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101 Must-Read Articles to Become a Pro Blogger
2007-12-12 16:52:00 Here is a listing of 101 must-read articles which have enough information to help you to become a pro blogger. Content ?Content is King?, you might read it hundred times before and you might got sick and tired of that line, like anyone else, but it?s plain truth. Here are few articles that will help you in creating A-class content. 5 Steps to Writing the Best Blog Posts 5 Tips for Writing Timeless Content10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work10 Tips on Writing the Living WebWhere to find free Photos for Your Blog?Better Beginnings: how to start a presentation, book, article?How to Write a Killer ?How To? Article That Gets Attention?How to Write Killer Blog Posts and More Compelling Comments?How to Write Killer Posts?Will One Popular Post Make Your Blog Successful?One quality blog post is enough to make you famousTen Ways To Write A Killer Blog Traffic Traffic is the reward for quality content and the gateway to money and fame.Here are a few articles with useful tips on attrac... More About: Articles , Blogger , Read
Top 10 Ways to Get a Technorati Top 100 Blogger to Link to Your Blog or Web
2007-12-12 16:38:00 f you really want to pump up the traffic to your blog or website, at least temporarily, just get a link from any of the Technorati Top 100 bloggers. No, it?s not easy, but here are ten ways that might gitterdun for ya. Disclaimer: I will not be held responsible for any legal action taken against you as a result of using these tactics. 1. Write almost anything that has to do with David Allen?s Getting Things Done, and send it to any Technorati Top 100 blogger who is a GTD fanatic. 2. Take a photo of yourself wearing a rubber nose and send it to any Technorati Top 100 blogger who likes that kind of thing. 3. Write a post suggesting that reading the blog of a particular Technorati Top 100 blogger may cure erectile dysfunction. Be sure to create a cool, funny graphic to go with it. 4. Create some cool, ingenius gadget hack, and send it to any Technorati Top 100 blogger who loves to write about cool, ingenius gadget hacks. 5. Launch a cool, new Web 2.0 company or application and have i... More About: Blogger , Link Building , Blog , Link
Run Out Of Things To Blog About? Here?s Some Help?
2007-11-30 03:11:00 Do you ever get ?stuck? with not knowing what to write for you blog? Don?t worry, it happens to the best of us, believe us. There are tricks you can put in your utility belt that can you can pull out when you need an idea. Here?s a few.. 1. Blog about news in the industry. Go on over to Google news and do a search for your industry. Now simply write about your thoughts on that industry topic. Give your expert advice. Ask your readers to weigh in in the comments. 2. Pull up and old blog entry and revisit it. Compare something you wrote a long time ago to today?s world, and see if it stands up. Look back at old predictions and follow through on how accurate they were. Analyze your content. 3. Interview someone. Go out and interview someone in your industry, or even someone in your office. Post the transcript on your blog. 4. Create a list of resources and tools that you recommend and talk about them. Remember, every blog entry does NOT have to be a journalistic piece. Some times the be... More About: Blogger , Things , Block
What To Do When You Lose Your Blogging Mojo
2007-11-30 02:59:00 Writing is nothing like computer programming. The latter is scientific yet was relatively easy for me, when I did it for a living. I could reuse code fragments and thus produce large, functioning programs in just a few days. Writing isn't like that. While hyperlinks are probably the equivalent of code reuse, writing involves a wholly different process. There is only so much "system" you can apply. In thirty years, I've never suffered coder's block. Ever. I used to brag that I've never suffered from writer's block, either. At least, not until I started writing full-time for a living. That is, multi-blogging professionally. Mind you, it's not that I don't know what to write about. I've done a lot of research into what topics are popular and/or profitable, and my blogging contracts already define my topic parameters. So you think it'd be easy to write, right? Wrong. The problem is, there's more and more "invisible" pressure to be linkworthy, and when you write on as many blog... More About: Blogger , Blogging , Block , Mojo
How to Avoid Blogger's Block
