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		<title>Strategies for Blog Promotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 06:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog promotion is important when you are a problogger Learn how to do a blog promotion You have got your blog up and running on the internet and the next obvious thing to take care of will be to a blog promotion strategy that will make your blog visible to others. This requires a certain [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Blog promotion is important when you are a problogger</h2>
<h3>Learn how to do a blog promotion</h3>
<p>You have got your blog up and running on the internet and the next obvious thing to take care of will be to a <strong>blog promotion strategy</strong> that will make your blog visible to others. This requires a certain extent of planning on what kind of tools that you want to apply to the formation of <a href="http://www.net-func.com/blogging/advertising-using-blogs/">promotional strategies</a> for your blog. These strategies should be given a fair amount of consideration before applying them.</p>
<p>Strategies for blog promotion are many. Nonetheless, what&#8217;s listed below are proven strategies that should work effectively for your blog.</p>
<p><strong>(1) Search engines and blog directories</strong></p>
<p>Web directories such as Yahoo and search engines such as Google surfaced to catalog all new sites that are being created. Directories prominently used are Technorati , Blogwise , Blo.gs just to name a few. Send your newly created blog to such directories and search engines for indexing. Your blog will be made visible promptly.</p>
<p><strong>(2) Apt description of your blog to your targeted audience</strong></p>
<p>Write a short and apt description of your blog ; the description must fit the type of audience that you have targeted. Whatever benefits that readers can get from reading your blog must be clearly pointed out. One of the strategies for blog promotion requires you to let your readers know the real reason why they should read your blog in the first instance. What&#8217;s in your blog for them? You can support this strategy by using &#8220;tagging&#8221; which essentially is a subject or category description that you are attaching to your blog and to each individual blog post. This will make your blog more easily searchable by others. Tagging can be done with your posts on directories such as Technorati, for instance you can add tags like &#8220;London&#8221; and &#8220;shopping&#8221; to a particular post so that your blog will show up when others search for these topics in blog search engines.</p>
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<p><strong>(3) Make use of the &#8220;ping&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>The &#8220;pinging&#8221; action will enable you to automatically alert readers that you have written a new post on your blog. This action is executed through the various blog directories and other services that do publish blog updates. Upon publishing your latest post, you will &#8220;ping&#8221; directories and search engines. The latter will search for the new content on your blog. The &#8220;pinging&#8221; action will show your blog up in a list of recently updated blogs. To save you the time of &#8220;pinging&#8221; major search engines and directories separately, you can perform this action in one huge ping , by making use of BlogExplosion , Pingoat or Ping-O-Matic . It is important to remember that you need to &#8220;ping&#8221; only once. Take note that this &#8220;ping&#8221; act is one of the more important strategies for blog promotion that should not be neglected.</p>
<p><strong>(4) Two-way comments</strong></p>
<p>If you want to get more traffic, one way of blog promotion is to post your comments on the blogs of others. You should also allow others to post their comments on your blog too. Your perceptions on your blog can be read by others. Posting your comments is in effect equivalent to your contribution to a discussion with other bloggers. Anything topic that is insightful and interesting will surely draw more readers to your blog. It is a door to the building up of your reputation as an expert in your industry. The provision and availability of good helpful resources and relevant links to the topic in question will please the readers and should help to add value to the discussion.</p>
<p><strong>(5) Performing exchanging of links with others</strong></p>
<p>Linking up with other blogs and getting linked back to your own blog is a proven strategy that is intrinsically perfect integration with the blogging model. Readers will be able to access more sources of information on your blog. Your blog will be able to capture more traffic as other blogs link up with your blog. Importantly, the incoming links to your blog should be absolutely relevant to the content of your blog. This is another vital strategy for blog promotion, simply because if the incoming links originate from relevant high-traffic sites, your blog&#8217;s search engine ranking will be positively affected. Links can be placed within individual posts.</p>
<p><strong>(6) Put &#8220;trackback&#8221; to full use</strong></p>
