Techno Who!?

This is the response I usually get from my clients when I suggest that they need to link their blog to Technorati.

But, if you have a blog, or you are thinking of adding one to an existing website, Technorati, the largest blog search engine is definately a site you'll want to romance with.  This specialized search engine is devoted entirely to searching through blogs, and lately, it has started to seriously compete with search engine giants such as Google and Yahoo. 

So, What Does Technorati Do?

Essentially, Technorati can index your blogs, whether they are about cooking, financing, engineering or entertainment.  The name itself is based on a joining of the words technology and literati, the later referring to a group of critical intellectuals (I didn't feature in the latter group!).  By tagging Technorati throughout your post e.g. this post is about commercial financing, you'll keep your posts at or near the top of the list at Technorati.  And, to simplify this process, you can use a plugin called Tagalize It which makes tagging throughout your blog posts a really simple task.

Using contributing authors on your blog is a sure way of easing the burden from you in terms of the time it takes to research, write and post your blog but, there are a few major pitfalls that you'll want to avoid so that you still control your blog and not your contributors.

What actually prompted me to write this post was the fact that I'd received an email from Feedblitz this morning showing that I'd updated my blog and so I was a little shocked knowing that I did nothing on it over the weekend. 

After I calmed down and realised that no one had hacked into my site, I was semi okay with the posts but on closer inspection, I saw red!

Here's what happened …

I submitted my blog to a service that allowed people to automatically post unique content to my blog on a regular basis.  And, since it wasn't compulsory to keep my blog in the system, I gave it a try.  First off, I didn't even get confirmation that my blog had been accepted into the system which is why I thought I'd been hacked when I received an email from Feedblitz indicating that I'd updated my blog.

Okay, others will tell you that buying lists is the easiest way to build a list, but I will tell you from experience, it's headache and, it's wasted money.

Sure some of the top Internet Marketer's used this strategy in days gone by, but if you try to import these names into Aweber, 1Shopping Cart or any of the other online subscription databases there will be trouble and from experience, these lists are unresponsive.  In other words, they're likely to buy nothing from you and they could even report you for spamming them!

So what if you are about to launch a product and you don't
have a list and want to generate some cash fast.

I was personally in this situation last year. 

I set up a membership site showing people how to set up and sell their products and services with their blog and whilst I did have a list, it wasn't very big so, I decided I had to make the best choice that would a) get people to my site fast and b) build my list in the procuess …