Mafia Wars Tutorial – Top 3 Ways To Grow Your Family

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Mafia Wars Tutorial – Top 3 Ways To Grow Your Family

Mafia Wars is a game about many things, but first and foremost among those things is the importance of growing your Mafia. If you’re not able to build a large enough group of fellow players to use in the game, you’re going to find it very hard to acquire the resources and complete the jobs necessary to stay on top. So, what are the best ways to grow that mafia and take control? Here are three highly effective ways to make it happen without having to spend a single Godfather Point.

1. Networking on Facebook

Facebook and MySpace are already huge social networks and if you have a few hundred friends, use them. Send out invitations to everyone on your friend list to join your mafia, regardless of how well you know them (steer clear of your co-workers and boss though if you have work connections). Most people will just say yes and if they already have their account, they’ll reciprocate. Don’t waste time by not using the tools already in front of you.

2. Forums and Chatrooms

Alternately, you can find plenty of social venues where you can discuss the game and find people willing to swap places with you in each other’s mafias. This is a prime way to start building up your mafia size without having to spend any additional points or make new friends. You don’t need to stay social to keep you mafia size up, so just find a few people willing to take the rewards you give them and you should be good.

3. Blogging and Craigslist

If you have a blog or are well known somewhere, use that prestige to gather new members. A simple note on your blog about needing new family members will often times take care of the problem all by itself. Alternately, you can post an ad on Craigslist and ask people to join up (it does actually work). Just make sure you don’t give away any personal information until you have checked out the people who reply.

If you use the tools that the Internet provides you for free, you’ll quickly find that it takes very little time or effort to boost your position on Mafia Wars with a full family of 500. It might seem like a stretch, but in just a few weeks you can be one of those top level players too.

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Simple Ways and Effective Tips to Attract Women

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Simple Ways and Effective Tips to Attract Women

Hi guys. Today I want to talk about the best ways and tips to attract women, because that’s one of the most common question people ask when it comes to approach female. To be honest with you there isn’t a special formula and I can’t really give you the right answer but what I can do is to give you some advice from my own experience.  Since I joined Flirt Mastery my dating life has improve so well so that’s why I want to share with you guys some of the ways to attract women.

One of the best ways to attract women is to be the man she wants you to be. That might sound difficult to you but is not impossible. But how to find out what she is looking for? The answer is simple – just have a look at her behavior. Even without realizing the women give off signals of what they find attractive when they talk to man. If she speaks quite you do the same. Pay attention to these signals and reflect them back to her. She’ll feel instantly drown to you.

If you looked at any “how to attract women” course you’ll find that the sense of humor is critical important for your success. But being funny doesn’t means acting like a clown. If you cross the line she’ll be laughing but at you, not with you.

Another good tip to attract women is to be self confident, but you need to find the balance between being confident and coming across as arrogant. Make sure you are groomed well before you leave the house, because you never know when you might run into the woman you looking for.

These are some of the ways and tips to attract women and I hope you found them to be useful

What Did you Say? – Ways to Create Effective Listening Skills

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What Did you Say? – Ways to Create Effective Listening Skills

In the home based business there are many different ways to implement effective listening skills successfully. Everyday you are using your business communication skills with fellow workers, employees, clients, customers, vendors, accountants, advertisers and attorneys to name just a few.

Effective listening skills are on the top of the list of business communication skills. In my article;

Business Communications and Your Business Success, I discuss the many various forms of communication used in the business world.

With all the distractions in the business world today I am amazed that we communicate as well as we do with our business contacts. There are many times in the course of our busy days that someone talks to us and we just barely listen to what they are saying. Our minds are preoccupied with the next comment, thought, or task.

Have you ever caught yourself finishing another person’s sentence? Or have you interrupted a business contact to add your own comments before you even heard the other person out? What about interpreting what someone else said completely wrong because we did not let them finish their sentences or explain their point more clearly?

Here are some ways to create better and more productive conversations, stronger relationships and increase your bottom line.

