How to Promote Your Homeschool Blog or Website

How to Promote Your Homeschool Blog or Website
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Posted: 10 Aug 2010 12:29 PM PDT

Homeschool bloggers are poised to help the public get a more realistic perspective about life as a homeschooler. The Internet makes information easily accessible and personal blogging can provide readers with glimpses into the insights and behind-the-scenes lifestyles of citizens from every walk of life.

Politicians and religious evangelists have embraced web-based promotion as a way to reach out to the public and homeschoolers can do the same. A homeschool blogger may have nothing to sell and might not even be making money from his or her blog, but the importance of spreading the message is not to be minimized. Homeschooling is a legitimate lifestyle choice that deserves to speak for itself.

Social Networking for Homeschool Bloggers to Build Incoming Links

Search engines give higher ranking (ie: send more traffic) to websites that have more incoming links. Whenever a new blog entry is posted, be sure to publicize it through Facebook or Twitter. The process can be automated, using Facebook's Networked Blogs application and the Facebook for Twitter application.

Leave quality comments on other homeschool blogs and websites. Be sure to include your URL (blog address) so that readers (and search engines) can find the source of your witty and intelligent comment.

Create a Facebook page for your homeschool website or blog. When you're signed into Facebook, visit any Facebook Business Page, like the Homeschooling at Suite101 page and on the bottom of the left side column, click on "Create a page for my business." Choose "Brand, product or Organization" and from the drop-down menu, select "Website." Follow the instructions on subsequent pages to complete the page. Once it's made, use the "Developer" link at the bottom of the page to create interactive sidebar widgets. Use it to share links to your newest posts and encourage your readers to share, too.

Participate in Blog Memes, coordinated blog-post events that center around a theme, like the recent "I'm that mom" meme for unschoolers. Other popular memes are "Wordless Wednesday" and "Thankful Thursday." When participating in these events, be sure to visit other bloggers and leave comments, increasing your incoming links for highly-trafficked articles.

Learn how to turn your graphic into a clickable button readers can use on their site to promote you.

Get Listed in Homeschool Website Directories

Alltop.com has a homeschooling page. Instructions for adding new sites to the directory are at the bottom of their directory. Other directory services like DMOZ can also provide an incoming link to your site. Check to see if the local homeschool support group website offers a member's directory listing. The state's homeschool association may also offer a listing service. The Evolved Homeschooler hosts a wiki-style directory specifically for secular homeschoolers.

Blog readers and other bloggers may help promote the website, if they have the opportunity. The Sociable plugin for Wordpress has icons that allow readers to share each post or page on Twitter, Facebook and many other less popular social networks. Choose the ones that readers are most likely to identify with.

A 125x125 pixel graphic on the sidebar of a blog with text asking readers to "Add my blog to your sidebar" can be a very effective way to get incoming traffic. Use an html "textarea" command to create a field where users simply copy and paste the image and graphic code at once, so readers don't have to download the graphic. This method makes it easier for you to change the graphic, without communicating with each site owner individually.

Search Engine Optimization and Paid Directory Listings

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO is a method of writing that uses the same words users are entering in their search, as the post title, categories and tags of each blog entry. It's important to know, but for personal blogs it's not as effective as a good social networking campaign. For a homeschool website, a cursory knowledge of SEO practices is worthy of research.

Paid directory listings and services that charge a fee to add sites to the search engines are generally unnecessary. Most blogging platforms are set up to automatically "ping" search engines when a new entry is posted. In addition, whenever a link is shared on Twitter or Facebook, search engines "see" that, too. A large majority of web surfers use Google as their primary search engine. Runners-up MSN, Yahoo and Bing use similar algorithm to "find" new web content. In most cases, there's no need to announce one's presence to the search engines.

The very best way to get incoming links is to write posts that are so wonderful readers are motivated to promote for you. Every post might not be awesome, and the chances of being noticed without a little effort on behalf of the blogger are slim to none. High quality posts and built-in tools that make reader sharing easy are surefire ways to get more traffic, comments and incoming links to a homeschooling blog or homeschool website.

Should you self-promote in your blog posts? | Finding a lawyer via ...

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:35 AM PDT

Around the Blawgosphere

Real Lawyers Have Blogs' Kevin O'Keefe noted a post at Business 2 Community titled "10 ways businesses can blog better." Tip No. 7 was that business blogs should append a "call to action" at the end of every blog post—a "call to action" being a sentence or two describing your business, credentials and contact information interspersed with some "call now!" type language. O'Keefe thinks putting this information in each post is the wrong way to go.

"Look at pieces in business journals, reviews, and publications," O'Keefe wrote. "Look at insight from doctors, engineers, professors, and commentators in these publications. You don't see a 'call me for this or that' at the bottom. It's just not done. Why accept that you and your blog posts are any less authoritative than pieces published by these folks? Why feel so vulnerable that you'll offer your expertise but only if it includes a quasi-ad? People have no problem finding out who you are, what you do, and how to get a hold of you once they appreciate your passion, knowledge, expertise, and care. They'll click over to an 'about' and 'contact' page on your blog."

