In a last attempt to resurrect Blogger Talk, here is a thread I have started on the best ways to promote your blog.
Please make only meaningful posts and don’t try to sell your services.
If you want to be a moderator or help out in any other way, go here.

Blogger Talk - Send an Email to the World!

One of my sites generates leads for blog design.
If you are a blog designer or web designer in general, hit me up.
I will also link to this category of my web directory from the page generating leads, so feel free to submit your site there as well.
~ Mike Dammann

The answer is very simple. I am not Blogmaster for no reason on DP. I have been at the forefront of blogging for years and also studied behaviour of people reading blogs on a regular basis and I can tell you this:
When you search Google for blogs about something, you will want to read different blogs on the subject matter.
Blogrush is making sure people won’t have to go back to Google to search for more.

Here is proof.

Would like to draw your attention to this and the tips by John Chow and if you haven’t signed up yet, then do so over here.

Discuss Blogrush on bloggertalk …

to show me some stats. Go ahead and sign up if you haven’t done so yet!

So everyone is talking about blogrush and it looks promising.

Well, I have added something new to bloggertalk, a whole section about blogrush.

Feel free to give us feedback about the program.

I’ve been penalized by Google, or rather my directory has been penalized. With the directory the whole domain name has been penalized including this blog.
About 40% of traffic got lost, but it also shows me that I can survive without Google.
Why?
Because of incoming links providing traffic.
You can go ahead and submit to blog directories like Bloglines and based on your keywords and text in the description you can get traffic.
But the best way to get traffic and readership is to hang where the right traffic already is.
That’s mainly on web forums, other related blogs and to some extent social networking sites like Netscape.
Why Netscape?
Because you can rank your submissions easily and get traffic to your link from there. The problem is that the link to your site is very small, but you will still get traffic and exposure, especially when you use a username with the same name like your site.

You should comment in forums and have your blog in your signature or latest blog feed.
People will want to read more if your comments are good.
Same goes with comments on other blogs.

More to come …

This i also something worth checking out. If you haven’t purchased SEO Book yet, you should do so right away.

In June Jeff wrote this post on his blog which made Rand out razed. The discussion was about the fact that should SEOMoz’s Page Strength tool be put in the Quick Buck Crew, this website lists the people who cheat, scam and do everything for money!

Well what the issue was that SEOMoz built a tool named Page Strength Tool whose function was to tell the strength of page which by calculating IBLs, they never were correct with this tool! Jeff and many webmasters helped this tool to get popularity among the others on the net. Rand then made that tool used by free members only once a day and for premium members where you have to pay them to use that tool they kept unlimited usage!!!

Now after a month Rand came back up with his white board friday and sued Aviva directory by saying that they are not an authority site based on the fact that they don’t rank for the terms in the title of Aviva Directory which happens to contain “Information Web Directory”. Well as we all know Jeff does brilliant promotion for his directory. He has been in the front page of Digg more than once and has received a lot of organic links! Well every body knows that domain age, organic IBLs are the chief factor of gaining authority!

Well as everybody has a friend John of v7n takes a good participation in this contest. He gives his brilliant SEO insights in this post and a good discussion starts in this thread. Then Rand himself replies to this thread and says doing such type of protection was out of character!

It doesn’t suit a reputed SEO to talk like that on a public forum!

Then we found that Bob Mutch of seocompany.ca joins to protect rand by saying that rand is correct and Aviva is not a authority site (lol he couldn’t make the difference between authority domain and authority site) in this post. John made valid points in his replies but bob kept on disagreeing in this thread and this thread.

Then Mike also had the same view that “Web directory” was a worth less keyword, as the traffic coming from it would be worthless in this post.

Then I too got my boots on and went in to give my opinions of solid analytical reasoning why rand’s opinion was baseless, incorrect, pointless, inconsistent and even not to bob’s own belief!

What i felt is that this is very true! You just can’t judge a website for it’s being authority or not on the base of it’s not ranking for the title terms which are too competitive. If Jeff had known that his directory would be in such a deep trouble for not ranking for his title terms he really would have looked in to the matter and did the SEO of his directory. Well anchor text IBLs are the chief factor of SEO this is again proved. But just mix things up (bob even didn’t knew this, I had to tell him that it is good to mix up things…hehe)!

Well whatever happens to this discussion, let your mind be clear about whom to listen and whom to not! Otherwise you would be losing a hefty sum and get nothing in return!

Manish Pandey,
Proud Member of Frogengine Blog Network.