Even as an old hand at blogging, you always find new tricks that can help make your life easier - or that can help you get your blog noticed even in the midst of a brisk digital wind. I'd like to give appropriate thanks to "Ask Bing" for the idea below.
There are two kinds of blogs that get the most attention. First are those that are hosted and written by notable people. I say notable because they may not be know much outside the blogging world, but that's ok because everyone points/quotes them. Since I'm not going to become one of those folks overnight, I have to go with option B for attention - blogs that employ tags that pop up later on the important search engines like Google, Yahoo, and AOL. You know about tags. Look at the bottom of this post and you?ll see a bunch of them.
If you choose your tags right, everybody who searches for that word or phrase is likely to be directed to the blog post(s) that generated the tag that contained it. Hence this posting, in which I will now attempt to drive traffic to this site by tagging a host of words that are designed to serve that purpose. Linking doesn?t hurt either. But it?s not as good as tagging. So I?ll do both. Note that everything is linked to something actually informative and/or useful. Lest I be accused of being less than helpful to my readers.
One of my own posts that drove a lot of traffic concerned a bit about gluten-free diets, which attracted a bunch of people who are interested in the subject. Diets in general seem to get a lot of attention on the web, as does anybody who has anything to do with food, including Rachael Ray, Bobby Flay, Emeril, etc. Hopefully when I release my eBook about the Bus Diet, I can get that kind of attention too. But I digress.
Food is very closely aligned to health, since we are what we eat. That?s why topics like arthritis, Alzheimers, Addison?s Disease (which struck President John F. Kennedy, as well as our old Basset Hound Buffy - though you probably never did a search for her), diabetes, heart disease and many other ailments, are of interest to people. Of course you can also look up those subjects on a variety of sites like the always-excellent Wikipedia and those more specialized. But hey, why not start here first? :-)
Of course, the tags that have the highest potential are the ones that involve the celebrity names that people want to know about, from the Dalai Lama, who dominates the spirituality game along with his friends and competitive acolytes Steven Seagal and Richard Gere, to Oprah (both as an entertainer and as a force for good. Of course if you mention Oprah, you have to talk about the current political season and folks like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, and Rudy Giuliani. Then, of course, you have celebs who are known by just one name, and somehow get more column inches than the War in Iraq (or Operation Iraqi Freedom as it?s still known known by the Multi-National Force and some of the media). People like Paris! Britney! Lindsay! People typically go for this sort of thing to sizzling hot aggregator-gossips like tmz and eOnline, where Ted Casablanca continues to report without fear or favor. Again, though, why not start with a blog first?
There are so many more celebrities to learn about as well - Marilyn Monroe! Elvis! Shakespeare! Arnold! Al Gore! Warren Buffett! Barry Bonds! Bono!
That?s enough for now. If you found your way to this site because you followed any of these tags here ? welcome! Take a look around! Hope you find my blog to be sticky, which as anyone knows, is the most important thing about your blog - after you get people there of course...