how do you build your blog?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Kainec, Feb 19, 2009.

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    What is the most effective way to build up your blog?
     
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  2. agentsmith77

    agentsmith77 Active Member

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    Content, content & content... also social networking with other related blogs.

    What is your main blog's focus? The best blogs are the targeted ones. What will your blog be about?

    You have to keep it focused.
     
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    Game Producer Well-Known Member

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    Step 1: Make your blog search engine friendly (Use and Setup All-in-one-seo Plug in for Wordpress blogs)
    Step 2: Focus first on adding quality content
    Step 3: Let others related to your blog know about it.
    Step 4: Do other marketing techniques (blog commenting, social bookmarking, social networking, etc.)
     
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    KeyboardHustler Well-Known Member

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    As the others said, building your blog with some quality content is a must. If you have some keyword phrases related to your niche then by all means include them, but don't just stuff your posts with meaningless keywords. Write for both the search engines and your visitors, as well as marketing your blog through commenting on similar niche sites and social networking (as mentioned above). If your content offers value to readers they will keep coming back, but it will take time to get established.
     
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    I like to use a technique where I have informational articles (teaching someone how to do something or talking about the history of something) and then I have pages that are pure product review or product news pages.

    The informational articles build reader loyalty and keep people coming back.

    The product pages pull traffic from buyers who want to buy that product - and those pages convert really well if you have a good affiliate product you're promoting.

    I say don't get caught in the game of only writing for freebie seekers (i.e. people just looking for information.) At the very least put up links to a related ebook so you can make some sales from them.

    Dan
     
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    Thank you Dan for that helpful information. I will use that formula for my blog site.

    Denise :)
     
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    Here are the link building methods that I found to be most effective (below you will also find the methodology used).

    1. Blog Carnivals (13 links, 16.26 value, 1.25 average value per link)
    Putting time and energy into evergreen posts can pay off even greater dividends when you submit them to appropriate blog carnivals. The resulting links are valuable, relevant, and good for attracting comments.

    2. Friends & Partners (5 links, 14.13 value, 2.83 average value per link)
    Got a friend who blogs? See about getting on his or her blogroll. If one of your favorite bloggers submits an open call for post submissions, jump on it. You may not get a large volume of links, but the few you get can be worth their weight in gold.

    3. Group Writing Projects (11 links, 9.17 value, 0.83 average value per link)
    Specifically, Darren’s “Top 5″ group writing project. The volume of links was outstanding, although their relative value was diminished by the large number of outgoing links on each page. Considering it didn’t take long to write the post, however, I’d say it was well worth the minimal effort involved.

    4. Links to Quality Posts (5 links, 7.44 value, 1.49 average value per link)
    Writing quality posts is a good way to get links without ever having to ask for them. As a blog gets more readership and exposure, the value of quality posting increases exponentially.

    5. Free Directory Submissions (5 links, 5.49 value, 1.1 average value per link)
    Not surprisingly, free directories tend to have lots of links and low PR because of deeply-nested categories. I’ve made several dozen submissions to achieve minimal returns with this method. The three directories that showed any value were Dmoz, SoMuch.com, and Globe of Blogs.

    It’s worth noting that several link building tactics did not produce results. Leaving comments, for example, is only good for referral traffic and exposure; almost all blogs tag comment links with rel=”nofollow”, so commenting is practically useless for link building purposes. Likewise, old school webrings often use deceptive redirect code that eliminates their value; don’t bother with them.
     
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    I agree with everything you state... I just recently posted about some very useful keyword marketing tips, feel free to let me know what you think:

    http://blogging-to-make-money.com/internet-marketing-tips-keyword-tips-and-best-practices/
     
    affiliate.solutions, Feb 20, 2009 IP
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    Good content, Keywords, good layout and then market your blog
     
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    I post movie( dvd rip quality) on my blog
    user can see trailer, plot, then if they want, they can download from mediafire link I also post there
     
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    Help the visitors thats what blog is all about for me.
    If you help them sorting out their problems then people will always visit ur site.
    My computer blog is growing superbly by using this method
    500+ plus subscribers in just 4 months
     
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    original content , regular updates (better daily) , easy to see articles update , for wordpress blogs - use some seo tools.
    I wrote a lot about blogs and SEO Tools on my blog. Danielfive.com

    You'll find a lot of interesting articles-100% original and mine.
     
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    If you are into blog, then frequent update with quality contents is the way to achieve success. Then comes building backilnks...
     
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    Basically content is king when it comes to SEO. Google and other search engines love content, as many have mentioned keep it relevant. Use internal linking to your pages as this helps too!
     
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    For me it all comes down to relevancy. I keep everything from content to comments relevant to the blog. If your blog is about Tea Pots don't leave comments on blogs about cars. Use keyword anchor text in your back links.
    Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines.
    Their is so much you can do. Just keep reading DP. Theirs 1000's of posts with the same ? here.
     
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    Just write original and useful articles. Update your blog regularly.
    Join social media like StumbleUpon and Twitter and promote your blog there.
    Do this all over again, and slowly your visitor numbers will increase, your RSS subscribers will increase, your inbound link number will increase, and you will start getting visitors from search engines.
    Then keep doing it all over again...
     
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    The most effective way of building blog is to add a collection of news from different sources with addition of own comments or implementation of their meanings in a funny way!!!:D
     
    omcliem, Feb 21, 2009 IP