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Below I have listed 6 tips
for increasing traffic to your blog, please note that this is
what has worked for me, so they should work for you.
1. Join Traffic
Exchange Programs
Traffic exchange programs
such as Blog Explosion and Blog Soldiers can get you lots if
traffic very quickly, especially when you first sign up as they
usually give you free credits to start with. The problem with
this sort of program is that although you're getting lots of
traffic you can't really be sure any of the people browsing your
site are actually reading your content and not just browsing to
get credits for their own traffic. But saying that even if you
only get 1 regular reader out of every 100 visitors that's good
going.
2. Submit Your Blog
To New Directories
I have submitted my blog to
probably over 20 directories and the ones I get the most traffic
from are the new directories with only a few links such as
http://rhyswynne.co.uk/toplist/ where I'm currently in the Top
10. Bloggers seem to be very quick to find new directories so if
you get in there early your blog will be at the top of the list
when new bloggers come to join.
3. Exchange Links
With Other Blogs
A lot of my traffic comes
from other blogs that have either added me to their Blog Roll
because they like my site or because we have exchanged links.
Try and find blogs that are similar to yours and where there can
be a mutual benefit for exchanging links. I've recently
exchanged links with Mike's Money Making Mission who also has a
blog about trying to make money on the internet and I have
received quite a number of referrals from his blog. Also when
exchanging links like this try writing a post about them
pointing visitors in their direction, they might do the same for
you. The other advantage to exchanging links with other blog is
that the more blogs that link to you the higher your Technorati
ranking (see the next tip).
4. Use Technorati
Tags In All Your Posts
Technorati is a great
resource for finding interesting posts in blogs and the best way
of doing that is by searching for tags. Tags are like keywords,
so that when you do a search in Technorati it looks for these
tags in individual posts. Visit http://www.technorati.com/help/tags.html
to find out how to tag your posts. Tagging your posts has the
added advantage that, if your posts can be easily found people
can link to you and as mentioned in the last tip the more links
to your blog you have the higher your ranking in Technorati is,
which again makes your blog even more visible.
5. Join Forums And
Contribute
I've mentioned this before
in other post but joining and being part of a blogging forum is
a great source of traffic. There are a lot of good blogging
forums out there two of my faourites are Blogger Forum and
Blogger Talk but there are lots more. When joing a forum bear in
mind that you are joing a community and it's not enough to just
write a post with a link to your blog and say look at this, you
need to become a part of the community. By all means put a link
in your signature, but write meaningful and useful posts, reply
to other posts with helpful comments, above all DO NOT
SPAM.
6. Visit Other
Blogs And Comment
Try to actively read lots
of blogs and leave meaningful comments, just like the forum tip,
don't just leave useless comments like "Nice blog", try to be
constructive. By leaving meaningful comments you let the owner
of the blog know that you've been there and read what has been
written and they might in turn visit your blog and leave a
comment.
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