Secret Marketing Tip For WordPress Users. Press This!
November 22nd, 2009 | by Conrad Walton |If you use WordPress for your blog and you can’t think of something to write about, go find some relevant blog posts to inspire you. Use Google news or Technorati to find something.
Here’s the secret tip. Go to Tools -> Tools in your site. See that thing that says “Press This”? Read that.
Grab little bits of the web
Drag and drop that link to your bookmark tool bar in your browser. It should stay there.
Go to some random, relevant page out there on the web, maybe one that you commented on.
Select some text that you want to quote on your site.
Click on the “Press This” toolbar link.
It will copy the text that you selected, open your blog with an “add new post” page, and plop that copy into it, with a link back to the original site. It will put the text into a “blockquote” which changes the formatting.
You can comment on what you’ve copied.
Look at this post on my site.
http://www.walton.com/2009/11/19/what-makes-marketing-hard-remarkable-communication.html
I write some of my comments at the top and put in one of my photos. Then, the quoted copy is below that in a “blockquote”. There are a couple lines from what Sonia wrote on her page with a link back to her page below.
This gives you content and something to write about, plus it’s a link to a relevant page, plus whoever you link to will appreciate the link and might come read your site.
Don’t copy too much from someone else’s site, no more than 3 paragraphs or so. This is “fair use”, not plagiarism.
This is a great way to get ideas of things to write about and build some relationships with other bloggers.
Remember that more pages on your site means more internal links and more authority with Google.
Now, go Press This!
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Conrad – Love this tip, thank you!