Ways to Create Effective Listening Skills

*Use Direct Eye Contact

*On the Phone Visualize the Person

*Concentrate and Stay Focused

*Don’t Interrupt your Business Contact

*Leave a brief pause after the other Person Speaks

Use Direct Eye Contact

When you are talking to a business contact look directly at them and concentrate on what they are saying. Too many times we are thinking of what we want to say next and assume we already know what they are going to say. Not only is that very belittling to the person but it also can be the cause for many misunderstandings because we jump to a conclusion that may be incorrect.

On the Phone Visualize the Person

If you are on the phone visualize your business contacts in your mind even if you have never seen them. Create an image in your mind of what they may look like and treat them as if they were in the room with you. Do not do any tasks that are not related to the conversation at hand. It is way too easy to get distracted and miss the point being made.

Concentrate and Stay Focused

What is the message your customer or business contact is really trying to convey? Ask questions to be sure you understood what is being stated. The worst thing to do is to assume you know what your business contact is saying.

Get all the facts, clarify what you think they said and be sure to verify the key points of the conversation. If there is a follow up action needed, make sure that you both are clear on the matter.

Do not Interrupt Your Business Contact

Interrupting a business contact when they are talking is not only rude but you may totally miss the most important point the speaker is saying. Let them finish their sentence or sentences. The point that you may think you want to say might not really be relevant once you hear them out.

Leave a Brief Pause after the Other Person Speaks

Once your business contact has completed their sentences, leave a brief pause. It will give you three important results. First the listener will know that you are taking in what they said and are really listening. Second it will give you time to think of questions that may need to be asked to clarify what they said. Lastly it will give you time to address their questions or comments.

Creating excellent business communication skills will help you and your business profit in many very important ways. When we are all on the same page we can become unified in our efforts and become much more productive.

Benefits of Creating Effective Listening Skills

>Facilitates Better Decision Making

>Increases Rapport with all Business Contacts

>Creates a Friendlier Environment

>Fosters More Cooperation

>Opens doors for Increased Knowledge

>Will Create Increased Profits

Facilitates Better Decision Making

When your listening skills increase you will be more apt to ask the right questions, match the information and solutions that you received from other conversations and be able to discern the best information available from all the sources you talked to.

There are many times that we pay for advice and consulting. It could be an accountant, attorney or business consultant. Listening and learning from them will increase your specific knowledge of these subjects which you will be able to implement in your home based business.

Increases Rapport

Business contacts appreciate the respect that you give them while using effective listening skills. When they know that you are really listening to them and giving them your full attention it is amazing how much more can be accomplished.

In my article; Offer Excellent Customer Service I give numerous examples of ways in which to offer excellent customer service and most of them depend on effective listening skills. Customer service and business communications skills go hand in hand.

Creates a Friendlier Environment

Listening to your employees, business associates or other business contacts gives you the ability to understand what they need in order to get the job done correctly and with fewer misunderstandings. When everyone is on the same page productivity soars.

Fosters More Cooperation

When using effective listening skills, business contacts usually will be willing to share more time with you. As a general rule when people feel that you are being attentive they will offer more ideas to help you and your home based business succeed.

Opens doors for Increased Knowledge

With more effective listening skills you will find that you will remember more of the conversations, take the time to dig deeper and ask more thorough questions. The more time you spend with your business contact the more knowledge you will gain.

I find that people are very willing to share their wealth of information if you just take the time to listen and ask questions. This knowledge will help to propel your home based business forward.

Will Create Increased Profits

With all the great benefits we have listed you should be able to see how effective listening skills will increase your profits. You will be able to offer excellent customer service, glean valuable information from business contacts in regards to marketing, accounting, legal matters and so many other aspects of your home based business.

Effective listening skills are a necessary part of business. The home based business owner who takes the time to listen to what their business contacts are saying can and will be many more steps ahead of their competition.

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SEO Tips – 2 Great Ways To Build Links

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SEO Tips – 2 Great Ways To Build Links

These days many are looking to learn ways of seo to increase their website’s standings on online search engines. Internet marketing is fast becoming the best arena for marketing, with many turning at the internet for services and products. We are going to teach you two of the best ways of getting your SEO efforts on: Submitting to Website Directories and Submission to Article Directories.

