HelpMeMarketMyBlog is meant to be a fun exercise so we can all learn from each other. Check the site we will be using for trial: MyEnergyReference.com, suggest improvements, and we’ll measure the results. If you’re like me, you have been looking for ways to improve your blog and increase its traffic. Information on the Web can give you advice dating several years back, advice often too generic, and advice you wonder if it still works. Let’s find together the techniques and tools that work today, in 2009. <<Learn more>>
3 Months After – Time To Analyze the Results
Three months have passed since I first launched this site in combination with MyEnergyReference. In those three months we tried many different techniques to increase traffic for MyEnergyReference, so now is time to see how it has performed so far. Read the rest of this entry »
In LinkedIn there is a Wordpress appplication which makes it easy to incorporate your blog within your LinkedIn profile. I don’t know how much traffic this would generate because I don’t expect many people to regularly check someone’s profile. On the other hand, I believe that when you update your blog with a new post, the new post title is actually showing up on the home page of people in your network. In which case, visibility to your blog post is only limited by the number of connections you have and by how often people in your network use LinkedIn. Read the rest of this entry »
I have been fighting this message for several days now and I need your help. I am getting this message when I try to register my site to Google Webmaster Tools. I point to my Sitemap.xml file and immediately get that message about a Robots.txt file that prevents Google to access my blog. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, call me naïve but I thought that search engines would automatically find my blog and crawl it. Not quite. When searching for ways to increase traffic to my site, I browsed the Web for articles explaining how to increase traffic. I was perusing an article when I read in it that you needed to create a sitemap and publish it so Search Engines like Google could retrieve its content easily. Doing some more research, I found a plug-in for Wordpress that automatically generates that sitemap.xml file and automatically publishes it to the main search engines. Read the rest of this entry »
Has any body added a blog reference to his or her’s email signature and be able to measure traffic from it? If yes, was it successful? How did you measure traffic from it?
Regarding testing on my end, I asked Linda, the owner of Myenergyreference.com site, to add such a reference in her email signature: Read the rest of this entry »
In order to increase traffic to the blog I decided to try registering it to the leading blog communities BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog. I did not know really what to expect but the traffic I got I did not expect. Read the rest of this entry »
One good way to increase retention is to directly engage with your readership. In addition to comments to your post, your readers might have questions or feedback for you that they might not want to publish publicly. In which case you might want to add a Contact page and in there a Contact Form. Read the rest of this entry »
Even though I am not interested in the money making part of it, the theme had a third empty column. So I decided to try to add some Google ads there to fill the blank. I added a text widget to the Adbar column, opened an account with Google Adsense then waited for Google’s approval. Once I got the approval, I received some scripting code that I immediately added to the text widget. A little while after that … I got my ads to show up in the blog. Read the rest of this entry »
To create my blog, I first bought a new domain name “MyEnergyReference.com”. Then I created a new alias to one of the domain names I already owned which was hosted; and I installed Wordpress in the root directory of the new site. The process was very easy since my ISP, Godaddy, automatically installs Wordpress for you. Read the rest of this entry »
