Hide or Remove Blogger Attribution Gadget - 2 Methods

There are two standard ways to remove Blogger Attribution Gadget. The First one uses simple CSS to hide the text "Powered by Blogger", the second recommended method simply deletes the Attribution Gadget from your BlogSpot layout. We will discuss both in detail today.

If you are new to Attribution Gadget, then it is the widget that blogger adds to your layout by default when you setup your blog. You can display your copyrights or credit links here. Unlike other widgets this gadget is locked by default and it has no "Remove" button that could help you remove the gadget from your layout.

1. Hide "Powered by Blogger" Attribution Gadget

Follow these steps to hide the attribution widget using CSS "display:none" property.

1. Go To Blogger > Template
2. Backup your Template
3. Click Edit HTML
4. Search for this code ]]></b:skin>
5. Paste the following code above ]]></b:skin>

   #Attribution1{height:0;visibility:hidden;display:none}

6. Save your template and you are done!

You have successfully hide the blogspot attribution credit link from your blog footer. The browser will not display or show the attribution or credit links attached to your layout but the gadget DOM will still load in background.

2. Remove 'Powered by Blogger' Attribution From Template

To permanently remove or delete the attribution gadget from your template so that it may neither load nor display on your blogspot blog, then follow the steps below:

1. Go To Blogger > Template
2. Backup your Template
3. Click Edit HTML
4. From the "Jump to widget" section click on "Attribution1"

   

5. Delete the entire widget code that looks similar to the one shown in the image below, starting from <b:widget> and ending at </b:widget>:

   

   If you expand the code, it looks similar to this one:

   <b:widget id='Attribution1' locked='true' title='' type='Attribution' visible='true'>
                       <b:includable id='main'>
           <b:if cond='data:feedbackSurveyLink'>
             <div class='mobile-survey-link' style='text-align: center;'>
               <data:feedbackSurveyLink/>
             </div>
           </b:if>

           <div class='widget-content' style='text-align: center;'>
             <b:if cond='data:attribution != &quot;&quot;'>
              <data:attribution/>
             </b:if>
           </div>
           <b:include name='quickedit'/>
         </b:includable>
   </b:widget>

6. Delete and save your template. You are all done!

You have now successfully delete the blogger attribution gadget. It won't display on your blog now and neither will it eat up your page load time by rendering in background.

Need Help?

This post was requested by many of you, though there are many alternatives already online but this second method is the easiest and most effective of all. Let me know if you need any further help. Post your questions below. Your feedback means a lot. Good day! =)

How To Write A High Quality Blog Post

Writing a blog post is not difficult for sure! Anybody can write it , even a child with basic knowledge on how to write will be able to do it. As a blogger you don’t want to write just another blog post that is common all around the web, you need quality which will differentiate you from others. I will not say that no one tries to write a quality article but sometimes they fail to do so because they don’t have few tips in their mind which would be really useful. Today in this article of mine , I will give a few tips which on implementation is going to give a quality article and appreciation almost every time.

Tips to Write a Quality Blog Post:

Follow A Niche:

This may sound a bit untimely but I am sure that this is one of the biggest reasons why blog posts may not be what you would like it to be. Following a niche gives you continuity, a source to write, helps in linking articles and make a group of readers who are interested in those topics. Will a Engineer be able to do accounting work without knowledge? No ! Similarly if you just write on random stuffs, you will not be able to write well. Choose a niche which you are familiar with and start writing on it.

Good Writing is a plus:

William Shakespeare was a great novelist of the past and probably even now, it was not that he succeeded just because of the stories he came up with but also the way he wrote. Likewise, you may have great ideas in mind but presenting it down is important. If you can do that then you can’t be stopped from having a good number of followers because the post is surely going to be of good quality.

Be Precise While You Write:

Though sometimes you may want your post to look big but it really doesn’t matter. What matters is the content that you provide. It is always recommended that you go straight to the point and not keep on twisting around same point.

Some Fiery Quick Tips:

• Write attractive titles for your post which will help you get the attention of people a little more.
• Write precise articles that will not bug people down.
• Be open and write down what you feel like writing.
• Having grammatical mistake is like committing suicide, though it can happen but make sure that you rectify it.
• Write informative articles which is very important.

