<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012</id><updated>2024-12-18T19:28:38.378-08:00</updated><category term="traffic"/><category term="promoting"/><category term="blog"/><category term="website"/><category term="digg"/><category term="social networking"/><category term="tracking"/><category term="Corank"/><category term="Google"/><category term="Photography"/><category term="Search"/><category term="Spicypage"/><category term="Tags"/><category term="Tips"/><category term="Website Submission"/><category term="blogger"/><category term="mybloglog"/><category term="tools"/><category term="visitors"/><category term="Analytics"/><category term="Bing"/><category term="Blog Catalog"/><category term="Community"/><category term="Del.icio.us"/><category term="Links"/><category term="MSN"/><category term="Mixx"/><category term="My Peeps"/><category term="Photorater"/><category term="Pictures"/><category term="Readers"/><category term="Search engines"/><category term="Stumbled Upon"/><category term="Subscriptions"/><category term="Technorati"/><category term="Thanks"/><category term="Trailfire"/><category term="Twitter"/><category term="Twitter Marketing"/><category term="Twitter Selling"/><category term="Twitter Traffic"/><category term="Users"/><category term="Voting"/><category term="Yahoo"/><category term="banned"/><category term="bookmarks"/><category term="netscape"/><category term="reddit"/><category term="sites"/><title type='text'>Promoting Your Site</title><subtitle type='html'>This blog will be dedicated to discovering the numerous way to promote your site. We will discuss link exchanges, groups, Twitter, e-mail signatures, videos, Techorati, Blog Catalog, comments, Stumbled Upon, Google, Delicious, Yahoo, MSN and the many other ways to drive traffic to your site.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>28</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-7444979465461003330</id><published>2009-06-28T15:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-29T13:56:34.528-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Search"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="social networking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tips"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Twitter"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Twitter Marketing"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Twitter Selling"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Twitter Traffic"/><title type='text'>Using Twitter For Marketing And Driving Traffic</title><content type='html'>Well it seems these days you can&#39;t go anywhere without hearing something about &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/ogreenthumb&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.  It would seem as if everyone and their mothers are on Twitter including celebrities, athletes, companies and even politicians.  Just like with the other websites I have shown you on this site you can generate plenty of traffic and or sales from Twitter with a little hard work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s not the easiest site to gain a million followers on, but with some dedication you can grow your followers quite easily.  First thing you need to do though is sign up, which you can do &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Just pick a username and fill out your profile included a link to the website that you want to drive the most traffic to.  Once you do this you can beginning your tweets.  It could be anything that runs across your mind, or you can link to one of your sites or blog posts with some clever saying.  Don&#39;t concentrate on this too much in the beginning though, because if no one is following you then no one will ever see any of your clever tweets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what you need to do is start following people.  Twitter has a link up at the top called &quot;Find People&quot; which will automatically go into your e-mail and find out your contacts that are already on Twitter.  This is under &quot;Find on other networks&quot;.  Twitter also has a &quot;Find on Twitter&quot; option where you can simply type in the name or username of anyone on Twitter and find people this way.  Go nuts and follow all the people you want at this point. &lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPSGoIF2RGJycwKcSaW4KhjgOqSJAm9ol4YXvUfDZz1KOqnMQq_SXCZbq6_ZDXoHEBD6MG-1Bq3i8HwJN2J0Bmow_919VfDTAlzv7gfnJP7g7tiqoEu5fOCiAvfZs06ngiq69c/s1600-h/Twitter.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 306px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPSGoIF2RGJycwKcSaW4KhjgOqSJAm9ol4YXvUfDZz1KOqnMQq_SXCZbq6_ZDXoHEBD6MG-1Bq3i8HwJN2J0Bmow_919VfDTAlzv7gfnJP7g7tiqoEu5fOCiAvfZs06ngiq69c/s400/Twitter.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352520075547704738&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After you have added in all your contacts it is time to take it to the next level.  You need to think about what your website is about and some possible keywords that are relevant to your site.  Take these keywords and enter them into the search on Twitters homepage on the left side.  For example, if your site is all about Fish you can typing in &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/#search?q=fishing&quot;&gt;fishing&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/#search?q=aquarium&quot;&gt;aquarium&lt;/a&gt; or an individual fish even to see if anyone is Twittering about that particular topic.  Now you have located the people that are interested in your websites topics enough to Tweet about them, so make start following them, or even send them a reply to their tweet giving them some insight about what they said, or just say hello.  Rinse and repeat until you are following about 2,000 people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point Twitter makes is so you can only follow 200 more people than are following you.  For example if you are following 2,000 people you need to have at least 1,800 followers.  This prevents spammers from completely taking over Twitter.  What I do at this point is go back into the people that are following you by clicking on the &quot;Following&quot; under your profile picture.  Now under each profile picture that you see it will either say &quot;Direct Message&quot;, or it will be blank.  The ones that are blank you need to remove, because this means that even though you are following them, they are not following you.  No sense following them if they aren&#39;t going to follow you because of this ratio that Twitter puts into place.  Of course there are exception if you really like the person and don&#39;t care if they follow you.  Continue to build your followers and Tweet your websites out along the way and you will start to see traffic coming in from Twitter.  Everytime you make an update to your site or post a new blog post, tell people by giving out a short Tweet about what you did.  If your followers are interested in the topics on your website and in your Tweets they will respond. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twitter can be particularly effective in selling individual products too, like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://icucopyclip.com/&quot;&gt;ICUcopyclip&lt;/a&gt; for example.  This is a rear view mirror/note holder that attaches to your computer monitor.  So knowing that people would use this at work and especially in their cubicle, I can target people that are Tweeting about their cubicles and even ones that are looking for cubicle decorations just by searching for &quot;cubicle&quot; or &quot;cubicle decorations&quot; on the Twitter search.  Then you can follow them or even send them a Tweet about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://icucopyclip.com/&quot;&gt;ICUcopyclip&lt;/a&gt;.  I am sure you can begin to see just how effective Twitter can be for marketing products and websites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you liked this article or you just want to check out my profile on Twitter just &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/ogreenthumb&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;, if you follow me I will be sure to return the favor : )  You can even leave your twitter URL in the comments below and I will be sure to follow you!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/7444979465461003330/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2009/06/using-twitter-for-marketing-and-driving.html#comment-form' title='41 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/7444979465461003330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/7444979465461003330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2009/06/using-twitter-for-marketing-and-driving.html' title='Using Twitter For Marketing And Driving Traffic'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPSGoIF2RGJycwKcSaW4KhjgOqSJAm9ol4YXvUfDZz1KOqnMQq_SXCZbq6_ZDXoHEBD6MG-1Bq3i8HwJN2J0Bmow_919VfDTAlzv7gfnJP7g7tiqoEu5fOCiAvfZs06ngiq69c/s72-c/Twitter.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>41</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-4829442316627619</id><published>2008-05-30T16:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-30T18:03:13.819-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blog Catalog"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Community"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="mybloglog"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="promoting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><title type='text'>Bring It All Together With Blog Catalog</title><content type='html'>A site that seems to be gaining popularity and users everyday is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogcatalog.com/&quot;&gt;Blog Catalog&lt;/a&gt;.  Like most other blog directories you can submit your blogs and have them commented on and rated.  Much like &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/mybloglog-social-traffic-exchange.html&quot;&gt;MyBlogLog&lt;/a&gt; this site also keeps track of recent visitors and people who subscribe to your site.  The real difference is that Blog Catalog breaks down ever site into two categories that you get to choose.  This makes it so readers can easily find the exact kind of subjects that your site covers.  You can also check out similar blogs to see how they compare to your own. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog Catalog is also a place where people can keep track of your activity on sites like &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/using-diggcom-to-generate-traffic.html&quot;&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://money4photos.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-make-money-from-photos-step-two.html&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/03/stumbling-through-internet.html&quot;&gt;Stumbled Upon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/02/simply-delicious.html&quot;&gt;Delicious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/reddit-and-netscape.html&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/02/return-favor-with-technorati.html&quot;&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt;, Magnolia and &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/mybloglog-social-traffic-exchange.html&quot;&gt;MyBlogLog&lt;/a&gt; through an &quot;Activity Feed&quot;.   This is a great way for all your fans to keep track of your activity on multiple sites!  Just add in your user names into your profile and Blog Catalog takes care of the rest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike MyBlogLog, Blog Catalog is completely independent, MyBlogLog is now owned by Yahoo.  This tends to make the site a bit more community oriented with a lot less spam.  