tip for generating more traffic to your blog

How Photos and Videos Help in Generating More Traffic to your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (HujaNLebaT) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:08:08 PDT

Blogs are a definitely a great tool in promoting your business, especially when you have products and services that you want to promote to your audiences. In blogs, you can discuss about the ads you promote by giving reviews, personal opinions, factual information, as well as tips and tricks. But blogging is not just about the written stuff; you have the opportunity to be creative and increase your incoming traffic via photos and videos. But how can these media exactly help you?

Let’s first talk about the photos.

Photos or images are graphic representations of the things you talk about in your articles. There are times when words cannot fully send the message which you want to tell to your readers, and giving them a visual aid helps a lot in doing so. More than that however, photos have other equally important functions.

First, photos add the appeal of your blog. With photos, your blog becomes more enticing to visit since readers won’t get bored with just the articles. Photos show them how the world looks like under your niche, and by featuring images of people, things, places and events related to your subject, your viewers would have a bigger picture of what your blog is all about.

Photos are also highly important when you are promoting a product or business on your blog. Through images you show them your business, basically what you offer. Your blog can serve as your catalog for products or services, and as well feature people satisfied with your service and events that had sprung from your business. For example, you have a blog about weddings gowns, you can post the latest designer gowns that you have on your store. The same goes with other niche topics as well.

Also, photos increase the incoming traffic to your site, especially when you post images of famous people, things, places, etc. you can embed links and tags on your photos so they can be found by search engines and appear on the results list after a related image search.

Now we go to videos

Videos are like photos-they bring life to your site. Unlike images however, you get to see more of the action in videos since they pictures are, of course, moving. Videos take you to the realities of your ads, since they show where and how exactly can the products and services (which you feature) can be applied.

Moreover, videos help strengthen the social network of your blog. You can create a fan base out of the videos you have posted on your blog, and these people are those truly interested in your chosen niche. You can get and embed streaming videos from sites such as MySpace and YouTube, and by linking to those sites you can find people who can be of great support on your blog.

Videos are also a nice way in promoting your business. Aside from photos you can actually give your target audience a tour of your site or actual business activities so they know what to expect from you. Virtual tours are getting more and more popular nowadays, since users want the real thing, more than just still images.

Photos and videos are tools used in viral marketing. You can actually boost your blog’s performance through these media especially when you use them properly. A lot of bloggers tag the appropriate keywords to these media in order to gain more traffic, even if the actual site content is less relevant. In a way, your blog gets included in the list of related links on a video or image search, and is a good step towards becoming popular online.

Embedding photos and videos to your blog is easy, just follow the codes and you’re all set. However, it is equally important that you follow certain guidelines in order for your blog to not look spammy or irrelevant. A lot of bloggers feature celebrity photos and videos on their site, as well as images of famous things or places, not only because they want to talk about these issues, but because these media can drive more traffic to their blog. This is a good technique especially when you are just starting out in the blogging industry; you can talk about these things and come up with discussions that your target audience may easily get interested at, while at the same time introducing them to your ads.

While this is a good strategy, you should not forget that real traffic lies on quality content; you may flood your blog with photos and videos as long as you like, but strengthen their powers with quality entries. This way, your audiences will find your blog truly credible both as a marketplace and a place for information. By using these media wisely, your blog is assured to follow the path to success.

59 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (HujaNLebaT) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:17:59 PDT

Be topical… write posts that need to be read right now.
Bookmark your site â€“ To social bookmarking websites, i.e. digg, del.icio.us, reddit
Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic.
Break news.
Post regularly.
Make groups like Google and Yahoo groups, and then include your URL in it (but donâ€™t look spammy)
Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you.
Write short, pithy posts.
Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati top blog list.
Include polls, meters and other eye candy.
Have an e-mail siggy, Put your URL in your siggy when contacting someone through e-mail.
Join mybloglog, itâ€™s a good way of socializing.
Make your RSS subscribe button very noticeable.
Use a top commentators plugin to improve comments.
Be controversial.
Be original.
Become top commentator on big traffic blogs.
Write about Google, Digg and other hugely popular sites.
Use images in your posts.
Make a fresh design.
Answer your email.
Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.
Be patient.
Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful.
Create a lens, Highlight your best posts on your Squidoo lens.
Make a content that is worth buying, Then you give it free, Sounds crazy but it attracts loads of people.
Place alt tags, Placing an alt tag on your pictures will surely help you get a higher Search Engine ranking.
Write about making money.
Share your knowledge.
Use the sociable plugin, It ads all the known bookmarking websites and puts it in your posts. This makes bookmarking easier for your readers.
Try and become a guest poster on a popular blog. Be persistent
Submit your best and longest posts to article directories.
Use Blogrush.
Use Technorati.
Encourage your readers to digg your posts.
Make your blog as different as possible.
Never copy posts.
Make your SEO as good as possible.
Submit Themes, With your link on it!
Donâ€™t use flash as much as possible, This may irritate your readers.
Add a sitemap, This helps search engines recognize you more.
Redirect your 404 page, Redirecting it to your homepage would help lost visitors.
Ping your blog every after you write an article, Try Pingoat.com
Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you.
Post your photos on flickr.
Write eye catching blog post titles.
Use correct grammar.
Use YouTube and other video sites to market your blog.
Use social networking buttons, on all posts.
Admit your faults.
Be honest.
Spend entire days focusing on nothing but getting more traffic.
Write long, definitive posts.
Write about blogging.
Don’t interrupt your writing with a lot of links.
Write stuff that people want to read and share.
Pull off some jokes from time to time
Add translations
Never give up.

