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The personal website of Iris Watts Hirideyo. 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic (Updated 2012) It's easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic.

21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic (Updated 2012)

Over the years, we've grown the Moz blog to nearly a million visits each month and helped lots of other blogs, too. I launched a personal blog late last year and was amazed to see how quickly it gained thousands of visits to each post. There's an art to increasing a blog's traffic, and given that we seem to have stumbled on some of that knowledge, I felt it compulsory to give back by sharing what we've observed.

NOTE: This post replaces a popular one I wrote on the same topic in 2007. This post is intended to be useful to all forms of bloggers - independent folks, those seeking to monetize, and marketing professionals working an in-house blog from tiny startups to huge companies. . #1 - Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share When strategizing about who you're writing for, consider that audience's ability to help spread the word. . #3 - Make Your Blog's Content SEO-Friendly. Top 50 Literary Magazines. Find a complete listing of literary magazines here.

Top 50 Literary Magazines

Our criteria for this list has changed and we feel the literary magazines on this list are much better ranked than our previous list. It's always hard to build this list, but we looked about close to 20 data points in coming up with this list. The most important criteria we used this time was date of founding, number of national anthologies publications (and we looked at a lot of them), and the quality of work of and names of passed greats published in the magazines. The purpose of this list is to help writers find a place to publish their writing that will get them some recognition. We feel when a magazine is published over a long period of time and is recognized nationally we feel it gives the authors more opportunity for exposure.

This list also includes BOLD type where literary magazines take online submissions. Top 50 Literary Magazine New Yorker The best of the best. How to build your own app for free. Ever want to build an app for yourself?

How to build your own app for free

It's actually not hard. There are a number of companies that offer the ability to create your own app for a minimal fee, which is great for small businesses looking to stay relevant in this increasingly mobile world. Or if you just have a lot of time on your hands. Take Conduit. The company made its money creating branded toolbars found on your browser. "We're trying to give companies a tool to really go mobile," said Ori Lavie, vice president of product strategy at Conduit Mobile. I've tried the service, and it's pretty simple to use. For the purposes of testing, I decided to build a mobile application out of my personal Tumblr blog, Annoying PR.

To add content to the app, I typed in the address for my blog, which drew in the feed. In terms of the look, I was able to change up the color scheme. There's also an option to run mobile ads on the app, in which Conduit and the customer would split any potential revenue. How to Become a Freelance Writer. A Smile To Remember by Charles Bukowski. How to Make Money With RedGage. RedGage is just one of the sites posted on this page.I have explored and found more sites similar to RedGage.These are posted further down the page.

How to Make Money With RedGage

RedGage is a website that allows you to upload not only your images but blog posts, documents, videos and links too. You earn money once you upload in one or all in these categories. You earn through so many per page views. However RedGage can also help you with incoming links to your website or blog. If you have a new blog posting, you simply upload the link to. RedGage has the broadcasting facility in other social networking sites like twitter, Facebook and others.

Once you join add as many friends as you can. I have only been a member for 3 weeks and I already have cashed out my first $25.00 payment. To become a member just sign up for free at www.redgage.com There are 7 different ways to earn money on RedGage: • Photos: Upload your family pictures, travel photos or nature shots. . • Videos: Add your videos to the site and see how they fare. RedGage. Triond - Publish Writing, Poetry, Music, Video & Content Online. Most controversial links.