19 Tips for Driving Traffic to Your Blog
It’s the the perennial quest. How can you get more traffic to your site? After all, without a steady stream of traffic to your blog, there’s little opportunity to engage your audience and convert readers to raving fans. Methods change and evolve over time. Yet some methods I advocated back in 2005 still work, so think of this as a refresher if you’re already employing all the social tactics for driving traffic. This list is in no way complete. First, the tried and true: #1: Publish as frequently as possible The more frequently you post, the more traffic you get because the search engines are indexing your content more frequently. #2: Pay attention to the headlines (blog post titles) Using numbers (see title of this blog post!) #3: Send an email broadcast Send email to your list when you have a great blog post you want to share. #4: Add a link in your email signature If you use web-based email like Gmail, add WiseStamp to your email signature so you can include links to your blog. #8.
15 Excellent Corporate Blogs to Learn From
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Creating and maintaining a corporate blog, or a blog of any sort for that matter, isn't always the easiest of tasks and doesn't come naturally to most people. There are a lot of considerations to take into account — theme, topics, audience, content, design, writers, multimedia, promotion, writing style, comment policies, and so on. Above and beyond all of that, you also need to consider the blog's name and URL. Although the act of creating blog posts can be quite simple, forethought and planning must first go into the creation of a corporate blog in order to keep the processes running smoothly, especially if multiple bloggers are involved. We recently outlined 10 tips for corporate blogging for businesses hoping to focus on key elements of creating a blog in the corporate world. 1. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
5 reasons your press page should lose the PDFs | Blog | Econsult
In study after study, 100 percent of journalists - 100 percent - say they use the web to research stories. And something like 80-90 percent of journos writing about businesses visit company websites to dig for information. While there (according to my own approximate calculations), about half are stopped dead in their tracks because companies still insist in making press releases and financial information available only as PDF downloads. For me, and a plethora of fellow-journalist Facebook friends who thumbed-up a whinge I posted on this topic yesterday, the arguments against PDF press releases are a no-brainer. So herewith, five reasons why those PDFs have got to go. 1. 2. No it's not valid. 3. 4. 5. Disagree? Rebecca Lieb oversees Econsultancy's North American operations.
The 25 Most Audacious Companies
What's an "audacious" company? It's a superlative we chose very carefully. On the one hand, such companies are defined as bold, courageous, even heroic. Yet, on the other, they are defiant, presumptuous, irreverent, and even cocky. These are the companies we celebrate.
Marketing Your Blog: 10 Essential Tips You Should Know | How-To
Well, a new year is upon us, it’s also the start of a new decade within the blogosphere. More and more people are building blogs, and that means there are lots of blogs competing for the same eyeballs and your blog is just one of many. Try finding accurate figures on how many blogs there are and you will know it’s impossible to find a verifiable number because bloggers and their blogs come and go. Look around. It’s certainly a disheartened moment when you see blogs with quality articles that have been abandoned by their creators. With all of these blogs out there, and all those information available at no cost, how do you make your blog stand out? 1. Image: via Dat Le Unless you want to throw all of your marketing budget and precious time on people who could care less about your blog, then you must pay attention to determine the preferred audiences to whom you would like to target. 2. Don’t follow the herd within your sphere of interest. Be honest. 3. Controversy sells. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Office of Public Utility Counsel
What is ERCOT? Founded in 1970, ERCOT is an independent, not-for-profit organization responsible for overseeing the reliable and safe transmission of electricity in Texas. ERCOT keeps the lights on for Texans and oversees the Texas wholesale and retail electric markets. For more information, go to www.ercot.com. By statute, ERCOT is assigned the following responsibilities: Ensuring reliability and adequacy of regional electric network. ERCOT is subject to the Texas Legislature, fully regulated by the Public Utility Commission, and governed by a Board of Directors. The ERCOT Region is one of three North American grid interconnections located in the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) region (NERC Interconnections Map). ERCOT Region ERCOT is the only entity of its type in the United States. How does ERCOT impact residential and small business electricity consumers? ERCOT keeps the lights on for Texans and oversees the Texas wholesale and retail electric markets. Savings
22 Blog Post Headlines That Never Fail
Headlines are everything online. Whenever you Google something or check out a website, the headlines are the first the things that show up. Visitors and even people searching on Google will make a quick assessment of your website in the blink of an eye just by looking at the headlines. In that case, it is vital that the headlines are eye-catching and interesting enough to entice them into reading it. Strong headlines are important, but the content should also match the headlines. The true advantage of writing these types of articles is that they are evergreen and continue to bring visitors long after they have been posted. 1. 10 of the Biggest ______ Mistakes Think about the biggest problems that people have in a certain subject area and then think backward to the mistakes that caused the problems in the first place. 2. 10 Ways to ________ This is more of a listing article that will explain various ways to do a certain thing. 3. 10 Reasons Why Your ______ Doesn’t Work 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
79 Most Popular Social Media Blogs to Comment on or Guest Post For
Ah, social media… most people can’t live without accessing their Facebook or Twitter at least once a day, if not multiple times in the morning! What about blogging? It is still one of the biggest activities in the cyberspace. It is so huge that it cannot be ignored any more. Statistics available from NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey company shows that as at the end of 2011, there were an astounding 181 million blogs worldwide. These blogs serve tremendous purposes and have proven to be extremely useful for their audience. To give you an example, here are some intriguing articles I’ve found recently on social media: How to best use these sites? The following is a list of the 79 most amazing and informative social media blogs. I collected them by following a specific selection criterion: Sites listed are updated (quite) often, and have an average Page Rank of 4. Some of the posts get an average of 100 comments. For example, AllFaceBook.com has close to 500k Facebook fans.
