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Tomorrow I am going to try and sneak you some information about an upcoming release… maybe screenshots even… but so far I haven’t been able to get my hands on them yet, so today I thought I would answer a couple quick techy questions I hear about our blog regularly…

What blogging software do you use?

Wordpress!! (and love it)

Do you Ping?

Of course. We were tagging and pinging before any marketer created the term to sell an info product.

You could ping manually with one of the following services:

Pingomatic
Pingoat
PingTheEmpire

Or, take advantage of the built-in Wordpress ability to automatically ping for you (a little time consuming when posting) by adding any of the following lists into the Update Services field on the Wordpress Options >> Writing page:

Elliott Backs list of 50+ pings
A List in Warrior Forums
A compiled and organized list of the above sources

What Plugins do you use?

All of the plugins we use can be found on Jim Westergrens excellent blog.

Of course there are no end to useful plugins and I recommend searching for ones that may be useful for you (Search Google for Wordpress Plugins!)

Do you get a lot of traffic?

Oh! Now we’re getting personal

Actually we do alright, and fluctuate between 1500 and 3000 unique visitors every single day.

In fact, you can see exactly how many people are reading this blog right now, by checking out the ‘Visitors Online’ plugin at the bottom of our menu down the left hand side of the page. Generally we see 20 to 50 people online at any given moment.

Did you submit your blog to directories?

Yes and No. The SEO strategy I’ve used is a longer conversation than I have time for in this post, but yes I’ve submitted to directories in the past.

I HAVEN’T paid for a single submission though. There are too many useful free sources online to worry about paying for any one in particular (this is a general comment & how I have pursued SEO for this blog only… not a strategy written in stone!)

I am more of a linkbait (& Linkbaiting) fan, than a Link Ninja (& Link Ninja v.2) fan although both should be pursued with equal vigor

Did I miss anything? Have any other burning questions?

Just let me know and I will do my best to get them answered!

Marketing & Advertising & Tools & Tips & Blogging 06 Feb 2007 12:21 pm

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Does this Remind You of Anyone?

The Holiday season is now long gone and I’m still trying to catch up with all the blog reading I missed over the last few weeks of 2006; I’m doing a lot of speed reading and scanning to get caught up.

But Seth Godin just brought this process to a grinding halt with his ‘The Chin‘ post.

I had to read it several times (once for everyone the post reminded me of ), and now, have to pass it along to you.

This post tells a small and funny truth about our online world. Enjoy!

Blogging 08 Jan 2007 12:38 pm

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Technorati’s Quarterly State of the Union Address

Attn: all Bloggers,

David Sifry, Founder & CEO of Technorati, has released Technorati’s quartely state of the Blogosphere report…

Here are some of the main points of interest:

Technorati now tracks almost 58 Million blogs

Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day, again down slightly quarter-over-quarter but probably due in part to spam fighting efforts

There is a strong correlation between the aging and post frequency of blogs and their authority and Technorati ranking

Technorati tracks an average of 1.3 million Blog posts daily

About 4% of new splogs (garbage, Spam Blogs) get past Technorati’s filters, even if it is only for a few hours or days

Spam-, splog- and sping-fighting efforts at Technorati are paying dividends in terms of the reduction of garbage in our indexes, even if it does seem to impact overall growth rates. For instance, one quarter ago, Technorati reported that the number of new Blogs added daily to their index was actually 8%

The globalization of the blogosphere continues. Our data appears to show both English and Spanish languages are a more universal blog language than the other two most dominant language, Japanese and Chinese, which seem to be more regionally localized

Coincident with a rise in blog posts about escalating Middle East tensions throughout the summer and fall, Farsi has moved into the top 10 languages of the blogosphere, indicating that blogging continues to play a critical role in debates about the important issues of our times

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Blogging 08 Nov 2006 10:21 am

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Increase Site Traffic With Blogs!

I was getting ready to write a great article on how to use a Blog to increase your sites traffic…

Then, as I was catching up on some of my blog reading (my wife had a baby last week, so I have been a little busy lately!) I found that someone else had already beaten me to the punch!

Now, it really doesn’t surprise me that someone else wrote about increasing a blogs traffic… It’s was just kind of eerie to come across an article that was so close to the one in my head… It’s sort of like my own article, but without all the hard work!

And so, instead of spending the time rewriting what has already been written, I have decided to pass on an abridgment of an article by Rand Fishkin that I read on SEOmoz.org.

Rand is CEO and co-founder of SEOmoz.org, which provides companies around the world with consulting, Internet marketing and search engine optimization services from their home offices in Seattle, WA. SEOmoz provides great content in their daily SEO blog, and I definately recommend it to anyone who wants to read or learn more about SEO.

And so without further adieu…

21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
Posted by Rand on his SEO Blog, August 31, 2006.

A considerable portion of my consulting time has recently revolved around the optimization of corporate blogs (or the addition of blogs to revamped sites). As usual, I find a pattern emerging in the strategies that need attention and the pitfalls that must be avoided.

So, rather than charging an hourly rate to give advice on the subject, I thought it would be valuable to share many of the most common pieces of advice here on the blog (business part of Rand fights with open source Rand, but loses, as usual).