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Want to get links to your blog posts on major news sites? Check out the following: Technorati Teams With The Associated Press to Connect Bloggers To More Than 440 Newspapers Nationwide. Technorati, which currently tracks 42.2 million blogs, now connects your blog to any AP article to which you link. Here’s how it works:

  1. Find an AP article that’s relevant to your blog. Go to The Associated Press website to search for stories if you haven’t chosen one already.
  2. Create a blog post that mentions the article and link to it.
  3. Ping Technorati that you have new content. You can ping Technorati directly, use a ping utility such as Pingoat, or configure Feedburner to automatically ping Technorati and many other sites whenever you post to your blog (my personal favorite).
  4. Go to the AP article to which you linked (give it a little while to discover you) and you’ll find a link to your blog post in the Technorati Related Blogs section. To see a sample of this, click the link BookExpo Confronts Changes in Publishing in my BookExpo America News blog posting.

If you blog about a hot story, expect to see your blog traffic increase when your blog becomes linked to it.

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