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Submitting your blog to RSS & blog directories is considerably easier than submitting fully-functional sites to website directories. This is because there are free, automatic systems in place that allow you to submit an updated version of your blog to directories without doing any form-filling.

This automatic system for submitting your blog to RSS & blog directories is known as pinging. You ping your blog at sites like kping.com and pingoat.com. When you ping your blog, the system will automatically send the latest update from your blog to all of the largest blog directorires usually on the order of about 40 or so.

Daily Blog Tips did a great blog project where they gathered the top 30 tips for generating traffic to your blog. Here they are:

1. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.

2. Ian Delaney
Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page.

There are various approaches and method to online marketing. It is important know about each method so that one can compare the results. This list sums up the online marketing methods. This is marketing at personal level and includes telling your network and friends, making a business card etc. Article marketing implies writing articles and submitting them to web article directories.

Link backs are an important aspect of a thorough search engine optimization strategy.  A backlink is simply a link to a website page.  A link back, for the terms and purposes described in this article is a reciprocal link to a website page.  You’ve linked to someone and they are going to link back. 

Search engines index sites by using a number of algorithms.  They look for relevant keywords both in the Meta data on your site as well as in your content.  The search engines also look to see if relevant and trustworthy sites are linking to you.   A relevant site is a website which focuses on a similar topic.

Search Engine Watch…

A large free resource that is essential if you want SE traffic.

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

Finding and tracking key words and phrases for Search Engines…

One way to find out what keywords are hot in the engines is to use a keyword suggestion tool.

Google  offers a free one at https://adwords.goo...KeywordToolExternal/ – just tap in a keyword or two – and you can research up on which words the surfers are looking for. You get a number which is a good guide to the total people that are searching for a particular phrase right now.

How can RSS benefit your blogging activites? RSS can benefit your blogging activites in two different ways: it can help you generate traffic and it can help you retain traffic. RSS can benefit your traffic-generation efforts by adding fresh, optimized content to your blog automatically; and it can benefit your traffic retention rate by providing better, updated content for your blog visitors.

Making a quality article is not enough for it to sell; you have to make a resource box. Its true that quality article writing can benefit your business by generating targeted traffic but it can also benefit you as a writer.

Besides promoting your business, a reader will sometimes be someone who is looking for a good writer. If you made a quality article and didn’t include a resource box, the person who is looking for a good writer to employ will never know how to contact you.

Search engine optimization is constantly evolving.  Some of the things that were of great importance to search engines just a few years ago, such as keyword tags, are now almost completely obsolete.  But there’s one component of search engine optimization that is unlikely to become irrelevant, and that is the incoming link.

The purpose of search engines is to provide Internet users with the most relevant information possible.  There are a number of things that factor into their rankings, including keyword distribution within the page text, alt tags, page titles, and keywords within the URLs.  But incoming links are also an important part of the equation.  The search engines look at incoming links as votes of confidence for your site, and everything else being equal, the page with the most links to it will usually get the highest ranking.

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Absolute Path
The complete path to a resource, independent of the location of the visited page.

ACDSee
Software for viewing, archiving and editing sound, video and picture files.

Acrobat Reader
Plug-in from Adobe. It reads documents in PDF format on any platform.

Actionscript
programming language based on ECMAScript, used to define behaviours of Adobe Flash applications.

ActiveX
Software components from Microsoft. They enable sound, Java applets and animations to be integrated in a Web page.