http://wptutorial.com/blog Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:42:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Copyright © miketestsite.info 2011 info@wptutorial.com (WordPress Made Easy) info@wptutorial.com (WordPress Made Easy) 1440 http://wptutorial.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://wptutorial.com/blog 144 144 WordPress Made Easy WordPress Made Easy info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/so-are-you-taking-advantage-of-current-trends-in-your-blogging http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/so-are-you-taking-advantage-of-current-trends-in-your-blogging#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:37:21 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=2181 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/so-are-you-taking-advantage-of-current-trends-in-your-blogging/feed 3 0:02:39 First let me wish you a Happy St Patrick’s Day the day on which the whole world is Irish for at least the day. That is part of the point of this post. Catching a hot trend can often be helpful when you are looking for ideas for your latest bl[...] First let me wish you a Happy St Patrick’s Day the day on which the whole world is Irish for at least the day. That is part of the point of this post. Catching a hot trend can often be helpful when you are looking for ideas for your latest blog posts. Sometimes you actually need to go searching for hot trends, but I would bet that most of the time you are already aware of what is hot without even opening trends. For example I could have written my post for today a month ago and know that as today is St Patrick’s Day anything with a slant towards… St Patrick Leprechauns Shamrocks or similar items will be hot today. They are every year. Any holiday that is popular can be a good topic. Likewise for a US audience anything that ties into the big start of the NCAA basketball tourney today or “March Madness” would be a good way to slant things. If you check the screen cap from trends you will see the following in the right column related to St Paddys Day. guinness st.patrick s day shamrock corned beef and cabbage recipe four leaf clover And there is a result for the NCAA with bracket predictions. All of these would be expected even last month. There is no surprise that the majority of the hot topics has to do with the trouble in Japan with the nuclear reactors and related topics. These are not predictable like the earlier items mentioned for today. They can be a good hook though if they relate to your topic. Will you always be able to do this? No you won’t. When you can do it and it makes sense you should. It can be helpful with drawing new readers because the top trends are attracting attention and when you can ride on that and have it make sense with your topic, you are more likely to go viral on the social sites. What do you think and have you used this in your own blogging? Leave your comments below. About the author Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. If you would like help in building your business check out my coaching offer. Social Bookmarking Technorati Tags: blog traffic, japan nuclear reactor, march madness, st patricks day, trends traffic info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/quickly-find-quality-blogs-to-comment-on http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/quickly-find-quality-blogs-to-comment-on#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:56:11 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=2172 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/quickly-find-quality-blogs-to-comment-on/feed 0 0:03:07 Blog commenting can be an effective way to generate back links and attract traffic to your site. Previously, I have discussed using a feed reader to find on topic blogs to do that and then taking part in the conversation. You can read about that in[...] Blog commenting can be an effective way to generate back links and attract traffic to your site. Previously, I have discussed using a feed reader to find on topic blogs to do that and then taking part in the conversation. You can read about that in a previous post at “Finding blogs to comment on“. Sometimes it can be hard to find quality blogs that are on topic to comment on. Here is another way to find great blogs to interact with that doesn’t need to take all of your time. Before we continue first this warning. When blog commenting actually take part in the conversation and add value to the post you are commenting on. Don’t stop by and leave crap. If you don’t add value no one is going to follow your comment back to your blog. You may get a backlink but most bloggers that can actually help you get new readers will spam your comment. I definitely will. Smart bloggers are active on Twitter and tend to share other bloggers quality posts. You can use this to your advantage to find great new blogs to take part in the conversation. Here is how you can add this to your arsenal of tools and not take all of your time. After all we all have limited time. First you should be using a Twitter app that allows you to create filters like Tweet Deck does. (At least as long as Twitter keeps allowing it, but that is another topic.) When you find a quality blog, follow that person on Twitter and put them in a special column so it is easy to see what they are mentioning. Take a few minutes a couple of times a day to go visit the blogs they are mentioning if the title interests you. Here is where your titles are important. After all you are only going to check out the titles that catch your attention. Make sure your titles are catching others attention too. If you like the post and can add to, take the time to comment on it. Retweet it to your followers. Add that person to your Twitter followers and to your special column. Now you can see what that person is retweeting and if they point you to quality posts you keep them in your special column. If not or if they are posting crap (it happens) just remove them. Do this on a regular basis and you will gradually expand your reach and be surprised at some of the things you will find and how rapidly you can expand your reach. As long as you are adding value with your comments, this can be a very effective way to attract more readers and find