10 Mashable Ways To Increase Blog Subscribers

When You start your blog or website then A Question rises i.e How to make permanent subscriber which gives traffic to my blog.So there are manys to get it but one of best post  “10 Mashable Ways to Increase Blog Subscribers”which tells you all mashable ways to get more subscriber than normal rate.So read carefuly below points and Apply it on your blogs-

1. Make it easy and obvious

As I’ve said before in more detail, make your subscription options prominent, offer an email alternative to RSS, and ask for the subscription, preferably at the bottom of each post.

2. Be laser focused

Make sure you are primarily focusing on a particular topic, and the more specialized that topic is, the better you’ll do. It’s also key to step back and evaluate whether there are enough prospective readers in your chosen niche. It’s better to be brutally honest with yourself than to toil away and end up disappointed.

3. Offer a bribe

Relax, it’s nothing illegal. It’s an ethical bribe, in the form of a free ebook, report, e-course or audio series. Typically this only works with email subscriptions tied to autoresponders, because you want to condition delivery of the bonus on subscription.

But here’s a nifty way to do it with RSS:

If you have a WordPress blog, use the free Feedvertising plugin to link to the download page for your free gift. Since Feedvertising links only show up in the feed (and not in the post), only feed subscribers will see the link and have access to the bonus.

4. Use viral ebooks

This is a spin on the ethical bribe strategy, but instead you let other people give away your PDF ebook or even bundle it for sale with other products. The PDF in turn promotes your blog. I bundled my free Viral Copy report with a book that spent several days at the top of the Amazon bestseller list.

5. Dedicated subscription landing page

Create a page that is dedicated to nothing more than obtaining a subscription, and drive traffic to it from your blog, AdWords, or really any other source you want. You can even put it on a unique URL, and add in the ethical bribe strategy to increase signups.

6. Become a guest blogger

Contributing content to someone else’s blog may seem crazy, but it’s a solid strategy to gain exposure for your own blog and build your subscriber base. Just make it very clear to the blog owner that you require a very brief byline at the end of the post, with a link back to your site. And make sure it’s original content, not something recycled off of your blog.

7. Start a podcast

Start a related podcast on your subject matter, and get it into iTunes and listed in the various podcasting directories. Mention your blog in every episode and the benefits of subscribing, and try to land some interviews with prominent players in your niche. Not only will you be opening up a new promotional channel, you’re also creating bonus content that can be reused as part of your ethical bribe campaign for new subscribers.

8. Post in forums

A tried and true technique since the earliest days of the Internet is to be a helpful, proactive participant in forums that are important in your niche. People will notice that you are offering yourself up to others, and will be more inclined to see what else you have to offer with your blog.

9. Networking

This is perhaps the most overlooked strategy for gaining traffic and subscribers. Don’t badger other bloggers for links, because it rarely works anymore. Find a way to help them with something, and then eventually work that initial graciousness into a business relationship and even friendship. There are real people behind these blogs, and they respond to good will just like people do offline.

10. Cross-promotional deals

Here’s another cool way to make use of the Feedvertising plugin for WordPress.

Find a blogger that publishes related, but non-competitive content. Work out a deal where you both promote each other in your RSS feeds, using Feedvertising. If one blog has way more subscribers than the other, work out a ratio deal. Since Feedvertising allows you to create up to six rotating links, the smaller blog would promote the other blog continuously, while the larger blog would reserve one slot for the smaller blog, and use the other slots for other cross-promotion deals, affiliate links, or sponsor ads.

How To Increase Blog’s Income

I know all users of internet want to have a famous blogger and want to earn for their  efforts.But it is not easy as we see it So What I want to tell You in this post.For example  Darren Rowse’s DigitalPhotographySchool.com site. This website has 3 million traffic in every month and I think no need of mention earning. However, it wasn’t always this way. In April 2006 when the site was founded, it was just a simple blog that saw 3-4 new posts a week and made only a few cents per day. Now, the growth of a blog can be attributed to many different factors: having quality content, generating a subscriber’s list, good seo, etc.Darren explains the main factor which were focused on blog :

·         He directed readers from a previous photography blog to his new site.

·         He used his connections in the photography blogging world to get some promotion from other sites.

·         He got his Flickr followers to promote his site.

