Promote Your Contest For Free

by TheWeblogZone on July 12, 2008

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Running a contest is an effective strategy to drive more traffic and increase backlinks to your blog. Unfortunately, most contest run online fail because some organizers fail to realize that although running a contest is a promotional strategy, it also needs to be promoted. You can’t count on people to just stumble upon your contest and join. You need to reach out to your target participants. This is where contest blogs can be helpful.

Contest blogs are blogs dedicated to providing their readers and subscribers with information about the latest contests online. Most of them would love to write about your contest. You just need to inform them about it. To get you started, I have compiled a list of Contest Blogs where you can submit information about your contest and have it published by their respective bloggers free of charge. To make your submission more convenient, all the links are directed to the submission page. Enjoy! :)

  1. About Blog Contest
  2. Blog Contest Central
  3. Blogging Contest
  4. Blog Contest Site
  5. Blog-Contests
  6. Contest 1r2
  7. Contest Canada
  8. Contest Beat
  9. Contest Blog Cat
  10. Contest Blogger
  11. Expert Boss
  12. My Blog Contest
  13. My Blog Contests
  14. Submit Your Contest
  15. The Contest Winner
  16. The Prize Blog

If you have a Contest Blog and you would like to be included in the list, please get in touch with me. Good luck to your contest and thank you very much for your time. :)

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Premium Wordpress Themes Giveaway - Winners

by TheWeblogZone on July 11, 2008

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Before I announce the winners of the Premium Wordpress Themes Giveaway, I would like to apologize for posting the result late. I’ve been sick for the past few days so I wasn’t able to update my blog. Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS to the following people for winning a Premium Wordpress Theme for their blogs.

  • Revolution Magazine Wordpress Theme by Brian Gardner - Yoon Hu Um of Younhuum.com
  • Wordpress Remix by R.Bhavesh - Joey of Contests.Ihyagi.com
  • Bosco20 by Micheal Pollock - Ryan Gerardi of AutoConversion.net

To the winners, kindly contact me to claim your Premium Wordpress Themes.

To all those who took the time to join, thank you very much. :)

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Benefits And Drawbacks Of Daily Posting

by TheWeblogZone on June 28, 2008

You have the option to publish a post everyday, post every after 2 days or publish a post whenever you like. Whatever posting pattern you choose to implement on your blog has its own sets of advantages and disadvantages. In today’s post, we look at the benefits and drawbacks of daily posting.

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Benefits Of Daily Posting

1. More Traffic

Publishing a post everyday invites search engine crawlers to visit your blog more often. As more content is added in your blog, more pages from your blog are indexed by search engines. As a result, you will receive more traffic from them. Moreover, by publishing more posts everyday, not only do you invite search engine crawlers but you also encourage your loyal readers to regularly check on your blog for updates.

Daily posting means your feed is updated everyday. As this happens, your feed subscribers could end up visiting your blog to leave their comments or read the rest of your post (partial feed). With daily posting, you can also drive more traffic to your blog from networks syndicating your contents through your RSS.

2. More Backlinks - SEO

With daily posting, you increase your chances of getting more backlinks for your blog while at the same time giving search engines more content to digest.

3. Improve Your Blogging Skills And Habits

While daily posting demands a considerable amount of your time, it helps improve your blogging skills and habits.

Conditioning yourself to publish a new post everyday will drive you to think and be more creative. It will also help you improve your writing and research skills.

Drawbacks Of Daily Posting

1. Daily Posting Requires More Time

The biggest drawback of daily posting is that it will consume much of your time, hence, not advisable to busy folks.

2. Daily Posting Might Compromise Quality Of Your Post

Check blogs with only one blogger but publishes multiple posts in a day. What’s glaringly obvious is the “not-so-good” quality of post published.

Daily posting, especially with blogs that has only one blogger, could compromise the quality of posts. This is a result of insufficient time for the blogger to do the necessary research, proof the post or further improve it.

3. Information Overload - Readers And Subscribers

Although overfeeding search engines with more content to digest is not much a concern, over loading your readers with more posts to read could be a problem.

As you give your readers and subscribers with more posts to read, you might end up discouraging them to read. As a consequence of information overload, some of your feed subscribers might unsubscribe. You will also notice that your posts will have lesser comments. What’s worse? You are actually driving your readers and subscribers away from your blog.

What else do you think are the benefits and drawbacks of daily posting? What do you think can be done to minimize or avoid the drawbacks of daily posting?

Do share your thoughts in the comment. Thank you for your time. :)

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Free Search Engine Optimized Wordpress Themes

by TheWeblogZone on June 25, 2008

If you have been working hard to optimize your blog for search engines and see little or no results, may be it’s about time you check into your Wordpress theme. What most bloggers do not know is that there are Wordpress themes that may be appealing to the eyes but is not friendly to search engines. As a result, you’re not getting the best out of your blog. These unSEO friendly Wordpress themes are probably the work of theme designers who have no background whatsoever of search engine optimization. The truth is, you might be losing potential traffic just because your Wordpress theme hasn’t been optimized for search engines.

While it is important to have a unique and well-designed Wordpress theme, it is also equally important that you use a theme that is optimized for search engines. And when it comes to Wordpress themes optimized for search engines, no one beats Chris Pearson, the web developer who designed Copyblogger’s and other A-list blogs’ Wordpress themes. Because the quality of Wordpress Theme that Chris creates, he doesn’t come cheap. Fortunately, he’s kind enough to offer some fantastic, search engine optimized Wordpress themes.

Neoclassical Wordpress Theme

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Neoclassical Wordpress Theme is a simple and elegant template system that offers classical styling, rich typography, and huge random header images.

  • Three Column Wordpress Theme
  • Search Engine Optimized Wordpress Theme
  • Rotating Header Images (randomly)

Click here to check the demo site.

Copyblogger Wordpress Theme

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With the Copyblogger Wordpress Theme, you’ll be able to modify colors, fonts, and even the tiniest details by utilizing the custom stylesheet solution that is included with the theme download.

  • Highly Customizable Wordpress Theme
  • Custom Style Sheet Solution Included
  • Top-notch SEO’d Wordpress Theme
  • Two Column Wordpress Theme

Click here to check the demo site.

Cutline Wordpress Theme

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With the Cutline Theme for WordPress, you’ll be able to add stylish flair to your text that you never thought possible, and you’ll also be able to control your images like never before!

  • Two Column Wordpress Theme
  • Another Top-notch SEO’d Wordpress Theme
  • Stylish And Elegant Publishing Powerhouse
  • Random Header Images

Click here to check the demo site.

Pressrow Wordpress Theme

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PressRow is your all-access pass to new media on the Web. Publish your posts like a professional, and pull it all off with an elegant grace that you simply won’t find on any other WordPress theme.

  • Two Column Wordpress Theme
  • Professional Publishing Wordpress Theme
  • Again, Another Top-notch SEO’d Wordpress Theme
  • Big Header. Big Images. Big Identity.

Click here to check the demo site.

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