This post is aimed at those who are trying to promote their own websites, but even if you are writing content for someone else, you can still make use of these submission links to help promote your work.

Though using proper keywords and meta tags are the right way to getting your website to rank high in search engine results, your first step to even getting a major search engine to notice you, is to let them know you exist. (more…)

I wrote some time ago that BlogExplosion was dead. Nobody was approving blogs and the whole system was on auto-pilot. Well, the site seems to be under new management and is running again. My blog got approved and I’m hearing that the backlog of applications is either very small or totally gone.

So if you’re looking for some exposure for your blog (must be a blog-format site to be included) go take a look. Once you sign up, you surf around and look at other people’s blogs to earn credits. Those credits then are used to display your blog to other people doing the same thing. I’ll be doing another blog later on these traffic-exchange systems, but for now this is just an announcement that BlogExplosion is running again.

One of the quirks about writing for the web instead of print, is the way you have to choose your wording. The most important aspect of your writing work is to make sure your articles are found and read (whether you work for yourself, or are writing for others). And so you need to always keep your thoughts on search engines when you write. Your work isn’t going to do anyone any good if no one can find it. Even when writing for a well-known content network. The trick is to optimize for good keywords. (more…)

BlogExplosion is (was?) a great idea in traffic generating for blogs. You surfed other people’s blogs, and earned credits which led to your own blog being seen by other surfers. Great idea, but it seems to have died an online death. I recently joined, and after waiting a week to see if my blog was approved to join the rotation, I have not heard anything back. (more…)

A simple and non-spammy way to help gain a bit of extra promotion for your online writing work, is to create links to it on a social bookmarking site.

Social or shared bookmarks are becoming very popular, not only because it is handy for people to be able to access their bookmarks from anywhere, but also because searching through other people’s bookmarks can help you find quality sites faster than a typical search engine. (more…)