Published by Patrick on 02 Sep 2008

Generating Internet Traffic: Carnival 06

Welcome to the September 2, 2008 edition of internet traffic.

Maryland SEO presents Maryland SEO Consultant Reveals 5 Strategies for a More Profitable Business Website posted at Maryland SEO and Internet Marketing.

Michael Snyder presents 15 Things That Are Wrong With America posted at The Moral Collapse Of America.

banquet manager thatsme presents We’re The “Blog of the Day” posted at So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager….

James Lee presents The Unexpected Benefit of Taking Things Personally posted at Online Business Freedom.

Robert Phillips presents How to Use Blog Carnivals to Increase Traffic posted at How to Create a DVD without Spending a Dime.

Edith presents BizTechDay - Use Technology to Grow Your Business, Saturday October 25 San Francisco posted at BIZtechDay.

Paul Gallion presents Get Your Own ?Quick-Start? Branded e-Book System posted at Paul Gallion.

Effective Blogging

Alex_Sysoef presents Extending Blog Into Info Product posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “As a blogger writing in a specific niche you might already have nearly everything you need to create your very own first product… an eBook, report or a guide in any other format. Successful info product does one of the two things (well, perhaps more but we concentrate on the 2):

* Addresses a burning need by providing solution
* Saves time”

Online Directories

Rod presents Difficulty getting listed on Technorati? posted at Hippo Web Solutions, saying, “I took me much longer than I expected to get my site listed on Technorati - they seemed to just ignore my pings. The eventual solution, when I discovered it, was very simple though.”

Other Strategies

Steve Faber presents - How to Get Free Traffic, Boost Credibility, and Supercharge Your Small Business Marketing posted at Home Based Business Success.

Leah Mansback presents I?m a Tweeter, He?s a Tweeter? Wouldn?t you like to Twitter too? posted at “Making Good” with PMG Creative.

Sarah Scrafford presents 100 Excellent Web Tools for Healthy Eating posted at Nursing School Search Blog.

Susan Tatum presents Business Website Design: Help – Don’t Hinder – Your Visitors. | Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Kacper Wrzesniewski presents My Top 5 Traffic Sources After 6 Months Blogging posted at KacperWrzesniewski.com, saying, “I prepared short list of my top 5 traffic sources since the beginning of my blog.”

SEO / SEM

Eric Brown presents THE SECRET TO SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION SUCCESS posted at SEO TIPS 4 U Blog.

Raffi presents Traffic Equalizer - Massive Targeted Traffic to your Website posted at Quality Building & Decorative Materials & Products - Photorealistic 3D Architectural Rendering, saying, “Fast, Easy & 100% guaranteed to drive unlimited traffic no matter what website or product you’re promoting.”

Social Media Tools

Leah Mansback presents What the F**K is Social Media? posted at “Making Good” with PMG Creative.

Kelly Sonora presents The Ultimate Guide to Google Knol: 50+ Tips and Tricks posted at Smart Teaching.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet traffic using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Published by Patrick on 26 Aug 2008

Generating Internet Traffic: Carnival 05

Welcome to the August 26, 2008 edition of internet traffic.

Joseph Ekwu presents CHELSEA rules posted at Josephekwu’s Weblog, saying, “Chelsea rules”

Paul Gallion presents How to Bookmark for FREE TRAFFIC! posted at Paul Gallion.

AndrewB presents Video - Use Blog Carnival & get FREE Targeted Traffic posted at Personal Hack, saying, “In this video I show you how to use blog carnival and get tons of free targeted traffic along with higher search engine rankings.”

Article Marketing

Moon Loh presents Affsphere Article Marketing posted at MoonLoh.Com.

Effective Blogging

Rod presents WordPress statistics plugin posted at Hippo Web Solutions, saying, “For all you WordPress users: here’s a cool plugin to pull your traffic stats directly into your dashboard.”

Raymond presents Battling Blogger Burn Out and Lack Of Blog Posting Frequency posted at Money Blue Book.

Erica O’Leary presents Overnight Success - BES Hits #1 on Google posted at Bankers Exchange Services, saying, “Effective Blogging can move a good website to the number one spot on Google.”

Other Strategies

MoneyNing presents Spend Money On Good Web Hosting posted at Busy Blogging Dot Com, saying, “Don’t be cheap about web hosting! You won’t be sorry in the long run!”