Personally, I like it a lot more than &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/mybloglog-social-traffic-exchange.html&quot;&gt;MyBlogLog&lt;/a&gt;, but that is just my personal opinion.   Not too mention, I have seen a lot more traffic in &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/track-visitors-to-your-website-or-blog.html&quot;&gt;Google Analytics&lt;/a&gt; coming in through Blog Catalog!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvSx5KG0BiXc6EJg2BDb7zyFIUq08RLSU07gmdvQqMsYuC8J0zxbbiHdBWdvqdsEZGeRLf38oVOAmmjm8wId-oRhVqFrJaE-ISdHfW8GNCgoXaxsk5uZLKcENhDfNKgoRWEoR/s1600-h/Blog+Catalog.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvSx5KG0BiXc6EJg2BDb7zyFIUq08RLSU07gmdvQqMsYuC8J0zxbbiHdBWdvqdsEZGeRLf38oVOAmmjm8wId-oRhVqFrJaE-ISdHfW8GNCgoXaxsk5uZLKcENhDfNKgoRWEoR/s400/Blog+Catalog.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206334223366629746&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog Catalog also has widgets that you can embed on your website to keep track of recent visitors, new members of your neighborhood (website), and even a recent discussions widget which will help you keep track of all that is going on in the Blog Catalog community.  You can see an example on the sidebar of this page under &quot;Blog Catalog Fans&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you are looking for more traffic to your site and a feeling of community look no further that Blog Catalog!  You can sign up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogcatalog.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/1greenthumb&quot;&gt;check out my profile here&lt;/a&gt;, don&#39;t forget to sign up for all my communities when you get a chance.  I know there is a lot, but what can I say : )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking for more ways to Promote Your Site?  First thing is first, you need to submit your websites to all the major search engines, &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-submit-your-website.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to learn how!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/4829442316627619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2008/05/bring-it-all-together-with-blog-catalog.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/4829442316627619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/4829442316627619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2008/05/bring-it-all-together-with-blog-catalog.html' title='Bring It All Together With Blog Catalog'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvSx5KG0BiXc6EJg2BDb7zyFIUq08RLSU07gmdvQqMsYuC8J0zxbbiHdBWdvqdsEZGeRLf38oVOAmmjm8wId-oRhVqFrJaE-ISdHfW8GNCgoXaxsk5uZLKcENhDfNKgoRWEoR/s72-c/Blog+Catalog.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-1456370677401568123</id><published>2008-05-08T14:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-08T14:29:06.415-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="digg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mixx"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="visitors"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Voting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Website Submission"/><title type='text'>Is Mixx A Digg In The Making?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mixx.com/&quot;&gt;Mixx&lt;/a&gt; is a relatively new site, but has been growing like gang busters of late.  This site has a format much like Digg and Netscape (propeller) were you vote stories up or down, but also has the added bonus of groups.  This makes it possible for you to not only submit your work to different categories inside Mixx, but also to different groups and therefore gain more exposure to your work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another great aspect of Mixx is that you get to select who, or what is on your homepage.  That&#39;s right if you like sports, it will be sports, if you like a certain person&#39;s posts you can have them displayed right on your homepage so you don&#39;t miss a submission!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEgRTRZSi_Z-N2GM-KIMe3-HHX9T6C11SrKY4KADEylriUNM34ELviZeD91EUiHF1MEGZoCwBWjxH-5a2WT29kScq2pq4JTZNhDohfjxzwg8VSfU_KSUhRxaYD-iFDFrK26xR/s1600-h/mixx.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEgRTRZSi_Z-N2GM-KIMe3-HHX9T6C11SrKY4KADEylriUNM34ELviZeD91EUiHF1MEGZoCwBWjxH-5a2WT29kScq2pq4JTZNhDohfjxzwg8VSfU_KSUhRxaYD-iFDFrK26xR/s400/mixx.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198120043864286434&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is Mixx going to get you the kind of traffic that you could receive from &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/using-diggcom-to-generate-traffic.html&quot;&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt;, Netscape or even &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/reddit-and-netscape.html&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt;... well no, but it is always good to get in early on a site like this and build your fan base.   Plus, they &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.mixx.com/2008/05/06/cnn-jumps-into-the-mixx/&quot;&gt;just signed up with CNN&lt;/a&gt;, which should certainly bring a few more users in!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what are you waiting for?  Go ahead and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mixx.com/&quot;&gt;sign up here&lt;/a&gt; or check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mixx.com/users/greenthumb&quot;&gt;my profile here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Want more ways to &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Promote Your Site&lt;/a&gt;?  Check out this post on &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/02/return-favor-with-technorati.html&quot;&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt; or this one on &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/03/stumbling-through-internet.html&quot;&gt;Stumbled Upon&lt;/a&gt;!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/1456370677401568123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2008/05/is-mixx-digg-in-making.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/1456370677401568123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/1456370677401568123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2008/05/is-mixx-digg-in-making.html' title='Is Mixx A Digg In The Making?'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEgRTRZSi_Z-N2GM-KIMe3-HHX9T6C11SrKY4KADEylriUNM34ELviZeD91EUiHF1MEGZoCwBWjxH-5a2WT29kScq2pq4JTZNhDohfjxzwg8VSfU_KSUhRxaYD-iFDFrK26xR/s72-c/mixx.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-7198146890732559280</id><published>2008-01-03T16:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T16:50:13.505-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="promoting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Search engines"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tags"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><title type='text'>The Importance Of Tags</title><content type='html'>A simple, but sometimes overlooked way to promote your site is to use tags.  Most blogs like blogger let you add tags to each of your posts.  Tags are general terms that help describe your post.  For instance, if you have a post all about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stunningphotography.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;photography&lt;/a&gt; you could have tags like photos, photography, pictures, tips, ect. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you use these tags over and over again you can click on the tag, and it will bring up every post that had that particular tag in it.  This can also be useful if you want to submit multiple posts to a place like &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/06/did-my-sites-deserve-to-get-banned-from.html&quot;&gt;digg&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/reddit-and-netscape.html&quot;&gt;netscape&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-corank-next-social-phenomenon.html&quot;&gt;corank&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus, all kinds of other sites let you add tags to your submissions.  Tags not only allow people and &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-submit-your-website.html&quot;&gt;search engines&lt;/a&gt; to find your content easier, but they can also help you organize your site.   I don&#39;t know how many times I have been looking for a certain post and had to click on a tag to even find it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is one of the basics, but it is very, very important if you are looking to drive more traffic to your site.  So don&#39;t forget to add your tags to all your posts...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry for the big delay in between posting... I have been quite busy with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537&quot;&gt;my other sites&lt;/a&gt;!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/7198146890732559280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2008/01/importance-of-tags.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/7198146890732559280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/7198146890732559280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2008/01/importance-of-tags.html' title='The Importance Of Tags'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-5610563475855668758</id><published>2007-11-17T11:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T14:54:32.726-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="promoting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Trailfire"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="website"/><title type='text'>Leave Your Mark In This World With Trailfire</title><content type='html'>A great way to promote your site and organize your favorite websites is to use the site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trailfire.com/&quot;&gt;Trailfire&lt;/a&gt;.  Basically, this site allows you to leave comments on any webpage out there in cyberspace.  It also lets you see what other Trailfire users thought of that page by viewing their marks on the page.  You can create as many trails as you like, but the idea is to try and keep your trails relevant to a certain subject like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trailfire.com/1greenthumb/trailview/20408#&quot;&gt;photography&lt;/a&gt;, videos, politics, games, current events or whatever else you can think of!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUMAzvqaTaqVIYk9o274lxu8WvGSGWEq5AkXNgMad9jTMcCuwqBhZaqNBZd2lDV_ZlYD5ZznFyYP3t8esvRI6gVfKCd8J6DSisgBmn-v72TG4F9INhcQr5OmWu6nm1BColodrI/s1600-h/trailfire.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUMAzvqaTaqVIYk9o274lxu8WvGSGWEq5AkXNgMad9jTMcCuwqBhZaqNBZd2lDV_ZlYD5ZznFyYP3t8esvRI6gVfKCd8J6DSisgBmn-v72TG4F9INhcQr5OmWu6nm1BColodrI/s400/trailfire.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133940350981453298&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also use Trailfire as a way to show the world all of your favorite sites or blogs.  This way when an individual discovers your trail they can follow your marks from one to the next.  As you can imagine this is a great way to not only promote your sites, but it can also be another way to get feedback from other users. An added bonus is that it  keeps people on your network of sites longer as they follow your trail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trailfire allows you to install a toolbar so you can easily add marks to any page with just one click.  So &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trailfire.com&quot;&gt;go check it out today&lt;/a&gt; and start discovering new trails and marks on your favorite pages that you never even knew existed.  