noreply@blogger.com (HujaNLebaT) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:22:02 PDT

When I posted my one month and two month traffic stats for PluginID for the world to see, a lot of people were impressed with the growth the site received so quickly. In fact, I had a lot of comments and emails from people asking me how I did it.

There are no real ’secrets’ you need to learn in order to increase your blog traffic, so today I’m going to share what I know and how I effectively build traffic. This can be used on sites you are just starting up or on blogs that are already established, there should be something here for everyone to benefit from.

Brief History

Before you wonder whether or not you should trust my advice, I just want to say that I’ve been in Internet Marketing for over 3 years. I work with newspapers and some Fortune 500 companies so have quite a bit of experience in the field with both large brands and sites I’ve started from scratch.

However, you shouldn’t take anything I say as the blogging traffic bible or word for word what you should do to get visitors to your content. This is simply my advice on building a high-trafficked blog that doesn’t require multiple digg homepages or PR8 backlinks in order to see a traffic spike.

So, without further anticipation, here are the sections we are going to cover today:

Choosing your Niche
Spreading your Brand
Search Engine Optimisation
Writing Quality Content
Niche Engagement

To me, these are the main factors to building a blog to respectable traffic levels. You may know about SEO but you may not know about niche engagement so if you don’t have time to read all this or don’t think you will benefit from certain parts then just read the sections necessary for you.

Choosing Your Niche

Deciding a niche to blog about can be very difficult for most bloggers, once you’ve set the tone of your blog it can be challenging to veer off into other areas. The first thing I want to say is that you should not just start another ‘make money online’ website. These are absolutely everywhere, I actually feel bad for some of the authors who are preaching about how people can make money online when they have 18 subscribers and every other post is a product review.

Choosing your niche should not be a difficult job, you simply have to write about something you love; cover a topic you are passionate about. While knowing what you are passionate about shouldn’t be too difficult, you should also make sure that there is an audience for your content.

For example, if you are interested in ’scandanavian fly fishing’ and are hoping to become a full-time blogger then you might struggle to find an audience large enough to make a decent income. What I recommend in this case is that you simply step back in terms of topic. So if you are interested in scandanavian fly fishing then you write about fishing, if you are interested in snow boarding then consider creating an extreme sports website.

The idea here is that you don’t limit yourself to what you can cover. There’s nothing wrong with writing about celebrities or blogging or self improvement. Although they are niche topics they do have a very large potential audience if you can build your brand and gain some marketshare. However, if you want to write about blog design (which a friend of mine does) then you are limiting your potential post ideas. On the other hand, with this topic you are branching out from a huge niche so there is still potential to reach a few thousand subscribers and make a great go of things.

Before you pick your final niche, make sure:

You love the topic you are going to be writing about
There’s a big enough audience for you to reach
If you blog on a very specific topic then there’s a chance to become the niche leader
There are other blogs in the space that you can interact with

The bottom point is not absolutely necessary, but when you are blogging in a specific niche rather than a broader industry it can feel lonely when you are on your own. One of the main benefits of blogging is that you can become part of a community and find like-minded people with the same interests. Don’t limit yourself too much but also don’t go to broad and write about everything. After a while you’ll work out what is best for you and what is best for your audience.

Spreading Your Brand

You found this blog post somehow. Somewhere out there in the World Wide Web you came across this post. Whether it was from StumbleUpon, a comment I left on another site, a recommendation from a friend or you were already subscribed to our feed, you found it. I’ve worked very hard at spreading the PluginID brand and I’m going to go through exactly how you can do the same thing.

Get an Avatar - I strongly recommend that you pick an avatar (a small image) that is going to be used to represent your site on the various platforms I mention below. Your avatar should be something that stands out, is catchy and most importantly…memorable. If you sign-up on social sites and don’t fill in your details or upload an image then you are going to look like every other lazy member of that community.

