Build Traffic to Your Blog with Blog Directory Submissions

Building relevant traffic for our blog is often the biggest challenge we face. One great way to generate links and traffic is to register your blog with popular blog directories. WebsiteMagazine.com recently published a list of 30 popular blog directories. I’ve taken this list and turned it into a blog submission tracking spreadsheet that you can download and use to track your efforts in...
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The Life Cycle of a Blog – From Your Brain to Your Keyboard to Infinity

So very cool. Want to know the journey taken by your latest and, no doubt, most brilliant blog posting? Check out The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You from Wired...
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Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Top 1000 Blog?

Then check out the competition on Bloglines list of Top 1000 blogs. A great list which ranks the top blogs and their readership trends. Who’s number 1? Slashdot. The worst of the best? El Blog Salmon. The highest business focused blog? Fast Company at #19. A fun list and not a bad primer for figuring out what it takes to be successful in the...
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Building Traffic on the Web

I started blogging in November 2003. I wrote 3 posts through the end of the year. I wrote 10 posts in 2004 with nothing after July of that year and didn’t post anything else for over a year, until November, 2005. Since then I’ve STARTED blogging, logging over 40 posts in that time. Other than registering with Technorati and getting listed in the Blogspot directory – my original...
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