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6 Traffic Generation Tips for Bloggers
Friday, August 26th, 2011
If you want your blog to succeed, you need traffic. The best part is, you don’t need lots of money to sent people to your site. Traffic doesn’t come overnight; it requires time investment and a little beat of hard work.
Below are list of the twenty traffic generation tip your site needs to start generating reasonable blog visitors.
1. Attract search engine spiders
Write good search engine optimizable content at your site. These don’t only send you targeted traffic, but it’s free. When search engines indexed your site, you will get tons of traffic too your site from places like google, yahoo and bing.
When linking to pages within your blog, use keyword to hyperlink to any page. This helps explain that page and this may make the page rank higher for that page.
2. Submit your sites to search engines
There are hundreds of search engines online, but majority of internet users’ use the three most popular search engines, which are google, yahoo and bing. Submit each page you publish to this search engines and once you appear among the top three, your site will definitely appear in other search engine.
3. Comment on related blogs
Blogging is growing fast by the day and making comments in blogs has turn out to be one of the free ways of sending people to your blog.
Though not every one will visit your blog if your comment is not informative. If your blog comment is nothing to show, no one will visit your site.
To make the most out of your blog comments, it’s important to comment in blogs related to the theme f your blog and be among to the first five people to comment.
4. Guest post
One way to build your credibility and gain tons of traffic is via writing and submitting a guest post. This happens when you write post to authority site in exchange for link back to your blog.
This makes the site owner get some breaks from writing, while still updating its site on a regular basis and the guest author enjoys the exposure.
Look for sites under your niche, contact them and start submitting your guest post.
5. Utilize forums/message board
Look for forums under your niche, become a member and start posting. The great thing about forum is, you can create signature file and a link back to your blog will appear every time you make a post.
The key to becoming successful is when your forum post are informative, that people will click the link as they will tag you as an expert in that niche.
6. Give away free report
If you have some helpful information you want to give away, why not put it in an ebook format? You can create useful information imbedding links to your blog within the text.
When you have created a useful report with at least 10 long, you can give away for free with resale rights. When people sell your ebook, they make the money while you gain exposure.
Traffic generation is build over time, continues building of traffic helps you build credibility and visibility online.
The Many Reasons Why You Should Allow DoFollow Commenting on Your Blog (I’ll be Frank)
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Blogtap has officially gone dofollow commenting today. That means that anyone can steal Blogtap’s precious PR juice simply by commenting with a website link.
Yup, the PR vampires will be here any minute now. They will bombard my comment queue with their under-thought and overly appreciative (e.g. “great post man!”), witless comments. I say bring it on. I say open the floodgate. And here’s why:
- A mindless gang of middle-eastern SEOers is better company than none.*
- Although many of the comments will be vapid and unsubstantial, I need commenters to get the conversation going, to break the ice on uncommented posts. I might be able to tell the difference between a comment posted for the sake of building backlinks to another site but many drive-by visitors will not. (more…)
Why the Facebook Like Button Might Not Be Right for Your Blog
Friday, May 21st, 2010
I read a blog post today that distressed me greatly. The post was about the new Facebook like button and the poster was explaining to readers why the Like button was not right for everyone. Darn. I knew that. I should have posted it and explained why first! Maybe I can make up for being tardy on information by providing additional information that might explain better what has already been said on another blog.
What does the Facebook Like Button do?
The Facebook like button can be embedded into any website and allows visitors to share content over Facebook. When content is shared, the link is displayed in the News Feed (the ‘what’s on your mind’ field) with a thumbnail and description. Shared links have potential to bring in social networking traffic from the Facebook friends of the sharer or liker if you will.
Increase Online Exposure and Business Leads with a Company Blog
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
It’s no secret that major companies have embraced blogging as a way to boost PR and keep employees and shareholders in the know on company news and activity. Because of this, vaguely described job postings for journalist-blogger-style-new-media-specialists populate the job boards at places like Mashable, Problogger and JournalismJobs.com.
But according to a recent study at Hubspot, businesses who operate blogs can reap much more than just positive PR effects and well-disseminated company news. Much, much more.
The study found that businesses that maintain a blog receive 55% more visitors, 97% more inbound links and 434% more indexed pages. 1,531 company websites (all clients of Hubspot) were examined in the study, 795 of which blogged and 736 of which did not.
Six powerful link building tips for your blog
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
A guest post by Gagandeep Singh, an Internet Marketing Executive working for Fortepromo Promotional Products, a promotional tool Kits Company based in Minneapolis, USA.