Raymond presents The Best Credit Card Rewards For Google Ads and Search Advertising posted at Money Blue Book.

Kelly Sonora presents 100 Tips and Tools to Set Up Your Own Home LAMP Server posted at Web World Wide.

SEO / SEM

Wilfrid presents Making Money Online, Ten Things I Wish I Knew As A Beginner posted at Your Finish Rich Plan, saying, “Having this information beforehand would have saved me a lot of trial and error, not to mention a lot of money”

Social Media Tools

Jimmy Atkinson presents Pimping FriendFeed: 40+ Useful Apps, Widgets, and Plugins | WHDb posted at WHDb.

Sally Thompson presents 50 Successful Social Media Sites You?ve Never Heard Of posted at Web World Wide.

Sudhanshu presents Viral Conductivity and Startups posted at Gyaan Sutra.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet traffic using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Published by Patrick on 19 Aug 2008

Generating Internet Traffic: Carnival 04

Welcome to the August 19, 2008 edition of internet traffic.

James Lee presents The Unexpected Benefit of Taking Things Personally posted at Online Business Freedom.

Robert Phillips presents How to Use Blog Carnivals to Increase Traffic posted at How to Create a DVD without Spending a Dime.

Davin Warner presents 10 Things money making bloggers should avoid posted at Absolutely Random Stuff.

Paul Gallion presents Get All Your Bonuses in the current issue of VMS e-Zine posted at Paul Gallion.

AndrewB presents Hit Digg’s Front Page by Writing Killer Headlines posted at Personal Hack, saying, “I’m sure you have dreamt about this if you are a blogger or online editor, here is how to to it.”

Richard P. McLaughlin presents Asking For A Stumble posted at Cheap Keywords.

Article Marketing

Traffic2mypage presents Maximizing your web traffic by understanding the bell theory of article marketing posted at Traffic2mypage.com, saying, “For most, writing and submitting articles online is a great tool to build reputation, that can position you as an expert, as well as build backlinks that ultimately will increase web traffic. But many if not most, fail to understand a basic fundamental of the Google algorithm, and worse don’t take advantage of it.”

Jason Isbell presents Blog Carnivals: What are they and how are they useful? posted at Shabam Development, saying, “Blog Carnivals are important ways to speed traffic to your site. Using them well is important. Use them well and you get more use out of them.”

Lee Mcintyre presents Do You Need More Traffic? posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog.

Cheryl Hines presents Article Writing For Dummies! posted at Internet Marketing With The Hines’.

Effective Blogging

AndrewB presents Blog Carnival Submission Service - Explode Your Traffic posted at Personal Hack, saying, “Blog Carnivals are a great way to get backlinks, increase your search engine rankings, and your traffic. However the process of submitting your quality posts to blog carnivals can be very tedious, boring and time consuming. Worst of all you need to repeat it on a weekly basis to see a significant increase in your ranking and traffic. In this post I discuss how you can outsource your Blog Carnival Submission process. Please check it out, and give me your honest feedback by leaving a comment or two, I would really appreciate your opinion, thanks.”

Lee Mcintyre presents Automatic Traffic Blast posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog.

Lee Mcintyre presents 1,258 Free Visitors From Stumbleupon In One Day? posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog.

Samir Bharadwaj presents Blog Ads by PerfomancingAds posted at SamirBharadwaj.com, saying, “You can’t discount the usefulness of well targeted banner advertising for generating traffic. The new PerfomancingAds takes the effort out of buying and selling blog ads and managing inventory, so here’s a detailed guide to the whys, hows, pros, and cons of the service.”

Email Marketing

Susan Tatum presents B-to-B Website Re-design: Advance with Caution. posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Other Strategies

Moon Loh presents How to deal with PPC Advertising posted at MoonLoh.Com.

Raymond presents Battling Blogger Burn Out and Lack Of Blog Posting Frequency posted at Money Blue Book.

Vidyut presents 5-5-5-4-5 Traffic Tips posted at Nerd In Progress, saying, “Its a compilation of the different strategies that have worked well for me over time.”

texasdave presents 5 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings posted at Make Cash Online.

Heather Johnson presents Illegal interests on the internet posted at Bull3t’s Blog.

