How to Get Your Blog Noticed Quickly and Widely

By Gregory White

1. Submit your blog to all of the directories listed on http://pingomatic.com/. Pingomatic will ping 15 services all at once.
2. Ping your blog after every post at http://pingomatic.com/
3. Here's a real gem: Submit your blog to http://www.pingoat.com/ Pingoat will ping over fifty blog ping services all at once. So you don't have to hunt for ping services and manually ping them. Pingoat pings over fifty blog ping servers (growing) with just one click.
4. Ping your blog after every post at Pingoat at http://www.pingoat.com/
5. Sign up for a free account at BlogExplosion.com and register your blog there: http://www.blogexplosion.com/
6. Submit your blog to all of the directores listed at http://www.rss-feeds-directory.com/blog_lists.html
7. Sign up for a "My Yahoo" at http://my.yahoo.com/ and attach your blog to your own "My Yahoo" account. This will get your blog included in Yahoo very quickly. This is worth the effort to stop what you're doing right and do it, since Yahoo has a PR 9.
8. Use this code: "http://add.my.yahoo.com/content?url= http://www.yourblog.com/urblog.xml" in your blog to allow others to put your feed on their own "My Yahoo" account.
9. Sign up for a "My MSN" at http://www.my.msn.com/, and attach your blog to your own "My MSN" account. This will get your blog included in MSN very quickly. This is also invaluable because MSN has a PR 8.
10. Use this code: "http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id= rss&ut=http://www.urblogfeedaddress.com/urblog.xml" in your blog to allow others to put your feed on their own "My MSN" account.
11. Place the link and description of your blog in your signature, so that any posts to Forums, Outgoing Emails, Autoresponder Courses, etc, will promote your blog.
12. Post a link and description of your blog on each of your sites.
13. Place your blog on all the major search engines. AddMe.com will submit your blog free to the top 14 Search engines here:
    http://www.addme.com/submission.htm
14. SubmitExpress.com will submit your blog free to the top 20 Search engines here:
    http://www.submitexpress.com/
15. Use Article Directories as a resource for articles to post on your blog. Here are a few:
    http://ezinearticles.com/
    http://goarticles.com/
    http://www.knowledge-finder.com/
    http://www.informit.com/articles/
16. Locate blogs with a lot of traffic and place useful comments in their comment box. Be sure the blog and your comments are relavent to both your blog and theirs. Senseless posts won't help you, they'll hurt you.
17. Once you get around 5 to 10 posts on your blog, start a PR campaign and announce it to all relevant channels.
18. Make a blog post as often as possible. More than once a day is not really necessary. Remember, if you can't write that much, go to step # 14.

Greg White, Internet Marketer, Author, Consultant and Project Manager has been running successful web projects since 2001. His sites and blogs cover Blog Marketing Tactics, Internet Marketing Tactics and a variety of 'Niche' topics, in addition to starting and marketing profitable web project.

http://www.blogmarketingtactics.blogspot.com/
http://internetmarketingtactics.blogspot.com/

 

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Putting Adsense Code in New Blogger

Inserting Adsense code in New Blogger (previously called Blogger Beta) is a little bit confusing, because the facilities is different with Old Blogger. But after a hard searching in the internet and a time consuming trial and error, finally I succeeded putting the code as I wish.

 

I need to have my adsense in the post content automatically, as what I did in the classic Blogger template, where I can easily placing Google Adsense code anywhere by directly editing the HTML code of Blogger template. However, it is not easy for me to deal with HTML code of New Blogger template.

 

Just to share, here are the things you have to do if you want to display your adsense at the end of the post content:

1. Prepare your adsense code in notepad
2. Just do a little change to your adsense code. (Don't worry, this don't violate any of the Google TOS).
   

