Helpful advice forums for bloggers

Helpful advice forums for bloggers

Reading and posting, in the various internet forums, is a great way to learn more about marketing, promotions, and search engine optimzation.

I am a strong believer in joining a number of forums, and being a helpful participant. Sharing your knowledge with other bloggers and webmasters is not giving away secrets. It's all about helping others. That willingness to give your assistance will be repaid many times over.

If you offer good solid information, to readers of the various forums, you will develop a strong reputation as an expert in your field. That reputation will be rewarded with people willing to trade links, and with higher levels of visitor traffic to your blog.

When you post on a web forum, be certain to create a signature file. That file should include either your blog URL or blog title. An even better idea is to provide a blog description instead of the title. In any case, follow the forum rules on signatures, and use them on all of your posts.

Okay, you say, what are some good forums to visit?

As a blogger, you will certainly want to surf to Blogger Talk.

As a forum dedicated to blogs and bloggers, Blogger Talk posters offer advice on everything from promoting your blog to improving your blog design. It's a forum you'll want to visit every day.

I am a Moderator at Blogger Talk.

Another forum designed to assist blogs and bloggers is Blogger Forum. This message board offers assistance to blog newcomers and to more experienced bloggers. Since many people are brand new to the blogging world, the section on Blog Newbies is particularly helpful. It's a great daily spot for bloggers to visit as well.

Blog Business World is a working partner with Blogger Forum.

There are also some great search engine optimization forums out there, that are geared more for static websites, than for blogs. Their advice is still very helpful, for getting your blog moved higher in the search results, for your most important search terms.

SEO Chat is an advanced forum, that features some of the leading search engine optimization experts in the industry, as regular posters. Their information is direct and to the point. I have personally used the knowledge offered there with both of my blogs.

What I have learned there, has resulted in tons of Page One results, for Wayne's Derby World and Blog Business World.

I have articles posted at SEO Chat as well.

Another highly recommended forum is High Rankings Forum. Providing a full range of knowledge, from some of the best website optimizers and copywriters in the business, High Rankings Forum members will provide you with complete and helpful answers to most of your questions.

I post regularly at High Rankings Forum, especially about link trading and directory submissions.

A third great forum is Top 25 Web Forum. Providing advice on search engine optimization, as well as your technical progamming questions, Top 25 Web Forum finds me posting almost daily.

I post mainly about search engine optimization, directory submissions, and linking strategies.

Becoming a regular poster at the various forums has provided me with answers to many of my internet questions. As much as we would like to think we have all the answers (don't we wish!), there are many people out there who are specialists in their fields. Many of them are more than happy to share what they know, free of charge, on the various message boards.

They are very happy to know that they have helped you with your questions.

You will be surprised yourself, at how many people will turn to you for advice.

Once you have established yourself as a polite poster, who answers questions openly and honestly, you will find many more visitors arriving at your blog.

You will be surprised yourself, at how many people will turn to you for advice.

When you post, don't give in to the temptation to shamelessly promote your blog, except in threads specifically created for that purpose. Blogger Talk and Blogger Forum have areas created for just that purpose. Be sure to place a brief blog description in those threads, along with a link to your blog. A few people will find you that way.

Forums are a great way to learn more about blogging, and for sharing what you know with others.

As you help others, they will help you as well.

I look forward to reading your posts!

Finding readers for your business blog

Finding readers for your business blog

You've started a blog to help promote your business but a quick check of your site visitor counter shows that worst possible fate. No visitors!

What do you do?

Well, it's time to start promoting your new business blog everywhere you can.

Blog promotional expert Trudy W. Schuett has some simple and no cost ways to get your blog noticed.

She starts with the obvious, and often overlooked idea of just telling everyone you know, and then some.

"Once you've got your blog up and running, and ready for viewing you tell everybody you know. That includes not only customers, past subscribers to any e-mail list you may have had, and business associates, but also friends, relatives, and even your local newspaper." said Trudy W. Schuett, in her widely read article "Blog Promotion For Newbies"
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Trudy continues, "Make sure your blog's URL appears on every piece of paper that leaves your office!"

Trudy is very correct in her assessment. Everything that leaves your office should have a link to your web site, and to your business blog. Be sure to include a signature line on your e-mail as well. Many clients and customers will click on the link to read your blog; so will friends, acquaintances, and family members.

Trudy also recommends getting reciprocal links from other blogs in your area of business. You need not go to competitors for links either. For example, if you are selling bridal gowns, your natural linking partners would be florists, jewellers, and gift shops, to name just a few.

"Make a point of looking around for blogs that complement yours. Ask the blog publisher for a reciprocal link." said Trudy.