Alex Schaefer presents 5 Steps To Make A Viral YouTube Video posted at YouTube Reviews, saying, “Let’s face it; we’d all love to have one of our videos reach hundreds of thousands of viewers daily. The fact is most of us won’t get that opportunity for a long time. Why’s that? It’s simply because we aren’t following the several basic principles that make YouTube videos worth watching. Hopefully, through the use of this article, you will get new ideas on how to make your videos viral!”

The Shark Investor presents How To Trade Domain Names And Websites posted at The Shark Investor.

SEO / SEM

maria gudelis presents maria gudelis on seo press release | Maria Gudelis posted at Maria Gudelis.

SEO Genius presents SEO Tutorials| All in one SEO posted at SEO Tutorials - SEO Tips and Tricks - Marketing Articles, saying, “An array of articles featuring the basics to the not so basic SEO tips, tricks and tutorials. Everything you need to know to rank on the first page for your keywords. Increase your traffic with these SEO articles.”

Nesher presents 50 Questions you answer evaluating Website posted at Collection of the Web Freebies.

Social Media Tools

Moon Loh presents Drive Traffic to Website posted at MoonLoh.Com.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet traffic using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Published by Patrick on 19 Aug 2008

Structural Internet Marketing Elements

There’s a lot of talk these days about how to attract more people to your website.  Heck, I spend a lot of time talking about that myself.  I even host the hugely popular Internet Traffic Carnival every Tuesday!  But the conversation often leaves out an important part of the equation.  It leaves out all the structural elements you can add to your website to make it more search engine friendly.

The first thing you want to make sure of is the URL format you’re using on your site.  Take a look at the permalink of this post.  It includes all the words in my post title.  This is such a simple detail but is incredibly important.  It even motivated me to move my entire website over from Joomla to Wordpress back in March 2008.  The words you use in your title are powerful keywords and you want them to be included in your URL.

Next, you need to identify the keywords you’d like to target.  Once you’ve decided on a few phrases, you need to start building your site around those phrases.  As an example, I wanted to target the phrase ‘Internet Marketing Services’ so I built 68 new pages on my website, all about Internet Marketing Services.  I did that by creating separate landing pages for every local municipality along with that phrase.  I also created a similar landing page for every single state, again including the keyword phrase in the title.

Having all these pages caters directly to the search engines.  They see all these URLs and index my site accordingly.  It also dramatically increases the odds that my page will pop up when someone searches for that particular phrase.  Will my site come up for every single state?  Of course not.  But it will come up for a bunch of them and I expect it will measurably increase my traffic once the search engines have cached all my changes.

The last thing I did was include a paragraph at the bottom of each page stating that Tactical Execution is located in Walnut Creek, California, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.  This text, along with all the links pointing to those pages, also increases the density of keywords while magnifying the exposure of my most valuable keyword phrases - the ones in my own location.

You will also notice that each page has unique content and the images also have keyword-rich names.  In fact, I even optimized the ‘alt’ and ‘title’ tags for each image.  The end results is a series of nicely optimized pages that push my site higher on the search engines for the exact keyword phrase I’m targeting.

It’s important to realize that anyone can do these sorts of things.  Yes, it’s a lot of work.  It takes a lot of time.  But it’s an opportunity open to everyone.  And it works particularly well for businesses where you can add a locality to the keyword phrase.  By doing this, you dramatically reduce the competition you’ll be facing, making it a lot easier to get to the top.  These are all structural elements that play an important role in internet marketing.  Give it a try and see how your Google ranking changes.

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Published by Patrick on 11 Aug 2008

Generating Internet Traffic: Carnival 03

Welcome to the August 12, 2008 edition of internet traffic.

AndrewB presents 33 Reasons to Start a Blog posted at Personal Hack, saying, “Thinking about starting a blog but need Motivation? Or maybe you have a blog but have lost motivation to keep it updated. Here are 33 motivators to keep you going. This post was featured on LifeHack.org and is very popular ;)”

AndrewB presents Top 7 Mistakes to Avoid as A Blogger posted at Personal Hack, saying, “Biggest time wasters for bloggers, a must read for any online content publisher”

James Lee presents Subconscious Grocery Store Conspiracy? posted at Online Business Freedom.

Robert Phillips presents Do You Have a Purpose? posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY.

Robert Phillips presents 3 Simple Ways to Increase Blog Traffic posted at How to Create a DVD without Spending a Dime.

