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How to Include Your Blog in the Technorati Directory
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Blogging on May 10, 2011
My blog token for Technorati is B9EMVW5HVS7P. Please ignore this number as it is only listed here in order to get index myself with www.defactomind. Please read on.
With over 250 million blogs indexed by Technorati is hard to ignore such a powerhouse if you want to promote your blog. The process is easy and joining it’s free.
Before we start please make sure that you have an RSS Feed for your blog. You can find it here: http://feedburner.google.com. In order for this to work you should also have a Gmail account. The article “Subscribe via Email to Feeds in 5 Easy Steps” will explain how to do this.
Here are the steps:
Step 1: Go to www.technorati.com and click the “Join” link.
Step 2: Next, you need to claim your blog by clicking on the button called “Claim”. Pretty straight forward, huh?
Step 3: Just fill in all the required information and don’t forget the URL for your own blog. You do this in the box at the bottom of the page where your “Profile” is. The box is under the heading ‘My claimed blogs’. Once you are done, just click “Claim”.
Step 4: Fill in all the relevant tags related to your blog in the box provided.
Step 5: You will also be required to fill in your RSS Feed URL. Refer to the Notes before these steps.
Step 6: Now you wait until you receive an email from Technorati with your token. Sometimes it’s minutes but sometimes it could take days. The email will say:
“Thank you for submitting your blog claim on Technorati. Technorati will need to verify that you are an author of the site [your site URL will be here] by looking for a unique code. We have just assigned the claim token [your number will be here] to this claim. Please visit http://technorati.com/account/ for more details, including how to use the claim token.”
The number inserted in the beginning of this post is my “Claim Token”. It has to be in a post to prove that I am the author of the blog.
In order to post your token you can create a simple post with the title as “Token post for Technorati – Please ignore” or something of that effect and within the post copy & paste your claim token number.
Step 7: After your post is live, you need to visit http://technorati.com. Sign in and click on the ”Check Claim” button at the bottom of your account page.
Step 8: You will be asked if you have already made a temporary post – and you have – so confirm by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
Step 9: You will then receive an email confirming that Technorati has successfully indexed your blog and found your pesky “Claim Token”.
Once accepted, you can view your blog listing on Technorati. This listing will help others find your blog much easier.
Social Media on Steroids
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Social Media & Web 2.0 on April 18, 2011
As a business owner you should encourage all your staff to engage in promoting your products and services on Social Media.
This activity should be daily and performed religiously. These activities should be separated on the type of platform they are using, thusly:
5 Quick & Dirty Steps to Eliminate Blogger’s Block
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Blogging on April 12, 2010
“What Should I write about? Who would be interested in what I know?” I hear this a lot when entrepreneurs start being active on their blogs. They are all experts in their field of interest but somehow they assume everyone else is too.
What do you think? Try it out and let me know if this method works for you.
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Top 10 Awesome Tips for Improving Your Online Presence
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Top 10 List on April 8, 2010
Here are 10 awesome tips on how you can improve the online presence for your business:
- Submit Your Business to Local Listings
Do a local search for your business make sure your listing is up to date and accurate so customers get the right information about your business. - List Your Business in the Correct Category
Very often the owner (or the webmaster creating the website) categorizes the business listing in the wrong category. Include as many relevant categories as possible to your business to attract customers.
How Bloggers Make Money Online
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Make Money Online on January 30, 2010
There are 5 ways to make money with your blog (or website). Might be others – I’m open for suggestions:
- Sell ad space on your blog
- Write articles for other companies/blogs/individuals
- Syndicate your blog posts to other blogs/Sell Blog Subscriptions
- Sell your own things on your blog
- Sell third party goods online
1. Sell ad space on your blog
One of the most popular ads is GoogleAds: https://www.google.com/adsense (although they pay you only when someone actually clicks on the ad) and the Yahoo Publisher Network https://publisher.yahoo.com/portal/login.php
Selling ad space is fairly easy to do; just create a section on your blog that describes the benefit for companies/individuals to place an ad on your blog.
One word of advice though: When you start this adventure, do not fill your blog to the gills with ads – it will not look very professional. Your readers need to see what you can offer first before they will buy anything from you or off your blog.
You can spot a newbie, right-away by the imense number of ads running on his/her site, trying desperately to make some dough. People do not respond well and they will leave your site fairly quick before you can even write about your expertise.
Blogger – Make it Easy on Your Readers
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Blogging on January 25, 2010
Commenting on blogs similar to yours is one quick way to promote your own blog/website. I discovered this a while back but wanted to beef up a bit my own blog before jumping on the “comment on other blogs” wagon.
Although a lot of them are very well designed I found it hard to write about some mistakes I kept on seeing on other blogs. In fact I have learned a lot.
The most important thing to remember is this:
Scan not read
People do not have the time to read a whole lot now-a-days (unless they are really interested in a particular subject) so “Good bye Reading” and “Hello Scanning”. In order to capture attention you have to create breaks in your text such that the human eye can easily scan, stop and read small bits.
100 Articles Written on DeFactoMind Blog
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Marketer's Schedule on December 31, 2009
This marks my 100th article in this Defacto Mind blog and fulfills my pledge to post exactly 100 by the end of the year 2009. It all started on September 16th, 2009 and in 3 months period I was able to publish this hundred articles.
Defacto Mind Celebrates 100 Articles and a New Year
Next year I will start slowly because I am working on a monster project that will probable take at least 6 months to finish. I will share with you all once it is finished and marketing commences.
I already have some New Year resolutions; among other things I want to start a new trend (or so I think although it seems PSDtuts.com is already working on it) and publish a new design every day. Instead of surfing the web, I will try to dedicate 10-20 minutes each day and publish a design (either, Photoshop, Illustrator or CorelDraw) and maybe some other designer(s) out there would want to join me. The stage is set and I welcome everyone.
That will not onlt enhance my design skills but will increase the number of works for my Design by Satori portfolio.
In the meantime, I wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope that 2010 will be better and more successful for all of you.
New Year Resolutions for Bloggers
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Blogging on December 30, 2009
2010 is just around the corner, and we’re working on our new years resolutions! Here are some ideas for bloggers out there that want to start the new year with a bang!
Article published on UX Booth by David Leggett on Decmber 29th, 2009.
End of the Year Blog Resolution
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Marketer's Schedule on December 14, 2009
Another blog project on Defacto Mind; there are only 18 days left until New Year and I decided to schedule 2 more activities and write about in the Defacto Mind blog.
For the next 3 weeks I will write a book review every Tuesday and I’ll call it “Cool Blue Tuesday Book Review”. There is really no reason why Tuesdays would be blue or cool for that matter but I just thought it sounds catchy. So, every Tuesday, after reading a book about SEO, marketing, design or social media, I’ll share with you my impressions about a particular book and recommend it (or not) to you – the reader.
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From Zero to Power Blogging in 3 Days
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Blogging on November 27, 2009
After lots of online and offline research I came up with a schedule for those who want to blog successfully and even make a living out of it.
Day 1 – The Groundwork
1. Install a custom WordPress theme for your blog
Although the web is full of blogging platforms, I believe WordPress is still the most powerful blogging platform with awesome versatility.
Resources:
18 Alternative Ways to Use WordPress
Free WordPress Themes from Smashing Magazine
Free WordPress Themese provided by Free WP Themes
Top WP Themes
