Shoto Azikuri

Today i want to talk about Blog Catalog. It is Blog Social Network from where you can get traffic, backlinks and build relationship with other bloggers.

What does Blog Catalog offer?

• This is catalog as we can understand from title and you can submit your blog in directory. This is main meaning of this site.
• Here you can find Discussions page, which i like very much. It is something like forum, there are threads about blogging and you can talk with other bloggers, with it you can get some traffic.
• There are also Groups where are united people about some subject and they open threads about this subject.
• As i have already said you can build relationship with BC, it’s really true. Here you can add other members as friend and share your stuff to them. You also can leave messages them.
• And another service  is logs on your blog, it is competitor of  mybloglog and it is used by a lot of blogs.

Blog Catalog

This was what i want to say about blog catalog, and i want to start BC Marketing and try to get more then 30-40 unique visitors per day from this site.

If you have any experience in Blog Catalog marketing you can give me any advices

I am new in blogging and every day learning more about blogging. In this 1 month i learned some interesting blogging tips so i will share this tips.

One most important thing what you must to do first when you are starting blogging is build relationship with other bloggers.

Build Relationship with other bloggers

How can you build relationship and why? Best way to build this relationship is commenting, commenting and commenting. If blogger see that someone comments on him(her) blog often, he interest in this person and discover new blog. You can to be owner of this blog. When you are commenting frequently other readers of this blog also discover your blog and if this blog use top commentators widget you will get more visitor, backlink and promotion of your blog.

So with commenting on other blogs you can get serious traffic and backlinks. It is thing which you must do when you are starting a new blog.

Forum Marketing

You can use forums as source of traffic, you need some forums in your niche and post on these forums. You can check my post about Forum Marketing: 5 Forum Marketing Tips.

Make Your Blog Interesting

Before you start active marketing of your blog just create some interesting on it. What we can do for our blog to interest people in it?

1. Frequently Updating - when readers see that they can find a new thing after every visit on your blog their interest is growing up to your blog. It is more important then some killer and high quality content.
2. Interesting Posts - Try to write some killer posts once in week. I mean writing a post which can to share your knowledge and your readers will know that you are interesting person and it worthy to read your blog in future too.
3. Offer something to your visitors - It’s winning tactics to bring visitors. You can use Top Commentator widgets and offer backlink to your reader, or you can make contents with attractive prizes. It really works.

These are blogging tips which help you to promote your new blog and get traffic. If you like this post please stumple it and post comments with your ideas.

Unfortunately in these days I am so busy, i have to write my homework and it hasn’t the end. So instead of write posts i read blogs and i want to show you 5 blogs i read. Of course i also read problogger, john chow and other well known blogs but they aren’t in this list.

1. Linkers Blog is Danny Cooper’s blog. He write about link building and blogging, there you can find good advices about link building and blogging. One of the best things i discovered on this blog is Blog Commenting. Danny make it Art, art commenting. You can learn from Danny how to increase traffic and SE rank, how to build quality links and how to promote yourself and your blog via commenting.
2. Sly Visions is blog by Sly Blanco about Internet Marketing, SEO and Blogging. Here are also posts about Make Money Online and what i like in this blog is  Questions and Answers posts.
3. Iron Blogger is Robin Haney’s blog about Blogging, sometime i discover there really very cool posts, he spent a lot energy and time for this blog as i see and i think it is worthy to read this blog.
4. Franklin Bishop is one of my favourite blog, Franklin is really professional and you can learn from him a lot about blogging and Internet marketing. In first time, when i start blogging i was reading his posts and it help me to know how i can start successfully blog. I advice you to read Franklin’s posts.
5. How To Blog is blog with frank advices, and it is about how to blog, how to increase your traffic and many blogging tips. There are posts with practical and really useful advices. So you won’t lose nothing if sometime visit to this blog.

Many bloggers ask how they can to get people to bookmark their posts. We can talk a lot about it , but in this post I want to show you one inevitable thing for it. This is social bookmark buttons, you will agree that if reader see nice buttons there is more chance that reader bookmark your post and if buttons aren’t in fact there is a very little chance to remember bookmark post.

How to make such buttons?

Those buttons are very nice and easy to see, so how to make such buttons? It is easy:

1. Find buttons in .gif, .jpg or other format and upload them to your ftp.

2. Go to WP-Admin>Design>Theme Editor>Main Index Template (index.php) and find this code:

<?php the_content(’Read More…’); ?>

and you must add here code of social bookmark buttons, you must search urls from where you can add your post to social bookmark site and edit it, for example http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url= this is url where you can bookmark page in SU so you must edit this code http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?> the_permalink menas link of your post, so there is final code you must add :

<a href=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><img src=”http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/32×32_su_shadow.gif” alt=”Stumble It!”></a>

<a href=”http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>”>
<img src=”http://digg.com/img/badges/32×32-digg-guy.png” width=”32″ height=”32″ alt=”Digg!” />
</a>

<a href=”http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>”><img src=”http://azikuri.com/wp-includes/images/delicious.png” width=”32″ height=”32″ alt=”Bookmark!” /></a>

You have already added buttons on main page of your blog.

3. In the end you should add buttons on post’s page in single.php instead of index.php. Find this code:

<?php the_content(’Read More…’); ?>

and add the same code below.

Now you can see social bookmark buttons on your blog, if you want another social media site’s buttons on your blog find image of buttons, submit url and make it as others.

So if you like this article you can bookmark it with nice social bookmark buttons :))

There is a lot of source where you can to promote your blog and get traffic. One of such source is Forums, where are lot of members which will interest in your blog, there is things what you must to do for driving traffic to your blog via forums. I can’t say that i am guru of forum marketing, but I will share tips which I know:

1. Firs you must search forums related your blog,  choose 2-3 most popular forums in your niche and start posting.
2. Try to be active member, post more then 40-50 post per day, if it is large forum, if isn’t then it’s enough 20 post per day.
3. Write informative and intellect posts, help to other members and be friendly.
4. Take part in discussions and if your opinion will win you’ll get respect from other  members.
5. Open threads and share your knowledge and tips which will be help and interest by members.

Those were few tips what I can tell you about forum marketing and end of my post i want to show some interesting links about forum marketing:

• 100 DoFollow Forum - here is a list of 100 dofollow forums, you can choose some from this list.
• How to Use Forums To Drive Hundreds of Thousand of Readers to Your Blog - i think in headline is everything told, it’s great problogger post.
• Forum Marketing - another interesting blog post about forum marketing.

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