Comments on: Blog Marketing Tips – what’s worked for you?

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By: DG

DG — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:37:45 +0000

The big button seemed to help a bit. My blog is still at an early enough stage that I don’t worry about experimenting too much. Logo is still being created, tweaked etc.

11 new subscriptions the day the button went up. I was at a lowly 20-30 readers for weeks. One week after the big button implementation it jumped to a lowly 69 readers. I’ve been averaging 1.35 new subscriptions per day.

I still think it’s all about the content, which I need to improve.

By: cctech

cctech — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:28:48 +0000

After I created a new RSS button with shameless pleading for subscribers in 6 different languages, our subs did increase. I am probably going to take it back down for a while because I think that the initial buzz has peaked and now I think it is just irritating people. Feel free to grab the image and use it as you will, if you want to of course. For some, I think it may be a bit, um… over-the-top.

By: Marketing Guy

Marketing Guy — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:08:27 +0000

One thing I noticed is that all of the lists are quite similar (although I’d say the Problogger one gives a few more items to think about, and as always Randfish has some interesting angles to look at) – I guess most blog “marketing” stuff is fairly common sense stuff (for SEOs).

Scott

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:35:29 +0000

I thought SEOmoz recent piece about blog marketing was quite inspiring
http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1347

There’s a real kanck to taking it serious enough to create good content but not to serious that you get impatient at attracting traffic.

By: Marketing Guy

Marketing Guy — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:32:40 +0000

Hey Lee, cheers for the info. I tried to find Jen’s post on SEL but ironicly you can’t find shit over there and I couldn’t be bothered looking too hard!

I noticed Dean added a big new RSS button this week – would you say that it helps conversions to have a prominent call to action? With IE7 forced upon loads of users and it’s RSS features, do you think on page RSS links will eventually become redundant?

I just hate messing around with graphics, trying to fit subscribe images into the site!

Scott

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:06:38 +0000

Hey Scott, Jen Slegg did a decent post on blog optimization this week at http://www.SearchEngineLand.com and here’s a list of 25 tips from Online Marketing Blog.

One tip I would give is to make it more obvious to readers on how to subscribe via RSS and also to offer an RSS to email option (Feedblitz).

Cheers!