Tips for Marketing Your Blog, earning maximum revenue.

Blog marketing is a easy task now a days for its huge platform in the web industry.

With so many blogs being created every day, it’s a mystery to many bloggers how to make their blog stand out. There are many types of blogs or purposes for blogs and a certain number of tactics are applicable to just about all of them.

Some companies choose to hire a blog consultant, but others like to try things internally. For those “DIY” companies and individuals interested in practical tips for marketing and optimizing a business blog, try out the following list of blog marketing and optimization tips:

# Decide on a stand alone domain name www.myblog.com or directory of existing site www.mysite.com/blog. Sub domain is also an option blog.mysite.com. Avoid hosted services that do not allow you to use your own domain name!
# Obtain and install customizable blog software - WordPress and Moveable Type are my favorites.
# Customize blog look and feel templates - aka design.
# Research keywords and develop a glossary - Keyword Discovery, WordTracker, SitePoint, SEOBook Keyword Research.
# Optimize the blog:
>Template optimization - RSS subscription options, social bookmark links, HTML code, Unique title tags, URLs, Sitemap
>Add helper plugins specific to WordPress or MT
>Create keyword rich categories (reference your keyword glossary)

# Enable automatic trackback and ping functionality.
# Create Feedburner Pro account and enable feed tracking.
# Setup a Google account for Sitemap, validate and prep for future submission.
# Identify authoritative blogs, web sites and hubs for outbound resource links and blogroll.
# Format archived posts, related posts.
# Enable statistics for tracking - Google Analytics, ClickTracks.
# Submit RSS feed and Blog URL to prominent RSS and Blog directories / search engines.
# Engage in an ongoing link building campaign.
# If podcast or video content are available, submit to Podcast and Vlog directories.
# Submit blog url to paid directories with categories for blogs - Yahoo, BOTW, bCentral, WOW, JoeAnt.
# Optimize and distribute a press release announcing blog.
# Request feedback or reviews of your blog in relevant forums, discussion threads.
# If you have a resourceful post that will help others, point to it.
# Research and comment on relevant industry related blogs and blogs with significant centers of influence.
# Post regularly. If it’s a news oriented blog, 3-5 times per day. If it’s an authoritative blog, 3-5 times per week, but each post must be unique and high value.
# Monitor inbound links, traffic, comments and mentions of your blog - Google Alerts, Technorati, Blogpulse, Yahoo News, Ask Blogs and Feeds.
# Always respond to comments on your blog and when you detect a mention of your blog on another blog, thank that blogger in the comments of the post.
# Make contact with related bloggers on AND offline if possible.
# When making blog posts always cite the source with a link and don’t be afraid to mention popular bloggers by name. Use keywords in the blog post title, in the body of the post and use anchor text when you link to previous posts you’ve made.
# Use social networking services, forums and discussion threads to connect with other bloggers. If they like your stuff, they will link to you.
# Remember when web sites were a new concept and the sage advice to print your web address everywhere you print your phone number? The same advice applies for your blog.
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# If your blog’s goal is to promote you as an authority, interview other prominent bloggers in your industry. Your own credibility will improve by association.
# Build out your online networks through services such as MyBlogLog, Twitter and Facebook and leverage them to promote particularly useful content on your blog.
# Once your blog has 1000 or more subscribers, show your Feedburner badge
Host images with Flickr making sure to include an anchor text link in the image description back to the post where the image is used.
# Use your blog to gain press/media credentials at relevant industry conferences and use the event to create content, connections and increase your knowledge.


You can follow the above tips for your blog promotion as well as blog marketing to get maximum revenue. So it is very important for you to maintain your blog and get these tips.

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Humsurfer,great blog promotion site in India

Last One year I found many blog promotion sites but Humsurfer is one of the most attractive and easiest site which I have ever seen. Many thaks for the owners of this site.

Here I publish some information about Humsurfer.com

About Humsurfer

What is Humsurfer?

Humsurfer is an Indian community news site that gives editorial controls to the people who use it.

Humsurfer does not host any content on the site. All humsurfer stories are short descriptions which point to the original content elsewhere on the web. Bloggers and other users use humsurfer as a platform to reach out to fellow Indians. They do it by posting their original story link or commenting on the posted stories.

