Archive for June 5th, 2006

Podcast Promotion

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 [...]

Hi Tech News For Your Affiliate Feed

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 [...]

Corporate Topic Clouds

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 [...]

Cross Promotion With Other Sites

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 [...]

Ask’s Blogsearch

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 [...]

Using Polls on Your Blog

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 [...]