I cannot stress enough how important it is to have the name of your blog be tied into your particular niche. If you are thinking about starting a blog writing about custom cars then your blog name should have both of those words in the name of your blog. For instance customcarcraze or mycustomcars if these are available would be some good examples.

The shorter the name  of your url the better for your followers or readers to remember and to cut down on misspellings. One thing you will accomplish by naming your blog what you are writing about, is almost a guarantee that you will show up on google in the first 10 pages for custom cars. This is a definate blog promotion shortcut that cannot be denied by the search engine spiders. Googles natural algorithm will want to place you above other sites in your niche that do not have the targeted keyword in their name. It is like they are swimming upstream with a unrelated name and you are swimming with the current with a related name. Many sites will reach the front page with a unrelated name but you will reach it a lot faster with a related name. Most of the short names are already bought by the url name buying business‘s then parked so they can sell it to a sucker for a profit if they want a particular name bad enough. I would advise you to keep thinking of new name combinations with your targeted keywords and you will eventually find a name that is suitable for your blog name. It can tick you off when you see all the names that are parked on a page with a directory or no content at all and they have the name you want. But dont give up, keep checking word combinations for your niche. Do not pay these people for that special name that they are sitting on,do not give into this extortion practice. If you came upon this post after you already registered a new name and started a blog. And your blog is not in the top 2 pages for your particular niche then I would consider starting over with a related blog name. Just transfer all your old articles to your name and start to swim with the current and watch how fast you move up the google page rankings with this blog promotion shortcut.

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Some might think it takes alot of time and effort on your part to communicate with them, well you are right but it is well worth it. Send them a very nice email asking them to be a affiliate of there site or to be placed on there blogroll.

Some blog owners will completely ignore you and others will be glad to add you to there blogroll. The bigger the blog the tougher it is to get them to accept you as most big blogs forgot where they came from and want the little guy to struggle like they did to get to the top.

Persistance pays off and the more you ask the more you will receive. As a new blog owner just starting out I would set aside 2 hours a day for this task alone if you can work this into your schedule. It will pay off dividends very fast if you put the time into it.

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Here are some reasons to start blogging right now

Search Engines Love Blogs: The major search engines usually give higher page rankings to blogs that post frequently. When you post to your blog daily your content is constantly growing ,thus adding more pages for the search engines to index which is a good thing and the search engines will reward you for it.

Building a Audience: A good blog can attract many new readers. Readers who like what you have to say will visit your blog more frequently and might link your blog and or tell others about your blog.

You can Become Somebody if you have a Blog:

Starting a blog is one of the fastest and easiest ways to showcase your knowledge in your subject of choice. When you share valuable tips,news and resources you will keep your readers interest while building a fan base that keeps them coming back for more.

Republish your Blog Content:

It doesn’t take long to build up a great amount of blog content. You can republish your posts into articles, ebooks, books and news releases. Many bloggers have found ebook success by building a loyal following online and then writing a ebook and selling it to there loyal readers for a profit.

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While many techniques exist to help ensure your success in blogging, the following details our top 5 tips for promoting blogs.

1. OPTIMIZATION keyword optimization & page optimization

It is imperative to use search engine optimization techniques to ensure your posts and pages are indexed by search engines. Keyword and page optimization helps search engines like Google find you, search engines are one of the most reliable sources of web traffic. Make sure you use long tail keywords in your blog posts, the ones that Web surfers are likely to enter in the search engine search tabs.

2. UPDATE Keep your blog updated

Blogs are much like those CNN news sites where readers expect them to be valuable and constantly updated. Internet users visit blogs because of contents. For them to go on visiting these blogs, they should experience this feeling of having been informed while enjoying the blog at the same time. Your blog needs to give the news first if it is a news site, if it is a content site then it must give the most content and the hard to find content. The early bird gets the worm. Other blog owners will come to your site for articles everyday and ideas to feed there own blogs.

3. RSS generate an RSS feed for your blog

Generating a feed can give your regular and random readers a chance to subscribe to the rss feed.  Having your latest blog contents delivered right into their computer saves them from having to go to your blog. WordPress automatically generates RSS feeds, but you can go to Feedburner.com if you need some additional feed options.

4. GET SOCIAL social bookmarking

While you bookmark your favorite pages, make sure you include the ones that you own. Social bookmarking each entry that you make, at the same time you are giving your pages an increased chance to be spotted by a significant number of Internet users. It is also one way of creating backlinks, which helps in your search engine rankings.

