Posts Tagged ‘Blogs’
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Increasingly bloggers are starting or joining blog networks to enjoy the benefits of multiple sites and writers working together. One of the advantages of networks of sites is that they usually link to one another. In doing so you have complete control over how your sites are linked to from multiple domains. It is worth noting that you should be careful with this approach - if all your sites are hosted on the one server many think that Search Engines will work out what you’re doing and the impact will be lessened.
Tags: approach, Blogs, complete, Control, Domains, Impact, joining, lessened, Multiple, networks, Search, search engine optimization, sites, writers, your sites
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
You need as many links as possible to link back to your posts or blog because it will help you build pagerank and get your blog to rank higher in search engines. The more links you have the higher your blog is ranked in Technorati helping your blog to be found easily.
Tags: backlinks, blog, Blogs, higher in search engines, PageRank, possible, ranked, Technorati
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Links pointing to your blog or posts are essential to build pagerank and make your blog rank higher in the search engine listings.
I’ve seen many people recommend Blogrolling as one method of building links to your blog.
BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal. But all this service actually does is give you a bit of javascript code that “calls” the links.
As far as search engine rankings go, this method of linking is of little use, because spiders can’t read external javascript code.
Instead I recommend that you focus your linking efforts on the methods here.
Submitting to Blog Search Engines and Directories:
Submitting your blog and RSS feed to blog search engines and directories is essential for getting high-quality links back to your blog.
Here is the best list I’ve found of places to submit your feed or blog.
Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites
Link Exchanges:
Many similarly-themed blogs are often willing to exchange links with other blogs and form richly interlinked networks or communities. Link exchanges with other blogs are easy to implement with most blogging software.
Trackbacks:
You can also get links back to your blog using trackbacks. One of the disadvantages of using Blogger is that it does not automatically create trackback urls that others can use to link back to your posts.
Haloscan is a free service that will automatically add comments and trackbacks to your Blogger blog.
But if trackbacks are an important component of your linking strategy, I would advise using another software or system that adds this feature automatically.
Comments:
You can also get back links to your blog by posting legitimate comments in response to posts on other blogs.
Tags: automatically, backlinks, blogger, Blogs, Haloscan, important, legitimate, Software, Trackbacks, Websites
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Links pointing to your blog or posts are essential to build pagerank and make your blog rank higher in the search engine listings.
I’ve seen many people recommend Blogrolling as one method of building links to your blog.
BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal. But all this service actually does is give you a bit of javascript code that “calls” the links.
As far as search engine rankings go, this method of linking is of little use, because spiders can’t read external javascript code.
Instead I recommend that you focus your linking efforts on the methods here.
Submitting to Blog Search Engines and Directories:
Submitting your blog and RSS feed to blog search engines and directories is essential for getting high-quality links back to your blog.
Here is the best list I’ve found of places to submit your feed or blog.
Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites
Link Exchanges:
Many similarly-themed blogs are often willing to exchange links with other blogs and form richly interlinked networks or communities. Link exchanges with other blogs are easy to implement with most blogging software.
Trackbacks:
You can also get links back to your blog using trackbacks. One of the disadvantages of using Blogger is that it does not automatically create trackback urls that others can use to link back to your posts.
Haloscan is a free service that will automatically add comments and trackbacks to your Blogger blog.
But if trackbacks are an important component of your linking strategy, I would advise using another software or system that adds this feature automatically.
Comments:
You can also get back links to your blog by posting legitimate comments in response to posts on other blogs.
Tags: backlinks, Blogrolling, Blogs, building, comments, Directories, higher, Javascript, Link Exchanges, linklist, PageRank, pointing, RSS, search engine listings, Trackbacks, Websites
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
The best URL structure for blogs is, in my opinion, as short as possible while still containing enough information to make an educated guess about the content you’ll find on the page. I don’t like the 10 hyphen, lengthy blog titles that are the byproduct of many CMS plugins, but they are certainly better than any dynamic parameters in the URL. Yes - I know I’m not walking the talk here, and hopefully it’s something we can fix in the near future. To those who say that one dynamic parameter in the URL doesn’t hurt, I’d take issue - just re-writing a ?ID=450 to /450 has improved search traffic considerably on several blogs we’ve worked with.
Tags: Blogs, byproduct, CMS, CMS plugins, considerably, containing, dynamic, educated, Implement, information, parameter, possible, several blogs, Smart, structure, traffic, URLs
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Some memes are worthy of being talked about by every blogger in the space, but most aren’t. Just because there’s huge news in your industry or niche DOES NOT mean you need to be covering it, or even mentioning it (though it can be valuable to link to it as an aside, just to integrate a shared experience into your unique content). Many of the best blogs online DO talk about the big trends - this is because they’re already popular, established and are counted on to be a source of news for the community. If you’re launching a new blog, you need to show people in your space that you can offer something unique, different and valuable - not just the same story from your point of view. This is less important in spaces where there are very few bloggers and little online coverage and much more in spaces that are overwhelmed with blogs (like search, or anything else tech-related).
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Tags: anything, Bandwagon, because, blogger, Blogs, community, coverage, DO, DOES, every, Jump, mean, mentioning, news, online, overwhelmed, Space, talked, valuable
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Whatever industry or niche you’re in, there are bloggers, forums and an online community that’s already active. Depending on the specificity of your focus, you may need to think one or two levels broader than your own content to find a large community, but with the size of the participatory web today, even the highly specialized content areas receive attention. A great way to find out who these people are is to use Technorati to conduct searches, then sort by number of links (authority). Del.icio.us tags are also very useful in this process, as are straight searches at the engines (Ask.com’s blog search in particular is of very good quality).
Tags: already, bloggers, Blogs, community, Depending, Forums, highly, links, number, Participate, particular, people, process, Related, searches, size, specificity, Today, web today, Whatever
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