Increase Traffic To Your Blog - Community Building, Social Bookmarking And Networking

There are a few things that you can do to increase traffic to your blog.

To achieve high volumes of visitors, readers and subscribers does take time, it won’t happen over night, but it’s not impossible. Even if you have great content you can’t expect readers to flock on your pages. Having good content is one thing however there is much more to it than just posting articles.

Even if you have the best product in the world, best value, good price etc. how can you expect that people will find out about it? You need to let people know about your blog, join or create a community around the topic of your blog before you increase you traffic. Read more

I Want To Blog - Where Do I Start And Why Should I Use WordPress?

Okay, so you want to start your own blog. So where exactly do you start? Basically there are two options open to you:

1. You sign up with a free blogging service like WordPress (not to be confused with the blogging software). It’s free and it only takes a few minutes to sign up. Once that’s done you can blog away. The only problem with this is that you can’t have your own domain name - you can but it will cost you $15 a year. So if you’re happy with that then get blogging.

2. You have a domain name and a hosted account, which supports MySQL, and PHP and you want total control over your blog. In this case then,there is no question but to use WordPress (the software), it is simply the best. Read more

Build Links with Blog Comments

Relevance and Link Popularity are two main things we take into account when building links to our website. This means that we are looking for web pages that are relevant to the theme of our site and have high link popularity. Where is the best place to find those pages? Social Networks.

You can visit most popular bookmark sites, for example digg, and use their search to find what you want. You can enter the keywords like “link building” and the search will show you a lot of blogs related to your keywords. Then sort the blogs by the most diggs. You’ll get a page filled with stories that have been made popular based on the topic you’re looking for and chances are they’ll all have hundreds (if not thousands) of inbound links to that particular page alone. Read more

5 Reasons The Top Bloggers Are Successful

They create new content daily

Although they may have the post timestamped and may have not actually created it at that second they always have new content coming out. Sometimes these guys are way to busy and have “Guest Bloggers” do the posting for them that week. Either way they get the fresh content out there and everyone loves reading it. It is suggest to post at least once a day and most bloggers cannot even find the time to do it once a week. Imagine the surge in traffic and rss subscribers if you posted on a day to day basis. Give it a try, it is the best way to gain exposure. Read more

Are You Using These WordPress Plugins To Monetize Your Blog And Generate Web Site Traffic?

Did you know there is a new open source community project underway called the WordPress Plugin Database, which is a user-friendly web site with about 2,500 WordPress plugins and counting?

“The WordPress Plugin Database is a categorized list of WordPress plugins, complemented by a WordPress Plugin Manager that allows one-click installs,” say the database developers.  “For users, wp-plugins.net provides a browseable list of plugins, and RSS feeds you can subscribe to in order to get notified of new plugins and updates.  For developers, wp-plugins.net makes it easy to publicize your plugin and keep users informed of new versions.” Read more

Blogging Success ‘How To’

Almost anyone who has heard about blogs have got one. It’s simply because it’s a good platform to express one’s views and opinions. It is also one of the fastest and easiest ways to start a business online. There are many write-ups and books written on this topic. The main purpose of this article is to point out the most essential factors that you should be aware of  and to help you begin on the right foot.

Don’t start a blog and expect to see money rolling in immediately. Blogging is an activity that will take time to build up to a profit level. It’s a good thing to start while you are working on other other online opportunities to let it build to a profitability level. With time and attention, your blog (or blogs) will grow into a business. Read more

Webwise: 5 Simple Blogging Tips To Help You Make Friends And Influence People

I’ve heard a lot of people talking about blogging and the suggestion that it’s the true emancipation of the decimation of information.

While that might sound like a lyric from a 80’s protest rap song, it’s certainly one of the principle benefits of blogging.

With an opinion and a blog, someone can publicize their thoughts in a truly democratized way: if someone disagrees with you, they’ll tell you as much. Thus, my blog exists as a means for me to store my opinions and allow those like-minded to read and comment.

But there’s a flip-side to all of this, and it’s a dark one. What if your blog is never seen?

Rather than creating an immediate forum for one’s own opinions / rants / rambles / insights et cetera, the Internet can simply become an even larger room to be stood in the corner of feeling even more alone. Read more

Top 6 Tips to Maximizing the Benefits of Entering Blog Contests

Entering blog contests is a good way to improve visibility of your blog. Here are some tips to make the maximum out of blog contests.

1. Enter as many blog contests as you can

This will give you an option to get noticed by many bloggers in short time. You can also possibly win a prize. However, if yours is a niche blog, don’t do this, as it can dilute the focus of your blog. Read more

How Can a RSS Filter Help a Blogger?

Bloggers fall into two categories; a blogger who writes about their personal experience and a blogger who writes about a niche market or specific expertise.  However, both bloggers share a similar characteristic:  “they like what they like.”  For those bloggers it’s important to stay up-to-speed on the things which interest them most.

With RSS becoming the main stream method of information gathering, RSS quickly becomes the main stream channel of information overload.  RSS allows a blogger or webmaster to receive the most current information from the sites they enjoy the most.  However, not all the information is relevant to the bloggers interests.  This is where a RSS filter or feed filter becomes an invaluable asset to the blogger. Read more

How Can a RSS Filter Help a Blogger?

Bloggers fall into two categories; a blogger who writes about their personal experience and a blogger who writes about a niche market or specific expertise. However, both bloggers share a similar characteristic: “they like what they like.” For those bloggers it’s important to stay up-to-speed on the things which interest them most.

With RSS becoming the main stream method of information gathering, RSS quickly becomes the main stream channel of information overload. RSS allows a blogger or webmaster to receive the most current information from the sites they enjoy the most. However, not all the information is relevant to the bloggers interests. This is where a RSS filter or feed filter becomes an invaluable asset to the blogger.

A feed filter service does the very obvious, filters a feed’s content to push through only the information which is important to the reader. A feed filter works off keywords which act as a gatekeeper to what information reaches the subscriber. There are several RSS filter websites such as www.filtermyrss.com, www.feedrinse.com and www.feedshake.com which provide free filter services.

Beyond the simple RSS filter service, have you ever thought about the additional benefits of using an RSS filter?

Using a feed filter gives you the ability to organize information and search for new sites to resource. As I mentioned earlier, with RSS being the primary tool for information gathering it becomes an overload of information. By taking out the items you don’t read, one doesn’t end up with hundred’s of unread articles - which didn’t pertain to your interests in the first place. Running a clean feed reader means you’re more likely to continue sourcing additional feeds rather than feeling content (and probably overloaded).

Another advantage with using a feed filter is keeping up with your competition. True, you probably already subscribe to your competition’s feed, but using the RSS filter help zero in on the topics which relate to you. Through simple observation you can get a feel for how timely a website is about publishing new information. If you observe some website have a one or two day delay on current news, this gives you the opportunity to post an article, send an email to other sites and transforms your blog into the “source” for those in your niche.

By reporting news and events before similar sites it increases a natural link back when these sites source your web material. This ultimately builds bigger readership, branding and strong web presence in the blogisphere.

Another advantage with using a feed filter is the ability to republish the feed as html for a live-feed on ones site. The advantage of filtering your source is again, to publish the specific information which your reader base is most interested in. Web page real-estate is valuable and filling up a sidebar or dedicated page with feed information which isn’t relevant to the reader base is a misuse of assets.

With feed filters the bottom line is this: You become more proficient in gathering information. This develops a more focused blog. The blog becomes more current and timely because your source information is spot-on for what you need. So, whether you blog about personal interest or blog about specific topics adding a feed filter to your arsenal of tools can really help.

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