With Thanksgiving just hours away (who’s ready for turkey?! I know I am!), now’s a great time to make sure you’re reaching plenty of people over the coming weeks. Whether you want to build up more readers, get some more sales generated, increase your followers, or up your site’s SEO potential, or maybe a little bit of all of that, now’s a great time to do so. With more and more people turning to the internet to get a great deal on holiday purchases or simply get a better idea of what they should buy for the holidays, here are three things you can do to give your blog a boost during the holiday season:

1. Post holiday-oriented content on your blog. Post Black Friday specials, coupons, even fun deals that you think your readers would be interested in hearing about.
2. Talk about fun holiday traditions, such as meals you like to make, desserts you like to bake, even the things you and your family do together on Christmas morning.
3. Host a giveaway. One of the easiest way to gain more followers to your blog is by hosting a giveaway for a popular and highly coveted item, such as an MP3 player, a tablet, perhaps even a laptop.

i hope these tips help you and your blog have a great holiday!

Twitter is nothing new (it’s been around since early 2006, and has been quite mainstream since 2009), but the benefits it can bring to blogs have only truly begun to be appreciated and implemented. These days, many bloggers use Twitter not only to share micro-updates (140 characters, to be exact) of what they’re doing with the internet at large (or with friends and family only, if they choose to have their account protected and subsequently viewable to approved Twitter users only), but also to promote their blog and special events that are taking place on it.

If you want to broaden your blog’s reach, you’ll definitely want to hook up your blog with Twitter. If you use WordPress, you’ll find that there are plenty of plugins that can be used to make it easy — and even automated — for you to send notifications of new blog entries to Twitter. And the reverse is true: there are also plugins that’ll allow you to share updates that you make on Twitter, right on your blog — usually within your blog’s sidebar.

Facebook is great not only as a social network, but also as a quick booster for your blog. Did you know that Google will take into account any links leading from your Facebook page to your blog for potential SEO “juice”? No? Honestly, until recently I didn’t know that either. And just as importantly, you can drive additional traffic to your blog via Facebook — and vice versa! Here are a few tips:

• Create a Facebook page for your blog. Make sure you not only set up the initial details, but fill in the About box and Info tab, and add additional info and perhaps photos or videos.
• Link your blog to your Facebook page.
• Send notifications of new blog entries to your Facebook page via the Networked Blogs application.
• Add the Facebook page widget to your blog and encourage your readers to become a fan.

Linking your Facebook page and your blog together won’t take much of your time, and the benefits are quite numerous!

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Thursday 13: 13 things I want to do this weekend

1. Sleep in
2. Take my kids to a local bounce house
3. Bake stuff with my friend Amanda
4. Take a nap
5. Clean my carpets
6. Check out some of the season’s new television shows
7. Organize my spices
8. Take care my husband, who is sick
9. Do some web design on my personal blog, Jenn.nu
10. Do some more blogging here
11. Do some more blogging on iBlogalicious
12. Bathe my dog (Pugs tend to get smelly)
13. Take my daughter shoe shopping