Vox - blogging made simple and (more) social

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I recently found Vox through a web search. It turned up for a search term it had not business turning up for. This is always a good sign in SEO (search engine optimization). It means they are doing a few things right - otherwise they wouldn't have turned up in the first place.

So I signed up and found that this is Very easy to use and a great place to:

  • Blog about your lenses and websites

  • Just collect and share links you're interested in

  • Connect with people about subjects you care about

  • Share pictures

Vox and SixApart - search engine friendly and webdesign standards 

Vox is a Sixapart venture. That means they are at the head of the curve on some technical issues like:

  • Making sure blogs are search engine friendly

  • Making sure links are followed (not no-followed)

  • Making sure the design works according to the latest design guidelines

  • Which is almost the same as saying that what they make will be friendly to people with disabilities


All of which is great. But the most important thing for promoting your squidoo lenses (or your website) is that - I'm repeating here -

  • Vox-blogs are search engine friendly

  • Vox-links are followed


Social networks often have link-following blocked. For example the following places which you can use in similar ways have no-followed links:

  • stumbleupon

  • myspace

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Blog about your lenses and websites 

Because VOX doesn't use rel-no-follow tags on links, blogging about your website will give you backlinks - which in turn will help your site get found.

Vox does have its own (so far not very big) audience, so blogging there will get your site a few visitors as well.

Just collect and share links your interested in 

Vox is a social network - a bit like myspace. They've made it real easy to share links you like. And easy to add links other people have liked to your own profile and links collection.

Again - because the links are followed, this can add some nice links to your site. Especially of course if other people like your links as well: then they just might 'save that link' on their profile. Which counts as another link for your page.

Ready Made Community

I have found vox to be a place where there is a ready made community. It does not take much to get your blog posts (which can easily be made out of submitted squidoo posts for instance) noticed and commented upon.

Connect with people about subjects you care about 

Again like myspace, you can add people as friends. This will mean you get to see what they add to their vox page, and they get to see what you add to yours.

When you start on vox, the main thing to do is to find groups that fit your niche(s). Any blog-post you make can be added to a group you are a member of. That way people interested in that subject can see your blogpost - and let's not forget the refrain: that's another followed link.

Having fun on VOX - sharing pictures, question of the day and more 

Vox makes it easy to have fun online.

  • They make it easy to share and tag pictures

  • They have a question of the day, so you will never run out of blog-ideas

  • and they have a picture context of the day. Today they wanted us to Show us something cold.

Join Vox groups

To get your blog commented upon join relevant groups, make sure each blogpost is posted to the groups it fits in - and that's it.

Joining groups also means ready made links to your blogpost & indirectly to your lens.

Getting comments is good for google: makes your blog seem REAL and HUMAN.

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