A collection of transformation, identity, and the stories that shape who we become.
THE BOOK of BECOMING
a living collection
Do you have a blog and wonder how you can increase your blog’s traffic? The other night we had the privilege of having Steve Makofsky come and speak to our PUG group on blogging. His website, www.furrygoat.com, gets 100,000 hits per week. Amazing!
Here’s a video with some of the highlights from the night. With four blogging tips, the rest are below!
A few other tips from Steve that have helped us!
#5 Make Categories! This way people can easily find a recent post or have their interest perked at going through your archives. This advice has totally paid off since I know a number of you check the “Photography Tips for Moms” category to find exercises and tips to try. Some of our blog visitors are brides and want to go straight to our Wedding Slideshows, or they want to know the latest on Fabulous weddings. All they have to do is click the VH1 category. Big time saver for your visitors!
#6 Good Titles! Google and other search engines specifically use the titles of our posts. So make sure you title your posts with key words to help those search engines find you.
#7 Link, Link, Link! I know it was said in the video, but it’s such a big deal for your Google rankings. Link to others and have them link to you. Hyperlink words within your blog. All these things get you higher on the totem pole when someone does a search.
#8 Do ads work? From Steve’s experience they don’t do much. He has ads on his archived posts only, and with the amount of traffic he gets, he still only gets a couple hundred a month from his ads. Definitely not something to quit your day job for. 🙂
March 14th, 2007 at 6:18 am
Great video and post! Thanks for the tips!
I’m my way to my blog to incorporate some of the knowledge you’ve shared.
🙂
March 14th, 2007 at 8:05 am
You are so sharing ,some great tips!
March 14th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Thanks so much for the awesome tips!!!! I LOVE your blog.
March 14th, 2007 at 9:05 am
I think Stevie (yes, that is what we call him) is a great guy too. My question is this, can you ask the furry-master to give you his slidedeck so you can post it? It would be great to have the slides that he presented.
March 14th, 2007 at 9:35 am
I totally agree – and another key thing is providing GREAT content that your readers WANT to read! Here’s another link with some great blogging resources…
http://photolovecat.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-blog-making-most-of-your-blog.html
March 14th, 2007 at 10:36 am
LOL – thats hilarious… Im glad I left early so I didnt get interviewed =) next meeting im gonna have to ask you something about bloggin! ur a blog master… http://www.thkimdesigns.com/wordpress
March 14th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Hi Me ra,
Great Information and resources… I am glad I came to the meeting last month..
Before I came to the meeting, I already bloggin.. Since then.. I can’t stop bloggin more and More LOL…!!! You the best !!!! http://www.erwinphotography.com/blog
March 14th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Thanks!
Going to hijack for my blog…hope that is ok!
Blog on!
March 14th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
I think Steve Makofsky is terrific. Excellent presentation.
Oh bye the way I am his Uncle
March 14th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Bob, you should be very proud of Steve! 🙂 THanks for your post! He did an AMAZING job with the presentation. Photographers have been signing his praises for the last couple months. And I can honestly say his advice have helped our blog in so many ways! 🙂
March 14th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Digg it!
http://digg.com/celebrity/Blogging_Tips_to_Increase_Traffic
March 14th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Fun, Me Ra. I’m so embarrassed to be interviewed. I’m such a goof!
Steve, on the other hand, was such an entertaining, enlightening speaker. Thanks for doing the leg work to get him to join us for the evening. I wouldn’t have my blog up now if not for this meeting! Have you been recently? I need some brutal feedback.
March 15th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Me Ra…SO awesome! You rock for taking the time to edit this video…that was wonderful advice! 🙂
March 15th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
I love, love, love your work! A friend of a friend of a friend pointed me in your direction.
http://www.hooperportraits.com
March 15th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Me Ra-
Your blog is one I visit every day – thanks so much for the inspiration! And thanks for sharing all of the great blogging tips – I’m implementing them starting today!
March 16th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Hi Me ra,
I love reading your blog and you always have such good tips. I am on the verge of starting my photography business and have read that giving talks definately increases your exposure as a business. And I was wondering what will you talk about at the scrapbooking store? Will it be an opportunity to hand out business cards? or will they pay to hear you talk? I would appreciate any tips you might have in this area.
Thank you so much in advance.
