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- Once you have created your blog and plan to advertise or probably make money with it, you must consider building good traffic to your blog. Here is how to increase traffic to your blog and benefit from it.
- 1 Quality original content
- 2 Maintain your blogroll
- 3 Engage in readers’ conversation in the comments
- 4 Link to your posts
- 5 Socialize and share your blog
- About the author: David Ritchie is a software developer and technical writer with over 10 years of professional experience. He is currently interested in Macintosh data recovery.
Once you have created your blog and plan to advertise or probably make money with it, you must consider building good traffic to your blog. Here is how to increase traffic to your blog and benefit from it.
1 Quality original content
The first rule is to write well and consistently. Good content always attract a high number of audiences. Avoid fluff and only write meaningful content and something that will make your readers cone back frequently. In addition to this, make sure you constantly update your blog with recent and useful content and ideas. Frequently updating your blog with good content also increases the chances of being noticed by search engines such as Technorati Yahoo and Google. You should consider submitting your blog’s URL to search engines to give it a chance of being picked. It will be a big bonus for you if your blog is included in the search pages.
2 Maintain your blogroll
You blogroll is also helpful at building traffic to your blog. You should update and use it frequently by adding links. The advantage of this is that the blog owners will identify your blog and probably add a reciprocal link to their own blogrolls. The trick is that other readers may click on your links and find it more interesting if you have good content. This may turn them into your blog’s loyal readers, therefore, increasing traffic. They may also refer people to your blog if they find it helpful and meaningful.
3 Engage in readers’ conversation in the comments
When readers comment on your blog, make sure you respond to their comments, whether the comments are negative, find a way of showing your readers that you value their opinions and you may interest those with negative comments and turn them to positive contributors to your blog.
4 Link to your posts
You can also leave a comment on other blogs and with them leave your blog’s URL to drive new traffic. This way, you create a link to your blog, especially if your comment is meaningful or interesting.
RSS feeds are good traffic creators and you may need to syndicate your blog’s content with them. With the RSS feed in your blog, you inform readers of your next content updates and they can look forward to reading your new publications. Finally, submit your posts and URL to social networking and bookmarking sites and always remember to optimize your pages for SEO. These tricks will ensure you create good traffic to your blog, which is the first step at making your blog useful for other functions.