2007-11-30 02:54:00 Most bloggers know the importance of updating often. The last thing we want is for our traffic to drift off because we don't have anything to say. What happens if we experience blogger's block? How can we update, if we don't know what to talk about? Here are some tips for finding ideas.Make a daily list of blog stops: Subscribe to plenty of blog feeds. Not only those that are in the same niche groups but anything you find interesting. Expand on other bloggers' ideas or find ideas of your own.Use your tools: One of my favorite tools is Google Alerts I currently subscribe to at least a dozen alerts on anything from blogging to jobs to news about people I find interesting. What I love about Google Alerts is how it always throws out an interesting tidbit or two I might not have found on my own. Stumble Upon is another favorite, but it can also be dangerous as it's a great way to procrastinate. Make lists : Always keep a list of things to blog about and update often. If a blog top... More About: Blogger , Block , Avoid
Blogging Tips - Hundreds of Resources for Finding Content for Your Blog
2007-11-30 02:41:00 Blogging is great fun. It?s exciting. You start out with great ideas, full of motivation and inspiration. After a while, though, you run out of steam. The muse isn?t so amused any more and you start hunting for content, things to write about. There are two aspects of finding content for your blog. First, it is to find the inspiration that generates original content on your blog. This can come from a variety of sources. Basically, it can be a news story, fellow blogger?s post, an interesting web page you stumbled across, something a friend said, or anything that interests you enough to research and write about it. The second aspect is to find links. A lot of bloggers seem to specialize in finding interesting content and providing a link and maybe a few words to recommend to their readers that they check out the original content on someone else?s blog or site. While this isn?t so much about finding original content for your blog, it is about finding information and resources that is h... More About: Resources , Blogger , Tips , Blogging , Blog
How to Overcome Blogger's Block
2007-11-30 02:33:00 Blogger's Block , much like the traditional Writer's block, is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to continue blogging, usually due to lack of inspiration, creativity or even motivation.If it occurs for a day or two or even a week, it should not be a cause of concern because as bloggers, we all suffer from Writer's block at some point of time. However, if our inability to post new content extends for a longer duration, it may be something to worry about because of three reasons:1. Our regular readers would return disappointed when they don't find anything new our blogs and if the cycle repeats, they may completely abandon reading the blog [you know how tough it is to get readers but it's so simple to lose them]2. Google may be indexing your site at frequent intervals but if the Googlebot is unable to find new content on your blog during consecutive visits, it may decide to decrease the crawling frequency.3. A site that isn't updated for a long period may not look ... More About: Blogger , Overcome
10 productive things to do when you don't feel like blogging
2007-11-30 02:26:00 On one particular day of your blog life,you wake up and you don't feel like blogging.But you still don't want to feel or sound or look lazy.So what's the way out.How about a productive break?Here are a few things you can do which don't require tremendous effort from your part but will add points to your blog.1.Submit your blog&feed to directories.This one would be an efficient use of time as it increases your chances of being discovered at the same time gives you a bit more exposure in the blogosphere.You can find some directories for blog and rss submission from rss-specifications.com.2.Format your posts.You can do spell checks,change the picture positions,validate the links or add more useful links to your existing posts.Dividing long posts into short paragraphs will give a classy look to the article.Or you can consider adding bookmarklets below yourposts which will make it easy for your reader to do social bookmarking. 3.Modify the template.Play with your blog template.Yo... More About: Blogger , Blogging , Things , Block , Feel
Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic)
2007-11-28 23:11:00 With Digg getting more and more hostile?and with my baiting habit getting a bit out-of-control?I?ve lately been forced to look elsewhere to get my beloved jolts of social media traffic. No matter. Evolve or die! They won?t send you 5,000 uniques in an hour, but the traffic they do send is more likely to subscribe to your RSS feed, because their members have already identified themselves as part of your niche?s tribe. (And it?s a more targeted tribe than the ?gamer wanker? at Digg, or ?Politico smartass? at Reddit.) Without further adieu, here are 17 25 29 24 29 niche social media sites that actually seem to be gaining critical mass: AgentB (Deals)AutoSpies (Autos)Babblz (Parenting)Ballhype (Sports)blogs4God (Christian)BuzzFlash (News)Care2 (Social Action)Dealigg (Deals)Dissect Medicine (Health & Medicine)DNHour (Domaining)DZone (Developers)Game Diggity (Game Videos)Hugg (Environment)Meme or Lame (Gadgets)Mixx (Anything)PhotographyVoter (Photography)Pixel Groovy (Web Design)Plan... More About: Media , Traffic , Link Building , Sites
