You could optimize your article for search engines with fantastic keywords but that will not guarantee you that people are gong to find it and want to read it. Why?

Because not everybody knows how to write and write fast. So the first secret to bum marketing is fast good writing. Once you can achieve this stage you will be a big success.

Super Fast Writing

Many people will just give up with bum marketing because they just cannot write good articles quickly. What you need to do is think how often you take up to 4hrs writing just one single article. In bum marketing that is not good at all you should be aiming for 4-5 articles an hour.

If you want to be a success at bum marketing then that is what you will have to do. The following tip is extremely important when it comes to fast writing.

Speed is vital when it comes to bum marketing, it doesnt matter if your articles are not really high quality as long as they are good and readable they cannot be a load of rubbish.

Essentials of a good article:

1. The title has to be attention grabbing.
2. It has to be skimmable so short paragraphs.
3. Your opening lines have to be attention grabbing to make them want to read on.
4. Including bullet points makes it easier for the reader to browse through and pick out the good points.

Including long paragraphs in your article is only going to make the reader click the close button and not your affiliate links. Paragraphs should be 2-3 lines max.

Ask yourself what you prefer reading, an article with short paragraphs, bullet points and good titles or one where all the information is crammed into one long paragraph.

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How to Make Your Blog Stand Out - Infectedbybugs.com

Why Google Adsense Does`nt Work On Some nice Blogs - Rockfuse.com

SEO is Changing But it Has a Bright Future - Winningtheweb.com

Get More Traffic From Your Tutorials - Ageeksjourney.com

What 4 Months of Blogging Have Taught Me - Scribblesandwords.com Tags: adsense, blogging, blogs, bright future, google, rss reader, SEO, traffic
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Why use Blogatiser? Well unlike a lot of Digg style websites we do not use redirects for your links and all links are followed so you are benefiting from getting free back links, and as the website grows you will also be receiving traffic from it.

We also share 75% of the Adsense revenue with our members.

So come and join Blogatiser and advertise your blog posts. Tags: back links, blog, Blogatiser, digg, launch, pligg, traffic, vote
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Welcome to our latest series. Over the coming days we will be publishing our guide to Bum Marketing. My promise to you during this series is that if you are prepared to read and learn then you will learn just how you can earn some extra income for doing nothing more than sitting on your back side.

That is why we call it Bum Marketing otherwise known as Affiliate marketing. The main thing here is that is is a much easier way to make money than affiliate marketing itself.

A lot of people begin affiliate marketing without a clue on what they are doing, they don`t know how to advertise and get sales and so simply give up without having made any money what so ever.

When using Bum marketing you can and will generate sales to your affiliate products. So to avoid the wondering of where you are going wrong lets get this guide underway i hope you enjoy it and learn from it. Be sure to sign up to our RSS Feed so that you don’t miss anything.

Two Secrets To Bum Marketing

Before starting out with bum marketing you need to know the 2 secrets to it.

1. People don’t know you do not have to get it right the first time.
2. You do not have to be perfect. Even the top bum marketers make mistakes.

Bum Marketing Defined

Bum marketing is what it sounds like. Marketing on your back side and making money by doing very little.

When done correctly, it is a fantastic and easy money maker.

Bum marketing is a form of affiliate marketing.

Key Concepts

You can write articles about absolutely anything you want too. You will need to find some products related to your article though. Do some research into keywords to fit your article this will increase your click through rate.

If you want to join the thousands of people making money with bum marketing you need to choose profitable keywords and promote it to people that are looking for the products you are promoting. This could be one of your own products or ones from affiliate programs.

Bum Marketing does not cost you a penny.

Take a look around the Internet and see how many marketing experts will tell you how to make money with affiliate programs for free. I will tell you how many you will find NONE.

Bum marketing works and its simple, write an article, insert your key words, optimize it for search engines, submit it.

As with any program Bum marketing has many secrets to being successful. In the next post we will discuss the first secret. So be sure to sign up to our RSS Feed and don’t miss it.

I have compiled a list of 104 wordpress plugins and categorized them all of which are extremely useful.

Your Blogs Layout

Angsumans Multi Page - Enables you to create multiple pages for your articles so if your article is exceptionally long you can break it up into multiple pages.

Page Link Manager - This plugin allows you to exclude posts from your blogs navigation.

Stopping The Spam

Asimet - Wordpress default spam blocker.

Spam Karma - Great spam plugin with optional extras.