So, among other good practices, he used resources that he already had on-hand to help him popularize and monetize his new site. What could this mean for you? How about minimum effort and more money. It’s not too good to be true…

Leverage Your Content

Bloggers have different posting rates – some people post twice a day, others post only a couple of times a month. Obviously, posting more often is ideal. But what’s happening to all that content? Does it just sit around collecting “Internet dust” so to speak? Start leveraging your old content by turning it into something that will make you money. Try this:

Make your an Ebook – Find a series of articles that have a similar topic and compile them into a marketable format. For example, say you run a holiday-themed blog. You sell Christmas decorations, Halloween costumes, Valentines Day accessories, etc. Over time, you’ve created many articles about dressing up for Halloween – take a look through them and start organizing. If you find that you’ve created many articles about group costumes, you could create an ebook entitled, “Increase Blog Income” using only old content and images that you already have at your disposal. This book could then be sold on your site. Alternatively, you could offer it as a free reward for anybody who signs up for your email list or becomes a member.

Create a Video Series – Let’s stick with the Halloween costumes example. Say you’ve got a bunch of articles that describe, step by step, how to create certain costumes. Use this content to create videos of the costumes actually being created. Now, this is a little more labor-intensive, but lets face it – people love video content, and it’s going to be worth your time.

Create a Membership Section – Make people pay to access some of your content. This doesn’t necessarily mean picking out your best content and making it available only to members – try luring them with some great content and providing “more of the same” in the membership section. For example, post one of those Halloween costume videos you created on your homepage. Then tell your readers that they can access more insightful videos by becoming a member for only $4.99 a month.

Post on Social Media – Recycle some of your most interesting content by posting it on Facebook (assuming you’ve done the legwork of building up a social media presence). With this strategy, you won’t want to always post entire articles or videos. Give your followers just a bit to get interested – then send them to your site and go in for the sale.

You’ve probably noticed a common theme in these examples – email marketing. Whatever you decide to do with your content, don’t forget to send some of it to your email list. Sending one of your already-written posts in an email ensures that more people will see it. Try to select content that will get people intrigued about your site. For example, titles like “Craziest Halloween Costumes I’ve Ever Seen” or “The Cost of Christmas: Why You’re Going Broke in December” will pique your readers’ interests and get them to visit your blog more often.

Attract  Your Visitors

Darren Rowse leveraged readers from an old site to promote his new one. Assuming you have at least some traffic already, this traffic can be used to “do the work for you:”

Refer-a-friend Promotion – This is something that many successful poker sites, phone companies, and even World of Warcraft implement. Simply provide a reward for a user that gets another person to become a member, sign up for the email list, or buy a product. You’ll end up giving some things away for free, but hey, that ebook didn’t cost too much money to make, right?

Social Media Buttons – Social media is a cost-free platform that allows readers to share anything on your site with hundreds of other potential customers. Make this easier for your visitors by implementing social media buttons on your site. For example, you set up the Twitter button to appear beside each post title on your blog. If somebody likes your post, all they have to do is click this button. Suddenly, your post is visible to all of that reader’s followers. You can add this type of button for Facebook, Digg, Google+, and delicious as well.

Leverage Other Bloggers

Do you know other bloggers in your niche? Maybe you’re even good friends with other people who blog about related topics. There’s nothing wrong with asking a favor, and your leveraging can often be beneficial for both parties.

Guest Posting – If you have contacts in your industry, use your charm to get published on their site. Guest posting allows you to attract targeted traffic that is already interested in your niche. If your guest posts are of a high enough quality, the blogger may even allow you to post on a schedule. The more you broaden your audience, the more potential traffic and sales you’ll see.

Blog Comments – It’s good to participate in the comments section of your guest posts. But more broadly, it can be beneficial to comment on any post that’s related to your niche. If another blogger posts a popular piece about St. Patrick’s day, for example, create a high-quality informative comment that answers a question, adds to the discussion, presents an alternate viewpoint, or maybe just uses a bit of humor. Other readers will be interested in clicking the link to your St. Patrick’s day accessories if they see you contribute a memorable, valuable comment. 

Whenever you’re looking to increase traffic and income (read: all the time), think about what you already have. There’s no need to constantly create new things, form new relationships, or attract new readers to make more money through blogging. You can even use this post to start leveraging right away – can you leave a comment that will get me to visit your site?