people to network with that are in your niche. A few minutes a day can greatly expand your reach. How do you find blogs to comment on? Leave a comment and let me know. About the author Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. If you would like help in building your business check out my coaching offer. Social Bookmarking Technorati Tags: blog commenting, bloggers, blogs, traffic, twitter traffic info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/are-you-using-press-releases-for-your-blog http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/are-you-using-press-releases-for-your-blog#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:42:31 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=2136 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/are-you-using-press-releases-for-your-blog/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/2-ways-to-extend-your-reach http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/2-ways-to-extend-your-reach#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:25:16 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/traffic/2-ways-to-extend-your-reach http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/2-ways-to-extend-your-reach/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/all-traffic-is-not-the-same http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/all-traffic-is-not-the-same#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:18:41 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=1967 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/all-traffic-is-not-the-same/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/testing-a-new-list-building-plugin http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/testing-a-new-list-building-plugin#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:45:35 +0000 Mike http://wptutorial.com/blog/?p=1926 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/testing-a-new-list-building-plugin/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/using-google-trends-for-extra-traffic http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/using-google-trends-for-extra-traffic#comments Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:08:38 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=1896 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/using-google-trends-for-extra-traffic/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/tweet-old-post-a-nice-plugin http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/tweet-old-post-a-nice-plugin#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:14:50 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=1893 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/tweet-old-post-a-nice-plugin/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/blog-contests-a-good-idea http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/blog-contests-a-good-idea#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:11:46 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=1818 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/blog-contests-a-good-idea/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/5-ways-to-increase-your-blog-traffic-2 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/5-ways-to-increase-your-blog-traffic-2#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:13:35 +0000 Mike http://wptutorial.com/blog/?p=1750 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/5-ways-to-increase-your-blog-traffic-2/feed 0 0:03:00 Copyright 2010 – Mike Paetzold – All rights reserved Here are 5 things you can do to increase your blog traffic. The first and one of the easiest is to make sure your blog is set up properly. Using a plug in that allows custom title tags[...] Copyright 2010 – Mike Paetzold – All rights reserved Here are 5 things you can do to increase your blog traffic. The first and one of the easiest is to make sure your blog is set up properly. Using a plug in that allows custom title tags like All In One SEO can make a huge difference in how the search engines rank your content. Having a quality ping list that gets pinged each time you post is another easy item to setup. Both of these are one time efforts that will continue to pay off for you in the long run. The second way to increase your blog traffic is by commenting on other related blogs. It is important to actually be taking part in the conversations there. It is even better if the blogs you are commenting on are do follow and use the Comment Luv plugin that will allow you to create backlinks to your internal pages. This takes some time and effort but will ultimately allow you to get more visitors. The third way to increase your blog traffic is through submitting articles. If you are blogging regularly you are already creating content. It is easy to adapt this content into article content that you can use for article marketing. Another way to generate backlinks to your blog which will help you to get higher rankings in the search engine leading to more traffic. The fourth way to increase your blog traffic is to add a podcast of your content. It is easy to do with WordPress. Just add a podcasting plugin like Podpress and read your blog posts. With free software like Audacity you only need a microphone and your computer to create the necessary mp3. Submit your podcast feed to the various directories, particularly Itunes and you get access to another audience for your blog content and back links to your blog. The fifth way to increase your blog traffic is to use your content to create videos. It is easy to do. Create a power point of your blog post and read it. You can use Camtasia or even one of the free video software products available makes it easy. Submit your video through Tube Mogul and you can easily create more ways for people to find your blog. These are just 5 ways to get more blog traffic and there are many more. Keep up to date with this blog and find even more covered here regularly. Check out Sunday Night Cash Plan and get step by step help on exactly how I do this regularly. Here is the video from this post. About the author Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. If you would like help in building your business check out my coaching offer. 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