Ladies and Gentlemen - My Blogging Colleagues and Noble Readers of The Blogging Tips, Tricks And Tools Blog:
Let's start by restating our qualitative and quantitative tasks as bloggers (whether readily measurable or not). I'll call this the Douglas E. Castle "To Do" List:
- Post original content, and always give attribution and full credit to sources of information which you might have used;
- Be certain to have a catchy BLOG Title;
- Use a catchy ARTICLE title (the first five words are the most crucial) every time;
- Minimize any wasted space between your blog header and your most current article -- the more of your original work that shows "above the fold", the better;
- Embed one or more non-moving, non-flash images (pictures, photographs, themed collages) at the beginning of your blog. This will absolutely lengthen average visiting time on your blog;
- Embed social media sharing tools in every article, usually at the blog footer, but sometimes elsewhere -- use picture-themed buttons and familiar social media icons wherever possible;
- Use one or more content-sharing (recycling of your earlier posts) tools such as nRelate, Outbrain, or any other such goodies which show promise;
- Use one or more related content-sharing (posting of related articles from other sources throughout the web), such as the one provided by Zemanta [in fact, a new Zemanta publication, later in this article, discusses some blogger outreach hints;
- Comment (including your blog's hyperlinked address) on other people's blogs -- but be certain that these comments are not advertorial -- they should relate to the blog about which your commenting;
- Add as many links to your blogroll as possible;
- Use a non-cursive, reader-friendly font (this font is Georgia);
- Whenever you post an article, send word of it (including a live link) to all of your social media, including Twitter, FaceBook and LinkedIn, and encourage your readers to share your article with their readers, in turn;
- Submit your blog site to as many search engines as possible every single month;
- Maximize the mileage out of the labels which you attach to your post -- use some major categorical grabbers, and some vertical and technical terms, in a mixture;
- Hyperlink as much anchor text as you can within your articles;
- Post at least monthly -- in fact, semi-monthly or weekly is better.... the greater your frequency of publication, the more magnetism your blog will develop.
The nifty Zemanta Blogger Outreach Campaign downloadable whitepaper is available immediately below. Read it. It's quite good.
Also, if you'd like to design truly amazing panels of social media sharing tools, I would suggest you visit the site which follows and set up an account:
http://sharethis.com
Other than the few simple and incredibly meditative tasks described above, I promise that I will be returning with more tips, tricks and tools to make you a five-star blogger with an ever-growing list of readers.
Thank you, as always for reading me, sharing my articles on your social media, and for stopping by to visit some of the blogs and websites which I recommend. My recommended blog this week is CFI - CrowdFunding Incubator LLC
Douglas E. Castle
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