One of my favourite promotional ideas is participation at various message boards and forums relating to your area of interest. Be sure to be helpful and not blatantly pushing your product. Answer questions fully and politely and freely provide solid information. Develop a reputation for being knowledgeable and helpful, and you will be regarded as an expert in your field.

Don't forget to place a link back to your site in your signature line. Most forums encourage the use of signature lines. They often provide space for some additional information on your site as well. You will be pleasantly surprised at how many people will click on your sig line link.

Trudy agrees, and offers some further advice as well.

She says, "Find forums and discussion groups on the subject of blogging, such as the Blogger Talk Forum, and participate. Don't just show up one day, announce yourself, and figure that's enough. You're looking for name recognition here, so even if you're very new to all this, you can still ask questions."

As you can see, getting more visitors to your blog need not be expensive and time consuming. In fact, it can be a very enjoyable and rewarding experience, as you meet new friends and potential customers online.

I'll offer some additional free and low cost promotional ideas in future columns. In the meantime, start with these ideas and watch your readership grow!

Getting Visitors to Your Blog

Getting Visitors to Your Blog

Once you decide to start a blog, you will need readers. Writing and talking to yourself might be fine in diary. That is not what you are trying to do with a business blog. You are building a relationship with your readers, to help them get to know and understand you and your business better. Over the next little while, we will look at some easy and inexpensive ways to increase your visitor traffic. Many of the same ideas can be used with any web site, and not just for a blog. We will examine directories, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, blog marketing, publicizing your blog, press releases, and other ways of building traffic. My advice will usually always be for the most cost effective ideas possible. Most are free! You will have access to many new and exciting traffic building concepts. Some are indeed old reliables. A few methods are not used by many people on the internet. Business blogging itself is a leading edge concept. That means there is a lot of new territory to be discovered. As your blog begins to take shape, and as you add new entries, more ways to use your blog will open up. There will be more uses for your blogging ideas come to the forefront. That will lead to more readers as well. Your customers and clients, who will form your readership base, will thank you for it. More visitors means increased business for you. That leads to a successful business.

Blogs Business

Blogs Business

What is a blog and what can it do for your business? A blog, which is short for "weblog", is a regular series of thoughts, ideas, and opinions on any number of topics. Many people are familiar with the personal diary type of blog. Those weblogs are maintained by individuals who wish to share various aspects of their lives with others. Their writings may include their thoughts, their ideas, and their daily activities. That is not the type of blog I am discussing here. This column is about using blogs as part of a business and its marketing, publicity, and promotional activities. This type of blog takes the form a daily column about business. We will examine how starting a daily blog, updated as often as you like, can help to create a closer relations with your customers and clients. People like to conduct business with people they know. Writing a blog is one way to start and continue that relationship. You can either host your own blog on your own web site, or you can use a blog service. I recommend that you get your own domain name for your blog, if it's not hosted on your site. I am using this free blog service, provided by the Google owned Blogger, as an example. Now who am I? My name is Wayne Hurlbert. My background ranges from sales management and marketing, to market research, to government lobbying. I also do marketing and public relations consulting, search engine optimization, and freelance writing. I have a couple of decades of hard earned business experience, that includes some good days, and some bad ones. I'm sure all of you recognize those! For those who want to get an early glimpse into my thoughts, I write another daily column about roller derby. In that blog, I discuss the sport of roller derby from a business perspective. I also provide daily news on the happenings in the sport.

Promote Your Blog Easy

Promote Your Blog Easy

Simple steps for making your blog visited by people whom you want

Most of the people asks this question "How to Promote Your Blog" in forums, community etc, its simple here, try out this and visit again with feedback

Here the start, be clear with your plan why you have a blog and how to make people interested, some questions below for a start

1. What will your visitor want to get out of your blog?

2. How often can you post a blog?

3. What will you name your blog?

4. How your blog design look like?

Then again, content is a challenger for blogs, the content which gives people what they want, wins the game, it can be on any topic and should be clear and wider, if possible with graphics, You do this, people will definitely visit you again and again for getting information’s, for this we should do some basic ground work as follows to make people to know about your blog

(1) Blog Submissions / RSS Submissions

(2) Write a press release announcing your blog to the world and post to online Resources

(3) Find groups in online and post your Announcement

(4) Post about your blog to Forums

(5) Add to Auto Detect Blog Feeds

(6) Add your blog to Social Bookmarking Sites with interesting titles and make them bookmark

Give people what they want and see the change obviously it will take time, keep watching and do post quality over quantity, then you can expect quantity over your quality posts, thanks for your valuable time for reading the post, do comment and visit again, all the best