Submitting to Website Directories, in our opinion, is a easy, quickest method to help build links to ones site. Here is how it is possible. On the net are hundredths of directories hosted on the internet whose plans are to house quality backlinks to as many sites as possible. Eventhough the website directories today dont help nearly as much as directories at one time did before a growth spur of Yahoo, Google, ect, their purpose is still to help direct people to their quality websites in their different categories.

So how does directory submission help you? Well as a directory picks up a website’s link, you are given one link. This is extremely beneficial as many of these directories have high google pageranks. The only requisite for ones website to be added is that it is has quality content, and also fits a web directory’s categories. Heres an example, lets say someone has a quality-content filled website on the topic of different styles of landscaping. You find directories with a category similar to Home:Gardening and submit their site.

You are given two options when it comes to submitting their website for inclusion in directories. They may manually get online and look for these directories. 1 method of doing this is to search “submit your website” on any online search engine and you will be given a listing of directories. Unfortunately, this way is very time taking. The other, most favored method is to use directory submitter program to submit the sites automatically. On the market exist a lot of programs that do do just this, a favorite choice is SubmitEaze, see their site here: http://www.submiteaze.com/index.jsp?aff=1429. Reviews plus how-to’s can be seen at http://www.directorysubmissionreview.com.

Our second way to build links, submitting articles, is the one we ourselves are doing by submitting this article. This is the way article submission works: there are many article directories that host these articles written by the website’s users. The article directories hope to bring forth quality content on a multitude topics for their visitors.

For you to take advantage of article submission, they simply need to draft original and present them to these article directories. There exist two methods, present articles manually, or automatically by means of article submission software. For one to submit manually, simply search “article directory” on one’s favorite search engine and the search results will have show the article directories. There exist, however, countless applications created to do submission automatically for you. A favorite, which we actually make use of is Automatic Article Submitter. You can visit the program at http://www.plimus.com/jsp/redirect.jsp?contractId=2289226&referrer=daniel7rusu. Reviews plus instructional videos at http://www.article-submission-software-review.com.

Ways to Optimize the site for Google:

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Ways to Optimize the site for Google:

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With a comprehensive optimization technique enforced on a website, the search engines will be able to index and crawl it in an effective way. Website optimization is basically bringing a website displayed in the first few search result for a particular keyword.

Basically there are two finest ways to optimizing a website for search engines and they are On-Page Optimization and Off-Page Optimization.

On-Page Optimization:

On-Page optimization method deals with fine tuning the webpage structure and content. This method can easily be performed since the webmaster can easily modify the web pages on the server. On-Page optimization can be achieved through many processes, let’s discuss some important processes.

Code Optimization:

It is very essential to keep the web page code simple and clean. A clean code can easily be read and understood by the web crawlers whereas it would take much time to crawl through a shabby code. The actual web page should consist of clean tags without the styles coming in the way.

Title Tag Optimization:

The Title tag is a very crucial component of a webpage. When search engines crawls the website, the Title tag is the first element to be crawled making it highly important. The Title tag should be short but descriptive and expressive in content. Meta tags are generally used to describe the page content and services provided in brief. There is a better chance for a website to show up in searches if good Meta tag’s are formulated.

Internal/External Link Optimization:

Optimizing on internal and external outbound links is very important. A website should possess a well structured internal link model with comprehensive anchor text. Avoid placing the entire link as the anchor text; instead, put some keyword targeted words or phrases.

Off-Page Optimization

Unlike On-Page optimization, this optimization techniques are not in the control of the web developer. These techniques refer to how the web perceives the website. Off-Page optimization can sometime be draggy and time consuming but they highly affect the search engine optimization. Moreover, Off-Page optimization is much more better than On-Page optimization. Let’s see some of the Processes, that comes under off-page optimization,

Widespread Keyword Research:

A vital part of search engine optimization is searching the correct and effective keywords. Keywords play an important role in searches, since web pages are targeted for specific keywords.

