David Sifry is the founder and CEO of Technorati and recently he has been featured in the next month’s Wired with some outstanding tips to increase popularity of any blog.
Via Blog SEO.
“I recently came across a useful free tool for creating RSS feeds which I think you’ll find very useful.
You can create custom feeds, where every link in the feed contains your affiliate link, and takes the visitor directly to a product that is directly related to the content of your site.
RSS Feed Generator is set up to work with many different feed sources, but the key ones that will make you money are ClickBank, eBay and Amazon.”
Note: such kinds of feeds you, too, can use with BlogAutoPublisher, republishing them to your blogs, mixing it with your other content.
“Olga — Just wanted you to know how impressed I am with Blog Auto Publisher. This is a fine piece of software that’s loaded with features.
In fact, your latest version is the best yet. One of the features that I think is very significant is the ability to work with datafeeds. For anyone wanting to add content to their blogs, datafeeds is an outstanding way to do so.
And now, BAP has this function built in. Of course, this is just one of many new concepts that you have incorporated. Too many to list here.
Great job on this software. Thanks! ~Al”
An interesting site, Marketing Experiments Journal: Discover what really works, gives these articles:
Can Viral Video Clips Drive Targeted Traffic?
How to Tell if Your Data is Statistically Significant
Testing the Power of Urgency on Offer Pages
The ROI on PPC vs. Affiliate Marketing - Which gives the best return on your investment
and more…
“I just stumbled upon a handy service called Polldaddy. What is PollDaddy?
PollDaddy is a free online tool, which allows you to create polls and place them on your website or blog, or anywhere online that you can paste a bit of HTML! You can also place links to PollDaddy polls in your emails etc.
Looks like a useful tool. See it here and let me know what you think.”
Found at http://www.hostingdiary.com/2006/10/new_free_poll_s.html.
You CAN copy straightly from Word documents to BAP, with all the styles saved. To do this,
1. Click on Record button (right to the title field, with red circle in it);
2. For the title press Discard if you want nothing to be added to the post title.
3. Make sure the checkbox for Record with HTML is checked. Copy any text you need from any Word documents, web pages, any other document, you can copy from as many documents and as many times as needed (where else do you have such a feature?). When ready, press Save.
If you have any text in the post fields already, BAP will ask you if you want to append the copied text to the post or to make a new post. CHoose what’s needed. Voila! :) The text with all the HTML tags is there.
You can press Preview to see how it will look in the post.
You can take the newest version (demo) from
http://blogautopublisher.com/download/demo/bap_pro_demo.exe
With the new features now you can:
For better, more convenient and quick work with many blogs at once:
- add many blogs at once, from a CSV file or entering blogs data manually in a convenient form;
- enable/disable posting on schedule for many blogs at once;
- delete many blogs at once;
- copy keywords to many blogs at once;
- import entries from datafeeds to many blogs at once;
- see what’s happening, concentrated, in the _general_ log, too.
For more profits with your blogs:
- very conveniently and quickly add entries from datafeeds;
- export articles, entries from datafeeds, your business news to RSS feeds, which you can use on your websites for tickers;
For more convenient work with BAP:
- add new blogs more quickly and conveniently with the new ‘Quickly Add’ UI;
- spell check your posts if Microsoft Word is installed on your PC;
- see clearer the titles of imported articles;
For safer work:
- restore the latest post you’ve been working on;
For more blogging systems:
- post to LiveJournal and Thumblogger;
And by so many requests:
- export posts to text in RSS2Blog format;
- choose to which categories to republish articles and feeds.
Please download the New Features Guide from http://blogautopublisher.com/download/new-features-guide.pdf
Please tell us how it’s going :)
Some rules & ideas from blogging masters:
How to get traffic for your blog
I’d add:
1. Add your chapters to books being written by experts in your area of expertise.
My chapter in Rok Hrastnik’s Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS brings me serious interested customers. Not to mention enjoying their comments; a marketing legend Mark Joyner recently shocked me by saying: “Your section in Rok Hrastnik’s RSS book was the best part of the whole package.”
2. Use BlogAutoPublisher for your blog to be updated even when you’re focused on other things, to easily add Technorati Tags, to use TrackBack even for Blogger.
3. Popularize your blog in your signature for forums, communities.
4. Use LiveJournal’s community for popularizing your blog: participate in the communities of interest, express your thoughts in a free blog there, comment on others blogs, make LJ friends.
5. Write what your heart is telling you to write, and when it tells you. Be you.
Technorati Tags: traffic for your blog, traffic for a blog, get traffic for blog, traffic, blogging resources
We’re preparing a new program release, which will include a whole set of features especially for working with imported articles. Would you like to try it?
New possibilities:
To get beta version a try, contact us.
Blog Carnivals. If you haven’t heard of it, read
5 ways to get traffic to your blog
Other tips are of a kind you could’ve thought of, but this Blog Carnival is worthy to be read.
If you’re choosing, which blog software (server side) to use, this comparison chart can be very useful:
http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm
There are interesting comments/explanations here:
http://asymptomatic.net//2004/05/28/568/blogware-choice
Since some WordPress plugins cause XML-RPC problems when posts are actually published, we would like to give you an option to soften the error control.
For this I need the following information:
1. Which error codes (503? 102?) are produced when BAP publishes the posts but says it’s been an XML-RPC error?
2. If to turn off the XML-RPC error control at all, we would like to still check somehow else that at least Internet connection exists.
For this now we download the blog page (i.e. for each blog before we publish to it, we download its main page to see if Internet connection exists). But it’s not guaranteed to work always: some Internet providers, when a cable/DSL connection is established, but not dialed up to the provider, provide their HTML page, and we can’t verify if it’s the blog page or the provider’s page.
Why do we do this and not just download some short file from our server content of which would be known to us? Because for someone who would look at where the program connects, it would show that for some reason we go to our server every time the program publishes to their blog.
And from this probably not long to go to think it’s kind of spying. :)
But on the other hand, IF now we soften or turn off the XML-RPC error checking, AND such provider’s page is downloaded instead of the blog page, then when there is no “real” internet connection, BAP will discard every post scheduled to that time, thinking it’s published successfully (and will never attempt to publish these posts again)!
So, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS?
Do you think this spying thing is just being paranoid? :)
Thank you for the cooperation,
Olga.
We like Jeff Walker’s idea of contest, and you may see how many ideas of use for BlogAutoPublisher we’ve come up with (actually, it’s not the full list yet, I’ll complete it these days).
So we would like to announce our own contest: add a comment to this post with your ideas of use for BlogAutoPublisher, and the author of the best idea will get a free copy of BlogAutoPublisher Pro and become our full-time customer (including gifts to birthdays, BlogAutoPublisher Owners Club membership etc.)
Go for it! :)
Have you ever seen Allen Says’s “Private Posts Volume I?” All people reading it agree he is brilliant. I do, too.
When I first was reading it, for some reason I stopped in the middle. And now I suddenly wanted to finish it …I had no idea what a surprise I was in for.
On the page 28 I found something… it was exactly what BlogAutoPublisher was created for. Well, at least one of the reasons.
I never knew we were so close in our ideas… nice.
Or actually I did once, when I thought of this affiliate money breakthrough and then came to Allen’s Instant Guru Blog and saw his affliate program for his blog. At the beginning I thought he got the same idea I did. But no, he only added an affiliate program for his blog.
[If you never saw this Allen’s book, find it here, or here there is a whole deal for 3 Allen’s books.]