Link Fest Friday - October 26, 2007

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I have read some great articles this week. I hope that you like them.

Great Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Blog:

• How To Market On Facebook - Performancing.com has a great article about how to market on Facebook. I really like the idea of creating a group. In fact, I am going to create one for Newest on the Net. Stay tuned for the creation of this group. I hope that you will join. We can help each other find new sites and online services.

• The 7 Secrets To Viral Content - Daily Blog Tips has written some great tips for creating viral content. Several of the points raised I found particularly interesting. First, was creating a lot of value in a small package. This is an interesting concept. I often fight with the idea of creating a series of posts versus creating one large post. I think for viral purposes it is better to do one large value packed article. The second point that I found very interesting was,

Any information that does not make your post easier to understand, or support your core message, needs to be cut, and cut without remorse. If you can make the same point in less words, do so.

Social media is best characterized as a war for attention. You can’t waste a drop of it on the unimportant.

Blog posts need to be very succinct and scanable. People want to be able to retain a lot of information, but not focus too hard.

Improve Your Technical Blogging Skills:

• 5 Ways To Increase The Loading Speed Of A WordPress Blog - Aseem from Online Tech Tips has some great tips for increasing your blog’s loading speed. To summarize, Aseem recommends that you (1) uninstall unnecessary plugins, (2) reduce the number of images you use in your blog design, (3) use the WP-Cache plugin, (4) enable Gzip with WP-Cache (he includes a link to show you how), and (5) replace PHP calls with static HTML.

• WordPress Tip: Finding Future Post Permalinks - This article will really help you with your series posts.

• How To Make Your WordPress Blog Load Faster - Pingable has some more great tips for decreasing your blog’s loading time.

• Blogging Tip: Improve Your Site By Improving Your Theme - Kyle has written a great post about improving you blog’s theme. I have recently done the same on Newest on the Net.

Learn to Podcast:

• The Ultimate Guide To Podcasting - Cumbrowski has written an awesome guide for people who want to learn how to podcast.