AndrewB presents 5 SEO Tips - Get BackLinks For Free posted at Personal Hack, saying, “Maybe you are a blogger. Or maybe you have your own personal site that you want to promote, and get more traffic for. The following Tips will help you get more search engine results for your website ;)”

Kenton Newby presents Six More Upgrades to Supercharge Your Wordpress Blog posted at KentonNewby.com.

Praveen presents Making Money Online Through CPA Offers posted at My Simple Trading System.

Paul Gallion presents The Best Things in Life are Free posted at Paul Gallion.

Article Marketing

Helen Anderson presents Protect Yourself When Shopping Online posted at Savings Accounts.

Carma presents Standard Deviations: 11 Ways to Have a Better, More Trafficked Blog posted at Standard Deviations, saying, “How to get more people to see your article”

Effective Blogging

Kilroy_60 presents Content Is King posted at Fear And Loathing - The Gonzo Papers.

MoneyNing presents Be Patient with Increasing Traffic to Your Blog posted at Busy Blogging Dot Com, saying, “Keep writing and readers will come!”

Email Marketing

WM Media presents How To Sell A Website More Profitably posted at Buy And Sell Websites, saying, “A common question that troubles most website owners is: How do I sell my website?”

Other Strategies

Liz presents 7 Reasons Your Online Business Will Fail posted at Nitro Marketing Blog, saying, “Are you making these 7 common mistakes with your internet business?”

Dereck presents Traffic and income report - first 60 days (ish) posted at I Will Not Die.

Raymond presents The Best Credit Card Rewards For Google Ads and Search Advertising posted at Money Blue Book.

SEO / SEM

Traffic2mypage presents Top 100 Paid One Way Link Directories Sorted By Page Rank posted at Traffic2mypage.com, saying, “There are two relevant reasons why you will want to submit to directories. First is to acquire more targeted increase of web traffic to your site. Second reason is to construct link popularity in anticipation of building your search engine ranking and also your page rank. Getting your page ranked in search engines will assist you in increasing your web traffic

Here is a directory listing of the top 100 paid one way link directories that are sorted by page rank that you can submit your site to”

Sam presents SEO Insider Secrets for Search Engine Optimization | Surfer Sam posted at Surfer Sam and Friends, saying, “SEO Insider Secrets.
Make Your Site a Magnet for Well-Targeted Web Traffic.
Use Search Engine Optimization.
Bust through the Search Engine Rankings.”

Social Media Tools

Traffic2mypage presents Increase web traffic by diversion setups on Facebook posted at Traffic2mypage.com, saying, “How to use facebook to divert traffic from facebook”

Fiona King presents 100 Free Security Tools That Will Save Your Online Privacy posted at Internet Service Deals.

Heather Johnson presents How to Secure Your Web Application posted at Expressions in Solitude.

Rod presents Stumble your way to a Rush of traffic posted at Hippo Web Solutions.

Machione presents Stumbling Around… posted at The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet traffic using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Generating Internet Traffic: Carnival 02

Welcome to the August 5, 2008 edition of internet traffic.

Paul Gallion presents Review of Post Launch Profit Secrets posted at Paul Gallion.

Effective Blogging

Jacob Share presents The Best Blogging Course In The World? posted at Group Writing Projects, saying, “Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind blog coaching program is finally reopening. If you want to take your blogging to the next level and beyond, this is the course for you.”

John Szram presents 4 Simple Ways To Quickly Increase Website Traffic posted at Internet Business Blog By John Szram.

Other Strategies

maria gudelis presents Advertising on Craigslist?why not?it?s FREE! posted at Maria Gudelis.

Tammy Powell presents Enlightened Wealth Institute student Tammy Powell » Blog Archive » » Making Money Online: Sport Your Writing Cap posted at Enlightened Wealth Institute student Tammy Powell.

Roger Smith presents 6 Reasons Why Recruiting Your Warm Market Will Be A Daunting Task posted at Magnetic Leadership Marketing.

Raymond presents The Best Credit Card Rewards For Google Ads and Search Advertising posted at Money Blue Book.

SEO / SEM

Traffic2mypage presents Increase web traffic @ Top 500 One Way Link Directories Sorted By Page Rank - Part II » Traffic2MyPage.com posted at Traffic2mypage.com, saying, “Top 500 one way link directories to build website traffic and increase your page rank”

George L Smyth presents One Minute How-To - How To Use Keywords To Rank High In Google posted at George L Smyth, saying, “George L Smyth explains several things anyone can do to improve their chances of ranking high in Google’s search engine.”

