Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Gaining traffic to your blog...

Use Web 1.0 presentation abilities to add your blog to and participate in blogger media systems such as Technorati, and add your URL to search engines such as Bing, Google, Open Directory, Yahoo. Google is especially important, so be sure to take their advice for improving your visibility in their search results.

Use Web 2.0 social media functions to become part of the blogging community. Set up a blog list or links list of your favorite related sites on your blog. Comment on other blogs regularly. Become a regular on exchange networks--community-based surfing and social bookmarking sites such as:

Delicious
Digg
reddit
StumbleUpon

Become part of a social network to find like-minded individuals, and link your network to your blog. The top business and personal social networks include:

Facebook
LinkedIn
MySpace
Xing

Or, build your own social network system through services such as Ning.

Use Web 3.0 technology crossovers to keep people up-to-date even if you or they aren't able to reach a computer. Use services such as Twitter; make a mobile blog entry (video); or, create a podcast (video) and add it to iTunes.

1 comment:

Sheri Ann said...

great info; thanks!