<p>In blogging, you can use &#8220;trackback&#8221; to the list of other blogs that have linked to particular posts on your blog. You can locate these in the comments section under each post. With this feature enabled through your blog software, each time someone makes a link to a post on blog, you will be informed via an automated message from the other blog, and in return, your blog software will automatically add a link to the other blog below the post that is being referred to. You can use Haloscan where you can find free trackback tools to manage.</p>
<p><strong>(7) Good quality content</strong></p>
<p>What&#8217;s needed most on your blog promotion is content. Content must be of quality in order to attract readers. If you want to write real good content, you must ensure two things:</p>
<p>(a) Information that you give on your blog must be unique. Give expert content from various perspectives.</p>
<p>(b) Keep yourself informed and abreast of latest developments in your industry. Be the one to make the first spin of news.</p>
<p><strong>(8) Create repeat traffic</strong></p>
<p>Readers come and go. The solution to this scenario will be for you to write new post on new topic every day. It appears to be hard work, but there isn&#8217;t much choice if traffic is to be repeated. Remember that the content must be great. This is a vital strategy for blog promotion, especially for the purpose of generating repeat traffic. Writing up a series of posts will help in getting repeat traffic as readers will come back for more revelation from the future post. You can even try to request from your readers their email addresses, so that you can notify them of your new updates. This is essentially building up an opt-in list that opens the door to numerous email marketing opportunities.</p>
<p><strong>(9) Social bookmarking, blog awards, web ring</strong></p>
<p>Join social bookmarking sites such as Del.icio.us that permits users to share their favorite web sites with one another. Just &#8220;tag&#8221; to your blog posts and readers will be able to bookmark your site in their Del.icio.us account. Another great social bookmarking is Digg. Blog awards are given out online. You can participate for the fun and traffic that it will potentially drive to your blog. You can also join a web ring where you can find many groups of like-minded people who may fall into your category of target audience. This will enable you to build your relationship with them on same platform.</p>
<p>To make your blog effective, you will have to work hard on your content. Using the above listed strategies for blog promotion, you will be able to drive traffic to your blog, as well as succeed in your creation of repeat traffic. So, put these blog promotion strategies to good use and blow away your competition.</p>
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		<title>Advertising Using Blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 06:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some company promote their products by advertising through blogs What is the advantages of advertising using blogs? Advertising Your Blog In Your Email Signature: If you have a blog that you are particularly proud of, and that you want to share with other people, there are a lot of free ways that you can get [...]]]></description>
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<h3>What is the advantages of advertising using blogs?</h3>
<p><strong>Advertising Your Blog In Your Email Signature:</strong> If you have a blog that you are particularly proud of, and that you want to share with other people, there are a lot of free ways that you can <a href="http://www.net-func.com/blogging/a-recipe-for-guaranteed-success/">get your blog noticed</a>. One of those ways is something that you do everyday, and that you may not even consider as a way to share your blog. Put the link to your blog in your email signature. Chances are that you send out emails more times that you can count during the day, Each time you send out an email, you can do a blog advertising by putting the address of your blog in your email’s signature. It’s always a good idea to write something catchy like, See what I am up to now, or Read my latest chapter of my fanfiction here, depending on what type of blog you have. The thing to remember about putting an advertisement in your signature for your blog is to make it short, but eye-catching. You want people to be interested enough to want to click on it, but you also don’t want to scare them off. Just like it is with any advertisement, you want to give them just enough to be interested and take a closer look at what it is that you are advertising. Think about what it is that your blog is about. What is really going to interest people about it and want to visit That is what you should include in your signature, and that is what is going to get people to go to your blog.</p>
<p><strong>Blogger Forums &#8211; A Great Place To Do  A Blog Advertising:</strong> No matter what type of blog that you have, one of the best places that you can do a blog advertising is to join a blogger forum. After all, everyone who posts there has a blog and that&#8217;s the main subject. It’s a great place to meet other bloggers and to do a blog advertising. There are quite a few blogger forums that you can sign up for on the Internet. One is known as Bloggeries, where you can show off your blog, get your blog reviewed or review other blogs, and find lots of tools that you can use for your own blog. Another good place to go is to Blog Forum. Blog Forum, like Bloggeries, has spots for you to market and show off your blog, Blogger forums are a great place to do a blog advertising because everyone in them are of the same mind and want to make certain that their blogs get noticed and read. If you use your blog to do an advertising for something that you are selling, or you want to get a lot of traffic to your blog in order to make money, you want to go someplace where it can get exposure. When you advertise on a blog forum, you know that you are placing your advertisement in a place where blogging is something that people enjoy. Just remember when you are posting to a forum to read the rules and abide by them. That way you’ll get your blog noticed and you will know that you are doing the right things.</p>
