Here's a quick little promotional tip for Blog Fiction writers. I've talked about linking before, but it is a topic worth repeating. If leaving a comment on a blog or a forum promoting your site, don't link to it using the name of your website.
As an example. Instead of saying:
Check out my online fiction site, Improvisational Oblivion.
Instead, say this:
Check out my online fiction site, Improvisational Oblivion.
So, why would you do this? This way when search engines pick up your site, they will record that it's about "online fiction". That way, when somebody does a search of that term, your site is more likely to come up than others. Someone looking for fiction is going to be searching for things like, fiction, online fiction, blog fiction, etc... This is web traffic that you want to get.
If you link to your site using the name of your blog you will only be increasing your ranking when somebody does a search on the name of your blog. Unless somebody has already seen your blog, they are not going to know the name of it and therefore will not be doing a search on it. Also, the name of your site will probably already be in one of the top rankings so there is no reason to try and increase it.
Keep this tip in mind and you'll hopefully start seeing more traffic from google, yahoo, and MSN Bing.
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2 comments:
Thank you for that tip. That is an excellent point that never even occurred to me. I always use just the name of my site. Thanks
You da man, Dustin!
What would we do without'cha?
I don't think my blog is the best blog fiction site, but blog searches don't know that! :-)
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