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It breaks my heart to see blogs with great content languish in utter
anonymity, devoid of comments, saddled with a seven-figure alexa traffic
ranking, and rotting in pagerank purgatory.
Well, no more, I say!
And if, in a year’s time, you’ve cracked the Technorati 1000, don’t forget
where it all began! :)
Make sure that you put your referral link to all of your blog for non-yuwie
members so that they can become member under you.
Get Your Own House In Order and increase
your page views – make more money
- Write well, write
consistently, don’t give up: All the marketing in the world won’t
help you if you have a lame-duck blog. In your search for more traffic,
more promotion, and more publicity, never forget it starts with great
content — and needs to continue with great content on a regular schedule.
There’s no question that maintaining quality and regularity is difficult
while you’re starting out, particularly if you’re time strapped … but hang
in there, because if you sacrifice this, all of your marketing efforts will
be for naught.
- Become an expert on
something: Develop a keen interest, continue to read and write
intelligently, and after a while, your experience will grant you this
informal title; bloggers will seek you out, your reknown will grow, and it
will be easier to be noticed, linked to, and get cross promoted (see
below)
- Design is more
important than you think: Your mother’s right — first impressions
count, and they can count for cash money. If you’re serious about
blogging, don’t stick with a n unaltered top10 Wordpress theme no matter
how cool you think it is. You want to separate and elevate yourself from
the blogging masses, and its impossible to do if you look exactly the same
as them. Easy to say, hard to do, but absolutely necessary if you don’t
have the money to pay for a private ground-up theme: learn CSS and a
photoeditor of choice, and learn to tweak your theme yourself, so that
your blog looks professional, stands out, and screams “yes, I am worthy of
your attention!”.
- Get Your SEO On: An
entire post in and of itself — get your own domain name, host your own
blogging software, enable permalinks, create keyword rich headlines,
create unique title tags, enable trackback and ping functionality, ensure
your blog pings pinging-services.
- Do interviews with
other bloggers: Score interviews with newsworthy individuals (who
may be linked to newsworthy content), to create link worthy content, but
more importantly, create news on THEIR blog to get back to YOUR blog.
- Break important
stories: See the post on how to find news. Long story short: if
you have an interest in an area, it is still possible to do this as long
as you’re willing to put in the time and energy to find stuff. Benefit:
being picked up by A-list blogs, mainstream news outlets and more.
- Have a contest: Or,
have regular contests, which encourage participation and buzz in your
corner of the blogosphere.
- Answer your comments,
in your comments, and off blog: Of course you have enabled
comments on every post, right? So, when you do get comments, answer as
many as humanly possible, and if its an interesting enough issue or
question, contact the poster directly for a friendly follow up. Treat
every potential poster as a potential subscriber to your feed, and a
future friend and contact.
- Spend time to create
links and trackbacks: In every post spend as much time as you can
to create outbound links to relevant and high linking blogs; many blogs
automatically have trackbacks enabled, so in their comments section they
will have a link back to your blog. If its a highly trafficked and ranked
blog, this can mean traffic BACK to your blog, and it can draw notice from
the author themselves — because, let’s face it, we’re all vain in a
fashion, even A-listers, and we’re all interested in who is linking to us.
Merry Christmas And Happy New Year Ahmet http://r.yuwie.com/pioneers
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