Improve blog ranking and marketing is no longer kids stuff. It’s beyond the sappy diary entries and angst fueled rants. It’s serious business, especially if your goal is to make money blogging for your business. Blog marketing is more powerful than static site marketing mainly because of all the options Web 2.0 offers. Below are some things you can do to take advantage of what web 2.0 has to offer to increase blog traffic, links and engine ranking.
Blog Ranking Tips
1. Tag you’re it!
If you are not tagging your posts, start now. Tags make it easier for people to find your blog post, and video and photos that are related. You can write the most informative blog in your niche but if it can not be found it can not get read. Tag your posts.
2. Get exposed
Do you wonder how some large news and content sites deliver their headlines? Syndicate with RSS. While using the feed that comes with your blog may seem like an ok option, using a custom feed, that specifically separates keyword groups for content you develop frequently, is a far better option. Syndicating with RSS increases your exposure. Pheedpress, available from Content Desk is a great tool for this.
3. Forget me not
Social Bookmarking allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others.
Bookmarking is an easy way to improve blog ranking and get traffic; the more you do it the more you’ll be noticed. Ideally, your site should be bookmarked somewhere in all the major bookmarking engines. But having your entire site booked in just a few can greatly increase blog traffic.
4. Get involved
Much like the tip above, adding comments is a great way to sprinkle your links around. Note however, your comment must be informative and relate to the original post. Bloggers will grant your trackbacks when your comments are on topic and useful.
5. Digging for treasure
Digg.com and Digg-like sites take stories from users and post them on the site. Users then vote on them and decide which get dugg and which are buried. If you are dugg it can result in a flood of traffic.
6. Get connected
Social networks like Myspace can be found in virtually everywhere corner of the web. They are great places to meet like minded people and above all receive valuable links from.
Article syndication is still one of the most popular ways to get links. Well-written content that serves the reader first then your business will receive rewards. This is the type of content that is read, passed on, and linked to. Writing content gives you links as well as branding you as an authority figure in your niche.
Publishing on a blog platform gives you the opportunity to reach a greater quantity of people faster than a static site. Use the above tips to take full advantage of all the rewards blogging can have on your business and to be able to make money blogging.
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Another great post. Thanks a lot…the first thing I did was go into my tags after that ahah
Hopefully it will help you out.
My favorite social site is StumbleUpon. It’s a great way to get blog traffic and also meet like minded people/bloggers. I never really have too much luck with digg although I do still use it just seems harder to get people to digg stuff for some reason.
It is definitely my favorite social site also. It is much easier to get traffic from and the people are likely to stick with your Blog.
Thats 6 ways! hehe either way it was a great and informative post.
Thanks a lot.
Oops, thanks for noticing.
Great tips, as usual. I had not heard about Pheedpress. I will look into it. I know that my Feed has errors, this might be something handy for me
Hope you had and are having a great Holiday
I hope you have a great New Year’s. Any new year revolutions for your Blog?
If using Pheedpress, Feedburner or tons of similar programs, I’m getting a bit confused how to track how many people actually have the feed from my blog.
There’s many many ways to pull out the feed from the sites and is the only way to see how many are coming from the feed awstats or something?
I admit that I am a newbie with this
I definitely would just stick with Feedburner. It is definitely for someone that is new to this.
I’ll have to check out Pheedpress to see what it can do differently. Thanks for the find.
No problem. It is not the best thing in the world but it is okay.
Nice tips. RSS is key. I’d say its almost more important than most of the other items.
Tagging posts is also great, because many ‘directory’ sites use the tags for categorization on their sites.
I agree with you. RSS is almost everything. Let’s say 90%.
Great tips, Franklin.
It’s amazing how these things change each year. From Myspace to Facebook to Digg to Twitter. I’m sure 2009 will bring a new aspect to all of this. I guess it’s better this way keeping bloggers on their toes. Who wants to get stale?
I know what you mean. It is all changing so fast. I am not sure what will be next but I hope it is something I think of.
Thanks for the tips FB!
No problem.
Question about Digg, do I have to be the (sole) author of a submission to be promoted on Digg? For example, say I submit someone else’s story because I think it’s excellent, does that give me any exposure at all?
Also, do I have to have the “digg chicklet” at the top of my page in order to be considered for “digging” by other people.
Excellent thoughts – and thank you for your advice. I specifically enjoyed your tips on tagging blog posts. It’s amazing how many people don’t use this simple, yet effective tool. It not only adds to more visibility, but adds structure to your blog.
Thanks!
After reading I immediately tagged all my posts ahahah. (:
I never really got the hang of RSS but the other tips were very nice!