Hmm, I’ve heard good things about Live Journal, so I signed up with a free account to see what all the fuss was about, and to be honest, to say I am disappointed is an understatement.
Maybe it’s because I am so used to working with Wordpress, but I found myself lost in a [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on August 30th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Whilst the Internet is a always going to refer the majority of your traffic, they are other ways of increasing your readership, and this form of promotion started my travel blog off on the road to success and receiving free press attention.
It depends on the quality of your blog entries and the theme - if [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on August 30th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
How about this for a great idea – a FireFox extension, called Submit em’ now which allows you to submit your blog to 100 blog and RSS directories direct from your browser. No more manually adding your blog to directories, with this nifty little add-on.
Hopefully the designers will add more blog and RSS directories in [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on August 29th, 2006 | No Comments »
If your like me and you want to earn revenue from your blog then you’ll love this new concept – PayPerPost is a new community, where advertisers can submit a blog opportunity, and you can blog about it.
Currently they are blog opportunities from $2.50 to $34, so if you have some spare time you could [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on August 29th, 2006 | No Comments »
A new website lets people receive RSS feed updates emailed in to their inbox, rather than downloading a RSS reader or visit an RSS website. This new service is called Feed Mailer, and already offers a large directory of feeds, with plans to add more.
With Feed Mailer, you can choose how often you receive [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on August 28th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
A few of you have have recently asked how to improve the <title> tag within a blog entry, so that it is search engine friendly, because as standard the title is shown as:
Your Blog Title. Your Blog Description » Your Blog Entry Title
Ah Ha I have a solution, but before you make any changes, please [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on August 27th, 2006 | 7 Comments »
I wouldn’t classify myself as a professional blogger, because I have only been blogging for 16 months, and it took me some time to become motivated enough to blog on a regular basis – the advantage I have is that I love travel, and I enjoy networking with travel companies, to broaden my travel industry [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on August 26th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
If you haven’t realised already, you’ll soon will realise, that Technorati can be a great way to promote your blog and also gauge how well your blog is doing compared to other bloggers. The first thing you need to do is to claim your blog so follow the simple steps below:
1. Register an account at www.technorati.com/signup/
2. You’ll [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on August 26th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
RSS feeds allow bloggers to share content with news publishers, which has many benefits – Not only are RSS feeds great for driving traffic, but they are also a great way to increase the number of links to your blog, and we all know that links, equal improved search engine results.
For those that are using [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on August 24th, 2006 | No Comments »
Yes, it is possible to get your blog promoted in National newspapers, but you need to write unique, interesting content for it to be picked up by the media. I’ve had my travel blog promoted in the likes of the Washington Post, San Antonio Express, and The Metro newspapers, it didn’t cost me a penny, [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on August 21st, 2006 | 8 Comments »
