A blog without comments looks dead but that is totally alright if your blog is new. When a blog is new it has a low readership and returning visitors. Over a period of good time when your website finally starts getting the attention it deserves you will gradually start getting comments.
This post is based on the previously written article on
Reasons why people will comment on your blog.
These are some evil little tricks to increase the potential of your blog posts getting comments. There are several plugins for wordpress that you can use to improve readers experience and provide them free incentives.
Here is a simple guide you can follow to increase your blog comments potential.
Make your blog DoFollow
You can find a good long list of dofollow blogs on internet. Many bloggers write about such list of blogs that are dofollow and you can find one good list if you search on Google right now. DoFollow attribute lets search engines know that the links on their blog can be followed, helping you to increase your back links.
If you are using wordpress then you can find a plugin to make your blog dofollow.
Use Top Commentators Plugin on Sidebar
Top Commentators plugin for wordpress will add a widget on sidebar that will display a specified number of readers who commented on your blog with their URL on the name. This can encourage your visitors to comment on your post to get on to that list.
The advantage for them here is that the widget
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You might need to optimize your wordpress database to improve performance or simply clean the junk data. Here are some of the widely used database optimizers for wordpress that are easy to install, manage and use.
DBOptimizer
This plugin is just a simple tool that may be useful to keep your wordpress databases optimized. This helps you delete spam comments and revised posts from the database.
This plugin also rename one username to another username, it's designed to rename default "Admin" user to your desired name.
Download DBOptimizer Plugin
WP-Optimize
WP-Optimize is a wordpress 2.7 + database cleanup and optimization plugin. It doesn't require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments within few clicks.
Download WP Optimize Plugin
WP DB Optimizer
This plugin lets you optimize your database tables without the need of using PHPMyAdmin details in one flick for high performance.
This automatically optimizes your database tables and is very easy to install and manage.
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These days all the good domain names seem to be taken. It's bad that so many nice names are either parked or kept unused. One could do a good use of a nice domain name. Here is the list of domain names that i found which are fortunately available to register.
But this list is as of today, 18th November 2010. These might get registered as more visitors read this list.
- Blisterous.com
- Brainstrainer.com
- Emptyboot.com
- Emptymessage.com
- Loopworm.com
- Crapacious.com
- Clientail.com
- Crystified.com
- Wallbored.com
- Fluffism.com
- Afrocious.com
These domain names does not look like it can match any specific niche in the current internet market. So most probably they can be used for any content website. If you happen to find and match a good niche for these domain names, then good luck for you.
Some ideas for the content that can suit these domain names are Social Bookmarking Sites, An alternative site to izismile.com or other funny photos and funny videos related websites or it can be simply your personal blog space.
Please write your thought on the one you liked as a comment below.
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Forums are the best places to share and learn new things in your business niche. If you are into internet marketing or online business and a newbie, following forums will help your business grow better.
Some of you might know these forums already and if not, these domains can also help you get a quality back links and promote your business if you do it the right way.
Digital Point Forum
Digital Point is an Online Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization forum with around 406308 total member as of today. It is one of the most active forums to join and discuss real time issues and other things related to marketing and seo.
Besides internet marketing and seo, it has a vast selection of categories covering almost all the aspects of internet and online business.
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Warrior Forum
Warrior Forum is another Internet Marketing forum launched in 1997 with around 242303 and growing members as of today. Unlike Digital Point, Warrior Forum strictly focus on internet marketing and other products and services related to internet marketing.
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Web Hosting Talk
If you want to learn more about web hosting or if you simply want to find which is the right web host for your online business, then Web Hosting Talk is the right place for you. Web Hosting Talk is one of the largest and most influential web hosting community on internet.
WHT has a vast selection of categories covering almost all the aspects of a web
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Did you know that the domain name reallydull.com once used to redirect to microsoft.com?
The redirection fact was mentioned in one of the PHP books that i had purchased a few years ago. The who is information for the domain reallydull.com had no information available for public.
Today, when i tried visiting reallydull.com it was no longer redirecting to the microsoft.com website.
It was showing a parked page from godaddy.com earlier this morning. In the next attempt it started asking for username and password for accessing the page under me.com domain name.
Now the domain is again showing the parked page from godaddy.com
Looks like someone is working out on the domain name.
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Now i am not saying that i am the next
John Chow or that i earned thousands out of this method. The earnings will totally depend on the amount of traffic you get.
But i have seen a noticeable improvement through this method on reports from Amazon Associates.
So here is how it goes.
One of my other website which is a personal blog, is very well indexed for several keywords related to ecchi anime and the list of best ecchi anime. There are tens of keywords that gives hundreds of visitors each day and over all contributes to more than 90% of the total organic traffic to the website.