    

   The original code:

    

   <script type="text/javascript"><!--
   my ads code
   //--></script>
   <script type="text/javascript"
   src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
   </script>

    

   Replace the <!-- and //--> with &lt;!-- and //--&gt; so the code will be seen like this:

    

   <script type="text/javascript">&lt;!--
   your ads code
   //--&gt;</script>
   <script type="text/javascript"
   src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
   </script>  

    
3. Login to your new blogger and go to Layout > Edit HTML > . Check the "Expand widget templates" and then search for the following term: 'post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'
4. Now copy the 'modified' Adsense code and paste it just under the 'post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'. You may add <br/> after your adsense code to avoid of being too close to the next line in your post content.
5. Click preview to ensure that there's nothing wrong with what you have done.
6. Satisfied with your work? Then save your work.

Note: If you want to place your adsense at the beginning of your post, just place your code under 'post-header-line-1' (see step 3 and 4 above).

Where Is Your Business Blog?

By Ellie McFadden

 

A blog is defined as a "type of website where entries are made (such as in a journal or diary). Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news." I agree with that definition but I also think blogs are involving into great business devices to inform and educate your customers.

 

Of course it's fitting for me, as a writer, to have a blog (or two) but you may feel you don't need one for your own line of work. I couldn't disagree with you more. I truly believe any type of business can benefit from using a blog.

 

A blog is an inexpensive (I use Blogger.com and there is no charge) tool to keep in touch with your customers. I think the challenging part for most business owners is figuring out what to write about and continually maintaining the blog, which is extremely important. If your customer clicks on your blog link and there hasn't been a post since last Christmas, they will click off right away. You want to keep them engaged.

 

So what do you write about in your blog? First of all, don't make your blog all about your business and full of ads. The key is to incorporate the products and/or services you offer with information that YOUR customer is seeking. The first step is to think about who is your customer and what concerns/interests do they have?

 

For example, you are a veterinarian. I'm a customer of a veterinarian and I want to know more about cat care. The vet could use case studies from real-life situations from the office and share that with their customers (via the blog). When a customer at the office asks them a question, for example "We are expecting our first child, what can we do to help make Smelly the Cat adjust to this new arrival?" Blog about it! I would love to hear about funny pet stories as well.

 

A blog is interactive as well. After you post your entry, your customer can leave a comment. Answer their question or comment as soon as you can. Keep that line of communication open.

 

The other challenge with blogging is maintaining it. Do you have enough time to write the posts and answer the comments? And does it matter? I think I have answered the second question. It does matter. It's a way to communicate with your customer and they can communicate right back. It's a way for your customer to get to know you and your business a little better.

 

If you personally don't have time to write your own blog entries, find someone who can write it for you. Remember your business blog is NOT about spilling out your personal feelings. It's about informing your target market of information, products and services you can provide. You are educating through the use of your blog. A business writer can help you generate ideas as well as write the entries and keep the blog updated. The writer does not necessary have to pretend they are you but simply provide content for your readers. And this content also helps with your website traffic. More traffic equals more customers.

 

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Ellie McFadden is a business writer who specializes in helping businesses with their online marketing, such as blog writing. She writes and maintains two blogs:
http://writebridgeblog.blogspot.com/
http://ellie-writes.blogspot.com/

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Post to Blogger by Email

Do you know you can post to your Blogger blog by simply sending email from your email client? I still wonder why this is not so popular among blogger. This is wonderful for me because it really saves my online time. I don't have to log into my Blogger account, submit password, editing my post online, and so on. Those are time consuming and and robbing my money at the same time.

 

By using email-posting facility, blogging has become more economical for me. I write and edit my post offline and just send it when everything is perfect. To send an email from my computer only needs 1 up to 3 minutes. That's all.

 

So, if you think this is new for you (sorry to hear that..:-), and you want to try this 'new way' of posting, you have to do a few simple steps to set it up first.

1. Log into your Blogger account
2. Click on "Settings"
3. Click on "Email"
4. In the "Blog Send Address" put the email address where you want the post to be sent after it is posted on your blog
5. In the "Mail to Blogger address" put in a secret word in the box. This will be the email address you email to have its content posted on your blog.

Finished? So simple, wasn't it? From now on you can send your post from any email you have. What you don't have to change is your 'target' email. I mean, always send it to your "Mail to Blogger address" (it could be something like papa.mama@blogger.com).

 

Have a nice 'email-posting' and save your money!