Use Search Engine Compatible Technology:

Some people will put a lot of funky features on their websites. This includes various CGI scripts, numerous frames, flash components, and even more dynamically created pages. The viewer may enjoy it, but the search engines do not like this as they don’t know how to crawl through it. So if you had a site with a lot of frames or flash components, search engines will have an extremely difficult time crawling through your website. Although your page may be indexed, the spider may not be able to crawl through the various links within the frames.

Update your Website Continuously:

Search engines tend to like active and well updated websites. Because the search engines are always looking for new information to index. Usually, web logs are very successful with search engines because content can be built quite easily.

There are hundreds of tools and techniques to optimize your website for search engines. Consulting with SEO experts and visiting the numerous SEO forums can also help you learn new tips and stay up to date with the latest news in the SEO world.For more details about the SEO logon to

10 Ways to Kill Your Site

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10 Ways to Kill Your Site

This post covers 10 common mistakes people make with their technical SEO.

1. Brand new website, completely flash

I had the privilege of explaining to someone recently that the 5k he had just spend on his new website recently was not money well spent. The whole site was one flash file, and had no text content, making it invisible to search engines. The sad part was that the site didn’t need flash – animation effects were limited to mouseovers on buttons, easily replicated using javascript.

Just because Google says they can read content within swf files doesn’t make it a good idea. If search engine rankings are important, make sure there is plenty of text content for spiders to find.

2. Forgetting to redirect old pages

When you replace that old Frontpage site with your swanky new CMS and completely change all URLs on the site, make sure you setup 301 redirects from the old pages to the new pages.

If you don’t, all the links you have naturally been accumulating will now be broken, meaning Google is likely to ignore them for ranking purposes, and webmasters are likely to remove them from their sites.

Anyone who has gone through the process of building links naturally will know how precious these are, so 301ing the old pages to the new pages is critical.

It takes only a few minutes to do, pay someone to do it if you have to.

3. A robots.txt blunder

Putting a bad line into your robots.txt file is a pretty fast way to axe your site from the search results. If you don’t know what robots.txt is all about, then perhaps it’s worth thinking twice about playing with it?

Google has a tool for checking your robots file, so take the time that any changes are done correctly.

4.No H1 headings

I hate this one so much. Who really knows if the H1 is weighted heavily or not in Google’s algorithm, but my gut feeling is that it is important. I so often see websites where the major heading on the page is not a H1, it’s a styled paragraph or simply a div.

CSS can be used to redefine the styles for existing page elements, such as H1 headings, so it just makes sense to use a H1 tag for your major heading.

5. Sitewide meta description

It’s really easy to stick a meta description into your website template and see it used on every page of your site. Unfortunately, this can axe your site from the search results pretty quickly. If you have a sitewide meta description, then all it takes is a more powerful site to steal your meta description and suddenly they will be ranking instead of you (your site will be lost in the duplicate content filter).

Take the time to use a unique meta description on every page, or leave it blank.

6. Splash pages

The splash page or flash intro page is essentially an empty page (as far as the search engines see it) with a single link to your homepage.

What this means is that your navigation structure is now one level deeper. The page that would have beena PR5 is now a PR4, and Google visits your “homepage” less often (because the splash page is actually the homepage).

If you really really must use a flash intro or splash page, do the right thing and add a little paragraph of text at the bottom for the search engines to see. Also place links to your other top-level pages, not just the homepage, so the link juice spreads around the site properly.

7. 404s with content

I have seen some interesting ways of rewriting URLs, and my favourite had to be the 404 method. Basically, every page returns a 404 header, and a custom 404 handler (a php script) was used to deliver the page content to the browser.

Unfortunately, Google ignores the content and just sees the 404 error, so this site had no show of appearing in search results.

This is uncommon, but it’s worth using a little extra caution when delivering a 404 to the browser. 404s can spell bad things for your site when you get them wrong.

8. Ads, ads, ads

While not strictly a technical issue, nothing screams “don’t link to me” like an affiliate thin content site crawling with Adsense. If you expect to do well in the search engines, you need links, and it’s not worth losing links for the sake of a few dollars a month in Adsense revenue.

