What Blog Resource Should I use

jimmyharrell · #1 (**permalink**) 11-11-2007, 10:14 AM

Okay, I finally launched my blog this week. But I have a question. Currently I'm on Godaddy.com's Shared Hosting Plan, which means that I can use a variety of tools that comes with the plan from Blog Tools, Forum Tools, .NET Nuke, Gallery Tools etc. One of the Blogging Tools I signed up with was WordPress, which I've come to like over the past week. I can customize my Blog to look exatcly like my own website(in process), or as many of you know, I can simply pick a theme and go with it. This is all great. However, now my concern will be marketing my blog and getting more traffic. I mostly blog about anything Adobe or CSS related. My question is should I be using WordPress, or some other Blog Tool that you guys use, that automatically drive Traffic. I saw something where Lisa had said to be sure that it's indexed on Google or something like that. What should I do next, now that my blog is up and running? Use a New Blog Tool? Stick with what I've got and Market it using some resources you guys provide? What?

lisa · #2 (**permalink**) 11-11-2007, 10:58 AM

Hi Jimmy

No blog tool drives traffic automatically. You need to market it nonetheless. Go to www.technorati.com and join their free service to start promoting your blog. Also give www.blogrush.com a try. It's new and I'm not sure how well it's going to go but it's worth a look. There are tons of blog submission services for free out there you can use, just Google something like "Free blog submissions."

I get all my blog traffic from my site so I don't use a lot of the savvy tools many other people use here. Hopefully others have some more advice for ya.

Good luck!

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