Archive for June 5th, 2006
Monday, June 5th, 2006
Your podcast is full of great content and is useful and topical for your niche. It brings you business and it encourages people to stay on your site longer.
However, have you considered the audience beyond your own site? There are several ways to reach that audience. Podcast Directories are a highly popular way to grow [...]
Tags: business-podcasts, linkedmedia, podcast-marketing, podcast-promotion, podcasting
Posted in Podcast Marketing | No Comments »
Monday, June 5th, 2006
A growing trend among the larger retailers is to use XML/RSS to deliver
sales and news to their affiliates. There are many that are using feeds
to deliver sales to their affiliates for use on the affiliate site,
designed for consumer consumption.
Because to the constantly updating content, these affiliates are seeing an increase in sales and in interest [...]
Tags: affiliate-feeds, affiliate-rss, business-rss, RSS, rss-implementation
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Blog managers, whether managing internal blogs or external blogs, can learn a great deal from keeping an eye on their blog’s topic tags.
Topic tags can tell you:
Which keywords you post on regularly AND how often you post on them. It weighs not only the keywords, but keyword density.
When posts were edited last and who [...]
Tags: blogging, business-blogging, corporate-RSS
Posted in Corporate RSS Communications | No Comments »
Monday, June 5th, 2006
Any successful marketing campaign utilizes cross promotion. Cross promotion is similar to bartering in that you offer to promote a site in exchange for them promoting your site. You see big companies do this all the time, because it does work.
There is no better way to reach an audience than to be introduced to an [...]
Tags: Blog Marketing, blog-content, business-blogging, content-promotion, increasing-traffic, weblog-marketing
Posted in Content Promotion Strategies | No Comments »
Monday, June 5th, 2006
The smartest move Ask could make right now is to heavily invest in Bloglines’ brand, and it appears they are doing just that. Their new blogsearch will draw from Bloglines ’subscribed’ blogs, rather than indexing content across all blogs.
The fact that splogs are rarely syndicated in a blog reader has not gone unnoticed, and [...]
Tags: Ask.com, bloglines, blogosphere, blogsearch, business-blogging
Posted in RSS Marketing Strategies | No Comments »
Monday, June 5th, 2006
Because opening the dialogue for bloggers is essential to a successful weblog, polls can encourage even your most shy readers to participate in blog discussions. And, because you can continue the discussion in your weblog while a poll runs in your sidebar, they don’t unnecessarily distract your uninterested readers from the meat of your blog.
Darren [...]
Tags: blog-usage, business-blogging, online-conversation, polls, sidebar-polls, weblog-polls
Posted in Business Blogging | No Comments »