Humsurfers rate the posted stories by stamping on them.

What are Stamps? How does it help to promote stories and/or submissions to homepage?

You give the "stamp" of approval for the postings you like. The number of stamps received by the submission gives an indication of "hotness" of the story. All of the content on Humsurfer is from users who are rewarded for good submissions by their peers. So, if you like a story, help stamp it and help others get the story.Hot stories are always on the home page.

Remember the following:

Hot displays the latest hot news.
New displays you the latest news
Browse displays the all time best news.

What type of stories can I submit?

Almost anything on the Internet can be submitted. We want Humsurfer to be the source for everything that's new on the web that interests we Indians: provided it can be linked, it can be submitted and work-safe.

How to get my submissions noticed?

You must have a catching title for your submission to bring your peers to the site and then a summary, a meaningful description attracting user's interest.

How to rate comments submitted by users?

Click Up for the comments you like and you can click down for the comments you dislike. By clicking down a comment you can cause the comment to be hidden.

How do you determine stamps of stories submitted?

Each time you promote by stamping story, it brings closer to the homepage. On the other hand, demoting by not stamping a story pushes it further down into void. A story's stamps indicates the number of users who liked it.

How are "Humsurfers" ranked?

When a particular item is promoted by stamping the user who posted is recognized; this is part of editorial karma sorting system.

In the same way that popular submissions are stamped to the top, the individuals who post them get increases in karma e.g. mantra (100) – user mantra has 100 karma. Every Humsurfer affects one another's karma in the same way, irrespective of his/her karma. This Karma system delivers the public with the information they sought and/or demand while also recognizing those who made submissions.

How do I accumulate karma?

The Formula is to make good submissions continuously and constantly and this considered the easiest and most effective way. Submissions will be popular if those are wanted and read by other people. In other words, those Humsurfers who best understand and foresee what people want to be reading and will apparently be the best rewarded.

Why Do I try to accumulate karma?

If you don't already know, its worth reading Karma's definition

Karma in Humsurfer is established in such a way that you will be rated among your fellow Humsurfers in order to obtain the distinctive rights.

Can anyone submit?

You can submit if you are registered. Submissions are the nerve center activity of Humsurfer system; it works at its best when people contribute submissions to it. Your Karma increases when making contributions supposed to be valuable by your fellow Humsurfers and will subsequently heighten your rank.

When Humsurfers click on the my submitted story title, they are directed to story content page, but the browser URL still points to humsurfer. Does that mean humsurfer hosts my blog content ?

No. As a policy, Humsurfer does not host any content. When Humsurfers click on your story title, they are actually directed to your blog/site URL. You can verify this by using tools like Google Analytics . The top frame bar is added for the ease of Humsurfers to navigate other related stories posted on Humsurfer.

A Top Frame bar is being appeared whenever I click on HumSurfer story titles. Why?

When Humsurfers click on the story title, they are directed to the site hosting the content. The top frame bar is retained for the ease of Humsurfers to navigate other related stories posted on Humsurfer.

Who made Humsurfer?

You have made it, if you've participated in Humsurfer. As a side note, this site is brought to you by MB9.

What new features are planned to be implemented? How can I get involved in this process?

The Humsurfer team responds to the needs of the community as best as we can. Do not hesitate to make suggestions as we're always looking for more ideas.


The above FAQs are originated in humsurfer.com

Clik here to join here. Dont waste time, just join and start to post here and promote your blog.

Article Syndication, The ultimate goal

Article Syndication

I find some important tips in this article. So I publish this for our e-gen community. I think, all are carefully follow this and get the tips for Blog promotion as well as article syndication.

Articles relating to thousands of topics are freely available for syndication on web sites. Authors provide them for this purpose to gain a wider audience and achieve more back links. Generally, the only requirement for webmasters is that the author's by-line, resource box and link are included with the published article. In terms of copyright, you simply need to follow the author's publishing guidelines when republishing their article. This usually involves an "About the Author" paragraph at the bottom of each article with a sentence and link to the author's site. These syndication requirements are generally specified in the article itself.

How to do it:


1) Browse the Internet to find articles you can syndicate. I use the article announcement groups at Yahoo Groups, but you can also find them at sources such as Submit Your Articles.
2) View the articles being distributed by the group and review their freshness and quality. 3) Join the email líst or subscribe to the RSS feed of any article groups that seem to be distributing content relevant to your web site.

