bonne journée

Anyway, back to the questions. First, should I post today? Or how often should I post? I don’t know the answer to that, yet what I do know is every time I post I get a Google alert within a few hours. That means that Google is out there poking around the web picking up fresh content. This is a good thing. It raises your ranking in the search engines. I started out posting twice/week, then abandoned it altogether. Then started back daily, now it’s every other day. If I get a lot of visits, I’m encouraged to post more often; if I get fewer visits, I cut back. This is not a definitive answer by any means. You’ll have to feel it out and see what works best for you.

Next, what should I write about? Well, your area of expertise and your niche market primarily. I ghostwrite information products so I write mostly about that. However, Internet marketing is a broad topic area, so I have written about creating and marketing e-books, books, and other info-products, and peripherally about marketing through blogs, articles, and social networking. Lots to write about, and all of it is in my area of expertise. And some days, like today, I’m writing about what’s on my mind. Or I might write about something in the news that is connected to my topic.

Will anyone read my blog? At first I got little traffic, then it started to build, and one day I had peak traffic. I followed the comments and the links and found that Google blogs was responsible for a lot of that traffic and the subject and keywords were what drew the audience. I continue to investigate how people find blogs and what I can do to attract more traffic. It’s an ongoing learning process.

And lastly, will visitors buy my services and products? At this point, I don’t know the answer. I think if you get repeat visits you start to build a fan base. As people follow your blog, they get to know and respect you and if they have a need they may take the plunge and buy something from you. Because we can all get so much FREE information on the web, you have to make a good case for someone to take out their credit card and pay for information. This, too, is something I continue to investigate in the hopes of uncovering the mystery of selling online. It might help to have an email capture on your blog, and you will need HTML to do that.

If you have any answers to some of these questions, please leave your comments. I truly believe regular blogging should be part of any Internet marketing plan. Mix it up with your articles, press releases, advertising, and social networking and you have a recipe for success.

Happy Info-Products.

Andrea

Andrea Susan Glass, www.WritersWay.com

Decidido, voy a abrir esa caja y poner a marchar todas esas "viejas" canciones.

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Blogs

1. Spare Change, authored by social marketing expert Nedra Weinreich
2. On Social Marketing and Social Change, authored by social marketing thought leader Craig Lefebrve
3. Public Sector Marketing 2.0, authored by Canada's up and coming social marketing and social media marketing professional Mike Kujawski
4. Osocio, the number one spot for all things social advertising and social change relataed
5. Beth's Blog, authored by nonprofit tech guru Beth Kanter
6. Health Marketing Musings, authored by CDC's National Center for Health Marketing Director Jay Bernhardt
7. Have Fun * Do Good authored by Britt Bravo, informing you on all nonprofit related news items
8. Ogilvy's 360 Digital Influence Blog covers social marketing topics occasionally.
9. Social Marketing Blog, a newly discovered blog just started this month by a man named Jack. So far, there is only one post, but if the rest of his posts are anything like his first, then the social marketing field is in good shape. Welcome Jack!
10. Getting Attention blog, authored by Nancy E. Schwartz offers insights and tips on nonprofits communications and programs.
11. Subject to Change, authored by Vanessa Mason, a young and up-and-coming social marketer currently doing AIDS relief work in Mozambique.
12. Socialbutterfly, authored by yours truly, and highlights the movement of social marketing as well as related social media stories.
13. What Do You Stand For? authored by Cone Communications Inc. Though this blog is linked to a cause marketing firm, the blog covers a range of social marketing related topics, offering fresh insights and useful resources.
14. Getting to the Point, authored by Katya Andresen, talks about all-things nonprofit marketing and what she deems in her book - 'Robin Hood Marketing.'
15. Pulse and Signal, authored by Andre Blackman, who writes about the intersection between health and technology.
16. YOU. That's right. Your blog, whether current or in the works, can become the essential blog. In the arena of social marketing, we NEED more voices to galvanize the field further. If anyone would like to start a social marketing blog, please feel free to contact me with any questions, brainstorming or for support at socialbutterfly4change@gmail.com. The more of us the better. =)

Note: There are many, many more helpful blogs out there that I currently subscribe to, and I wish I could have named them all. Many of the 15 essential also cross boundaries with others fields beyond social marketing, mainly because, there aren't that many social marketing based voices within the blogosphere.

