I am a strong believer in the power of linking between blogs, and I still go out of my way to link, especially to peers, to smaller blogs, and to developers of services I write about. At one time, I thought…
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Since the arrival of social media web services like Twitter and FriendFeed bloggers have for the most part been in a quandary in how to deal with them. A lot of bloggers have been of the attitude that…
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Regator gathers and organizes the web’s best blog posts to make it easy to find what you need—and fun to discover new things.
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Effortless lifestream
Brings all your web content together into a blog format. Swurl supports your existing blog, pictures, links, videos, and more.
Vibrant conversations
Encourages conversations, not just comments. Swurl conversations are easy to write, read, and watch.
All your friends
Finds your friends on other sites and automatically gives you a feed of their activity.
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Comments help your blog look more active. Initially you may find that users may not post comments to your blog. It’s going to be up to you to get things going. Have your friends or family members start leaving comments on your blog as it can make your blog seem more active.
People like to see activity; if your blog seems dead you’ll likely get no responses. If you would rather not have your family even know about your blog, then you can post comments yourself but as a “Guest” or as registered user instead of admin. Respond to your own posts initially to create activity, then you’ll start to see other real users placing comments as well.
If you go to popular webmaster forums, you’ll find that users get paid for making posts on forums. The usual rate is about .10 cents per post or something within that range. The same theory applies for blog comments. You can hire a set of 10 to 20 people to comment on your posts and pay them a small fee, this way you generate some interest in your blog.
If you post a project on the sites I mentioned previously such as Scriptlance or Getafreelancer for “Blog Posters”, you can find people who can get your blog active, by making comments and paying them a small fee. Within a few weeks your blog should be very active.
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The biggest secret Bloggers know to learn how to have a successful blog is to review other blogs that are proven success stories. To do this I recommend that you visit a site called Bloglines.com
Do a search to find blogs that are similar to your blog and review each to see what they are doing. It’s easy to tell if a blog is doing well by how often they are updating and how many comments each blog post receives.
Take another trip back to Bloglines.com/dir and do a search again for blogs within a similar genre as your blog but not necessarily identical. Start replying to some of the blog posts made, giving your thoughts about the post or topic. Do this a few times with various blogs, then once you’ve done it on a regular occasion end your post with a signature link that goes to your site.
After gaining trust you can simply place a link with your next post comment. I recommend replying at least 5 to 10 times before attempting to place a link.
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Here’s one of the reasons I believe that WordPress is a great option for blogging. WordPress has a built in “Ping” option that will notify all the major blogging and RSS feed directories that you’ve made a new post on your blog. This is automatically activated in the “Writing” section of Word Press. If you scroll to the bottom of the “Writing” section you will see a section called “Update Services”.
Below that you will see a URL link: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/. Whenever you make a post on your blog, this option sends out a notification to all the blogging directories that you have made a new post.
When blogging remember you must be very personable, friendly and seem easy to talk to. The reason for this is that with each post you make you are trying to elicit a response from users. With WordPress you have the option to enable comments. By having comments on your blog enabled, it increases your popularity rating.
The search engines will visit and update your blog more often as it is constantly changing by having new content. I recommend that in each blog post you make, that you always ask questions, request feedback to ensure that the people viewing your blog find a reason to actually post a comment.
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A business blog is part of the basic infrastructure needed to market your products and services on the Web. It works because blogs are search engine friendly. When you write 2-3 times a week, you are seeding the Internet with those keywords that will lead back to you when someone is looking for information.
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By default WordPress gives you the ability to choose if you want Search Engine Friendly URLS for your blog, but I’ve taken that a step further. You will only be able to follow the instructions I’m giving below if you already have WordPress installed.
If you have WordPress installed add this line of code to your “Permalinks” section:
/%postname%.htm
Input the above code into the line that says “Custom Structure” and ensure that you have the check placed in the “Custom, specify below” under Common Options. What this does is give your blog highly optimizable search engine friendly URLS. Every blog post you make will have a keyword rich URL based on the subject of your blog.
For example if your blog post was:
“Caribbean Recipes” your URL would be http://yoursite.com/caribbean-recipes.html
It’s a nice handy trick to get more search engine friendly URLS out of WordPress to ensure that your keywords appear not only in the subject but also in the page URL.
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