Tips: Listing your blog to get page views/visitors

Robin Good's got a list of 100 places to submit your site, ranked, I hope, from first to last.
Additional tips on coding optimization here.
Update: More on this from blogger Amy Campbell.

WebProNews: Googlejuice and blogging

If An RSS Feed Is The Yahoo Backdoor, Is A Blog Google’s?
"Let's look at the facts, and see how blogs align themselves more closely with one of Google's purposes as a search engine. Here's what you need to keep in mind:

1- if you get your site's link in the path of the search engine spider or robot of your choice, in this case Googlebot, if may follow it.

2- the way to get it to follow the link is to make sure it can "see" your link

3- if your content fills a need that the search engine's database of links has, it will include your link, and,

4- if your link fills a deficit better than any other site, in accordance with Google's secret formula or algorithm, it will rank your page well."
(complete article at WebProNews)

Does tnis work? Dunno yet.

Tips: Writing for the living web

Mark Bernstein has a good post(2002) on alistapart on writing for the living web--this is still an inspiring and useful read.
Summary version (read the whole post--it's waay better):

• Write for a reason: "Whether your daily updates concern your work life, your hobbies, or your innermost feelings, write passionately about things that matter."
• Write often: " You need not write constantly, and you need not write long, but you must write often."
• Write tight: "Omit unneccessary words."
• Make good friends: "..in your web writing take special care to acknowledge the good work and good ideas of other writers. "
• Find good enemies: "The best enemy, in fact, is often a friend, a writer you cite frequently and who often cites you, but with whom you disagree on a specific questions."
• Let the story unfold: "Understand the storyteller?s art and use the technique of narrative to shape the emerging structure of your living site."
• Stand up, speak out: "Try, if you can, to avoid inflicting unnecessary pain and humiliation on those who have the misfortune to be mistaken."
• Be sexy: "The more of yourself you put into your writing, the more human and engaging your work will be."
• Use your archives: "Always provide a permanent location (a ?permalink?) where each item can be found."
• Relax: "Don't worry about the size of your audience. If you write with energy and wit about things that matter, your audience will find you."

All still true now.