10 Blog Traffic Tips
In every blogger’s life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new blog.
Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader – you.
Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.
Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.
These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum.
Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers.
Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.
Top 10 Tips
10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles.
A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something.
Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice.
This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson.
This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight.
The more pillars you have on your blog the better.
9. Write one new blog post per day minimum.
Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post.
The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new.
This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.
You don’t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new.
Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead.
The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
8. Use a proper domain name.
If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog.
In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily to remember domain name.
People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that’s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL.
Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).
7. Start commenting on other blogs.
Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world.
One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs.
You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.
Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment.
This is how people find your blog.
If you are a prolific commenter and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.
6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts.
A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger’s article you can do a trackback to their entry.
What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry – it’s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them.
Trackbacks often appear like comments.
This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important – it gets the attention of another blogger.
The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them.
They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.
5. Encourage comments on your own blog.
One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work.
If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about.
To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post.
Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.
4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival.
A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic.
The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week.
Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.
3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com.
To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it’s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it’s worth the effort.
Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it.
You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in.
You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings.
It all helps!
2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com.
This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it’s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have – your pillar articles.
Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles.
Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.
How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”.
You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case).
Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links.
If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.
1. Write more pillar articles.
Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place.
Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back.
Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.
This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and one of my blog mentors.
He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.
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About the author
 | Terry Russell has been online since
2005 and has numerous
blogs and you can find out what he is up to at his home page ReliantOnlineServices.com |
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Reliant Services 1998-2010
*All trademarks, logos, and service marks (collectively “Trademarks”) displayed on this site are registered and/or unregistered Trademarks of their respective owners.
Disclaimer: Some of the links mentioned within this post or posts it may lead to are my affiliate links and in such case I will get compensated for recommending those products.
That means if you buy something from a link or an ad from this website, or based on my recommendation, either expressed or implied, I may get an affiliate commission.
I welcome your questions and feedback.
About the author
| Terry Russell has been online since
2005 and has numerous
blogs and you can find out what he is up to at his home page ReliantOnlineServices.com |
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Reliant Services 1998-2010
*All trademarks, logos, and service marks (collectively “Trademarks”) displayed on this site are registered and/or unregistered Trademarks of their respective owners.
Disclaimer: Some of the links mentioned within this post or posts it may lead to are my affiliate links and in such case I will get compensated for recommending those products.
That means if you buy something from a link or an ad from this website, or based on my recommendation, either expressed or implied, I may get an affiliate commission.
I welcome your questions and feedback.
About the author
| Terry Russell has been online since
2005 and has numerous
blogs and you can find out what he is up to at his home page ReliantOnlineServices.com |
Cool All Too Addictive Space Game Here For You to Play
Hello! here is a “Old School” Arcade style game lots of funs with very simple controls.
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I hope you will find this helpful and fun.
All The Best!
Terry Russell
“The Computer Doctor”
A+ Service Technician
Reliant Services 1998-2010
http://www.totallyfreestuffblog.com
http://www.problemswithcomputer.com
http://www.work-at-home-jobs-canada.com
*All trademarks, logos, and service marks (collectively “Trademarks”) displayed on this site are registered and/or unregistered Trademarks of their respective owners.
Disclaimer: Some of the links mentioned within this post or posts it may lead to are my affiliate links and in such case I will get compensated for recommending those products.
That means if you buy something from a link or an ad from this website, or based on my recommendation, either expressed or implied, I may get an affiliate commission. I welcome your questions and feedback.
About the author
| Terry Russell has been online since
2005 and has numerous
blogs and you can find out what he is up to at his home page ReliantOnlineServices.com |
Today Something A Little Different!
Today Something A Little Different!
Today I am going to talk about a particular problem that has cropped up with my blogs and how it was solved.
I also want to share with you the two people who I get most of my education regarding blogging.
First The Problem.
Just a few days ago Wordpress brought out their latest version 2.0.
There are new features in this release that makes it worth while upgrading like support for imbedded video.