Amin Motin presents Use Your Blog Content Anywhere posted at Sublime Products, saying, “Is duplicate content really a myth?”

Social Media Tools

Sagar Satapathy presents 50 Fastest Growing Niche Social Media Sites and Networks posted at Internet Service Deals.

Fiona King presents 50 Social Networking Sites for Sports Fanatics posted at Internet Service Deals.

Jason Isbell presents Stumble Upon: Thumbs up to pages you don’t like posted at Shabam Development, saying, “Stumble Upon is a wonderful tool that is often misused. Is it just a tool to drive traffic to your site, or should you follow the rules?”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet traffic using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Published by Patrick on 27 Jul 2008

Generating Internet Traffic: Carnival 01

Welcome to the July 29, 2008 edition of internet traffic.

Amy S Quinn presents 100 Tips and Tools to Get Free Cable TV posted at Internet Service Deals.

Hops presents How to track all your blog mentions posted at Hop To It!.

Robert Phillips presents Broken Windows, Broken Business posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY.

Cindy King presents Russian Search Engine Submissions posted at Cindy King, saying, “In most countries Google, Yahoo and MSN are also the leading search directories. But some countries have other local search directories you should know about if you are targeting those countries.This is where you will learn how to get your website registered with other foreign search engines. Only this aspect is covered here.”

Neelakantha presents The Ultimate Guide to Internet Law: 100 Guides and Resources | OEDb posted at OEDb: Online Education Database.

Fiona King presents By the Numbers: 100 Online Calculators for Everything posted at Best Colleges Online.

Alex_Sysoef presents CommentLuv Plus DoFollow Equal Unlimited Link Love posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “Link building is a never ending process for the bloggers and everyone knows that the more incoming links we get - better we rank in SERP’s and more traffic we get. I have already previously wrote about CommentLuv plugin that help you do just that and what perhaps even better - do it by simply commenting on other blogs!

In this post I will discuss several important aspects to get it just right in order to receive greatest benefits not only in form of traffic but also getting DoFollow links to the deeper internal pages of your blog. I promise not to leave a stone unturned and get you all the info you need!”

Kelly Sonora presents 50 Firefox 3 Add-ons That Will Change the Way You Surf the Web posted at Best Colleges Online.

Sally Thompson presents Is Your Site Hot or Not? 50 Useful Tools for Evaluating Your Website posted at Internet Service Deals.

Paul Gallion presents Learn to Blog for Fun and Profit posted at Paul Gallion.

Kelly Sonora presents The Ultimate Amateur Private Eye Guide: 50 Free Services to Dig Up Info on Anyone posted at Internet Service Deals.

Traffic2mypage presents Increase web traffic @ traffic2mypage.com posted at Traffic2MyPage Blog, saying, “i have compiled a list of 500 directories sorted by highest page rank on my blog that you can submit your links to to increase web traffic to your site…. i”

Robert Phillips presents How to Create an Audio Product Practically for Free posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY.

Effective Blogging

Alex_Sysoef presents Blog Templates For WordPress Review posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “Web design for WordPress always comes down to evaluating which Blog Templates (or what is commonly knows WordPress Themes) fit your needs the most! This review of available options for choosing best blog template for your WordPress will concentrate not only on their visual appeal (web design factor) but also functionality!”

axel presents Amazing Blogging Skills posted at axel g.

Save Money presents Blog Theme Designers Given Up on IE 6? posted at Web Development 2.0: Web Design, CakePHP, Web 2.0.

Email Marketing

John W. Furst presents Squeeze Page: Straight or Reversed? posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, “You got traffic, now you need to touch base. Is a reversed squeeze page better? Well, there is a way to find out and what is a reversed squeeze page anyway? (It’s about getting more subscribers to your email list)”

Traffic2mypage presents Using OBP to increase web traffic - Part II - Digg posted at Traffic2mypage.com, saying, “This series of posts will show you how to find the best user rated blogs online to comment on that get a tonne of traffic… increase backlinks, market your website and build your reputation online!”

Other Strategies

Nesher presents 14 Ways to Promote your Blog Offline posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World.