In order to get your avatar in comments like you see on a lot of blogs, including this one, simply join Gravatar and upload the image you want to use. It works based on your email address so whatever email you insert in your comments, the corresponding image will show (if any).

Join MyBlogLog - Although I don’t use any of the services provided in MyBlogLog, there’s one cool benefit to being a member. Whenever you view a blog that has their ‘recent visitors’ widget installed, which many of them do, your avatar will show on the side of the website.

Just through browsing the web I already had 4 friend requests on my profile and my page had been viewed over 160 times. When you factor in that your profile clearly displays your website URL then there’s the potential to get quite a few visitors for no extra work on your part.

Register on Social Voting Websites - whether you are a fan of these or not, there’s a lot of traffic potential in all of them. I recommend only signing up on the ones that interest you and you will use but some of the biggest ones are:

Mixx
StumbleUpon (Toolbar)
Reddit

You should also check if there are any niche social voting sites in your industry, Squareoak has a huge list which might help in your search.

For all of the sites you join, upload your avatar from earlier and fill out your profile details. Whether or not you use a site name as your username is up to you. Some people prefer to remain anonymous so that they can become ‘power users’ and drive more traffic to their sites. For me, I make it clear who I am on StumbleUpon and Mixx but use a more anonymous profile on Digg where it is frowned upon to vote or submit your own content.

Join Twitter - Twitter is a ‘micro-blogging’ service which allows you to share 140 character updates with the world. My favourite aspect of Twitter is definitely the community aspect and seeing what other people are up to. Once again I recommend you use the same avatar as on other sites, or at least show a picture of yourself.

I’ve been using Twitter for PluginID for over 2 months now and it is consistently in the top 5 referring sites in terms of traffic to this blog. What I love is that you can ‘follow’ people (add them as a friend) and keep up to date with like-minded people that have similar interests. When you fill out your profile you get to put your URL in the site field so definitely do this, and then start following people in your niche.

Following is not something that you can just do on its own and expect to get traffic from the site, instead you want more people to follow you. Some quick tips to get more followers include:

Link to your twitter profile from your website
Establish relationships with friends who are already connections on the likes of StumbleUpon & Mixx
Ask interesting questions that people will reply to, then their followers will find your profile
Offer great tips and advice in your industry so that people would be missing out if they didn’t follow you

Finally, you can also use TwitterFeed to automatically update your followers of all new posts to your blog. I tend to click on the blog updates of others so this definitely sends traffic.

Make Content Easy to Share - I’m amazed at how difficult some blogs make it just in order to digg one of their stories or give it a save on delicious. If you want to grow and want people to share your content then you have to make it easy for them. If you look at the bottom of every post here then you will see there are quick links to:

Email posts
Stumble Posts
Save to Delicious
Digg

If you are using feedburner then you can set this up very easily, I also have the links showing in my RSS feed for people who prefer to read content that way. People aren’t going to share your content if you make it easy for them, why would they go through the hassle?

Search Engine Optimisation

When I first started out in SEO I was constantly learning and testing as much as I could. I was reading forums on a daily basis, writing my own SEO blog and trying out new techniques. Based on all this work, I’ve managed to successfully pick up the knowledge to rank very highly for competitive keywords in search engines and I’ve actually been providing SEO as a service for a few years.

In this post I’m just going to keep to the basics as…to be honest…that is all you really need.

Unique Title Tags - This is the tip that most people in the SEO industry give first because in terms of on-site optimisation this is one of the most important things you can have. The title tag is one of the best ways to tell search engines what your website is actually about. In terms of optimising this for blogs I tend to show an optimised homepage title which either features the site name and slogan or keywords relating to my niche.

In terms of single posts, I prefer simply having the title of the post as the full title of the page. Of course, if you want to add branding to that then I recommend you do so but only at the end of the title. It is believed (and proven in my own testing) that keywords at the beginning of a URL are given more weight.

Non-WWW to www Redirect - For those of you thinking ‘What??’, let me explain. Basically, it’s a good idea to make sure that either the non-www version of your site (http://tip-generating-more-traffic-to-blog.blogspot.com) is redirecting to the www version of your site (http://www.tip-generating-more-traffic-to-blog.blogspot.com) or vica versa. The reason for this is that whenever somebody links to your site you want all that link juice to go to the same place.

The best way to do this is by using a 301 redirect, which tells the search engines that the link is permanent. You can learn how to do this over here. As an extra measure, you can also sign your site up for Google Webmaster Tools and there’s a section to tell them which version of your site to show in the search results.

