February 05, 2005
Does Frequent Posting Boost Traffic?
Susannah is tracking if her blog's traffic levels correlate with her levels of posting and writes: 'Generally speaking, it looks like the theory of more posts = more traffic holds true, but of course what the logs don’t tell...
Posted by Darren at 11:44 PM
January 19, 2005
Pitch me Your Posts
This time tomorrow I will have been blogging for 7 hours straight in my blogathon to raise money for the Tsunami appeal, I'll have added around 30 entries and I just know that I'll be starting to wonder where...
Posted by Darren at 10:15 AM
January 18, 2005
Journalism's Critique of Blogging - A Great PR Tool
Interesting piece over at What Next Blog looking at the way the Wall St. Journal and New York Times are Still Dissing Bloggers. 'It went on to create tension by saying that "Bloggers push stories and theories that make...
Posted by Darren at 09:51 AM
December 28, 2004
56 Directories To Submit Your Blog To
Search Engines are perhaps the most popular source of traffic for most of our blogs - however its also worth working on other sources for traffic to supplement what Google and Yahoo sends your way. Directories are also a...
Posted by Darren at 10:04 PM
December 15, 2004
Feedburner Feedcount
I have recently been using Feedburner's RSS services and have found them to work quite well. A number of you now read this site via the Feedburner RSS feed (although most still track us on the old one). In the...
Posted by Darren at 03:24 PM
November 25, 2004
Building blog traffic for newbies
The Blog Herald has a good post on Building blog traffic for newbies - pretty basic tips but well worth a read if you're new to blogging and wanting to get some traffic over to that blog you've been working...
Posted by Darren at 05:43 PM
November 24, 2004
Mailing List Services
Does anyone out there know of any plugins for Word Press and Moveable Type that are for collecting and generating a mailing list for your blog? I've been using a paid system for the past year that has been very...
Posted by Darren at 05:52 PM
November 22, 2004
Services to Ping When you Update your Blog
Over the past year I've collected a list of services to ping when you update your blog. Here is a list of those I have so far. There are heaps more out there - you might also like to head...
Posted by Darren at 08:28 AM
November 20, 2004
Writing and Blogging Opportunities - California Chronicle & American Chronicle
Here is an opportunity for bloggers to get their name and writing into the public eye a little more - it doesn't pay anything but the side benefits could make it worthwhile: 'The California Chronicle family of online magazines...
Posted by Darren at 09:48 AM
November 18, 2004
RSS Ads A Growing Trend
WebProNews has an interesting article on the rise of RSS Ads and RSS spam: 'Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is one of the fastest growing methods of content distribution associated with Internet technologies. Because creating feeds is not too complicated,...
Posted by Darren at 08:52 AM
November 15, 2004
Pay Per Click (PPC) Blog
Cube Management's Pay Per Click (PPC) Blog will be an interesting one to follow if you are thinking about promoting your blog in this way. As the name suggests its following all Pay Per Click news from around the web....
Posted by Darren at 09:35 PM
November 09, 2004
Ways to promote your Blog
Boston.com has a good article on ways to promote your weblog called Don't let your blog get lost in the fog. They write - 'But even good blogs can go unread, without a little extra effort to attract visitors....
Posted by Darren at 12:07 PM
November 07, 2004
Google traffic vs Slashdot traffic - Which would you prefer?
Have you ever been Slashdotted? It sounds painful doesn't it - but its actually quite fun. Being Slashdotted basically means that you're linked to by the mega-blog - Slashdot. The cool thing about the experience is that if you chance...
Posted by Darren at 12:31 PM
November 05, 2004
Why Weblogs work so good at site promotion
Sohosad has a good post on Why Weblogs work so good at site promotion. Complete with cool little pictures!...
Posted by Darren at 10:25 PM
October 25, 2004
10 No-Cost Ways to Generate Site Traffic
'No matter how cool your site or how fabulous your product, you're not going to generate enough sales to make your business viable unless you can generate traffic. You have to get the word out about your site and...
Posted by Darren at 05:18 PM
October 07, 2004
How to explode your blog's traffic by writing Articles
By Christos Varsamis There is one golden rule, which is inherent in this free and extremely effective internet marketing strategy. First GIVE, and then TAKE. It’s as simple as that. Especially if it’s done properly the results could be...
