Posts Tagged ‘Blog’

Blogging Directories - Great Traffic Venues

Sunday, December 24th, 2006
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Kathleen Krueger asked:

If you want to have more people visit your blog, there are plenty of blog directories on the Internet that you can submit your blog to in order to attract and increase traffic. With the abundance of blogs available, the idea is to submit as wisely as possible as to prevent your blog disappearing in an Ocean Of Blogs.  Here are a few guidelines:

Topic:  Most blog directories are listed by the topics that submitted blogs that cover.  Be as accurate as possible, and when give the chance to choose sub-topics, do so.

Tags:  Goes without saying. When you have the opportunity to tag your blog, fill in all the blank spaces!

Quality Blog Directories:   There are always a number of directories that seem to be well-known for quality submissions and standards.  It may require more time than you planned, but the results are worth it.  For one, Blog Catalog is a free blog directory with numerous categories such as career and jobs, writing, Iraq, and others. It has features such as featured blogs, search blogs, and look into improving your blogging.  It is a great way to promote your own blog.  Another great place to add your blog is Blog-directory.org.  Not only do they have an extensive list of categories with sub categories, you can get your blog reviewed. For the most popular blogs, it shows the amount of hits that blogs have and if they have any reviews. As well as listing by category, the blogs are also listed by location.

Blog Directories with RSS Submissions: RSSTop55- Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites is a combination of blog directory submission and RSS submission.  There are paid submissions, if you desire, but there are plenty of free submissions as well. These blog directories have standards, and can rate your blog.  Don’t overlook the power of RSS.  Those with readers may prefer to subscribe to your blog rather than bookmark it.  Submit your Blog RSS every chance you have to maximize your reader base.

You never know what you will find when you browsing through the directories, and you may just find out information that you never knew. Some of the blog directories offer chat features as well, so that you can meet other people easily. If that isn’t your style, reviewing other blogs just very well may be. Some directories encourage members to review blogs.  This is a great way to mingle, meet other bloggers, get exposed to other blogging methods and tips, and even inspire and be inspired by other blogger’s content.

Manual or Automatic Submission: Often heard is the question of which one, manual or automatic submission of my blog?  Both could be of advantage and you don’t mind spending for paid submission.   Automatic submission may introduce your blog to the world quicker, and this is fine.  Manual submission has the advantage of giving you first-hand experience of what each directory is really all about: its features, it’s content, resources offered you may want to try out, and other areas of interest to you.  You may want to return or not return to a particular directory to submit another blog someday, knowing it will be reviewed, and has a clear place in the categories.

In summary, one way to generate traffic to your blog is make sure it is seen!  Submit, to at least, quality directories, choose topics and categories with care, and review other blogs!  Happy Blogging!

Submitting Your Blog to the Top Blog Directories

Thursday, May 11th, 2006
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Gary Pettit asked:

If you have a blog,then you among the millions of other people on this planet who have a blog,who can market their items and services online,and who find ways to connect through friends,past classmates,family,even acquaintances,in order to produce online cash.There are millions upon millions of blogs on the web right now,and you will need to sparkle through the muddle of language,or,at the very least,become known to a few in whatever niche you pursue.

One way for you to establish your audience is to actually have a niche that you proclaim yourself to be in, and one way for you to do this is to place your blog address in a blog directory. You also have any choice up to you: you are not limited to placing your blog in a single directory, which is advantageous if you consider how these blog directories have their own audiences whom you might lose if you aren’t meticulous enough.

If you would like to submit your blog to a blog directory,make sure that your blog is ready to be viewed by others. Do not simply place your blog address and then expect people to read half-baked essays, poor stories, or no entries at all. Have a lot of good content to welcome your new and current readers. Moreover, be aware of exactly what keywords your blog will have.

This means that you will have to go through your content, and then evaluate what keywords to use, so that you can properly categorize your blog and then provide the right keywords if the blog directory service asks for it.

Here are some blog directories that you may want to consider when you are finally ready to sign your blog up.

1. Blog Catalog (http://www.blogcatalog.com) allows you to not only place your blog into a category. It also shows which categories are most popular,so then you can have a better understanding as to what market has the majority of readers. Through blog catalog, you can join discussions and form or join groups.

2. At Blog Hub (http://www.bloghub.com), you can add your blog and chat at a forum, chat with your fellow bloggers, and get news on affordable web hosting services, as well as other articles that might be of interest to you. Blog hub also offers information on how to use services to monetize your blog.

3. You can also add your blog to the directory at Blog Hint (http://www.bloghints.com), where you can view the latest blogs added, the most popular, and the highest rated. Blog Hints will even suggest a category for your blog, and you can access some Wordpress themes if you are using that service. There are many different blogs in this directory that you can search through. The blogs are also organized in folders that are easily visible on the front page of the website.

4. At Blogging Fusion (http://www.bloggingfusion.com) you can also readily view the available categories, and you can even get your blog featured. There are also available blog ratings systems and popular blogs lists for you to browse.

5. Another directory is Blog Flux (http://dir.blogflux.com) where you can look through an alphabetical directory, see featured blogs, and see the latest updates to blogs listed in the directory.

Free Blogging Tips and Tricks

Saturday, February 12th, 2005
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Antonio Seegars asked:

Blogging is becoming the favorite past-time for internet users. Because blogs are free and easy to use everybody is starting a blog.  But if you want to turn your blogs into profitable investments your going to need to learn a few things.

Before you start creating a blog you need to pick a niche, and after you pick a niche it’s important that you maximize your blog for Search Engine Optimization. You can maximize your blog by picking good keywords. After you’ve found good keywords use them for your blog titles and subject lines.  This will help search engines identify your blog and direct users to it.

After you’ve chosen good keywords for your blog it’s time to provide you blog with content.  I would suggest that you write SEO articles for your blog and submit them to article directories as well.  This will provide you with better SEO ranking and give you additional traffic from article directories. 

Now it’s time to think about really generating traffic to your blog. Generating traffic is the single most important step to making money on the internet. Without traffic all of your previous efforts don’t matter. No matter what your selling on the internet if you generate enough traffic to it somebody will buy it.

There are a lot of unique ways you can generate traffic to your blog. Some of these ways include writing comments on other blogs (if you can find blogs that compliment your own, but don’t directly compete with you that would be best). You can also submit your blog to the blog directories, link your blog URL to your email, and as previously mentioned write articles for your blog and submit them to article directories with a link back to your blog.

If you don’t have any products to sell you can go to Clickbank.com and look for good affiliates products or you can place pay per click ads on your blog.

To learn more about making money using blogs visit - http://www.seegarsproducts.com/bloggingonsteroids