Interlink - Interlinking is when you relevantly link to other sections of your website in your blog posts. I do that quite a lot over here at PluginID and there are 2 benefits. The first benefit is that you increase the inbound links to these pages and thus increase their importance in the eyes of the search engines. This can help you get more pages indexed.

The second benefit is that you can keep your website visitors on your site for longer. Instead of just having them read an article and leave, you’ll find a lot of them clicking through to other sections and checking out your other content.

Have a Sitemap - We have a sitemap over here but for now it is only covering pages I’ve created that aren’t actually blog posts. The best things to normally include in your sitemap are:

Post Categories
Latest Posts
Any other pages you’ve created

I will be implementing the latest posts on the PluginID sitemap shortly but for now the site is being indexed fine. I link to product reviews that I wouldn’t have on the main blog, this helps website visitors find content and also help search engines navigate around the website. When we add more pages in the future (which we will) this will become even more useful.

If you want to set-up your own simply create a new page in your blogging software and link to it from all pages of your website (I recommend the navigation bar or footer). Then include the main pages that you want the search engines and site visitors to see, that you may not have been able to link to elsewhere. You can also use this opportunity to guide new visitors around your site and direct them to your favourite posts.

Shorten your URL’s

Even on the big blogs out there today, I see this mistake over and over again. You look at the address bar for a post URL and it appears something like this:

http://www.domain.com/2009/10/03/keywords-that-I-used-in-the-title-of-my-blog-post-rediculous/

I’m not kidding, I see this on sites with over 50,000 subscribers. If you are using Wordpress then go into the Settings >> Permalinks page and cut it down to simply the post-name. Now, whenever you are writing a post you can also cut this down as well, so for example the URL for this blog post will probably end up being something like:

http://tip-generating-more-traffic-to-blog.blogspot.com/

Doesn’t that look much better? Very long URL’s get cut off my search engines and they look quite spammy in my opinion. Personally, I prefer URL’s to remain short but just long enough so that the user knows what the page is about.

SEO No No’s

I’ve spent 3 years blogging in the SEO industry so I’ve never encountered as many people who sell links as I have in the personal development niche. I saw bloggers posting and wondering why their PR went down when they had 20 spammy links in their sidebar. If you want to stay on the safe side of the fence then I wouldn’t sell links in your blog. I do this on a few sites but only on sites where I don’t care about Google or other search related traffic.

I also recommend that you don’t write solely for search engines, your blog should be all about the readers. If you are creative you’ll find someway to include the keywords you are targeting into a post title without it looking spammy. If you simply want to include your keywords all over the place and make your text unreadable then you probably aren’t in blogging to build up a readerbase, or you shouldn’t expect to build one.

Writing Quality Content

Content is the main factor that you need to work on with your blog. Even if you don’t spend time tweaking your site for search benefits and don’t care that much about branding specifically on each social site, excellent content will still give your site a chance to succeed.

Of course, the definition of ‘quality’ really depends on which niche you are writing in. If you are writing on a golf blog then quality might be a new swing technique that nobody has thought of. If you are writing on a humour blog it may be about finding a funny image or a new joke that people just have to pass around. For our case in terms of the personal development niche, quality content tends to be content which is personal, original and fills a need.

The type of content that tends to do well are:

List Content - ‘11 Ways to’, ‘21 Reasons why’, ‘101 things that’ - you find these a lot on blogs
Unique content i.e. research into something that hasn’t been done or a personal challenge people are thinking of trying which you report on
Viral Content - something that is easy for people to share and something that they are likely to share. Humorous content tends to do well
Resource posts - links to products, services or items in one place that can help peoples lives (example)

Although you might have success with a post on the ‘11 Biggest Fashion Mistakes of 2008′, it’s not really going to go down well with your general audience on your soccer (football) blog. Remember that although social media sites have the potential to drive you a large amount of visitors, many of them will simply disappear so don’t push away your regular genuine readers with unrelated content.

If your content is just the same as what everybody in your niche is used to then you aren’t going to stand out. If most people write short newsy posts then try writing longer posts that are informative. If people tend to write list posts that offer little substance, can you do something different and still interest the audience?

Following is a look at some of my top articles with their titles and how many views they received:

Title: Dream Lifestyle? Think Again!
Views: 21,383
Reason: The reason that this post did so well is that I took a popular myth and showed people the behind the scenes look. If you can change people’s assumptions then you are onto a winner.

Title: Personal Development Blogs
Views: 15,126
Reason: The reason this page did so well is because I ranked the top sites in the personal development niche based on a number of public metrics. Everyone who is involved did their best to share the list with their fellow stumblers, tweeters or website visitors. If you can create a page that people benefit from sharing then definitely do it.