Posted by Darren at 04:55 PM
October 03, 2004
Marketing Your Blog
Orangejack Blog is doing a series of instructional posts about blogging that might be useful for those just starting out in this whole blogging thing. Today they post one about Marketing... "Today we're going to talk about marketing your blog...or...
Posted by Darren at 03:46 PM
October 02, 2004
You Don't Have TIME to Sit and Wonder When The Traffic Will Come!
Copyright © 2004 Jack Humphrey There is so incredibly MUCH you can do to successfully promote your website starting in just a few minutes. In fact, the steps I will give you below can be repeated DAILY for 30 days,...
Posted by Darren at 08:55 PM
September 30, 2004
Getting Your Blog Listed on Netscape Search, Teoma and Lycos
This is the seventh and last of a multiple post series on getting your blog or website listed on Search Engines. This post focuses upon getting listed on Netscape Search, Teoma and Lycos. The series is written by Merle...
Posted by Darren at 08:04 PM
Getting Your Blog Listed on Hotbot, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves
This is the sixth of a multiple post series on getting your blog or website listed on Search Engines. This post focuses upon getting listed on Yahoo. The series is written by Merle from http://www.MCPromotions.com The full 'Getting Your...
Posted by Darren at 07:53 PM
Getting Your Blog Listed on LookSmart and AOL Search
This is the fifth of a multiple post series on getting your blog or website listed on Search Engines. This post focuses upon getting listed on Yahoo. The series is written by Merle from http://www.MCPromotions.com The full 'Getting Your...
Posted by Darren at 06:50 PM
Getting Your Blog Listed on Overture and Excite
This is the forth of a multiple post series on getting your blog or website listed on Search Engines and Directories. This post focuses upon getting listed on Overture and Excite. The series is written by Merle from http://www.MCPromotions.com...
Posted by Darren at 06:43 PM
Getting Your Blog Listed on Inktomi and DMOZ
This is the first of a multiple post series on getting your blog or website listed on Search Engines. This post focuses upon getting listed on Inktomi and The Open Directory Project (DMOZ). The series is written by Merle...
Posted by Darren at 06:33 PM
Getting your Blog listed on Altavista and Google
This is the second of a multiple post series on getting your blog or website listed on Search Engines. This post focuses upon getting listed on Altavista and Google. The series is written by Merle from http://www.MCPromotions.com The full...
Posted by Darren at 06:29 PM
Getting Your Blog Listed on Yahoo
This is the first of a multiple post series on getting your blog or website listed on Search Engines. This post focuses upon getting listed on Yahoo. The series is written by Merle from http://www.MCPromotions.com The full 'Getting Your...
Posted by Darren at 06:21 PM
Don't let Your Readers Forget You
The following article is written more for online store owners but it can equally be applied to blogging. It is easier to keep a blog reader than to find a new one. One smart way to keep in touch...
Posted by Darren at 03:59 PM
September 28, 2004
Ten Free Ways To Promote Your Website
How do you market your product if the public doesn't know your website exist? The odds are you will lack the flow of traffic to survive in the vast ocean called the World Wide Web. You are shaking your head...
Posted by Darren at 09:07 PM
20 Totally Easy Ways To Get People To Link To Your Web Site
1. Offer other web sites free content to post on their web site. Include your link on all of your content. The content should related to your web site because it will be in front of your target audience....
Posted by Darren at 08:51 PM
Overview Of Pay Per Click Search Engines
A Fundamental Overview Of Pay Per Click Search Engines By Kirk Bannerman Forbes magazine has reported that pay per click ad sales are expected to increase to at least $8 billion by 2008. The three fundamental core elements that form...
Posted by Darren at 04:01 PM
Blog Explosion - Blog Traffic Generator
Blog Explosion is a new way to generate traffic for your blog. I'll let them explain: "The concept is very simple. You read other blog sites and they in return visit your blog. Blogexplosion is the internet's first blog exchange...
Posted by Darren at 10:17 AM
September 27, 2004
Do forum signature links help PageRank and SERPS?
One of the tips I've seen given in many SEO articles is that if you add your blog's URL as a signature in your messages left in forums that you'll increase your Search Engine Ranking. It makes sense, especially...
