16 Tips On How To Increase Your Blog’s Traffic
The people are there, you just have to real them in. Here are some nifty tips on getting asses in the seats (so to speak).
1. Post your blog on blog forums. This is usually expected and you may get a chance by a few passers by. If your blog is all that, then they’ll tell their friends and comeback.
2. Network. No one is above networking. Get some friends to link to you and link back. You grow stronger with the links.
3. Post your blog in your forum signature. The higher the forum page rank, the better.
4. Have a good looking design. I can’t emphasize enough how important the coolness of your webpage is. If you have a dull brown filling up your page around white text, you are in bad shape no matter how good you write. People simply won’t give you the chance. Your best bet is a dark font with a light background for reading color scheme purposes.
5. Write with flavor. Boring writing gets you boring results.
6. Give your readers a reason to link you and want to comeback. Whether that is you tell them you have more money making blog tips coming or whatever the case may be, get them thinking about reading your site in the future. If possible, get them hooked.
7. Submit to blog search engines and regular search engines. If you haven’t done this, do it. It may take awhile, but being submitted to places like Technorati get you read.
8. Write title tags for your site. Title tags are the words in the top left of the browser that tell search engines what your site contains or is about. This is big for SEO and more narrowly, page rank.
9. Your text needs to be rich in key word information. If your blog is about money, you better say money a lot of money times. Don’t get carried away though. Search engine crawlers are good at picking up jibberish. The point here is write keyword dense text.
10. Activate pings on your blog. Pings alert other blogs that you have made a new post.
11. Advertise. Yeah, sometimes you fork over a dime a click to get what you want.
12. Archive your site. Usually this is automatic, but you want to make sure your blog keeps your pages. Archived material is good for snagging on search engines.
13. Gather emails of your visitors when possible, so you can keep contact with them by sending them a site newspaper and remind them of why they can’t do without your site.
14. Write on new, hot topics when possible. For example, Chris Benoit, steroids, Barry Bonds, and Paris Hilton are all the search rage. If you can find a way to incorporate them into your blog, you’ll likely land your self in a search spot for these terms, especially if you get content up about something or someone before other more established sites can get to the presses.
14. Update your site. This is very important. Google likes it for search optimization purposes and readers like it because they have fresh material at their disposal. Best way to ditch the traffic is slack off your blog for a few weeks.
16. Is your domain memorable? If your domain is hard to remember, people may be diverted from visiting again, even if they do plan on giving you another look. Analyze your domain, can people remember it easy? Is it another Fatyou.com or are you blogonkitchens01.blogspot.com. If you’re still working off a network, let all your readers know, you are moving off on your own on a memorable date - say July 4th. Then send out emails to your email list. Pay the $7, get a cool name and set up shop.
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