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Twitter Curiosity

John — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:44:11 +0000

I have been on Twitter for a while, but I just started tweeting on a regular basis. What do you know? People are starting to follow me more. I don’t know if it’s because of my good looks or because I have something to say that they want to hear. Regardless, today’s tip is to Tweet Unto Others As You Would Have Them Tweet Unto You.

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SEO Now Includes Friends and Family

John — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:08:00 +0000

Did you ever think of SEO as a social activity? Typically, it’s people posting to social networking sites, posting to blogs, submitting to directories, and tweaking away at the site code. It turns out that SEO is becoming a social activity. Aaron Wall put out a video on this very subject. I highly recommend it. There is a lot of good information there.

Driving Traffic Using ANY Subject

John — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:56:00 +0000

Any subject can be used to drive traffic. In the midwest, we recently had an earthquake. In California, that may be a daily occurance, but in the midwest, it rarely happens, so it’s big news. All you have to do is connect the dots for the reader.

I just wrote a post on my SpendingLess101.com blog about the midwest earthquake. You are probably wondering how an earthquake could be related to spending less money. When attempting to tie subjects together, you have to open your mind; thing broadly. You may even need to ask some friends to give you some ideas. As I said in the title, any subject can be used to drive traffic (and, anything can be tied to anything else). Here are some examples of tying two seemingly-unrelated subjects together:

Pizza / Bubbles: Although the .com bubble has burst, a lot of pizza companies are finding additional business through online orders.
Lawn Mower / Baseball: The LawnBoy SuperMax Mower is a revolution to the lawn mowing industry, much like the original lawn mower was to the baseball field.

Just use a little creativity and you can ties subjects together.

Based on what I’ve said, you can now see how earthquakes and spending less money can go together. While it took a while for me to put the two together, once the idea hit, it was so obvious.

Getting to the point, you can see for yourself how I was able to tie these two together.

Read This Post and Receive A FREE Gift!!!

John — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:00:00 +0000

Get people to read your blog posts by putting provocative titles on them like the one on this post. Sometimes, the horse can’t find the water on it’s own. It needs to be led. Once there, your readers can drink from the fountain of your knowledge.

Here are some examples of post titles:

Live Nudes…Read This Blog
More Info On The Microsoft, US Government merger…myth
10 Ways To Skin A Cat

I’m sure you are wonder about the Free Gift. Well, for reading this post, I want to give you the gift of a personalized “Thank You”.

Thanks you for visiting my site and reading this post.

I hope you enjoyed your free gift and will visit again soon. If you REALLY want to know something about getting your posts read, Check out the 10 Unconventional Site Promotion Ideas post.

Is internal linking really worth it?

John — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:05:00 +0000

Deep linking or internal linking seems to be a good way to make your web site/blog more balanced in the material that gets read and that gets indexed by the search engines. What you want to do is create a web of links within your own site; sort of like the way the Internet works (the World Wide Web). Here are some ways to deep link:

Create a custom error page for 404 errors and put links on that page. I have not done this yet, but it makes sense…and I’ve seen it elsewhere. Even in error, your users get something useful.
Group your best posts of the week or month together and post a summary at the end of that time period. You might even do one for the end of the year.
Including links in the footer is also another great way to connect the various pieces of your site. I’ll have to do that one too.
Start a series of posts (part 1, part 2, etc.). Link them together, and don’t forget to post ALL of the parts.
Create an FAQ for your site.

There are a lot of other ways to internally link things together. Here’s one now:

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Syndicate Your Blog

John — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:05:00 +0000

I found this video segment on syndicating your blog. Instead of me re-stating all of the information that it contains, just watch it…