Liz presents How Baseball All-Stars Get Web Traffic posted at Nitro Marketing Blog, saying, “Right now, too many utilize only one or two traffic generating techniques or constantly switch from the latest traffic fad to the next. Each and every business should have a balance. With multiple, proven, business-building traffic techniques including—but not limited to—Web 2.0.”

Binh presents How to tell Google about your business | Mindset For Success posted at Binh Nguyen’s Internet Marketing Blog.

Christopher Johnson presents 10 Ways To Earn Money In Your Spare Time posted at CoffeeBreakEarnings.com, saying, “10 Ways To Earn Money In Your Spare Time”

Liz presents How To Make MORE During Bad Economic Times posted at Nitro Marketing Blog, saying, “Any time there is a downturn in the economy, there are always great opportunities that rise.”

Nesher presents Nice Name for your Blog with Domain TK posted at Collection of the Web Freebies.

Raymond presents The Best Credit Card Rewards For Google Ads and Search Advertising posted at Money Blue Book.

Posting on Forums

Traffic2mypage presents Using OBP to increase web traffic - Part III - Youtube posted at Traffic2mypage.com, saying, “Commenting on other sites is a sure fire way to increase web traffic. But how do you find sites that has active click participation?? You use Youtube! Find blogs to comment or advertise on by using youtube statistics.. Read how”

Social Media Tools

Amy S Quinn presents 50 Firefox Add-Ons to Achieve Private and Secure Web Surfing posted at Internet Service Deals.

ChristianPF presents Scour review | The search engine that pays posted at Money in the Bible | Christian Personal Finance Blog, saying, “Scour is a new search engine that pays its users for searching, rating and commenting on the results…”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet traffic using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Effective Blogging Process

As of December 2007, Technorati was following over 112 million blogs.  112 million!!  There’s no question that blogs are quickly dwarfing the rest of the internet and the search engines are consistently ranking them higher because of (1) their volume of relevant content, (2) their ongoing flow of new and fresh content and (3) the incredible link structure characteristic of the blogosphere.  But the fact remains that most people who blog don’t really do it “correctly” or at a minimum, could be blogging more effectively.  If you’re a blogger, here’s a process you can follow that will massively expand the reach of your posts.

First things first.  I highly recommend you find the top bloggers in your field and subscribe to their feed.  Select a reader (like Google Reader) and add all your subscriptions.  Technorati is a great place to find the top bloggers in any particular field.  Google is another.  Do some research and find about a dozen bloggers you like and respect.  Okay; having done that, let’s get to the process.

Obviously, it begins with your idea.  You’ve decided what you’d like to blog about.  That’s step number one.

Before you write your blog …

  • Check your reader to see if the other bloggers you follow are talking about the same thing.
  • Put a few keywords into Google to find other resources you can link to in your post.
  • Put the same keywords into Technorati to see if anyone else is discussing the same topic.

Writing your post …

  • In the blogosphere, outbound links = currency.
  • Constantly link to other bloggers and valuable resources in your post.
  • You want your blog to be a single portal to ALL the resources that exist on your topic.

After you publish your new post …

  • Write an email to the bloggers you linked to, letting them know and giving them a link.
  • Bookmark your new post on Delicious, DIGG and StumbleUpon (among others).
  • Submit your blog post to any relevant carnival on Blog Carnival (do this once each month).

Taking these simple steps will ensure your blog post gets nicely integrated into the ongoing conversation that defines today’s blogosphere.  You want to engage in the conversation.  Conversations are markets.  If you want to access a market, participate in a conversation.  Blogging is one of the best ways to do that but you have to let the world know you exist.  The steps above will dramatically accelerate that process.

The last thing to keep in mind is that you can get far more traffic from referral websites (other blogs) than you can from search engines.  Once you’ve linked out to a lot of popular blogs and some of them have linked back to you, you can quickly grow your traffic as part of their audiences become aware of you.  That’s the game.  Find the bloggers in your field and engage in their conversation.  You might be surprised how quickly it can all take shape.

Edith Yeung is a good example of this.  She grew her blog from zero to over 1000 visitors per day in under 10 months by using some of the steps I’ve outlined above and the vast majority of her traffic comes from referral websites (other blogs) and social bookmarking platforms like StumbleUpon.  Give it a try.  Done properly, it can completely change your business in less than a year!

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