You can check out my trails &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trailfire.com/1greenthumb&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Don&#39;t forget to add me as a contact if you like and let me know if you have any questions...</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/5610563475855668758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/11/leave-your-mark-in-this-world-with.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/5610563475855668758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/5610563475855668758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/11/leave-your-mark-in-this-world-with.html' title='Leave Your Mark In This World With Trailfire'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUMAzvqaTaqVIYk9o274lxu8WvGSGWEq5AkXNgMad9jTMcCuwqBhZaqNBZd2lDV_ZlYD5ZznFyYP3t8esvRI6gVfKCd8J6DSisgBmn-v72TG4F9INhcQr5OmWu6nm1BColodrI/s72-c/trailfire.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-2318009010890277218</id><published>2007-11-13T15:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-13T15:23:45.803-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Corank"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Photography"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Photorater"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="promoting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><title type='text'>Discover Amazing Photos And Get Traffic At The Same Time!</title><content type='html'>I just started up a site called &lt;a href=&quot;http://photorater.corank.com&quot;&gt;PhotoRater&lt;/a&gt; where you can submit, vote and comment on photos from your websites or blogs.  Although the site is just getting started, it is still yet another way to get a bit of traffic to your site and check out some amazing photos at the same time.  There are several different categories of photos to choose from including black &amp;amp; white, nature, plants, sun, water, amateur, people, buildings, professional and vanishing points!   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3bCImuZQzb3Qq52CJAN79wPYLsv7mtWPJZKEA0AAIrVooOqp2WPEic1a7WvXyEU6vLq42iFPWh1tqmIFo3R3D881qy-PbsW9-Z_QZMvpkQH1dCg5aGGot-JFo4dvEDVdRkV2/s1600-h/photorater.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3bCImuZQzb3Qq52CJAN79wPYLsv7mtWPJZKEA0AAIrVooOqp2WPEic1a7WvXyEU6vLq42iFPWh1tqmIFo3R3D881qy-PbsW9-Z_QZMvpkQH1dCg5aGGot-JFo4dvEDVdRkV2/s400/photorater.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132468847113970914&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It runs through the site &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-corank-next-social-phenomenon.html&quot;&gt;corank&lt;/a&gt; which if you are not aware of is a lot like &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/06/did-my-sites-deserve-to-get-banned-from.html&quot;&gt;digg&lt;/a&gt; only you can design and create your own pages to vote on... very cool!  You can even build your own site like mine as well and share it if you like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://photorater.corank.com&quot;&gt;PhotoRater&lt;/a&gt; and the following address...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://photorater.corank.com/&quot;&gt;http://photorater.corank.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to sign up if you like and start submitting your photos!  Let me know if you have any questions or problems signing up...</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/2318009010890277218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/11/discover-amazing-photos-and-get-traffic.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/2318009010890277218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/2318009010890277218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/11/discover-amazing-photos-and-get-traffic.html' title='Discover Amazing Photos And Get Traffic At The Same Time!'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3bCImuZQzb3Qq52CJAN79wPYLsv7mtWPJZKEA0AAIrVooOqp2WPEic1a7WvXyEU6vLq42iFPWh1tqmIFo3R3D881qy-PbsW9-Z_QZMvpkQH1dCg5aGGot-JFo4dvEDVdRkV2/s72-c/photorater.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-3253117052277998802</id><published>2007-10-22T14:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-22T14:18:01.393-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blogger"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Readers"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Subscriptions"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tips"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Users"/><title type='text'>How To Have Users Subscribe To Your Site</title><content type='html'>Another tip for all you die-hard bloggers is to make it possible for your readers to subscribe to your blog through a RSS feed.  Now if you are using blogger you already have an RSS feed, you just need to make it more accessible for your readers.  It should be at the bottom of you last post and say something like &quot;Subscribe to: Posts (atom)&quot;  The &quot;Posts (atom)&quot; is a link, just right click on this link and hit &quot;copy link location&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now go to you blogger layout and add a page element like you normally would.  Select a text page element and simply type in what you want to call your subscription.  For instance &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default&quot;&gt;Subscribe To Promoting Your Site Here!&lt;/a&gt;&quot; you can see mine at the top right hand corner of this blog.  Then you just make the text a link and bamm your users can now subscribe to your posts!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This way not only do you keep more users, but it allows all your subscribers to know when you have updated your page!  Let me know if you have any questions or problems...</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/3253117052277998802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-have-users-subscribe-to-your.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/3253117052277998802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/3253117052277998802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-have-users-subscribe-to-your.html' title='How To Have Users Subscribe To Your Site'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-605288317679579403</id><published>2007-10-11T14:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-19T11:14:01.309-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bing"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Google"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MSN"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Website Submission"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Yahoo"/><title type='text'>How To Submit Your Website</title><content type='html'>The first and one of the most important steps in promoting your site is simply submitting your website address to the big three of search engines, MSN, Yahoo and of course Google.  It is actually quite easy and all but Yahoo don&#39;t even require any kind of registration! &lt;br /&gt;
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To submit your website or blog to Google just &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/addurl/&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;, for Yahoo &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; and for MSN or Bing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSUT&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;! Once you have submitted your site it may take a couple weeks before these search engines will crawl your site, but trust me it is worth the wait. &lt;br /&gt;
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Once you are indexed you will begin to see traffic trickling in from these three search engines.  If you are familiar with our site then you know you can track this through &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/track-visitors-to-your-website-or-blog.html&quot;&gt;Google Analytics&lt;/a&gt;.   It shows up in the traffic sources section of Analytics.  They will show up as Google Organic, Yahoo Organic and MSN Organic.  You can even take it a step further and find out what people are typing into these search engines to find your site! &lt;br /&gt;
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Some of the other search engines including ask.com do not offer site submissions and are a bit more secretive about how they crawl their sites.  Your best bet on that is to follow their sitemap protocol which you can find &lt;a href=&quot;http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#18&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
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So what are you waiting for go submit your sites today and watch the traffic flow!  As always here at Promoting Your Site let me know if you have any questions.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/605288317679579403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-submit-your-website.html#comment-form' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/605288317679579403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/605288317679579403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-submit-your-website.html' title='How To Submit Your Website'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-2607784206276638631</id><published>2007-06-29T18:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T18:42:34.864-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="banned"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="digg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="sites"/><title type='text'>Did My Sites Deserve To Get Banned From Digg?</title><content type='html'>Well this kinda happened all at once.... I am not sure if it was just the case of a few people ganging up on all my sites or if I actually deserved to be banned from the social phenomenon that is digg.com.  As some of you may know I do operate quite a few different blogs and each one of them made it to the front page at least once if not a bunch of times in certain cases.  Now I know a lot of people on digg are anti-blog, but really it is no different than any other site out there on the Internet.  Check out the list of banned sites and tell me what you think...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://worldsfunniestvideo.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;World&#39;s Funniest Videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://humanelement.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Human Element&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nothingbutvideos.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Nothing But Videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://easygrowhouseplants.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Growing Growing Gone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://overheating.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Are We Overheating? &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I e-mailed digg and ask when these sites would be re-instated and they told me they would never be.  Is this fair?  If people didn&#39;t like these sites then why would they make it to the front page time after time?  Just look at this long list of articles that made it &lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/users/1greenthumb/news/homepage&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you may know I have been a big advocate of digg and I would include a digg button in most of my posts.  I guess I just don&#39;t understand... what are your thoughts?</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/2607784206276638631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/06/did-my-sites-deserve-to-get-banned-from.html#comment-form' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/2607784206276638631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/2607784206276638631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/06/did-my-sites-deserve-to-get-banned-from.html' title='Did My Sites Deserve To Get Banned From Digg?'