Title: Are you Living a Scripted Life?
Views: 13,980
Reason: I find post titles with questions tend to get a lot better response than those without, that’s not saying you should overdo it though. I think the main reason this post did so well is because many people could relate to the content and wondered if they where simply living a life that was already designed for them, rather than doing something unique. Once again, this is making people question themselves rather than feeding them all the answers.

Title: How to Get Someone or Something, Off Your Mind
Views: 8,836
Reason: This post did very well on Care2 and StumbleUpon and was posted quite recently. This is a resolution to a common problem that people have, but I’m also putting my own spin on it. I didn’t answer it in a way that you would normally expect and actually shared something I think would work better. I’ve noticed that a lot of search engine referrals are also coming in from this post so it’s view count will constantly increase whether I get social media traffic or not.

Niche Engagement

Niche engagement, as the name suggests, means immersing yourself in all aspects of your niche in order to get targeted traffic back to your blog. I’m going to run through some ideas of what I mean by this now:

Blog Comments - I regularly comment on blogs in this niche for a number of reasons. The first is that the author is likely to come back to your site to see who is commenting. The second is that there’s potential for visitors of the site you are commenting on to click your name (link) and arrive at your website. I found one blog comment to drive me over 100 visitors recently and when it is in the niche you blog in, you can’t complain at the effort it takes to comment when you can get that many visitors.

Thirdly, blog comments are a good way to become ‘closer’ to the author of a blog, in which they might link back to one of your blog posts or simply add you as a friend in other social websites. I tend to find that the authors of small to medium size blogs will comment back on your site as well when they get the time, making yours look a bit more lively.

Guest Posting - I’ve only done about 4 guest-posts since starting this blog, actually that’s quite a few for 3 months, but they’ve all been worth it. Guest posts are a great way to get both backlinks and traffic to your website which can help with direct visitors and search engine referrals. It’s best to do a guest post on a blog in your niche because that way the people that come across your site are much more likely to subscribe to your feed.

I’ve done a few guest posts for blogs that aren’t very related but are still large. My main reason for this is that I find it very easy to write on a range of subjects, and prefer relevant posts to this niche to be written solely for this blog. However, you should try things out and see what works best for you. If you do give guest posting a try then don’t value quantity over quality. You want to showcase your best work for others so that they:

Are likely to post the content on their site
Have a chance of receiving some good traffic to the article
Bring in visitors from that site who want to see more of your work
Are likely to invite you back to guest post again

Forum Activity - If you didn’t pick too small of a niche when you started your blog, it’s likely there will be a few large forums in your niche. In the personal development industry the biggest forum is definitely the one ran by Steve Pavlina. In the past I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the site, mostly because I enjoy the content and discussions there. If you don’t enjoy the content of the biggest forums in your niche then you should question whether you really love your industry.

The reason I state that is because forum posting is something that can be tedious for little results, however the result is targeted traffic. On most forums, you can place a signature link so that whenever you make a post there is a link back to your website at the bottom. I’ve found that this works well not only for website visitors but also in terms of making relationships with other bloggers on that website.

Be Active on StumbleUpon - StumbleUpon is one of my favourite websites because time and time again it is able to show me amazing content from my niche at the click of a button. Not only that, but StumbleUpon is known to have the ability to drive massive amounts of traffic to your website.

When you first sign-up to the site you will be given some options to share your interests, make sure you are actually interested in the topics that you select. Now, whenever you hit the ‘Stumble’ button in the toolbar, you will be directed to a new and interesting article in your niche, providing that some spam hasn’t gotten through their filters. I tend to Stumble a lot of related content, especially that of my friends on Twitter (Add me) and the blogs that I comment on. If you are nice to others and vote for their content, then you’ll find that they are likely to stumble yours back.

Of course, don’t only stumble the content of certain people as SU might pick up on this and it will look as if you are gaming the system. Vote for whatever you find interesting and if it is something of someone you’ve ‘connected’ with in the past then even better. In terms of traffic potential I can say that StumbleUpon has sent me over 30,000 visitors in one day before and for another site sent over 150,000 in one month. So in terms of potential, there’s absolutely loads.

Be Real - The ideas I mentioned above are not ‘tricks’ so that you can start receiving traffic from other blogs, they are all utilising the power of networking, helping others and being real. By being real I mean let people know who you are. There are multiple ways you can do this:

Leave your full name in blog comments
Have a picture of yourself on your about page
Leave your full name in your blog posts
Write from the heart, connect with people on a personal level

I do all of those things here and I don’t think this site would have had such a quick growth if I was robotic and anonymous. Consider whether there are ways that you could come across in a more humane manner.

