Archive for April, 2007

Blog Promotion Idea for Better Exposure

Here are few ideas that you can implement for better exposure of your blog & to attract your targeted readers;

*) Try to provide your readers quality and unique contents with illustration where required, if you have great content in your blog you will find your readers will do  promotion for you.

*) Blog regularly:
Write consistently, don’t give up, write regularly with fresh contents, invite experts of specific field to start a new post.

* Get your own domain name; host yourself instead of using other’s domain names and free blog hosting.

*) Define the type of readers for your blog; try to write on mainstream and breaking news & top stories.

*) Use keywords within your titles, links and blog posts, this will help for appearing in better search results.

*) Get involved in people’s blogs :
Always try to leave attentive comment and appreciate them for their good work.

*) Advertise your blog wherever possible:
Use your blog address in your email signature, business cards, on your car, in forums, wherever it is required. Use your blog address at the end of your e-mail signature with an invitation, eg:”Read my blog” or “here is my blog”

* Post in your blog consistently and often reply others comments and try to add valuable comments to others blog.

*) Ping to other blog tracking sites; use pinging service like pingomatic, pingoat etc.

* Every time you make new post update your contents make sure you inform all other tracking sites by pinging.

*) Participate in social networking & bookmarking sites such as digg.com, reddit.com, netscape and del.icio.us and other relevant communities. Submit your blog to blog directories as many as possible.

* Allow your blog readers to subscribe to your own RSS feed. Syndicate your content with Feedburner.

Try to be human, treat others like humans respond softly with gratification as blogging is not about propagation and linkbaiting it’s all about developing human relationships.

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Users Are Scanners not Readers

To be realistic if you think a targeted user will read the entire content of your web pages, you are erroneous, this is fact that a visitor only spend a few seconds staying on your site and scanning information, no matter how much useful information you put into your web page, they immediately decide whether to stay or leave on. You need to keep them occupied and engaged with short paragraph and tailor made information, try to include useful point in very beginning preferably with new headers. Try to keep your sentences, paragraph as short as possible. Keep your home page clean and concise don’t place too much content on a single page only, if you have large content break it into parts and place on different pages.

The navigation structure should be common for all the pages, don’t use too much hyperlinks inside your text and don’t play relevant tricks. The download speed must be as minimum as possible otherwise the visitors may leave your site, for this you may consider to remove some of your flash/graphic or multimedia content if that take longer time to download. Try to get input from a lot of people with different skills and knowledge about your site through relevant forums, take the criticism softly and improve your site through genuine feedback from real users and experts. This will definitely help you to make your site most suitable for your users of current age.

 

 

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