Boosting traffic to your blog is always the bane of any Interent marketer or even just a regular blog owner. Here are a few simple tips that can put you on the right track.
And if you find one that works better than the others? Then rinse and repeat…
Blogs are a very popular ways of promoting your product or service. They are easy to install, easy to administer and easy to update. And search engines love them too. But what is a blog without traffic?Exactly. Here are five quick ways to boost traffic to your blog and start seeing those big sales.
1.Have A Ping List Ready
There are hundreds if not thousands of blog services that you can ping to let them know that you’ve made an update to your blog. These services then take your new post and display it in one form or another on their site. Just search ‘blog ping list’ in Google or try a few of these:
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
Although there is of course alot more available. This is just to get you started.
2.Add RSS Buttons For The Most Popular RSS Readers
Yahoo, Google, Feedburner, bloglines etc are all popular feed readers that your visitors may be using. So make sure you give them the option to add your RSS feed to any reader that they may be using. This way readers can easily subscribe to your feed. Speaking of which, have you subscribed to my blog yet?
3.Regularly Update Your Blog
Search engines love a regularly updated blog. They consider it fresh and new content and favour those that do update often. You should try and update your blog at least once a day, although don’t go overboard. Too many updates in a day has the opposite effect and isn’t liked (10 posts a day or more).
4.Post in Forums
Post useful comment in forums that are talking about your subject matter. I’ve personally never been very good at getting traffic from forums because you have to stay very engaged to get a good amount of traffic from them. But traffic does come, so keep at it and be patient.
5.Use Blog Search Engines
Blog search engines such as Google Blog Search are plentiful out there, from blog search engines targeted at health blogs and a range of other topics. Just do a search for ‘blog search engine’ and add your site to their directory.
These are just a couple of the things you can do to slowly drive more traffic to your blog and hopefully start making more money online.
Keep trying,
-William Lee