In Summary

By far this is the longest blog post I’ve ever wrote, but that’s OK. It may have taken me 4-5 hours but it’s a blog post that I can keep referring people to, and hopefully one that other bloggers keep referring their visitors to. You see, when you care about your website you don’t mind writing a 4,000+ word post because you are enjoying what you are doing, you are looking forward to the reactions of your readers and other bloggers.

I’m not saying posts of this length or necessary, but now and again they might be what separates you from the thousands of other bloggers in your niche. And when there are hundreds of blogs in your niche, there’s no harm in doing things that stand out in a positive light, in fact I strongly encourage it. You found this post somehow, now get out there and make sure people are finding your content ’somehow’. I hope I’ve helped you all in getting more traffic to your websites and look forward to reading what you guys have to say in the comments (genuinely)!

6 Tips for generating more Traffic by Commenting on other Blogs

noreply@blogger.com (HujaNLebaT) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:51:56 PDT

Comments are posted on other blogs if we love the post at the blogs.There are many advantages of the author and Commentators by Commenting on the blogs.Bloggers can know the Situation of the Blog and Commentators can built Traffic and backlinks for their blog.Now I am going to Tell you how to gain more traffic by commenting on other blogs.

1. Always Use real Blog Title and URl : Whenever you comment on other blogs always use your real Blog Link and Title.Never Use your profile while Commenting because when the users click the Link the users will be redirected to your Profile Page Instead of redirecting to your Blog .

2. Use Attrative Title or Name while you Comment : This is another and great Tip for generating Traffic from Commenting.You should always use Interesting name while you comment.For eg If I comment using name as Bloganol then nobody will care it.If I use Make money,Blogger Templates and Free Blogging Resources Instead of Bloganol then more users will be attracted towards it and I will get chance of gain more traffic from it.

3. Enable Commentluv : It is especially in case of wordpress Blogs and this Function is not available in Blogger.If you Enable commentLuv while you comment then the Title and Link of your latest Post will be displayed in the comment.You can also make Traffic from There.

4. Try to be in Top Commentators List : Top commentators are those people who posts lots of comments in that Blog and many Blogs Displayed the top Commentators Link at the Top of their blog to Encourage people to comment on their Blog.Link of your blog at other blog means people will surely Clik on the Link and you can Gain Traffic from there.

5. Make Comments into Discussion : You can generate traffic by creating the Comments discussions at different blogs.For eg If you find some cool Blogger hack in some blog then you can create a discussion comment Like "This hack works on my site,Check my site www.example.com,Thanks .... Very much".After that If some people donot get that hack worked on their blog then they will surely see how the hack works on your blog.Further more they can ask, how you have done and How it worked.You can Answer them and can built Traffic from there.

6. Try to be the First : This is also a good tip for generating Traffic from commenting.Whenever you see the new Good post on the Popular blogs then always try to be the first Commentator.After that when some people tries to comment on that post then they will surely first read your comment,Visit your blog and Tries to give comment as you ahve given in that post.

Top 5 Free Ways to “Start” Generating Traffic to Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (HujaNLebaT) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:11:42 PDT

1. Syndication.
Convert your blog posts into articles and submit them to article directories.

2. PR.
Write press releases and distribute them.

3. StumbleUpon.
Add a “stumbleupon” button to all your blog posts. When your readers click on the buttons, more people will start visiting your website through stumbleupon.com toolbars.

4. Hug another blogger.
Send them thank you notes. Comment on their blogs. (Read more…)

5. Co-Exchange Posts.
Contact a blogger and ask him to write a guest post for your blog and you can write a guest post for his.

30 Traffic Generation Tips

noreply@blogger.com (HujaNLebaT) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:10:15 PDT

First of all a big “thank you”� for every one who participated. As I said before the number of entries surprised me (and the quality as well, I will definitely apply some of those tips myself).

Now, without further delay, the 30 Traffic Generation Tips�:

1. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.

2. Ian Delaney
Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page.

3. Scott Townsend
Inform search engines and aggregators like Technorati (using the ping functionality) when your blog is updated, this should ensure maximum traffic coming from those sources. (check the List of Ping Services)

4. Kyle
Simplify. Pay attention to complex issues in your field of work. It may be a big long publication that is hard to wade through or a concept that is hard to grasp. Reference it and make a shorter “for dummies” version with your own lessons learned and relevant tips. When doing this, I have been surprised to find that the simplified post will appear before the more complex version in search results. Perhaps this is why it results in increased traffic; people looking for more help or clarification on the subject will land on your blog.

5. Grant Gerver
Try to be polemic. I write obsessively about all-things political from the left-wing perspective in the form of humorous, sarcastic one-liners.

6. Daniel
A simple tip that will probably boost your page views: install a translator plugin. I decided to use a paid plugin for this, but if I am not wrong there are some free ones as well. The translation is not very good, as you can imagine, but it helps to attract readers that are not fluent in English.