When word of mouth won't do the trick

At Legal Productivity, Rocket Matter's Tim Baran shares the experience of a friend who needed a lawyer.

"Because of the very personal nature of her problem, my friend (let's call her Beth) didn't want to approach friends or post on social media asking for lawyer recommendations," Baran wrote. "So, she performed a Google search."

Beth was happy with the lawyer she found via Google at first, but "then things started to go south—primarily due to a lack of communication and tech savvy: they only communicated via telephone—no email or portal. And, they often failed to return a call. Deadlines were missed and blamed on the client for her lack of 'being on top of things.'"

Beth wanted to start over with another lawyer, and had Baran make a Facebook post on her behalf. She hired one of the lawyer recommendations Baran received and is so far satisfied.

Baran's takeaway: "Google search is effective in helping you find a lawyer. The lawyer you find might even be great—mostly because their website says so. Social media also helps you find lawyers who might be great—mostly because others say so. Much better."

Zero for effort

Jonathan Turley wrote about a recent example of zero-tolerance discipline at a New Jersey school. In this case, News 12 reports, a student who says he was twirling a pencil in class was suspended after a classmate blurted out: "He's making gun motions, send him to juvie."

It's school policy to investigate every time a student reports that he or she is threatened, Vernon Schools Superintendent Charles Maranzano told News 12. But how much investigation was really done?

"What I am unclear about is the absence of any discussion of witnesses," Turley wrote. "Surely, despite the superintendent's statement, there is some basic duty of inquiry—particularly when the act allegedly occurs in a classroom. There is also no word on what the obligations of a school might be when there is a false allegation."

Zero-tolerance rules in schools seem to always be applied blindly, Turley wrote. "If you do not have to exercise judgment, you can never been blamed for any failure. Conversely, even when the public outcry results in a reversal, teachers and administrators never seem punished with the same vigor for showing no judgment or logic in punishing a child."

What about the men?

You wouldn't know it from reading most of what is published, but male lawyers sometimes dress inappropriately for a legal workplace, University of Denver Sturm College of Law professor Nancy Leong writes.

"Male lawyers wear pants in aspirational sizes, with the result that the outline of their genitalia is clearly on display. Male lawyers wear suits in linen and other thin fabric that I'm sure is very comfortable, but that—in certain lighting—is also exceedingly translucent. ... The point is that male lawyers dress sexually all the time." Leong wrote. Though she "personally wouldn't characterize any of the displays I've described above as sexy."

Male lawyers can also dress inappropriately in nonsexual ways. "They wear light-colored shirts with yellow perspiration stains under the arms. They forego undershirts, choosing instead to display chest hair sprouting from the collars of their button-down shirts. They wear 'creative' socks with formal suits."

Women, as it is pointed out again and again—also dress inappropriately, sometimes in a way that could be deemed too sexual. "There's nothing inherently sexist about having this conversation. Here's what is sexist: singling out women for an issue that concerns both men and women," Leong wrote. "Let's continue the conversation with the recognition that dressing professionally is an issue for both male and female lawyers, and that focusing exclusively on women reinforces the sexist tradition of policing the way women dress while giving men a free pass."

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Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:06 PM PDT

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Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:26 AM PDT

It's Fab Friday again and I'm thinking as always that perhaps it might be time (I do this about once-a-quarter) to review my own post-blog-publishing procedures just to see if anthing might have changed out there in the web-O-sphere. So when I googled for 'how to promote your blog post' a ton of infographics came up early so yup, I went and looked over I think the first 23 pages.

And there's hope for my own procedures which is great - but there a couple of new "twists" too that I'd not have thought of – so I thought I'd share same with all for your own SMB blog site to aid your own Canadian SEO Campaign!

First up today, is a nice infographic from a site I'd not heard of over at www.howtomakemyblog.com and it's entitled "My Content Marketing Routine After Publishing A Post" and while it starts with an infographic, there's like a long list after same that recaps still other items for consideration too!

Note too, that the author also comments that he has a "normal" list – and then a "special" list too for only some selected posts….and he also notes that "finding people and helping them…" is the way to go about building your readership too!

Here's how the author puts same right off the bat –

"This is my post-publish content marketing routine. This is what I do to drive traffic to my site. I hope it inspires you to make your own distribution routine. You should make it a habit and do it after publishing each and every post. It is your job to distribute your content wherever you can and this will help increase your reach and audience. Aim to spend 50% of your time creating the content, and the other 50% promoting that content…"

As you can tell, he offers that he promotes his blog posts with the same time it took him to create same. THINK on that for a minute or two….50/50…do you do that? If not, how do you expect folks to find your expert content….remember that was a movie where some idiot said "if you build it they will come" because to come to your site they gotta KNOW about your site…so the promotion as you can tell is so so important! Kudos to the site for this…it's pretty well done and yup, I got a tip from same that I'd not considered too…so for me alone that's a great infographic, eh!