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-7063243688361537876</id><published>2007-05-18T17:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-18T17:57:13.921-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Corank"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="digg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="promoting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="social networking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="website"/><title type='text'>Is CoRank The Next Social Phenomenon?</title><content type='html'>Corank is a site that I have run across lately that seems to be yet another great way to promote your website it will get at least a few more eyes on your hard work.  For all of you familiar with the site &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/using-diggcom-to-generate-traffic.html&quot;&gt;Digg &lt;/a&gt;you will get the hang of this real quick!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It essentially works the same way as users get to submit and vote on stories/articles. The only real difference is that you get to choose your sources for the articles.  This way you filter out a lot of the junk on sites like Digg and you get your own personalized spam free front page.  Another slight difference from the mighty Digg is that you simply vote if the story is interesting or just &quot;not for me&quot;, they also give you the feature to save stories.  Of course, no social news site would be complete without the comment feature and Corank is no exception to the rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK1Gt7RwjDts0B-wHpkFKLpAoelpZbnOvfgx8r1w6cKwC2IP9FzYkl9i2tSBdNhgB0qKiDBfjD_Amq4-7I105XZAAjSClWsJVI9ZNH_8Ml3jRT0obmVbTdq89R9-T7zTtnevx4/s1600-h/corank.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK1Gt7RwjDts0B-wHpkFKLpAoelpZbnOvfgx8r1w6cKwC2IP9FzYkl9i2tSBdNhgB0qKiDBfjD_Amq4-7I105XZAAjSClWsJVI9ZNH_8Ml3jRT0obmVbTdq89R9-T7zTtnevx4/s400/corank.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066064922634253922&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is on a much smaller scale then digg, but it seems to be growing at a nice clip and every link to your site counts so what are you waiting for?  You can go sign up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.corank.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or you can view my Corank profile &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.corank.com/user/1greenthumb&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Don&#39;t forget to add me as a source if you like... enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/tech_news/Is_CoRank_The_Next_Social_Phenomenon&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; alt=&quot;Digg!&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/7063243688361537876/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-corank-next-social-phenomenon.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/7063243688361537876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/7063243688361537876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-corank-next-social-phenomenon.html' title='Is CoRank The Next Social Phenomenon?'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK1Gt7RwjDts0B-wHpkFKLpAoelpZbnOvfgx8r1w6cKwC2IP9FzYkl9i2tSBdNhgB0qKiDBfjD_Amq4-7I105XZAAjSClWsJVI9ZNH_8Ml3jRT0obmVbTdq89R9-T7zTtnevx4/s72-c/corank.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-5080377469696244859</id><published>2007-04-18T17:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-18T18:29:09.935-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="social networking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spicypage"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="website"/><title type='text'>Spicypage Takes Another Step Towards Becoming The Next Digg</title><content type='html'>For those of you who haven&#39;t heard of Spicypage you will be soon.  Just recently they released a feature to submit individual articles on the site in addition to the entire website or blog.  The major difference is that the articles that you submit are not voted on like digg, but are just sorted by the number of views.  You can still vote for the site that the article came from though, so it seems to be a win-win for the author of the site/article!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlj9ruqKomex8_7AaAVNJLUnoApZb3PwEj-QbE41sG157WSuVce73R3Q6F5sLT-RK8k2uwfKBdPJYiobbkuRN9K4Cwkhq1ZzHvhJyiwDnA0bsigWi8CWn6YgaiYmMCOAoJRoqi/s1600-h/spicypagewithgroups.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlj9ruqKomex8_7AaAVNJLUnoApZb3PwEj-QbE41sG157WSuVce73R3Q6F5sLT-RK8k2uwfKBdPJYiobbkuRN9K4Cwkhq1ZzHvhJyiwDnA0bsigWi8CWn6YgaiYmMCOAoJRoqi/s400/spicypagewithgroups.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054937061796548322&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Spicypage has also added a group feature to the site.  This can be another way to promote your website or blog.  All you need to do is start a group that revolves around your site.  People can join your group and give you feedback on your content, design, ect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the site is nowhere near &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/using-diggcom-to-generate-traffic.html&quot;&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt; just yet, it is gaining popularity and has a much better layout and more options then Digg gives you.   So if you haven&#39;t signed up already now is the time... you can learn more about Spicypage &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/is-that-spicy-page.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!  You can sign up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spicypage.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or view my profile &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spicypage.com/search.cfm?section=search&amp;segment=profile&amp;amp;profile_id=39&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/tech_news/Spicypage_Takes_Another_Step_Towards_Becoming_The_Next_Digg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; alt=&quot;Digg!&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/5080377469696244859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/04/spicypage-takes-another-step-towards.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/5080377469696244859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/5080377469696244859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/04/spicypage-takes-another-step-towards.html' title='Spicypage Takes Another Step Towards Becoming The Next Digg'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlj9ruqKomex8_7AaAVNJLUnoApZb3PwEj-QbE41sG157WSuVce73R3Q6F5sLT-RK8k2uwfKBdPJYiobbkuRN9K4Cwkhq1ZzHvhJyiwDnA0bsigWi8CWn6YgaiYmMCOAoJRoqi/s72-c/spicypagewithgroups.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-3514409861888572354</id><published>2007-03-24T10:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-24T14:55:58.496-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="bookmarks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="social networking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Stumbled Upon"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><title type='text'>Stumbling Through The Internet</title><content type='html'>A fun way to promote your website or blog is to submit your content to the website Stumbled Upon.  This site is a bit different from any of the other social networking sites out there and seems to be snowballing around the Internet.  Basically, as with all other sites the first thing to do is to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stumbleupon.com/&quot;&gt;sign up&lt;/a&gt;.  Once you do that you should begin to edit your profile, avatar picture, interests, personal info ect.  Stumbled upon will download a toolbar that works with Firefox or Internet Explorer which is great for submitting sites, seeing what your friends are stumbling, keeping track of your favorites and for finding new and interesting sites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJd10S6rcvnMtYSVXWaA8spbsnaQJB67EcvIRG0_O4POxoQ2F1V-ubjtJDPTMViBHbRRAlVfC6WcFfbqTem9IMVZ5Vg7oXq50t9p7WoWowNRY2MLrx957mVrsSAlYAp-ed_r18/s1600-h/stumbled+upon.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJd10S6rcvnMtYSVXWaA8spbsnaQJB67EcvIRG0_O4POxoQ2F1V-ubjtJDPTMViBHbRRAlVfC6WcFfbqTem9IMVZ5Vg7oXq50t9p7WoWowNRY2MLrx957mVrsSAlYAp-ed_r18/s400/stumbled+upon.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5045602253283972162&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now is also a good time to tell stumbled upon what kind of topics you would like to see.  This way you filter out most of the junk that you just don&#39;t care about!   That is the real beauty of Stumbled Upon!  If you are a fan of the next blog button on blogger you will certainly love this as the content tends to be of a higher quality and less spam.   For example if you are interested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://natureswallpaper.googlepages.com/&quot;&gt;photography&lt;/a&gt; and science then you can choose only to view photography and science sites. Very, very useful as it narrows down the sites you are looking for quite well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like other social networking sites it also has groups, friends, networks, forums, and it also saves all of your favorites much like &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/02/simply-delicious.html&quot;&gt;delicious&lt;/a&gt;.  It acts like a one stop shop for all your social networking needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The website Stumbled Upon is also a great way to try and target your exact audience for your website or blog.  For instance if you have a site all about poetry you can submit it to Stumbled Upon under the poetry section and watch the targeted traffic roll in.  It blew my mind when I saw all the different topics to choose from on the site! Like most other social networking sites, the more people that like the site the more it will be shown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The site is growing everyday and I have seen the traffic results myself in &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/track-visitors-to-your-website-or-blog.html&quot;&gt;Analytics&lt;/a&gt;.  So go sign up and start Stumbling today.  You can &lt;a href=&quot;http://1greenthumb.stumbleupon.com/about/&quot;&gt;view my profile here&lt;/a&gt; or&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stumbleupon.com/&quot;&gt; you can get started here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/tech_news/Stumbling_Through_The_Internet&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; alt=&quot;Digg!&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/3514409861888572354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/03/stumbling-through-internet.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/3514409861888572354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/3514409861888572354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/03/stumbling-through-internet.html' title='Stumbling Through The Internet'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJd10S6rcvnMtYSVXWaA8spbsnaQJB67EcvIRG0_O4POxoQ2F1V-ubjtJDPTMViBHbRRAlVfC6WcFfbqTem9IMVZ5Vg7oXq50t9p7WoWowNRY2MLrx957mVrsSAlYAp-ed_r18/s72-c/stumbled+upon.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-5093703677420439607</id><published>2007-03-07T14:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-07T15:08:40.225-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Photography"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Pictures"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tracking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="website"/><title type='text'>Drive Traffic To Your Site With Photos</title><content type='html'>Do you enjoy taking photos?  