Archive for May, 2010

Since I am learning so much about blogs and promoting them, I thought I would share a few things I have learnt to date, and that I have applied.

This week the key learning point has been getting my Page Rank higher.

This is a fairly important aspect to getting search engine traffic. The reasoning being is that the Page Rank indicates how close you are to the top spot for particular keywords.

The higher up you are in the list, the more traffic you get for free, and the people clicking the search engine links tend to be people looking for what you are doing.

Needless to say, it is a good thing to know a little bit about this subject. This is what I have learnt this week.

In order to get a higher PageRank there is a simple thing you can do, but first the theory behind the practice.

Every site gets ranked against keywords. One thing search engines look for is hyperlinks to other sites and hyperlinks leading to your site. The thinking behind this is when a person adds a link to their site it is a vote of trust in your site. This is a good thing.

This means the more links pointing to your site the better the Page Rank.

But there is more that can help you.

Most people focus entirely on getting links to their site. But there is almost equal value to having links that lead to other pages in your own site.

Let me repeat that….. putting in a link within your site adds value to your site ranking.

Amazing but true, and it is something you can control.

My guess is that you should apply this to your site, but do not over do it.

Now for the practice, remember this site is an online fantasy novel, if you want to read the first chapter of my fantasy novel click here.

Being new to blogs and promoting them, and even running the admin area, is sometimes a challenge that gets more attention than I want to use on it. I suppose it is part of the challenge and it will become easier with time.

Still, to get read, noticed and to earn some money you simply have to put in the effort.

Before I launched the blog, I researched other blogs and how to promote them well. What I found out was that promoting is not a complex task, but it is something that needs to be done consistently over a long period of time.

I think that is the part that annoys people the most. I think that many people expect instant success with an online venture when, in fact, it takes time and effort and a little money.

For my part, since, as of writing this post, I am about to begin the long process of promoting.

This is how I will do it to begin with.

I will begin by writing four articles a week in EzineArticles. I will focus mostly on writing, publishing and site building for novel writers.

The articles will be about 300 words each.

I will do this for a few months to determine the workload. I have to be very careful with writing because I am already writing 1500 words a week for the chapters and I am starting a second story which will have chapters added every two or three weeks.

While I get that routine established I will begin using FaceBook, I have an account already called Alra Forest. I just need to set it up to look good and have material to add into it.

While I do that I will be researching StumbleUpon in detail before heading into that world.

That is the plan for June.

I am expecting some results but it is tough to estimate what they will be. Regardless or result, I will keep working the above methods for at least six months before deciding to change or expand them.