Want to Get Faved? Get Faved! Technorati Favourites Exchange.

I found a fantastic post over at ejcooksey’s blog called Want To Get Faved? which she found over at Dosh Dosh’s blog today called ” Dosh Dosh’s Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange: An Interactive Experiment ” and decided to participate.

Anyone can join in this project if you are signed up with Technorati, you have a blog and your blog is not full of spam or copyrighted material per Dosh Dosh’s request.

Here is what you need to do…..

Step 1 – Participate by Exchanging Favorites:

Start by Faving my blog here: Add to Technorati Favorites.

Then leave a comment on this post with your Technorati username as well as a similar link to your blog in a comment. ( The easiest way is to use a Technorati favorite link or button. You can get the buttons and links easily at this Technorati page. Please leave a link to one blog only.)

My Technorati nickname is gerri and I will favorite your link as soon as possible. If I have missed you or have not returned the favor after a couple of days, please leave a comment or send an email to remind me. I will not leave any comments to confirm this as I will just be repeating myself constantly in the comment section.
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This is only for those bloggers who are interested in holding the Technorati exchanges on their blog as well.

Step 2 – Link to this blog post with your Post on Technorati Favorites Exchange:

These are the steps you need to take:

Create a post on your blog announcing that you are exchanging Technorati favorites. Prominently include a link to this post (link to my post) to indicate that there is a similar exchange going on here at Show Me The Money.

Get a Link Back. Once I’ve seen the link via trackback or Technorati, I’ll include a link to your post on the Technorati favorites exchange list below so readers here can visit your blog to participate if they want to. (Links will usually be put up pretty quickly but if you don’t see your link up after a day or two, please feel free to leave a comment to let me know.)
I will also place a link to this post in the sidebar so that it will always be visible.
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Here is a list of other bloggers who are also offering Technorati Favorites Exchanges. If you’re interested in trading faves with them, please visit their webpages below!

New to Faves List:
kybruno
Ashwin Khanna Dot Com
Tech Gadget Blog
Revellian
WebScape – ruchirkc
Blogtology – Nycgraphix
WebStractions -
Swapw -
My World ~ As A Yogi – ironmanxart
The Outsider’s View - jutendouji
i.ndustrio.us – jrob00
Blogs et IE -
i.nconspicuo.us -
blacklotus90 -
MarriedMelody – marriedmelody
Baby First Year Guide -
Technology For Novices -

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Dosh Dosh – kawaiikuma
AskaX World – Andika Kusuma
T Jantunen.com – T Jantunen
CalvinWarr.com – Calvin Warr
Vinod Live! – Vinod Ponmanadiyil
Bil2me dot com – William Toomey
Zath – Simon Barker
VersaCreations – Vivienne Quek
Azazil.net – Gary V. Vaughan
MrGaryLee.com – Gary Lee
Blogging for Money – Michael A. Setyaputra
Money Consciousness – Nenad
Brown Thoughts – Brown Baron
Quasi Fictional - Diogenes
Foreign Perspectives – Arnold
Home Based Business – Brian Pratt
The Million Dollar Experiment Down Under – Rob St George
Sexy in Red – Norlina
JameoTips – ValkrieAngel
I Thought, Therefore I Blog – Bet Shop Boy
My Online Collections – Star500k
Ramblings of an Undisturbed Mind – Beth
Content Pays.info – Yogesh
Manila Mom - Maia
TFX on The Rojak Blog – ApOgEE
Observations of an Internet Marketeer – Gary
RISHI RAJ - Rishi Raj
- Life Rocks ! 2.0 - – Nirmal
THE ANiTOKiD CHRONIKOS – AnitoKid
The Community Center - Vaianp
MichaelMcKinlay.com – Michael
DIGITAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - atul
Random Expressions – Deepak jeswal
Free Web Design – Linda
I’m not just a mom…I’m a Home Mom -
Computer Mobile Corner – santaram
Life in the Fast Lane – fastfastlane
Six Degrees of Inspiration - NicholasKister
Philippine Home Design and Improvement Blog – phd
Filipino Entrepreneur – mmontala

Now go get yourself Faved!

As I stated in my last post, I am looking for ways of increasing traffic to my blog. I came across an article that some of you people out there might find interesting and helpful. Enjoy!

16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
By Denise Wakeman

You’ve got your blog set up and you’ve started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?

Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.

1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates.

Http://www.bloglet.com

2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine (see tutorial on http://www.biztipsblog.com)

http://www.my.yahoo.com

3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Don’t write things like “nice blog” or “great post.” Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.

4. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.

http://www.pingomatic.com

5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines:

http://www.submitfire.com

6. Submit your blog to blog directories. The most comprehensive list of directories is on this site:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this can take several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day for submitting or hire a VA to do it for you.

7. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.

8. Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.

9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.

10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.

11. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

12. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to.
The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some may consider its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as ‘feeds’) may be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries.

To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, see this site: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-readers.htm

13. Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other blogs, articles and websites in your posts

14. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.

15. Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box (See example in our signature below).

16. Make a commitment to blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can help increase your traffic as new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same time.

Tip: Use a hit counter to track your visitor stats: how many unique visitors, how many page views, average length of visit. You can get a free hit counter at http://www.sitemeter.com

Denise Wakeman of Next Level Partnership, and Patsi Krakoff of Customized Newsletter Services, have teamed up to create blogging classes and marketing services for independent professionals. You can read and subscribe to their blogs at http://www.biztipsblog.com, http://www.coachezines.com and http://www.bizbooknuggets.com

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