Do you want to showcase your work and drive traffic to your site?  The Nature&#39;s Wallpaper network of sites can help... Just send us an &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:maludan@gmail.com&quot;&gt;e-mail&lt;/a&gt; with the picture you would like to have displayed along with a link to the site of your choice.  We will take care of the rest!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Soon you will see your picture displayed on one of the sites and the link to the site you requested directly under the pic.  We will then e-mail you to see if you would like any changes to be made.  Here are the three different sites your work could be displayed on...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp2DzN3VMvB9ky-BapWcFJZwpm0aWkH4dBxIuuGNU2hh5uMoeZt8GJJIFLzlrDhnn8Ny6CK_b3WmpgfxxaiyOeZLP0-0eYYjt9SBH0mBkyKp0Ud9Pb8CxZtbahiQBgqwzY0-cp/s1600-h/Natureswallpaper+thumbnail.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp2DzN3VMvB9ky-BapWcFJZwpm0aWkH4dBxIuuGNU2hh5uMoeZt8GJJIFLzlrDhnn8Ny6CK_b3WmpgfxxaiyOeZLP0-0eYYjt9SBH0mBkyKp0Ud9Pb8CxZtbahiQBgqwzY0-cp/s400/Natureswallpaper+thumbnail.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039319136293172194&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://natureswallpaper.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;The Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvfsxDpktiW04qLMHmyn4U_FB4QE1WA1S-ZAoFrd0GFAkqXY30drtR64KU30Tqnc3wNumU1sU6LPytuM78wrV13mTEy758HPqLokIyd6ueGVSd59LY8ODOZkcY7BZeve5xFiGA/s1600-h/natureswallpaper+googlepages+thumb.bmp&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvfsxDpktiW04qLMHmyn4U_FB4QE1WA1S-ZAoFrd0GFAkqXY30drtR64KU30Tqnc3wNumU1sU6LPytuM78wrV13mTEy758HPqLokIyd6ueGVSd59LY8ODOZkcY7BZeve5xFiGA/s400/natureswallpaper+googlepages+thumb.bmp&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039318934429709266&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://natureswallpaper.googlepages.com/&quot;&gt;The Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDJEfPksVu5ogX0xAcCvY4sT82kmUQPzrlo6kFmL023Yk0reZ20d6DqzLG6ekrEfE2CKLrJtbbJL09Bft0g5nbHgQyGZ0SRfng7lfslLLkILVC5fComx6-dm70AwR5qtNB8AD2/s1600-h/natwallgoogoriginal.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDJEfPksVu5ogX0xAcCvY4sT82kmUQPzrlo6kFmL023Yk0reZ20d6DqzLG6ekrEfE2CKLrJtbbJL09Bft0g5nbHgQyGZ0SRfng7lfslLLkILVC5fComx6-dm70AwR5qtNB8AD2/s400/natwallgoogoriginal.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039319819192972274&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://maludan.googlepages.com/nature%27swallpaper&quot;&gt;The Original&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now sit back and relax your job is done!  You can now track the traffic coming in through &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/track-visitors-to-your-website-or-blog.html&quot;&gt;Analytics&lt;/a&gt; or any other tracking program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some of the sites that are already participating...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sunlightsilentfilm.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;A New Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://norpas.com/&quot;&gt;Norpas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://amazingstufftome.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Amazing Stuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://photoholicsanonymous.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Photoholics Anonymous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://browniesforbreakfast.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Brownies For Breakfast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://betterthanmtv.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Better Than MTV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyndawalldez&quot;&gt;Lynda Walldez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see your site doesn&#39;t need to be a photography site, it is all up to you.  So what are you waiting for... &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:maludan@gmail.com&quot;&gt;send Nature&#39;s Wallpaper your photos&lt;/a&gt; and start driving traffic to your site!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/tech_news/Drive_Traffic_To_Your_Site_With_Photos&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://digg.com/img/badges/80x15-digg-badge.gif&quot; width=&quot;80&quot; height=&quot;15&quot; alt=&quot;Digg!&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/5093703677420439607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/03/drive-traffic-to-your-site-with-photos.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/5093703677420439607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/5093703677420439607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/03/drive-traffic-to-your-site-with-photos.html' title='Drive Traffic To Your Site With Photos'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp2DzN3VMvB9ky-BapWcFJZwpm0aWkH4dBxIuuGNU2hh5uMoeZt8GJJIFLzlrDhnn8Ny6CK_b3WmpgfxxaiyOeZLP0-0eYYjt9SBH0mBkyKp0Ud9Pb8CxZtbahiQBgqwzY0-cp/s72-c/Natureswallpaper+thumbnail.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-6606877247300022166</id><published>2007-02-27T21:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-27T23:02:27.761-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="promoting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Search"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tags"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technorati"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>Return The Favor With Technorati</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/&quot;&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt; is a site I have been using for quite some time now... It is somewhat like &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/mybloglog-social-traffic-exchange.html&quot;&gt;Mybloglog&lt;/a&gt; as you can submit all of your blogs and other individuals can &quot;favorite&quot; your blogs.  This allows your fans to track your newer posts, each time they login to Technorati it displays to them all of the recent posts from the sites that they have made there &quot;favorites.&quot;  This makes for a great way to keep an eye on all of the blogs that interest you or your readers.  You can skim through the latest titles of all your favorite blogs all in one place till you find something that &lt;a href=&quot;http://natureswallpaper.googlepages.com/&quot;&gt;catches your eye&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6wNns9pUegZcFY-pgV6xahLxU_vlBx_EIe4zRQ4cYP9BdzIiZ95L-hTceSP0aDePFD5uWjir0ZPjeqMmZc2MGhJCQslMC-6U8oFqunVLM1Dcl9P7Tux9Hjne5SArvuVzmtqQv/s1600-h/Technorati.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6wNns9pUegZcFY-pgV6xahLxU_vlBx_EIe4zRQ4cYP9BdzIiZ95L-hTceSP0aDePFD5uWjir0ZPjeqMmZc2MGhJCQslMC-6U8oFqunVLM1Dcl9P7Tux9Hjne5SArvuVzmtqQv/s400/Technorati.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036472227586424834&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The part that I really like about Technorati though is that once you have submitted all of your blogs, Technorati tracks all of the people that have linked to your blog automatically!  This is very useful tool because this allows you to see who took the time to link to your sites, and it helps you to return the favor if you so choose by linking back to their blog.  Not only that, but you can sort these links by date or by &quot;authority&quot;, which allows you to see the most &quot;powerful/important&quot; links to your site as well.  This site also gives you your blog rank which can be a good thing to keep an eye on and will increase with each link to your site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many, many other tools that Technorati offers like Tags, Blog Search, and WTF as well.  What is your favorite part of Technorati?  Did I miss any useful tools?  Let me know, and if you still haven&#39;t signed up for Technorati you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or you can check out my profile &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/profile/1greenthumb&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/software/Return_The_Favor_With_Technorati&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif&quot; width=&quot;91&quot; height=&quot;17&quot; alt=&quot;Digg!&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/6606877247300022166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/02/return-favor-with-technorati.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/6606877247300022166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/6606877247300022166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/02/return-favor-with-technorati.html' title='Return The Favor With Technorati'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6wNns9pUegZcFY-pgV6xahLxU_vlBx_EIe4zRQ4cYP9BdzIiZ95L-hTceSP0aDePFD5uWjir0ZPjeqMmZc2MGhJCQslMC-6U8oFqunVLM1Dcl9P7Tux9Hjne5SArvuVzmtqQv/s72-c/Technorati.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-995233119125001307</id><published>2007-02-13T15:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-12T16:56:59.390-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Links"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="My Peeps"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Thanks"/><title type='text'>Time To Say Thanks Again</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRrmoXM_A2wg7Q1xj1wWS4et6CSBQiK_fUEX9c1Yoo3PmxFmxCKCopJO4pIZAUgUwWumy3nz1kRpa73mA8WDvPmFS2uPoTHWm18kQ_IuWbUC9Fr5Yfhhznsnx_OHU-ZBzfAXQP/s1600-h/sunset121306.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRrmoXM_A2wg7Q1xj1wWS4et6CSBQiK_fUEX9c1Yoo3PmxFmxCKCopJO4pIZAUgUwWumy3nz1kRpa73mA8WDvPmFS2uPoTHWm18kQ_IuWbUC9Fr5Yfhhznsnx_OHU-ZBzfAXQP/s400/sunset121306.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5031171604576302498&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well I figured it was about that time again... I just want to tell everyone that has commented, visited or linked to my sites a big THANKS!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in no particular order&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://carolsplaceforpeace.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;My View Of It&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; who actually just link to Are We Overheating about 5 minutes ago... I do appreciate you helping to spread the word : )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://tishabest.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Serenity Quest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;who has link to this very blog, and certainly has a way with words... Thanks for all your help and keep on entertaining and informing us all!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.topsoft.be/weblog/&quot;&gt;My View On The News&lt;/a&gt; this individual just linked to three of my blogs... unfortunately I cannot speak German if that is in fact what this sites language is... none the less they obviously have great tastes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://photoholicsanonymous.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Photoholics Anonymous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this is a project that I am working on with another photographer and I just want to give props...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://westen30.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;My Quest To Make Money On The Internet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; sounds very tempting doesn&#39;t it... go ahead and take a look... They have linked to this blog and google power and I certainly appreciate it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.talkvids.com/&quot;&gt;Talk Vids&lt;/a&gt; who is another recent linker to my nothing but videos site... Thanks and I wish your site the best of luck!