Increase Blog Traffic Just In 72 Hours

Search For Quality Niche

One thing almost any professional blogger will tell you before you start blogging is that you need to find your niche. Writing just about yourself and the things you do each day may be enjoyable for you, but finding thousands of other people that want to read about your daily adventures will be difficult. Its not that people aren’t interested in what you have to say, it may just be that they’re more interested in your knowledge and experience about one particular topic. Based on our experience with Mashable tricks and a few other websites, we advise you to find a niche that’s big enough to allow your blog to grow to a significant number of readers but at the same time not be so large and vast that you’re trying to compete with the major players in a market.

Unless you started blogging or are a major online player, the chances of you starting a new blog about broad topics such as Finance, Professional Blogging, Making Money Online, Professional Sports, or News and quickly being a major hit in the blogosphere is very unlikely. But that doesn’t mean you can’t pick your niche in a more narrow portion of those areas and still be successful.

Keep Your Niche 500+

We launched Mashabletricksin 2012 and were significantly late to the blogging scene. We understood the space was very competitive and that it would be difficult to be successful if we were just another version of the many blogger blogs already out there. What we decided to do was to narrow our focus to newer Mashable owners rather than the uber blogger geeks. We’ve all watched the internet market long enough to see that how blogging making effect on us, along with some very effective advertising, have significantly increasing the number of daily users. We figured that all of these new owners would need someplace to find answers to their questions. By answering basic questions and posting simple tutorials, rather than covering blogging rumors and breaking news, we found our sweet spot and a place we could be in the internet world with little competition.

Building Traffic Without Competing With The Big Blogs

In early april, blogger released their latest new interface. As is custom, then other blogger writing their review on blogger, how much it would cost, when and where it would be available. What we did first was to write one of our longest posts ever. The post covered everything and anything we could come up with on bloggging. We appropriately broke the article up into different sections, calling out keywords in the headers of each section, and completely exhausted ourselves in details the article. This article wasn’t what gained us traffic, nor was it the intent. We wrote this long article so that we could review the keywords people were using to find it.

After we published the article, we watched our Google Analytics stats and keywords used on search engines that brought individuals to the new post. We started to see the exact topics and keywords that people were searching for that weren’t necessarily being covered the larger blogs. From that data, we had exactly what we needed to write very targeted articles that wouldn’t receive millions of hits like the other blogs, but could still welcome a nice flood

How Your Blog Can Achieve Significant Month to Month Growth

There is nothing more important to most bloggers than seeing their traffic and community increase each month. In our efforts over the past year to increase Mashable tricks’ position in the blogging market we learned a lot about blogging. Below, summarizing what we learned, there are 3  ways to help you increase your blog trafficeach month:

1.    Be Unique- You need to provide unique content to visitors to your site so they come back, subscribe, follow you on twitter, comment, and link to your site. As you can see from our approach above, we try to cover stories from a unique perspective or cover smaller topics that get less publicity. Read your competitors blogs and understand how they view the topics they write about. Try taking a contrarian viewpoint, digging deeper into the topic, and generally providing new and different insight and information to generate interest in your site.

2.    Use The Right Keywords – If you’re not writing about a topic the same way that your potential audience talks about it then many potentially interested visitors may never find your site. Optimizing your site to reflect the way individuals search for your market will help you increase your blog traffic.

Google’s Keyword Tool is a great source for finding out how people search about a topic. Enter in some of the keywords you’ve used on past articles and then let the Google tool show you how many people are searching for those words. The tool also provides synonyms or potentially different ways to word the topics you’ve written about and will show you the way most people search for particular topics.

By making the words and terms in your site match the way individuals search for them you’ll make it easy for Google, Bing, and Yahoo to know that each topic you’re writing about may have the answers that people are searching for. Go back through your old blogs posts and check to see if the words you used on a topic match the way that people search for that topic. If not, make the quick changes to your blog post titles, page titles, bolded keywords, etc so that they reflect the most popular search terms. This alone will help increase your monthly traffic.

3.    Utilize Analytics – If you’re not utilizing blog traffic analysis tools like Google Analytics on your blog then you’re missing out on essential information that can help you make your blog a huge success. Google Analytics and many other web analytic software services are free and easy to incorporate into your blog. Analytical input is part of every article we write. A few times a month we’ll review the analytical data on Mashable tricks to see how people are finding our site, the search keywords used by visitors that enter the various blog posts we’ve written, and how long visitors are staying on our site.

