It’s Easy to Increase Traffic to Your Blog

Posted by Dylan Deleto on January 5, 2010

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, don’t SPAM them. Put a link to your blog in your signature. Be sure to make your posts original and interesting. Don’t just post in every forum on the INTERNET; be selective and post in forums consistent with the content of your blog. For example, if you’re selling purses, post in forums that are about fashion and clothes. Don’t post in car forums if you’re selling toys. Posting in forums creates one-way links that will help to improve your search engine position in search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing.

Step 4: Develop a list of blog services to ping. There are many blogs services that you can ping. Pinging means that you notify the service that you have updated your blog. In turn, you gain traffic through the updated listing in these services. There are a list of 50+ blog services that you can ping on my site. This should be more than enough to provide an initial jump in traffic to your blog.

5.Add buttons to popular news readers What does this mean? Well there are sites like yahoo, Google or bloglines etc., which have a members area where you can select sites with RSS feeds to fetch the latest updates from different blogs. That way you can have the latest updates from let’s say 50 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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