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://browniesforbreakfast.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Brownies For Breakfast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; good old Texas Dave check out his growing number of blogs... I believe this one was the first!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure I forgot a TON of people and for that I do apologize... Let me know in a comment and I will be happy to feature you in the next post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE!!!!&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/995233119125001307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/02/time-to-say-thanks-again.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/995233119125001307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/995233119125001307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/02/time-to-say-thanks-again.html' title='Time To Say Thanks Again'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRrmoXM_A2wg7Q1xj1wWS4et6CSBQiK_fUEX9c1Yoo3PmxFmxCKCopJO4pIZAUgUwWumy3nz1kRpa73mA8WDvPmFS2uPoTHWm18kQ_IuWbUC9Fr5Yfhhznsnx_OHU-ZBzfAXQP/s72-c/sunset121306.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-957385680288627613</id><published>2007-02-08T11:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-08T12:24:12.085-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blogger"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Del.icio.us"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="promoting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="website"/><title type='text'>Simply Del.icio.us</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Another great way to help promote your site is to use the site &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/&quot;&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;, especially if you have multiple sites/blogs.  This is one of the original sites that started to use &quot;social bookmarking.&quot;  This simply means you post your bookmarks/articles and share them with people in your network on del.icio.us.  This might not seem like much, but it is a great way to get a few eyes on your work. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifDR-_8xg1LkJwsg_P-ICZ1mWOBZm5g_AjN20ojRfktWTnHorIOKwiSEQ4fMFmDdBT8XySae2IWN8ledYu4VZdeX4y0puUxtGDQXtnSpr7HtkPqEB63w_cGOa2Wbxo9btkItQh/s1600-h/delicious.bmp&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifDR-_8xg1LkJwsg_P-ICZ1mWOBZm5g_AjN20ojRfktWTnHorIOKwiSEQ4fMFmDdBT8XySae2IWN8ledYu4VZdeX4y0puUxtGDQXtnSpr7HtkPqEB63w_cGOa2Wbxo9btkItQh/s400/delicious.bmp&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5029261100043826530&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Delicious also keeps track of all the people that bookmark your posts, so you can check out their work/bookmarks as well, and best of all you can access these bookmarks anywhere in the world from any computer.  Like a lot of other sites nowadays Delicious uses tags, so you can easily sort your bookmarks.  For example, &quot;blog&quot; or &quot;photography&quot; or &quot;funny&quot; or &quot;scary&quot; could all be useful tags.  They are a great way to help organize your website/blog and these bookmarks as well. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;My favorite part of Delicious though is the &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls&quot;&gt;linkrolls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;.&quot;  This is a very useful tool if you have multiple blogs &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www2.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537&quot;&gt;like me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;.  Basically, it is a list of the most recent posts to Delicious from any blog/site.  You can add these linkrolls to any of your sites, Delicious writes the HTML for you all you need to do is cut and paste it into your template.  You can see an example here below this post on this blog or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://natureswallpaper.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;here very near the bottom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;.  This is a great way to promote all of your posts from different sites in one handy dandy list that is automatically updated every time you post another bookmark.  Pretty cool!  Plus you can also direct people to other sites besides your own that you think will interest your viewers.  This is a great way to keep your links looking fresh and new and help cross promote your sites.  So go check it out and start keeping viewers on your network of sites longer.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/&quot;&gt;Sign-up here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; or you can check out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/1greenthumb&quot;&gt;my delicious profile here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/programming/Simply_Del_icio_us&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; alt=&quot;Digg!&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/957385680288627613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/02/simply-delicious.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/957385680288627613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/957385680288627613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/02/simply-delicious.html' title='Simply Del.icio.us'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifDR-_8xg1LkJwsg_P-ICZ1mWOBZm5g_AjN20ojRfktWTnHorIOKwiSEQ4fMFmDdBT8XySae2IWN8ledYu4VZdeX4y0puUxtGDQXtnSpr7HtkPqEB63w_cGOa2Wbxo9btkItQh/s72-c/delicious.bmp" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-7253998280084980171</id><published>2007-01-26T16:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-27T11:10:22.558-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Analytics"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Google"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tracking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="visitors"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="website"/><title type='text'>Track Visitors To Your Website Or Blog With Analytics</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Now that we have explored a few ways to promote your website or blog, you might be wondering if all of your hard work is really paying off.  Well, if you aren&#39;t using any tracking software yet, my recommendation would be to use &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/analytics&quot;&gt;Google Analytics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;.  It is very easy to use, and has more information about your visitors then you would ever dream.  To get started you need to sign up for this FREE service.  If you already have a google account you can use this to sign in or if not all you need is an e-mail address to get your Analytics account.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIIFju0Lt11r3-Y-yr0d_Azlg7Mm0eESIiAi4GUoBdmtnot_4GLWycwzrH3MXu0-lPZ09RHxc2WEu8lhTljRgmBlSw4vzwhMXjV-rpM_3CwwIRr_kv3D07VLAf71Ka-nCSfVPh/s1600-h/google+analytics.bmp&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIIFju0Lt11r3-Y-yr0d_Azlg7Mm0eESIiAi4GUoBdmtnot_4GLWycwzrH3MXu0-lPZ09RHxc2WEu8lhTljRgmBlSw4vzwhMXjV-rpM_3CwwIRr_kv3D07VLAf71Ka-nCSfVPh/s400/google+analytics.bmp&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024510493751081890&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Once you have signed up you need to &quot;create a website profile.&quot;  Analytics will ask you for the URL (website address) of the site. For example, this site would be promotingyoursite.blogspot.com yours could be www.yoursite.com  Once you have entered the address you will need to choose your location and time zone.  Then you would click the &quot;finish&quot; button and wham, Google produces a little piece of HTML (website code)  near the bottom of the screen.  All you need to do now is copy and paste this HTML into your site.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;If you are using blogger you need to go to your template and hit the edit HTML button.  Then scroll down all the way to the bottom of the code... you should see &lt; /body&gt;.  You want to paste the code directly before this &lt; /body&gt; and save the template.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Now back in Analytics hit the done button, this will bring you back to the main page.  You should see your site listed here followed by &quot;Tracking Not Install&quot; and &quot;Check Status.&quot;  You want to click on the &quot;check status&quot; link.  If you installed your HTML correctly Analytics will tell you that &quot;Tracking has been installed&quot; and &quot;Waiting For Data.&quot;   Congratulations, you will now be able to track every visitor to your site.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Please note you need to wait a couple hours before you will see results.  So when you log back in just hit the view reports link and this will take you to all the information that has been collected from your visitors.  This includes, but is not limited to the number of visitors, page views, new/returning, geo location (city/state/country), length and depth of visit, top entry/exit points, referring sources, what people are typing into search engines to find your site... I could go on and on, but that sounds like another post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;You can track up to 50 sites for free!!!  What are you waiting for go sign-up &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/analytics&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; or you can read even more about Google Analytics &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://google-power.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-use-google-analytics-and-google.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/business_finance/How_To_Track_Visitors_To_Your_Website_Or_Blog&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; alt=&quot;Digg!&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/7253998280084980171/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/track-visitors-to-your-website-or-blog.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/7253998280084980171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/7253998280084980171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/track-visitors-to-your-website-or-blog.html' title='Track Visitors To Your Website Or Blog With Analytics'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIIFju0Lt11r3-Y-yr0d_Azlg7Mm0eESIiAi4GUoBdmtnot_4GLWycwzrH3MXu0-lPZ09RHxc2WEu8lhTljRgmBlSw4vzwhMXjV-rpM_3CwwIRr_kv3D07VLAf71Ka-nCSfVPh/s72-c/google+analytics.bmp" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-5565156145219822695</id><published>2007-01-20T15:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-20T16:12:54.203-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="promoting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spicypage"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="website"/><title type='text'>Is That A Spicy Page?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Ok, so you have heard of &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/using-diggcom-to-generate-traffic.html&quot;&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt;, Netscape and &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/reddit-and-netscape.html&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt; but have you ever heard of Spicypage.com?  Chances are you haven&#39;t just yet, but the site is really starting to gain traction.  Spicypage works in a lot of the same ways that digg does.  