For more ideas about which blogs to follow, I suggest you check out my links page, the ChangeBloggers wiki, the NonProfit Blog Exchange and the Kivi Leroux Miller's Carnival for Non-Profit Consultants.

But, Christian Lander, the creator of the blog, emailed me back (and yes, for all of you that paused in shock...that was a real name written there). And I may have run around the office with a happy dance, jump and smile (one of the interns claims I did I happy clog and not a happy dance). All in all though, I got to meet him tonight. It's like the life goal I forgot about. I mean meeting Christian is right up there with me wanting to meet Deb of smittenkitchen, it just needs to happen.

But he signed my book, took a photo with me and my coworkers, and is going to work with my office. The happy dance I'm doing is never-ending and possibly all internal now as I sit and yawn on my couch.

SOOOOOOOOO HAPPY!!! And if you're wondering why a Kitchen-Aid is mentioned in the title...it's cause I self-identify with #54 on the Stuff White People Like List, kitchen gadgets, mostly these three paragraphs:

But, in order for them to truly enter into whitedom, they need to own the holy grail of white kitchens - the kitchen aid stand mixer. They will match this mixer to their kitchen’s color scheme and it will make up the focal point. And much like many religious artifacts, it will remain untouched for months and even years, sitting on the counter to be admired as a testament to their lifestyle.

Kitchen Gadgets also serve as one of the main reasons why white people get married. Look at their registry and you will find gadgets for any possible task in the kitchen. If you end up buying one of these for a white person, your card should make reference to them using a lot to make beautiful food that you hope you can eat one day. This kind of stuff goes over like gang busters.

...you should just throw out a combination of these words: “le Creuset, Calphalon, All Clad, Williams Sonoma, and Sur Le Table.” White people go so nuts when they hear these words, you won’t even have to finish your sentence.

However, to this all I have to say is....my lemongrass green Kitchen-Aid mixer is the center point of my small kitchen, purchased at Williams Sonoma, and I didn't have to get married and register for it...I just had to graduate from college (cause that is how ridiculous I am).

**Follow-up: I know I'm not white. But people, just let me go on this one. I'll come back to my usual confused multi-cultural, bi-racial self after the euphoric buzz wears off.

Why Thoughts inspired by Age of Conversation's Douglas Karr. Primarily, there was a need for an XML/OPML file for india focussed blogs.

Who All blog-readers who enjoy following trends/thoughts/insights/analysis on social-media, marketing and branding trends in India.

How Simply use the import feature in your feed reader to import from these blogs.

Where Download the xml-feed from here

Featured blogs so far [listed in alphabetical order]:

Abhishek Jha, Anjali, Daksh, Dhivya Subramanian, FMCG & RETAIL Marketing, Gaurav Mishra, Gaurav Shukla, Harish B, Jessica Paul, Manish, manuscrypts, Pallavi Bhardwaj, Preeti Chaturvedi, Rajesh Aithal, Rajesh Kumar, Rajesh Lalwani, Rajiv Dhingra, Ravi Kiran, Sampad Swain, Saurabh Garg, Vandana Ahuja, Vikas Tandon.

The list has just begun. Feel free to contribute more names and I'd happy to update the XML feed :)

How long has everyone been telling you that Google loves blogs? Months? Years? Well, it's true, and I wanted to share an experience that helps reinforce that truth to you.

The Blog That Resurrected My Rankings

I had a site devoted to a particular type of exercise equipment. The site was in the top 7 results for its keywords in Google for over six months. Unfortunately I had server problems and the site went down for a few days. Google crawled the site constantly because it was well-linked, and so big G knew instantly that the site was down. Since it stayed down for a few days, Google must have decided it wasn't coming back up, and its rankings plummetted.

