The new WordPress 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tynerhas been released with several enhanced features and addons.
1. Easily revise your photos or restore your previous editions for a certain post. This benefits multi-author blogs where you can see every change tracked by person.
2. Easily blog about a newly found stuff (a video, an audio file, an image, an interesting article, etc.) from the web with its enhanced Press This! button. Easily grab the text, images, quote or embed a video with this feature.
3. Catch more attention by adding captions for your images.
4. Preview your chosen theme first before using it to your blog.
It is said that there are two factors that are proven to boost your Internet marketing by giving you as urge of website traffic. These three factors are content, targeted traffic and high conversion rate.
Creating quality content for websites can be quite simple. As long as you know the steps to use and how to link them to your site, then this will prove to be a difficult problem for you.
Getting targeted traffic requires a little word. But by using your contents, you will be able to do this easily.
Higher conversion rate will soon follow are you got both content and traffic to your site. Quality content can bring targeted website traffic. And with the targeted traffic comes the high conversion rate for you and your website.
Of all the three factors, you will notice that getting targeted traffic is the one not easily attained.
The bulk of you effort should be with getting pertinent inbound link and publishing your free articles on websites around the Internet.
The quantity of traffic driven by inbound link and article is less than that driven by search engine or directory. However, targeted traffic is easier to be converted. That is why it is better to put more time in getting inbound link and writing articles.
One of the more crucial component of online marketing is to understand your website traffic’s combination. It can tell you what your customers want, what they do at websites they visit and the actions they want done. Read more…
Previously, I’ve talked about the importance of submitting your site to directories. Aside from being a free source of traffic, it is also categorized, hence, you are building quality inbound links for your site, which are loved by search engines. I’ve listed below the most popular directories that you can submit your new blog to.
Entrecard has been one of the good sources of traffic for most Entrecarders [users]. Some good tools are available to enhance the functionality of Entrecard and help the users boost their traffic through Entrecard.
WordPress Plugins:
1. Entrecard Popper. “It’s a WordPress Plugin that pops your Entrecard up to the top middle of the page when a user comes from an Entrecard surfing site, otherwise it stays where you put it.”
2. EntreDroppers. This plugin creates a list of the Entrecard droppers to your blog. This plugin uses the RSS feed of your Entrecard inbox.
Other Widgets:
1. You Drop, I Link. This widget works like a blogroll and displays 50 blogs that dropped on your Entrecard widget.
2. CreateElf also has recent drops widget which works similarly with the EntreDroppers plugins.
You can also easily list your latest Entrecard droppers by using your widgetized theme. AskOwen has a detailed steps on how to easily add this widget on your WordPress blog.
Promotion is the most important way to get traffic to your blog that even SEO giants agree with. There are different ways that you can promote your blog.
1. Submit your site to web directories
Web directories were the first source of traffic for websites, before the power of search engines was discovered. In fact, Google started out as web directory. Nowadays, the importance of web directories is on building quality links highly valued by search engines.
2. Promote your site through writing for article directories
Article submission is a good way to generate relevant links to your website. Be sure to include your links on your resource box. Article submission is said to have a viral effect. If your article gets noticed, other website owners of similar niche your article is about, they will post it on their websites, giving you links.
3. Advertise your site. Entrecard is an innovative way to advertise your website. It gives the smaller blogs to get noticed. You can take advantage of the free advertising offered by AdGridwork.
4. Be social.
The power of social networks such as Twitter, Stumble Upon, YouTube, etc. are now exploited by webmasters and internet marketers to promote their website or products. Read more…
Social Networking comes in many shapes and forms, but the good thing is that it’s easy to dabble in and I’ve, personally, seen great results with little effort.
It’s free to try, so there are no excuses.
Here’s how it works. You sign up for one or more of the programs below (all are free).
• StumbleUpon.com
• Digg.com
• Reddit.com
(You can search Google or other search engines to find hundreds more. This is just for starters.)
Next, update your profile on each site you’ve joined, including your URL and photo.
Then, the next time you post something of interest on your blog (or see something on a friend’s blog), you just submit it to the sites above.
Many of these Social Networking sites expect you to be an active participant. You’re expected to rate and comment on other people’s contributions. Just jump in and play with it and watch your stats to see what is and is not working. You’ll see the traffic start to trickle in if you play by the rules and share quality information. (Don’t be afraid to have an opinion and stand out!) Read more…
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