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May 7, 2008
Promoting Your Blog
Blogging can be a great deal of fun for some bloggers but for others it is a source of income. Whether this income is earned through an AdSense campaign, paid advertisements, affiliate marketing or some other type of revenue generating source one of the key elements to maximizing this profit is by driving greater traffic to the blog. This is because the more visitors the blog receives the more opportunities there are for the blogger to have visitors click through the advertisements in the blog. There are a few basic techniques which bloggers can rely on to promote their blog and increase traffic to their blog. This article will cover a few of these key concepts including participating in relevant message boards, optimizing the blog for search engines and keeping the blog interesting to visitors.
Active Participation in Message Boards
Participation in message boards which relate to the blog topic is actually one very simple way for blog owners to drive traffic to their blog. However, one caveat to using this type of promotion for the blog is to avoid violating the rules of the message board. This is important because some message boards have strict regulations regarding the inclusion of links to other websites on the message board. Failure to follow these guidelines may result in the blogger being banned from the message board and may also cause other message board users to not think highly of the blog owner.
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April 17, 2008
Bytescout Post2Blog 3.01
Post2Blog 3 is a freeware handy blog editor with live spell-checking support for pro-bloggers
Bytescout Post2Blog 3.01 Features:
- freeware (and no tech support);
- WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor with complete hot-keys support;
- Built-in “Live” spellchecking (check screenshot);
- “Portable Mode” support (check instruction);
- Images are uploaded automatically (supported uploading types: Flickr (see example), file area of your blog, imageshack.us, picturelli.com, custom FTP server);
- Post text and/or images from Firefox or Internet Explorer to your blog with 2 clicks only using plugins for Firefox (check example) and Internet Explorer (check example);
- Compose new posts in MS Word and post them to your blog using Post2Blog toolbar for MS Word;
- Integration with RSS Bandit (rssbandit.org) and Sharp Reader (sharpreader.net) – you can post selected items from these RSS readers using Post2Blog plugin;
- Post files, images, documents from Explorer or any other program using “Send To -> Post2Blog” command;
- Add Technorati, Del.icio.us, Buzzwords, 43 Things tags to your posts;
- Automatically send trackbacks, ping web-services to notify about updates in your blogs;
- Earn money using “Insert Amazon Link” feature;
- Use built-in smiles for use in your blog;
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February 15, 2008
JournalHub.com – Free Blog Hosting
JournalHub.com is a free blog hosting site. It is offered as a service to internet users by E-Insites.com, a web hosting company providing a platform for those who wish to start and maintain their own blog.
The object is to give those who desire to have a content rich site a place to display it and for those searching for content that interests them a source to find it. There is unlimited space and traffic available for each blog and 60 templates to help in the creation of the site.
