Content, content, content! Good quality blog posts about the different animals you know and are going to feature.

Good Pictures! The spiders made me a little jumpy actually.

Add how to video links if possible. Make this page as jam packed with quality information as possible. Start with one animal, write all you know about it and promote it on digg, facebook, twitter, myspace, hoverspot, and any other social sites that come to mind.

Write an article about the featured animal and submit it to AC using the blog as a reference for more information. Ask pet forums to link back to your site in exchange for a blog mention.

Just a few things off the top of my head....Good luck with the new venture!

One note...I was not too impressed with the twitter links not being related to the animals. At first glance, the only thing that tells the viewer the page is about animals is the title and what you wrote as the intro. jmo
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The first time I made a blog was with blogger on google its a great site with all the features you need. This site allows you to upload text pictures and even videos. This site gives you your own URL or in other words your very own website. The best part is its free.
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There is a great blog for bloggers. I'm not blogging yet, but planning to. I've been following http://www.problogger.net/ for a few months. Jam packed with great information. The archives are rich with promotion and marketing ideas as well as methods for keeping your content fresh.

Finding complimentary bloggers can work really well for you. Commenting and guest posting across blogs helps keep each others content fresh.

Using twitter to promote your blog posts can get you traffic. Be sure and make good use of #hashtags that will draw attention to your tweets. Register your twitter account on wefollow.com with the best #hastags to draw followers.

Followers of your tweets will likely become followers of your blog.
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http://www.problogger.net/
http://wefollow.com/

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There's a lot of ways you can promote your website.

One way is to network with other bloggers within your niche (exotic pets) and see if they would like to do a link exchange or you could trade off guest posts.

Additionally, you could submit your website to social bookmarking websites such as Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit.

Always remember that quality content is very important. If you create great posts, people will help promote your website because they will feel the need to tell others.
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Social bookmarking, keyword density, and good quality content.

First, social bookmarking. Google likes it when they see a website that other people are linking to. That's one of the things in their "secret formula" that gets pages ranked and spidered rather quickly.

Now, there are "do follow" bookmarking sites, and "no follow" sites, which don't promote links. www.socialbookmarker.com is a great place to see a list of do follow bookmarks. If you sign up for the websites, you can choose which one's you want to submit your link too, and do it all from their page. It's worth checking out. I have used it many times.

As far as keyword density, this means using one keyword phrase in virtually every page you write. You say your website is on exotic pets, so I would focus on several keyword phrases and may even include exotic pets. If you don't know much about keyword density, you should try:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword_density
http://entrepreneursolutions.blogspot.com/2009/09/understanding-keyword-density.html

Make sure people are searching for your keyword phrase. Using the tool called Keyword Tracker (this is the free version) @ http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
lets you know how many people are searching for your keywords per day.

Also don't forget to check with Google search engines to see how many people already have indexed pages. Your aim is less than 500,000 results.

Don't forget to check Google Adwords Keyword tool to let you know how much ads are paying for your keyword phrase. Just type the phrase in the box and it will tell you the amount.

Finally, quality content. Content really is king on the net. Write to your audience. What are they looking for? Possibly a solution to some problem? Products? Etc?

After you've been blogging awhile, I would ad a product from Commission Junction, or another site that allows you to put a product to sell on your page. If it sells, they offer you commission. Don't forget the main thing is to build an audience first. Readers want to develop a connection with you, before they trust you to tell them what they should buy.

Good Luck!
J
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