Advertising is something that should be added to an established website with established traffic, it’s unlikely you will get rich from advertising revenue on a brand new domain with no links.

9. Black hat that doesn’t need to be black hat

Har har, I’ll write this paragraph of really crap content with some useful keywords and make it white on a white background so people can’t see it.

Thing is, it doesn’t take much more effort to create good content with useful keywords in it and make it visible to your users. People spend time creating dodgy doorway pages when they should be optimising their content pages. Adding crap hidden content to the homepage when they should be writing good sales copy.

Black hat tricks like this are an invitation for other webmasters to burn you (Google never finds out on it’s own). Before going ahead with a black hat scheme, look for white or grey hat alternatives first.

10. Multiple domains and dupe content

I once brought a site from top 60 rankings to top 20 by doing nothing other than removing 14 out of 15 versions of their homepage.
They had…
www.domain.co.nz
domain.co.nz
www.domain.co.nz/default.asp
www.domain.co.nz/default.asp?pageid=1
www.domain.com
www.otherdomain.co.nz
otherdomain.co.nz
secure.domain.co.nz
secure.domain.co.nz/default.asp
etc.

Each version of the homepage had a certain amount of link authority, and the version with the most power showed up in the search results. I redirected all that link power into the main page, and all of a sudden, the rankings jumped, having changed nothing else.

Is your site wasting precious link juice on duplicate versions of yoyur homepage?

Other

There are plenty of other ways to kill your website in the search engines, and I have deliberately skipped some of the obvious and less interesting ones. SEO is often less about doing things well and more about not doing things badly – Intresting SEO Articles

The Easiest Ways Of Finding Best Seo Books On The Internet

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The Easiest Ways Of Finding Best Seo Books On The Internet

An SEO book on the internet is similar to pure gold if such book contains quality information. There are lots of books that claims to contain SEO tips and techniques but most of them carry only recycled and repetitive information of very little benefits. The usefulness of a good SEO guide book is unquantifiable because the ideas and guides you would get therein will definitely help to boost the revenue base of your website if you apply the search engines tips and tricks you would learn from there. Your online home based business is primarily for earning reasons. While this may be true, be mindful of the fact that you should have quality service or product to offer for you to start expecting earnings from such site. Even if you have the best product or service that can be obtained from any where on the entire internet, you need to master some basics about search engine optimization so as to be able attract targeted visitors that will patronize you.

Here are things to look out for in any valuable SEO book on the internet

Any good SEO guide book should be able to clearly explain ethical search engines optimization practices and how to avoid getting involved in some negative practices.

It should be able to give you ways of finding low competition words that would still push you to the top while staying away from the fiercely competitive keywords which are used by others that offer similar products or services in your niche or your competitors.

The right keywords are great for any website but ensure that you use them in ways that make sense without appearing like spamming because that may have adverse effects on your site and may put your site visitors off.

The book should be able to have reasonable articles and materials that will generally improve the search engine ranking of your site. Some sites where these SEO books are sold also have forums that you can still take advantage of. You can register in the forum and join in the community of people like you who are seeking for ways of realistically optimizing their websites for more profits. This has always proved to be very beneficial to all parties especially the newer entrants to the search engine terrain.

Getting people to come to your website as a result of high search engine ranking is the primary aim of any good SEO book but it stops there because the content you have therein is a different aspect of internet marketing altogether. You have to ensure that you device means of keeping the traffic you got through proper SEO applications. You can add a kind of newsletter form so that you can contact your visitors at a later date. You can also make use of videos to demonstrate your points in more details.

Above all, SEO is the number reason of reading any search engine optimization guide book but be prepared to have very quality service, content or product and a very convincing sales letter so that your efforts in getting the web traffic wont be in vain

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7 Ways to Know that Search Engine Optimization Isn’t for You

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7 Ways to Know that Search Engine Optimization Isn’t for You

Truth be told, search engine optimization (SEO) may not be for
you.

Regardless of the product or service and company size, SEO just
may not be something you can handle – at least for now. If you
fall into one of these areas, you may want to just skip the
online marketing rage.

