Internet Marketing Extras For Your Blog |
13.06.06 |
Your blogs and sites should be bookmarked all over the web by now. The tips and guides we discussed above should already have helped your sites attract more people or just plain increased traffic or high. Don’t rest on your laurels though because you definitely want to keep going. If your blog is “favorited” or bookmarked in other social sites and in Technorati, then you are off to a good start. This is mainly because every “my favorite” that you get helps your ranking. Basically, each and every single link in a social boookmarking site counts.
If this is done properly, a substantial increase of visitors in your blog or site will be felt. What’s more interesting is that if those visitors add your blog or site to their favorites, they will more or less come back, thereby increasing traffic some more to your site. Story here is to create blogs and sites that have useful extras making them more appealing. Extras would be described as mini tools or widgets that can be integrated to the blog or site. These extra’s make a world of difference when they are present in blogs or websites since readers will have some kind of interaction with them.
Right now, WordPress is the most customizable of the lot simply because of the many plugins that can be used in concert with the blog. It is very easy and simple to use. What’s more, it has plenty of free plugins that are very useful, efficient -even cool looking.
Sociable
This plugin is found in http://push.cx/sociable. What it does is it can automatically add links in your blog entries to the more popular social bookmarking sites. This plugin is highly customizable via a Sociable link. You have the option to remove or add social bookmarking sites in it. Every post in your blog will have an image that can be clicked on to start the bookmarking process to quite a number of social bookmarking sites. Having this in your blog really makes it doubly easy for the reader to bookmark your blog or site to a social bookmarking site. (more…)
Top 100 Blogs |
13.06.06 |
Go to http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs/ to see the top 100 blogs at Technorati. The default tab selected on this site is the “Unique Links” and the other tab being “Most Favorited”.
Unique Links
Popular blogs that are listed here are not just popular, they are currently popular. The most unique links for the past six months are the blogs that are filed. Technorati wants trends. Meaning, you could have tons of links and still not be on top simply because those links weren’t linked to you in the past six months.
There is much to be learned just by going and carefully evaluating the top recorded blogs at www.technorati.com/pop/blogs/ At present, the number one blog has 45,857 links from 29,181 sites. The second placer has 66,219 links from 20,223 sites. As the numbers would indicate, these are serious and top-notch blogs. Look and see if they do something distinctive to get and keep those links. Most trendy blogs commonly have superior content but the major draw will have to be those fancy tools or device that we’d want to link to.
These blogs mainly deal with subjects that are currently all the rage, so popular in fact, that they get abundant links. So the idea here is to let some of those traffic rub off on to your spot by covering those top blogs in yours. Start clicking on the links found in the top blogs and you are sure to pick up a fortune of valuable and practical information about that blog.
Technorati provides you with critical information of a selected blog. One of the tools in the site is from Alexa, it brings up a graph of a blog’s traffic history for the last six months. Top tags of the blog are also indicated in the site along with the number of posts the author makes on a daily basis. I’ve clicked on the top blog (http://blog.sina.com.cn/m/xujinglei) and it shows that the most number of posts the author made was just six and the least was just one. (more…)
eBay plans to sell ads through other Web sites |
12.06.06 |
Online marketplace eBay Inc. is set to unveil a keyword advertising system for eBay sellers to promote auctions on other Web sites, borrowing from the strategies of Google and Yahoo.
Michael van Swaaij, eBay’s chief strategy officer, told a conference of software developers here on Saturday of plans to allow eBay’s army of auctioneers to run contextual ads on other Web sites in exchange for a cut of the resulting eBay sales.
EBay’s system differs from existing pay-per-click advertising systems offered by Google and rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. by linking only to eBay auctions rather than serving as a generic advertising network.
The world’s largest e-commerce site said it plans to provide hundreds of thousands of eBay auctioneers with simple snippets of code they can embed on other Web sites that showcase items that are for sale on eBay’s site.
A test of the program, dubbed eBay AdContext, is set to be introduced early next week, Swaaij said. What goods appear in any particular advertisement will be determined by the keywords on that Web page, a technique known as contextual advertising.
EBay’s system scans the text of a Web site for keywords and returns links to relevant eBay sales listings to the Web page. A Web site about sports could automatically feature links to sporting gear or memorabilia available on eBay, for example.
As listings change on eBay, advertising automatically changes on affiliated Web sites to reflect the new products or services for sale on eBay. Web site affiliates receive a cut of 35 percent to 60 percent of sales, depending on volumes. (more…)