After the site did come back up, it reappeared in Google, but this time on the third page (ranking 25 - 28 for its keywords, on average). Its original page one rankings just wouldn't come back. I shrugged it off as a lesson learned and basically forgot about the site.

Early last week, though, I was testing a tool I'm creating that helps you write and post blog posts to Wordpress blogs super fast. I decided to setup a blog on the site that lost its rankings, just to test it out. I made a bunch of blog posts (they were post-dated so they would show up slowly over time), and sat back to see what would happen.

To my surprise, over the weekend my site jumped back onto page one for its rankings. I hadn't touched that site in months, and now it's ranking better than it ever was — at #4 for 3 great sets of keywords. This, of course, has spiked my AdSense earnings for the site.

Another nice benefit of the new blog is that the blog itself is getting some additional traffic from Google, even though the blog does not have any external links directly to it. Google is applying the authority of the site itself to the blog. Since the site is well-linked, the blog is given a bit of "trust" by Google and is appearing in the search results as well.

Scraper Sites Can Help You Rank

On a related note regarding blogs and traffic, I've recently setup a blog that automatically creates a bunch of posts each day based on a variety of keywords. This blog is a test for a larger idea I have in mind, and the test is working great, with the blog having achieved more than 12,000 unique visitors in the last 5 days. The vast majority of the traffic has come from Google.

As part of that same test, I setup a second, similar blog that does the same kind of thing. Despite the second blog actually having more content, it has (so far) received no joy from Google at all (it's not even indexed yet).

The difference is in the scraper sites that are referencing the content. The keywords that I'm creating content around for my successful blog is a scraper magnet — hundreds of scraper sites are auto-posting content from my own blog to theirs, and giving a reference link back to my blog posts to try and make it more legit.

How do these scraper sites know about my brand-new blog posts so fast? Because the blog is indexed by Google's blog search, and many scraper sites scrape results from that blog search to post to their own blogs. They also scrape many other blog search engines, and since my blog pings those search engines when I make a new post, the blog's content gets picked up and spread around fast.

Those links from these automated scraper sites have resulted in my blog quickly gaining hundreds of backlinks from all over the web, and that means great rankings for the pages of my blog.

The second test blog I setup, however, has not attracted the scraper blogs and so hasn't even been indexed in Google yet. It might seem strange that scraper sites can help you rank, but if they link back to the source of the content, they really can.

Trackbacks Are Your Friend

On a final note, I recommend setting up your blog to automatically post trackback links to the blog posts that you link out to. If you're not familiar with trackbacks, it's a simple concept: any time you link to an external blog post from within your own blog post, your blog posts a "comment" to the blog post you've linked to, letting the readers of that post know about your own post referencing it.

Now, not all blogs will approve your trackback link, but many will, and I've received literally thousands of visitors from a single trackback link appearing on a popular blog. So make sure you setup your blog to automatically post trackbacks to the blogs that you link out to — it can often result in a flood of traffic.

Have any more great blog-related traffic building ideas? Care to share your opinion about this post? Please post your thoughts in a comment below.

Source: blog seo

Why, you ask? Well, I am an independent lady, you see. Plus, wordpress sort of limits what I'm able to do in terms of design, posting videos, etc.

From now on,  I'll be at www.jordansays.com. I'm really excited and looking forward to blogging there!

Stop by, check it out, sign up for the RSS, leave a comment, whatever tickles your fancy.

when the tear soaks in the eye, many wants to let the time flow backwards, lets the years walk but actually, lets as pretty as a flower age one return, if they can be the fact, each is real,please puts aside the break. Makes the joyful place the young pig to be very also good.

When you see a real ,giving up is mature start, the affectionate love is difficult to continue, hundred taste feeling taste the sweetest bitter, and likes hating to interweave the tear to turn into the mesh wire which is unable to form finally ......In the tender feelings graceful dance,a heart will wait for you in the warm mood that shows kindly the words of loving, I do not dare to let you see in my eye overflows the tear flower, that is your my travel of mind.

