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Building Your Blog Audience

Elise Bauer & Vanessa FoxBlogHer Business Conference

NYCMarch 23, 2007

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Agenda

• Community

• Syndication (RSS)

• Search Engine Optimization

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Community

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Community

The difference between an online newsletter and a blog.

(It’s not all about you.)

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Community

The difference between broadcasting your message andengaging a peer group.

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Community

Fulfills the marketing mantra, “Make me care.”

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Community

• Link out to other bloggers

• Leave comments on their sites

• Plan and participate in blog events

• Contribute to the community

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Syndication

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Syndication

Click to subscribe to feed

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Syndication - Feed Readers

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Syndication - Feed Readers

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Syndication - Personalized Google

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Syndication - My Yahoo

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Syndication - FeedBurner

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Syndication - FeedBurner

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Syndication - Feed to Email

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Syndication - Promote Your Feed

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Syndication - Discoverability

Make sure this code is in the header section of your site code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title=”A title for yourfeed" href="http://the-url-for-your-newsfeed.com" />

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >

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<title>Learning Movable Type </title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.learningmovabletype.com/images/favicon.ico" />

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.learningmovabletype.com/lmt.css" type="text/css" />

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/LMT" />

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