One of the services that our clients come to us for is, naturally, attracting more traffic to their blogs. In the past, when you went to market your website online, you made a list of keywords / phrases and descriptions, faithfully popped them in every page’s HTML header, and submitted each of them to the … Read More
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5 Things You Can Do to Get People to Link to Your Blog
Linkbait: verb: describe a variety of practices that have the purpose of generating links to your site. Want to get people to link to your site? Here are five linkbaiting techniques to consider: Tools – offer useful, fun or cool tools that webmasters can use on their blog. Don’t forget to point them back to … Read More
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – Part 4
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
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
5 Ways to Get Readers to Comment on Your Blogs
Is your blog lonely? You’ve been blogging for a while, but no one seems to be adding to your conversation. Here are five ways you can entice the blogosphere to comment on your blog … Invite Comments Via Email – Sending out an email invitation can be helpful toward getting the conversation going. Choose people … Read More
5 Ways to Grow Your Blog
Now that you’ve started a blog, how do you get those readers to come over and read what you have to say? Think About Your Content Go beyong a diary and plan out a content strategy. What will you write about? How often will you post? How will you market what you’ve published? Strive to … Read More