I just got done reading this claim at www.blogclassroom.com and was wondering if anyone could shed any light on blog marketing. Maybe all could share what has and hasn't worked for them. Say I start a WordPress blog (hosted on my own site of course), set it up to ping pingomatic and every other similar place that I can find every time i post, and try to post every couple days or so ....then what?
You'll get a couple of quite worthless links and a couple of odd visitors from places such as technocrati depending on how much you write. There are soo many people doing this your content will just disappear in the noise. You still need normal linkbuilding and promotion.
One more thing: is it worth it to take the time and submit to as many blog directories and RSS directories as well? (such as the one found at http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/)
Hi Joel, I have not read that book or any others but learned to work a blog good on my own accord. I'd say that yes a blog does increase traffix by 3 or more but that price is a bit high. The "secret" is not much more than you posted above.
So it's by no means any type of "push the magic button" option that I am overlooking in WordPress or something.
The magic button is "submit new post". I was going to write an ebook for this but it seems so small. I think I'll just throw it in the members area of a site I'm launching soon. Catch me on ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, or AIM and I'll give you the basics. Cheers.
Well it takes some minor stuff to make it work and the info is in reality worth $600 if you don't know about it. I wouldn't have been pissed if I paid $600 and got the extra traffic although I could see why some might be.
Sure you can get traffic with quality posts. You can also get traffic with rehashed stuff that everyone has seen 50 times. 1 takes longer and you can only write so much a day. 2 lets you mass target related keywords and drive thousands of hits to your site quickly. I tend to lean towards the second option.
I read this somewhere that the blogging community are adding "no follow" to the links present at the blogs. I thinks they have already implemented it at several places like japan and several sites. Is anyone aware of such thing?
I installed a wordpress theme the other day on a site that was inactive and wrote 2 small posts. One was an introduction to what the blog was going to be about and the other was a more of a reminder to myself and was like "title"info will follow. I had some trouble with the theme and posted a question on it at their site (I didn't realized it was a pr6 until later) The next day I had 10 uniques and google, Askjeevse and inkomi were crawling the site like crazy. I wasn't even ready for it What I have learned is that search engines love the structure of a blog (and drupal too) and I can recommand you install a few plugins like ultimate tags warrior,Asides widget, Popular Tags for UTW widget and previous posts widget. Modify the title to display the title of the post and add a H1 and a <b> with the keywords I haven't done anything yet with that site other then post 3 more comments and it has just that link from a pr6 site. I have the counter included so you can see for yourself what a wordpress site and just 1 link can do. Guess what it will do with a well worked out nice, good quality posts and a good linkbuilding strategy
Well all those traffic building tactics wont work unless you have great content and lots of it. Even if you dont engage in any kind of promotion or marketing, content in itself is sufficient to bring in a significant amount of traffic from the search engines.