Users vote on content whether it is a thumbs up or thumbs down and can comment on the sites as well.  The part that I really like about Spicypage is that it is the entire website or blogs that is voted on, not just an article from a site.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cJfQ9cKvDauVcikqHBYHS62iJ1xtzw9pAo4Muq74ae-_BzRPwHHGufRHSGgKGBNgGSPbKqrcalhEvQFZwmYpJ-Kro8wrAnfu9VXmB9943gWv3yFFYSF4aleSo2dvMWuJepI0/s1600-h/spicypage.bmp&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cJfQ9cKvDauVcikqHBYHS62iJ1xtzw9pAo4Muq74ae-_BzRPwHHGufRHSGgKGBNgGSPbKqrcalhEvQFZwmYpJ-Kro8wrAnfu9VXmB9943gWv3yFFYSF4aleSo2dvMWuJepI0/s400/spicypage.bmp&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5022264491788787698&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Users of this site can also submit websites that they do not own or operate like google, yahoo, or youtube, all three are all ready in the top 100 list on the site.  Spicypage also has the social aspect to it like &lt;a href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/mybloglog-social-traffic-exchange.html&quot;&gt;mybloglog&lt;/a&gt;!  You can send messages to one another and gain &quot;friends&quot; through the site as well.  Now like I said in the beginning, this place is just getting started so now is the best time to submit your content (less competition.)  So what is it that you are waiting for go sign up and start voting... you can sign up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spicypage.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or you can view &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spicypage.com/search.cfm?section=search&amp;segment=profile&amp;amp;profile_id=39&quot;&gt;my profile here&lt;/a&gt;.  Tell them the 1greenthumb sent you : )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/tech_news/Could_Spicypage_Be_The_Next_Digg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; alt=&quot;Digg!&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/5565156145219822695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/is-that-spicy-page.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/5565156145219822695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/5565156145219822695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/is-that-spicy-page.html' title='Is That A Spicy Page?'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cJfQ9cKvDauVcikqHBYHS62iJ1xtzw9pAo4Muq74ae-_BzRPwHHGufRHSGgKGBNgGSPbKqrcalhEvQFZwmYpJ-Kro8wrAnfu9VXmB9943gWv3yFFYSF4aleSo2dvMWuJepI0/s72-c/spicypage.bmp" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-6477373482221029083</id><published>2007-01-14T15:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-15T14:30:52.553-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="mybloglog"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tracking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="website"/><title type='text'>Mybloglog The Social Traffic Exchange</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Mybloglog.com is another useful way to promote your sites with a nice social twist to it.  Basically, you sign up first, then I would suggest adding your different blogs/sites to your profile.  Once you hit the &quot;Add site&quot; button Mybloglog will take a snap shot of your site, you then add in a description and you are all set.  Your site is now called a community according to mybloglog. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAvDIsbgOiFYThiNf_H-buR6ayVtQ3WDLW7wL-X0eYTLkwusY6SN5MJr21FVc3zlMAN7cURgU1TjLyQgu0QsAa4rb_KT_-1CBvs-hEvycKjYhJ3GX2BGIMPnmWoTH0uDPsFehd/s1600-h/mybloglog.bmp&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAvDIsbgOiFYThiNf_H-buR6ayVtQ3WDLW7wL-X0eYTLkwusY6SN5MJr21FVc3zlMAN7cURgU1TjLyQgu0QsAa4rb_KT_-1CBvs-hEvycKjYhJ3GX2BGIMPnmWoTH0uDPsFehd/s400/mybloglog.bmp&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020036305705293058&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;People then can sign up for your &quot;community&quot; and become readers/fans of your site.  They track all of the people that sign up for your sites so you can also visit their blogs and check out who is in fact looking at your website or blog.   You can also post messages to users or just to their communities, this is were the social aspect of it comes in.  You can actually put a face to these blogs that you are reading.   They also have widgets available that you can add into your sites to track stats on your sites including links in and out and the number of readers on your site!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;As you may know though it was just bought by Yahoo so I hope they don&#39;t mess up a good thing... while I am still relatively new to Mybloglog I can already see serious results in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://google-power.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-use-google-analytics-and-google.html&quot;&gt;Google Analytics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;!  So what are you waiting for you can &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.mybloglog.com/&quot;&gt;sign up here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; or you can check out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/1greenthumb/&quot;&gt;my profile here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/business_finance/Mybloglog_The_Social_Traffic_Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif&quot; width=&quot;91&quot; height=&quot;17&quot; alt=&quot;Digg!&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/6477373482221029083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/mybloglog-social-traffic-exchange.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/6477373482221029083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/6477373482221029083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2007/01/mybloglog-social-traffic-exchange.html' title='Mybloglog The Social Traffic Exchange'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAvDIsbgOiFYThiNf_H-buR6ayVtQ3WDLW7wL-X0eYTLkwusY6SN5MJr21FVc3zlMAN7cURgU1TjLyQgu0QsAa4rb_KT_-1CBvs-hEvycKjYhJ3GX2BGIMPnmWoTH0uDPsFehd/s72-c/mybloglog.bmp" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-2298424629825698148</id><published>2006-12-29T17:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-29T17:59:36.062-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="digg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="netscape"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="promoting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="reddit"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><title type='text'>Reddit And Netscape Better Than Digg?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqzNzod0SwtpTPFyL5WEU8nbUOrCKmLpWkyEgxahIk8GNtgNzfO-1gRLHY5SeOlQ9bTA16Ese2qmC7xjd6nPEnl-fIbEQBrQmfyKFGGci4Ogp-aOzzKIVruL5I_6ZX6o5J_RE/s1600-h/diggredditnetscape.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 219px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqzNzod0SwtpTPFyL5WEU8nbUOrCKmLpWkyEgxahIk8GNtgNzfO-1gRLHY5SeOlQ9bTA16Ese2qmC7xjd6nPEnl-fIbEQBrQmfyKFGGci4Ogp-aOzzKIVruL5I_6ZX6o5J_RE/s320/diggredditnetscape.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5014132330089776162&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;So I am sure you heard about how I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/using-diggcom-to-generate-traffic.html&quot;&gt;made it big&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; on digg.com, so I decided to search out sites that were similar to digg.  The two sites that I see that have the most promise are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/&quot;&gt;reddit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.netscape.com/&quot;&gt;netscape&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;, yes I said netscape.  I was surprise to find out the old netscape is rising from the dead and is looking quite a bit like digg.  In fact the only real difference I see between the two of them is that netscape has a lot less users.  Reddit on the other hand is a very primitive site, but still has the potential to draw traffic to your site.  In Reddit you simply submit the url of the page and nothing else, not even a description.   Since there is no description at all your headline becomes very very important.  So got out into the brave new world and submit your stories/article to digg, reddit, and netscape and watch the traffic pour in...&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;By the way, I had even more success with digg when I submitted &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://easygrowhouseplants.blogspot.com/2006/12/inventor-of-water-powered-car-murdered.html&quot;&gt;this story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;, watch out though it appears to be a very dangerous topic, but it did get over 2000 diggs...&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/2298424629825698148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/reddit-and-netscape.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/2298424629825698148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/2298424629825698148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/reddit-and-netscape.html' title='Reddit And Netscape Better Than Digg?'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqzNzod0SwtpTPFyL5WEU8nbUOrCKmLpWkyEgxahIk8GNtgNzfO-1gRLHY5SeOlQ9bTA16Ese2qmC7xjd6nPEnl-fIbEQBrQmfyKFGGci4Ogp-aOzzKIVruL5I_6ZX6o5J_RE/s72-c/diggredditnetscape.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-1034067798441356850</id><published>2006-12-10T17:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T16:12:02.559-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="digg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="promoting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic"/><title type='text'>Using Digg.com To Generate Traffic</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNacIqhiRDEs2nrtM9EzY1W97iJ-dt0mpwi0soT9c_nBd8wpZfI-jRVyEOQEWIrCwdwHMCP6hyphenhyphen11PYu40_B1ts4qn2vsDksfEwQ24pPFHI4cQosTqVNP-8EQwOTy6NYpRyGQn/s1600-h/digg.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 296px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNacIqhiRDEs2nrtM9EzY1W97iJ-dt0mpwi0soT9c_nBd8wpZfI-jRVyEOQEWIrCwdwHMCP6hyphenhyphen11PYu40_B1ts4qn2vsDksfEwQ24pPFHI4cQosTqVNP-8EQwOTy6NYpRyGQn/s320/digg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007075826545494370&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;So I finally hit it big on digg.com, I have been posting there for a while and I would get a few diggs, but nothing like this.  First let me give you a little background of what digg is.  Basically, digg.com is a site where users can submit their articles/videos about anything from politics to comedy. Once it is submitted users can &quot;digg&quot; them or bury them if they so choose.  The site keeps track of all the diggs that you get on your article/video.  The more diggs you have the more chance you have of making it on the main &quot;popular stories&quot; part of digg.  You see when you first submit the story it goes into a &quot;upcoming stories&quot; section of digg, then once you receive many diggs they upgrade you to the &quot;popular stories&quot; part of digg.  Once you make it there you can sit back and watch the traffic jump, it was really amazing.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;When my story made it I had over 12,000 hits in one day alone, which is pretty impressive for sites like mine that are still in their infancy and don&#39;t have any real page rank.  You can see all of my stories that I submitted to digg &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://digg.com/users/1greenthumb/submitted&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; and you can see the story that gave me the 12,000 hits &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://digg.com/videos_comedy/Jerry_Seinfeld_In_OZ&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The beauty of digg is that the stories are chosen by the viewers and not some editor so everyone has a chance of making it big.  