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Blogs are great in attracting search engine indexing because they, by their very nature, are updated often with fresh, relevant content. Beyond implementing the excellent All in One SEO plugin, what else can you do to optimize your blog? Tag your posts.

Tagging allows you to add keywords to your posts. They can assist your readers to understand what the post is all about in a fine, diced up way. It also allows you to link your post to to other tag-driven sites, such as Delicious, Technorati, and Flickr.

As you can see, tags on your site can [...]

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As we head into the final quarter of 2007, we offer a variety of ways to get your blog noticed.

1. Start with a Great Design

Your mother was right — first impressions do count. An eye-catching professional design will go a long way toward:

• Showing you are serious about your blog (and care about your readers)
• Branding you (and your company) properly
• Attracting new and repeat visitors (who may be encouraged to subscribe to your content)

One of the services that our clients come to us for is, naturally, attracting more traffic to their blogs.

In the past, when you went to market your website online, you made a list of keywords / phrases and descriptions, faithfully popped them in every page’s HTML header, and submitted each of them to the major search engines, such as Yahoo!, Google, and MSN to name a few.

We were under the impression that, perhaps, that technique was valid today when marketing blogs. We now find it to be of limited value, particularly when a site has previously gotten indexed - even [...]

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Remember when you just had to submit your blog to search engines to drive traffic? Now, there’s a new cool site on the block - del.icio.us - a collective bookmarking site/service that allows users tag sites and link to them.

The Advantages of Delicious Bookmarks

• They are taggable, meaning that they can be assigned with as many unique keywords as you like.
• They are searchable, as the results will display your tags, descriptions (notes), and titles. You can also view my bookmarks by tag, and chain multiple tags together to narrow the search.
• They are easily accessible, from any browser or RSS [...]

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Built a blog? Will they come? They will if you do these simple things that can attract new eyes.

Link, Link, Link Include links to other articles, web sites, and blogs that are similar to what you write about. “Social bookmarking” sites, such as digg or del.icio.us, and those with high pageranks can generate good traffic. Referrals to other blogs often can mean links back to you.

Syndicate RSS feeds can generate a lot of traffic. Encourage visitors to subscribe and make it easy for them to include you in their readers.

Aggregate Make sure your blog is being “pinged” by technorati, [...]

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