title your posts. Search engines weight the subject…

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Twitter for Blog Promotion

Written by kelbycarr from Kelby Carr on March 4, 2008

Twittering, or using the twitter.com social networking site, isn’t just for fun (although it is terribly addictive). It’s also a great way to promote your blog. You can do that in a few simple and short steps:

Find like-minded people and follow them. Look in particular for people with terms related to your blog in their bio or name. You’ll have to be pretty general here since people don’t get much space on Twitter. Once you follow enough people like you, you should start getting people interested in your topic following…

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SEO and Keyword research

Written by Mark Knowles from Mark Knowles on March 4, 2008

As a blogger, I never really thought about this subject until I was in a discussion with someone about traffic volumes and the need to be always looking for more traffic, and optimizing the available traffic.

I also write over at hubpages and I was looking through the work I have done there, wondering why a few of my recipes get so little traffic. This one in particular, Smoked Trout Creams,