Comments on: 6 Essential Websites to Help you Get your Blog Noticed http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/ Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:46:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Giovanni Garinian http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-401628 Giovanni Garinian Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:01:33 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-401628 you can upload files to wp.com, the thing is that they will be uploaded in a subdirectory. GWebmasters ask you to upload in the httpdocs ROOT directory. Dah, impossible to do that with WP.com you can upload files to wp.com, the thing is that they will be uploaded in a subdirectory. GWebmasters ask you to upload in the httpdocs ROOT directory. Dah, impossible to do that with WP.com

]]> By: Giovanni Garinian http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-401627 Giovanni Garinian Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:57:06 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-401627 ah, Nik: as you noticed.. the text widget is useless for that purpose... but don't feel bad.. i love the statistics feature of wordpress.com // it's so great because it block your own visits, and also, is so easy to analyse and the info showed is relevant toooo. Normally i found that other statistics services throw a lot of information useless and hard to analyze it. ah, Nik: as you noticed.. the text widget is useless for that purpose… but don’t feel bad.. i love the statistics feature of wordpress.com // it’s so great because it block your own visits, and also, is so easy to analyse and the info showed is relevant toooo. Normally i found that other statistics services throw a lot of information useless and hard to analyze it.

]]> By: Giovanni Garinian http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-401626 Giovanni Garinian Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:51:30 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-401626 Yes, that's the crap about Wordpress.com (the commercial version) If you want more like editing your template or having adds you may switch to Wordpress.org and pay for hosting service (you can ask me.. i sell hosting service at fair price). The nice thing of Wordpress.com is that you can generate a lot of traffic easily (a lot more than blogger or a new paid domain) because of something like a "tag directory" which increases your pagerank in someway and drives you the traffic. The turn off is that i don't know why this is cool if i can't have adds or content with commercial purposes. Wordpress.com is for beginners and people who loves writing and would like been read by somebody and trascend in some way. In the mean time, you get more serious, buy a domain, install wordpress.org, apply all the web 2.0 marketing strategys, tools and plugins and vuala! in a couple of months you reach a considerable traffic and revenue in a blog fully configurable!! Yes, that’s the crap about Wordpress.com (the commercial version) If you want more like editing your template or having adds you may switch to Wordpress.org and pay for hosting service (you can ask me.. i sell hosting service at fair price). The nice thing of Wordpress.com is that you can generate a lot of traffic easily (a lot more than blogger or a new paid domain) because of something like a “tag directory” which increases your pagerank in someway and drives you the traffic. The turn off is that i don’t know why this is cool if i can’t have adds or content with commercial purposes. Wordpress.com is for beginners and people who loves writing and would like been read by somebody and trascend in some way. In the mean time, you get more serious, buy a domain, install wordpress.org, apply all the web 2.0 marketing strategys, tools and plugins and vuala! in a couple of months you reach a considerable traffic and revenue in a blog fully configurable!!

]]> By: Paul Morales http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-373043 Paul Morales Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:13:01 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-373043 Thanks! I forgot about mybloglog I'm working on a full list of things to do to get my blog noticed. Thanks! I forgot about mybloglog I’m working on a full list of things to do to get my blog noticed.

]]> By: Devicepedia http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-352599 Devicepedia Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:54:06 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-352599 Also submit your blog in technorati, it also helps in gaining a traffic. Also submit your blog in technorati, it also helps in gaining a traffic.

]]> By: Dave Lucas http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-318042 Dave Lucas Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:37:10 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-318042 This is a great companion post to one that I'd written over a year ago (but was reminded of it today when a newspaper emailed me to ask about it!) and just re-discovered via Digg... <a href="http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2007/03/get-your-blog-noticed-7-ways-to.html" rel="nofollow">Here it is...</a> This is a great companion post to one that I’d written over a year ago (but was reminded of it today when a newspaper emailed me to ask about it!) and just re-discovered via Digg…

Here it is…

]]> By: MKTG2032 Links Post 15: Engaging the community: Comments, Commenting and Commentary « Mktg2032’s Weblog http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-260520 MKTG2032 Links Post 15: Engaging the community: Comments, Commenting and Commentary « Mktg2032’s Weblog Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:11:35 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-260520 [...] 6 Essential Websites to Help you Get your Blog Noticed | MakeUseOf.com Starting a blog is extremely easy. Getting it noticed though is something else entirely. [...] [...] 6 Essential Websites to Help you Get your Blog Noticed | MakeUseOf.com Starting a blog is extremely easy. Getting it noticed though is something else entirely. [...]

