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Day 13: Successful and Outstanding Bloggers list, Backlinks Advice from Yaro Starak, and DMOZ

30 Jun, 2007  Marketing, Education  Brian Armstrong

Entrepreneurship section of DMOZThis is lucky day number 13 of my 30 day challenge to drive more traffic to this website and prove that blogging can be profitable!

Notice how I put the link on “traffic to this website” since it includes some better keywords than “30 day challenge”. I’m trying to include more keywords in links.

My three tasks for the day were…

1. I sent Liz a note to see if I could get on her list of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers. A very creative idea Liz! And she is spot on that developing relationships with other bloggers seems to be the best way to market you blog. This has certainly been my experience so far!

2. I started reading Yaro Starak’s post on the the 80/20 rule of search engine marketing for blogs. In particular I liked his section on internal links, so I put three internal links at the bottom of each page (in the footer) that include my targeted keywords. Thanks Yaro!

By the way, Yaro has a Blog Mastermind group that I’m considering joining. Yaro earns over $75k per year just from blogging, and I’m sure I could learn a lot from him.

3. Also based on Yaro’s blog marketing article, I decided to try submitting my site to the DMOZ directory in the entrepreneurship section. The DMOZ pages tend to be high page rank.

Finally, I told you I’d report on what happened with the StumbleUpon advertising campaign.

Entrepreneurs like this websiteOverall it looks like people generally liked the website. An average of 3.7% of people voted that they liked it, compared to only 0.5% who voted that they didn’t. That means more than 7 times as many people liked it as didn’t, and it also means that 96% of people don’t vote.

Here are some people who liked it:
People who liked the site and might want to know about how to start a business

Generate subscribers and track them with Google analyticsUnfortunately, the subscriber rate was suite low 0.24% and it generated zero book orders. Overall I’d say the quality of traffic from StumbleUpon wasn’t great, based on this limited test.

This post is part of a series on Website Marketing

Table of Contents:

  1. Building Website Traffic - Three Items Per Day For A Month
  2. Day 1: FeedBlitz, SEO, and Post Series
  3. Day 2: New Article, Amazon Cover Upload, and Digg Comments
  4. Day 3: LinkMachine, Google Website Optimizer, and ProBlogger
  5. Day 4: Interviews, SEOMoz, and Technorati
  6. Day 5: First Page of Google, Bugs, Article Marketing Lifehack.org
  7. Day 6: Email Signature, Blog Carnival, StumbleUpon
  8. Day 7: Link Structure, Pings, MyBlogLog
  9. Day 8: FeedFlares, Reciprocal Links, Broken Links
  10. Day 9: Page Cache, 301 Redirects, and Submitting to Blog Search Engines
  11. Day 10: Removed Bad Links, Earning $5639 Per Year, Tracking RSS Subscribers
  12. Day 11: Article for ProBlogger.net, StumbleUpon campaign, and Longer Domain Registration (attempt)
  13. Day 12: Extended Domain Registration, More Incoming Links, Article Submission
  14. Day 13: Successful and Outstanding Bloggers list, Backlinks Advice from Yaro Starak, and DMOZ
  15. Day 14: MindPetals Article, Slow Server, Google vs. Yahoo indexing
  16. Day 15: Submitted MindPetals Article, Conversation with Liz Strauss, and LifeHack.org Article
  17. Day 16: Engaging readers in conversation, Interview on Calling All Authors, and a Research Tip from John Reese
  18. Day 17: Posted Interview Audio, Faster Server, and New Business Cards
  19. Day 18: Article for LifeHack.org, Contacted About.com Contributer, Updated my LinkIn profile
  20. Day 19: Barnes & Noble, Froogle, and Shopping.com
  21. Day 20: Meta Keywords and Descriptions, New Article, 37Signals Blog
  22. Day 21: New Video On YouTube, Creating a Personal Balance Sheet, and Article Marketer
  23. Day 22: Purchased a Water Buffalo, Apple's Marketing, and RSS Confusion
  24. Day 23: A New About Page, ProBlogger Article Finished, and More Comments
  25. Day 24: Keyword Research, more Links Exchanged, Article Distribution
  26. Day 25: Translated into 8 Languages, A Version For Mobile Devices, and Submitted To Dozens of Blog Directories
  27. Day 26: More RSS Directories, Alumni Networking, Alexa Screenshot Update
  28. Day 27: New Article on Audio Books, Removed Translation, and Networking Tips
  29. Day 28: Amazon, Amazon, Amazon!
  30. Day 29: Zero Million, Yahoo Answers, Wikipedia
  31. Day 30: Wrapping Up With A Few Final Links
  32. Conclusion
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7 Comments so far »

  1. Liz Strauss said,

    Wrote on June 30, 2007 @ 8:41 pm

    Dear Brian,
    Thanks for the mention. Ah, but reltionships are moer than just a quick link or a marketing tool in my world. . . . :)

    I’m sending you an email to explain why I’m not sure with how you’ve framed what I do. :)

    [Reply]

  2. Liz Strauss said,

    Wrote on June 30, 2007 @ 8:48 pm

    Apologies for my typing dyslexia — relatinships are more. Yes they are. :)

    [Reply]

  3. Brian Armstrong said,

    Wrote on July 1, 2007 @ 10:42 pm

    Thanks Liz, look forward to talking with you offline!
    Brian

    [Reply]

  4. Tom Collinson said,

    Wrote on July 2, 2007 @ 11:01 am

    Great article and great site, it’s nice to see someone else that started out at my age doing so well. Blogs like this are way I keep focused :)

    [Reply]

  5. May Andersen said,

    Wrote on September 28, 2007 @ 7:38 pm

    May Andersen…

    I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….

  6. Online Marketing Maverick said,

    Wrote on March 19, 2008 @ 11:09 pm

    Online Marketing Maverick…

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