Bloggers Tips – Find out if your blog is popular on Digg
Social Media Optimization I think is just as important as SEO techniques when it comes to building traffic to a blog, especially early on. Social Media sites like del.icio.us, StumbleUpon or Digg can really help drive traffic to a site especially if they land in the top of a category if even for just one day.
If you have ever been curious to see if any of your blog posts have been Dugg by your readers well now you can find out with a quick and easy google search. This is just a really simple bloggers tips that you can apply to many of the Social Media sites out there.
1. Open up a new browser. Copy and paste the following as the address:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Adigg.com+yoursite.com
2. Replace “yoursite.com” with your actual domain name for example for me:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Adigg.com+thebloggingcenter.com
3. Hit go
What you see is all that Digg has on record for your blog. Are you getting any good exposure in there? Use this type of research to figure out where you should be spending your blog marketing time. If you are doing really well on one Social Media site then spend more time there to maximize your exposure where possible.
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Search Engine Optimization: The basics of anchor text and web links
To increase your search engine rank, one Search Engine Optimization technique you can use when working on creating backlinks is called anchor text.
Anchor text simply put is the words you read that link to a website. For example, Blogging about SEO - the words Blogging about SEO is anchor text for a link to this post. A Search Engine Optimization technique is to ensure that not only do you many backlinks to your site but that the anchor text of those links are specific to your keywords.
Instead of using the name of your blog as the link, if you ask someone to post a link to your site, give them the anchor text for the link. You can even provide them the snipped of code you are looking for. In this case you would ask them to exchange a link using the following code:
<a href=”http://thebloggingcenter.com”> Blogging about SEO </a>
Using anchor text will help increase the value of your backlinks and will not take you any more effort then you are already spending trying to built them up. Make the most of your backlinks by using keywords that best define your site as your anchor text.
Blog Backlink Creation Part 4: Get backlinks to your blog by asking and trading
A simple and effective way to get backlinks to your blog is just to ask. Since the quality of the backlink is important you need to consider who you are asking. Unlike posting comments for backlinks or writing articles to get backlinks, asking a fellow blogger for a backlink requires a little more consideration.
If someone searches for a keyword and your blog comes up on page 142 do not ask the blog that comes up on page 1 or even page 50 to swap links or post a backlink to your blog. You need to start gaining backlinks by asking blogs that are around the same rank as you or slightly better. As your rank improves, you should ask better blogs to swap a backlink.
The better the rank of the blog you swap backlinks with, the better your rank will be. Bloggers know this. Top blogs get requests all the time for swaps and there is no reason for the top ones to do it other then just to be kind. Work on emailing bloggers and webmasters that are close to your rank and see if they would be willing to post a link to your blog.
Search on your keywords and find where you are in the search results. Flip a few pages forward and start contacting the bloggers to see if they would be willing to post a link to your blog. What is the worst thing that could happen? They say no?
Give it a try until you have ten blogs with your backlink. Every few months check where you are in the search results. If you have moved up, try contacting better blogs to trade backlinks. Eventually you will get to ask the blogs on page 1 but be patient.
Blog Backlink Creation Part 3: Get backlinks to your blog by participating in the blogging community
An easy way to get backlinks to your blog is to just be social. Join forums that surround the topic your blog is about. Add in your signature and profile a link to your blog and be active on the site. Some forums have an area for members to post about their own blog in that case take advantage of it.
Don’t push your blog. People will smell an agenda a mile away. Just be an active member of the community and traffic will naturally come as long as you provide a link to your blog in your signature or profile.
Read blogs that cover the same topic as your own and be social by posting a comment if the topic interests you. In your comment you can leave a name, email and a backlink to your blog.
Don’t spam other blogs. Leave comments that add value and are intelligently written based on the article or post you just read. On one of my other blogs I delete at least ten comments a day that simply read “great post” or “I agree” as it is obvious these people are just trying to get a backlink. Don’t spam but be an active reader of the blog and leave meaningful comments. If you do this, your backlink will stay.
As discussed in the first post about why you should have backlinks, quality of backlinks make a difference in their value. Therefore you want to be sure you are spending your time where it counts. When looking for places to comment do a search for: blogs about (fill in the keywords your blog is about). Start with the first result and work your way down. Repeat with: forums for (fill in the keyword your blog is about).
Make it a habit to comment five times a day somewhere out there to help create more backlinks to your blog.
Blog Backlink Creation Part 2: Get backlinks to your blog by writing an article
An effective strategy to get traffic to your blog by using backlinks is to write articles and submit them to various article directories. The idea behind this strategy is that you write a pillar article which provides great information, tips and insight in your field. With the article you supply a biography which includes a backlink to your blog.
This article is then hosted on an article directory where anyone can come and take the content and display it on their own blog. The better the article, the more people will take it and post it on their blog.
The more people post it, the more backlinks you get to your blog since it is mandatory that in order to reuse the content from an article directory you need to publish the author biography along with it to create a backlink.
The article should be 350 - 500 words in length and written properly for the web. What I mean is that it should provide specific steps to do something and provide value to readers. The more value, the more it will be published in various locations creating backlinks to your blog.
Here is a list of three article directories you can post your writing at to get backlinks to your blog.
There are literally hundreds of article directories out there so start with these three and then keep on submitting your article out to at least 10 places.
The top money making blogging sites everyone should visit
The best way to learn about blogging I think is to be an active reader of blogs in the first place. The more you read blogs, you pick up what they are doing that draws traffic to their site. By reading the top money making blogging sites out there, you should keep in your mind a few things and try to apply it to your own blog.
Here are some key attributes about the top money making blogging sites you will want to remember:
- How often new content is published.
- Navigation of the blog.
- Look at features the blog has that you like and then look for plug-ins that do the same.
- Tone of the writing - is it formal? More conversational? Engage the readers?
- How they make their money. Look at what marketing is being done.
Without any more delay, here is the list of the top money making blogging sites :
Do you already subscribe to the feeds of these sites? If so, what are your thoughts about them. Any other top money making blogs you read and want to suggest?
For the complete list of the top 100 money making blogging sites out there, check out Digital Product Reporter’s full list of money making blogging sites out there.