1. You don’t want to edit your content.

If you’re not willing to change your content, an SEO consultant
really can’t do much to help you. Really, the keywords people
use need to be in your content. It’s that simple.

2. You love graphics – lots of graphics.

Partial to graphics? Excellent. If you have plenty of business
and a pretty Web site, SEO may not be in your future. Again,
text helps – if you can work it into your Web site. But if you
love static graphic or Flash and “skip” intro buttons, you may
want to save SEO for another day.

3. Pages short on copy.

It’s not really a repeat of #2. We’ve some rather barren Web
sites with hardly any graphics and not enough copy. Honestly, it
sometimes seems like a hunting expedition may be needed to track
down more than a paragraph. How many words do you need? No one
knows the magic number. But 25 words usually doesn’t help.

4. You change your content a lot.

So you want to keep your home page fresh and exciting?
Unfortunately, major changes often conflict with the SEO
strategy. In other words, if you keep wiping out the keywords an
SEO firm inserts, the program is pointless.

5. You want to wait on the redesign.

Some companies get excited about SEO – high rankings and
increased traffic can pay off. But don’t get started on a
program if you’re just going to let your current Web site miss
out on search engine optimization. Some businesses just want to
gear up keywords for a new design months down the road while
neglecting their current Web site.

6. You can’t stand the thought of your page titles
changing.

The title appears in that blue bar in Internet Explorer – the
one way up there above “Favorites.” If you prefer to say “About
Our Company” instead of keywords that actually BRING traffic,
you might want to put SEO on the back burner.

7. You’re not willing to address other business problems.

SEO consultants can get you traffic, but they can’t make your
Web site more user friendly unless you let them. Maybe your
product page is too busy or your shopping cart is confusing

Ways To Boost Seo Landing Pages

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Ways To Boost Seo Landing Pages

Most marketers spend most of their optimization campaign towards the homestretch of the conversion funnel. One of the best ways to assess the conversion rates at this stage is to develop a customized segment that will discount those visitors who are known to bounce. Since this customized segment will provide you with the engagement information only of those visitors who are really interested, this is a more accurate way to inform any site change. This is very crucial as this is where you will be expecting your paying customers to come from.

But what are you going to do at the top of the conversion funnel? Are you seeing customer immediately leaving moments upon arrival? If such conditions prevail, then it is practical for you to study and identify which pages are causing most of the bleeding. Don’t embark on major site and page changes until you are doubly sure of your SEO entry page with the highest volume. Starting on major site changes without examining the top of the conversion is akin to renting a tux before inviting your prom date. This can lead to unnecessary expenses and sometimes even embarrassments.

In this post, I am going to share with you a list of the things you can do to kick start your underperforming page landings;

1.    Reassuring company policies

Positive policies on rebates, privacy assurances, returns, guarantees, etc. must be presented to new arrivals at the first opportune time. You don’t have to resort to neon arrows and flashing lights. However, try to assess the degree of “scannability” of the pages with deep content.

2.    Testimonials

Your visitors may be all excited about your offer. Make sure that you are able to work on this strong position by reinforcing them with feedback from others whom your visitors consider credible. In fact, you may use their litany of praises as your opening line for your visitors. Amazon has an effective style of presenting prominently the positive reviews at the product pages.

3.    Check the Bounce Rates

You don’t have to analyze each of the URLs unless the volume requires you to. Instead of looking at the individual articles, you must run a summary report of the landing page and analyze the pages as aggregates. Identify the pages where you believe is helping and hurting you the most. Look at the pages where you are retaining most of your visitors and where you are losing most of them.

Most effective ways to drive traffic to your blog

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Most effective ways to drive traffic to your blog

There are literally hundreds of ways to drive traffic to your Blog. Here we have published the 44 most effective ways of getting visitors to any blog.

Enjoy!

1. Be active in Forums and use a Forum Signature including a link to your Blog.

Don’t try to spam forums just to get a link to your blog… you need to contribute great content and help others in the forum, then they will regard you as an expert and visit your Blog more likely.

2. Submit your blog to Blog Directories.

Search on google for the biggest Blog Directories and submit your blog there manually. Aim to get listed in at least 10 good directories.

