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Benefits of Having Unique Content in your Blogs

John — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:04:13 +0000

The internet is really all about content, be they images, text, animation or video or a mix thereof. Your blog site will certainly benefit from articles or posts with interesting, entertaining and thought-provoking content. They are sure to attract visitors and even get other blog owners to link to your site. But it should stand out above other blogs of the same content. You need to be unique.

Quality writing and original posts create a steady influx of readers to your site. Having unique content can also prevent penalties that some search engines like Google might otherwise impose if your site has duplicate content with one that has a high page rank. Just be sure that you sustain your site’s content uniqueness. The last you want is to lose your reader base that’s you’ve taken pains to build up.

Experience and Posting Promptly make a Good Blog Site Better

John — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:03:34 +0000

Other than just being a personal site, your blog can get more visitors by making it a center piece of your own experience. Not just any personal experience, but one that can fire up the interest and imagination of your visitors. If you’ve had some recent tragic experience or one where you figured in a headline event, that’s a good start.

If you’re a professional, your insights can be a great focal point in your blog. Health, sex and marriage, movie reviews if you’re a film buff or pet care if you’re a dog or cat lover can bring a lot of visitors to your site if your site content has interesting articles and posts about them.
Just make sure to respond promptly to your visitor’s comments if needed. This guarantees at least a return visit just to see what your responses are to the one who has posted on your blog. Never fail to respond.

Grabbing Visitor Attention with Banner Ads

John — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:57:18 +0000

Using just the right amount and balance of text, images and animation that are often done in Flash, banner ads have been proven to be effective online advertising tools.
If you’re designing banner ads, make sure they have small file sizes no larger than 20k so they load fast. Just like any advertising imagery, banners should catch the first 10 seconds of a visitor’s fleeting attention span when getting to the page.

No need for detailed information. That can be accomplished when the visitor finds your banner ad intriguing enough to click on it. And that means making sure you put a clickable URL to link to the site you’re advertising. Lastly, put your banner ad on the page that’s most frequently visited which is your homepage.

Making Use of Google Commerce Search

John — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:56:34 +0000

Unlike most Google tools, this one is not free. The Google Commerce Search is aimed at large and small retail enterprises with commercial websites that enable fast and efficient search of your products and services.

If you are managing a vast portfolio of diverse products and brands on your e-commerce site, the Google Commerce Search will help your customers find exactly what they need with the least time navigating through your site. You get better conversion rates that turn visitors into paying customers.

The tool is essentially a search engine for your retail site, allowing spelling corrections on searches and filtering algorithms on price, brand or any product attribute and generally optimized for the purpose of getting more sales.

Promoting your Blog Through Blog Announcement and Review

John — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:55:32 +0000

If you’re starting out your blog site, you need to generate traffic to it. One way is to have it announced just like the release of any new product or brand in the market. Get yourself to write an honest article about your blog, describing the subject, its focus and objectives. Don’t forget to have a link to your blog site but don’t sound like a hard sell. Send that to all the blog owners you have any kind of relationship with and ask them to have it published on their blogs.

Tell them you will write a good review about their site which you will publish in your new blog. You can also invite them to write a review, on top of the announcement, which they can publish in their own site. These are mutually beneficial promotional activities to generate traffic to your site as well as theirs.

Harnessing Forums to Promote your Blog or Website

John — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:53:58 +0000

If you’re a member of any forums out there, like audioholics.com for stereophile hobbyists, you can increase your blog or site’s promotional mileage by creating a thread that’s relevant to both your blog and forum and inviting members to visit your blog or web site.

Just be sure that your site covers the same interests that the forum does. If it’s about photography, your blog or site should have that as its main focus or anything related to it. You can also use the forum’s signature or avatar with your site’s URL as signature. This is one fine promotional method as your site gets displayed every time you post in the forum.

In the process, you leave your site’s URL link on the forum. This is one form of back linking to your site which increases its page rank in Google. If you can do this in a number of forums related to your site or blog, the better for your site.