]]> By: Morgaine http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-253967 Morgaine Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:52:15 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-253967 OK, I'll do the Google map and at some point I'll figure out how people can dig my blog posts, but I checked out StumbledUpon and that's not going to do me any good until they make a tool bar for Safari. I'm hesitant to spend time on sites that aren't Mac friendly. (Before anyone says it, FireFox does not constitute Mac Friendliness. It's slow and clunky and I love my Safari.) Twitter is fun - I don't know about sending my blog posts to it, though. Maybe if I had a separate screen name for the name of the blog... OK, I’ll do the Google map and at some point I’ll figure out how people can dig my blog posts, but I checked out StumbledUpon and that’s not going to do me any good until they make a tool bar for Safari. I’m hesitant to spend time on sites that aren’t Mac friendly. (Before anyone says it, FireFox does not constitute Mac Friendliness. It’s slow and clunky and I love my Safari.)

Twitter is fun – I don’t know about sending my blog posts to it, though. Maybe if I had a separate screen name for the name of the blog…

]]> By: Anne http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-249041 Anne Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:42:28 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-249041 Great post! I'd just like to mention that if you guys like writing so much than give <a href="http://www.triond.com" rel="nofollow">Triond</a> a peak. There your writing will get noticed on a much larger scale. Great post!

I’d just like to mention that if you guys like writing so much than give Triond a peak. There your writing will get noticed on a much larger scale.

]]> By: Shankar Ganesh http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-248613 Shankar Ganesh Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:58:44 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-248613 Guys, you can also add the ping servers URLs listed here to your blog options so that your blog posts get indexed as soon as possible: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/ping-list/ :) In hosted WordPress blogs, you'll have to go to Options > Writing and paste the URLs there. Guys, you can also add the ping servers URLs listed here to your blog options so that your blog posts get indexed as soon as possible:
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/ping-list/ :)

In hosted WordPress blogs, you’ll have to go to Options > Writing and paste the URLs there.

]]> By: Mackenzie Morgan http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-248172 Mackenzie Morgan Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:39:01 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-248172 Yeah, I think Kiltak was using them for a while. He seems to have gone back to My Blog Log. Yeah, I think Kiltak was using them for a while. He seems to have gone back to My Blog Log.

]]> By: Mark O'Neill http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-248053 Mark O'Neill Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:04:35 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-248053 Digg and Stumbleupon takes a LOT of time. In fact it's a never-ending process. There's no end-point to it. You get out of it what you put into it. Blogcatalog? Digg and Stumbleupon takes a LOT of time. In fact it’s a never-ending process. There’s no end-point to it. You get out of it what you put into it.

Blogcatalog?

]]> By: Mark O'Neill http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-248049 Mark O'Neill Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:01:51 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-248049 yeah I noticed you had started using Twitterfeed! :-) yeah I noticed you had started using Twitterfeed! :-)

]]> By: Mark O'Neill http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-248013 Mark O'Neill Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:30:26 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-248013 WHAT??!! As Eric Cartman would say, that sucks donkey balls. I have never used Wordpress.com before so I didn't know that. I've always had my own domain and have either used Blogger or Wordpress.org. What kind of blogging platform these days doesnt allow you to modify your own blog template?? WHAT??!! As Eric Cartman would say, that sucks donkey balls. I have never used Wordpress.com before so I didn’t know that. I’ve always had my own domain and have either used Blogger or Wordpress.org.

What kind of blogging platform these days doesnt allow you to modify your own blog template??

]]> By: Mackenzie Morgan http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-247935 Mackenzie Morgan Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:33:53 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-247935 I haven't done the sitemap thing, but my blog gets indexed within minutes of a new post going up. Maybe it's because I'm hosted on Google's server by using Blogger? Could also be because of being on Planet Ubuntu. Thanks for the tip about Twitterfeed. I hadn't heard of it before. I haven’t done the sitemap thing, but my blog gets indexed within minutes of a new post going up. Maybe it’s because I’m hosted on Google’s server by using Blogger? Could also be because of being on Planet Ubuntu.

Thanks for the tip about Twitterfeed. I hadn’t heard of it before.