Tips from a Top 10 Digg user on how to get to the Frontpage
2007-11-28 23:06:00 Many Bloggers these days want to get their blog posts to the frontpage of Digg so that they can increase their traffic and popularity of their blogs. Some are ready to go almost any extent to get diggs such as making fake usernames and asking friends to digg for them. Yesterday, I had a chat with one of the Top 10 Digg users and he shared a few tips with me. If you really want to get on digg frontpage, here is how you do it? make atleast 15 friends on Digg so it gives fast exposure to your storyget your friends to digg all your postsyou must digg them in returnif your story is good, it will get 20-30 more diggs but those 15 friends are the keyyou must select a niche like technology or world newsthen you pick 50 or so feeds and post fastfeeds gives you fast sources on newsSome of the Feeds I subscribe are: Ars TechnicaBBC News | News Front Page | World EditionBBC News | Technology | World EditionBloglines Search: kevin roseBloglines | NewsCNET News.comCNN.comCrunchGearEngadgetGoogle.. . More About: Link Building , Tips , User , Frontpage
Some more link baiting strategies
2007-11-28 23:04:00 Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is the latest buzz word in the SEO world and has come to be the preferred way to natural link building. It means to create something that naturally attract backlinks for your web page by getting people to talk about it, discussing it on forums, blogging about i, posting it on del.icio.us/Furl/Digg/Shoutwire and linking to it from their sites. It also attracts a lot of visitors. Here is an excellent article: The Art of Linkbaiting and Linkbaiting for Fun & Profit. Here is a list of ideas: Make a valuable resource (lists, special reports, history of, how to, etc.)Interview (e-mail/phone) prominent people and publish it.Build a useful toolWrite an interesting articleRun a newsworthy ?event? such as a contestTest something new that has not been done beforeBe the first in doing something on the internetWrite something controversialBe the first to write the latest news in your nicheBe the first to expose a scammerDisagree with an authorityWrite some f... More About: Link Building , Strategies , Link , Baiting , Some
Linkbaiting or Link Baiting Strategies?
2007-11-28 22:59:00 The idea of link baiting is to create a piece of content which is centered on a set demand from a specific audience. Who do you want to relate to? Why would they care? What would make them likely to spread your idea?For example, Salary.com sponsored research stating that work at home moms did $134,121 worth of work each year. Because it was packaged as research and a story people would want to spread it spread far and wide.Some common link baiting techniques Talk about a specific community. Give people a way to feel important about themselves, someone they care about, or something they feel should be important. Take recent events and scale them out to others in your community. Be provocative or controversial. Be a contrarian. Be thorough. Controlling Your Message Launch your story on a main channel such that you can change your messaging or update your offering based on feedback. If they wrong group runs with your story you may not want to stop them. ? If you do not have a main ch... More About: Link Building , Strategies , Link , Baiting
How to submit links to 60 social bookmarking sites in 30mins?
2007-11-28 22:48:00 Submitting links to social bookmarking sites one has registered can be a tolerance testing process.Repetetive and boaring process is in the end highly rewarding.So avoiding it is not an option.So let's lighten up and ease the process of link submission.Let's start the process with a basic technique.Copy-paste n Notepad.....................This technique needs you to use the notepad you've not used in generations.Copy the details of your post to a notepad file and save the file to your desktop.By details i mean 1)URL to the post. 2)Title of the post. 3)A short description about the post. 4)Tags related to the post. 5)Your blog's feed URL.Bank on browser's password manager.................................. .Use your browser's inbuilt password manager to save login & password of the sitesyou've registered,so that the next time you go to the site it lets you in automatically.Your first genie^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^How lo... More About: Social , Link Building , Links , Sites , Social Bookmarking
How to welcome the 'Digg Effect'?
