Archive for the ‘Blog Traffic’ Category

Get more traffic with WidgetBox Blog Network

Oct 3, 2008 Blog Traffic, Blogging Tools

Widgetizing the webWidgetBox, a repository of useful widgets for bloggers and websites, has recently launched a new networking site for like-minded bloggers to share websites using widgets.

The WidgetBox Blog Network aims to promote website of similar categories using a sidebar widget.  It is a community of bloggers and publishers connected by a single widget showcasing content across your channel.

How can the WidgetBox Blog Network help you get more traffic?

Every member is featured in The Widgetbox Network widget, which sits across every site in the network. Every member is also featured on widgetbox.com and in the leaderboard for their channel with prominent links to their blog, posts, profile and all their Widgetbox widgets and blidgets. This drives increased exposure and significant natural search benefits to members and their content.

Join WidgetBox Blog Network today.

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How To Get More Readers For Your Blog And Keep Them Coming Back?

Sep 26, 2008 Blog Traffic, Blogging Tips

Whether you have a business blog or a personal one you no doubt want as many people to view it and hopefully interact with it, and you, as possible. There are a few key things to remember when both primarily creating your blog and then promoting it to others.

1. Keep your readers in mind.  Make it easy to read and understand. Keep your writing clear and concise, while it doesn’t need to be grammatically ideal (at least for a personal blog) it should at least make sense.

2. Provide useful and important information for your readers.  In the first place, readers are seeking for information when they arrived at your blog.  Provide the most accurate and helpful information as much as possible to gain the trust of your readers.

3. Avoid unnecessary blog add-ons. Avoid using scripts that may cause slower loading time for your blog.  I’ve come across blogs with annoying music background on it. Believe me, it’s one way of driving away your readers.

4. Comment on blogs that are relevant to yours.  Somehow, commenting to other blogs help you gain friendship with other blogs. It will be a give-and-take relationship. You can also make a track back with your blog postings to comment on your own blog. This will give someone else the urge to track back to your blog.

4. Make your blog as interactive as possible; give your readers the chance to leave comments or feedback, the more reason you can give them to interact with you the more often they will come back; on that note you can also give your viewers the chance to subscribe to your blog so they receive emails when your blog has been updated etc.

5. Finally, where possible, keep your individual posts in related categories and provide an archive page that will help the reader easily find the information they were looking for.

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Creating a Popular Blog

Sep 10, 2008 Blog Traffic, Blogging Tips

If you want to make money through blogging, creating a popular blog is the key to success. If your blog receives very little traffic, you will not have much success monetizing it. No matter which method you use to make money from your blog, you will find the most success if you have a large readership. Because of this, making your blog popular and growing readership should be one of your primary concerns.

There are many ways to make your blog more popular. The first thing you should consider is who your audience is and who you are writing for. You should always write about something that interests you, and that will interest others. You may think that your new kitten is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but there are probably not very many other people who want to read a blog about it. It is best to find a niche audience that is large enough to support a wide readership but not to vague.

Blog readers are looking for interesting, relevant topics to read, not the next work of Shakespeare. Make sure what you write is interesting, edgy, or even controversial. Popular blogs are never boring and add value to reader’s lives either through information or entertainment. Make sure your blog adds something of value to your reader’s life otherwise you will not develop a large fan base.

Making your blog popular is a lot like driving traffic to a website. You can use many of the same techniques to drive traffic to your blog. Finding places to link back to your blog is a good way to drive traffic. Social sites such as Myspace, Facebook, and You tube provide lots of opportunities for this. You can also use social book marking sites such as Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg to promote your blog. Blogging on a popular blog site such as Wordpress and Blogger are also good ways to make your blog more popular as these blogging sites help to bring in traffic for your blog.

Whether you blog on a blogging network or you have an independently hosted blog, you need to make sure your blog is designed well. It is true that content is king and if a blog has great content is may receive lots of traffic even though it is ugly, having a well designed blog that is not ugly or annoying will help to drive repeat traffic. You want your blog to look unique, but not too unique. Keep with internet formalities such as blue links and use large font for headings.

You should break your post up into small paragraphs each with a headline if possible as internet readers tend to scan the screen looking for relevant information rather than reading everything word for word. Make sure your colors do not contrast too harshly and that the text is easy to read. Using good design will make your blog aesthetically pleasing and make readers more likely to come back and remain on your page.

No matter where your blog is hosted, you should try to get it indexed by all the major search engines. Some forms of blog monetization require that your blog be indexed by search engines before they will allow you to participate in your program. The higher ranked your blog is, the more visitors you will receive and the more popular your blog will become.

All forms of monetization for your blog require readers to work successfully. Before you try to implement your monetization strategies, make sure your blog has enough readers to make your efforts work. If there is no one to click your ads, visit your affiliate sites, or read your reviews, you do not stand much of a chance of making money.

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A list of the High-PR Social Bookmarking Sites

Aug 31, 2008 Blog Traffic, Blogging Tips

The advent of social bookmarking sites has helped a lot of webmasters and bloggers to easily promote their sites and blogs.

Here is a list of the social bookmarking sites that have high Google pagerank:

http://del.icio.us/ PageRank: 8/10
http://www.furl.net/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.simpy.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://del.icio.us/ PageRank: 8/10
http://www.backflip.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.blinklist.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://bluedot.us/ PageRank: 6/10
http://de.lirio.us/bookmarks/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.diigo.com/user/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.shadows.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.markaboo.com/ PageRank: 5/10
http://ma.gnolia.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://linkagogo.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://netvouz.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.mister-wong.de/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.spurl.net/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.rawsugar.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.stumbleupon.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.digg.com/ PageRank: 8/10
http://www.blogmarks.net/ PageRank: 7/10
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.netvouz.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.taggly.com/ PageRank: 5/10
http://www.lookmarks.com/ PageRank: 5/10
http://socialbookmarking.org/ PageRank: 5/10

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Blogging For Traffic Tip #7 - Make Sure You Post Regularly But Not Overly So

Jul 7, 2008 Blog Traffic, Blogging Tips

You have to blog regularly to keep search engines interested, ping sites interested and even more importantly, people interested. If you don’t post regularly, all of the above will still coming back as frequently and will lose interest in your site.