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<p><strong>Blogging Directories &#8211; Great Advertising Venues:</strong> If you want to have more people visit your blog, there are plenty of blog directories on the Internet that you can submit your blog to so that people will come and visit it. Most blog directories are listed by the topics that the blogs that are submitted cover. Blog Catalog is a free blog directory that offers categories such as career and jobs, writing, Iraq, and many others. It has features such as featured blogs and other things to offer those who submit their blogs there. Another great place to add your blog is blog-directory.org. Not only do they have an an extensive list of categories with sub categories, you can get your blog reviewed. For the most popular blogs, it shows the amount of hits that blogs have and if they have any reviews. As well as listing by category, the blogs are also listed by location. There are other blog directories on the Internet &#8211; these are only a couple of them. But blog directories are a great place to advertise your blog and to make<br />
new friends. You never know what you will find when you browsing through the directory, and you may just find out information that you never knew. Some of the blog directories offer chat features as well, so that you can meet other people easily. As you can see, blog directories are a great place to get your blog noticed and bring people to read your blog and look at your pictures.</p>
<p><strong>Blogging Traffic &#8211; Give And Take:</strong> Blogging traffic is a give and take relationship. Sometimes one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog is by visiting someone else ’s blog. Go to their blog and read one of their entries, or read a few of them. Chances are that you are going to find something that you have in common. When you find something that you find truly<br />
interesting on a blog, leave a comment so that they know that you were there. One of the best known blogs available is LiveJournal. A great feature of LiveJournal is that you can search<br />
for interests on their site and it will come up with results of those who have that interest. Are you interested in horseback riding You can see what other bloggers are interested in horseback riding as well. When you are commenting on someone’s post, you want to make sure that you don’t leave generic comment. If you like the post, say something about what you read in the post. After you have commented on the person’s post, then you can say something like, ‘I really like horseback riding too. I had a similar experience to yours.’ and<br />
then use it to link back to your journal. But be sure that you sound sincere when you are<br />
commenting, and don’t make them feel like you’re just fishing for traffic. If someone thinks that you are using their blog to get more traffic to yours, they won’t visit your site and your efforts will be wasted.</p>
<p><strong>Join A Community To Advertise Your Blog:</strong> Something that you will find, especially if you join something like LiveJournal or GreatestJournal, is that users just like you have created communities for people with common interests. There are communities for just about any subject, and if you find that there isn’t a community for the subject you can create one. This is a great place to advertise your blog. The nice thing about communities is that there isn’t<br />
any limit as to how many communities that you can join. For example, say that you love blogging about books, horseback riding, and skiing in Tahoe. All you have to do is look through the communities for ones that have those interests and join them. As long as you post something related to the topic to the chosen community, people will see you and perhaps<br />
they will check out your personal blog. Something to remember is that you don’t want to write<br />
a post that is one sentence long in order to get people to go to your blog. They will want to know that what you write is interesting and is something worth reading. Joining communities can be a great way to advertise your blog and drive traffic to it. If you are referring to something that you posted about on your blog, you can use a link back to your entry in your post. As with posting comments on someone else blog, you don’t want people to think that you joined a community simply to get traffic to your blog. Otherwise, people won’t visit your blog and you may get banned from the community as well.</p>