2007-11-28 22:45:00 Knowledge of what will be coming gives one a huge deal of advantage as it lets one utilize the forecoming fortune wisely.As far as bloggers are concerned getting on digg frontpage is a huge events as it follows loads of traffic and link love.Apart from SEO's nowadays many bloggers are into creating those diggable posts or what is called digg baiting.While SEO's do it for higher PRs and better positioning in search results,blogger are aiming at higher Technorati ranks,Feed subscribers and Blogrolls.And why not?Many bloggers became A-listers when their articles got digged 3 or 4 times.As many may argue Digg -baiting may not bring targeted traffic.But as from my experience a good amount of visitors from Digg look further for content in your blog and many return for updates.And further more a little bit optimization at the digg period can bring some monetary benefits too.Here are a few things you can do for welcoming the 'Digg effect'.1)Pay few more bucks for bandwidth:You may have t... More About: Link Building , Effect , Digg Effect
Free Link Love - To Get It, Give It Up!
2007-11-28 22:43:00 Those of us who have been in the SEO biz for a while tend to want to direct and manipulate the PageRank on our sites. You know the tricks. However, things are very different with blogs and, if you want yours to rank well, you need to let go of that concept. Blogs are all about linking freely, not just to other posts and pages within your own site, but also out to other websites and blogs. Blogs are about sharing information and insight. They are about relationships and communities. None of these can spawn or thrive without interaction. Link s are their conduit to interaction and to get links, you have to give links. Here?s how and why: Link out People usually find out when you link to them, especially other bloggers. This often prompts them come to your blog to find out who you are and what you said about them or about what they said. They may then comment on your blog, link back to you and/or become a member of your community. Using good keywords in your outbound link text will also... More About: Love , Link Building , Free , Give
Tips to Get Slashdotted and Survive Slashdot Effect
2007-11-28 22:41:00 What is the meant by getting Slashdot ted? Did Slashdotters visit your site? If you dont know the answer, probably your site traffic has never been slashdotted before. Slashdotting is like a web traffic generator leads to many comments, lots of website traffic, more advertising revenue, crashed servers and expired bandwidth leading to more web hosting payments? the web traffic stats and web traffic analysis will say all. Welcome to Slashdot or better seen as /. Wikipedia defines The Slashdot effect as ?a particular example of how incoming links from a popular website can cause a smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic. The name comes from the huge influx of web traffic that often results from sites being mentioned on Slashdot, a popular technology news and information site. Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable ? either their bandwidth is consumed or their servers fail to cope ... More About: Link Building , Tips , Survive , Effect
How To Get Digged
2007-11-28 22:39:00 Ever wanted to know how to get your site on the front page of Digg.com?With a few simple steps you'll be well on your way dealing with swarms of traffic that'll raise your bandwidth sky high! * If you find this lens helpful please rate it and submit it to digg.com * Thanks! Intrigue The Readers With Great Titles Of Course The first step to being on the front page of digg.com is getting the readers to click on the title to read your blog / story / site.Recent big hits on digg.com includes:"How to Destroy the Earth With a Coffee Can""How I learned to break in to Apple and Code for them without Permission.""How I (color blind person) see the world!""Mom uses Technology to PWN Teens." Follow The Trends Before they get burnt out. The next step to getting on the front page of digg.com is to follow the trends. What is everyone talking about and can't get enough of?A few exampl... More About: Link Building
How to Build a ?Digg Culture? on your Blog
