Blog Ads for Women via Blogher:
Blogher, a well know blog network has started their own advertising network aimed directly at women bloggers. Originally designed just for sites in the network, the new BlogherAds.com goes wider than that. …

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SEO ethics and practices: A guide - from Blog Business World

Search engine optimization (SEO) ethics are often discussed, but rarely defined in any meaningful ways. Website owners often hear about the so-called “white hat” and “black hat” SEO professionals. A few webmasters are even aware of some undefined “grey hat” SEO techniques, and their practitioners as well.

Found this while looking through links back to the directory. Wayne Hulbert describes the questions one must ask when working on optimization for a site.

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5 ways to building a better blog:

“Although the blogosphere is a new space on the web, it is starting to become a crowded. Millions of bloggers are writing on a daily basis and many of them are writing on similar topics. Because of the sheer number of blogs fighting for the same eyeballs, it is becoming harder to become popular, so the question is how do you make your blog stand out from the rest”

Neil Patel at Pronet Advertising does a great job with this post and is a good read on bettering your blog.

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“Yahoo! is a terrific ally of CC and has amazing tools that publishers can use to find Creative Commons-licensed content to add to your site:

Yahoo! Search: Creative Commons Search

Add Creative Commons photos from Flickr to your site

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Good money made dirt cheap:
Blogging over here at Casta Greg has become very successful thanks in part to PayPerPost blog advertising that will see me happily making healthy tripple figures. And the nice thing is I’m not having to anything special to make the …

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Brad over at Brad’s Blog is feeling the pain of dealing with tons of submissions. If you get behind by a couple of days it can feel overwhelming.

“When I went into the admin area of my Blog Directory, I about fell over. 257 links waiting for approval! JEEZ!”

But he learned pretty quick what matters:

“Featured and reciprocol links get approved fast. Then I go to the links that have good titles and descriptions, that make them look like real blogs and not splogs, or ad sites.”

I don’t need another hobby - Brads Blog

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I’ve recently opened a dialog with some of the top blog directories and have had a good response from their maintainers. A common thread which we’ve all dealt with is the evergrowing problem with splogs and faded sites.

On some days, 80% of the sites which are being submitted are not typical splogs but more sites which serve no purpose other than advertising a product or Adsense fodder. Im not adverse to people wanting to make money but do you really think that someone looking for advice really needs to see the same car repair article which has been posted on 200-300 article database sites and re-posted hundreds/thousdands of times on other sites?

Some of the directories have come up with some guidelines to help prevent these types of submissions. And with the new update of our software we were able to increase the quality of our average referral. As I get more info, I’ll post it to the site so that you get an idea as to what the other owners are looking for, but Im pretty sure that if you’re site has been around for a while (six months plus), has good original content and an active author, you’re probably going to get added.

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21 Tactics To Increase Blog Traffic - SEOmoz Blog

The good stuff just keeps coming at you and here is another great post on generating more traffic for your blog/podcast/videoblog. And I may even put some of these tips into use!

The turning off comments to prevent your site from looking dead is a new one. Actually this may have affected this blog as well so off with the comments.

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Here are some more links to check out on getting a popular blog.

Revisiting Blog Promotion: A Few Favorite Links

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DataWebTect has a top 10 list of lists on geenrating more traffic for your site.

Get traffic to your blog - Top 10

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