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16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

You've got your blog set up and you've started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?

Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.

1. Set up an email subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates.

2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine.

3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Don't write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.

4. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.

5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines.

6. Submit your blog to blog directories.

Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this can take several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day for submitting or hire a VA to do it for you.

7. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.

8. Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.

9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.

10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.

11. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

12. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to. The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some may consider its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as 'feeds') may be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries.

13. Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other blogs, articles and websites in your posts

14. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.

15. Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box (See example in our signature below).

16. Make a commitment to blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can help increase your traffic as new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same time.

Tip: Use a hit counter to track your visitor stats: how many unique visitors, how many page views, average length of visit.

Generate High Quantity of Contents

Generating contents to your blog is the most simple task of blogging. This task is simple and you must do it everyday. Some people think that creating new contents to their blog is very troublesome and some of them don't update their blog at all.

The truth I can tell you is that, creating new contents to your blog is the most important task of blogging. Your blog will not be popular if you only have 1 or 2 posts. People will not come back to read your blog and they will leave if they don't find your blog informative.

So, creating new contents is important. You can give your readers new information and they will constantly come back and read your blog.

Search engines like new contents. The bot of search engines will index your blog and of course, it will index your new posts. Your new posts will be added into RSS and your posts will also appear in the search engines results list.

So, if your blog have a lot of posts, then you will be able to get a lot of traffic from search engines.

How many posts do you need for a qulity blog?
The number of posts depend on you. You can create a 500 posts blog or even more. Websites ior blogs that get a lot of traffic from search engines usually have more than 1000 posts. So, if possible, create more posts to your blog.

When your blog have more than 1000 posts. You will be able to get a lot of traffic and therefore, your AdSense Earnings will increase tremendously.

***Make sure that you create quality contents, do not simply "bang" on a topic and then create a low quality post about it. Create the contents properly and make it looks good. Keep your visitors coming and generate readerships to your blog.

Make a lot of money from AdSense is not impossible for you.

How to Get Targeted Traffic to Your Website From Search Engine Keyword Searches

Most people believe that the only way to get their keywords to rank high in the search engines is to use the SEOers tricks and tactics. But these tactics are only able to fool the spiders for a short time and then algorithms change and so does your keyword ranking, and you have to start climbing back up again using new tricks/tactics that are doomed to fail again.

1. How to get your keywords to rank in search engines.

The proper way to get good ranking, is by giving the search engine spiders what they are looking for, relevance. How do you do this? Good question: Proper planning from the start is the key. In order to get high traffic keywords to rank, you will build a list of keywords with lower traffic and competition that are connected with your higher ranking keyword by sub categories i.e. traffic is your high ranking keyword and a sub category might be daily traffic.

So to give relevance to these keywords you would write one web-page on and about traffic. Your daily traffic keyword will be a link on your side bar on the web-page about traffic. In the content about daily traffic you will have a link to yet another lower keyword were you have written a web-page on this subject. In this way the lower or easierkeywords to get ranking for, due to low search volume and competition will be the doorway that starts the keyword ranking process.

2. How to build up your search engine traffic through keywords ranking.

If you set up your website in this manner, your lower keywords will rank first and traffic will find its way into your site from the bottom. The search engines notice and watch their movement on your site, if you write good content hopefully they will continue further into you site structure. As this takes placesearch engines notice and they will see the relevance in your site. And soon your higher ranking keywords will be found in the search engines , and this will cause greater traffic. Which in-turn gets more noticed and your site content becomes more relevant and finally your top keyword is ranked and your site is growing in traffic and relevancy.

3. How building on the right platform will make all the difference.

Everything will be based on your site structure: The way you categorize your keywords from your niche market. Planning this out can be quite a task but with the right tools and guidance, once learned it can be reproduced over and over again. If you desire to build a business that generates warm targeted traffic that will only grow and grow then you need to learn how to structure your website

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