5. SITEMAP create a blog sitemap

This one is a must do step because using XML Sitemap plugin we can ensure that we have a form of control what content Google finds on our blog.

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More than 168 Million U.S. viewers watched online video during that month, accumulating nearly 26 Billion total views.

ComScore gives us information of the most popular sources for online video, and there are virtually no surprises. Google still has a chokehold on the competition, with a dominating 40.2% market share. Second place goes to Hulu, with a paltry 2.2% of the market.

The average Hulu viewer watched 15.1 videos in September, totaling 1.5 hours of viewing per person. Of course, that pales when compared to YouTube’s staggering 82 videos viewed per person.

There some really interesting data on online video in general too. For instance, did you know the average video watched is now 3.8 minutes in length? I was shocked at that. I know three minutes doesn’t sound like much, especially when compared to the length of a TV show or movie. But think about it in terms of the web. Go open up your analytics program and tell me the average length of time spent on site is for your visitors. If it’s anywhere near 3.8 minutes, I’ll buy you a coffee the next time we see each other.

In terms of web visitors, 3.8 minutes is an eternity, and most webmasters would kill for an attention span like that. If everything else we’ve said before today hasn’t already convinced you to jump into online video, then zero in and focus on just this metric. What would it be worth to you to hold your visitors’ attention for four minutes? Because I can’t remember the last time I saw a simple text-based blog post average anything close to that.

Among the rest of the findings: 84% of Americans online watched videos. 84%. As I continue to try and convince all my clients to jump fully into online video, I’m going to stop using that statistic about how many searches are performed on YouTube every month… and I’m going to start using this stat. 84% of people online are watching online video.They’re watching an average of about 10 hours of video every month.

If you have a blog and you want to increase your average time on the site for advertisers and google analytics, you need to incorporate videos on your blog.

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1. Post Daily

Posting frequently can boost your search engine traffic. Each new post acts as a new entry point for search engines to find your blogs. Writing with search engine optimization in mind can also boost the potential each of your posts has to lead traffic to your blog.

2. Participate in Online Forums

Join forums related to your blog topic and become an active, contributing member. Include a link to your blog in your forum signature if its allowed, so it’s always available to other members.

3. Use Social Media

Leverage the promotional opportunities that the social web provides. Join social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn and include links to your blogs and recent posts in your profiles. Join social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious and submit great content. Additionally, consider jumping on the microblogging bandwagon and join Twitter. All of these efforts will increase awareness of your blog and give it added exposure.

4. Link to Other Blogs in Your Own Posts

Try to include links to other blogs in your own blog posts. Refer to other blogs you enjoy reading or specific posts you found particularly interesting. When those other blogs have the trackback feature turned on in their blogging software programs, you’ll automatically get a link back to your own blog in the comment section of those posts. At the very least, the other blogger will see the incoming links from your blog in their blog statistic reports, putting you and your blog on his or her radar, and that means more exposure for you.

5. Include Your Blog Link in Your Email Signature

and on Business Cards,include your blog URL everywhere you can. Your email signature and business cards are two of the most obvious places to promote your blog with a link or printed URL, but don’t be afraid to think out of the box. Promotion is key to success when it comes to blogging.

6. Comment on Other Blogs

An easy way to give your blog a promotional boost is by commenting on other blogs. Each time you comment, enter the same name and URL in the corresponding fields in the blog comment form. Doing so will help your search engine optimization efforts over time. When you leave relevant, interesting and useful comments on other blogs particularly those that are related to your own blog’s topic, people will notice and follow the link back to your blog to learn more about you and read more of what you have to say.

7. The C Box

The C Box is a very popular tool you will see on alot of blogs. It is a real time chat box that can be very useful in meeting other blog owners and also posting a linkback to your own blog in the signature box. Make sure not to just spam someones C Box, make sure to make a positive comment about the host blog when trying to promote your own blog.

8. Join a Blog Carnival

Blog carnivals are an easy way to get links to your blog in front of a lot of people. The more closely related to your blog topic that the carnival is, the more traffic you’ll get from it.

9. Guest Blog

Offer your services as a guest blogger for other blogs in your niche, particularly ones that get more traffic than yours does. Guest blogging is a great way to get links to your blog and your own thoughts and writing in front of people who are likely to be interested in learning more about you and your blog.

10. Create Multiple Sites and Link Them Together

The more blogs or websites that you write, the more interlinking is possible. That interlinking can be used to promote your blog through different channels that might attract different audiences. Create an integrated blog marketing plan by aligning your promotion efforts across your various blogs and websites to reap the biggest rewards.

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