Email Immunizer - This will cloak email addresses with your wp files and prevent them being found by email harvesters.

Referer Bouncer - One of the simplest spam tools.

Wordpress SEO

Jeromes Keyword Plugin - Allows you to associate your posts with your keywords.

All In One SEO Pack - Probably the best and most popular.

Tags in The Head - Places your posts tags in the meta tags.

External Links Plugin - Enhances your outbound links.

SEO Title Tag - Places SEO title tags in a custom field.

Ultimate Tag Warrior - Automatically create your tags as your write your posts.

Head Meta Description - Inserts meta descriptions for your posts and pages.

Optimal Tag - Places your blogs name after your posts title.

Angsumans Permalinks Migration - Permanent redirect for your posts and pages.

Deans Permalink Migration - Generates 301 redirects for your posts.

Google Sitemap Generator - Creates xml site-maps and submits them to Google and Yahoo.

Bunny`s Technorati Tags - A technorati tags plugin.

Blog Money Making plugins

Ad Rotator - Rotates your banner and Adsense ads.

Adsense Beautifier - Places images next to your adsense.

Chitika eMiniMalls Widget - Display eMiniMalls in a sidebar widget.

CafePress - Sell your own products or CafePress affiliate products.

alinks - Creates phrases into links to Ebay, Amazon and clickbank.

Wp-Amazon - Places Amazon products at the bottom of your posts.

OIOPublisher - Sell banner ads on your blog and keep 100% of the sale. As used on this blog.

MaxPressStripeAd - Place text ads at the top of your blog.

All in One Adsense and YPN - Excellent plugin for adsense and YPN placement.

Kontera TXT Plugin - Automatically insert kontera txt ads into your blogs.

DealDotCom - A simple Plugin to add a DealDotCom Widget to your Blog.

Make Yourself Known

Subscribe Me - Let your readers sign up to your RSS Feed.

Digg This - Place a Digg button in each of your posts.

Sociable - Allow readers to bookmark your website.

Socialize It - Allows multiple submissions in one click.

Feedburner Plugin - Great plugin to manage your feed via Feedburner.

Better Feed - Enhance your Feed.

Marketing and Your Email

Wordpress Email Notifacation - Sends emails to users when you post.

Secure Form Mailer - Prevents your blogs form from being spammed.

Subscribe2 - Robost Subscription management.

WP Camapaign Manager - Allows you to send email campaigns and keep track of the stats.

WP-Polls - Add polls to your worpress blog. See our Entrecard Poll.

Newsletter Manager - Adds a newsletter to your blog.

Survey Manager - Add surveys to your blog.

Posting and Navigation

Advanced Search - Adds an advanced search to your blog.

Automatic Sitemap - Creates a site-map of your blog for your readers to navigate.

PHPExec - Allows you to add PHP code into your posts.

Search Reloaded - Enhanced search engine for your blog.

Search Meter - Keeps track of what people are searching for on your blog.

Popularity Contest - Rates your posts and displays the most popular.

Breadcrumb Navigation XT - Shows the path back to your homepage for your visitors.

Related Posts - Shows similar posts at the end of each post.

Most Popular Categories - List your categories by the amount of posts in them.

WP-Print - Allows your readers to print your posts.

WP-Forum - Adds a forum to your blog.

XDForum - Another forum plugin.

Live Comment Preview - Shows your comments as you type them.

Wordpress Global Translator - Converts your blog into 9 different languages.

Vidoe, Sounds and Images

Lightbox JS - Overlays images onto your posts.

WPG2 - Displays images in your sidebar and allows for user submissions.

Gallery2ImageChooser - Choose images from within your writing window.

Flickr Photo Album - Displays images from your Flickr album.

Flickr Related Images - Uses technorati tags to find 3 images related to your posts.

Targana`a Del.icio.us MP3 Player - Plays mp3`s in your posts and gives the reader an option to submit to Del.icio.us.

Audio Player - An mp3 player ideal if you are a podcaster.

Automatic WP Player - A wav music player for your blog.

Video Player - Allows you to ad Google and Youtube Videos just by inputing the video i.d from the hosting website.

WP-FLV - Inserts flash videos into your posts.

WP-Ploop - Lets you insert .mov and .swf videos into your posts.

Wpvideo - Inserts Youtube, Google and other videos into your posts with an option to include the title and video author.

Podpress - A dream plugin for all you podcasters.

MaxPress Favicon - Easily add favicon to your blog without editing any wordpress files.

