Here’s the stats update for all the Zedomax Network. This doesn’t include our private-beta blogs that are not listed here but it’s a still a good way to tell how business is going lately.
In January, Zedomax Network was averaging near 12,000 uniques per day, now we are almost at 20,000 after 10 months. At this rate, I think we can hit 24K by end of this year, that would be 100% growth over a year.
Well, as a blog marketer, I have to use the latest top-notch tools for promoting all of our blogs and here’s a couple of tools I have been experimenting with:
Zimbio - Zimbio is a news syndication site where you can feed your blog feeds. It’s basically an additional way to promote your content. I haven’t got that much traffic from Zimbio but you can basically strengthen your SEO and content exposure free simply by signing up and submitting your blogs.
ClipMarks - ClipMarks is a “clipping” tool that lets you easily clip images, text without having to upload images or use the default Wordpress platform. After you clip, you can easily link up your blog to publish automatically. Although they do not support tagging, I love Clipmarks as you can blog very, very fast. This isn’t for every blogger but it is great for any blogs that needs fast content. You can’t get any faster than this. You can see an example of how I use ClipMarks to promote my travel blog here.
One thing you need to check for is how “big” a social network is, if there’s no traffic, it’s probably a waste of your time to use it. There’s thousands of ways to promote your blog but you need to stick with the top-notch ones in order to get ahead. If you look at Zimbio’s traffic stats right now, they are going up a lot and it’s a great time to get your blog syndicated.
Well, I am in search of new ways to promote my blogs so if you know any good ones, please do leave a comment.
Google Korea buys TnC, a blogging software company who has been making blogging software similar to Wordpress. (Basically a Korean version of Wordpress). I have personally tried their software and it is not bad to say the least.
Just like Google bought Blogspot, this might be a sign that blogging in Korea has just started. As far as I know, South Koreans has a long history of community blogging, they have yet to develop as commercial blogs. (Perhaps they are a little behind in that arena but don’t be fooled, South Koreans have their own “Wordpress” per-say and that’s just only one of the companies making a blog software.
Wordpress still leads and will keep leading the world’s blogging software platform but great buys like this will allow Google to re-create their own Wordpress market, starting with a beta test in South Korea. (I think they are testing the grounds before doing something similar in the U.S.)
I think this is a good move on Google’s part as their advertising network of Adsense and AdWords truly go hand-in-hand with blogging.
Even better than Google’s Blogspot deal, this TnC deal will be taking over the actual open-source blogging platform, not a website.
Chrome-Hacks.Net - Google Chrome Hacks Blog Launched!
For the mother of God and for whatever reason, we just launched another new blog, of course it’s called Google Chrome Hacks Blog.
Basically, the blog will cover all kinds of tips, hacks, and news about the new Google Chrome Browser.
It took us exactly 2 hours to sign up for a domain name at godaddy, stuff it with Wordpress plugins and themes, write 5 blog posts. (Not too bad of a start ey?)
New blogs are always great opportunities to pounce on, especially if it’s new technology.
Here’s a cool site that’s an online directory of widgets. It’s sorta like Digg, a type of social network where you can submit, rate, and find widgets for your website.
Heck, we might even submit out Beer Widgets and see how it does.
Widgiland is a directory of online widgets. It houses thousands of widgets for web, desktop and mobile platforms. Users can select widgets for their blogs and personal web pages, for forums and email, for feeds, and search and for messaging among other things. Widgets are categorized by type and by platform, for instance iGoogle, Pageflakes, and NetVibes.
Basically, Google algorithm has been built to award sites with lots of links coming in and less going out.
You need to be very careful about giving out links on your blogroll especially if your blog is established.
Why?
Well let’s say you trade 10 blog links to 10 blogs with PR3 and your blog has PR4. That’s not going to help you get a higher PR.
FYI, you need to trade blog links with other blogs that have at least the same Pagerank as you do. Otherwise, you are really shooting yourself in the foot and your Pagerank will decrease over time.
Sounds simple but do you actually do it?
Well, I have to admit that I did trade blogrolls in the past very freely. This is actually good if your blog is new. But once you get to a certain point, you need to re-organize your blogrolls and make sure everyone in your blogroll is linking back to you. Don’t link to someone just because they are famous, you are not helping yourself.
Another Tip
Try to trade blogrolls with other blogs with the same ‘niche’ topic as you are in. The more related, the merrier.
Now, if you follow the above tips, you should start rising slowly with your Pagerank and don’t forget to subscribe to this blog!
Well, after doing some testing with most of my blogs, it’s clear now that content isn’t everything. Quantity can bring you stability of a blog’s growth while Quality can bring you a high number of niche readers.
Why do you ask?
Because content is great, only if you can couple that with great internet marketing.
You can compare to real life business.
For example, you have the greatest product in the world but no one knows about you and you end up selling very few.
It’s the same thing in the blogging world. I know many great bloggers with the highest quality content, yet their traffic, PageRank, and readership never grows over time because they don’t market themselves.
The best way for someone who is not already famous is to blog a LOT. I don’t mean to create splogs but do create original content but you must blog a LOT.
How much is blogging a lot?
Well, if you want to be serious about making money blogging or getting ahead of competition, you have to at least blog as much as your competition. You look at the Top 100 blogs in the world, they all blog no less than 24 posts per day, 1 per hour. I personally do find 1 per hour is most optimal.
If you are not John Chow and you do not already have 20K RSS readership nor 6K unique visitors per day, there is no way you will ever grow in traffic and SEO unless you start blogging like crazy.
Of course, there are always exceptions. If you are already famous, you are a total expert on your topic, or you simply know “internet marketing”. If that’s the case, that’s fine but if not, I highly suggest you start blogging at least 3 to 5 posts per day minimum.
Those big bloggers will beat you down and no one will hear your voice unless you can keep up with their blogging pace.
Now, if you ignore my advice and you do 1 or 2 posts per day, you will probably be okay too. (It might take you longer to reach the same goals)
24 posts per day is definitely recommended for all you bloggers serious about going “pro”. If your topic is hard to write so many posts per day, then do focus on “fun” content. No one likes to read a Master’s Thesis, but everyone likes a joke, humor, or something to take their mind off the long day.
This week, we will be updating Zedomax Network. There are some degrading sites on our network that will have to be removed and we’ve got about 50 more blogs to add so hold on while we update one by one.
What is Zedomax Network?
It’s a network made up of quality blogs and websites. Basically we are going to gather up about 200 to 300 “quality” blogs and do some “group” advertising for everyone in the network.
Plus, everyone will benefit from network traffic, SEO, and most importantly, network negotiations with advertisers and publishers.
How does it work?
First, you will need a quality blog (no porn, spam, splogs please). For details, shoot an e-mail to zedomax [at] gmail.com.
