Develop and maintain corporate
blogs. Research and write articles in a conversational style, which engages
readers. Interface with key departments (executive, marketing, customer
service, IT etc.) to insure blog content captures readers' interest, while
promoting company message. Use appropriate tools to provide management with
metric reports. Use on-line and off-line social networking techniques for
collaboration with people inside and outside the organization. Maintain quality
assurance, by open information exchange with customer service and marketing
departments. Promote company objectives with each blog article.
DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Develop and
maintain plan for organization's Internet presence, based on management
priorities, policy directions, and goals.
2. Perform
continuous enhancements and modifications to blogs.
3. Assess new
standards, technologies and trends, and formulate plans for future enhancement
to blogging strategies.
4. Use latest
syndication and blogging tools with HTML, when appropriate.
5. Ensure blog(s)
are accessible from a variety of different environments.
6. Produces a
consistent visual image on blog(s) including maintenance of templates and image
archives.
7. Ensure images
are delivered to the viewer at sufficient high speed and quality.
8. Creates image
links and ensure links are up to date.
9. Troubleshoot and
repairs bugs and problems.
10. Respond
promptly to blog comments and email
11. Provide metrics
of traffic statistics, reports and blog comment feedback to appropriate areas.
12. Research,
write/edit and create layout for new articles and features.
13. Act as liaison
between blog readers and corporation
14. Interface collaboratively
with web design team to insure cohesiveness between blog(s) and corporate web
site.
15. Perform other
duties, as assigned.
MINIMUM JOB
REQUIREMENTS:
Possess engaging
"conversational" writing skills with a professional posture. Must
have be published by a recognized organization (on or off line) or have
published blogs with confirmed reader visit statistics. High school diploma or
GED with related experience in achieving company objectives with blogging
expertise. Must be computer and definitely Internet/search engine savvy to
perform online research. Completed degrees from accredited institutions may be
substituted for experience on a year-for-year basis, provided courses were
taken in writing, marketing, business and psychology/sociology.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS,
AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
Technical
* Ability to
evaluate new and evolving blog technologies.
* Solid
understanding of all sections related to the anatomy of a blog
* Ability to
utilize reporting tools for analysis of traffic, referral links and reader
demographics
* Ability to use
syndication and pinging tools
* Knowledge and
understanding of current editing, authoring tools, and related blog
technologies.
* Ability to
utilize computerized word processing, blogging and internet software.
* Solid foundation
in search engine optimization (SEO) and implementing RSS technology
* Knowledge and
understanding of internet operations and functionality
* Ability to
evaluate new and evolving blogging technologies.
* Skill in the use
of computerized blog layout and design software.
* Topical knowledge
of the Internet, ftp, telnet and the ability to develop website documents.
* Topical knowledge
of html, web development and maintenance.
Writing
* Proofreading and
editing skills.
* Ability to
create, compose, and edit written materials.
* Ability to write
simply with a conversational style
* Writing should be
informative, but not verbose
Project Management
* Ability to
effectively manage time and schedules.
* Ability to work
independently and as a member of a team.
* Strategic
planning skills.
Business Savvy
* Ability to
include corporate objectives and mission throughout blog presentation
* Solicit feedback
from internal departments and
* Understand
mission of key departments
* Ability to make
presentations on blog feedback, metrics and comments at business intelligence
meetings
* Assist management
in Identifying opportunities, based on new developments in the blogsphere
* Maintain high
ethics with blog presentation, content and daily work tasks
Social Networking
* Strong
interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with
a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
* Present
professional, but friendly posture with blogsphere colleagues and throughout
the Internet
* Provide
management and key departments with intelligence from blog feedback, metrics
and external discussions related to blog content
* Collaborate with
internal departments to enhance blog features and presence
* Act as ambassador
and liaison for company with the Internet community
* Develop
collaborative partnerships on-line and off-line.
29 Traffic Generation Tips
1. Eric Atkins
Create a new design for your website. Not only will it be more attractive to
your regular readers, but you can submit it to some CSS gallery showcase sites
that feature great designs. This will give you exposure on those sites while
generating a lot of traffic and backlinks from those types of sites.
2. Dennis Coughlin
Find the best blogs on your niche and contact the authors. Introduce yourself
and send a link of your blog. This might help them to discover your blog, read
it and possibly link to it.
3. Splork
I’ve had good success writing articles and submitting them to EzineArticles.
Articles that have been written from well-researched keyword phrases and
accepted by EzineArticles tend to rank very high in Google for that search
term. Placing anchor text in the footer of those articles so the reader can
visit my relevant website has always increased my site traffic.
4. Alan Thomas
Don’t forget your archives. I just posted a roundup of all interviews I did
over the past seven months. One of them generated a new link and a big traffic
spike from a group of users that look like they will be loyal readers now.
5. Brian Auer
According to my Google Analytics, about 35% of my traffic comes from other
people’s blogs and 25% comes from the forums I’m active with, while search
engines provide about 15%. I post comments on other blogs that are related to
mine, and I post my site link in my signature at the forums.