Posted by Darren at 09:31 PM
Mrbizfind.com Offers Pay per Click Advertising
Mrbizfind.com has just sent us a press release announcing the opportunity to advertise your blog or site in their pay per click advertising system for as little as 1 cent per click. Check out the details in their following...
Posted by Darren at 09:17 PM
September 25, 2004
More Search Engine Optimization tips for your Blog
There is a lot of articles out there about how to optimize your blog for search engines - Google in-particularly - but this one has some pretty handy tips on SEO and promoting your blog. The key one really...
Posted by Darren at 11:15 PM
September 24, 2004
Search Engines, Directories and RSS Agregators to Submit your Blog to
Most Search Engines, Directories and News Aggregators will not find your blog on their own - well not quickly anyway - many need a little help and have ways of suggesting sites to be added to their databases. Big List...
Posted by Darren at 03:11 PM
Paid Contextual Advertising Driving Search Towards Personalization
'The Internet is in the midst of another technological revolution, the effect of which will change the ways we will access information and entertainment. Innovation on many core technologies has changed the online marketing environment and the ways commercial...
Posted by Darren at 12:58 PM
September 23, 2004
How to Get your Blog Discovered
Scobleizer has a good post on how to get your blog discovered. Most of it is the kind I've stuff I've already got in the Blog tips section but this one was a tad different: 'Hang out with smart...
Posted by Darren at 07:58 PM
Blog Tip - Blog/RSS Promotion
So you've got a blog, it is looking good, the design is working and your content is stimulating - now you'd like to spread the word on what you have to offer, after all blogs are designed to be...
Posted by Darren at 07:19 PM
Blog Promotion 101
Tristam from Blogopoly has posted an interesting post entitled Blog Promotion 101. His headings are: (there is more information linked to each) 1) Make your Site Visible to Search Engines 2) Exchange Links with Other Bloggers 3) Create an...
Posted by Darren at 07:12 PM
Viral Blogging
I've been reading Unleashing the Idea Virus by Seth Godin this past week or so. I'm really taking my time over it and whilst it doesn't mention blogging at all I'm finding many applications for thinking about medium. One of...
Posted by Darren at 06:08 PM
Link unto others - Blog Tip
The following blog tip was submitted by Phil Wolff from blogs such as Don't Blog, Blog Count, emblog and a klog apart. Links make blogs different than paper. When you see something interesting online, link to it. Something useful,...
Posted by Darren at 05:45 PM
Blog Cards
Blog Cards are like Business Cards that feature a bloggers blog address to make networking easier. Ripples and BuzzMachine are both talking about making and using Blog Cards. David St Lawrence of Ripples writes 'I made up a blogging business...
Posted by Darren at 05:43 PM
Three quick ways to increasing visitors to your blog in a week
Wayne Hurlbert shares Three quick ways to more visitors in one week. It is written more with a business blog in mind but most of it is somewhat transferable. He also has a good link on Analyzing our visitor...
Posted by Darren at 05:31 PM
Martin Roth's Blog Tip
Martin Roth is a legend around some Blogging circles. He's the guy who started collecting links of Christian Bloggers which today is Blogs4God. Martin responded for my call for people to post their own blog tips. So here are Martins...
Posted by Darren at 05:11 PM
Finding Readers for Your Blog (Part D)
This is the final post of the 'Finding Readers' mini series. See also Part A, Part B and Part C. 12. Blog Search Engines and Indexes - Get yourself registered on sites like Blogdex, Technorati, Popdex and Daypop (they...
Posted by Darren at 05:01 PM
Finding Readers for Your Blog (Part C)
Also read Parts A - B and D of this series. Part C 9. Web Rings - A web ring is a group of blogs with a common interest that refer traffic to one another. There are many of...
Posted by Darren at 04:56 PM
Finding Readers for Your Blog (Part B)
Also read Parts A - C and D of this series. Part B 5. Interact with Readers - I've written about how to interact with your readers before so I won't go into it too much except to say...
Posted by Darren at 04:54 PM
Finding Readers for Your Blog (Part A)
Also read Parts B - C and D of this series. A number of new bloggers have recently asked me how to get people to visit their blog. Let me say up front that 'getting hits' isn't everything -...
Posted by Darren at 04:49 PM
