SMX Sesion: 8 Tips to More Effective Blogging
The Wonder Twins Track at SMX West: SEO and Blogging, provided the audience with information on how to best launch and promote a blog.
Here are 8 tips, from Aaron Wall of SEOBook, on how to gain traction for your blog.
Own a Niche
Owning a smaller niche is an easy way to starting building personal brand
#1 player gets more play in the media
Make Formatting a Priority
Ensure you have a clean appealing design
Highlight best practices
Include an “About Us” page
Make it easy for press to contact
Leverage pictures/video/sketchcasting
Write clearly
Write headlines like a wire service writer
Use simple words and short sentences
Use bulleted lists/headers/sub-headers
Filter
Create Google news alerts
Custom RSS feeds
Save drafts and refine before publishing
Social interaction
Comment and link out
Create community based ideas
Ask for feedback BEFORE launching
Actively solicit feedback and reply to comments
Write for others
Network offline
Don’t be afraid of controversy
Get people to talk about you
Regularity
Pre-write draft posts for future ideas
Offer tools or bolt on community stuff like job […]
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