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Archive for February, 2010

Every now and then a blogger discovers that the best way to promote something would be to show their audience rather than tell about it. Video can be a very powerful medium, and not just because it’s gaining in popularity. Youtube, Vimeo,Viddler  and Blip.tv are just three of the many free video submission sites available on the Internet.

By creating an account at any free video submission sites, you can video blog about a product you’re trying out, share content that you would have otherwise blogged, or create a tutorial and instructional video blog on how to do something. Posting the video on your site as well on the submission site introduces you to a new network of readers and viewers. Keyword tagging helps viewers find your video page faster.

In order to get free website traffic back to your blog from the videos you create, add your url to the videos as well as your public profile on the video site. Many video bloggers include a line that reads “for more information…” and input their URL. Adding numerous video and building a channel are an excellent way to gain new readers and viewers on to your site.

Similar to a magazine or ezine, a blog carnival puts together a series of posts on a themed topic. The posts are usually based on a specific topic, which changes regularly and published on a weekly or monthly basis.

You can participate in blog carnivals by searching for sites that host blog carnivals or by hosting your own. Links are collected and then posted for blog readers to click through like a magazine. For readers, a blog carnival is a great way to find information and posts on a topic of interest. For bloggers, it’s a great way to get free traffic back to their site.

Whether you’re creating your own carnival or participating in someone else’s, a blog carnival is free. You must write a post that pertains to the theme (for instance, pet care) and then submit your link to the blog carnival host, by the deadline. You can choose to participate in as many carnivals as you like, each one will bring unique traffic to your blog.

Though blog carnivals can be published weekly or monthly, the link backs to your content can continue long after it’s over as others discover your content.

Many companies or website owners often find that outside of their website there is a lot of valuable information they could be offering people.

Unfortunately, reaching a mass audience can be rather tricky if you don’t know how to go about it. Writing articles and submitting them to various article sites and portals can be the answer you’ve been looking for.

Once you’ve written an article (or hired a professional writer to do it for you), submit the article to various free article sites. Your articles should be relevant to your website and keyword rich in order for it to rank well in search results. One of the benefits of article submitting is that after the article has been submitted, there is little else to do. There is no additional maintenance needed.

Make sure that your articles contain links back to your main website. This way, readers and people looking for more information can click through to your site. Your site can gain a great deal of exposure by submitting your articles to multiple sites. This will result in authentic traffic from those who read your articles and click through to your main site for more information.

Twitter has been hailed as one of the easiest and most versatile way to connect with people in an easy to use platform. Ask anyone on Twitter and they will tell you that’s not only true but the potential to use twitter to gain traffic is enormous.

What most non twitter users don’t realize is that Twitter isn’t being used to talk about your lunch plans or the guy who cut you off in traffic. Rather, twitter is a means for getting your voice heard and your website known. Influencers all over Twitter share their posts, and the posts of other people with their followers.

A look at any blogger’s traffic will tell you that their traffic has increased by using Twitter. When someone clicks on the twitter link you post, they are taken directly to your page. From there they are free to search and retweet anything on your site that they may like.

While people are still just discovering the power of Twitter, one thing is known for certain; this is just the first step to taking social networking to the next level. By interacting with a network of people (your followers) you can share a variety of news and information with them in an open forum.