2007-11-28 22:35:00 Many don?t believe that getting on Digg is worth much because the traffic is so fleeting however I think there is much more value for smart publishers than just the initial burst of traffic. Such benefits to getting on the front page of Digg include: 1. Fresh RSS subscribers Every time I get dugg I notice a leap in my RSS subscriber count. The first few times a site gets on Digg this is often bigger than subsequent diggings (after a few times I guess those who are interested in your topic will have already been subscribed) but there is a noticeable bump in subscribers each time. 2. Newsletter subscribers Similarly newsletter subscribers (if you have one) will generally get a bump when you?re dugg. I generally add a link to subscribe to my newsletter on any post that gets on digg to leverage the traffic in this way. In this way (and with RSS subscribers) you are not only getting that first wave of traffic but are building ongoing waves of traffic each time you post or send a news... More About: Culture , Link Building , Blog , Build
How Not To Get Your URL Banned From Digg
2007-11-28 22:33:00 A lot of bloggers feel that the key to increasing their traffic is to get on the Digg front page as often as they can. Most of these bloggers do so by scooping news, writing how to guides or even top 10 lists, but most don't realize that you have to be careful or else your URL will get banned from Digg. When submitted stories are consistently reported as spam and users complain via our feedback email about submission spam, we ban the domain. The domain will not be unbanned. The domain would consistently get reported as spam otherwise. Please review our FAQ (digg.com/faq) for more information.digg support Here are some of the things that the Digg community considers spam: Old newsRepeated stories that keep on getting submitted, such as "iPod Spoof Commercials".Stories that provide basic information such as "How To Increase Your Blog Traffic". Although many of these types of stories hit the Digg front page, a lot of diggers hate them and are making noise about them by marking them... More About: Link Building , Banned
Get reciprocal links by not asking for them.
2007-11-28 22:31:00 After proving that link exchanges really work to help search engine rankings, I was bombarded with requests asking about my successful method for getting reciprocal links. Instead of answering each person individually, I decided to put up an article that will help everyone who is strugling with getting responses to their link request emails. And that's the big problem with link exchange requests, isn't it? They are often ignored. If you have the words "link exchange" or "reciprocal link" or anything like that in the email subject, the email will be unceromoniously deleted by 95% of webmasters. The other 5% probably aren't worth trading links with. Why is that? It's because thousands of webmasters are using automated tools to crank out the link request emails, trying to get links to junk sites that have little real content and even less value. Because of this, webmasters have been conditioned to ignore link request emails. First, Don't Ask For LinkPay A Compliment and Giv... More About: Link Building , Links , Reci , Reciprocal
21 Traffic Triggers for Social Media Marketing
2007-11-28 22:28:00 What does it take to have a huge web traffic breakthrough? In order to produce a single piece of content that brings in dramatic amounts of traffic, you should aim to fulfill an existing psychological need. Aiming at root needs can be more powerful than simply stimulating desire, because you need people to feel compelled to share. For example, you?ll see plenty of advice telling you to praise Apple or bash George Bush if you want to get on the Digg home page. But why not dig a little deeper? Try examining the underlying needs that are being addressed by popular content. Then develop something unique that strikes a subconscious chord and satisfies a genetically-programmed craving that gets people talking, linking, bookmarking and Digging. Here?s an alphabetized checklist of 21 psychological triggers that you can consult when trying to craft breakthrough content that spreads throughout the social media landscape and brings in big traffic. You?ll find more great insight into human p... More About: Marketing , Social , Media , Traffic , Link Building
21 KEYS TO LINK BAIT SUCCESS
2007-11-28 22:25:00 What Is Link Bait and Why Does it Matter To You? Eric Ward, also known as the Godfather of linking, describes it best: ?Link Bait is more or less anything you create anywhere on the Web that inspires other people to link to it. They can link to it via a Web page, a blog, social bookmark site, tagging site, e-zine, newsletter, IM, email or any other method that tells others about the bait.? The ultimate result then being higher traffic to your site and therefore higher search engine rankings. So, why should you cultivate an understanding of this extensively discussed link-generating ability? Link baiting is now. If you wish to keep your site competitive on the pages of search engines, it is imperative that you have the knowledge base to vie for that top spot among REALTORs on the Internet. Before you grow intimidated and curl up in the corner, however, know that link baiting is a different game in the real estate world. If you are like me, you probably feel constantly inundated with ... More About: Link Building , Success , Keys