Eleni
March 16th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
[…] Kimberly Reed Photography pointed me to a wonderful blog with tips about photographing your child. The post Blogging Tips to Increase Traffic is good, too! […]
March 17th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Me Ra-
Hey thanks again for adding these clips and notes! Excellent material and it really is helping us hone our blogs to be more effective! It was so awesome that you had Steve over for us to all benefit.
Hugs to you both!
March 18th, 2007 at 7:54 am
ME RA , as always, you provide the sweetest info, good job and thanks!
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:17 am
you rock!! thanks for sharing 🙂 ‘see’ you in the webinar in a couple hours!!!
….so on the track of blog…go visit me!
http://www.mylotusphoto.blogspot.com
peace, love and pasta!!!
thanks Me Ra!!!!!!!!
April 6th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Great video Me Ra! Jenna and I are looking forward to joining your PUG on the 25th.
April 28th, 2007 at 3:03 am
Peace people
We love you
July 13th, 2007 at 9:48 am
There are many advantages of your web blog above a website, except it’s easy to setup and free. You can put every thing in your blog: from a couple of lines what it is on your mind or your new article just published elsewhere, or a product review. In principle, a blog is the same as a website, but you will need to update more frequently to get the visitors to your site. A major advantage of your web blog here above a website to getting major search engines like Google and Yahoo to visit your blog frequently is a technique called “pinging”. It’s a method of notifying all of the major search engines and blog directories, each time that you have updated your blog. The search engines will come and to take a look at your blog, thereby increasing traffic to your blog. If you link your blog, the search engines will follow the links from the blog pointing to your sites. This will help the search engine rankings of your sites as well!
November 27th, 2007 at 8:05 am
Hi, hello, privet
toyota suprae w
March 13th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Have you seen the Easy Viral Traffic blog yet? They provide some pretty cool information about how to get free website traffic… check it out http://www.easy-viral-traffic.com/blog/
April 27th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Thanks for reading,
purnima
——————-
Today social accounting become most significant issue in accouting
http://www.accountingforsocial.blogspot.com/
April 29th, 2008 at 2:57 am
I love reading your blog and you always have such good tips.
purnima
————————-
See how pwc’s looked at the internal audit
http://www.auditqualitypwc.blogspot.com/
May 13th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Synthroid….
Synthroid litigation. Synthroid and weight loss. Synthroid….
May 14th, 2008 at 11:34 am
[…] […]
May 16th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Celebrex….
Celebrex….
May 17th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Acomplia….
Acomplia….
May 17th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Work at home….
Work at home jobs. Computer work from home. Legitimate work from home jobs. Work at home http. At home work http://www.work-at-home-tonight.com. Work from home jobs….
May 17th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Propecia….
Propecia….
July 15th, 2008 at 10:16 am
my new goal…to blog for a living. 🙂 I can’t fight this fever anymore!
August 12th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
It is a funny blog.
………..
Nishantha
Social Media Marketing
August 13th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Here is another tip on getting more traffic!
http://hubpages.com/_begin/hub/How-To-Get-Traffic-From-Non-English-Domains
Regards
April 9th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Advantages of
December 2nd, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Sorry for the huge retrospect, but I’m really caressing the new Zune, and comedian this, as recovered as the superior reviews people mortal scrivened, will help you terminate if it’s the sect select for you.
July 7th, 2011 at 1:45 am
ecco tutte le novit Moncler per questa stagione: i cappotti, le giacche, i cappellini, felpe moncler, pantaloni e abbigliamento sportivo
July 7th, 2011 at 2:39 am
Hack again?!
July 7th, 2011 at 9:01 am
Oh my goodness! an amazing article dude. Thanks Nevertheless I am experiencing issue with ur rss . Don’t know why Unable to subscribe to it. Is there anyone getting similar rss problem? Anyone who is aware of kindly respond. Thnkx
July 7th, 2011 at 10:14 am
Women down Jackets in Prominent Positions teamed up with Kids in Distressed Situations at … Salvatore Ferragamo, Il sito ufficiale di Moncler Prada and Moncler reported brisk business in the first.
October 13th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Here are 3 steps I used to take my credit score from 592 (horrible credit) to 762 (perfect credit) almost overnight. If you’re interested in improving …
June 11th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
monkley polyanthus kerekes glerawly cucciola maglena marbled felicca murple
July 11th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
I am extremely impressed with your writing skills and also with the layout on your blog. Is this a paid theme or did you modify it yourself? Anyway keep up the excellent quality writing, it’s rare to see a nice blog like this one today