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Blog Promotion with Technorati

Technorati Profile

Claiming the blog to Techonorati will help a blogger to maximize the blog's exposure to those, looking for information provided. The blog visibility might be significantly improved if author posts the Blog to the proper category of the Technorati's Blog Finder.
Hey, you need visitors, and visitors are looking for you! Help them find your artciles. You have a chance to improve the attendance even more, if your Blog will be published on Technorati's Home Page.

Submit your blog to blog directories

Here is a list of blog directories and links where bloggers can submit their blogs and/or blog feed. Submitting your links to these directories will increase the overall presence of your blog, improve pagerank, bring more visitors to your blog.

http://www.weblogs.com/
http://feedburner.com/
http://my.yahoo.com/
http://www.blogrolling.com/
http://www.weblogalot.com/
http://topicexchange.com/
http://blo.gs/
http://syndic8.com/
http://pubsub.com/
http://www.blogstreet.com/
http://www.icerocket.com/
http://www.technorati.com/
http://www.newsgator.com/
http://blogdigger.com/
http://www.moreover.com/
http://www.newsisfree.com/
http://weblogs.se/
http://blogmatcher.com/
http://blogpeople.net/
http://catapings.com/
http://holycowdude.com/
http://bulkfeeds.net/
http://effbot.org/
http://octora.com/
http://feedster.com/
http://coreblog.org/
http://focuslook.com/
http://www.a2b.cc/
http://www.rubhub.com/
http://www.blogshares.com/
http://www.geourl.org/

Ping blog directories for blog promotion

Once you have submitted your blog to the directories mentioned in this post( http://zerodollarchallenge.blogspot.com/2008/01/submit-your-blog-to-blog-directories.html ).You can think of pinging the blog directories. While the blog directories will index your blog periodically, sometimes you would want them to index your blog soon after you publish your new content and you stay ahead of competing blogs. By manually sending "pings" you will notify the blog directories of fresh content. You can use any one of the following "pinging services":

http://pingomatic.com

http://pingoat.com

http://pinger.blogflux.com

http://www.kping.com

http://feedshark.brainbliss.com

http://blip.lco.net/SubmitForm.aspx

http://pingates.com

http://ping.in

http://autopinger.com

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

http://www.pingmyblog.com

How to add HTML/Scripts to blogger

Blogger users(XML LAYOUTS) can easily add HTML or JavaScript code to their blogger blogs. Here are the instructions to add HTML/Scripts to your blog :

Firstly, login to your blogger account, go to your dashboard, where you have to click the "Layout" link(beside the settings link) of your blog. make sure you are on the "page elements" sub-tab, where you can easily add and arrange page elements.

You will now add a gadget by clicking the "Add a Gadget" link

From the popup that appears, you can add many gadgets to your blog, this time we need to scroll down to the HTML/JavaScript option and click the "+" sign beside it to add it to your blog

This will open a final popup where you paste your code(HTML or JavaScript) under the "content" textarea. Give it a title on the title textbox and click the button to "save changes"

Blogger Polls

A polling system is very essential to a blog. My observations are that visitors interact with the website using a voting system more than they do using comment system or sending email. This could be due to the "laziness factor" as interacting with the voting sytem takes just a click or two. Therefore my recommendation is to have a blog poll on your blog for making your visitors interact with your website/blog, keeping their laziness factor in mind.

The poll that I found attractive enough to include in my blogs is from http://www.dpolls.com
Here are others that you can try as well :
http://www.blogpoll.com/
http://www.polldaddy.com/
http://www.vizu.com/index.html
http://www.pollpub.com/
http://www.addpoll.com/
http://www.blogpolls.com/

Add StumbleUpon button to blogger(XML Layouts)

This is a preview of the StumbleUpon button that can be added to your sidebar. If you are happy with the preview, click the "add to blogger" button to install it on your blog.

Stumble Upon Toolbar Stumble it!

Add Digg This! button to blogger

Add Digg This! button to blogger( XML Layouts )
This is a preview of the "Digg This!" button that can be added to your sidebar. See the preview below, click the "add to blogger" button to install it on your blog.

Preview:

Digg This!

For Classic Templates users(HTML, JavaScript knowledge required)

Click the "Template" tab, then go to "Edit HTML" subtab.

Find the "<$BlogItemBody$>" tag, and copy-paste the code below, under the "<$BlogItemBody$>" tag

Save and Publish your blog.