May
23
Wordbook
Filed Under Facebook
I am testing the Wordbook plug-in. This will notify Facebook of new entries to my blog.
Archive for May 23rd, 2009
May
23
Combined another sub-domain
Filed Under Web site, Where's George
I combined my sub-domain that was about Where’s George and posted it into my blog as a page. I only kept a few of the stuff, not everything. Just the basic, important parts. Check out the new page at: Currency Tracking as the new page is called.
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May
23
Want more traffic to your blog!
Filed Under Business Cards, Tips, Twitter, Web site, WordPress
Do you want to drive some traffic to your blog? I will give you some suggestions that I use to get some traffic to my blog.
SUBMIT TO SEARCH ENGINE FEEDS
I submit my rss feed to places like Ping Oat, Ping-O-Matic. At these Web sites you enter information about your blog. Then it will submit your blog to blog search engines and places that use rss to feed content into their Web sites. This also includes using your Ping Services to let them know when you make a new post. Don’t use the default method. Instead use a plug-in. It won’t ping too much, causing your site to be banned. I use MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer.
SUBMIT TO BLOG DIRECTORIES
I also submited my blog to LoadedWeb. It breaks down your blog by where you live. For example, My blog is under USA, Tennessee, Knoxville. This is just one example of many blog directories you can submit your blog to.
COMMENT IN OTHER BLOGS
Another way, you can build traffic is going to other people’s blogs and giving them comments. Be sure to list your blog or Web site. Most comments, will link your name to your blog or Web site. Also, allow comments on your blog. Be sure to reply to comments you receieve. Please make sure you don’t spam them with comments. Just give them comment based on what they wrote. Give them feedback. That is what comments are for after all.
Word of Mouth
Word of mouth, tell your friends and family about your blog. Basicly this is self-explanitory. Just tell everyone about your blog. After ahile, they will tell others about your blog and so forth.
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
Add the social bookmarking sites, like Digg, Sphere, del.icio.us, and StumbledUpon. (to name a few). As an example, I have some down on the bottom of each of my post in my blog. This way people can favorite that post on their favorite site.
GET A TWITTER ACCOUNT
Twitter! Get a twitter account. I am sure if you search google you can find a plug-in that will tweet your Twitter account when you make a new post. That way those who wish to follow you on Twitter will know you have a new post. Twitter is one of the fastest growing communities on the Internet. I use TwitPress to post to my Twitter account of a new blog entry.
SOCIAL WEB SITES
Join social Web sites like Facebook and MySpace. Most a link to your blog on your profile. Some will even notify your friends on your profile that you have a new entry or two.
BUSINESS CARDS
If you have business cards, make sure to add your blog address to your business cards. So on your next printing order, make sure to make changes to them by adding this to it.
LINKS
Make sure to link to your blog in your signautre of your E-mail. Also, make sure you have a link on your main Web site to your blog. Maybe have your friends a link to your blog from theirs. You can even try link-exchanges. That is where people will trade links. Person A puts a link to you on their Web site, while you put a link to Person A on your Web site.
MAKE RELAVANT POST
Another idea is post about things that everyone wants to read, current news, celeberities, travel, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, how to’s, etc. Something unique always works as well. Make it something people will want to read. Something they may keep coming back for me. Make your post involve the readers. So they can post comments. Make sure you reply to those comments. It helps bring back readership to your blog.
TAG/CATEGORIES
Don’t forget to use tags. Tag your post based on the content of your post. Tags kind of work like keywords. Make sure the tags or categories (in come cases they use both) are keywords about the topic of the post. Don’t use keywords that don’t relate to the post you made. There is nothing like going to a blog entry based on a keyword and that entry has nothing to do with that keyword. That is a great way to lose readership.
RSS FEED
Make sure you have a RSS feed to your blog and make it where people know where to find it. A lot of readers read your blog via RSS feed readers. Try using FeedBurner. It lets you know how many subscribes you have reading your feed. I use Feedburner, it helps keep track of your feed stats!
STAT COUNTER
If your blog doesn’t have a stat counter, you might want to find a good plug-in to show you stats about your blog. They will show you the most popular entry. Best day for visits. Keywords used to come to your blog, your refer and any other number of information that might make it helpful to know where to promote your blog more or less in.
IMAGES
Add images to your post. Images help with visual effects. The old saying is … A Picture is worth a thousand words.. This is one practice that I need to do more when I post into my blog.
TRACKBACKS & TWEETBACKS
Basicly these work like links to other blogs or Twitter accounts that mentioned your blog entry. They usually show up as a comment on your blog. This way when people read their Twitter account or blog they will see your blog and possibly visit your blog from that Trackback or Tweetback.
NOFOLLOW
rel tag with nofollow (example: rel=”nofollow”) in your link tag will help boost your ranking, thus leading to more visitors! I use a plug-in for my blog for it. It automatically adds the nofollow attribute to links. Nofollow Reciprocity plug-in
SITE MAPS
Have a site map that google and yahoo can use to index your blog. I use this plug-in to generate sitemaps for me. Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress.
PATIENTS
Just remember it takes time and patients for your blog to get popularity and start gaining hits. It won’t happen over night! Patients is a virtue..
OTHER IDEAS?
Do you have any other ideas that are helpful? Anything I need to update or change, add to or take away? Just let me know. I need your feedback. What helped you? What didn’t help you?
