“Google Add Socialize Feature to Feedburner – Tweet Your New Blog Posts from Feedburner” plus 1 more |
Google Add Socialize Feature to Feedburner – Tweet Your New Blog Posts from Feedburner Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:40 PM PST Google today announced a new feature that impacts bloggers – a new URL shortener that integrates with Feedburner and a new ’socialize’ feature on Feedburner. This allows bloggers to use Feedburner to send Tweets out automatically via Feedburner. Of course most bloggers already have tweets going out to promote new blog posts by using either a plugin or a service like TwitterFeed. Feedburner give you a number of options – including the ability to tweet out just the title or include some of the body (or only the body), adding hashtags (based upon your category), adding something before or after the title, filtering (to stop some new posts going out) – and limiting how many tweets go out. Get more help and details on setting up your Feedburner account here. In many ways it is pretty similar to what a lot of the other alternatives give you for this type of thing – but it is good to be able to have it all managed from one account. I’ll also be interested to see how Google/Feedburner integrate this into their Analysis/metrics (ie to see if they can measure clicks on their URL shortened links accurate – I’m not seeing any mention of this but it would seem like a logical extension). Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Google Add Socialize Feature to Feedburner – Tweet Your New Blog Posts from Feedburner |
My REAL Secret to Growing Traffic to a Blog Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:55 AM PST “Tell us how you ‘really‘ get traffic to your blog?” After presenting to a group of bloggers at an event recently I was surprised to be asked this question by someone in the audience. I wasn’t surprised that people would want to know about how to get traffic to a blog – it’s something most bloggers want to know about – I was surprised to be asked it at THIS event because i’d just finished speaking for 30 minutes on the topic of ‘getting traffic to your blog‘. After 30 minutes of sharing how I generate traffic to my blogs – I was asked to share what ‘really’ works. Hmmmm – was my presentation that bad… or was there something else going on here? I sat down for a coffee with the person who asked me the question to dig a little deeper and as the conversation unfolded it became clear to me that the blogger was after a ’silver bullet’. He wanted some secret method of generating traffic that would flood his blog with new readers, some new technique that most bloggers had not cottoned onto yet that would lift him above the rest and propel him to blogging super-stardom. He told me that he’d tried all the normal tips on how to get traffic – some had worked and had found him new readers and others had not – but now he wanted something new. What advice could I give? I decided to share my ‘real’ secret to big blogging traffic. Identify What Works…. and Do it Again…. and Again….. Improving it Each Time Here’s the thing – there’s no one technique that is going to bring every blog new traffic. But if you try lots of different approaches and identify what does work – even if it only works a little – you’re on the way. Find something that works for your blog, your niche, your demographic and then build upon that. Here’s an example of how this worked for me:
What started as a fairly simply idea (giving readers a place to share their shots – not even on my own site but using Flickr – evolved into multiple ideas that built upon that initial idea. Each time we evolved the idea we created buzz, reader engagement, traffic and site stickiness. Keep in mind that this process has taken us over 3 years. The changes have been gradual, we’ve made mistakes along the way, but instead of spending all our time trying to find a ’silver bullet’ that we could just drop into the site to bring heaps of traffic – we improved something that showed promise in the early days. A further example of this would be the site’s email newsletter list. In the early days when we first tried it I remember wondering if it was worth the effort of sending a weekly newsletter out to 100 people… but I saw some potential in it and each week it grew, each week I learned something new about improving the newsletters and each week it became more worth the effort. Today it drives hundreds of thousands of visitors to the site each week. Some questions to help identify what is working (or what might work) with your readers and niche:
This list could go on and on – really it is about looking for points of life on your site (even small ones) where there’s some kind of energy or positive outcome happening – and then repeating them in some way – looking for opportunities to build upon and improve what you previously did. Got any examples to share of where you’ve done this on your own blog? Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. |
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