]]> By: Mackenzie Morgan http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-247934 Mackenzie Morgan Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:32:08 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-247934 Nope. Wordpress.com blog hosting doesn't allow you to edit your HTML template without paying. That's the thing. You're *not* allowed to redesign it. They give you about 15 templates to pick from, and that's it. That's one reason I haven't switched to Wordpress. Nope. Wordpress.com blog hosting doesn’t allow you to edit your HTML template without paying. That’s the thing. You’re *not* allowed to redesign it. They give you about 15 templates to pick from, and that’s it. That’s one reason I haven’t switched to Wordpress.

]]> By: Nik http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-247831 Nik Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:21:45 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-247831 Thank you! Thank you!

]]> By: dai http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-247771 dai Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:27:39 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-247771 NIce compilation! Digg and Stumbleupon did not work well for me. May be, it takes time! Did you forget the blogcatalog? Useful to make friends. Thanks! <a href='http://ajabgajab.blogspot.com' rel="nofollow">nabin</a> NIce compilation!

Digg and Stumbleupon did not work well for me. May be, it takes time!

Did you forget the blogcatalog?
Useful to make friends.
Thanks!
nabin

]]> By: Sumesh http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-247736 Sumesh Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:54:49 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-247736 @Nik and Mark: GWebmasters requires either a template edit (prohibited by WP.com) or uploading a file (not sure on this one) @Nik and Mark: GWebmasters requires either a template edit (prohibited by WP.com) or uploading a file (not sure on this one)

]]> By: Mark O'Neill http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-247732 Mark O'Neill Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:53:05 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-247732 If it's your blog, you WILL have access to the HTML template!!! Otherwise, how can you re-design it? The only way you can add the Google tracking code is to add it to the HTML template. I think you can also use a FTP program to upload a HTML file to the domain if you have your own domain name. It's been so long since I did it myself that I am not sure what the procedure is now. Just start the procedure and see what Google asks you to do. If it’s your blog, you WILL have access to the HTML template!!! Otherwise, how can you re-design it?

The only way you can add the Google tracking code is to add it to the HTML template. I think you can also use a FTP program to upload a HTML file to the domain if you have your own domain name. It’s been so long since I did it myself that I am not sure what the procedure is now.

Just start the procedure and see what Google asks you to do.

]]> By: Nik http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-247593 Nik Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:05:47 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-247593 I don't think I have access to the HTML template. However, I can add text widgets. Will that do? I don’t think I have access to the HTML template. However, I can add text widgets. Will that do?

]]> By: Aibek http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-247568 Aibek Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:54:10 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-247568 There is also a wordpress plugin that can automate this 100%. If anyone interested, you can check it out <a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. There is also a wordpress plugin that can automate this 100%. If anyone interested, you can check it out here.

]]> By: Mark O'Neill http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-247405 Mark O'Neill Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:54:14 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-247405 I'm not 100% sure what you mean. If you want to start using Webmaster Tools for your Wordpress blog, just go to WT and enter your Wordpress.com blog URL. Then follow the verification procedure that Google lays out. You will have to enter a Google code into the blog template so you MUST have access to the HTML blog template. I’m not 100% sure what you mean. If you want to start using Webmaster Tools for your Wordpress blog, just go to WT and enter your Wordpress.com blog URL. Then follow the verification procedure that Google lays out. You will have to enter a Google code into the blog template so you MUST have access to the HTML blog template.

]]> By: Mark O'Neill http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-247404 Mark O'Neill Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:51:23 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-247404 definately and because the sitemap is an xml file, it auto-updates as you update your blog. definately and because the sitemap is an xml file, it auto-updates as you update your blog.

]]> By: Travis Quinnelly http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-247115 Travis Quinnelly Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:26:10 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-247115 Good article Mark. I think one of the most important is your number 1. Creating a sitemap for Google to follow (and other search engines) is essential in having the bot pick up your articles the proper way. Good article Mark. I think one of the most important is your number 1. Creating a sitemap for Google to follow (and other search engines) is essential in having the bot pick up your articles the proper way.

]]> By: Nik http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-246916 Nik Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:15:14 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/six-essential-websites-to-help-you-get-your-blog-noticed/#comment-246916 Nice list! I'm just wondering if there's an easy way to get Google Webmaster verified for for Wordpress.com blogs? Thanks! Nice list!

I’m just wondering if there’s an easy way to get Google Webmaster verified for for Wordpress.com blogs?

Thanks!

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