How to Start a Blog

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2	Comment on Related Blogs	raising4boys writes - "Commenting on related blogs is probably the most effective strategy early on in the process. And responding to comments when people leave them on your blog (this encourages them to keep coming back).
3	List the blogs related to yours	Keep track of when you add a comment to each and monitor whether your own blog traffic increases
4	Search Marketing Blogs
5	Daggle	http://daggle.com/
6	Aaron Shear on SEO	http://www.aaronshear.com/blog/
7	Flyte Blog	http://www.flyteblog.com/flyte/
8	Google Watch	http://googlewatch.eweek.com/
9	General Marketing Blogs
10	Internet Marketing	http://geoffcaplan.wordpress.com/
11	Marketing Pilgrim	http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/
12	Internet Marketing	http://mktpt.blogspot.com/
13	MarketingShift	http://www.marketingshift.com/
14	AdFreak	http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/
15	Media 2.0	http://media2.0workgroup.org
16	Join Forums
17	Top 25 Web SEO Forum	http://www.top25web.com/bbs/index.php
18	Ask Marketing Experts Forum	http://www.ask-marketing-experts.com/forums/
19	Write Effective Post Titles
20	Interview People
21	Interview idea #1
22	Interview idea #2	Aziz writes - "Simple and to the point. The title should create an instant urge to read the entire post? But of course it should be related to the topic of your blog.
23	Interview idea #3	Ollie writes - "One example being to interview fellow bloggers who are in the same niche as me. This has gone down well, and has been great for both myself and the interviewee as traffic flows between us."
24	Interview idea #4
25	Interview idea #5
26	Persist
27	Connect with Local Bloggers	Dan Norman writes - "Persistance is key. After starting up a new blog last month and letting go of another this month, I notice my traffic doesn't happen over night. On my last site, it took 6 months before ASK.com found me."
28	Create a Link Exchange
29	Give Away Free Stuff (content)
30	Create a newsletter with industry information
31	Include links to relevant marketing content (when it hits)
32	Be Opinionated
33	Pick topics often which inspire debate	Make sure the format is easy to forward along to others
34	Ask Questions of Other Bloggers
35	Solicit input from other marketing bloggers
36	Use Trackbacks	The more people weighing in on an argument, the more links you'll accrue.
37	Educate Readers about RSS
38	Create a "how to" cheat sheet on RSS	Start with smaller blogs and move up to the more popular ones
39	Include links to popular RSS feeders	TrackBack is a system implemented by Movable Type and later adopted by many blogging tools, including TypePad, BoastMachine, WordPress, and Nucleus, that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it. The system works by sending a 'ping' between the blogs, and therefore providing the alert.
40	RSS Bandit
41	Newsgator
42	Engage in Offline Promotions
43	Put your blog url on your business cards
44	Talk to friends/family about your blog
45	Learn about Search Engine Optimization
46	Purchase some inexpensive keywords from Google or Overture
47	Register your site with all search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc)
48	Blog Carnivals
49	Submit to aggregated sites like Blog Carnival
50	Be Personal
51	Post Frequently
52	Link Freely	http://blogcarnival.com. The internet marketing carnival (find it by searching on marketing) has a deadline for submission on the 27th of each month at 9pm.
53	Social Networks	Include a list of 10 top things to know about you. People are interested in you as a person in addition to your thoughts/ideas about marketing.
54	Submit your story to Digg and Reddit for 50-100 free hits
55	Tag your blog on del.icio.us and share it with others	when you are mentioned in another blog, repay the favor and linkback to their comment.
56	Include a link to "other topics like this one"	At the end of each post, include a link to other posts in the same category. These can be other blog postings or additional postings within your blog.