When you create a blog, your time should be spent almost equally on the building of the blog, creating the content for the blog and the marketing of the blog. Getting inbound links to your website should be just as important as creating the content. I would explain to clients that even the most expensive, creative and best looking website would mean nothing if it was not seen by anyone. The whole purpose of you investing your time and energy into creating your blog is to have it seen, market your product or services or recommend others product or service.

As you spend your time getting inbound links, you want to be able to measure your results in some format so you know how well your marketing efforts are performing.

One great little tool for the first time blog builder is Link Popularity Check. It allows you to enter your domain name (or multiple domain names) and track how many individual links are pointing at your site as well as total link volume.

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Blog Rush is a blog syndication network that works using a widget that the blog owner puts in their website or blog. The widget displays headlines coming from other related blogs on the network and which shows your links on their blogs as well. This is a very lucrative way to increase website traffic to your blog.

The goal of service is straight forward: to give you more traffic and readers while sharing your traffic with other blog owners.

There have been many similar services in the past, but Blog Rush is introducing some interesting innovations. First of all you earn “syndication credits” every time the widget is loaded on your blog (i.e., one credit for each page view). If your blog has 1000 daily page views, your headlines will be displayed on other blogs using the widget 1000 times daily.

Secondly, you can also earn credits by referring people. Every time the widget is displayed on the blog of your referrals you will also earn one credit.

Lets face it, we don’t appeal to every person. Our energy resonates with the people it’s supposed to resonate with and vice versa. By sharing a small piece of real estate on your blog, you earn credits which then increase website traffic back to your site from all over the web.

You can have multiple blogs under one account, further increasing your page view credits

Everyone wants to increase website traffic to their blog. This little Blog Rush website widget from John Reese seems to be able to do the trick.

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