August 11, 2009

Why is social media promotion more valuable than regular WordPress SEO

Posted in Wordpress by Alex | Tags: SEO, Social Networks, Wordpress

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Ever wonder why sometimes regular WordPress SEO is not enough for your blog posts? Well that thing is about to change. Often when you start a new blog, you get stuck in promoting it. The alternative for easy promotion is to understand the beneficial aspects of social media and bookmarking websites.

New ways of increasing link authority trough visitor relationships

Twitter followers, zounds of RSS readers and digg friends can make a difference to your newly created blog. Think this, what would be better to promote a blog post, a hundred people on Twitter that view your post title or simple H2 and H1 tagging? Twitter, Digg and RSS relationships can make your perfect wordpress blog post stand out more easily.

Here are some tips on increasing Twitter followers
Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers by kevin Rose the founder of Digg

Here are some trusted facts on increasing RSS readers
10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers by Brian Clark

And here you can find out how you can be the big cheese on Digg
The Secret to Massive Digg/StumbleUpon Traffic Without Spamming ( This post is a little old and it involves Stumbleupon but is worthwhile ).

Increasing blog momentum and traffic by having the best audience

Write hard, write often. Someone told me in my early days why my website articles were not interesting. First thing first, try and not write about something that everyone writes about, like “10 best wordpress SEO plugins“. The key to massive traffic is not having the best SEO blog, the key is having the best audience, real people, with real interests in your content. These people will surely link to you, follow you on twitter and read your RSS feed.

Here is how you can write professionaly and get more audience
How To Write Great Blog Content – The Pillar Article
Blogging in an Oversaturated Market is Usually a Poor Decision
40 Ways to Deliver Killer Blog Content

Ways on increasing the time that Google crawls your blog

Forget the website load time, meta description, keywords. These are important, BUT! not as important as having someone actually reading your articles. The expers say that in the near future, the most bookmarked websites will have the power and I have to say that I am with them.

Note that Google still relies on complicated algorithms when crawling, promoting and punishing the content on the web, so we won’t kill the SEO just yet. Everybody loves a well crawled wordpress blog so one of the best ways on doing that is to have a presence on a well crawled site, and by this I mean getting on the first page with a do-follow link on some social bookmarking websites. Note that asking others to place your link on their page is almost dead so it is a bit pointless to do that.

Here is a list of some social boomarking sites that are well developed and where you can get voted quickly, thus increasing your chances of getting on their first page and scooping that precious bit of link authority.

Other tips on increasing you WordPress Blog crawl rate
10 Ways to Increase Your Site Crawl Rate

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