I thought it'd be nice of me to post some of the resources I've been using for my latest blog creation: www.loanofficerunleashed.com (It's a fun blog - check it out)
Ok, enough with the self promotion, and onto the useful tools. (All free by the way) Loan Officer Unleashed was launched just 6 short days ago. My goal was to get the blog picked up by the search engines ASAP. I mean, after you spend all your time and prescious resources putting together your blog, you want some traffic right?
Most of you already know that backlinks and syndication are the primary tools at a blog owners disposal to get some major "Google love" going right? Here's a few I used to get Loan Officer Unleashed indexed in 3 days.
This tool is great. Sure, if you're hosting your own blog, there are usually plugins with Wordpress that can handle auto-pinging. But this is a great tool to target your focus on pinging some major directories when you've updated your blog.
I love this thing! You simply enter your blog URL and it will tell you what RSS feedds you have setup - if any. I went RSS crazy on www.fsboleadportal.com/blog back in April, and I needed to check and validate my feeds. In the middle of doing this, I simply setup a free account with Feedburner and now have access to traffic stats, subscribers and more. Powerful tool.
Here's a feed directory you should be using. It took me all of 60 seconds to upload my information here. Not the largest directory around, but it has plenty of quality links. You can even search for other blogs you might want to add to your blog roll, or comment on.
The first rule of blogging is it has to be seen to be of any use to you. Get your blog added to some blog communities out there. Blog Catalog is massive! It also doesn't hurt that you can setup a mini-community, and even get feedback from other blog owners. The backlinks...Don't forget the valuable backlinks! (When submitting your blog, don't forget to insert a few keywords you are optimizing for within the blog description! This will help!)
Here's Yahoo's entry into the blog directory arena. Another useful tool very similar to Blog Catalog. Use the same recommendation I made above when setting up your free account. My Blog Log also lets you syndicate dozens of accounts from social networking sites all in one place. Good stuff!
The tools listed above should be enough to get you started. If you complete each task above, and still crave more traffic generating activities, then here's some more in my archives:
http://www.technorati.com/ping/
CW - www.loanofficermarketinglab.com - www.fsboleadportal.com
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