Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Getting Traffic to Your Blog

By David Jessee

A blog cannot survive without traffic. Usually low traffic means the content isn't all that good. However, even a great blog might not have enough traffic. The key to getting traffic is to develop a strategy that makes people notice your blog. There are a few key things that you need to think about when determining how to generate traffic to your blog - not that much different from a regular website.

The only exception is that blogs can generate traffic a lot faster. What you only need to consider first is your target audience and where exactly you are generating your blogs traffic.

The Content

The content of your blog is very important. It is the reason why people visit your blog. Try to make your blog interesting and learn to master the ideas included in your blog. The content should also be relevant and of high value to the audience. Find out what your audience wants and if what you are writing satisfy them.

The content is especially important if you are planning sales from your blog. Firstly, you must become a trust-worthy and credible source of information before people try the product. Blogs are excellent medium for sales since they allow you to connect and converse through the use of the content. You must realize that without a great content, your blog cannot fully achieve power and leverage against others.

In order to build up an audience, you have to post frequently to your blog. Additionally, you need to determine what tact you are going to take on your blog. Are you going to hard-lined about your opinions, are you going to softball everything, are you going to do honest reviews of products or services? Whatever you do, you have to determine your style of writing and what direction your blog is going to take. This is important - you need to set a tone, and stick with it. Whatever tone you take, be sure to publish often and make sure that the posts are meaningful and of high-value. Finally, be yourself in order to help your audience relate to you...but be sure not to reveal any private information - you never know who is reading your blog and what their intentions are.

The Ping

Some bloggers go the extra mile just to ping and do not solely rely on the blog software pings. What pings do is they automatically update the servers; in essence, they announce your new content every time you make an update to your blog. Search engines and blog directories then check these update servers for the latest posts; this is the reason why your blogs content gets into search engines quickly.

Pings are one of the reasons that you may often read about how search engines "love" blogs. There are even examples of where it only takes a day before your content gets listed on the search engines. However, on average, your blogs content will only take a few hours up to a few days to get into most search engines. Many blog platforms like Wordpress can automatically send out pings when you update your blog. Make sure to do a search on how to set up automatic pings for your own blog.

RSS feeds are also vitally important. You will be able to publish your content within a short period of time and distribute to a large audience automatically through the use of your RSS feed. Your content feed is real-time and the RSS allows you to show your content to a wider audience.

There are so many ways to promote your blog. You must keep in mind that there is no good strategy for quick money when it comes to blogging. It requires time, dedication, a plan, and lots of new fresh content before the cash starts flowing in. - 20767

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