PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney If you're itching to get more people to read your blog, try my method of gaining readers. Sometimes I'll type up a subject that's close to my heart. Other times, I'll do a little research first to make sure it's a topic that will bring me more blog traffic. Here's an example of the method I used to increase my blog traffic: 1 - Check for the most-recent search terms. My favorite up-to-date search term lists are Technorati's Popular and Yahoo's Buzz Log overall movers and shakers list. 2 - Start from the bottom up. Search terms that are at the bottom of the list, like Frenchie Davis in the 20th position right now, are ones that still have time to gain more popularity. Names at the top might already be well-covered on the net. 3 - Use Google's suggestions to find the best keywords... ...for your blog post title and to repeat throughout the post. Once I began typing in the name Frenchie Davis in the Google search box on my Interne...

by Paula Neal Mooney Over the past three days I've tracked an amazing phenomenon whereby my blog's pageviews have increased dramatically -- more than doubled, in fact -- which I can attribute to only one thing. Outside of that Holy Ghost fire , that is. This was all free . I've yet to invest in the Google Adwords campaign that I plan to launch to drive up blog traffic like John Chow as done. No, I moved up my StatCounter.com VIEW MY STATS button to a more visible location. While the average number of visitors on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week remained consistent as shown on this graph, the following Friday, Saturday and Sunday saw my pageviews increase and double on average. Viewers must find it interesting to click on the VIEW MY STATS button then click on features like POPULAR PAGES , which gives a good current breakdown of my most popularly-viewed pages. (Once I actually increase my log size file greater than 100 meg -- I'm assuming -- this will ev...

Wanna Get Listed on Google News? Use American Chronicle to Increase Pageviews ...by Paula Neal Mooney Can I tell you how much I'm lovin' American Chronicle right now? I'd searched and searched for ways to get listed as a news source on Google News . I submitted my Orble blog to try and get on Google News, but they summarily rejected it, saying that Google News didn't accept websites maintained by one person. Then Orble bought the GoodAndBadNews.com domain name for me, which I considered building up and using multiple bylines and submitting to Google News ...I still might do that. But in the meantime, Googling for "submit to Google News" or "get included in Google News" or something like "PLEASE GET ME ON GOOGLE NEWS!!!" I found some guy whose blog post led me to American Chronicle. (Sorry, dude, I'm feeling research lazy right now. I'll give you the link credit later, hopefully...) Anyway, I sent the editors at American Chro...

So I've got about 97 cents in my PayPal account, right? And I'm trolling the net to find sites that pay bloggers. Thanks to this supermom of 7 whose blog post hipped me to a bunch of "get paid to blog" sites, I learned about this Mickey D's deal from CREAMaid, who will pay me (hopefully) a handsome 10 bucks pretty quickly (I pray) to said nearly empty PayPal account. It's about ol' McDonalds, and boy do I have a story about them to post. You see, every day that I pick up my son from school he's usually famished, picky eater that he is, from only snacking on the lunch I lovingly pack him each day. "Can I have a Happy Meal?" he'll sometimes ask before even saying hello. "Okay," I'll say on the days when my checking account is flush, as it was today. Thankfully, this Mickey D's sits right next to his school. But I started avoiding it because there's this supercute guy that works the drive-thru there that I -- as a marr...