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Great topic, I have been here a few times and refrained from comment because I am a little overwhelmed in my promotion being in the same boat, I do realize the obvious, but have no magic wand to wave at the moment.

Commenting on blogs with good solid comments seems to draw some traffic, but very time consuming. Forums to some extent seem to be coming back to life a bit as people are realizing that the power behind them is fantastic. Mixing blogs and forums seem to be working very well. The combination of using the two defiantly complement each other. A new little twist I read about some time back was to blog on a forum.

I have a post about this on our board but will give a little review. Yes you should be taking full advantage of this as a member.

As you know we have an advertising section on the bottom of our board for members only, I will use you business as an example. Take your ad tracking and short url site to the advertising section and make a post. Come back in 3 days and add another post as a reply to your first post, and so on. The reason I say 3 days is I have set the post bump to 3 days so if you reply to your own post to bump it before 3 days your reply is just added to your last post unless you are replying to someone.

But you get the idea, use a forum thread to blog on. Keep adding relevant content to your thread. Now you are creating your forum thread blog. So now the spiders can pick up all your information and keywords in one place and index them.

From what I have been reading this is working great getting indexed. I have been neglectful doing this because well, I have no excuse.

Not exactly sure why, but I am thinking that Google took some of the punch out of single forum posts and pays more attention to multiple post threads. I believe this happened when the big spamming wave came through a couple years back, allot of spam bots were getting through registration and posting single posts in a section with a common word like Lounge or intros.

I wish I had more to offer right now, but Sheryl won’t let me. LOL!
All I know is content rules!!

Always the best for everyone.
Brad West ~ onomoney

I’ll give you a quick example. I have an Ad Tracking and Short URL site that does pretty well. I haven’t been promoting it much lately but get enough search traffic to cover the expenses with a little extra. Those new accounts are just covering the members that cancel so the site is not growing.

The problem is my competition is promoting their service so they are passing me by. With that I move from number one and two spots on Google for my best key words to number five and eight. Now less traffic from the only real source so less sign-ups. Now I’m losing numbers and profit. I didn’t work at growing the site while the competition did. Now I have to play catch-up. It’s much easier to stay up front with the momentum that to catch up from a break.

Just for fun I checked the Drudge Report on the Wayback Machine and you’re right, they have been using that same basic website for over twelve years.

It strikes me that blogs need to quickly adapt to the changes each year. New widgets, social networking, visual framworks are always coming around and few keep growing without adjusting.

Drudge Report is the only site that comes to mind that stayed exactly the same without dropping off the face of the earth.