How to get Traffic to your Blog Part 1
You will probably tell all your friends and family about your latest endeavor, they may even visit your blog several times, and if you are fortunate, they will give you their opinion. Their response may hurt, it may be really painful, they may even be brutally honest, however you should welcome their advice the good, the bad, the ugly. You can think of this as your own little focus group, and it will allow you to make the needed adjustments to become successful. The more people you tell, the more people they will tell. I hope you are doing your own research, and as you do, you will hear terms like SEO (search engine optimization), links, trackbacks, tags, etc. These are all good no excellent tools to get traffic to your blog, and you should learn about each of these powerful tools. With that said, do not under estimate word of mouth, it is still a really effective tool, like the old agree shampoo commercial you will tell someone, and they will tell someone and they will tell someone and they will tell someone. Remeber good news travels fast, bad news travels faster. Here is where, I will stress that your blog will only be as good as the content you produce, and the traffic will increase based on that content.
The first tool then is word of mouth.
The second is search engine optimization.
The third is giving and getting comments.
Remember the use of keywords is the key, but do not over use them.
Let’s talk about search engine optimization, eventually your blog will start showing up on search engines like google, yahoo, bing, ask, pinterest, wolfram alpha, wikipedia well maybe at least the first four listed. You can speed up the process by submitting your blog’s URL to these sites, you know, the uniform resource locator. If you are new to the internet or just never gave it much attention it is the http://www.yourblogname.com. You can submit your URL by submitting it directly to the sites or use a third party website to do it for you. If you have a problem trying to find the steps to do this, what you can do is go to each search engine and search (submit my url to name of search engine). Otherwise here are some links below.
http://www.ehow.com/how_4844834_submit-search-engines.html (good article)
There are many links that I can list here, but I will not, I say let them write their own blog, unless they would like to pay me. Another way to get traffic, is to visit other peoples blogs, read it, and then give an insightful comment, then link your URL with the comment. I will stress, that you leave a really good comment, because comments are another way for their blog and your blog to get increased traffic. We will talk more about this the next time. Remember to use keywords even when commenting.
Here is what I am doing. Every month I will be holding a drawing for $100.00. Starting with September I will sweeten the kiddy with $200.00. Goto http://www.1in100uwin.com for how I will conduct this drawing.
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