If content is the king and visitors are the loyal subjects of your blog, then links are the kingdom’s currency. Simply put: the greater the number of external links to your blog, the higher organic search engine rankings will be and the more traffic your blog will receive.
A few days back, Chris wrote about do-follow blog commenting, which is one of the most effective methods for link building and developing new relationships with fellow bloggers. To help you succeed in your link building efforts, I have highlighted a few more link building techniques that will transform your blog into a hyperlink haven.
A free alternative to the WordTracker keyword traffic analysis software
Monday, March 29th, 2010
Rather than paying a $329 annual subscription to WordTracker, I’ve found alternative free keyword traffic analysis software that works just as good if not better.
The Google Adwords Keyword Tool is a tool designed to help Adwords advertisers analyze competition for keywords. I have found that you can use it to analyze traffic for keywords regardless of what your intent is.
Social media marketing advice from Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
After a panel on using social media as a marketing vehicle, Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra was asked by one of the listeners for an exclusive social media marketing tip.
“I can give you a tip but that one won’t work again,” Jalichandra said.
With that response, Jalichandra revealed a powerful piece of Internet marketing wisdom that most bloggers don’t take too seriously. Successful social media and other forms of Internet marketing campaigns need to be unique, innovative and always ahead of the curve. The same thing will never work twice.
Watch an interview (below) with Jalichandra that took place after the panel.
Why the Google PageRank of your blog does not matter
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Ah, Google PageRank. The crown of every newbie blogger. Yup that’s right, I said it: Google PageRank doesn’t mean squat. Unless of course you are a newbie blogger.
PageRank is a value from 1 to 10 that Google assigns to websites in its index. The higher the PR value, the more authority and credibility a site has. Naturally, Google is the only website with a PageRank of 10 and all of the lesser websites are given values from 0-9.
Graphic by Elliance, an eMarketing firm specialising in results-driven search engine marketing, website design, and outbound eMarketing campaigns. First sourced at Search Engine Land.
Newbie blog marketers pay a lot of attention to Google PageRank because it is a simple number. Unfortunately, using a blog’s PR value to judge its worth is like judging who the best baseball player is solely on the number of homeruns hit. There are so many other factors not considered.
Targeting search engine crawlers vs. human readers on your blog
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
My last post on this blog was a bit out of the ordinary. I’m sure if I had a large subscriber base, I would be getting tons of emails asking what the deal was. I wrote an entire post on one very simple thing: how to check which version of WordPress you are using. That little piece of information is probably not useful for any subscriber base. After all, most WordPress users who happened to be subscribed to my blog either already know which version they are running or don’t have a particular need to find out.
So why did I create the post?
The answer starts with a G and ends with an E. Yup, you guessed it: Google.
Yesterday, while I was tweaking the custom theme I built (which is almost ready) for this site, I had to find out which version of WordPress I was using to determine whether or not a PHP function would work on my blog.
Targeting long tail keywords on your blog
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Forget targeting individual keywords. That’s right. They matter little if you are serious about getting traffic to your blog from search engines.
For a business website that received 15,000 visitors per month, 8,135 of the visitors (less than 20%) came from keywords that bring only 1 visitor per month. That means that 80% of visitors came from long-tail keywords. And that statistic is not by any means an isolated case.
7 sure-fire ways to get traffic to your blog using Digg
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
So, you just made a blog and now you are looking for people to read it. Problem is — you’re fat, uneducated, poor and friendless. Who’s gonna’ read your blog?
Well, if you know how to use Digg correctly, one of your wee little blog posts just might end up on 10,000 computer screens all across America one day. With a little luck of course.
The first thing you need to know about Digg is that it was not designed for people to market their own websites with. Digg was designed to be a social news network which allows people to share or Digg pages they have an interest in on the web. The ideal Digg user is someone who uses Digg because it allows them a better web surfing experience.
Digg works like a voting system. Someone finds an article, blog post or picture they enjoy, so they submit it to Digg. At the submission screen they are asked for a title, URL (address), category (Digg has 8 main ones) and description. Sounds like a lot of fields to complete but many times the fields are filled in automatically if the Digger is using a Digg toolbar or browser add-on like this one.
After a content item is submitted to Digg, it gets passed off to other users. If those users Digg it, the item becomes more progressively exposed to other Digg users; then, if the Digg count reaches a certain threshold, the content item is featured on Digg’s frontpage. If you ever do make it to Digg’s G-L-O-R-I-O-U-S homepage, you really should throw yourself a party — as it is quite an accomplishment.
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