how to boost your blog using Twitter and emails

26 March, 2009

Blogs are a powerful way to pull readers to your website, to educate and entertain them and lead them to action on your website. But how do you attract readers to your blog?

Compelling and useful material is, of course, essential. But other communication tools can also be useful to advertise your blog across the web.

We look at Twitter and the good old email.

Email: The Copyblogger site recommends pushing people to your blog using an email newsletter. Copyblogger says email your blog’s RSS feed as a newsletter; start a simple opt-in email newsletter; link back to your blog; and place newsletter subscription tools everywhere.

Twitter: Put up an appealing Twitter post (aka a Tweet) about each blog post you make, and link back to your blog post. Heaps of readers will see the Twitter Tweet (especially if you have built up a group of Twitter followers) and so will be able to visit your site if they are attracted to your message. If you search and monitor the Twitter traffic, you will easily find people with an interest in the information on your blog ands can tailor your Twitter messages to attract them.


three simple ways to send big files across the internet

22 January, 2009

Some useful tips here (thanks makeuseof.com): free online services that make it easier to upload, share, download and manage large files.


turn your blog into an email newsletter

21 September, 2008

Maybe you have customers who don’t like (or know how) to read blogs. Google’s Feedburner has a cool tool to turn your blog into an email newsletter. Now everyone can read your news without having to access your blog or knowing how to use RSS.