Thank you for all your support and comments and because of that, DivitoDesign made it to the list of the 20 coolest blogs!

Now it is time for the public to vote and I would greatly appreciate it if you could vote for DivitoDesign while you’re at it.

Thanks for the support boys and girls!

Please Click Here if you think DivitoDesign is Cool!

My dear sponsor WPWebhost (I will be talking about them more in the future, as I recommend them to any blogger!) has called in many WordPress blogs from all around the blog-o-sphere to participate in a blog contest. And DivitoDesign would like to win! (and you can win too!)

The people behind WPWebhost are in search of the coolest WordPress blog and they have a whole bunch of prizes ready for the winners.

Tell us the prizes!

The prizes for this content are fabulous. Check them out:

1. 1st Prize Winner: $500 Cash (via PayPal) + The Unlimited Video Theme Pack from Press75.com worth $295 + 6 Months WooThemes Club Single User Subscription for from WooThemes worth $250 + WP Freedom Plan Life Time Hosting Sponsorship worth $100/year.
2. 2nd Prize Winner: $250 Cash (via PayPal) + Developer License for Content Press WordPress Premium Template from WTM worth $249 + Personal License for Themes of Your Choice from Zidalgo worth $75 + WP Freedom Plan Life Time Hosting Sponsorship worth $100/year.
3. 3rd and 4th Prize Winners: $125 Cash (via PayPal) + 1 Year WP Freedom Plan worth $100

WPWebhost will select 20 entries they will think are cool, and then, to make things fair, the public will vote for the winner. You might ask yourself, what is the catch? What do we need to do for this competition?

How can you enter?

1. Write a blog post participating this competition in your blog.
2. Get at least 5 comments. (excluding you and the spammers)
3. Submit your URL in the comment form here. (trackback could work too)
4. Done! (are you expecting more?)

Simple, right?

That was my thought too. The deadline is 15 November 2008, so hurry up, write your article on your WordPress blog, submit it to the original article and while your at it, make sure you get to the latest 20 entries!

So, do you think DivitoDesign is cool?

If that is the case, please leave a comment to tell me exactly why you think this blog is cool. It doesn’t matter if I don’t win this competition, but I like to hear what you think about this blog! =)

Oh, and if DivitoDesign wins, there might be a reward for the commentators too.

P.S. Feed subscribers, I need you on this one!

Of course, content is king. This saying (or how you would call it) is true, but content only is not king. You can write the best articles on your blog, but when those articles aren’t “offered” to potential visitors, they will never know it’s out there. Your article might get some hits, but it will never reach its full potential.

by wili_hybrid

In this article, I will give you 6 ways to promote your article and get the word out. These ways have been used to generate traffic to the articles I thought were interesting to the ‘web-savy’ crowd.

Pick Quality Articles Only

Here is a reminder. Any of the following ways can (or might) work when you follow this simple rule:

Only pick the articles you think are valuable for people in your niche.

You have to build a reputation for yourself in your niche and if you are promoting a “I have had a bad hair day” kind of entry, you will never be able to make a name for yourself and your blog.

When you promoted your “bad-hair-day” article and those visitors don’t like what they’ve read, they will never visit again. Simple as that, there is enough information out there.

But if you are promoting only your great, if not, awesome stuff, those people might visit again later to get more interesting information. They might subscribe to your RSS feed, bookmark your URL or send the link to a friend, and that is the goal you are chasing after in the end, right?

Social Media

Social media: You hear that all the time, right? Again, this usually only works when you’ve convinced social media users you are only publishing quality content. Those users will only Digg, Stumble or Float your article if they think its valuable for the users of these sites.

What you can do is add your own content to the social media sites and hope you make the front page, but you don’t have a change. You could also try to become friends with the so-called “power-users”. Like I said, those users want to add value to the community, so if you think your article is of any value to them and the community, try to come in contact with those people.

Be gentle, be helpful and don’t let them feel you are using them. You can also make new friends in the progress!

Add News To Related Blogs

This is the technique to generate buzz that worked great for me lately. Blogs with high traffic levels in my niche offers a ‘community news’ feature on their blog. These news feeds features the latest articles from around the niche and you can add your news as well.

Because many visitors of those blogs are interesting in related content they will check out that section and click anything interesting. It is really helpful for them and you will have a couple hundreds of people visiting your blog looking for interesting, yet related content. It is targeted traffic and it will kick-start your article.

Here is a great list that includes a number of blogs where you can add your news and articles.

Twitter

Twitter is one of those tools you can distract you from the work you have to do. But when used correctly, it can also bring in an amount of traffic to your new article.

You should try to get in contact via Twitter by adding friends, fellow bloggers, social media “power users”, commentators or any other people that visit your blog. You know those people are interesting in quality and interesting content, so when you have wrote an quality article, tell them about it via twitter!

This article will tell you exactly how to use twitter in a promotional way.

Email Related Bloggers

Bloggers that have chosen their niche close to yours are always interesting in quality articles that has value for themselves and their readers. If they think it has enough value, they might link to it in a blog post (like I do sometimes!).

If you apply this technique in a professional, yet personal way you might end up with link-love, new readers and a new blogger friend! (Don’t hesitate to contact me people!)

Internal Linking

When you have a blog that have many pages indexed in the search engine, you will get some visitors to your existing pages. What you can do to improve the bounce rate of your article/blog and to get those search engines visitors (the ones that visited your related article!) to your new and relevant article is by using internal linking.

Placing relevant new links on these existing pages can take a bit of time every time you wrote a new article but it can greatly improve your page views and it’ll help your readers to get to other relevant content. It doesn’t actually ‘promote’ your new article to new visitors, but it does make sure you get your visitors the relevant articles they need.

Do you have suggestions?

I am always interested in the thoughts of others, especially when I will benefit from it myself! If you use other promotion techniques you would like to share with me and/or the readers, don’t hesitate to leave a comment or contact me.

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