December 31st, 2007 . by Dr. John W. Horn PhD
There are a few things that you can do to increase traffic to your blog.
To achieve high volumes of visitors, readers and subscribers does take time, it won’t happen over night, but it’s not impossible. Even if you have great content you can’t expect readers to flock on your pages. Having good content is one thing however there is much more to it than just posting articles.
Even if you have the best product in the world, best value, good price etc. how can you expect that people will find out about it? You need to let people know about your blog, join or create a community around the topic of your blog before you increase you traffic. Read the rest of this entry »
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December 29th, 2007 . by Dr. John W. Horn PhD
Okay, so you want to start your own blog. So where exactly do you start? Basically there are two options open to you:
1. You sign up with a free blogging service like WordPress (not to be confused with the blogging software). It’s free and it only takes a few minutes to sign up. Once that’s done you can blog away. The only problem with this is that you can’t have your own domain name - you can but it will cost you $15 a year. So if you’re happy with that then get blogging.
2. You have a domain name and a hosted account, which supports MySQL, and PHP and you want total control over your blog. In this case then,there is no question but to use WordPress (the software), it is simply the best. Read the rest of this entry »
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December 28th, 2007 . by Dr. John W. Horn PhD
Relevance and Link Popularity are two main things we take into account when building links to our website. This means that we are looking for web pages that are relevant to the theme of our site and have high link popularity. Where is the best place to find those pages? Social Networks.
You can visit most popular bookmark sites, for example digg, and use their search to find what you want. You can enter the keywords like “link building” and the search will show you a lot of blogs related to your keywords. Then sort the blogs by the most diggs. You’ll get a page filled with stories that have been made popular based on the topic you’re looking for and chances are they’ll all have hundreds (if not thousands) of inbound links to that particular page alone. Read the rest of this entry »
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December 27th, 2007 . by Dr. John W. Horn PhD
They create new content daily
Although they may have the post timestamped and may have not actually created it at that second they always have new content coming out. Sometimes these guys are way to busy and have “Guest Bloggers” do the posting for them that week. Either way they get the fresh content out there and everyone loves reading it. It is suggest to post at least once a day and most bloggers cannot even find the time to do it once a week. Imagine the surge in traffic and rss subscribers if you posted on a day to day basis. Give it a try, it is the best way to gain exposure. Read the rest of this entry »
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December 26th, 2007 . by Dr. John W. Horn PhD
Did you know there is a new open source community project underway called the WordPress Plugin Database, which is a user-friendly web site with about 2,500 WordPress plugins and counting?
“The WordPress Plugin Database is a categorized list of WordPress plugins, complemented by a WordPress Plugin Manager that allows one-click installs,” say the database developers. “For users, wp-plugins.net provides a browseable list of plugins, and RSS feeds you can subscribe to in order to get notified of new plugins and updates. For developers, wp-plugins.net makes it easy to publicize your plugin and keep users informed of new versions.” Read the rest of this entry »
