web2whizzing Offered Blogging Guide With Textual And Video Tutorials.Press Release) July 16, 2008–web2whizzing, the website with blogging and social media marketing tips for small businesses has launched blogging tutorials where some are exposed in textual and other in video format. The guide is covering basics, but also bloggers can find advanced tips with particular attention on how to use blogs in business purposes.

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Increase Blog Traffic

July 11, 2008

„ A great site without traffic is like owning a beautiful huge store in the middle of nowhere! “

Yes, it’s MUCH about getting traffic to the web site. I am not saying it’s all about it, because you need quality content to offer as well. You see, website owner can deliver wonderful idea, amazing products, but without traffic, his business is death. So, let me say again….ITS MUCH ABOUT TRAFFIC!!! You can have fancy landing page, even forum for your website, or whatever, but without traffic, you are without a business. How to increase and get constant traffic to the blog?

If you’re just starting, you should know that blogging is a great way to increase traffic. When you are writing on a regular basis your blog will drive traffic automatically (ping and posts submission to RSS Directories). And besides that automation here are few good ways to promote your blog:

First, blog SEO

Vitally important is to optimize properly your blog for search engines. If you are new to this, I have made a weblog post how to avoid mistakes and avoid losing SEO page rank. Also I recommend putting related images to every post. You see, images are totally different type of promotion and traffic, because Google and other engines are using particular robots only for “alternative text” behind images. Discover here how properly to optimize images for your blog, and to increase traffic that way. Don’t forget to submit your blog to Google, Yahoo and MSN (although if your blog is totally new, maybe is better to wait month or two, until there is some content on the website). And above averting, if you’re using WordPress as a publishing platform or just starting with blogging watch my free WordPress SEO video tutorials (you will see which plugins are important for SEO optimization, correct permalink structure and similar matter with purpose to increase blog traffic).

Second, Article Submission

To article directories you can submit blog posts, but its better if you spin a little those articles or submit completely new. Why would you do that? Quite simple, in the submitted article, you will include a link to your web site. Submitted to many directories you are getting many backlinks and it will boost your search engine ranking. Also it will provide direct traffic from people who visits those article directories.

Here are some major directories to submit your articles to:

• Ezinearticles
• Articlefeeder
• Selfgrowth
• Knowhow-now
• Goarticles

Article marketing is a proven way to get traffic. It needs some time to provide results, but eventually, if done correctly and often, it will substantially increase traffic to the site.

Third, blog communities:

• MyBlogLog
• BlogCatalog
• Bumpzee

These sites are great way to connect with other bloggers and to use them in promotional marketing. Use tags to find your market.

Fourth, blogging traffic exchanges:

(You place widgets on your blog sidebar pointing to other blogs, and at the same time, the other bloggers are aiming to your blog).

• Entrecard
• Blog Rush
• BlogUpp!
• Spottt
  

These websites can drive traffic away from your blog, but at the same time will drive to it. Don’t worry, just concentrate on quality content. Find here some tips and techniques for making the content valuable. Also keep in mind that there is saying in internet marketing world regarding traffic “The more you send the more it returns to you”.

Anyway, these sites may not be an effective traffic generator for you. Test it. You won’t know unless you try it. If it doesn’t benefit you after a trial, you can always uninstall widgets.

Besides blogging exchanges, also common traffic exchanges, like Trafficswarm and Linkreferral, can increase traffic. They can be used for common website, but as well blog promotion.

Finally, Web 2.0 sites

There is a right and wrong way for web 2.0 promotion. I am creating the whole section about Social Network, Social News and Social Bookmarking web sites. It will be ready in a month or two. Mean time, here is one neat tool for video promotion – Tubemogul. If you are making videos for your weblog, Tubemogul will submit your video to around 15 different video sites.

This is end of the 6th step from How to create a successful blog. Happy blogging!

Tag plugin

July 11, 2008

For every post you can determine keywords related to your article. At the bottom of each post those keywords will be displayed, and when visitor clicks on particular tag, blog will open a new page with all posts you have made with that keyword (tag). Visitor will be able to browse through posts and see related articles for that tag. It will also help in proper disposal of your articles on blog directories.

UTW WordPress plugin

This is the 7th video of WordPress SEO Video Tutorial.

This video will show you how to install and configure Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for WordPress weblog. This plugin will create tag pages for your weblog. That way you will get more in-depth pages and it will help Google spiders to index your blog better.

For some people this plugin is working fine, but there are a lot of complaints. If you encounter any error just deactivate the plugin in your WordPress admin.

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