7. Rory
Submit articles to blog carnivals (http://blogcarnival.com) that are related to your niche. Your article almost always gets posted, and it must generate a handful of visitors, at least.

8. Ramen Junkie
Newsgroups. I always see a spike when I post a review to a newsgroup.

9. Eric Atkins
Create a new design for your website. Not only will it be more attractive to your regular readers, but you can submit it to some CSS gallery showcase sites that feature great designs. This will give you exposure on those sites while generating a lot of traffic and backlinks from those types of sites.

10. Megan Taylor
Participate in conversations on related blogs. Start conversations on your own blog. Don’t just post about a story and leave it at that, engage your audience, ask questions and call to action.

11. Guido
Comment on blogs, write useful content and make good friends on forums.

12. Brian Auer
You must be active to generate traffic. I post comments on other blogs that are related to mine, and I post my site link in my signature at the forums. Spread the word about your blog and it will certainly attract readers.

13. Shankar Ganesh
Just browse around MyBlogLog.com and you will surely get visitors to your blog. Also try to join as many communities as possible that are related to your topic.

14. Andrew Timberlake
A great tip for generating traffic is off-line by including your url in all your off-line liturature from business cards, letterheads, pamphlets, adverts through in-store signage if applicable. I even have our website on my vehicle.

15. Cory OBrien
Read lots of other blogs. Leave trackbacks. Make sure your blog is optimized for search engines. Leverage social bookmarking sites like digg (both for new ideas and for traffic).

16. Jester
Leave comments on other blogs. If you’re already reading them, it takes
just a couple of seconds to leave a message agreeing or disagreeing
with the author, you get to leave a link to your site, and you will almost
ALWAYS get traffic from your comments.

17. Goerge Manty
Post 3-5 times a day. Use ping services like pingomatic or set up wordpress to ping some of the ping services. Engage your readers. Put up polls, ask them questions, give them quizes, free tools, etc. Make them want to come back and tell their friends about you.

18. Engtech
Community. It’s one word but it is the most important one when it comes to blogging. The only “blog metric” that makes sense is the vibrant community of readers it has. Building a community around your blog will bring you increased traffic, but how do you start? The boilerplate response to building traffic is always “SEO, social networking sites, and commenting on blogs” but it can be simplified to “be part of a community”. The easiest way to seed your blog is with an already existing community. But the only way to do that is to be part of the community yourself.

19. Chris
Squidoo Lenses are a good way to generate traffic. By using a lense,
you can generate your own custom “community” of webpages, including some
of the more popular pages in your “neighborhood.” Including your own
webpage in such a list is a good way of generating traffic.

20. Splork
I’ve had good success writing articles and submitting them to EzineArticles. Articles that have been written from well-researched keyword phrases and accepted by EzineArticles tend to rank very high in Google for that search term. Placing anchor text in the footer of those articles so the reader can visit my relevant website has always increased my site traffic.

21. Jen Gordon
I came upon some unexpected traffic when my blog popped up on some css design portals like www.cssmania.com and www.webcreme.com. If you can put some time into the concept behind and design for your blog, I’d recommend submitting your site to a design portal not only for
additional traffic but to build an additional community around your site.

22. Kat
I’ve recently gotten involved with several “MySpace-like” community sites that focus on my target audience. I share my thoughts in their forums, post intros to my real blog on their system blog and I’ve even created a group for my specific niche. It’s been very, very successful for me.

23. Inspirationbit
Well, obviously everyone knows that social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, etc. bring lots of traffic. But I’m now submitting some of my articles to blogg-buzz.com (a digg like site for bloggers), and I always get not a bad traffic from there.

24. Mark Alves
Participate in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers where you can demonstrate your expertise, get associated with relevant keywords and put your URL out there.

25. Tillerman
Be the first to write a post about the ‘Top Ten Blogs’ in your niche. The post will rank highly in any general search for blogs in your niche and other bloggers in your niche write about the post and link to it.

26. Nick
Participating in forums is a great way to get loyal readers. Either link baiting people in your signature or posting great advice and tips will give you high quality traffic, which will result in return visitors.

27. Brandon Wood
A simple trick I’ve used to increase traffic to my blog is participate in group writing projects. In fact, that’s what I’m doing right now.

28. Alan Thomas
Don’t forget your archives. I just posted a roundup of all interviews I did over the past seven months. One of them generated a new link and a big traffic spike from a group of users that look like they will be loyal readers now.

29. KWiz
Write something controversial. I don’t think it’s good to write something controversial just for the purpose of getting traffic necessarily (especially if it’s only for that purpose and you’re being disingenuous), but it works.

