5 Simple Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Blog

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS A BLOG? 

A blog is like an personalized online journal of contents. A platform where an individual or group of individuals could share their ideas, thoughts, experiences on various kinds of topics for other people to read. 

The purpose of a blog and Target audience would determine the kind of content that the writer or owner of the blog would feature in it.

Hence, Blogs are a very popular ways of promoting your products or services. They are easy to install, easy to administer and easy to update.

Then having created a blog, and outstanding contents is not very useful without reaching the targeted people for such content. Every Blog needs to reach to it's Target audience and this is achieved through "Traffic".

WHAT IS TRAFFIC?

This is a term used to describe the number of visits from internet users to your blog or webpage over a period of time. The more traffic your website or blog gains, the more you reach out to your target audience, thereby gaining your blog or website more growth and popularity. Traffic is the lifeline of every blog or webpage, without it your blog or webpage is insignicant and and would go extinct.

If TRAFFIC is this important to a blog or webpage, am going to show you simple Ways to get traffic to your blog, and get the desired results and sales you've always wanted.

5 SIMPLE WAYS TO INCREASE TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG

• Build a list of blog services to ping. There are a lot of blog services you can ping. This means that you notify this service, that you've updated your blog. These services then list your new posts and you get the traffic from them. These list are also available if you search google or any other search engine for it. That should be enough to give an initial boost to your traffic. 

• Add buttons to popular news readers. What does this mean? Well there are sites like yahoo or google or bloglines etc, which have a members area where you can select sites with RSS feeds to fetch the latest updates from different blogs. That way you can have the latest updates from let's say 50 blogs listed on one page. Users can then easily add my blog to their news reader members area. 

• Update your blog with content regulary. Search engines and blog services love regular updates. It's very likely that you will get targeted traffic from search engines if you post regulary. That means you should make a new post to your blog at least once per day. But be careful. Too many updates per day can harm your search engines position and hits. What's too many? 10 or more. 

• Post in forums, but don't spam them. Post something fresh and interesting and put a link to your blog in your signature. Don't just post in any forum. For example if you're selling cds, post in forums that are about music and cds. Don't post in car forums if you're selling furniture. By posting in forums you will get one-way links which are good for search engine position in search engines like google or msn or yahoo. 

• Submit to blog search engines. There are masses of search engines available, that list only blogs. Just google for "blog search engines“ and you should find at least 20 of them. These blog search engines will help you with targeted traffic. Be sure to write a good title and a good description to your blog, so that people will easily find it and click on your link. 

Follow these 5 steps and you will start seeing lots of traffic to your blog. And the so long awaited sales will start coming in. And don't forget to update your blog with fresh unused content that you write yourself. 

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