<p><strong>Email Groups &#8211; Hidden Treasure Troves For Advertising:</strong> Something that has become increasingly popular since the Internet has grown are the email groups that are available through Yahoo, MSN, and other venues. They are a great way to meet other people who have a common interest, and are very similar to the communities that are available through blogging sites. There is plenty of diverse subjects and there are communities for just about any subject. These groups can be a great place for people who have a blog about the subject and want to share it with other people. Most of the time when you join a group, you are<br />
encouraged to take a moment and to introduce yourself. This is a great opportunity to do a blog advertising, but make certain that you don’t overdo it. Just like with any of the other places you do a blog advertising, you want to make people want to go to your blog. If you are too overbearing, you will turn people off. If your blog covers different subjects, you can do the advertising on the other groups that cover those subjects as well. Make certain that your post to the groups is interesting and that you let people know what it is that your blog is about. There’s nothing worse than getting taken to a blog under false pretenses. When people visit your blog, make certain that you thank them for visiting and respond to comments that they leave. If they know that you are advertising your products the time that they took, they are more likely to not to come back again.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 06:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Blogging is a great way to get traffic to your website, and if you create a blog for no other reason than that, you are practically certain to get positive results</h2>
<h3>Blogging and traffic are made for each other, and there are several ways of using blogs to promote products on your site</h3>
<p>The first question is what kind of blog? Although there are alternatives, the most popular <strong>blogging software packages</strong> are Google&#8217;s Blogger and WordPress. This offers you four blogging options, and three ways of creating a blog to <a href="http://www.net-func.com/blogging/generate-traffic-to-your-website-by-using-blogs/">get traffic to your website</a>.</p>
<p>Why four from just two blogging packages? Here is the answer to that question, and how if you create a blog using each, you will maximize your earning potential from your products:</p>
<p>Blogger</p>
<p>Blogger is blogging software owned by Google. Most people run their blog from BlogSpot, Bloggers blogging host. When you do that you have less control over your blog than if you operate it from your own IP address. Blogger is very easy to use, and very easy to get started with, and is popular with those who don&#8217;t want to worry about templates, plugins and designing their own blogs.</p>
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<p>WordPress</p>
<p>WordPress can also be run from the WordPress hosting site. However, where WordPress scores over Blogger is in the fact that the software can be uploaded to your website, and can be run from there. This enables you to use any of the thousands of WordPress plugins and templates that provide an almost unlimited degree of functionality in your blogging that will help to drive traffic to your website.</p>
<p>When you create a blog with any of these two different packages, whether run from your own computer or from the blog host, you are able to provide fresh content daily to your virtual website. Because that is what a blog is: it is in effect a web page, in the same way that a Squidoo lens and a page on a website is a web page.</p>
<p>Blogging and Search Engines</p>
<p>Blogging allows you a presence on search engines such as Google and Yahoo, and allows those with little idea of SEO or even of web design, to sell products online. There was a time when blogs were a rarity and something new, but blogging is now a way for anybody that knows how to create a blog can drive traffic to their website or to their blog page and help them make money through free advertising.</p>
<p>However, even a blog has to be advertised. Blogging in itself is not an advertising technique, but one of displaying your thoughts, idea, products or advertising your products. Now, you might think I am being a bit duplicitous here, stating that blogging is not a means of advertising yet can be used to advertise! Yet both statements are true. Let me explain why.</p>
<p>Is Blogging an Advertising Technique?</p>
<p>Yes and no. You can create a blog in order to get traffic to your website, and in that respect you are using your blog for advertising. You can place a link to your website: your squeeze page, sales page or just a content page. The question is, how do you get people to read your blog, and then click on one of these links? The link could be placed at the bottom of every post, and on a permanent page on your blog, but how do yet get traffic to your blog: you have the same problem now as getting traffic to your website!</p>
<p>What you have here is that blogging can be use to promote another site, whether it be a website, another blog or a social networking site such as Facebook, MySpace or YouTube. You can use all of these to promote and sell products. However, how do you get people, to find your blog? Creating a blog is fine, but that is only the start.</p>
<p>Use Article Marketing in Blogging</p>
<p>There is one way, and that is article marketing. By writing articles about your niche or product, and then including a link to your blog in the article, you can use the article to advertise your blog. If you can persuade a reader to click on your link, they will reach your blog on which you provide them with links to your website, your other blogs and your Facebook and MySpace home pages.</p>