You should post at least once a week, at the very least. Two to three times would be better. But make sure you don’t post every day all day. This makes your site to search engines look like a spam blog.

Also make sure you split your post times up. Some weeks post on mondays, thursdays and sundays, other weeks post on the other days.

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Blogging For Traffic Tip #5 - Write Like You Are Talking To A Friend

Jul 7, 2008 Blog Traffic, Blogging Tips

There is nothing worse then reading a blog with no personality. People think that they have to take on this serious, boring persona when writing a blog, but you should be having fun with it instead.

People like to read blogs that are conversationalist in nature. People like to read writing that is written at the 7th grade level. People don’t want to read large words and hard to read sentences.

People also like it when you talk to them one on one like an old friend. Talk to the reader as if only one person were reading your blog.

Having a unique personality will get you more traffic from people telling people about your site then any “traffic building” technique.

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Blogging For Traffic Tip #1 - Create Original Content Of Significant Value

Jun 30, 2008 Blog Traffic, Blogging Tips

This is the first part of the Blog Tips ETC Series: How To Get Massive Traffic To Your Blog Daily Tips!

Content is king. If you have been in the Internet marketing scene for any period of time you would have heard this saying day in and day out. Every Internet marketing manual has this as it’s mantra and rightly so.

One of the biggest problems people have when blogging has nothing to do with the lack of traffic coming to their site. It’s a symptom of something more sinister. Bad content. Even worse then poorly written original content is content that is not original at all. This is the death bell for all blogs that want to be taken seriously.

You HAVE to have unique content. It is the lifeblood of blogging. Every other blog is lacking in original content, you have to be different.

Pay someone to write it if you have to.

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5 Ways to Get Web Traffic to go to Your Site

Jun 24, 2008 Blog Traffic

Web traffic is the flow of browsers and visitors that goes in and out of your website. The bigger web traffic you get , the higher the chances you can get to make a profit out of your website.

Web traffic is important for websites to function. No particular site will exist without having web traffic; there is no point really of having a site without anyone going in. Owners of a website are continuously running the online business because of the profit they got from the traffic. Even the most optimized site will not be successful without any web traffic.

There so many ways to get a web traffic to your website. Most of them do not require out right money but guarantees to give you profit in time. There are many ways to get good-targeted web traffic as well. The methods are reduced to five ways to get traffic for your website.

•    Forums

You can host a forum or community that talks about any subject you can visualize. Search for the forums that can be added to the topic that you wish to promote. Carefully study the entire discussed topic and relate it to the questions asked during the discussion. The discussion can also answer personal questions. Make sure that in every discussion made, you put a small resource box at the end of it to serve as a link to your particular site. You must not advertise other sites, if you advertise it you will be banned from joining the forum. It is necessary to put your bio in every end of your postings. Do not pursue with some of the forums that do not allow the posting of a resource box.

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What Is Search Engine Optimization?

Apr 15, 2008 Blog Traffic, Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization is a process of choosing the most appropriate targeted keyword phrases related to your site and ensuring that this ranks your site highly in search engines so that when someone searches for specific phrases it returns your site on tops. It basically involves fine tuning the content of your site along with the HTML and Meta tags and also involves appropriate link building process. The most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, AOL and Ask Jeeves. Search engines keep their methods and ranking algorithms secret, to get credit for finding the most valuable search-results and to deter spam pages from clogging those results. A search engine may use hundreds of factors while ranking the listings where the factors themselves and the weight each carries may change continually. Algorithms can differ so widely that a webpage that ranks #1 in a particular search engine could rank #200 in another search engine. New sites need not be “submitted” to search engines to be listed. A simple link from a well established site will get the search engines to visit the new site and begin to spider its contents. It can take a few days to even weeks from the referring of a link from such an established site for all the main search engine spiders to commence visiting and indexing the new site.

If you are unable to research and choose keywords and work on your own search engine ranking, you may want to hire someone to work with you on these issues.

Search engine marketing and promotion companies, will look at the plan for your site and make recommendations to increase your search engine ranking and website traffic. If you wish, they will also provide ongoing consultation and reporting to monitor your website and make recommendations for editing and improvements to keep your site traffic flow and your search engine ranking high. Normally your search engine optimization experts work with your web designer to build an integrated plan right away so that all aspects of design are considered at the same time.

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8 Free Ways to Promote Your Blog

Apr 13, 2008 Blog Traffic, Blogging Tips

Promotion is the most important way to get traffic to your blog that even SEO giants agree with. There are different ways that you can promote your blog.

1. Submit your site to web directories
Web directories were the first source of traffic for websites, before the power of search engines was discovered. In fact, Google started out as web directory. Nowadays, the importance of web directories is on building quality links highly valued by search engines.

2. Promote your site through writing for article directories
Article submission is a good way to generate relevant links to your website. Be sure to include your links on your resource box. Article submission is said to have a viral effect. If your article gets noticed, other website owners of similar niche your article is about, they will post it on their websites, giving you links.

3. Advertise your site.
Entrecard is an innovative way to advertise your website. It gives the smaller blogs to get noticed. You can take advantage of the free advertising offered by AdGridwork.

4. Be social.
The power of social networks such as Twitter, Stumble Upon, YouTube, etc. are now exploited by webmasters and internet marketers to promote their website or products.

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