How to Build a Large Blog Fast: My Top Tip for a Ton of Traffic
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In this article we are going to look at the easiest ways to build a large blog quickly, and do it in the most "white hat", ecologically correct way possible. For those of you a bit new to the idea of content aggregation, this simply means we are going to be using software to build out our blog empire, churning out copious amounts of good content while keeping our integrity intact. Read on..:-)
The world revolves around you.
Everyone wants their own planet, right? Well guess what. In the online universe, you can quickly and easily put together "planet" style sites that simply serve as a one stop resource for EVERYTHING that is going on in your industry. How to you do this? Very easy. You are going to find 20 good blogs that are updated regularly ( 3-5 times per week) and add their RSS feed to a content aggregation plugin within your Wordpress admin. A few simple tweaks and customizations, and you've got a push button solution for automatic updates to YOUR site, visa VI each update that your target blogs post.
The Ecology and Ethics of Good Online Etiquitte
Many people scrape content for blog farm style sites. While the above will certainly give you that potential, this is certainly NOT what I'm advocating here. Rather, you are creating a news style site that simply serves as a jumping off point for all the interested eyeballs in your niche. People who do not want to go out and visit 12 different blogs to get the most relevant, entertaining or engaging updates in your industry will visit YOU, and pick and choose what looks interesting from there.
A few simple tips. Create your own unique content as well…always. One or two solid articles a week is all that is necessary for a flood of traffic with the above strategies. Do submit to article directories, send out press releases, etc to inform the blog universe that your Planet is up! Do maintain link integrity i.e. – point your permalinks to the original source of the content and you will be doing these fine publishers a service when you repurpose their content on yours!