6. Daniel
A simple tip that will probably boost your page views: install a translator
plugin. I decided to use a paid plugin for this, but if I am not wrong there
are some free ones as well. The translation is not very good, as you can
imagine, but it helps to attract readers that are not fluent in English.
7. Tillerman
Be the first to write a post about the ‘Top Ten Blogs’ in your niche. The post
will rank highly in any general search for blogs in your niche and other
bloggers in your niche write about the post and link to it.
8. Inspirationbit
Well, obviously everyone knows that social bookmarking sites like Digg,
del.icio.us, etc. bring lots of traffic. But I’m now submitting some of my
articles to blogg-buzz.com (a digg like site for bloggers), and I always get
not a bad traffic from there.
9. Brandon Wood
A simple trick I’ve used to increase traffic to my blog is participate in group
writing projects. In fact, that’s what I’m doing right now.
10. Kat
I’ve recently gotten involved with several “MySpace-like” community sites that
focus on my target audience. I share my thoughts in their forums, post intros
to my real blog on their system blog and I’ve even created a group for my
specific niche. It’s been very, very successful for me.
11. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. How do you know which blogs to
keep track of in the first place? Add the MyBlogLog widget/code to your blog.
When
you notice a MyBlogLog user visiting your blog, visit that person’s in turn.
12. Ian Delaney
Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Making a post along the
lines of ‘Evaluated resources for XYZ’ is useful. Useful things get linked to
and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front
page.
13. Guido
Comment on blogs, write useful content and make good friends on forums.
14. Grant Gerver
Try to be polemic. I write obsessively about all-things political from the
left-wing perspective in the form of humorous, sarcastic one-liners.
15. Megan Taylor
Participate in conversations on related blogs. Start conversations on your own
blog. Don’t just post about a story and leave it at that, engage your audience.
16. Ramen Junkie
Newsgroups. I always see a spike when I post a review to a newsgroup.
17. KWiz
Write something controversial. I don’t think it’s good to write something
controversial just for the purpose of getting traffic necessarily (especially
if it’s only for that purpose and you’re being disingenuous), but it works.
18. Jester
Leave comments on other blogs. If you’re already reading them, it takes just a
couple of seconds to leave a message agreeing or disagreeing with the author,
you get to leave a link to your site, and you will almost ALWAYS get traffic
from your comments.
19. Engtech
Community. It’s one word but it is the most important one when it comes to
blogging. The only “blog metric” that makes sense is the vibrant community of
readers it has. Building a community around your blog will bring you increased
traffic, but how do you start? The boilerplate response to building traffic is
always “SEO, social networking sites, and commenting on blogs” but it can be
simplified to “be part of a community”. The easiest way to seed your blog is
with an already existing community. But the only way to do that is to be part
of the community yourself.
20. Goerge Manty
Post 3-5 times a day. Use ping services like pingomatic or setting up wordpress
to ping some of the ping services. Engage your readers. Put up polls, ask them
questions, give them quizes, free tools, etc. Make them want to come back and
tell their friends about you.
21. Mark Alves
Participate in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers where you can demonstrate
your expertise, get associated with relevant keywords and put your URL out
there.
22. Andrew Timberlake
A great tip for generating traffic is off-line by including your url in all
your off-line liturature from business cards, letterheads, pamphlets, adverts
through in-store signage if applicable. I even have our website on my vehicle.
23. Scott Townsend
Inform search engines and aggregators like Technorati (using the ping
functionality) when your blog is updated, this should ensure maximum traffic
coming from those sources.
24. Jen Gordon
I came upon some unexpected traffic when my blog popped up on some css design
portals like www.cssmania.com and www.webcreme.com. If you can put some time into
the concept behind and design for your blog, I’d recommend submitting your site
to a design portal not only for
additional traffic but to build an additional community around your site.
25. Chris
Squidoo Lenses are a good way to generate traffic. By using a lense, you can
generate your own custom “community” of webpages, including some of the more
popular pages in your “neighborhood.” Including your own webpage in such a list
is a good way of generating traffic.
26. Kyle
Simplify. Pay attention to complex issues in your field of work. It may be a
big long publication that is hard to wade through or a concept that is hard to
grasp. Reference it and make a shorter “for dummies” version with your own
lessons learned and relevant tips. When doing this, I have been surprised to
find that the simplified post will appear before the more complex version in
search results. Perhaps this is why it results in increased traffic; people
looking for more help or clarification on the subject will land on your blog.
27. Nick
Participating in forums is a great way to get loyal readers. Either link
baiting people in your signature or posting great advice and tips will give you
high quality traffic, which will result in return visitors.
28. Cory OBrien
Read lots of other blogs. Leave trackbacks. Make sure your blog is optimized
for search engines. Leverage social bookmarking sites like digg (both for new
ideas and for traffic).
29. Shankar Ganesh
Just browse around MyBlogLog.com and you will surely get visitors to your blog.
I think I should start these Group Projects on my blog as well, what do you
think? :-)
Update: There was another tip added to this group project, so now there are
actually 30 tips:
30. Rory
Submit articles to blog carnivals. Your article almost always gets posted, and
it must generate a handful of visitors, at least.