Need more search engine food? Here are some other things you can do to get those search engine robots to index your blog. Part 4 of 4: Miscellaneous Strategies Domain Names Choose your domain name wisely and try to include your keyword in it if possible. Have fun at register.com or your favorite domain registration … Read More
Blogging Strategies
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – Part 3
Submitting your blog to search engine and blog directories is a good way to attract visitors to your blog. Here we discuss where to list your blogs. Part 3 of 4: Submit Your Blog to Search Engines and Blog Directories Submit to Search Engines Have the search engines found you yet? While a bit time … Read More
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – Part 2
The way Search Engines index your blog is by sending “robot” crawlers to your site to track what you’ve written and follow the links. Here we discuss how linking both inside and outside your blogs can help you with search engine optimization. Part 2 of 4: Linking Strategy Get Inbound Links Every link to your … Read More
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – Part 1
Because blogs naturally offer new content to search engines, you might think you can skip optimizing your blog. In our latest series, here are some ideas you can use to attract search engines to your blog. Part 1 of 4: Start with Quality Content on a Specific Topic Quality Content The best way to get … Read More
Blog Allow Your Audience to Be More Than Just Readers
Remember when you listened to the radio, read the newspaper, watched TV, and surfed the net? You were part of a passive audience who sat there and were spoon-fed what the mass media wanted us to consume. Now we live in a connected world where you can also participate! What was the domain of mass … Read More
5 Things to Remember So Your Blog Lives Long After its First Birthday
Are you blogging? Great! Is it what you’d thought it would be? Here are five things to consider as you continue to blog away: 1. It’s Hard Work While you put in your hours at the start, are you still plugging away with the same enthusiasm? With so much competing for your time (family, “real … Read More
5 Ways to Reinvent Your Blog
The ContentRobot team has been blogging for a while now. We strive to keep things fresh and on topic … but it’s easy for a blog to become stale. Do you need to add life back into your blog? Here are five ways you can do just that: New Features – Consider adding a poll … Read More
Team Blogging
While most blogs are written and mananged by a single person, more and more blogs, such as the Team Timex blog and The Huffington Post have multiple authors and contributors. This poses some challenges for the blog (mostly in terms of the blog’s design and the way the posts display) because of the many cooks … Read More