27 Internet Marketing Rules for Success. Rule #11: Create a Blog

February 15th, 2010 by admin

One of the best ways to generate traffic for your website is to create a blog, update it regularly, and optimize it for search engines.

You have many options when it comes to creating a blog, but two in particular are very popular among Internet marketers:

1. http://www.blogger.com/
2. http://www.wordpress.com/ or http://www.wordpress.org

After you have your blog setup, spend some time researching popular tags on sites like http://www.technorati.com/, which index blogs. Once you do this, create several categories for your blog posts based on these tags.

Once you finish updating your blog, ping all of the blog directories by using a service like http://pingomatic.com/. Your entry will automatically be added to the categories on those sites for which you tagged it.

If you spend some time to create high-quality content, there’s a good chance that visitors to these directories will recognize it, read it, and vote positively on it (if it has a social ranking system, such as Digg’s). This can significantly expand the reach of your blog; and subsequently your site and products.

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