<p>Perhaps you can&#8217;t write, and maybe don&#8217;t know how to use articles properly, or even where to get them. Well don&#8217;t worry. If you want to make the best use of the internet than create a blog, get blogging and then use the help provide online to make best use of your blog make money.</p>
<p>Blogging and traffic go together, and it is easy to create a blog to drive traffic to your website or any other online web page (such as another blog).</p>
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		<title>Generate Traffic to Your Website by Using Blogs</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Blogging can be used to generate traffic to your website, Facebook or MySpace page or even another blog</h2>
<h3>However, to generate traffic, you have to advertise your blog itself, and that should be taken into account when you create a blog</h3>
<p>Blogging is a great way to <strong>generate traffic</strong> to your website, and if you create a blog for no other reason than that, you are practically certain to get positive results. Blogging and traffic are made for each other, and there are several ways of using blogs to promote products on your site. Use your blog to make money as well as to have fun and meet people.</p>
<p>The first question is what kind of blog? Although there are alternatives, the most popular blogging software packages are Google&#8217;s Blogger and WordPress .For more details visit to www.rss-announcers.com. This offers you four blogging options, and three ways of creating a blog to <a href="http://www.net-func.com/blogging/15-tips-to-optimize-your-blog-for-search-engine-optimization/">generate traffic to your website</a>.</p>
<p>Why four from just two blogging packages? Here is the answer to that question, and how if you create a blog using each, you will maximize your earning potential from your products:</p>
<p>Blogger<br />
Blogger is blogging software owned by Google. Most people run their blog from Blogspot, Bloggers blogging host. When you do that you have less control over your blog than if you operate it from your own IP address. Blogger is very easy to use, and very easy to get started with, and is popular with those who don&#8217;t want to worry about templates, plugging and designing their own blogs.</p>
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<p>Word press<br />
Word press can also be run from the Word press hosting site. However, where Word presses scores over Blogger is in the fact that the software can be uploaded to your website, and can be run from there. This enables you to use any of the thousands of Word press plugging and templates that provide an almost unlimited degree of functionality in your blogging that will help to generate traffic to your website.</p>
<p>When you create a blog with any of these two different packages, whether run from your own computer or from the blog host, you are able to provide fresh content daily to your virtual website. Because that is what a blog is: it is in effect a web page, in the same way that a Squidoo lens and a page on a website is a web page.</p>
<p>Bogging and Search Engines<br />
Blogging allows you a presence on search engines such as Google and Yahoo, and allows those with little idea of SEO or even of web design, to sell products online. There was a time when blogs were a rarity and something new, but blogging is now a way for anybody that knows how to create a blog can generate traffic to their website or to their blog page and help they make money through free advertising.</p>
<p>However, even a blog has to be advertised. Blogging in itself is not an advertising technique, but one of displaying your thoughts, idea, products or advertising your products. Now, you might think I am being a bit duplicitous here, stating that blogging is not a means of advertising yet can be used to advertise! Yet both statements are true. Let me explain why.</p>
<p>Is Blogging an Advertising Technique?<br />
Yes and no. You can create a blog in order to get traffic to your website, and in that respect you are using your blog for advertising. You can place a link to your website: your squeeze page, sales page or just a content page. The question is, how do you get people to read your blog, and then click on one of these links? The link could be placed at the bottom of every post, and on a permanent page on your blog, but how do yet generate traffic to your blog: you have the same problem now as getting traffic to your website!</p>
<p>What you have here is that blogging can be use to promote another site, whether it be a website, another blog or a social networking site such as Facebook, My Space or You Tube. You can use all of these to promote and sell products. However, how do you get people, to find your blog? Creating a blog is fine, but that is only the start.</p>
<p>Use Article Marketing in Blogging<br />
There is one way, and that is article marketing. By writing articles about your niche or product, and then including a link to your blog in the article, you can use the article to advertise your blog .For more information logon to www.feed-reader-links.com. If you can persuade a reader to click on your link, they will reach your blog on which you provide them with links to your website, your other blogs and your Facebook and My Space home pages.</p>