Google Analytics will provide you with all the keywords used in search phrases that lead visitors to your site and breaks the information down post by post. We have spent significantly more time this year looking at the keywords that drive traffic to our site. It has helped us identify topics that readers are looking for that we may have not yet provided a post for as well as help us understand when people are looking for more information about a topic we’ve covered. It also has helped us keep a long list of topics to cover for future posts on our blog.

How to Use Twitter To Gain Mashable Traffic

Can Twitter actually help me to gain traffic for my blog or is it a fully waste of my time? First question asked by my friend.

Perhaps you’ve pondered the same?

When people I respect started singing the praises of Twitter, I decided to give it a go. At first I just didn’t get it. I was shocked at that when I got the number of bussiness connectd with twitter.

Twitter To Gain Mashable Traffic

First, Why Twitter not other ?

I think that’s a fair starting point. I’ve heard others call Twitter a micro-blogging platform.

Here’s what you need to know. According to the State of the Twittersphere report, each day 5 to 10 thousand new people join Twitter. Current estimates of total users top out around 300 million. That’s a lot of opportunity.

Twitter allows you to post updates (called Tweets) as often as you want (and limited to 140 characters). When you follow other people on Twitter, you see their tweets. When they follow you, they see your tweets.

It’s a constant stream of communication. The good news is you can turn it on or off as often as you like. Twitter also keeps a public record of all updates, which can be mined with Twitter Search.

Why Most of High-Profile People Use Twitter

Second think is Why high-profile people use Twitter, it’s worth closer examination. Here’s what some of those gurus told me:

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com said, “We’ve found that Twitter has been a great way for us to connect on a more personal level with our employees and customers. We use it to help build our brand, not drive direct sales. It’d be like asking how does providing a telephone number for customer service translate into new business when they are mostly non-sales-related calls. In the long term, Twitter helps drive repeat customers and word of mouth, but we’re not looking to it as a way of driving immediate sales.”

Bestselling author David Meerman Scott said, “I have personally connected with hundreds of people I otherwise wouldn’t have, and I booked an interview on NPR and a big daily newspaper using Twitter.”

Be sure to check out this BusinessWeek article that surveyed 18 CEOs and how they’re using Twitter to help their businesses.

How Twitter Can Help You to gain traffic?

This is where it gets interesting. A lot of people are doing some very innovate things with Twitter. Here’s some of their stories.

The Twitter Plan

Cindy King, an international sales specialist, saw a huge boost in business inquires by implementing a strategic Twitter plan.

“Following the right people on Twitter was key. There are some people very gifted at building relationships on Twitter. As I followed these online community builders, I realized that some of them are also excellent direct response copywriters. They get their Twitter followers to take action,” said King.

“Light bulbs went off, and I spent a weekend putting together a tweet marketing plan and entered in 6 weeks worth of tweets, 5 a day, using TweetLater. I used a mindmap, created categories, varied times on tweets and used BUDurls so I could track results and improve my tweet plan the next time around. That was a month ago,” explained King.

When King finds a spare minute between projects, she logs into Twitter and watches what folks are talking about. When she Tweets, about 90 percent of the time she presents useful information and resources to her followers. The remaining tweets are surveys and questions. Following this strategy, King saw an 800 percent increase in inquiries about her business after she setup her Twitter campaign.

Getting In Front of High Profile People

I looked at it but couldn’t figure out why people would continually send out messages about the size of a text message, unless they were a teenager. Twitter was for sending updates they said. I don’t have time for updates, and besides, who would care?

Getting Traffic and Leads

Twitter has all but replaced our PR agency as a large percentage of our followers are press and analysts. A writer for ZDNet wrote about us and linked to us based on something we tweeted and that resulted in a huge spike in web traffic and at least one deal with a major service provider.

Mike Damphousse of Green Leads said, “Twitter is new to us. That said, in a few short weeks we’ve had definite increase in all sorts of traffic. Out of the normal inbound leads, the number has increased 15% and two of the inbounds are now active pipeline opportunities. We’ve found one extremely valuable partner relationship. We are also building PR relationships, although finding the contacts is a bit of a chore.”

Are you beginning to see the potential here?

A Few Tools to Help Your Twitter Experience

Twitter has a whole world of available support applications you can employ to gain the most of the service for your business. Here’s a few of my favorites:

TwitterFox: This Firefox web browser plugin allows you to view Tweets within your web browser (in a popup menu). This is very handy and eliminates the need to constantly go to Twitter.com.

