You've picked your market, registered your domain, installed WordPress and made a smokin' hot blog post that everyone needs to know about right now. Then what?
Obviously there's a few different paths to go down.
In addition to adding content to your blog, you also need to optimize your blog too. Keywords, meta-tags, blog title and description etc.
But what's next?
Here's a few things I do that you might find useful.
A. Have a play with DirectoryMaximizer.com – that's a low priced directory submission service that manually submits your site to SEO friendly directories. If you are planning to use that service make sure to:
- Use 100% unique content on your blog/site for your SEO directory submissions (they frown on linking to sites created with duplicate content).
- Try to have less than 100 directory submissions in your first month. (You could easily blast your site out to thousands of directories at once but does that seem natural to you?)
- Resubmit to different directories each time you submit.
B. Have a play with Ping.Fm – Ping.Fm is a free service that lets you paste in your blog URL and send it out to a whole bunch of social networks. (You'll need to sign up for those social networks).
Quick tip for using Ping.fm. Promote your individual blog posts by adding a * in front of your URL like this: *http://www.yourblogname.com/your-blog-post That keeps the full URL in the ping.fm window, instead of the shortened ping.fm URL.
Only do that if you don't want to use the shortened URL.
C. Have a play with Jeff Johnson's Traffic Getting SEO Plugin – this WP plugin is a like a funky optimizer that gives you the run down on everything you need to do to optimize your blog. (Search Google for the free version).
For example it will suggest what plugins to use and install, and tell you to add your blog titles, keywords, when to post and that sort of thing.
There's also WPSyndicator, another WordPress plugin that:
- Instantly build backlinks and HUGE surges of traffic to your blog
- Automatically builds DEEP one-way links to propel your blog to the top of the search engines
- Turns 10 auto-blogs into 150+ with the click of a button
Can you tell I stole those bullets right from their sales page?
I'm not really into creating auto-blogs but if that's your thing cool.
About Martin Hurley
[...] a simple way to get more traffic to your website, try 3 Way LinksA week back I penned a post called what to do after you've made your first blog post. I took and expanded that blog post into a 15 page down-loadable guide including all the tools and [...]