7 Tips For Making A Blog Post

I wanted to spell out how to create and market a blog post. There are, of course, several different ways to market your latest blog post. Below I have outlined a step-by-step strategy for marketing your latest blog post.

1. Your ping list has to be in order. Check out the recommended ping list if you don't have a ping list you are happy using. The first part of marketing your post starts with your ping list. Plain and simple.

2. You must tag your post. Ultimate Tag Warrior is a required plugin for Wordpress blogs. It will allow you to categorize content based on a tagging engine. Without a doubt, Ultimate Tag Warrior is one of the most powerful Wordpress plugins. Each time you make a post add your keywords as tags at the bottom of your post.

3. Tag Technorati throughout your post. For example, this post is about Web 2.0 and blog posts. Using this approach will keep your posts at or near the top of the list at Technorati. There's a really killer plugin called Tagalize-It that makes tagging throughout your posts really simple.

4. Your post is pinged and tagged properly. Now what? Time to syndicate your post and generate some immediate traffic. Some clarification is necessary here. Web 2.0 sites normally have 2 types of functions. Either they act as bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us or they act as story submission sites like Digg where users vote on the quality of story.

5. Understanding syndication and bookmarking. At Del.icio.us, the more users that have a site bookmarked; the more popular it is. At Digg, users submit stories and people vote on whether or not they like them. The more votes a site receives the more prominent it is on the site. Either way, users are rating the content.

6. Automate your bookmarking for free. After you post, use a service called OnlyWire to bookmark your post at 15 different services. It's absolutely free. This will generate 15 backlinks to your site instantly. If you use OnlyWire naturally, meaning that you bookmark sites you actually like and not just your blog posts, then your accounts at each bookmarking will gain TrustRank and PageRank over time.

7. Start submitting your post to the different story submission services. After making a post, then just submit your blog post to each service. The thing about this is there are hundreds of these sites out there. Find the ones relevant to your niche market and you will really clean up on the traffic.

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