The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers from Saheli S. R. Datta, Business 2.0 Magazine
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers
Saheli S.R. Datta, Business 2.0 Magazine
October 2 2006: 11:33 AM EDT
(Business 2.0) -- Focus intently on a narrow niche, ideally one whose audience has a predilection for high-margin products. That will appeal to advertisers.
Set up your blog so that each post gets its own permanent URL, or permalink, and its heading becomes part of its permalink and page title. Write descriptive, keyword-heavy headings, and be sure the homepage and all archives have links on every page.
Think of your blog as a database, not a newspaper-like collection of dispatches. Your archived posts should be easy to find through Google and Technorati, so cite authors and publications by name, and use tags, categories, and keywords consistently.
Blog frequently and regularly--if possible, at least half a dozen posts every weekday before lunchtime, when many readers take a break from work and check out the blogosphere.
Use striking images in your posts. They liven up the page and attract readers, and if you use captions, you'll gain additional traffic by making it easy for Google Image Search and other visual search engines to index your illustrations.
Enable comments and interact with readers; cultivate your audience--that's what advertisers will be paying you for.
Make friends with other bloggers, online and off. Link to their posts and they'll return the favor. Other blogs may well send you most of your traffic.http://askadriancastle.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-will-and-can-people-do.html
Labels: 7 habits, Adrian Castle, Adrian Castle Google Me, Ask Adrian Castle Google me, bloggers, business articles, effective, Jim Cobb, Saheli S R Datta
posted by Tess Anderson @ Thursday, April 24, 2008
7 Comments
7 Comments:
Adrian, this was really great information. Thanks for this contribution - Miss Julia
Adrian, thanks so much for this information. I wasn't aware of some of this. See - we KANN learn something new everyday. Yippee.
Google Me Jim Cobb and Jim Killeen! What an awesome combination! Check it out http://www.googlemetalkradio.com
Thank you Adrian for all the wonderful information. I think I need to change the way I think about my blog! :)
"Write descriptive, keyword-heavy headings, and be sure the homepage and all archives have links on every page." This is key and thanks so much for this post! It is brilliant, especially the photo caption info, it will double do your search engine stats. Thanks!
The permalinks are very important, the title really is the biggest deal in all this too, the Video in the My VM Team Interlinking covers a bit of this too...Great stuff Adrian!
Awesome information! Good to be reminded about the captions and permalinks and making effective use of them.
Marilyn Swanson - Google Me
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