Next up today is a nice solid infographic piece from again, a site I'd never heard of either – www.launchgrowjoy.com - and while it's aesthetically not my 'cup-of-tea' type of site the info contained in same is dang solid.

The piece is entitled "30 Ways to Promote your Blog Posts" and it's captured perfectly again, the issue about promotion and why that is such a necessary part of what each and every single blogger needs to consider to make their content available – and top-of-mind too!

And yes, it notes too the same comment I already made about "building it and then WON'T come…" so I'd surmise that this is true for all bloggers! Really. Think on that for a minute. If they can't find you, your top-notch content sits there, unexposed, unread, unknowen by all.

Surely that's not something any of us want for our blog posts…and the author here makes a solid request to consider same, eh!

And lastly today, is a CopyBlogger piece – yup, that www.copyblogger.com site where some of the really great marketing content comes outta….yup, the site is the creation of Brian Clark a very well known and respected serial entrepreneur, author, blogger and yes, his content is exquisite!

This piece is on the "how" to create that great content with a "minor" on the promotion of same. Entitled "11 Essential Ingredients Every Blog Post Needs…" it drills the top 11 ideas right into your brain! Everything from crafting that "magnetic" headline to "telling a seductive story" are covered – and covered very very well too, eh!

Do read same. Then drill down all over the site and read everything. Take a week off to consume this content-laden site – then another week to try to put it all in perspective for you and your own needs…..this site is a great resource, eh! So do take the time to make it a daily read! Kudos Brian….great to let others know about your skillSet lad!

SideBar: Maybe you hate infographics. Maybe you'd like to see a simple list of how to consider promoting your blog posts? Maybe then you should go here and just read the listing from an www.about.com writer….again, pretty good details too. Oh – disclaimer – I used to write for www.miningco.com like a doz or more years ago…which yes, has become about.com since….so I may be biased, but there are often still great aggregators of info there too!

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Posted: 14 Apr 2014 04:50 AM PDT

Internet marketing is useful to online business today. The success or failure of your business can depend on how well you market your website online. Now is the best time to get into this market. The article below contains some methods for effective Internet marketing.

Whenever you correspond online, include links to your business webpage in your signature. If you participate in forums, place a link to your site in the signature of your posts. Every email you send out should have a link to your site within your signature. That way, you will be able to generate awareness of your site among your entire group of contacts and also potentially boost your search engine rank. Don't just include a link, instead start with a sentence which is enticing enough that the reader will want to click through to your website.

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Before you start marketing online, you first need to brainstorm a variety of methods you may want to implement. For example, you may find that some of the best ways to go about marketing your site won't cost you a single penny. But unless you're first taking the time to really think about it, you may end up paying money for nothing. There are a lot different tactics to draw business. All it takes is a little creativity.

Before a site can be ranked, it must be built. Before you even think about where your website stands in the rankings, you should be thinking about its quality. All online businesses should begin with this idea. When your site is set up correctly and works well to begin with, you save yourself effort down the line.

Internet marketing can reach beyond the Internet. For instance, you may want to host in-person gatherings or conferences for bloggers with whom you regularly interact. This will help increase your exposure and offer bloggers a chance to write about you and your business.

Have sections or a large hub for your products so that visitors can easily find them. While variety is desirable, ensure that your options are presented in an organized way.

A really good Internet marketing tip is to make your website stand out. There are a ton of sites online, and yours needs to be noticeable if you want a share of the traffic. One way to begin is by featuring a product or service on your site that is unique to your brand.

Do not use AJAX and Flash too often. Even though it looks nice, it does not increase your search engine rankings. If Flash must be used, then try to keep it to a minimum, but making sure you put in keywords and titles on any page that has Flash.

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Posted: 12 Apr 2014 02:35 AM PDT

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HOW TO PROMOTE AND ADVERTISE?

Most of you own a blog and the best way to get more audience to you website is through social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, instagram and so on. To take it to the next level it is also important to advertise offline. Think about signs and banners to promote your business in every day life. A small company or as a blogger you have a small budget. Everybody loves to be displayed on a billboard on Time Square NY. What I mean to say is to 'think BIG but act small'. Without right advertising, it is impossible to get your company or blog noticed in the market.

There are lots of methods to promote yourself. One of the most affordable and yet effective methods of promotion are signs and banners. Start for instance with a "iphone case" or a skin for your macbook or Ipad. These banners will help you to convey your message to a large number of audiences while you are drinking a coffee in a public place. Don't be afraid to stand out from the crowd, don't be shy, be creative! I have even transformed my city-bike and added a vinyl banner on the front of the box, how cool is that right? Anyway, how to get started?

5 Tips on creating signage

Make your signs easy to read.
Use large-scale lettering and contrasting colors.
Clearly present your products or blog and be sure your contact information is visible.
Use color, graphics and lettering that fit your brand.
Have fun!

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