Wednesday 30 December 2009

It's Easy to Increase Traffic to Your Blog

By Dylan Deleto

Blogs are a great way to promote your service or product. Blogs are simple to install, easy to administer and simple to update. Search engines love them because they are generally a great source of original content. However, without traffic, a blog cannot reach its full potential. Provided here are 5 simple and easy ways to improve traffic to your blog and start making money.

1. Submit to blog search engines There are multitudes of search engines available that list only blogs. Just Google for "blog search engines" and you should find 20 or more. These blog search engines will help you with targeted traffic. Be sure to write a good title and a good description to your blog, so that people will easily find it and click on your link.

Step 2: Update your blog content frequently. A major key to improve your search engine ranking is regular updates. If you post regularly, it is quite likely that you will generate targeted traffic from search engines. A good rule of thumb is to make at least 1 new post per day to your blog. However, be careful as too many updates per day can harm your hits and search engines position. More than 10 post per day is probably too many updates.

3. Post in forums, but don't Spam them. Post something fresh and interesting and put a link to your blog in your signature. Don't just post in any forum. For example if you're selling shoes, post in forums that are about clothes and fashion. Don't post in car forums if you're selling books. By posting in forums you will get one-way links that are good for search engine position in search engines like Google, msn or yahoo.

#4. Create a list of blog services to ping. There are literally 100s of blogs services that you can ping. A ping is simply a notification that you have updated your blog. These services list your new posts and thereby generate traffic to your blog. There are a list of 50+ services on my site that you can ping. You will have to join my site to get the list, but joining is free. These lists are also available by searching in any of the major search engines. This should get you a great initial boost in traffic to your blog.

#5. Add buttons to popular newsreaders. Sites like Yahoo, Google, bloglines, etc. have members area where you can choose sites with RSS feeds to fetch the latest updates from different blogs. By using this method, you can have the latest updates from as many as 50 or more blogs listed on one page.

By following these simple steps, you will definitely increase the traffic to your blog. Traffic is the first step to getting the sales that you seek. The main guideline is that you update your blog with fresh original content that you have written yourself. Who knows, if you do it right, you might be able to quit your day job eventually.

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