4) Go through your email or feed reader regularly to browse and select new articles.

5) Cut, paste and publish the articles into your web pages, giving credít to the author as requested in their syndication guidelines.

6) Voila! Fresh, daily content.

Articles for Blogs

If the article content is to be used on a blog, there is an even quicker way to publish it. Depending on what blog software you use, you can simply forward the email containing the article directly to your blog control panel using the publish via email option and then edit the post to correct any formatting issues. The other advantage of this method is that search engines LOVE blogs and tend to index them more often than regular web pages.

I use blog article syndication quite successfully for a couple of my clients. One is in the travel industry and the other has a large wedding portal. I simply subscribe to articles on travel and wedding related topics and publish them to the blogs belonging to each client. My clients supplement these with articles and blog posts written by their own staff or hired writers.

Advantages

There are a number of advantages to using article syndication:

Relevant, Timely Content - You can choose content that is closely geared to your existing content and of interest to your audience. For example, if you sell airline tickets, publish travel articles about exotic destinations. The idea there is that persons reading travel articles might be thinking about traveling themselves and need to be reminded to book their plane tickets.

Cross Promotion - You can choose content that gives you the opportuníty to up sell to your own products or affilíate products. For example, if you sell scented candles online, you could choose to publish articles about increasing the romance in your marriage and then include a link at the end of the article to your candle sales catalog (would you like fries with that?).

SEO Value - Apart from the obvious value of having fresh content regularly available for indexing, there are other SEO advantages to article syndication. Most articles are keyword-rich, meaning that they contain a lot of keywords and phrases that people might use in search queries. Publishing these articles means that your site has a better chance of being found for related search queries. One of my clients noticed their syndicated article pages ranking in the top 10 Google SERPs for target keywords within two days of publishing! You can also embed links within the articles or at the end of articles to related areas of your site using keyword-rich anchor text.
Increased Traffic & Sticky Content - It's not only search engines that love fresh content. You'll find that you'll attract more visitors when you publish relevant articles. Provided you find ways to interact with your new visitors such as allowing them to comment or sign up for your article feed, your site will become stickier and retain those visitors more easily.

Disadvantages

There are really only two disadvantages that I can think of about using article syndication. One is that the same article published on various web sites can sometimes be treated by search engines as duplicate content. So generally, a search engine will try to determine the original source of the article and index/rank that page while ignoring all other versions. If you publish a fresh article quickly enough, you can sometimes be lucky and have your version of the article picked up and treated as the *original*. The other disadvantage is that it can be time-consuming to trawl through the hundreds of new articles announced daily and choose the ones you want. You also have to scan them carefully to ensure accuracy of facts and to ascertain if the author has used correct spelling and grammar usage. But compared to the costs of paying somebody to write articles from scratch, I think this is a very minor inconvenience.

Want to get the jump on your competition and improve your traffíc? Use article syndication to publish fresh, relevant content on your site every day.

About The Author
Article by Kalena Jordan, one of the first search engine optimization experts in Australia, who is well known and respected in the industry, particularly in the U.S. As well as running a daily Search Engine Advice Column, Kalena manages Search Engine College - an online training institution offering instructor-led short courses and downloadable self-study courses in Search Engine Optimization and other Search Engine Marketing subjects.

The alexa ranking increases after merging Mybloglog with yahoo

MyBlogLog is now a part of the Yahoo! family.

Yes, My dear friends and followers

Mybloglog, a large community of bloggers now the part of Yahoo.

When You sign in Mybloglog, It shows-

Use your Yahoo! ID to sign in to MyBlogLog directly.
If you don't have a Yahoo! ID, it's free and easy to sign up.


Haven't linked your MyBlogLog account yet?
No problem. Sign in with your Yahoo! ID to get started. Linking is super easy and you can keep your MyBlogLog screen name.

The another news is that after the part of Yahoo, Mybloglog user increases and they visit and sign in because it is easy to sign in Mybloglog as before.

As a result more people gather here to learn about Mybloglog. The Alexa ranking is now up within a week. Now the ranking is-471. I think, It will soon increase more and more because the yahoo users are now interest to join here for blog marketing and blog promotion.

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