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The Internet is full of Saturday Morning Bloggers. These bloggers ignore their blogs all week, then they post a few dozen articles in their blog and then spend a few hours adding comments to other blogs. This is a great way to spend a Saturday, but it provides very little SEO marketing benefits.

Search engines need a steady flow of comments. Most blogs that appear in a web search have a post that has been published within the last few hours. Dozens of blog search engines operate for the sole purpose of alerting the big five search engines of new content. The posts that you publish on Saturday are already out of the lists by Sunday afternoon. That is why it is important to provide the search engines with fresh content daily.

A steady stream of content is so important that some blog software programs have a delayed publishing plug-in. This lets the blogger upload multiple articles at one time, but it waits until a pre-determined time to publish each one. This is a great idea, but it is only half the solution.

The blog search engines must be pinged shortly after the blog is posted. There are several good pinging services on the web. Most of them ping a few dozen blog search engines, telling them that your blog has new content.

This confuses most bloggers. They believe that tagging an article with a blog search engine like Technorati or Del.icio.us is all they need to do. Tagging is a method of introducing a list of your articles to potential readers. Tagging has nothing to do with building in-bound links or a web pages rank. Tagging is for peoples benefits. Pinging is for the benefit of search engines.

Publishing one blog a day and then pinging the blog search engines will ensure that the big five search engines never forget your blog. www.weblogs.com gives a visual of how blog pinging works. Each of the blog posts that appear on the page have pinged the blog search engines.

An overly simplified method of explaining pinging is by comparing it to crawling a webpage. Instead of waiting for a robot to crawl the blog, ping the search engine while the news is still fresh.

Another excellent strategy is to invite your reader to leave a comment. Comments are picked up by search engines as new content. The only problem with allowing comments it the potential from comment spam.

William McRea
http://www.articlesbase.com/seo-articles/search-engines-need-a-steady-flow-of-content-57675.html

http://www.SocialMediaFreak.com

Social Media Tips and Tricks by Rebecca Johnson of My Private Classroom. Here’s a quick video about why you want to ping your blog and how to ping your blog quickly and easily. If your not pinging your blog you are missing out on a ton of blog traffic.

Social Media:Social media: Participatory online media where news, photos, videos, and podcasts are made public via social media websites through submission. Normally accompanied with a voting process to make media items become “popular”.[citation needed]

Social Media Expanded Definition: Social Media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into content publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people, and peers.

Social media uses the �wisdom of crowds� to connect information in a collaborative manner. Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, message boards, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures and video. Technologies such as blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, group creation and voice over IP, to name a few. Examples of social media applications are Google (reference, social networking), Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), Facebook(social networking), Last.fm (personal music), YouTube (social networking and video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), and Flickr (photo sharing

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Traffic is the soul to any online business, including the recent trend, the blogs. If you imagine it this way:

You have a business in a mall. Customers find information about your business through coupons. Customers come to the mall and go into your business. They look around and decide if they should purchase or not.

The concept is the same with any online business.

You have a website. Visitors (traffic) find information about your website through advertisements. Visitors search on search engines, find your website and click to your website. They look around and decide if they should purchase or not.

If you compare two together:

Online Business vs. Offline Business

Traffic = Customers

Online Ads = Coupons

Search Engines = Mall

Website = Storefront

No traffic to a website is the same as no customers coming into the mall.

No traffic / No Customers = No Sales in both cases.

Blog-driven websites are becoming more and more popular. If you have a blog, pay attention to the tips below: (not in particular order)

1. Choosing the right platform, domain, and internal tagging (categories)

CMS (short for Content Management System) is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fasion. A Blog is a CMS application. The right blog software can make a huge difference. If you use blogger or wordpress templates, make sure they are designed with search engine optimized in mind.

Domain should be carefully thought through before going for it. A domain is not just an URL. A domain represents your brand! It should be unique and easy for people to mention to each other. Don’t make it too hard to pronounce. Ideally a domain should have the most important keyword about your business in it, and it should be no longer than 20 characters. You should also always aim for dotcom domains first, simply because “dotcom” is more well known compared to dotnet, dotorg…etc.

Proper internal tagging is very important for both search engines and users. Internal tagging enables search engines to better crawl the various content within your website. Internal tagging also allows users to navigate your website a lot easier, as they can just choose and display certain categories of their interest.

2. Write Title Tags and Content with both Search Engine and Visitors in mind

Search Engine is all about relevancy. The more targeted keywords you have in your content the higher you will rank in search engine results for these targeted keywords. Title tags and content should have your targeted keywords in them. The more the better, but avoid spamming. This is why you should also write with visitors in mind. If you mention too much of the same words, it’s actually quite annoying. Write with honesty and provide quality content to the best of your ability.

3. Proper bolding and underlying

Your writing has to please your readers. Don’t make your font too small to read. Use proper bolding and underlying to help readers read more efficiently.

4. Use more than just Text

This is self-explanatory. You will see popular blogs or websites make good use of graphics, audios, and videos, just to remove the boredom of plain text.