TweetLater: This powerful service allows you to schedule tweets (much like you would schedule emails). Another very powerful feature is the ability to receive email digests of keyword activity in the Tweetosphere. This allows you to join a conversation or track topics and trends.

Ping.fm: If you have accounts with many services, such as LinkedIn and Facebook, this amazing site allows you to post updates across ALL of your social media sites in one single step.

Twitterfor Facebook: If you are on Facebook, this application forwards your Twitter updates directly to Facebook as status updates.

150+ Traffic Sources for Your Blog or Website

Traffic Sources for Your Blog

To make a Blogger is not a Great task.But to get traffic for blogger .I think this is really big task but not possible So If you want to get free traffic for your Blog or Website.So Let me explain. The whole “getting traffic” issue is one which can be approached from many different angles. The possibilities are countless. You can get traffic from so many different places and by utilizing so many different practices that it’s more than easy to overlook something.

That’s why I’ve created this leviathan. I wanted to come up with a list containing all the practices and traffic sources I can think of.

But it’s still me, so even though I’m the author I still find this list impossible to go through for a normal human. That’s why I don’t expect you to read all of it. Just find a portion that interests you and use it as a reference file.

So-called free traffic

…cause it’s nowhere near free.

1. Search engines – SEO

SEO is probably one of the biggest things you can practice in order to get some traffic. Top ranking for a good, competitive keyword can mean the world to your blog or website.

2. Email marketing

Fancy name, but what it really means is sending emails to a list of people and leading them back to your blog. If you haven’t started to build your email list yet, it’s about time.

3. Co-registration traffic

This one’s usually not free, but it’s a part of email marketing, so I thought I might as well place it here. The basic idea is this: You find someone who already has an email list and try to convince them to place an additional form somewhere in their sign-up funnel.

This form/field/checkbox asks a new subscriber whether or not they want to subscribe to your list too. Something along the lines: “Hey. You might also consider subscribing to Karol’s list. He shares some interesting information about internet marketing. Just tick the checkbox and you’re good to go.”

In the end you get a new subscriber without any real effort on your part.

Social media traffic

There’s a couple of different things here.

Social bookmarking

In a sentence – you add your blog to a number of different social bookmarking services.

The services:

4. Delicious

5. Connotea.org

6. Blinklist.com

7. Faves.com

8. Mister-wong.com

9. Spurl.net – problems while loading the site

10. Netvouz.com

11. Diigo.com

12. Backflip.com – no longer with us

13. Bibsonomy.org

14. Folkd.com

15. linkaGoGo.com

16. Slashdot.org

17. Technorati.com

18. MyStuff

19. Buddy Marks

20. Connectedy

21. MyLinkVault

22. Google Bookmarks

23. Jumptags.com

24. OYAX

25. A1 Webmarks

26. Bookmark Tracker

27. myVmarks – no longer with us

28. Wirefan.com – no longer with us

29. Boomarking.com

30. Symbaloo

31. Karmalynx.com

You don’t have to do it by hand though:

32. BookmarkingDemon

33. IMAutomator.com

34. SocialPoster

35. SocialMarker.com

36. SocialAdr

37. One more trick you can use. Share your new post via Google Reader

Web 2.0 sites

Websites within a popular domain which you can build for free, and then use them to get some traffic back to your main blog. They are:

38. Squidoo

39. HubPages

40. Weebly

41. Webs

42. Jimdo

43. Yola

44. Webnode

45. Jigsy

46. You can also try to create a new community at Ning, or join an existing one.

Social news sites

Three main players here:

47. Digg

48. Reddit

49. StumbleUpon

If you’re in the design niche check out these sites as well:

50. 40 Promotional Sites Where To Submit Your Design Related Links

51. 30+ Places to Submit Your Website Designs

Social networks

This one’s a no-brainer:

52. Twitter 

53. Facebook

54. Myspace

55. LinkedIn

Free blogs

The idea is similar to the approach regarding Web 2.0 sites. Only this time you’re going to create some free blogs. Check these out:

56. WordPress.com

57. Blogger

58. LiveJournal.com

59. TypePad

60. Tumblr

61. Blog.com

Content spreading

submitting your content to different places around the internet.

62. Guest blogging (or posting)

This is the first biggie. Guest blogging (or posting) is one of the best sources of quality traffic. Try it yourself. Contact a number of bloggers and get some guest posting spots.

