EConsultant has a great list of blog advertising networks for anyone looking to either make some revenue from their site or advertise a product.

Make money by putting links and buttons on your blogs.

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I’ve wrapped up my notes from the SEO session at Wordcamp over the weekend to post here with links to the plugins and methods described to optimize your Wordpress install.

Meta tags - These are done for use in SEO with the exception of Meta Description. The Head Meta Description plug-in takes care of this for you by pulling x number of words from your entry and info about the category of the post. These items are configurable within the plugin.

Permalinks - Change out the permalink structure to get more keyword search friendly words in the title.

Title - Change out your titles to get the title of the post (which should get you more specific search engine traffic) in front of the title of the blog. Some people talked about a hack of the code in the blog itself and there is a plugin - Optimal Title - which does this for you.

Blogrolls/Incoming links - While how to get incoming links wasn’t discussed to much, it was mentioned that incoming links from relevant sites using relevant anchor tags are a good idea. So a link which reads “wordpress seo tips” leading to this post from a site like Problogger would be better than coming from a random poker gambling blog.

Some techniques for getting links include sending an email to other bloggers who deal in the same subject and letting them know about your post, using trackbacks on other sites, commenting in other’s blogs and getting on sites like Digg or del.icio.us.

Create a sitemap - The use of Google’s sitemap tool was talked about and also mention of a good Wordpress sitemap plugin.

Create compelling content often - Not only is this a great way to keep readers once they find you, the search engines tend to favor sites which update often.

Link to the speaker’s post - Cameron and Neil from Pronet Advertising - about their seo talk.

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The fourth tool in our arsenal is Blogrolling, the link manager and sidebar organizer. Here is a great description:

“BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal, helping you manage your ever-evolving linklist with ease.”
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The third tool in our Essential Blogging Tools series is Feedblitz - the rss to email workhorse; at the time of this post they were serving 702301 email addresses and 56746 active feeds!. The service is popular not only because you can use it to serve your feed to subscribers, but also because you can have any rss feed sent to you by email. This is syndication made easy.

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Markus Merz over at Performancing has a great post on getting more traffic to your site and he uses many of the same tools I’ve outlined in the Essential Blogging Tools series.

10 Tips for More Blog Traffic - Performancing

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Pingomatic has become the most popular pinging service due to its simplicity. It does one thing and does it fairly well, considering the number of people using it (according to their stats page, it handles about 20M+ pings a day). This tool contacts over 22 different search engines to let hem know that you have updated your site’s content.

Some tools, like Wordpress, have the ping address - rpc.pingomatic.com - listed by default, automatically sending out a notice when you’ve updated. You can also go to the Pingomatic main page hand enter your blog address and update your site manually. To keep up with what’s happening with them - yep they have a blog - http://blog.pingomatic.com/.

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Bloglines lets you read your favorite blogs online - take your news with you. It is one of the most popular feed aggregators around and has gotten better under the ownership of Ask.com.

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If you have ever stared at a new blog and wondered you could add to liven the page, you’ll like this series. I’m going to cover the seven most popular and useful blogging tools every site needs to create a better user experience.
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This post came from Chris Taylor - 15 Top RSS & Blog Marketing Tips:

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