January 30th, 2008 . by Dr. John W. Horn PhD
Claim Your Blogs
To use Technorati effectively, you need to create a Technorati profile for yourself and then claim your blogs. To claim a blog means to show Technorati that you own the blog, and this gives you access to various statistics about your blogs.
Upload Personal Photos
With over 112.4 million blogs on Technorati you need to use every available method to stand out from the crowd. A picture that you upload will show up in many places on Technorati:
- A small little image is shown in front of the title for each blog post. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 26th, 2008 . by Dr. John W. Horn PhD
Riky, from Indonesia, has completed his first semester at Northern Kentucky University and looks forward to a well-deserved holiday break. Neema, from New Jersey, cheers on the “Ruts” football team in between studying for mid-term examinations at Rutgers University. Heather, from Columbus, Ohio, reflects on what Thanksgiving means to her while lamenting the cold, damp weather at Capital University. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 20th, 2008 . by Dr. John W. Horn PhD
Mark Your Posts
Technorati classifies its blog postings by assigning tags to each one. For instance, all posts related to the keyword phrase ‘attention’ can be viewed at technorati.com/tags/attention. Technorati has its own special language code for tagging posts. If you have WordPress, several plug-ins that create Technorati tags are available. However, you probably shouldn’t display the tags right on your website, since it offers the reader a chance to become distracted and wander away from your site. Technorati’s content comes from your RSS feed, so it’s really only imperative that the tags are found there. Try AutoMeta for a quality WordPress plug-in. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 1st, 2008 . by Dr. John W. Horn PhD
Blogs are simply one of the best kind of websites for shooting up the search engine rankings? Why? Because they use “authority” platforms like Wordpress or Blogger which are recognized by the search engines. Bloggers also constantly add content, which search engines like.
So how do you get your blog up to the top of the search engines? Here’s 3 actionable tips you can start using immediately:
1. Include your keywords in your title, description, and metatags Read the rest of this entry »
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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 »
