Today, there are a number of blog indexes available to help you gain a better ranking for your site. These include sites that will search the web looking for blog updates, as well as ones that will catalog specific articles. In some cases, you can register with these article sites and submit your posts for inclusion.Typically, blog indexes are more sociable than a regular search engine index. Among other things, platforms such as Dig It and Red It allow browsers to rate your posts. While you can control the feedback left in your blog, you cannot control how someone rates your blog on these platforms.
That said, registering your site with these indexes may be well worth the risks. If you have material that you believe are new, or useful, this is a good opportunity to see what others think. This is especially important if you want to market a product, and have a theme for your sales pitch. If there is a negative response to your sales pitch, it will give you some ideas of where you need to improve.When you first start blogging, visibility and finding a winning formula are both important. In most cases, even if you read descriptions of how other people succeed in blogging, you may not be able to see the mistakes or shortcomings of your own methods. As a result, blogging indexes that offer a site rating can help you gain site popularity, as well as provide valuable feedback to you.
by: Fabian Tan
5 Tips to Succeed in Universal Search
0 Comments Posted by Catsy_Carpe Diem at Thursday, February 28, 2008The Blended Search Revolution revealed insights from the major search engines about how they are ‘compiling’ the universal search results and how companies should take advantage of the opportunity.
Universal search leverages new content such as news results, images and videos.
David Bailey from Google shared five tips to take advantage of the specialized results:
1. Publish high quality, well captioned images
2. Create a Google video sitemap
3. Update business listings in local business center
4. Submit your feed to Google product search
5. Create a high-quality company blog
The important item to remember is that this generation of search should not be scary for companies. If you’re not quite ready to submit your videos to YouTube, start with a video site map, as mentioned above. The results may not come as quickly, but at least you’re in the game.
How To Start A Social Marketing Campaign
0 Comments Posted by Catsy_Carpe Diem at Tuesday, February 19, 2008
1. Higher search engine rankings for their top keywords.
2. More rankings of additional keywords or "long tail" keyword phrases.
3. More link popularity from sites linking on their own accord.
4. More link popularity from social media sites.
5. More activity on their blogs, such as more commenting and interaction.
6. Direct traffic from incoming links on social media sites (One good StumbleUpon.com
7. Fast traffic increases and steady growth in unique visitors month after month.
8. An increase in subscribers and sales. Social traffic, properly acquired, is very warm to your message and products.
By Jack Humphrey (c) 2008
This part of information will somehow help you on SEO and this was written by Jerry Bader who is Senior Partner at MRPwebmedia, a website design firm that specializes in Web-audio and Web-video. To read more you can visit www.mrpwebmedia.com/ads, www.136words.com and www.sonicpersonality.com.
There are 5 E's we need to remember in order to succeed in blogging. Though I am not compelling you to take this by heart but at least, in this way, I can be of great help in order for you to be able to reach the verge of success in blogging..
The 5 E's of Essential Blogging
1. Effective
2. Expectations
3. Efficiency
4. Engaging
5. Enjoyment
