December 19th 2007
Gearing up for the Holidays
I’m offically off the rest of this week.
Here’s a selection of articles to keep you going.
Archive for the 'blogging' Category
October 23rd 2007
Booted off the Blogrush Bandwagon
On 9/17, I signed up for the Blogrush syndication network. It was an effort to boost traffic and kick start my blog. Well, I earned thousands of syndication credits and put up with over a month of outages to earn maybe a couple of clicks to my blog.
Now Blogrush has seen fit to boot me from their network. Supposedly, I didn’t meet their “strict content guidelines”. Let’s take a look at their “Dear John” letter and see where my blog didn’t make it.
We regret to inform you that your BlogRush Account has been made INACTIVE because your blog did not pass our Quality Review criteria. You will find instructions below for making your account active again.
You will notice that the widget no longer loads on your pages — please remove the BlogRush code from your blog for now.
We recently reviewed your blog(s) located at:
http://www.atradeaday.comWe determined that your blog did not meet our strict quality guidelines. Please do not take this personally but realize that we must abide by a very strict set of quality guidelines.
Oh geez, I’ve heard this before in highschool. “It’s not you…it’s me”.
If you feel you have made the necessary changes to your blog(s) to meet our guidelines, you can resubmit your blog(s) for review after this date:
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
No thanks…
Below is a complete list of our quality guidelines…
BlogRush Quality Guidelines:
- The blog contains unique, quality content that provides opinions, insights, and/or recommended resources that provide value to readers of the blog. Articles, videos, public domain works, press releases, and content written by others are okay to be used on the blog, but the ratio of unique content should far outweigh content from other sources.
All my content is unique. The only exceptions are the videos/pictures I post on Saturday.
- The blog should be updated on a regular basis (at least several times a month) and should not just go a few months between posts.
Um, I’ve been posting daily since September.
- The blog should already contain at least 10-12 quality posts. New blogs with very little content will not be accepted.
Yesterday was my 100th post, thank you.
- The blog’s primary contain must be in English. BlogRush is currently not available for non-English blogs.
Baise mon cul, I think this blog is in english.
- The blog should not contain an excessive amount of advertising and links and very little actual content. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
No advertising here…
- The primary content of the blog should not be “scraped” content from other sources and/or script-generated pages for the sole purpose of search engine rank manipulation. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
Original content daily…
- The blog’s content (or advertising) should not contain any of the following types of content: hate, anti-racial, terrorism, drug-related, hacking, phishing, fraud, pornographic, nudity, warez, gambling, copyright infringement, obscene or disgusting material of any kind, or anything considered illegal.
Did I post anything obscene?
Best Regards,
The BlogRush Team
Whatever…ah, that felt better.
September 28th 2007
I’m on Reuters and Foxnews!!!
Special thanks to deep market’s links for free. I now have a link on Reuters and Foxnews.
Go ahead, someone burst my bubble now.
September 22nd 2007
Blog Traffic Strategies.
If my blog doesn’t have traffic, I might as well be talking to myself. I’m still learning the nuances of web 2.0 and blogging. I thought it might prove useful to readers to document my attempts to gain more blog traffic. What I’m doing, how I did it, and how it works.
My first push for blog traffic came from adding sites to my blog role. All good web 2.0 bloggers know that blogging is a community and without the support of our fellow bloggers our success is limited.
My second push for more traffic centered around blogging directories. They’ve been useful to a degree. I’ve found more blogs that I like, but I’ll detail the impact to my traffic at another time.
The third push is blogrush which has generated many impressions, but hasn’t yet delivered in terms of actual click through’s. I do have high hopes for blogrush.
My fourth push for more traffic involves social networking and is the subject of today’s post. It involves StumbleUpon. If you don’t know what StumbleUpon is, then let my pull it right from their webpage to explain it to you: ‘StumbleUpon lets you “channelsurf” the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for finding and sharing great sites. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn’t think to search for.’
This is how it breaks down:
1. Go to Stumbleupon.com and sign up for an account. I downloaded the firefox extension. If you don’t have firefox, you should get it.
2. Once the extension is installed, The “Stumble!” button on my tool bar will send me to webpages based on my preference settings.. I then can rate a blog or website with the “I like it” or “No more like this” buttons. It seems the point is, the more I stumble and rate sites, the more the stumble results become customized based on my likes and dislikes.
3. Great, now can someone explain to me how it drives traffic to my blog? The first step is to submit your site by bringing it up in your browser and rating it. Make sure you rate it with the “I like it” button (I know what you’re thinking, but I have to say it.). That will put it into the StumbleUpon database for further submission. The higher my site gets rate, the more stumblers will be driven to my site. Here’s an article that raves about StumbleUpon’s ability to drive traffic.
Here another great article on how to maximize StumbleUpon Traffic.
Here’s another that details how to increase StumbleUpon Traffic.
I will post my results next week.
September 17th 2007
Jumping on the BlogRush Bandwagon
I’m jumping on the BlogRush bandwagon. If you don’t have the widget. Get it here. BlogRush is a “Cooperative Syndication Network”. By adding the blogrush widget to your blog you, BlogRush will distribute your posts to other blogs with the widget.
The number of times your blog is displayed in the blog rush widget is based on how many times the blogrush widget loads on your blog. So each time someone goes to your blog, you earn a syndication credit. So, as the video says, if you get 100 page views/day, you earn the right to have a blog post displayed on the BlogRush widget 100 times/day. You also earn syndication credits for other bloggers that add the widget to their site, meaning their page views count towards the number of your blog posts that get shown on the network.
It’s viral, it’s free, and it is catching on quickly. If you’re not signed up, click here to get it now! Like the best investments, the ones that are going to profit will be the ones on the ground floor. It went live yesterday so there’s still time. Click here to get the BlogRush widget.
Confused? Still not conviced? Check you the video…
BlogRush - Free Traffic For Your Blog
