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6 Replies Last post: Feb 27, 2009 1:31 AM by ellisa12

How You Can Get Your Blog Featured in CNN, New York Times

Feb 13, 2009 2:54 PM

Click to view ZekeLL's profile Mogul ZekeLL 53 posts since
Dec 2, 2008
About six months ago I was looking at the web stats of one of our clients. His visits went from an average of 30 a day to 150. When I checked who was sending him so much traffic I was very surprised. It was CNN! I went to CNN's website and I discovered that they have a widget at the end of some of their articles where they show related blog posts. My client's post was there.

I started doing some research on the subject and I learned how you can get your blog featured on CNN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, Time, Fox News, Reuters, the Washington Post, and CBS.

Although all the links that you might get from them are "no-follow" (search engines don't count them when they assign rankings), they can give you a good deal of exposure, traffic, and credibility. You can tell your clients that your business have been featured on the New York Times website!

I am sure that at this point you are thinking "ok, I got it! Now tell me how I can make that happen for my business!" Ok, ok. Follow these steps:

List your blog on BlogBurst
BlogBurst feeds Reuters, Fox News, and USA Today.

List your blog on Sphere
Sphere feeds CNN, Wall Street Journal, Time, Reuters, CBS, Washington Post, AOL, and Newsweek.

List your blog on BlogRunner
BlogRunner feeds Wall Street Journal and New York Times.

Write a Review
This is a very important step. Skip it and your blog will never get featured. Let's say that CNN published an article on one of Obama's speeches. You need to write a post about that article and link to the news source. CNN has to consider your post relevant to their article in order to feature it.

Be patient. Not all your posts will be featured. That's OK; you only need one or two in order to gain some visibility and credibility. Now go get your posts published on CNN.com!

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1. Re: How You Can Get Your Blog Featured in CNN, New York Times Feb 13, 2009 7:27 PM
Thanks for the tip!
Listing on BlogBurst was fairly straightforward and easy.
Not so for Sphere and BlogRunner--no obvious listing link or instructions. Can you offer any assistance or
instruction?
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Click to view ZekeLL's profile Mogul ZekeLL 53 posts since
Dec 2, 2008
2. Re: How You Can Get Your Blog Featured in CNN, New York Times Feb 17, 2009 12:01 AM
in response to: amspcs
Contact the webmasters to get your blog listed in those directories.
Click to view amspcs's profile Mogul amspcs 516 posts since
Oct 18, 2007
3. Re: How You Can Get Your Blog Featured in CNN, New York Times Feb 17, 2009 9:42 AM
in response to: ZekeLL
Thanks for the response. Who? How? I have NO idea how to accomplish this. Forgive me,
could you please re-answer in 'layman's' terms?
Click to view ZekeLL's profile Mogul ZekeLL 53 posts since
Dec 2, 2008
4. Re: How You Can Get Your Blog Featured in CNN, New York Times Feb 18, 2009 1:26 PM
in response to: amspcs
Go to the contact page of their websites and send them an email.
Click to view ellisa12's profile Start-up ellisa12 2 posts since
Feb 27, 2009
5. Re: How You Can Get Your Blog Featured in CNN, New York Times Feb 27, 2009 1:29 AM
I really think by updating a blog in sphere will definately help you out. There are more chances to get your post in Google news too by submitting in it. BTW, this is nice contributation.


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6. Re: How You Can Get Your Blog Featured in CNN, New York Times Feb 27, 2009 1:31 AM
By posting news in sphere certainly helps. This is an interesting and nice contributation.

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