After doing my quick series of links I wanted to give some quick and easy tips to help get your blog noticed. I think these 5 tips will really helped get your blog noticed as they have helped me in the past few weeks to get mine noticed. So without further ado.

1. Comment - Try to comment on 3 new blogs a week but also comment on the blogs that you read daily.

2. RSS Feeds - Subscribe to blogs you like. Let the blogger know you like their blog and you subscribed to their feed. Hopefully they will visit your site and return the favor.

3. Run a contest - If you are trying to get new people to your site they need an incentive to visit. What a better way than free stuff. I grew my rss subscribers from 2 to 23 in
a week and went from 47 comments to 103 in 5 days and my contest is still going.

4. Get a blog review - If you can afford it or can work out a deal get a blog review on a blog bigger than yours. It will draw in new readers and they will trust you more because
you have a referral from a trusted blogger.

5. Run a competition - start a competition with a competing site. It might be for more new subscribers or for more comments but it’s a great tool. Some example are
Shoemoney vs. John Chow or Winnging the Web vs. Tyler Cruz

I know these are some basic tips but they lay the foundation for growing.

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Today my blog turns 1 month old. I am amazed how the time flies but also I am realizing the work involved in running a blog. It has been a lot of fun and I will keep working on growing this site. I wanted to share my first months statistics and maybe compare it to their sites when they first started out.

For the month I have had 1,447 Visitors and 3,101 page views.

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I have been talking about Twitter on my blog and I have been reading other blogs that have written articles about Twitter so I thought I would post some the of the posts I like to encourage everyone to use twitter.

• How to Use Twitter - Tips for Bloggers - Darren at problogger gives some great tips if you are using twitter to  promote your blog
• 9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers - Darren explains some reason why you should be using twitter. By the way I am in the picture under #1 (have to love shameless promotion).
• 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter - Doshdosh wrote a great article on some twitter tips. I really like #2
• 35 Twitter Tips from 35 Twitter Users - Darren at Problogger lists 35 tips that he got from people in his twitter list.   Great way to get ideas for your posts from twitter.
• 26 Reasons Why I Love Twitter - How could I do any story about social networking and leave out the social media queen TheNanny612. She wrote a great article on why twitter is great even of you are not a blogger.

I hope I gave you a few extra reasons why you should be using Twitter if you are a blogger or even if you are not. So go sign up now if you still are not using Twitter.

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Vista become a year old November 2007 for business’s and is almost a year old for retailers and the general public. Now that Vista has come up on its first birthday how is it doing?

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Thanks to everyone who has posted comments. I gave tried to respond to most of them and I appreciate the input. I did get a good amount of response on some design changes for my site and I am working on those changes. As of right now the top posters are:

• willhaynes (13)
• Monday (13)
• Chris07 (8)
• Thomas Sinfield (4)
• Jack (4)
• mann3r (3)
• Joe (2)
• Jess (2)
• Missy (2)
• CB (2)

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If you are a blogger you need to be using Twitter. What other tool can you use to stay in contact with the big names in blogging? Right now on Twitter I have Problogger, DoshDosh, and 45n5 who I follow and they also follow me. What other tool can I use to get that kind of exposure? Read the rest of this entry »

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