10 Things To Do After You Make A Blog Post

Lets pretend for the sake of this post that you've just wrote a long informative blog post, it's one of your greatest ever and you know people are just going to eat it up. You put it up on your blog but now what? yes you could call your mom at work and your cousins that you haven't seen in years and get them to read it or you could use my list of "10 Things to do After You Make a Blog Post " and get the readers that you deserve.

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5 Ways To Make Money On Twitter

Twitter at this point in time is a must have for any blog or small business, it's a great way to establish more personal connections with your readers and gain leads for possible sales. If you don't have Twitter at this point I strongly suggest you stop reading this and get on board with one of the biggest social networking sites today. Ever since Twitter has become extremely popular people have been trying to figure out various ways to make money from it. It definitely hasn't become the best way to make money online but it does seem to have a lot of potential when it comes to making some extra income and especially for branding your business and making a legitimate name for yourself and/or your blog.

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4 Things I've Learned From Changing My Blog Design

As you guys can tell I was pretty busy last weekend, I've changed the entire look and feel of Find Blog Ideas and along the way I learned a few valuable lessons that should always be taken into account when doing global changes.

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Blog Of The Month - Problogger

The blog of the month for March goes to Problogger. Darren Rowse is the mastermind behind the blog, he teaches his readers the value of what a true "problogger" has to accomplish with his time in order to get the success he or she wants. He offers a problogger forum, a book and an ebook available for purchase, I've read his book and would recomend it to all. Darren's story is an inspiration to all bloggers no matter their position in the blogging world.

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Use Social Bookmarking Sites Gain Legit Traffic

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Social Bookmarking Websites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, Blogcatalog, etc. can do wonderful things for your blog or website. They can drive some good quality traffic, subscribers and potential buyers, you just have to know how to go about using them the right way. Not only will they drive traffic but they also help your search engine rankings, not as much currently as link building does but there are rumors going around that the new Google search engine(Google Caffeine, that is set to launch early 2010) will focus their algorithms a lot more on your Social Bookmarking presence.

Using Social Bookmarking Sites

Social Bookmarking sites are extremely easy and free to use, there are so many out there that it may be hard to choose from so I've made a list with the best ones to do the job.
The more your a part of the better your chances for traffic and success, but you should know how to use them correctly. To use them to your advantage you have to build a large and healthy community within the site, you have to add people, not spam them, and be active with the readers in your community. If you plan to just sign up and add 500 people a day you might as well try to find a needle in a hay stack because you'll just be wasting your time. Don't get me wrong when starting out you have to add people to your community and keep adding them to maintain and grow it but there's a big difference between adding and spaming, and no one likes a spammer.

Once you start to get some friends/followers/readers, whatever the case is with the site, you always want to be adding your latest blog posts or updates to ensure that your page is always up to date. Some Social Bookmarking Sites like Delicious, Digg and StumbleUpon let you add your latest blog post to their archive, this is a no brainer that you always need to be adding to these archives to ensure more readers and traffic. Start off with just a few of these sites to ensure that you can handle commenting, adding people and keeping it constantly updated because being a part of too many communities can sometimes be overwhelming.

Another must is to make comments all around your community but make them more personal than "hey thanks for the add visit my blog" and don't make the same post on 100's of peoples pages, this is another case of spamming. If you complement your followers blogs/sites/articles than they tend to be a lot more likely to give your site a chance and comment back on your page, which is what a Social Bookmarking Site is all about... interacting with others in the community.

Adding Social Bookmark Buttons to your Site

One great way to gain credit and readers/followers/friends in your Social Bookmarking Community is to add Social Bookmark buttons to your site like the one at the top of this post. It's free and actually extremely easy to do.
  1. Go to www.addthis.com
  2. Choose the Service, Style and if you want analytics (if you want to track how many people are using your button)
  3. Get your code
  4. Past it in your post or in the HTML code of your blog if you want it to automatically be in every post
Easy, Fast and simple and well worth the two minutes of your time. Now visitors to your site can go to your Social Bookmarking Communities with a click of a button. What's even more magical about it is that when other people visit your blog from a Social Bookmarking Site and are a part of another(which they usually are), they can use the button to add you to their community, they can even bookmark your post to a commununity your not even on.

So get to it, sign up and build your own community, get traffic and blog away. If you want you can start with adding me to your communities at Digg, Stumbleupon, BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog or Blogged.

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3 Response to "Use Social Bookmarking Sites Gain Legit Traffic"

  1. Bjorn | iCan't Internet Said,
    December 9, 2009 1:25 PM

    Besides being a great source of traffic on its own, the value of social media in search engine results will only increase over time. Social media and social networking are here to stay, so indeed, a very good idea to start well with it!

     

  2. corfubob Said,
    December 10, 2009 1:03 AM

    I found this page most stimulating after many months of neglecting my rather inferior blogs -- well, I think they are a bit special in places but I did not know how to attract comments and got a bit discouraged. I am a very serious person with way too intense a sense of humour - see the problem?! I should have settled on a niche and worked harder, this is what you have taught me so far. I only bought a computer about 5 years ago, started to learn Photoshop, and became very attracted to the sound of my own keyboard a year ago or so. I have a question. Is it possible to rant and joke and offer pictures in the same Blog?

    How can I help you? (sorry, that was 2 questions}

    Go well and take care, Bob.

     

  3. Find Blog Ideas Said,
    December 11, 2009 9:15 AM

    @Corfubob Blogging is all about what you want to accomplish, it is very important to have a niche for your blog so that A) it's easier for your blog to rank in search engines and B) your readers will generally like the majority of your articles. BUT the thing I love most about blogging is that there are no limitations or guidelines, you can pretty much do what you want, so to answer your question YES you can rant and joke and offer pictures in the same blog, its just harder to gain consistent readers if every post is completely different from the last but that's not to say you can't do it. There are plenty of ways to get traffic to your blog so I say go for it Bob!

     

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