Archive for Blog Promotion
Written on April 3rd, 2009 at 12:04 am by Darren Rowse
11 Ways to Increase Your Chances of Being Linked to By a Blogger
Today I received what seemed like a fairly generic email from the website Dummies.com. I won’t republish the email (I’m not into that) but it was a fairly generic ‘could you link to our website’ type email asking for a link because they’ve redesigned their site. It even included a suggested link/code.
My reaction was not [...]
Written on March 21st, 2009 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse
4 Pretty Pictures to Illustrate Impact of Email Newsletters on Traffic (and Social Bookmarking)
Today I was reading a post on CopyBlogger by Dean Rieck on the importance of using email to grow a blog and it struck me how many bloggers still don’t fully understand the power of email as a way to grow their blogs.
I’m not going to rehash all of the reasons why email marketing is [...]
Written on March 8th, 2009 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse
Five Marketing Mistakes to Avoid
With so many blogs revolving around the theme of “make money online”, John Robinson of JWRmedia focuses on ways you can improve your blog through branding, marketing and optimization which will allow you to establish a name for yourself and gain Internet success.
Why are there so many unsuccessful websites when others continue to flourish? Much [...]
Written on March 6th, 2009 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse
How to Expand Your Blog Audience when Traffic Plateaus
This post belongs to a series on how to grow your blog once it gets past launch phase.
Many bloggers that I chat with tell me that their blogs hit plateaus in terms of traffic after around 6 months of blogging.
They launch with enthusiasm, great content, significant time invested into networking with other bloggers and the [...]
Written on March 3rd, 2009 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse
Blog Carnivals Are Great, Hosting Them is Better
The Writer blogs about money and writing at The Writer’s Coin. His goal is to become the Michael Lewis of the personal-finance world—always writing something interesting and entertaining. That’s his goal, anyway.
Image by meagen
You can’t read a post or a blog about “being a better blogger” without some mention of carnivals. They’re a great [...]
Written on February 27th, 2009 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse
How to Grow Your Blog to the Next Level With SEO
In this series we’re looking at 9 things that bloggers need to work on once their blog moves out of ‘launch phase’ and into maturity.
Today I want to focus upon the topic of SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
While SEO is something that is well worth while focusing upon right from the start of your blog – [...]
Written on February 25th, 2009 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse
Converting First Time Visitors to Loyal Readers
This week we’re looking at a variety of tips for helping medium sized and somewhat established blogs to grow to the next level. Yesterday we looked at building upon your strengths and successes – today I want to look at the topic of turning first time readers into loyal ones.
This issue is particularly relevant for [...]
Written on February 24th, 2009 at 03:02 am by Darren Rowse
Build Upon Your Strengths as a Blogger
This post belongs to the ‘taking your blog to the next level‘ series which looks at tips for bloggers whose blogs have got a start but want to take it up a notch. Read the intro here.
Analyze why Readers Come to your Blog….. and then Build on It
The first thing that I’d highly recommend medium [...]
Written on February 22nd, 2009 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse
Smart Article Marketing For Fast AND Long Term Blog Traffic
I’m regularly asked by readers whether they should use Article Marketing as a way to build their blogs traffic. My answer is always the same – ‘I’ve never done it, but I’ve heard that others have had some success with article marketing.’ So today when Andrew Hansen offered to write this guest post of his [...]
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