Blog Statistics

WP-Stats - Displays your blogs stats.

Google Analytics - Adds the analytics code to your wordpress blog.

The Mint - Another stats plugin ($30)

Slimstats - Sophisticated blog stats.

Crawl Rate Tracker - This is a plugin to log every visit by search engine robots, and show the results in different reports.

WassUp - Wordpress plugin to analyze your visitors traffic with real time stats, chart and a lot of chronological informations. It has sidebar Widget support to show current online visitors and other statistics.

Your Blog Admin Skins

WP Tiger Admin - Themes for your admin.

Admin Dashboard Replacement - Replaces your admin panel and reduces resources.

Blog Administration

Maintenance Mode - Lets you turn off your blog while you upgrade.

Unavailable For Maintenance - Allows you to have a custom maintenance message.

WPDBManager - Auto backup your database.

Smart Update Pinger - Prevents pinging when editing existing posts.

Frame Buster - Stops your blog being loaded in frames from sites like auto surfs.

Unfancy Quote - Overrides wordpress`s fancy quotes.

ADD Copyright to Your RSS Feed - Adds a copyright to your feed.

deUncategorize - Prevents new posts accidentally being placed in uncategorized category.

Snapr - Works like a tool tip.

Antileech - Prevent errant parties from stealing your content and bandwidth.

Comment Email Responder - Emails commenter when an admin replies to the comment, if commenter is not subscribed to email updates via Subscribe-to-Comments.

Commentluv - Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenter’s blog in their comment. Just activate and it’s ready. Currently parses with wordpress, blogspot, typepad and blogs that have a feed link in the head section of their page.

Comment Relish - Increases your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘thank you’ relishing type message to users when they first comment on your weblog.

Recent Comments - Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin.

NoFollow - Remove the nofollow tag from your blog’s comments with a lot of options.

Blog Tools

TurboWPThemerator - A Unique Template System, you can configure the header graphics, the positioning of left or right side bar and its components with just a few clicks.

InstantNicheHeaders - When a visitor lands on your site, the first thing they see will be your header. Get a matching Niche Header to better represent your site and grab the attention of your visitor to hold them to your site.

Wordpress Mass Installer - The Wordpress Mass Installer is the solution to install and blog to multiple blogs. It is a solution that not only able to install multiple blogs but to manage all your blogs from a central Admin Panel. It will also Auto-Post your content to your blog and to specific category.

Autocasting - This is podcasting on auto allowing blog owners and readers to create audio from a RSS text feed.
Audioblog - Blogs consisting of audio posts recorded on a mobile phone. An sms message can also be included for meta purposes.

Biblioblogosphere - A humorous testimant of librarian blogging
Blaudience - This is your readers.
Blath - A blog about maths created by mixing blog and math together.
Blawg - A Legal blog usually written by lawyers.
Bleg - Requesting ideas and articles from your readers also know as Lazyweb.
Blog Carnival - A blog article that contains links to other articles covering a specific topic. Most blog carnivals are hosted by a rotating list of frequent contributors to the carnival, and serve to both generate new posts by contributors and highlight new bloggers posting matter in that subject area.

