I have tried a few blog link exchange programs such as EntreCard, Spottt, … By accident, the other day I came across BlogUpp! widgets on some blogs. I am very interested in their layout and hover-the-mouse-to-read feature. So I decided to install a widget from them that displays two sites from their network to boost my incoming traffic.
What makes BlogUpp! different?
No registration
No email and privacyexposure
No ad submission and no efforts
No animation and annoying ads
Multilanguage support
Cheat-proof and fair sharing ( repeated page refreshes won’t change the blogs in the widget)
WordPress platform and alike friendly
Targeted readers reach
Welcome bonus for everyone
Snapshots your blog and reads your RSS regularly
Best de facto exchange ratio (10:9), it means for every 10 readers of your blog, your blog will be shown to 9 readers on other blogs (see the comparison table with BlogRush, EntreCard, Spottt)
Move over the mouse to read
Each link clicked in the widget opens a new window, not closing your blog
SEO friendly link exchange, doesn’t aim to alter one’s PageRank
And all this is completely FREE
It is easy for you to get this work - first, enter your blog address, second, add the code to your blog. That’s all.
Millions of blogs exist in the world today. A large percentage of them are being used by spammers to place affiliate links and scrape content from other sites, while a significant amount of the others have become neglected by the owner who used to update the blog everyday.
I don’t want to ramble on why your blog isn’t considered one of the “Elite 100,” but I’d like to address some points and pose some questions that you should consider in order to expand your blog’s traffic and ultimately your placement against other blogs in your niche.
#1. You need to contact other bloggers
who may be interested in a partnership with your blog. By doing this, you’ll nearly multiply your traffic multiple times over, depending on the number of visitors that each of these sites receive. In other words, you’ll be better off linking your blogs together, rather than standing alone.
#2. Your aren’t targeting the right crowd
If you look at your analytics and demographics, make sure that your visitors are coming from the “target” area - a group of people who have their own blogs or websites - who will likely spread word about your site, linking to it and sharing your resource to their readers.
#3. Your site/content isn’t old enough
Time is the leading reason that blogs don’t grow to their full potential. You need to be able to be in it for the long-term, not to quickly generate an income from. Until your site is at least half a year old, you should be focusing on building your site’s content and overall feature set.
#4. Is your site’s content truly unique?
As long as your content is unique, your visitors should view it as that. People whose content isn’t unique shouldn’t be rewarded for the “work” of copying others’ content for their own gains.
#5. Have you proven your knowledge
to your visitors and readers? One of the main ways to become accredited for your work is to express your supreme knowledge on your blog. You shouldn’t hesitate when answering any question that arises - you should have a level of confidence, yet not at the level of arrogance.
#6. Do you connect with your readers
or avoid any interaction? Blogging is all about the contacting - in more ways than one. Without any replies to your readers’ comments and emails, they’ll likely view you as narrow-minded, thus thinking that you don’t take blogging as seriously as you should be.
#7. Your theme says a lot about yourself
The layout of your site, including your theme, determines how successful you can be, as well as how others view your content. Choose one that leaves a lasting impact on your readers - design one yourself, customize another free theme, or hire a designer to help you brand your business. After you have established your brand, there is no reason why your site won’t become a status symbol and model for other blogs to follow.
Conclusion
While these are some quick suggestions to ensure that your blog is “valued” and rated at what it should be, the general premise behind this was to raise the question of whether your blog does deliver what readers are asking for
One common misconception from first-time bloggers is that there can only be a few blogs writing about the same “stuff,” and that as an individual, you cannot have multiple blogs about quite similar subjects. These two topics are often discussed, and unless you live in a world where there is no competition, they do not hold true.
As a prime example, if there was only one company controlling all the news around the world, we would all think alike and wouldn’t be opinionated. Instead, there are thousands, if not millions of people (with blogs and other online communications) that allow our views to be expressed.
Similarly, if there was a restriction on the number of blogs in the ‘marketplace’, very few would have ever considered starting a blog in the first place. It is the unique factor that each author brings to the table that makes the blogosphere a distinctive community.
For this reason, if you feel so passionately about a subject, you can create multiple blogs about it. Now, keep in mind that it will be more difficult if you don’t branch out and cover single subjects that are apart of the main niche, so your blogs don’t counteract each other (should you be able to gain search engine dominance).
Take a look at many blog networks. While they might be branded as having a diverse network of sites, instead, there are several main categories within that brand that can all be connected together to form a “web” that readers visit daily for news, tips, and information.
