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Following the birth of Technorati, more
blog search applications were introduced into the market. Feedster,
BlogPulse and Live Search are just one of the many names to grace
the world of blogosphere. All these new blog search engines have
similar features which are different than the workings of the
algorithms of the normal search engines.
Differences between Blog search and Search Engines
The difference between the blog search engines and the common search
engines are, blog search only searches the blogosphere and displays
results derived from those pages. The results are usually displays
in reverse chronological order, with the latest on top of the older
posts. One more important feature of blog search is that they are
tagged and indexed via syndication. Syndication basically means they
are updated and informed via RSS feeds, and as soon as a new post is
made and pinged. The blog search will index those syndicated pages,
instead of waiting for the spider programs to crawl and index them
during periodic intervals in the normal search engine. This makes
tagging an integral part of your blogging effort.
If you have your own blog, you can benefit wholly from those blog
search innovations by pinging after every single post and adding
appropriate tags to them so that they can be picked up by blog
search engines and added to those search results whenever a keyword
using those tags are used.
Blog communities give people a place where they can meet online and
discuss topics that they share an interest in. they do this by using
blogs to talk with each other and relay important information. A
blog can be about anything you want to talk about. For instance, it
could be about religion, politics, teens, retirement, vacation spots
or even knitting. If you are interested in using blogs to discuss
topics with others these tips for starting blog communities can help
you begin. The topics are endless and only limited by your own
imagination and you will find that having a blog community can be
rewarding in many ways.
Begin creating your blog community by choosing a topic. This is a
very important step because it must be something that you are truly
interested in and something that others will find interesting as
well. remember to not stray away from the topic you choose and
always provide good content that you keep updated on a regularly
bases. If you fail to do this, then your loyal visitors will begin
to lose interest in your blog community. This is necessary to keep
your visitors interested and coming back for more. You will need to
search for ways that can help increase the traffic to your site to
help bring in more visitors.
Creating blog communities that will last and withstand the test of time
can take awhile so, try not to get impatient. The rewards will be
worth waiting for. It is also important that you have a professional
site that shows you care about your blog community and everyone
involved with it. This will gain you a lot of respect and help to
build your reputation. It is a good idea to let your visitors know
you do appreciate them by responding to their comments from time to
time whenever possible. The more effort you put into the community
the more rewards you will receive.
Step #1 Ping
Make a habit of pinging after every time you post. Pinging makes
your blogs visible to other visitors of those blog directories and
pinging services. Pings will also get the spiders of the search
engines to drop in to index your pages. You can edit the setup in
your blog software to add pinging services or you can you use a
service like PingOMatic.
Step #2 Submit
Submit your blogs to as many blog directories as you can.
Submissions to blog directories can help you get traffic to your
blog quickly by leveraging the existing visitors of those blog
directories.
Step #3 SEO
SEO or search engine optimization is an integral part of the
blogging process. You need to optimize your blog pages. Make sure
those Title tags and Meta tags are filled with the targeted
keywords. The density of the keywords used in the posts is also very
important to ensure you get ranked well on search engines.
Step #4 Participate
Join into the blogging community by visiting other blogs, offering
to do tasks for other bloggers for free, and also participate in
blog carnivals. Attend conferences, and reach out to other bloggers
in the blogosphere. You never know where those friendships will lead
you to.
Step #5 Promote
You need to actively promote your blogs online and off-line. You can
select the ways that are most suitable for you. If you have
additional budget and are serious about marketing your blog, then go
for paid advertising methods such as PPC, banner ads and link text
ads. If you are running low on budget but have extra time on your
hands, then go for those free methods of advertising such as forum
participation, commenting on other people's blogs and submitting
articles to article directories and community groups. MyBlogLog,
Digg, PostOnFire & BlogCatalog are places where you can find lots of
bloggers & blog readers.
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