Blogging Tips

7 Tips to Get Media Attention for Your Blog

As much as we all want to be linked to and referenced by other blogs, there is both a great deal of credibility and attention that still comes from being mentioned in the mainstream media. Whether it’s a small-town newspaper or a huge magazine, the attention, as long as it is positive, never hurts.

But getting the attention of journalists is a difficult task. On a crowded Web, how does a blog stand out? Well there are a lot of things that you can do to make yourself a more likely target for an interview, but there are no silver bullet answers.

Instead, you should focus on putting yourself out there and making yourself available and appealing to reporters. Here are a few things that you can do to help your site along.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on January 7th, 2010 and filed under Promote your blog
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How to Pick the Perfect Blog Topic

Blog-aholics beware. You will be inspired. You will be energized. And you will want nothing more than to start yet another new blog that you’ll forget and leave at the wayside inside a year. Well, hopefully it won’t happen quite that way – but you get my point.

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Written by Patricia Mayo from copyhypnotist
Posted on January 5th, 2010 and filed under Promote your blog
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5 reasons you must guest post

With the advent of the new year, we are all contemplating how we can improve our blogs. We can pick a new theme, change our blogging platform, increase our posting interval, or increase commenting on other blogs. But I’m here to say that nothing, I repeat, nothing will do more for your blog traffic than guest posting.

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Written by Bob Bessette from Totally Unique Life
Posted on January 5th, 2010 and filed under Promote your blog
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Managing Time In Your Blogging Day

I remember when the pundits told us that working online would be the key to our own personal freedom.  I remember they told us we’d have more free time to spend with friends and family when we decided to start working from our own homes. It all sounded so great for somebody who grew up in the 1970s and I had great visions of …

Written by Rob Starr from Rob Starr
Posted on December 20th, 2009 and filed under Promote your blog
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Getting Around Those Blogging Distractions

The other day just as I sat down to start my morning work, I heard the door to my office nudge open in a way that told me it wasn’t my wife.  When I didn’t hear footsteps I knew it could only be a visit from only one of the two other inhabitants of the house.  Sure enough it was our …

Written by Rob Starr from Rob Starr
Posted on December 13th, 2009 and filed under Promote your blog
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Traffic Currencies – Building Your Blog Through Information Economics

Seven years ago I was paid to drive around and give away muffins. I learned something from that experience – and it was more than just the fact blueberry are the most popular kind.

The lessons learned in those years have actually helped me build quite a profitable network – one which sends referrals on a regular basis and enabled the launch of …

Written by Patricia Mayo from copyhypnotist
Posted on December 8th, 2009 and filed under Promote your blog
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The Time-Strapped Blogger’s Guide to Self-Promotion

Life isn’t meant to be spent chained to that computer. Every now and then you just have to go out, get some fresh air, and do something with yourself. But if you’re at all serious about the success of your blog, living a life outside of the computer can seem like nothing more than a fanciful dream.

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Written by Patricia Mayo from copyhypnotist
Posted on December 7th, 2009 and filed under Promote your blog
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