<p>Perhaps you can&#8217;t write, and maybe don&#8217;t know how to use articles properly, or even where to get them. Well don’t worry. If you want to make the best use of the internet than create a blog, get blogging and then use the help provide online to make best use of your blog make money.</p>
<p>Blogging and traffic go together, and it is easy to create a blog to generate traffic to your website or any other online web page (such as another blog). You only need to know how.</p>
<p>I can show you how: check out Article Czar for information on how articles can be used to make money from your blog, and also to receive a free gift for visiting. I also include a small file that shows you how to set up your Word press blog on your website. Also check out Create A Blog for more general advice on creating your own blog tips on how to generate traffic.</p>
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<h3>Learn how to increase blog traffic</h3>
<p>Maybe a few days later you received a few <strong>blog traffic</strong> hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that&#8221;s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.</p>
<p>Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers and get new blog traffic.</p>
<p>These are <a href="http://www.net-func.com/blogging/7-quick-tips-toward-a-successful-blog/">tips specifically for new bloggers</a>, those people who have next-to-no audience at the<br />
moment and want to get fresh blog traffic.</p>
<p>It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to<br />
help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is<br />
called &#8220;traction&#8221;, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you<br />
no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers.</p>
<p>Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.Top 10 Tips</p>
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<p><strong>10.</strong> Write at least five major &#8220;pillar&#8221; articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to<br />
teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very<br />
practical tips or advice.</p>
<p>This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical<br />
and a good &#8220;how-to&#8221; lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current<br />
(it isn&#8221;t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight.</p>
<p>The more pillars you have on your blog the better.</p>
<p><strong>9.</strong> Write one new blog post per day minimum.</p>
<p>Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same<br />
time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing<br />
here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if<br />
they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new.</p>
<p>This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed. You don&#8221;t have to produce<br />
one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new.</p>
<p>Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will<br />
be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so<br />
the more content you can produce at this time the better.</p>
<p><strong>8.</strong> Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call<br />
your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily<br />
memorable domain name.</p>
<p>People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world<br />
(that&#8217;s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them<br />
to spread the word and pass on your URL.</p>
<p>Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry<br />
about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember<br />
then you&#8217;ve done a good job!).</p>
<p><strong>7.</strong> Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller<br />
articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of<br />
blog traffic for your blog is to comment on other people&#8217;s blogs.</p>
<p>You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers<br />
there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.</p>
<p>Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you<br />
leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentator and always<br />
have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and<br />
hence click through to visit your blog.</p>
<p><strong>6.</strong> Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog<br />
conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another<br />
blogger&#8217;s article you can do a trackback to their entry.</p>
<p>What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry &#8211; it&#8217;s sort of like<br />
your blog telling someone else&#8217;s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks<br />
often appear like comments.</p>
<p>This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another<br />
blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important &#8211; it gets the<br />
attention of another blogger and will brings you new blog traffic.</p>
<p>The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They<br />
may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time<br />
down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.</p>
<p><strong>5.</strong> Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone<br />
to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If<br />
they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since<br />
you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about.</p>
<p>To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always<br />
respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.</p>
<p><strong>4.</strong> Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that<br />
summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to<br />
collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to<br />
a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike<br />
in new blog traffics.</p>
<p>To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.</p>
<p><strong>3.</strong> Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of<br />
new blog traffics but it&#8217;s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it&#8217;s worth the effort. Go to Blog<br />
Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it.</p>
<p>You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit<br />
back and watch the blog traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with<br />
this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> Submit your articles to ArticleBase.com. This is another tip that doesn&#8217;t bring in hundreds of<br />
new blog traffics immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it&#8217;s worthwhile because you<br />
simply leverage what you already have &#8211; your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your<br />
pillar articles and submit it to ArticleBase.com.</p>
<p>Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their<br />
website or in their newsletter. How you benefit is through what is called your &#8220;Resource<br />
Box&#8221;.</p>
<p>You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two<br />
sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your<br />
article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large<br />
newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all<br />
of the techniques I&#8217;ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you<br />
do everything above you may bring in readers and blog traffic but they won&#8221;t stay or bother to come back.</p>
<p>Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of<br />
over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers and more blog traffic.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>So many ways to increase traffic for our blog</h2>
<h3>However, just a few which effectively increase traffic and visitor</h3>
<p>Are you constantly blogging but you never <strong>increase traffic logs</strong>? It can be maddening to check your stats and realize that no one is actually stopping by. Don&#8217;t give up yet, because there are four great ways you can get traffic fast.</p>
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<p><strong>Traffic Tip #1: Do Your Keyword Research</strong></p>
<p>Many bloggers make the mistake of thinking they can just throw some posts up there and expect to get traffic. There is a lot more to it than that! You need to make sure you are looking at the keyword data to find terms that are getting a lot of searches. Ideally, you want these terms to have low competition so it&#8217;s easier for you to rank. Once you start basing your posts around these kinds of keywords you should find that you&#8217;re getting a lot more traffic.</p>
<p><strong>Traffic Tip #2: Write Enticing Articles Off-Site</strong></p>
<p>Submitting to article directories isn&#8217;t just a good way to get backlinks to your site, it&#8217;s also a great way to increase traffic! Sites like EzineArticles.com have their own readership of people who are looking for the exact topic you&#8217;re blogging about. If you write a compelling article that leads into your resource box, people will be enticed to visit your blog.</p>
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<p><strong>Traffic Tip #3: Give People a Reason to Come Back</strong></p>
<p>Getting traffic in the first place is one thing, but what you want to do as a blogger is have them coming back over and over again. The best way to do this is to create special offers or exciting events. For example, you can <a href="http://www.net-func.com/blogging/5-blogging-plugins-you-must-use/">give away a prize</a> each week to the new people who subscribed to your list or your feed. You can also run a contest for people who leave answers as comments on your blog posts. Make your blog a happening place to be and people will want to visit often and tell their friends.</p>
<p><strong>Traffic Tip #4: Create Linkbait</strong></p>
<p>Linkbait is when you write a blog post that is so exciting or controversial it gets people to come to your blog, comment, and link to the post. You may share some shocking news or offer an opinion you know is bound to stir people&#8217;s emotions. You do need to have thick skin when you write linkbait! Don&#8217;t expect everyone to agree with your opinion.</p>
<p>An example of linkbait is going the opposite way everyone else goes. For instance, imagine you have an electronics blog and you decide to review the iPhone. After reviewing the product you decide you don&#8217;t like it. You then write to tell your readers why. Since this was a product everyone was gaga over when it first came out the chances are good you would have gotten a strong reaction right off the bat.</p>
<p>There you have it! These are four solid ways you can start to increase the traffic on your blog as soon as possible. When you put these methods to work you&#8217;ll realize that the secrets to increase traffic were in front of you the whole time.</p>
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