5. Pay attention to your site stats and focus on topics that’s popular and needs attention

If you pay attention to the traffic logs of your site, you will be able to tell which posts and topics that your audiences like the best. If you find posts and topics that draw the most traffic, they are probably what people are looking for. If you focus on these topics you will be fulfilling people’s needs, thus, increasing your readership and building your authority in these topics. Of course if would be even better if these topics lie around your targeted keywords.

6. Invite Guest Bloggers / Posts

It’s a good practice to invite guest bloggers to post on your blogs. This will improve the variety of the content on your site. Of course, these guest posts should be relevant to your site.

7. Implement Search Feature

I can’t tell you how important the search box feature is to a website, especially for blogs with hundreds of archived posts. These archived posts may still be valuable to your visitors. By implementing a search feature on your website you are connecting related content with respect to your visitors’ demands / needs.

8. Participate in Social Media, Forums, Blogs and Article Directories

Most social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, can allow you to automatically update content to your profile with your blog’s RSS / Atom feeds. These Social Media, if used properly, can bring you tremendous amount of traffic.

Participating in forums and blogs related to your niche will help building up your authority and your voice in your niche. Not only that, you will also get backlinks to your website if you have your website URL in your signature. Also, a lot of people on these forums and blogs will click on your signature URL out of curiosity. Same effects can be achieved with submitting articles to article directories.

9. Include Keywords in your Links

A lot of people only include their direct website URLs in their links. This is a simple mistake that most people make which dramatically reduces the quality of their backlinks. As previously mentioned, search engines are all about relevancy. The quality of a backlink depends on the relevancy between the linking text of the backlink, the title and the content of the website. If your website is about travel (targeted keyword), make sure the keyword “travel” is mentioned in the linking text.

10. Building your Brand

Your brand is like the purpose of your blog. Your readers share the same purpose as you and their loyalty are built based on their level of comfort with your brand. Sticking to your brand is very important as you will be consistently building up your authority and voice within your brand, your community. Your readers follow your brand, and you want loyal, quality, and focused readers.

You can, of course, diversify your website but it takes a lot more work and dedication to build up authority in multiple areas. It also takes a lot of work from the search engine optimization point of view since the relevancy of all the content on your website dramatically changes.

If you already have a solid readers to your existing brand, introducing a completely new subject can be off putting for them. 

Aaron Lee
http://www.articlesbase.com/online-business-articles/10-tips-to-increase-blog-traffic-673796.html

This Video tutorial by http://tech2connect.com show you how to make a post in wordpress and adding image in it. And also show you how to insert a image related to post in the featured content gallery a jquery slideshow in wordpress

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Fresh blog posts are the surest way to keep readers coming back to your site. If you look at any popular blog they all have one thing in common and that is a consistent stream of fresh content. 

Ask any blog owner what’s the most challenging part of maintaining a blog is. Most will respond supplying fresh content by maintaining a frequent posting schedule. Now the reasons for this may vary but the end result is posting frequently on a blog can be challenging.

Let’s explore 5 ways in which you can easily publish frequent posts to your blog without compromising the quality of the content:

1) Keep Your Post Brief

One reason many have for failing to post frequently is the time it takes them to compose ‘article length’ posts. Trying to consistently compose a post of 500 words can take time and can be discouraging. Relax, not all your blog posts need to be lengthy. In fact it’s best to often times keep blog entries brief. Your readers don’t always have the time to read a lengthy post and would generally prefer a brief and to the point blog post.

2) Prepare Posts in advance

If your schedule doesn’t allow for you to consistently compose blog posts then grab the time when available to compose several in one sitting. You can then schedule to submit them evenly over a period of time.

Some find this approach easier since it helps overcome writers block. This is accomplished by allowing them to maintain their train of thought when composing a series of posts without interruption.

3) Invite Your Readers to be Guest Bloggers

This has a few benefits. Encouraging participation by your readers to contribute to the blog gets them more involved which is a major reason why blogs are popular. Readers like the interaction and the feeling of contributing increases the sense of community.

Another benefit here is the different perspectives readers will introduce in their posts. This will give more depth to your blog content. This also gives the blog owner some insight into what the readers are thinking and what they want to talk and read about.

Lastly and most obvious, reader participation in contributing blog posts lessens the work load for you as the blog owner.

4) Invite Other Bloggers within the niche to Contribute Posts

You should already be visiting other blogs and developing relationships with these bloggers. By inviting them to contribute posts to your blog, you are allowing them access to your readers while you also will benefit from their readers visiting your site. This is a wonderful way to generate traffic for both blogs.

5) Team Blogging

It is not unusual to set-up a blog with the standing agreement to have it maintained by a pre-designated group of people. Many realize they may not always have the time to contribute regularly so they therefore share in the blogging.

Once again an arrangement like this lessens the work load of the individual and also presents multiple perspectives in the blog content. The varying perspectives add to the overall richness of the blog which makes for more interesting reading for visitors.

Fresh blog posts are a great way to generate traffic. They also keep reader’s returning and increase the search engine rankings of your blog. If posting regularly poses a challenge to you consider some of the approaches we’ve discussed here. You’ll likely find your workload diminishes as the popularity of your blog flourishes.

TJ Philpott
http://www.articlesbase.com/blogging-articles/5-tips-for-writing-fresh-blog-posts-698389.html