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Day 1: FeedBlitz, SEO, and Post Series
In: Incorporation| Updates By: Brian Armstrong
17 Jun 2007This is the first day of the marketing challenge. Here are the three things I got done today. These aren’t the sort of real traffic building activities I’d like to get to, but are more like pre-requisites to get the site together properly.
1. I moved the email newsletter service from Zookoda to FeedBlitz. There were a few reasons for this, namely that Zookoda is really buggy and appears to have no-one supporting or correcting it anymore. It’s a shame because they had the best service out there (and it was free), but a little neglect here and there and the whole thing became unusable. They must be focused on other activities. Feedblitz is quite good as well, but costs some money.
If you see an email from FeedBlitz, don’t be alarmed. Hopefully this change will allow the email newsletter to operate smoothly and draw people to the website with excerpts that grab their attention, and entice them to click “Read More”.
2. I did some SEO. Namely installing the MetaTagz and SEO Title Tag plugins. And I finished going through some old posts to update the description, keyword, and title meta tags.
This will hopefully help the pages rank higher in Google over time to bring in more traffic. SEO is an important part of building any business website. It can get complicated and boring, so in most cases I suggest outsourcing to have a pro do it. Your time is better spent elsewhere.
3. I installed the post series plugin, which you can see at the end of this page. It helps generate more links for a series of posts so people keep reading longer.
Table of Contents:
- Building Website Traffic – Three Items Per Day For A Month
- Day 1: FeedBlitz, SEO, and Post Series
- Day 2: New Article, Amazon Cover Upload, and Digg Comments
- Day 3: LinkMachine, Google Website Optimizer, and ProBlogger
- Day 4: Interviews, SEOMoz, and Technorati
- Day 5: First Page of Google, Bugs, Article Marketing Lifehack.org
- Day 6: Email Signature, Blog Carnival, StumbleUpon
- Day 7: Link Structure, Pings, MyBlogLog
- Day 8: FeedFlares, Reciprocal Links, Broken Links
- Day 9: Page Cache, 301 Redirects, and Submitting to Blog Search Engines
- Day 10: Removed Bad Links, Earning $5639 Per Year, Tracking RSS Subscribers
- Day 11: Article for ProBlogger.net, StumbleUpon campaign, and Longer Domain Registration (attempt)
- Day 12: Extended Domain Registration, More Incoming Links, Article Submission
- Day 13: Successful and Outstanding Bloggers list, Backlinks Advice from Yaro Starak, and DMOZ
- Day 14: MindPetals Article, Slow Server, Google vs. Yahoo indexing
- Day 15: Submitted MindPetals Article, Conversation with Liz Strauss, and LifeHack.org Article
- Day 16: Engaging readers in conversation, Interview on Calling All Authors, and a Research Tip from John Reese
- Day 17: Posted Interview Audio, Faster Server, and New Business Cards
- Day 18: Article for LifeHack.org, Contacted About.com Contributer, Updated my LinkIn profile
- Day 19: Barnes & Noble, Froogle, and Shopping.com
- Day 20: Meta Keywords and Descriptions, New Article, 37Signals Blog
- Day 21: New Video On YouTube, Creating a Personal Balance Sheet, and Article Marketer
- Day 22: Purchased a Water Buffalo, Apple’s Marketing, and RSS Confusion
- Day 23: A New About Page, ProBlogger Article Finished, and More Comments
- Day 24: Keyword Research, more Links Exchanged, Article Distribution
- Day 25: Translated into 8 Languages, A Version For Mobile Devices, and Submitted To Dozens of Blog Directories
- Day 26: More RSS Directories, Alumni Networking, Alexa Screenshot Update
- Day 27: New Article on Audio Books, Removed Translation, and Networking Tips
- Day 28: Amazon, Amazon, Amazon!
- Day 29: Zero Million, Yahoo Answers, Wikipedia
- Day 30: Wrapping Up With A Few Final Links
- Conclusion
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Derrek
July 13th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Brian,
You wrote, “I installed the post series plugin,” but which one did you install? Would you post a link to it?
Thanks,
Derrek
chloe25
October 19th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
In peak hour user using the same website may increase traffic and there may be change to degrade the capacity of the server .
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Chloe
Link Building
Brian Armstrong
July 13th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Sure, I used this one. I tried a bunch, and none were perfect but this one as the best. THanks!
Brian
Quandary
October 19th, 2007 at 12:03 am
If you could let me know what would help move In Series from “the best” to “perfect,” I’d be happy to listen. ;)
Thanks for the mention!
Brian Armstrong
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Hi Quandary, it was good I just recall that it required some configuration to get it to work how I have it now, which was the desired look, feel, wording, etc. I thought the way I have it now should be the default, the default just seemed strange. But its a great plugin, thanks!
Quandary
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
If the only issue is the default layout, then I’m pretty happy ;). You clearly navigated the configuration well, which requires a little bit of work in 3.0, and is probably more of a hassle than it needs to be. I’ve made sure to make the two major tasks you performed (changing the location of the table of contents, and changing the title of the table of contents) as simple and obvious as I can for the 3.1 basic configuration mode.
John
December 5th, 2008 at 2:47 am
search engine optimization is important to any website or blog because it helps you rank better in search engines
Bill in Detroit
December 16th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Sadly, the In-Series plugin is no longer supported. WP 2.6 broked it for the last time and Quandary has ended life-support. Bummer.
So, what other plugins did you try first?
Brian Armstrong
December 16th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Hi Bill,
Not sure why but its still working for me – and I’m on 2.6. Wordpress plugins can be tricky though… Hope it works out for you, there may be an alternative that works just as well.
Brian
dedyisn
February 14th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Nice article. will try it on my website