Most of the traffic to this blog is generated from blog comments and forum postings.
I’ll focus on blog comments today.
There are a number of misguided bloggers and website owners out there who believe that posting spam comments on a blog will help their SEO and traffic efforts.
It’s easy to identify these comments as they’d usually be preceded with a generic comment like: “Fun and interesting site” or “This is a good site” before ending off with a hyperlink to their own site.
The newer practitioners of this tactics will attempt to manually copy and paste the comment in the comments area of a blog post. (more…)
This post has been on the backburner for some time, but it’s one that I’ve been looking forward to.
As reported by Teresa Valdez Klein from the Blog Business Summit, Robert and Maryam Scoble’s presentation about how to blog well looks like it’s a leading contender for favorite presentations of the conference.
The PDF presentation can be found: here
Although I wasn’t present, the presentation gave me some food for thought.
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As you’ll note, I have a new corporate-looking template, Regulus by Binary Moon.
What might take a new blogger about 30 seconds to do (switching the theme in the Theme selector) took me a few hours to port over all over analytics tools, additional plugins and SEO-enhancements (detailed in SecretBlogWeapon).
Switching themes has given a number of advantages too.
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Blogging can be a solitary pursuit, which is why I look snooping around at Blog Network List. (BNL)
Did you know there are at least 80 blog networks out there? (Well, BNL is tracking 80 now.)
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The folks over at BusinessBlogSummit have a book offer for Publish and Prosper: Blogging for your Business.
Ok, it’s free. [I just don’t want to lead off every other blog post with ‘free’]
BusinessBlogSummit has been good to me, linking to a number of my posts and I like their content. (more…)
The 9Rules blog network is quite a cool one and I’m finding myself contantly going back to refresh the home page.
Even after the buzz at the conclusion of round 5, which had a whopper 1,190 blogs being submitted for inclusion into the content network, things are still humming along.
9Rules blog submissions received for Round 1 to 5: Up and up!
And if you’ve submitted your blog for inclusion, Mike Rundle in his 9Rules Round 5 Analysis points out: Traditionally we’ve added between 8-16% of the total number of submissions to 9rules, so if that holds true then “you can assume†we’ll pick about 160 blogs this time (though it’s all up in the air at the moment).
That’s encouraging. Results expected by the end of this week.
But wait…What’re the 9Rules anyway? (more…)