2 Easy Authoritative Links that will Boost your Rankings
2007-11-28 21:56:00 Here?s a quick tip that I use with a number of my sites to boost rankings & also help with indexation. You can pick up easy links from either Squidoo or Wikipedia as long as you are tactful in your approach. Squidoo: Sign up, create some lenses around your topic & simply add your links with relevant anchor text. Then put a link to squidoo on one of your other sites to get the page indexed. Once it?s indexed by Google you?ll get some link love Wikipedia: Try & find a page that?s related to your site but not too popular, the higher the Page Rank the better. Simply add the link to your site in the External Links section. Quite often you?ll get caught out & the link will be deleted, but if they deem it relevant enough it?ll stay in. I get 200+ Uniques per day to one of my sites through various Wikipedia links, so it?s definitely worth looking into. More About: Link Building , Easy , Boost
15 Ways to become a Digg Power user in only 48 hours
2007-11-28 21:51:00 Well, I never really was a big fan of Digg ?..Until yesterday when I finally cracked how to get consistent diggs to the front page. I spent a lot of time analysing what works on Digg & what doesn?t. However what a lot of people fail to notice is that 99% of the stories that are submitted rarely make it beyond 1 digg (from the user themselves). The reason for this is the mentality of the submitter. They think that creating an account then submitting their stories is enough for the story to hit the front page. However, it?s just not that simple. Here?s an account of how exactly I created a profile & became a power user that had 4 stories front paged with no help from any IM friends, within 48 hours of creating the Digg Account: Create a Digg AccountChoose a memorable name & a good picture (picture is vitally important, notice how the top user supernova17 has a bright image ). Make the name memorable. Bear in mind you?re not trying to deceive here but merely some extra persu... More About: Power , Link Building , User , Hours
101 Link Building Tips to Market Your Website
2007-11-28 21:48:00 Link Building ... Time-intensive. Frustrating. Sometimes confusing. Yet Unavoidable. Because ultimately, it's still the trump card for higher rankings. Many of us have been hoping that it would go away. In Brett Tabke's 5/18 Robots.txt entry, he echoed a sentiment that many, many webmasters hold on to as a hope: What happens to all those Wavers that think [i]Getting Links = SEO[/i] when that majority of the Google algo is devalued in various ways? Wavers built their fortunes on "links=seo". When that goes away, the Wavers have zero to hold on to. The pertinent questions: Will link building still be very important for rankings in the medium term?When will link popularity be devalued in favor of other algo elements (that are less tedious, from a webmaster's point of view)? The answers: Sorry, but link building is still going to be the SEO trump card for the foreseeable future.I wouldn't hold your breath for search engine algorithms to place less importance on link popularit... More About: Website , Market , Link Building , Tips
10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page
2007-11-28 21:43:00 The 10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page Hopefully, you will be able to use them before we all die because of global warming next year . . . 1. Make A List or Tutorial Headline. Your Headline should make it seem like the reader?s online success is just a 5 minute read away. Remember, the average digger has the attention span of a gnat on crack. Diggers want the fast, easy answer that will solve all their problems. Your headline must appeal to people with severe ADD or most people won?t even read your article - let alone Digg it. *In the past year, a ?top 10? or ?top 100? list has made the front page on average once every other day. 2. Write about Digg. Could a site be any more narcissistic? I think not. Digg likes itself so much that Paris Hilton looks about as humble as a Nun by comparison. People must be sitting at their computers going ?OMG Look it?s a story about Digg! That?s sooooooo cool! I?ll totally digg that!? Bonus points if you mention Kevin Rose. * In the... More About: Link Building |
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