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Old 09-11-2007, 12:57 AM   #1
 
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What is your experience with directory promotion via blog posts? Has it been a better way to get exposure to your directory? Have you used any contextual link services?

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Old 09-11-2007, 01:05 PM   #2
 
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I know that I get a ton of traffic through my blog. I have also been surprised at the number of other blogs that have picked up and posted articles linking to mine. I don't really know anything about blogging, but I am amazed at how it has increased the traffic to my directory.

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I know that I get a ton of traffic through my blog. I have also been surprised at the number of other blogs that have picked up and posted articles linking to mine. I don't really know anything about blogging, but I am amazed at how it has increased the traffic to my directory.

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Have you done any advertising via blog posts? Like Review me or Pay Per Post?
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I haven't... I know Zorg-Links did at JohnChow.com while I was #1 on that site and I got a ton of traffic from it.
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I haven't... I know Zorg-Links did at JohnChow.com while I was #1 on that site and I got a ton of traffic from it.
I've done it with PayPerPost and wasn't really happy with the results. However, I only spent about $125 and the blogs i got reviewed on weren't very popular and also some of them didn't follow the directions of a "positive" review. Some even questioned the point of a directory?
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my blog is like my 2nd most viewed page. Its like phpLB heaven
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my blog is like my 2nd most viewed page. Its like phpLB heaven
How did your promotion go on JohnChow.com?
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i'll be posting the news here and on DP soon
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i'll be posting the news here soon
Cool, looking forward to it.
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I am thinking of starting a blog for my directory, but I want both templates to match. Not quite sure how to go about that yet.
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Hey Floppy...
Do you happen to have the PSD from your directory design? I just shot mine over to a good coder (PM me if you want his name) and he put my blog template together from it.
I think Mike did the same thing..

You can see my directory HERE
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Unfortunately I don't. I bought a $30 template and worked it over myself. I ended up coding 90% of it all over to be xhtml/css compliant and making my own images blah blah. However its not really a psd that could be sliced up for a new template.
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Ok the discussions are excelent.Tell me something I need to know urgently.I have some blogs in blogger.I have them submitted to blogs and directory on a free basis.Are they going to get me search engine traffic.I mean I have submitted my blogs to technorati and bloggernity.com/Business_Blogs/Marketing_Blogs/ and to related sites.What are the prospects of my blogs.
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