Article marketing

It’s just a fancy name for submitting your articles to various article directories around the internet. Each article has, of course, a live link back to your site.

You can start with these:

63. EzineArticles

64. GoArticles

65. ArticlesBase

66. Buzzle

67. Isnare

68. ArticleCity

69. Article Dashboard

70. The Free Library

71. FreestyleJournalism

72. Article Alley

73. Article Blast

74. ArticleSnatch

75. Sooper Articles

76. Amazines

You might want to consider one of these services as well:

77. UniqueArticleWizard

78. ArticleMarketingAutomation

79. One more trick. Turn your article into a pdf and submit it to Scribd.

If you’re into this kind of stuff you can use spinning software to create some alternative versions of your articles. The best one of its kind is (as the name says itself) The Best Spinner.

Video marketing

Similar to article marketing, only this time you’re submitting videos.

The list:

80. YouTube.com (how to create a YouTube background)

81. Vimeo.com

82. eHow.com

83. Viddler.com

84. Dailymotion.com

85. 5min.com

86. video.yahoo.com

87. vids.myspace.com

88. Revver.com

89. Veoh.com

90. blip.tv

91. Guba.com

92. livevideo.com

93. Metacafe.com

94. Videojug.com

You might want to consider one of these automation services as well:

95. Traffic Geyser

96. TubeMogul

97. VidPostRobot

98. Hey!Spread

Podcasts

You’re ahead on this one if you’re a radio-personality type. Of course, use your podcast to promote your main site.

99. iTunes

100. PodcastAlley

101. PodcastDirectory

Photo sites

This is one of less popular ways of driving traffic, but can be effective if you refine the process well enough.

102. Flickr

103. Picasa

104. One more trick. SEO-optimize the images on your blog. That way they have a chance to appear on Google Image Search.

Pinging

This is not a direct traffic getting method, but a way of notifying certain search engines that something is going on at your blog. After the pings have been sent those search engines update their listing featuring your new content. This in return can get you some new visitors.

Check out these services:

105. Autopinger.com

106. www.PingMyBlog.com

107. www.Pingoat.com

108. pingomatic.com

109. www.Pingler.com

RSS directories and aggregators

Sites, where many different RSS feeds can be found in one place. Submitting your blog to such places can’t hurt you.

The list:

110. Alltop.com

111. Feedagg.com

112. Feedfury.com

113. feedraider.com

114. GoldenFeed.com

115. feedcat.net

116. feedage.com

117. rssmotron.com

118. rss-network.com

119. rssmountain.com

120. feedplex.com

121. plazoo.com

Community participating

122. Blog commenting

As you know every comment contains a link back to the author’s site. And a valuable comment can bring really good traffic when it’s published on a big blog.

Just a simple advice here. Go out there, find some quality blogs and start commenting.

123. Forum posting

Similar to blog commenting. Only this time you’re posting on forums, and the link is usually in your signature file.

124. Ning communities

Mentioned earlier in this list. You can either create a new community or join an existing one.

Getting a blog badge

A badge is a little widget that sits in your sidebar and displays various things. Mostly ads for other blogs. However, by displaying such a badge your blog gets featured on other websites that use the same badge.

125. Blogupp.com

126. Entrecard

Website and blog directories

They’re not as effective as they used to be, but there’s still some value in this.

127. Dmoz

128. blogcatalog.com

129. blogged.com

130. mybloglog.com

131. networkedblogs.com

132. technorati.com

Paid traffic

If you have too much money you might want to consider spending some of it on paid traffic.

Here’s a big list of various advertising networks (including social media advertising platforms, at the bottom).

133. AdWords (duh!)

134. Y!SM + MSN

135. Adknowledge.com

136. abcsearch.com

137. 7search.com

138. looksmart.com

139. pulse360.com

140. advertise – ask.com

141. finditquick.info

142. advertise.com

143. inuvo.com

144. admarketplace.com

145. bidvertiser.com

146. myads.com

147. addesk.advertising.com

148. advertising.aol.com

149. mediatraffic.com

150. trafficvance.com

151. zango.com

152. clicksor.com

153. buysellads.com

154. text-link-ads.com

155. valueclick.com

156. Facebook

157. Plenty of Fish

158. sponsoredtweets.com

159. LinkedIn

160. StumbleUpon