I did not automatically upgrade all my blogs, I tested the upgrade on one of my newer blogs http://www.totallyfreestuffblog.com.
I backed up my data base and files and did the upgrade.
I disabled all my plug-ins and did the automatic upgrade.
Everything looked good and went fine until I looked at my Plug-ins.
All the plug-ins were ok, except for Simple Tags.
When I opened my plugins a warning was flashing that my Simple Tag plug-in was not working.
Simple Tags is a very important SEO (or Search Engine Optimization) tool.
This plug-in is one of the mandatory plug-ins that my mentor Mike Paetzold
recommends.
I contacted him, and he was already aware of this problem, which did not surprise me at all.
He is usually always on top of these new developments.
He told me he would not be upgrading any of his blogs until an update to the plug-in was released, or a fix was found.
So I started to look for a solution myself.
The computer gods were smiling upon me that day when I check in with me other trusted source of blogging knowledge Alex Sysoef and Dmitriy Agadzhanov of Expert Wordpress.
In fact it was a good thing that I used my Totally Free Stuff Blog for my testing because the answer to my problem was right on the blog dashboard.
The install of this blog was done with Alex and Dmitriy’s Expert Wordpress Install Download.
Updates from Alex and Dmitriy are posted right on the Wordpress Dashboard under “Expert Wordpress News”.
Here was the title of the update; WordPress 2.9 Upgrade And Simple Tags Solution.
Talk about easy to find. I contacted Mike, and of course he found it before I did. So if Mike trusts it, I trust it.
I tried it and it worked like a charm.
Boy! They were sure fast to find a fix for that problem, this was only three days after the release of the new version.
So today I am going to show you how to do the fix of the Simple Tags plugin on one of my blogs.
Here’s the Video:
Here is the code you need to replace the existing code that does not work in the Simple Tags plug-in:
if ( strpos($wp_version, ‘2.7′) !== false || strpos($wp_version, ‘2.8′) !==
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I hope this helps you.
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Terry Russell
The Computer Doctor
A+ Service Technician
Reliant Services 1998-2009
http://www.work-at-home-jobs-canada.com
http://www.problemswithcomputer.com
*All trademarks, logos, and service marks (collectively “Trademarks”) displayed on this site are registered and/or unregistered Trademarks of their respective owners.
Disclaimer: Some of the links mentioned within this post or posts it may lead to are my affiliate links and in such case I will get compensated for recommending those products.
That means if you buy something from a link or an ad from this website, or based on my recommendation, either expressed or implied, I may get an affiliate commission. I welcome your questions and feedback.
About the author
| Terry Russell has been online since
2005 and has numerous
blogs and you can find out what he is up to at his home page ReliantOnlineServices.com |
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All The Best!
Terry Russell
The Computer Doctor
A+ Service Technician
Reliant Services 1998-2009
http://www.work-at-home-jobs-canada.com
http://www.problemswithcomputer.com
*All trademarks, logos, and service marks (collectively “Trademarks”) displayed on this site are registered and/or unregistered Trademarks of their respective owners.
Disclaimer: Some of the links mentioned within this post or posts it may lead to are my affiliate links and in such case I will get compensated for recommending those products.
That means if you buy something from a link or an ad from this website, or based on my recommendation, either expressed or implied, I may get an affiliate commission. I welcome your questions and feedback.
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Hello Everyone!
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Terry Russell
A+ Computer Service Technician
Reliant Services
1989-2009
http://www.reliantonlineservices.com
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http://www.totallyfreestuffblog.com
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All The Best!
Terry Russell
A+ Computer Service Technician
Reliant Services
1989-2009
http://www.reliantonlineservices.com
http://www.problemswithcomputer.com
http://www.work-at-home-jobs-canada.com
http://www.totallyfreestuffblog.com
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All The Best!
Terry Russell
A+ Computer Service Technician
Reliant Services
1989-2009
http://www.reliantonlineservices.com
http://www.problemswithcomputer.com
http://www.work-at-home-jobs-canada.com
http://www.totallyfreestuffblog.com
