blogging 102

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes I was asked recently how to get a 1000 visitors a day to your blog network.  If you have a network it is quite easy.  The more blogs you have the more content you have, and more content you have the better chance you will get hits from search results.  Here is my quick list of do’s and don’ts. Content isn’t enough.  You need content with good keywords and for that material to be indexed.  If you run a wordpress blog the Google XML Sitemap Plugin is one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal for getting indexed.  If you want to be properly indexed it is highly important that you use good content specific keywords and tags.  I generate specific keywords with Wordsfinder and use the Calais Tagaroo Plugin to generate Semantic tags, both of which appear as meta keywords to search engines thanks to my theme. Write about popular things.  If you follow the first rule of good tagging and and getting regularly indexed, writing about... 

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes I was researching this topic for you when I ran across this excellent article and decided just to give you the whole thing.  it has some stuyff that I am going to go put in practice on my other blogs right now so have a good day. How to Get Inbound Links from Government and University Sites   by Dr. Deepak Dutta The inbound link is the holy grail of web traffic. Getting inbound links from government and university sites is a testament to the quality of your site. You accumulate inbound links not only to increase traffic, but also to establish your site for providing high value to visitors. However, getting inbound links by link exchange or buying text links is not going to get you anywhere. You need to abandon those archaic ideas and jump forward with an inbound link strategy that provides high value authoritative links. To obtain high value authoritative links, your site must provide high values to its visitors. Original authoritative articles and... 

Reading time: < 1 minute I know what you are thinking Blog College… WTF! I decided what was really lacking was a bulletin board forum for bloggers. Almost any subject you could want to talk about has its own bulletin boards, usually several. However I have never heard of one for bloggers, much less been directed towards one by pushy bloggers trying to sell their crap. In the absence of anything else I have put together my first ever bbs. You can find the Blog College at http://bradtheblogboy.com/forum/ convey_source = "English"; Read More →