Blistless - When a blogger becomes listless or apathetic about posting.
Blog client - is software to manage (post, edit) blogs from operating system with no need to launch a web browser. A typical blog client has an editor, a spell-checker and a few more options that simplify content creation and editing.
Blogger - Person who runs a blog. Also blogger.com, a popular blog hosting web site. Rarely: weblogger.
Bloggernacle - Blogs written by and for Mormons (a portmanteau of “blog” and “Tabernacle)”. Generally refers to faithful Mormon bloggers and sometimes refers to a specific grouping of faithful Mormon bloggers.
Bloggerazzi - Blogs written by blogger stalkers (a portmanteau of “blog” and “paparazzi)”.
Bloggies - One of the most popular blog awards.
Blog Farm - A website constructed from a group of linked weblogs, typically with the main blog aggregating the total content/acting as a gateway.
Blog feed - The XML-based file in which the blog hosting software places a machine-readable version of the blog so that it may be “syndicated” for further distribution on the web. Formats such as RSS and Atom are used to structure the XML file.
Blog hopping - to follow links from one blog entry to another, with related side-trips to various articles, sites, discussion forums, and more.
Bloglet - A small blog entry, usually one or two sentences long.
Blogoneer - A portmanteau of “blog” and “pioneer”, meaning a person who blogs with an expert or pioneering attitude.
Blogorrhea - A portmanteau of “blog” and “logorrhea”, meaning excessive and/or incoherent talkativeness in a weblog.
Blogosphere - All blogs, or the blogging community. Also called blogistan or, more rarely, blogspace.
Blogroll - A list of blogs. A blogger features a list of their favorite blogs in the sidebar of their blog. Derived, it would seem, as a pun on “Logrolling.” It may alternatively be a derisory pun on the British slang word “bogroll”, meaning a roll of toilet tissue, the word “bog” being used to mean “toilet”.
Blog site - The web location (URL) of a blog, which may be either a dedicated domain, a sub-domain, or embedded within a web site.
Blogsite - Sometimes confused with a simple blog or blog site, but a blogsite is a web site which combines blog feeds from a variety of sources, as well as non-blog sources, and adds significant value over the raw blog feeds.
Blogsnob - A person who refuses to respond to comments on their blog from people outside their circle of friends.
Blogstipation - The state of being unable to think of any topic to blog about, leading to irregular, strained blog entries. A rush of interesting events can clear the block; this is sometimes known as a blenema.
Blogstorm - When a large amount of activity, information and opinion erupts around a particular subject or controversy in the blogosphere, it is sometimes called a blogstorm or blog swarm.
Blogstream - A play on the term mainstream that references the alternative news and information network growing up around weblogs and user driven content mechanisms. Can also be used as a play on the phrase “thought-stream”, referring to the stream of consciousness as expressed through a weblog.
BlogThis - Pioneered by Blogger.com, BlogThis links on a blog allow the reader to automatically generate a blog entry based on the blog entry he/she is reading, and post to their blog.
Bloll - A troll who specialises in blogs. A portmanteau of “blog” and “troll.”
Blooger - A blogger who exhibits adolescent tendencies and lacks basic social graces or good manners. A portmanteau of “blog” and “booger.”
Boreblogging - Writing about personal matters that are barely interesting even to the writer — preferably in a slightly bent fashion so as to make it fun to read in spite of the subject matter.
Bugblogging - Blogging about insects.

Categories - This is a method of organizing blog entries by assigning each entry to a predetermined topic. Each topic (category) will link to a list of entries, all with related content.
Celeblog - A blog detailing the lives of movie stars, musicians, and other celebrities, much like tabloid magazines. They often feature embarrassing or revealing paparazzi photos.
Clix - A person’s circle of online communities.
Collaborative blog - A blog (usually focused on a single issue or political stripe) on which multiple users enjoy posting permission. Also known as group blog.
Comment spam - Like e-mail spam. Robot “spambots” flood a blog with advertising in the form of bogus comments. A serious problem that requires bloggers and blog platforms to have tools to exclude some users or ban some addresses in comments.

Dark Blog - A non-public blog (e.g. behind a firewall)
Desktop Blogging Client - An off-line blog management (posting, editing and archiving) tool

Fisking - To rebut a blog entry in a line-by-line fashion.
Flog - A portmanteau of “fake” and “blog”. A blog that’s ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department.

Glog - A first-person recording of an activity, in which the person doing the recording is a participant in the activity. Probably a portmanteau of “gonzo” and “blog”.
GBCW - The “Good Bye Cruel World” diary is when a Kossack decides that Daily Kos has become too (fill in the blank) or isn’t nearly (fill in the blank) enough for him or her to continue visiting the site. General chaos ensues in the Comments as other Kossacks agree, disagree, and wish the diarist good luck or good riddance.
Gulog - A portmanteau of “gulag” and “blog”. Used when a blog is so dismal and depressing, it’s as if it were written in a Soviet labour camp.

Hits - Number of users visited is often referred as hits. (website / blog hits)
HT - “Hat Tip” An acknowledgment of the source where you found the noteworthy item.

instalanche - Sudden and possibly overwhelming increase in traffic to a site after being linked to by the Instapundit

Koufax - an annual quasi-Liberal webblog award.
K-log - aka “knowledge log”, a type of blog usually used by knowledge workers and posted on a company intranet for sharing company knowledge.
Kos Kid - A term for any one who posts, or reads regularly, the blog Daily Kos. Also known as “Kwazy Kos Kids” after the eccentric nature of some of the members.

Lazy Web - Making a suggestion to an internet community in the hopes that someone else will do the work.
Link Love - linking to a site or blog, usually unsolicited, that you like, enjoy, or find useful.
Log in, blog to, log out - a catchphrase referring to blogger style of activity.
Linkroll - A list of recently-bookmarked links with brief descriptions, in the sidebar of a blog.
liveblog - A blog post updated in real-time about an event in progress.