20 Essential Blog Directories

3. Submit your RSS Feed to Feed Directories.

You can use automated or semi-automated software to do this or you can do it manually just like you did with the Blog Directories.

RSS Directories

4. Claim your Blog at Technorati.

Get an account at Technorati and claim your blog there. Tehcnorati is a must use for every serious blogger.

5. Cross Link with other Blog Owners.

Your blog has a Blogroll… so you can exchange links with other bloggers in your niche on your blogroll.

6. Bookmark your Blog posts.

Go to SocialPoster and bookmark your best blog posts.

7. Distribute articles including the “About the Author” part with a link to your Blog.

You can use the ISnare article distribution service to get your article listed in hundreds of article directories. They also submit your article to many newsletter publishers. This strategy alone can create a huge viral constant flow of traffic to your blog.

8. Create an account at MyBlogLog and use their Widget on your blog.

MyBlogLog is a social community. You can get a constant flow of traffic through them by making friends with other bloggers and building your community.

9. Post useful Comments on other Blogs.

Don’t leave short comments like “hey I like your post”… rather write long comments and start a discussion… Blogs are made for people to interact.

10. Use Ping Services

Wordpress automatically pings when you make a new post but you can improve this automated Ping service by using the MBP-Ping-Optimzer and an improved list of ping services.

11. TrackBack other Blogs.

Link to other Blogs in your posts and send them a trackback. Before you do so make sure that their blog accepts trackbacks. Sometimes you can do a PingBack instead of a TrackBack.

12. Notify your opt-in list subscribers about your latest blog posts.

Of course you should have an opt-in list on your blog to catch the name and email address from your readers. Make sure you send them a message when you have new content on your blog. The best visitors are returning visitors!

13. Have a Signature with a link to your Blog in every email you send out with any email program.

That’s something many people don’t do… they miss out on a lot of traffic. Even if you answer just a support question or communicate with your friends, always have your Blog URL at the end of the emails (better would be your contact information plus all your main blogs and websites urls)

14. Create and distribute viral ebooks that include a link to your Blog.

You can write 20 pages short reports or ebooks and make them viral by letting other people give it away for free. Include your blog url throughout these viral reports and you’ll soon get tons of viral traffic.

15. Build a Squidoo Lense and put a link to your Blog on that.

Squidoo pages are great to get 1-way links to your blog. Google loves Squidoo Pages and often you are ranked within the Top 10 for long-tail keywords. That means you’ll get direct traffic to your Squidoo lense and a part of that traffic will follow the links to your Blog.

16. Build a Hub Page and put a link to your Blog on that.

Same here as the Squidoo Lenses.

17. Create and distribute a video, include a link to your Blog in this video.

People love to watch videos and they love to share videos. If you are good, then your video might go viral and you’ll get lots of visitors to your blog. You should have a short URL that people can remember and type into their browser bar.

18. Create an account at social pages like MySpace or Facebook – put a link to your Blog into your Profile.

I guess you know what social marketing is… send some of that traffic to your Blog to build up a loyal readership.

19. Signup for EntreCard and add their widget to your Blog.

Entrecard can be a huge source of traffic but you need to invest about 10 minutes each day to be active and drop some cards.

20. Register your Blog at BlogCatalog and put their widget on your Blog.

Your blog simply must be in the Blog Catalog. You can get a nice flow of traffic from them after a while.

21. Signup for BlogRush and put their widget on your Blog.

Blogrush is a no-brainer… I just wonder why there are not more services out there like this.

22. Submit a XML sitemap of your Blog to Google Webmasters

You don’t need to do that, but if you know that some of your pages are not spidered yet, then this will get them indexed pretty soon.

23. Provide good content on your Blog.

Duh!

24. Be the first one who publishes a newsworthy story.

O.K., it’s hard to be the very first one who publishes a big story… but there are smaller newsworthy stories, maybe even local stories depending on your niche.

25. Publish content on a regular basis.

Come on, one post per week is not much… better would be to post on a daily basis if you can do it.

26. Install the most important WordPress Plugins.

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