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Bring on the Blog Traffic

Critiqued by Cowboytf | September 4, 2008 .

The one thing we all crave for our blog is traffic. A healthy flow of readers, and even better, readers who leave comments is what we want, so how do we make it happen? Here are some tips to gaining traffic to your blog.

  1. Provide content and plenty of it. Search engines feed on content so in order for readers to find you, you need plenty of it. You will want your content to be conversational and reader friendly as well. After you get them there you want to keep them there and keep them coming back, so make sure your content does that for you. Blog often and make it worth reading and the readers you get will be sure to return.
  2. Add your blog to directories. There are dozens and dozens available on the web today, but you will want to find those that are relevant to your target audience and submit your blog. Many will require a reciprocal link or button to be placed on your blog.
  3. Build links to your blog. You can do this in a variety of ways including commenting on other blogs, participating in link exchanges, and linking to your blog from your main website or other blogs of yours.
  4. Provide an RSS feed to subscribe to or the option to subscribe by email. Both options ensure that your readers will be checking in frequently. Creating a feed is as easy as creating an account with Feedburner and filling in a few boxes. They also give you the option to place a chicklet on your blog that readers can click to subscribe to your RSS feed and an option to create an email sign up box as well.

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  1. Zhu  September 4, 2008 5:33 pm

    Good points!

    I say good content and a RSS feed (love you little Texas map by the way!) are two easy and great way to get traffic. Bloggers sometimes use too many tricks and forget about these two basic steps.

  2. Stephanie  September 11, 2008 11:04 pm

    Thank you SOOOO much for this information. I am new at this and this information was wonderful. I have been racking- what little brain- I have left, trying to figure out what to do next, and your blog has been VERY helpful.

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