CategoryBlog 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 read! How should you get the word out? Well you’ve probably ...more

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 RSS Feed 4) Promote your Blog amongst your own Friends and ...more

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 his key themes is that of ‘smoothness’…. A virus (of ...more

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, memorable, fascinating? Link, link, link. Each link is a vote. Your ...more

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 card some weeks ago because I got tired of writing ...more

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 counter logs

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 Blog Tips. To paraphrase his main points: 1. Tell people ...more

This is the final post of the ‘Finding Readers’ mini series. Also read Parts A – B and C of this series. 12. Blog Search Engines and Indexes – Get yourself registered on sites like Technorati. These sites have features that allow people to search for blog entries via topic ...more

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 these dedicated to blogging on a variety of topics. They don’t ...more