Today is my blog's first birthday! I am pretty happy that I have kept this up over the past year.  It has been cool to be able to go back through the months and read about what I was thinking of or doing at a certain time.  In one year I have posted 404 entries, received 434 comments and had 22,640 hits.  Not too shabby for a blog about a guy living in North Florida.

Since I started blogging there has been some big news in the Bonfanti household, the biggest being we have a baby on the way.  I assume that once the little one gets here my blogging will go from a daily (usually) occurrence to a weekly one (if I am lucky).  I also know that it will soon be plastered with picture of our kid doing anything and everything (look, it yawned! how cute, take a picture and let's post it!).

Despite my aversions to memes I guess that a blog's first birthday is a good reason to do one.  The rules are to list 3 events, 2 birthdays, one death and a holiday that occurred on your blogs' birthday.

Events:

1. 1866 - Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State readmitted to the Union following the Civil War
2. 1929 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as a tool of foreign policy, goes into effect
3. 1983 - George Brett has a game winning home run nullified in the infamous "Pine Tar Incident"

Birthdays:

1. 1897 - Amelia Earhart
2. 1998 - Bindi Irwin

Death:

1. 1862 - President Martin Van Buren

Holiday:

1. Pioneer Day in Utah

Let's hope that my second year of blogging will be as fun as the first!

<3
Miss Denonquoi

Lo interesante es que cuenta que le llamó poderosamente la atención el ver que empresarios de la talla de Michael Dell -Presidente de Dell- y Jeff Bezos -Presidente de Amazon.com- a pesar de toda su experiencia y conocimiento, son unos pesimos comunicadores en comparacion, por ejemplo, a blogguers que tambien participaron de la conferencia, teniendo estos últimos una experiencia obviamente mucho menos rica que los antes mencionados.

En cambio, cuando se habla con ellos en privado, son tipos muy abiertos, interesantes y hasta divertidos, lo opuesto a cuando hablan en público.

Varsavsky tambien cuenta que tanto Bezos como Dell son tipos que la tienen muy clara en lo que respecta a su labor y en cómo esta es condicionada contexto, aspecto en el que puede radicar su exito. Por el otro lado destaca que son gente que se interesan muy poco en temas politicos y sociales.

Todo esto me dispara varias preguntas. En primer lugar ¿Puede un empresario dedicado a la tecnología a la larga ser exitoso desconociendo el contexto social y politico en el que vive? ¿Por qué generalmente a esta gente les cuesta tanto trasmitir a los demás en público todo o que saben? Esta incapacidad de comunicarse por parte de los CEOs ¿Será una cuestion que también puedan contagiar a, por ejemplo, la comunicación interna de la empresa?

El posteo completo acá

[En: La caja Kovak (comparada con el éxito en un blog)].

Swedish Chekchouka nominated and challenged me to share my 7 favorite blogs, I'm not allowed to put hers because she put mine on her list. It was a bit difficult to select only seven as I regularly read more than that. My apologies to the bloggers whose blogs I enjoy but whom I did not select. I think it was Sartre who said "Choosing is renouncing". Here is my final choice:

- Leora's. A potpourri of ideas about Highland Park; books; Jewish topics; art, health, parsha, web design, kids, food, gardening and …
- Frumteacher's. Insights into History teaching from a Dutch frum teacher.
- Cynthia's. A mixture of posts about Jewish life, American politics, mothering, BlogHer ...
- Imabima's. Real-life Jewish parenting...from the laptop of a rabbi-mom of 3 kids on the NorthShore of Chicago...
- SuperRaizy's. A Brooklyn super mom's blog.
- Treppenwitz's. For his great and enlightening stories.
- TherapyDoc's. An intelligible resource on mental health and relationships, with a healthy dose of self.

Whether you've been nominated or not, feel free to share your favorite blogs too.