So one fine morning i was hit by an idea that what if i sell anime dvd's on this post because it is very well ranked and gives hundreds of visitors each day. I quickly signed up with amazon associates and browse their directory to put relevant ecchi anime dvd's for sale on the website.
Now i did not place their codes on the entire website, but simply added some of the products
right below the posts. That would basically provide an option for the readers to browse and purchase those dvd's if they wanted to.
Many would go for creating a website to promote affiliate products, that can make you start everything from scratch and put a lot of time and efforts to promote the website in order to generate any sales.
So this is basically like going exactly in a
reverse order.
First see
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When you start a new website or a blog, it can be in a Google Sandbox for the first couple of months. This is the time when your website usually has very less content and search engines are totally unaware of your website.
Your web pages indexing can be slower at first but that totally depends on how you work out with your website.
This website was started a couple of months ago and is now getting hundreds of organic visitors each day for several keywords. I was very curious to know when this site will get out of Sandbox or whatever those people out there on forums talks about a newly launched website and search engines. I wanted this website to get indexed fast and start getting hundreds of visitors through search engines.
So i had to change the way the posts were being written on this website
XML Site Map and Search Engine Submission
If you are using wordpress or any other CMS, then create an XML site map and submit it to Google, Yahoo and Bing so that they know your website exists and start crawling web pages for indexing.
Unique Content won't bring organic traffic
Content is king and only unique content. Unique content is important to get a huge traffic but it is not if your blog is new.
When this website was started i was not happy with the number of indexed pages and the traffic that it was getting. So i started thinking from a surfer's point of view and searched
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I have been reading on other huge blogs about how to blog or write posts, and many of them discussed a point to get personal in your blog posts. But that cannot be good when you start a new blog.
Getting personal can mean anything from discussing a topic other than what your blog is primarily about or simply your personal experiences or an event. Many bloggers does that.
Last month i wrote an article on how i
solved wordpress 3.0.1 widgets drag and drop problem and its so well indexed by search engine that i get hundreds of visitors from search engines for those keywords.
If it wasn't for that article i wrote that day, i wouldn't be getting so many visitors for this website.
When you blog, what you write does matter
When you start a new website, it is necessary to write SEO titles and use relevant keywords in the article consistently. It can be good to get some organic traffic to your website.
The primary focus is always to get traffic.
When is it the right time to get personal?
If you are blogging then the right time to get personal in your blog is when you develop a consistent readership. When you have enough traffic and returning visitors to your blog.
So one of the focus should be to attract traffic and write articles from that perspective. Writing about a personal event at first won't bring in any good traffic. If you have a huge readership then those posts on your events and
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Lately i have been getting a lot of mails from twitter about several people following the website. The volume goes to 6 to 7 followers each day.
But when i check the twitter account the total number of twitter followers are always the same or lesser than before.
It looks like these are automated software or bots that follow random people with a hope that they will get a follower in return.
Don't follow your follower unless you really want to.
Many a times people will tend to follow their followers in return. But that is what these automated software are all about.
They are going to unfollow you anyways, all they care about is to get a follower in return. If you fall for them and follow them, the changes are you will be following a lot of people but no one is following you.
You don't have to follow everyone that follows you. Make sure you know the person or the business that twitter account is for.
Twitter Follow Bots
If you search on internet for Twitter follow bots, you will find hundreds of such online services. All you need to do is sign up with them and include your account and it does all the dirty work of getting you followers.
Some automated scripts are even smarter.
What they will do is, track all the analyzed data and statistics and follow random or relevant people unless a set number of those follow your account back.
The number can go in thousands. You can set this number and it
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These are the proven methods of marketing a local online business. I worked part time for this business owner who wanted to start a website to extend his business reach and increase sales potential. He was already a big guy with a lot of links to some other big business guys in the city but still when it came to launching a website, we had to think on ways to get it to local people who shops online.
This is nothing different than marketing an offline business, but since it was just a website he wanted to promote, it was a bit different.
So here are the things that we tried to promote his online business in local market. It did work, it gave his website a lot of traffic and sales online.
Please note that these methods are not free, you will have to invest a small amount in marketing.
City Magazine Advertising
The guy happen to know other business guy who owns a City Magazine for the local politician. The magazine earned a lot through Advertising, no doubt in that. So it was obvious and the primary choice to advertise his newly launched website. Many major cities can have a city magazine, if not then no problem, you can try some other options.
Local Radio Station
Every city has a local radio channel if not a magazine. This can be the best option to promote your local online or offline business. Radio Jockeys will simply give a shout out of your business or create an
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