I’m thinking of the pros and cons of having multiple blogs/sites within the same niche. We will discuss about it on another post
Are you curious about what readers are thinking about your posts? then, you can add this beautiful looking outbrain 5 stars rating button to your blogger,wordpress,typepad,etc.You can also use this ratings button in any webpage.By adding this,you will automatically get the beautiful five stars rating widget just below every post.
This was very simple,easy to use,free and you don't need to register to grab this widget.By adding this widget,you will get instant feedback by your readers. Most of the visitors feel a bit lazy to write a comments,so with this widget,they will help them and rate your posts as easy as 123. You can get this rating widget here.Thanks to outbrain for providing this great widget.
This post explains how to increase your blog traffic by submitting your blog to different kinds of blog directories which rates,provide statistics about your blog and provide free traffic and maximum exposure to your blog.Submitting your blog to these directories is a very good thing to do particularly if your blog is very new one with low traffic.These blog directories have high pageranks than your blog(since your blog is a new one with pagerank Zero).So, if someone searches for a particular keyword,there is more possibility for the blog directory to appear in the results than yours.So,by adding your blog to these directories,the visitors enters these directories containing your articles(when they click the article,they enter your site) and also your blog posts will be indexed little faster.So,submitting your blog to these directories will gain you more traffic.(If your blog is a new one,then put a visitors tracker button in your blog,sothat you will see how many visitors are coming from these directories,from search engines,visitors geolocation,etc).Here are a few popular visitor tracker websites:1.Histats(histats.com)2.Sitemeter(sitemeter.com)3.Statcounter(Statcounter.com)So,let me come to the main topic...Before submitting your blog to these blog directories,my personal suggestion is to create a new email address for this purpose so,your personal emails can't flooded with the emails from the blog directories administrators,etc.)Creating an email is free lol....creat one.Many of these directories asks you to register before submitting blogs.There are so many hundreds of blog directories,here is the list of very good popular directories which will send you maximum traffic.LIST OF POPULAR BLOG DIRECTORIES: LIST OF POPULAR BLOG DIRECTORIES:Technorati Technorati is the largest blog(weblog) directory currently tracking more than 112.8 million blogs.Join technorati and verify your authorship,then you will be provided with detailed statistics regarding your blog,how many blogs are linking to your blog,(they call it 'authority').It is one of the best blog directory and will send tons of triffic if your blog is regularly updated.
Topblogarea:This is another big blog directory which rates and rank the blogs interms of Unique visitors your blog gets.They start the counting from Zero every week, so that even newly submitted blog can have the chance to rank higher in the list.
Topblogging.com:This is another source of weblogs which also rank the blogs according to the unique hits they get.Nice blog resource,bring you lots of traffic to your blog
Blogtoplist:Same here,they rank according to the unique hits you get.But,there is a little change, they will give you to place a voting button in your blog.If any visitor votes for your site from your blog,that is equal to 100 unique hits,but there is only one chance per visitor(one IP address) a day.
Bloghop:You can find blogs related to your blog topic here.Have a nice tracking button and currently having more than 29,000 blogs.
BloggingFusion:It is a new one and not a very big one(around 950 blogs) at this time.But,it is a good one and doing pretty well.You can increase your blog exposure, worth a link to it.
BlogCatalog:It is another good blogging resource,you can promote your blog here for FREE,find other blogs related to yours,etc.They have a special formula to rank the blogs,the more visitors,hits,comments,neighbourhood you get the more your rank will be.Another recommended one.You can join their forums,discussion board,groups,etc with other bloggers and share your thoughts.
MyBloggingarea:This is a very good weblog directory which ranks the blogs accoring to the unique visitors they get,brought me so much traffic to my celebrity blog than all the other blog directories.I recommend this.
So,you want to embed a video(movie) onto your blog.The process is very simple,even a dummie can do it.If you want to embed your original video,then first sign up for an account in youtube and upload your video and get the embed code.Otherwise,you can easily embed any public youtube video in your blog.Go to youtube.com and search for the video.For example,if you want to embed a britney spears video,search it and copy the embed code on to a windows notepad or anything else.The following process is explained below with pictures for easy understanding.1.Go to youtube.com and search for your required video
2.Copy the embeded code(ctrl+c) and paste(ctrl+v) it in windows notepad.
3.Sign in in to your blogger acoount and click the New Post button and next,select the option 'Edit html' as shown below and paste the html code as shown below.
4.Publish the post.That's it, as you can see now,the youtube video is embeded in your post properly.NOTE:You can change the width and height of the video by replacing the values to your desirable ones
This was very simple,easy to use,free and you don't need to register to grab this widget.By adding this widget,you will get instant feedback by your readers.
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