Milblog - Term for blogs written by members or veterans of any branch of service - Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines. A contraction of military and blog.
Moblog - A portmanteau of “mobile” and “blog”. A blog featuring posts sent mainly by mobile phone, using SMS or MMS messages. They are often photoblogs.
Momosphere - Term to encompass blogs written by mothers. A portmanteau of “mom” and “blogosphere”.
Multi-blog - Creating, maintaining, and running multiple blogs (2 or more) simultaneously.
Multi-blogger - An individual, business, or institution that runs multiple blogs.

Natural Blogarithm - Used to describe the vibe or rhythm of the blogging community. A portmanteau of blog and natural logarithm.

PENUS - Potentially Exciting News Under Scrutiny. Use this when you have something big that you can’t wait to show to the blogosphere.
Permalink - Permanent link. The unique URL of a single post. Use this when you want to link to a post somewhere.
Phlog - Type of blog utilising the Gopher protocol instead of HTTP
Photoblog - A blog mostly containing photos, posted constantly and chronologically.
Ping - The alert in the TrackBack system that notifies the original poster of a blog post when someone else writes an entry concerning the original post.
Placeblog - Tim Lindgren has used the term “place blogging” to describe weblogs that focus on events and people with a hyperlocal scope.[1]
Plog - Political blog - blog containing mainly politically-oriented material.
Podcasting - Contraction of “iPod” and “broadcasting” (but not for iPods only). Posting audio and video material on a blog and its RSS feed, for digital players.
Post - An entry written and published to a blog.

RSS - Really Simple Syndication is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
RSS aggregator - Software or online service allowing a blogger to read an RSS feed, especially the latest posts on their favourite blogs. Also called a reader, or feedreader.
RSS feed - The file containing a blog’s latest posts. It is read by an RSS aggregator/reader and shows at once when a blog has been updated. It may contain only the title of the post, the title plus the first few lines of a post, or the entire post.

Scribosphere - Term to encompass blogs written by professional and aspiring screenwriters. A portmanteau of “scribe” and “blogosphere”.
Shart - An acronym; Stubborn, Hostile And Resentful Troll, the most feared kind. A blog that falls victim to such a troll is said to have been “sharted”. A blogger who vandalises their own page for sympathy is said to have sharted themselves.
Shocklog - Weblogs to produce shocking discussions by posting various shocking content.
Spam blog - A blog which is composed of spam. A Spam blog or “any blog whose creator doesn’t add any written value.”
Slashdotted -The Slashdot effect can hit blogs or other website, and is caused by a major website (usually Slashdot, but also Digg, Metafilter, Boing Boing, Instapundit and others) sending huge amounts of temporary traffic that often slow down the server.
Splog - A term used to refer to a ’spam blog’, made popular in 2005 by Mark Cuban
Storyblog - Also written as “slog”. A term used to describe blogs used primarily to publish written stories and poetry used for practice usually by aspiring writers.
Subscribe - The term used when a blogs feed is added to a feed reader like Bloglines or Google. Some blogging platforms have internal subscriptions, this allows readers to receive notification when there are new posts in a blog.
Svithe - A spiritually themed post on a blog not normally focused on spiritual matters.[citation needed] Rhymes with tithe.

Template - Templates, used on the “back end” of a blog that work together to handle information and present it on a blog.
Theme - CSS based code that when applied to the templates will result in visual element changes to the blog. The theme, as a whole, is also referred to as a blog design.
TrackBack - A system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it. The system works by sending a ‘ping’ between the blogs, and therefore providing the alert.
Troll - A commenter whose sole purpose is to attack the views expressed on a blog and incite a flamewar, for example, a liberal going to a conservative blog, or vice versa. The word trolling means literally ‘to fish’, ie. when the troll fishes for a clashback from the blog writer and/or pro commenters. Many trolls will leave their remarks on multiple posts and continue to visit the blog, sparking spirited debate amongst the blog’s regular readers. Trolls’ verbosity can range from eloquent to crass, although most trolls probably fall into the latter category. Originally, trolling only meant the custom where someone was commenting just to get a flamewar going, by using exaggarated points of view not held by themselves.