So what are you waiting for go &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.digg.com/&quot;&gt;sign up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; and starting digging, it is a great way to promote your site.  Who knows maybe this article will be the next to make it big... hmmm diggers digging a site about digg, I guess it makes sense.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digg.com/offbeat_news/Diggers_digging_a_site_about_digg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://digg.com/img/badges/180x35-digg-button.png&quot; width=&quot;180&quot; height=&quot;35&quot; alt=&quot;Digg!&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/1034067798441356850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/using-diggcom-to-generate-traffic.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/1034067798441356850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/1034067798441356850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/12/using-diggcom-to-generate-traffic.html' title='Using Digg.com To Generate Traffic'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNacIqhiRDEs2nrtM9EzY1W97iJ-dt0mpwi0soT9c_nBd8wpZfI-jRVyEOQEWIrCwdwHMCP6hyphenhyphen11PYu40_B1ts4qn2vsDksfEwQ24pPFHI4cQosTqVNP-8EQwOTy6NYpRyGQn/s72-c/digg.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-116258966671086241</id><published>2006-11-03T13:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-08T17:16:15.613-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog Soldiers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8061/2809/1600/cloud%20watermelon%20326.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8061/2809/400/cloud%20watermelon%20326.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It really seems like there are quite a few sites traffic exchanges out there like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogexplosion.com&quot;&gt;blog explosion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogmad.net&quot;&gt;blogmad&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogazoo.com&quot;&gt;blogazoo&lt;/a&gt;.  The latest one that I have come across is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogsoldiers.com/?rid=4837&quot;&gt;Blog Soldiers&lt;/a&gt;.  It works like the others as you can surf other blogs in their directory to gain credits.  So far blog soldiers offers me three blogs that I can submit into their directory.  It is becoming increasingly difficult to choose which blogs to submit.  (I think I have about 11 now!)  You can also pay them for extra credits and to &quot;upgrade&quot; your membership.  As with the other traffic exchanges, you can assign the amount of traffic that you would like to go to each site.  For example 50% to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://natureswallpaper.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Natures Wallpaper&lt;/a&gt; site, 30% to &lt;a href=&quot;http://celebratemusic.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;celebrating music&lt;/a&gt; and 20% to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://worldsfunniestvideo.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;world&#39;s funniest videos&lt;/a&gt;.  While these sites are rather tedious to maintain your credits, they do provide results!  Has anyone else out there used blog soldiers?  Let me know what you think.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/116258966671086241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/11/blog-soldiers.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/116258966671086241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/116258966671086241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/11/blog-soldiers.html' title='Blog Soldiers'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-116128205350425509</id><published>2006-10-19T11:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-19T14:14:59.510-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Big Thanks!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8061/2809/1600/100_0144.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8061/2809/400/100_0144.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post is going to be dedicated to all those people out there that have linked to any of my sites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dave operates the following blogs, check them out they have a lot of great pictures and useful info you can access his other blogs from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/profile/21404598&quot;&gt;blogger profile&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs-apart.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://blogs-apart.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://waterfallsuplift.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://waterfallsuplift.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isa operates the following blogs, check out her unique writing style available in English&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://isa-urban.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://isa-urban.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or Spanish&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.luna-de-dia.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.luna-de-dia.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tanya&#39;s blogs include spectacular sunset photos submitted from people all around the world (including me) She is working on producing a silent film so if you have any sunset photos you would like to contribute....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sunlightsilentfilm.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://sunlightsilentfilm.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Impman has linked to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://overheating.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;overheating&lt;/a&gt; site a few times check his site out and leave him a comment if you so choose...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://impysview.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://impysview.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paul has a few different blogs out there you can check them out at the following address, you won&#39;t be disappointed....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://amazingstufftome.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://amazingstufftome.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://advertisementsthatihate.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://advertisementsthatihate.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to everyone who has promoted or linked to my blogs out there I do appreciate it.  I am sure I have missed a few, just let me know and I will feature your blog in future articles.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/116128205350425509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/10/big-thanks.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/116128205350425509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/116128205350425509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/10/big-thanks.html' title='A Big Thanks!'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-116102505425921985</id><published>2006-10-16T11:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-16T11:57:34.513-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blogmad</title><content type='html'>I have found another very similar site as blogazoo called&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogmad.net&quot;&gt;http://www.blogmad.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It works like blogexplosion and blogazoo as far as you earn credits by surfing other blogs, which in turn you can use to generate traffic to your site.  You can create advertising banners and text link that you can &quot;buy&quot; with these credits that you earn by surfing in their directory.  Blogmad lets you have only two different blogs though.   Has anyone else seen results from&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogmad.net&quot;&gt;http://www.blogmad.net&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogazoo.com&quot;&gt;http://www.blogazoo.com&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/116102505425921985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/10/blogmad.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/116102505425921985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/116102505425921985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/10/blogmad.html' title='Blogmad'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34967012.post-116051507838992206</id><published>2006-10-10T14:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-10T14:41:00.793-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Generate Traffic From Surfing Blogs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8061/2809/1600/Blog%20Promotion.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 217px;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8061/2809/320/Blog%20Promotion.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;For all of you out there that are addicted to the next blog button, I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;have found just the site for you.  It is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.blogazoo.com&quot;&gt;blogazoo.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;, it works a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;lot like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.blogexplosion.com&quot;&gt;blogexplosion.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; as in you can receive &quot;credits&quot; that you can&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;apply to your blogs to drive traffic to your site.  You generate these&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;credits by simply surfing blogs in their directory.  They make you wait&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;about 20 seconds and then you click on a number to prove you are not a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&quot;bot&quot; and it takes you to the next blog.  I have already racked up a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;few credits just by surfing for about a half hour.  Once you receive&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;these credits you can apply them to any of the blogs that you have in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;your profile.  Check it out, and let me know what you think.  If&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;anything, it&#39;s another listing that you can add your blogs to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out our &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/promotingyoursite&quot;&gt;Google Group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/116051507838992206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/10/generate-traffic-from-surfing-blogs.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/116051507838992206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34967012/posts/default/116051507838992206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotingyoursite.blogspot.com/2006/10/generate-traffic-from-surfing-blogs.html' title='Generate Traffic From Surfing Blogs'/><author><name>1Green Thumb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14960796089036943537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SKh-CG3BRkI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nHAAGhgg5jU/S220/red+wings+and+plants+042.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>