30. Dennis Coughlin
Find the best blogs on your niche and contact the authors. Introduce yourself and send a link of your blog. This might help them to discover your blog, read it and possibly link to it.

7 Tips For Generating More Traffic to Your Site!

noreply@blogger.com (HujaNLebaT) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:09:49 PDT

(Truly Times) - If you're an affiliate marketer, the main thing that can make or break your business is website traffic. After all, if you have no traffic, you'll be stuck wondering why this business doesn't work. Generating quality leads can be simple and cost efficient, but only if you know where to look. Here are 7 tips for generating more traffic to your site:

1. Old School Direct Mail - It sounds weird in this age of internet to say this, but direct mailing is still effective! You have to have a small budget for this, but there are many sites where you can get free business cards and such. Have them printed and then go distribute them in the parking lots of your neighborhood grocer or wholesale foods store (eg Costco).

2. Domain Name - If you haven't already, you need a crucial domain name instead of the affiliate link that you're given. Think about it, if you see xxx.affiliate.com vs. www.bestaffiliate.com, which would you visit? The domain name is often the first thing a person sees, so you want it to be something people can remember.

3. Social Networks - This can be online or offline! Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter are all of these are places with mass amounts of people you can market to. Create your own group for affiliate marketers, where you can share ideas and websites. You can also just do word of mouth within your friends and family! You never know who is in need of what you're selling.

4. Write Articles - So many people are doing this that I'm not even sure this is a tip, but regardless you need to write articles that link back to your site. Don't think about it too much... just write! If you're good, you can pump out a few articles in an hour that you can distribute to various article databases on the internet.

5. Classifieds - Again, this is a classic method, but also very effective. Online, you can use craigslist and any number of ad sites like vflyer or postlets. Offline, look at your local newspapers or look into making a press association ad so it can be distributed to several papers all at once!

6. PPC (Pay Per Click) - Just pay for your traffic! There are so many sites out there that can drive traffic to your site, that pretty much all you need to do is pick one. Pay per click can be an ad on a website or an email ad. It really just depends on what method you think would best suit your customers.

7. Backlinks - Link your site to other people's sites and have their traffic be your traffic. The more people your website is available to, the more likely it is that people will click to your site and you can make a sale.

These 7 tips can help generate traffic to your website, which will help put dollars in your pockets. All it takes is implementation!

TrulyTimes - Marketing

tip for generating more traffic to your blog

noreply@blogger.com (HujaNLebaT) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:32:15 PDT

How to get traffic for your blog

My friend Fred, a talented blogger, asked me for advice the other day. Here's a partial answer, with a few apologies to Swift:

Use lists.
Be topical... write posts that need to be read right now.
Learn enough to become the expert in your field.
Break news.
Be timeless... write posts that will be readable in a year.
Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic.
Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you.
Announce news.
Write short, pithy posts.
Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati top blog list.
Don't write about your cat, your boyfriend or your kids.
Write long, definitive posts.
Write about your kids.
Be snarky. Write nearly libelous things about fellow bloggers, daring them to respond (with links back to you) on their blog.
Be sycophantic. Share linklove and expect some back.
Include polls, meters and other eye candy.
Tag your posts. Use del.ico.us.
Coin a term or two.
Do email interviews with the well-known.
Answer your email.
Use photos. Salacious ones are best.
Be anonymous.
Encourage your readers to digg your posts. (and to use furl and reddit). Do it with every post.
Post your photos on flickr.
Encourage your readers to subscribe by RSS.
Start at the beginning and take your readers through a months-long education.
Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself.
Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers.
Highlight your best posts on your Squidoo lens.
Point to useful but little-known resources.
Write about stuff that appeals to the majority of current blog readers--like gadgets and web 2.0.
Write about Google.
Have relevant ads that are even better than your content.
Don't include comments, people will cross post their responses.
Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you.
Run no ads.
Keep tweaking your template to make it include every conceivable bell or whistle.
Write about blogging.
Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.
Invent a whole new kind of art or interaction.
Post on weekdays, because there are more readers.
Write about a never-ending parade of different topics so you don't bore your readers.
Post on weekends, because there are fewer new posts.
Don't interrupt your writing with a lot of links.
Dress your blog (fonts and design) as well as you would dress yourself for a meeting with a stranger.
Edit yourself. Ruthlessly.
Don't promote yourself and your business or your books or your projects at the expense of the reader's attention.
Be patient.
Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful.
Ping technorati. Or have someone smarter than me tell you how to do it automatically.
Write about only one thing, in ever-deepening detail, so you become definitive.
Write in English.
Better, write in Chinese.
Write about obscure stuff that appeals to an obsessed minority.
Don't be boring.
Write stuff that people want to read and share.