10 Blog Traffic Tips
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.
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4 Easy Steps To Using Forums To Build Backlinks
An important part of generating traffic to your website or blog is to rank highly in the search engine result pages. In addition to having good, relevant content on your site one of the best ways to increase your search ranking is to get high quality backlinks to your site.
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WP Premium - Free Wordpress Theme
I’ve found a new, free theme and it’s a beauty! It comes in 3 color schemes, has 100×100 advertising spaces built in, prominent RSS feed subscription placement.
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Reporter vs Expert - Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck Reporting
There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).
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3 Ways To Get Ideas For Writing To Your Blog
Even though I’m a natural idea generator I find myself getting stuck all too often when it comes to writing to my blog. If you have a blog, especially if you want to someday make money from it, it’s essential that you write frequently and consistently. But what do you do when you sit down at your keyboard and realize you have no idea what to write about?
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Social Media from an Artist’s Perspective
I’ve just read what may be the best article I’ve come across on Social Media. Written from an artist’s perspective, it has a genuine human element that makes a refreshing change from all the other articles I’ve read (written from a marketing perspective) which only seem to care about how to exploit the power of social media for your own gain.
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More SEO Themes For Wordpress
I’ve just found 2 more nice looking themes for Wordpress that are search engine optimized. They are also designed to make it easy to monetize your site with 125×125 ads in the sidebar.
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Website Search Engine Optimization Basics
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a collection of techniques that can be applied to a website to increase the search engine ranking of the site. Search engine ranking is the position that your site occupies when a search is done using keywords you are targeting on your site. Note that in this article I’m only advocating ethical search engine optimization techniques, also known as “white hat” SEO. In the long run that’s the only type of SEO that you will benefit from.
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Free Wordpress Themes - TemplatePanic
I just found another source of free themes for the Wordpress blogging platform. These are not the same old standard themes you see everywhere else. They are nice looking, nicely displayed so that you can see the whole theme top to bottom with enough filler text to get a feel for what the theme will really look like. The themes are widely varied and there are some absolutely stunning StarCraft and World of Warcraft themes.
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Build One Way Links by Pinging
What is pinging?
Pinging is a way of letting search engines know that you’ve created a new post, or updated an existing post on your blog. A ‘ping’ is a message sent to a ‘ping server’ notifying it that the blog has been updated with new content.
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