One of the most used blog promotion techniques that i know of are either Guest Blogging or Buying up Sponsored Reviewson other blogs.
Sponsored Reviews
Reviews give the whole site (including inner pages) alot of exposure, and these reviews have a huge chance for a potential buyer/customer, mostly blogs/sites that are promoting their sites in order to sell something buy reviews, on the other hand most bloggers get reviews from John Chow to get more RSS readers. The main purpose of a “review” is to let a blog’s readers know what you think of the site and/or describe what the site you are reviewing is and what it does with intentions of sending them potential/targeted traffic.
Guest Blogging
I’ve done this quite alot and to be honest, Guest blogging is a great way to earn authority over a niche specially if the articles you are blogging about are highly relevant to your own niche, so not only you get their traffic but also the link juice that goes along with it, think of this as article submission to article directories but here the sites you submit your article to are not spammy and have really responsive visitors/readers.
All in all i would say better blogging constitutes a little of both, if you do too much of each it can get you into some deep waters where you might find yourself way to much into one direction either you would have high traffic and low responses from readers or alot of PR and no traffic.
Blogged dot com is being praised among the rest of the authority blog directories by techcrunch so it made me wanna see what the fuss was all about, well for a “new” blog directory it sure is filled up way too much I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the first bit of real traffic the site ever got (techcrunch effect). There are alot of blogs already in its database, i guess that’s what happens when you have no captcha or email verification on blog submission
I did submit my blog there however it didn’t ask me for my email for confirmation just a simple adding page where you add a little info about the blog but nothing about the person who owns the blog so that if the blog is approved and added to the directory the owner would be notified.
Although there is no “blogger” profile there is however the reviewer profile if you signup with blogged it will give you a profile of a reviewer with all the options you might need to review blogs that are there.
Overall, i seriously doubt the ability of blogged and its reviewers to rate blogs because of their homepage feature, the site was not that good or anything special the topic of the site was vague and over used and in my opinion it de-values the site, I was surely turned off by it.
I realized something i already knew while reading the teaching sells, Somewhere along the line my business model was completely based on Google, traffic and revenue wise, i depend on Google for traffic via searches and revenue via AdSense not just on this blog but on my other sites as well and every site i plan in the future has Google within my plan and holds over 60% of value of my sites, this is annoying because I don’t really ever depend on something that much that if it goes away or ends I would be in deep trouble.
The reason for this post was to show just why I am not going to depend on Google but as other webmasters take this topic is to “boycott Google” I am not doing that either I don’t depend on Google doesn’t mean i would boycott it, having it as well along with other tactics i will now take up is an addition to my traffic and that’s always a plus.
Working with Google is like working with a bot that works on pure statistics, people on the other hand are 100 times more interactive and much more responsive, Google can only send you traffic and give your page some strength, figuring how to make money online lies within your ability to engage with your readers.
Think about it like this, there are tons more ways to get traffic rather then depending on Google, John-chow was de-indexed by Google then re-indexed and de-ranked on his own main keyword and his serps on most keywords are way down low but he still continues to get traffic, why?
AdWords,Feed-readers, Email Marketing,Natural/Organic links on blogs and alot more ways! His revenue stays stable because his growth is stable as well, the blog is growing on an even faster pace then before without any help from Google.
This post is not all about Google, its about opportunities that you have and might be ignoring in your pursuit of happiness via Google.
Lets look at some opportunities that i came up with by listening to the free audio tape by Teaching Sells
Selling Content
Offering Content Based Services (still i won’t offer seo services)
Design Services
Engaging in more user based marketing tactics rather then SEO
A more on-hand approach to my blog readers.
Sell your passion
Marketing products to actual people rather then the search engines.
Focusing more on trends
I’ll be launching something regarding this soon, subscribe to my updates for it!
The following post is Guest Blogged by Scot Hughes of Philosophy Forums.
In business, you must focus on your customers. For webmasters, this generally means your website users. Nonetheless, networking with other webmasters can help you get more customers.
Firstly, making friends with other webmasters will help you get more exposure. The other webmasters may decide to link to you or blog about you. Generally, you want your customers and visitors to tell their friends about your website and your great services. If you make webmaster friends, then they will tell a lot of people when they choose to spread the word about something because they can post about it on their website.
Networking with other webmasters will also open up the opportunity for joint ventures. By joint ventures, I refer to when one or more webmasters work together on a project. By combining their resources, they can usually do something extra great, and it will usually help give both webmasters more exposure. One example of a joint venture is a contest.
Another benefit of networking with other webmasters is that you can share expertise. Other webmasters can give you tips and offer you advice. They might be able to give you a heads up about current events that will affect you.
Maybe best of all, if you have other webmaster friends, you can ask them for reviews. If you have a product or service, you can offer them a free trial in exchange for a review. If you already have a preexisting relationship, they will be more open to making deals such as that. Also, they will be more inclined to put effort into trying your product. Even if you do not have a product, you can have them review your website or a part of your website.
For bloggers, networking with other bloggers is especially important. Other bloggers will likely add you to their blogroll if you build relationship with them. Additionally, bloggers often make a habit of reading blogs and subscribing to RSS feeds. There is a very good chance other bloggers will regularly read your blog if you befriend them. Then they will post on their blog about a post on yours whenever they read something that interests them on your blog. This can be great promotion for your own blog.
In conclusion, if you have a great website or blog and you want to help get it to the next level, I recommend you try networking with other webmasters.
Saying alot with less words is what true monetizing is all about although the more content the better but I always choose quality over quantity so if you can write 3 really strong paragraphs to get your point across to your readers, then do it.
These days blogger’s are forced to write painfully long articles in order to make a point or in hopes of getting more readers, but if those words hold no value it really won’t matter what you do with the article.
Blogger tip of the day : Focus on quality over quantity.
Adsense for videos was launched in beta a few days ago, what i like about these units is that youtube is like the most watched video/entertainment site on the net and having ads within the videos can really really increase the revenue, which also makes me think why cant we make flash players to insert adsense into flash?
I’ll say this right now, i am not a coder so I have no idea if this is doable but if it is its worth giving it a shot, google is.. Self hosted videos, with adsense…thats where the money is!
Imagine sites like Veoh and Miniclip having ads within their flash games and videos, they could increase their revenue by 250% at least by my calculations!
The last few days i was forced to have some downtime (isp issues) so i went along with it and got myself a nice little 2 day weekend, and i gotta tell ya that was the best thing that happened to me because i was going through a blogger’s block and had no idea what to do and where to start and no idea of upcoming topics on blueverse at all, this little break of mine got me enough rest and relaxation (not really, i was partying) to get my head straight and full of more ideas for blueverse.
The down time helped me focus on:
Future Posts
New ways to get traffic
How to make blueverse even better
Ideas to manage and expand my blog network from 2 blogs to even more
Ideas to use more affiliates on funk tonic
..ehm and a few other personal life choices
Through all of this the idea to be a full time blogger and quit my college life came up several times but i always ended up not doing that as even though it seems like a good idea, its not.
Finishing your school/college life is crucial so even if your blog is making good money - never quit your studies!
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