Vlog - A video blog; a vlogger is a video blogger (e.g. someone who records himself interviewing people of a certain field).
Vorage - A marriage between the words forage and video defined as “The act of foraging for video on the internet and sharing it with others.” Bloggers or vloggers who share streaming or downloaded video content on the web often engage in voraging, scouring search engines and obscure websites to present a curated collection of videos that usually fall within a set theme or editorial perspective.

Web Keynoting - Having a blog’s text dictated by a web keynote (also, voice professional). Service provided by Ch4tter.
Weborexic - Referring to tiny (width-wise) layouts. Coined by Rhiannon Phillips. Tags: audioblog, blog awards, blogger, bloggies, blogosphere, Blogstorm, Blogstream, BlogThis, carnival, carnivals, community, content creation, feed, frequent contributors, librarian, maths, network, paparazzi, portmanteau, rss, sms message, spell checker, subject area, web browser, weblogs
]]> http://www.generalmarketingblog.com/91-blogging-terms-how-many-do-you-know/feed http://www.generalmarketingblog.com/improve-your-blogs-seo-in-8-steps http://www.generalmarketingblog.com/improve-your-blogs-seo-in-8-steps#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 13:59:48 +0000 David http://www.generalmarketingblog.com/?p=300 One of the most important things when it comes to blogging is search engine optimization. Without it your blog is not going to go very far in the search engines which means your traffic is going to be drastically reduced because of it.

The following 8 SEO suggestions can and will help you place better in the search engines and as a result will bring you that extra traffic you are craving.

1) Your Main Keywords in The Posts Title.

This is a must in SEO and already setup with most blogging platforms. As you can see in the browser this post is titled `Improve Your Blogs SEO in 8 Steps - General Marketing Blog`

2) SEO Blog Categories.

It is important that you put your keywords in your categories Title. If your post is relevant to more than one category on your blog then post it to multiple categories this will increase your search rankings with more keywords.

3) RSS Feed Your Blog.

Sign up to FeedBurner and place a link on your blog for people to receive your RSS feeds..

4) RSS to email.

Be sure to offer an email subscription service as well 40% of RSS subscribers prefer the email version.

5) Pinging Blog Services.

Each time you post on your blog be sure to Ping the many blog search engines and Feed syndicate’s. Most blogging platforms will offer you the option to do this automatically.

6) Commenting On Other Blogs.

Posting comments on other blogs will increase your search engine rankings as well. Post under your own name or your blogs name, Do Not use keywords and do not leave spammy comments as these will just be deleted.

7) Submit to Web Directories.

Submitting your blog to web directories is another way of increasing your ranking. Their are hundreds of free and paid web directories you can use. Here is one to get you started the Seo Web Directory.

Use of track backs

When ever you get the opportunity to mention another blog post that some one has written be sure to link to it. This will leave the blog owner a track back and also a link from that blog back to your own. This will help with search engines and will also get you some traffic direct from their blog.

9) Quality Content.

My final suggestion is no matter how well you optimize your blog and no matter how many back links you get their is no substitute for Quality Content so try to post every day with great content and the search engine spiders will come.

We will look at answering as many of the suggestions as possible. This is an idea i think most bloggers should apply, not only can it get you some interaction with your readers but also keep them happy it will also help out bloggers when they cant decide what to write about..

So if you have any questions or anything you would like to read about on this blog leave us a comment on this post and we will see what we can do.

The sky line image in the header as many will probably know is of New York which was taken by myself on a recent holiday and probably one of the better photos i took whilst i was there.

I would also like to say a massive thank you to every one as today we passed the 100 subscribers mark and this is a great achievement for a relatively new blog. So thank you all.

We have decided to start a Flickr challenge, can we get one million photos added to our new group and if so how quickly can we do it. Its a massive challenge but it is possible. If you want to take part then come and join the One million challenge group.

If you are already a member of Flickr then we would appreciate you telling your friends about this challenge, we have a long way to go.

Using Flickr to gain traffic.

Flickr allows you to have a profile and the URL of your website. Use this to promote your website and your products. Upload your company logo as your icon to further brand yourself on Flickr.

Take some photos these need to be of a good quality and watermark them with your URL but not every one you upload as you don’t want to be seen as a spammer. Write a good description about the photo you just uploaded and add your keywords to it.

Search for groups relating to your photo and join them before submitting your photo to the group this will gain you further exposure.

Use the Explore section of Flickr to browse photos that other members have added and add them to your favs people like favs on flickr more than comments.

If you get lucky and you have uploaded a great photo you might just be contacted by some online magazines asking if they can feature your photo in their upcoming edition and they nearly always give you a link back to your main website.