Excellent Tips on Blog Promotion

Saunderslog has posted an awesome little manifesto on blog promotion. Incorporating some well thought-out SEO tips and general blogger sensibility, this post is a keeper for anyone serious about increasing traffic to their weblog. Here's a snippet:

The majority of my traffic comes from Google.  I optimize my site for Google searchability:

1. Optimize your page count.  Google ranks sites with lots of pages as having more authority than sites with few pages....
2. Use a Google Sitemap.  Again, this is easy to do with WordPress.  Arne Brachhold has written a great little plugin which re-constructs your sitemap each and every time you post. 
3. Make sure every post has a title....
4. Make the titles eye-catching!....
5. Link and trackback to others.  The point of blogging is to have a conversation.  Make sure you’re having conversations, then....
6. Make sure you have a top level domain.  Buying http://saunderslog.com increased my traffic dramatically over being http://radio.weblogs.com/0111520....

There's much more. Definitely click through and read the whole post. Then print it, cut it out, and stick it on your fridge.

(Via Randy at KbCafe.)

Comments

[Easton Ellsworth]

Amen - Alec's tips are excellent.

[Keith Cash]

This is a great post.
I have used several of the ideas in the past, and have found some new ones.

Thanks for the post.

[Graeme Boy]

Hey! I'm fifteen and I've just launched my own little service for bloggers to promote thier cool blogs to people! - it's at www.photobacklink.com if you want to check it out -

(I've just launched it so it's in beta and I'm really working hard on the design so I hope that in a few days it'll look quite good and have a pageRank at least!)

Any advice?

:)

Cool post btw - sorry if this sounds a little spammy

Thanks guys,
Graeme