Entries Tagged 'Blogging' ↓
October 11th, 2007 — Blogging
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The first part of this RSS subscriber series examines why RSS subscribers are the foundation for a successful blog. Many beginning and experienced bloggers spend too much time worrying about increasing traffic and not increasing the number of people subscribing to their blogs. This is very short sighted. RSS subscribers are the bedrock of a successful blog.
RSS Subscribers Are Your Most Loyal Readers:
People who subscribe to your blog are your most loyal readers. By subscribing they are saying that they do not want to miss any of your articles. They are saying that your work is important to them and they want to read more. This loyal base of readers needs to be established and cared for.
This is especially true for a blog like Newest on the Net. RSS subscribers are usually tech savvy and demanding of information. These are the perfect type of readers for a blog focused on the latest trends online, like blogging and social media.
RSS Subscribers Represent a Very Stable Source of Traffic:
All bloggers are focused on increasing traffic to their blogs. There are several sources of traffic, including direct referrals, social media sites, search engines and RSS subscribers. RSS subscribers are your most stable source of traffic. If Google would go out of business tomorrow, your RSS subscribers would still be able to find you.
RSS Subscribers Are More Likely to Link to Your Blog:
Next to increasing traffic, the second most important thing for bloggers is getting backlinks. A lot of RSS subscribers are bloggers themselves. These bloggers are more likely to link to your content because they are seeing each of your articles in their feed readers. This makes RSS subscribers extremely important.
RSS Subscribers Are More Likely to Submit Your Sites to Social Networking Sites like Digg and Sphinn:
In order to make the front page of Digg or Sphinn or to maximize the number of stumbles you get on StumbleUpon, you need a consistent group of readers who vote for your content. There is no better group of people than your RSS subscribers. These RSS subscribers have the power to make your articles go viral and without them you can have the best content in the world but your articles will go no where.
To summarize, RSS subscribers are so important because,
- They are your most loyal readers;
- They are a very stable traffic source;
- People who subscribe to your blogs are more likely to linkback to your articles; and
- RSS subscribers are great for submitting your articles to social media sites.
What are some other reasons that RSS subscribers are important?
October 10th, 2007 — Blogging
Since creating Newest on the Net about thirty days ago, one of my main priorities has been increasing the number of people subscribing to my RSS feed. Due to this focus on increasing subscribers, I decided to write a series of articles dedicated to RSS subscriptions. In the following days and weeks, I will write a series of articles examining RSS feeds.
This series will include articles on,
· The importance of RSS subscribers
· 35 Tips to Increase RSS Subscribers
· Getting RSS subscribers to read your articles
· Monetization of RSS feeds
I hope that you will like this series. If there are any topics that you would like me to cover, please leave a comment or a question. I will incorporate your questions and comments into my articles. Anytime I incorporate your comments or questions into these articles, I will link to your blog. I really hope that in this way we will generate a lot of great conversation around these topics.
If you don’t want to miss any of these articles, please subscribe to my blog.
October 9th, 2007 — Blogging
The following article is a guest article from Jason Blanton from Success For Your Blog. Please go check out his great blog.
I wrote a little homework list of things that Bloggers should do in addition to all the other things they are doing in order to be more successful in their blogging. As a follow up I thought another 20 tips would be good to keep the blogging rolling.
1. Thank people that leave comments with an email. Also encourage them to subscribe to your blogs feed.
2. Use MyBlogLog and thank people for stopping by and encourage them to join your community.
3. End your posts with a question or phrase that will make readers want to leave a comment.
4. Guest Blog on another blog in your Niche.
5. Write link bait articles to get other bloggers to link to you.
6. Comment on other blogs in your niche.
7. Submit your articles to Social Bookmark sites.
8. Submit your articles to social news sites.
9. Stumble your posts or ask a friend to Stumble it for you.
10. Encourage readers to subscribe to your blog and give them a couple good reasons why they should.
11. Hold a contest and give something away.
12. Ask readers to save your site to their Technorati Favorites. Provide the link or a button.
13. Write reviews of other great blogs in your niche.
14. Ask your readers what they want you to write about. And then write about that.
15. Write viral posts that get dugg, Stumbled, Reddit and linked to from other blogs. Easier said than done sometimes.
16. Use a lot of white space and bold your key points.
17. Create Top 20 lists. Or top 10 top 8 or whatever you like.
18. Posts a few times per day, every day.
19. Think you articles through and proof read them.
20. Just be yourself. People are interested in character just as much as they are interested in your niche.
Lets see if we can come up with another 20 Tips. Leave a tip you use for gaining and keeping readers on your blog in the comments.
This post was written by Jason Blanton from Success For Your Blog.
October 7th, 2007 — Blogging, Internet Marketing
I thought that I would write about some great articles that I have read this week. I recommend that you read each of these. They are really great.
October 5th, 2007 — Blogging
Blog carnivals and reader writing projects are a great way to network with bloggers in your niche, get your blog a little more attention and to gain more links and traffic. Handling and organizing the carnival though can seem like a lot of work.
Over at my blog I routinely invite readers to send me their best links on a topic. This is for two reasons in addition to the benefits listed above, the main reason being I find I don’t link out enough and linking out is a good thing to do. The other reason of course is it makes for great content for my blog!
In the past I have tried having people submit links via the contact form, comments, emails. It is all just too much work, and invites so much spam it becomes unworkable.
When my friend Damian asked for plugin ideas this was my chance to make what was once a tedious task into something I could do easily!
WP_Submission allows you to add a submission form to any post. As well as generating automatic emails it writes the submissions to a new post in drafts. Each submission is appended automatically with appropriate links and bullet formatting. All you have to do is edit the final post and make it live, easy!
You can read more about the plugin over at Damian’s site and look out for his other cool plugins too.
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This post was written by Chris Garrett a professional blogger and internet marketing consultant from the UK.
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