With my other post for 5 tips to help you blog I wanted to do a second part for 5 tips to help your blog noticed.1. StumbleUpon - Continuously read blogs and stumble articles that you like. Don’t just randomly pick articles but pick quality articles. Right now StumpleUpon is 31% of my
traffic. That is my number 1 traffic source it an amazing tool.

2. Twitter - How many articles do you have to see to break down and join? At this point just lie and say you joined..just joking. If you are a blogger join now! Add lots of
bloggers that you like and reply to them, most of the
time they will add you. I have not been using it very long but I am getting 2% of my traffic from twitter with only 15 followers.

3. Forums - Join forums where blogging is discussed. You will get more interaction with fellow bloggers and will learn to ways to grow your blog. Digitalpoint is probably my
favorite forum for blogging and website help. They have an awesome feature where it will show your last blog post in your signature on the forum. They are my 4^th
biggest traffic source generating 14% of my traffic.

4. Entrecard - Join and put a widget on your site. It is a great way to help other bloggers but you also earn credits and can apply them to get your ad on other blogs. I have
only been using this service for a few days so it’s hard to say how well my traffic is. I will give an update when I have used it a little longer.

5. MyBlogLog - Create an account and setup your profile. A lot of blogs feature a widget on their site saying who their last visitors where if you have an account. It’s a great
way for free promotion. I need to work on my activity with this site I have only gotten a few hits from them but I am not active enough either. I think with some more
work this site could be like StumbleUpon for me.

There you have it my 5 tips and tools to help you blog get noticed so get out there and start using them. Also if you have any suggestions for things I looked feel free to comment.

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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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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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Over at cornwallseo he published an awesome article about the digg revolt. I wonder though is the beginning of the end for Digg or will people just moan and groan? With Digg’s new algorithm which makes it harder to get a post noticed, the auto-bury list which they deny, and lack of communication (taking the servers down with no notice for updates) how many times do they have to shoot themselves in the foot before people go elsewhere?

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I got around to doing some updates to the design of the site last night. I have wanted to change the footer around and update it so there where plug ins that where actually working. I am not a designer or a coder so I struggled for 3 hours and after breaking the footer multiple times I decided I needed some help. After getting the code fixed and cleaned up from my mistakes it looks good. Now in the footer you will see the top posts and top commenter’s and the recent comments box was already there. Also when I was working on the site I opened it in Internet Explorer and saw there was a box in the header for an image but the image was broke. I normally don’t use IE and FireFox doesn’t show this problem. There used to be two headers on this original theme so I imagine that why that was happing but it is fixed now.

So a few minor changes but I like that it some who my top commenter’s on the site. It gives some credit to the people who post on here.

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