How To Build Traffic To Your Blog

With the growing interest in blogging as a means of online promotion and branding, a lot of marketers are starting blogs to promote their opinions, products, books and services.

But a blog is like a website. "Write and they will come" isn't exactly a magic formula to bring in traffic by the boatload.

If you need to promote your website in order to build traffic to it, you need to promote your blog as well.

Here are some ways you can become a well-read and influential blogger.

1. Write Posts That People Will Want To Read

This should be common sense, but many marketers tend to forget that their readers are real people and that you need to use the principles of online copywriting to make your headlines and copy interesting to your readers.

If you write posts that people enjoy reading, they will reward you by returning to your blog regularly.

Make your posts conversational, pithy and topical. Keep them short and stick to one topic per post.

Write often and regularly so that both readers and search engines visit your blog more often.

2. Optimize Your Posts for Search Engines

I cover this topic in detail in my article on "Search Engine Optimization For Blogs"

But here are the most important rules to follow to get your posts listed for keywords of your choice.

• Make sure your blog URL contains the primary keyword you want to optimize for
• Use your primary keywords in the title of your post
• Use your secondary keywords in the body of your post
• Use your keywords in the anchor text of links in the body of your posts

3. Submit Your Blog and RSS Feed To Directories

If you publish a blog you should submit your blog and RSS feed to big directories like Yahoo and Dmoz, as well as the numerous blog directories and search engines.

Here is the best list I've found of places to submit your feed or blog, compiled by Luigi Canali De Rossi, who writes under the pseudonym Robin Good.

Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites

Another list of sites to submit your Blog

4. Ping The Blog Services

There are a number of services designed specifically for tracking and connecting blogs. By sending a small ping to each service you let them know you've updated your blog so they can come check you out.

Bookmark the Ping-O-Matic ping results page so you can visit it and quickly ping a number of services with a single click.

5. Build Links To Your Blog

I recommend the methods here as the best ways to get links pointing to your blog.

• Link to your blog from each page on your main website
• Trackback to other blogs in your posts
• Post legitimate comments on other blogs with related topics
• Offer to exchange links with other similarly themed blogs and websites

6. Edit Your Blog Posts Into Articles

One of the best methods for promoting your website is to write articles and submit them to article directories.

The suggestion for extending this to edit your blog posts into articles and submit them to directories came from the coach at "Explode Blog Traffic" who also has other noteworthy suggestions at his blog.

You'll find an extensive list of article directories here

7. Create Buzz About Your Blog

Creating a buzz about your blog posts and topic in the local and online media will give your marketing a viral component.

• Create a controversy around your blog or it's topic.
• Distribute bumper stickers or other merchandise with your blog's URL and tagline.
• Write a press release about something newsworthy and tie it in with your blog topic.

8. Capture Subscribers By Email

It may seem strange for a blogger to send out updates by email, but email is still the #1 choice of most people who want to receive news and information.

Using a free service like Feedburner to manage your subscriptions is easy and it allows your subscribers to manage all their subscriptions from one interface.

However, if you want more control over your list and don't mind mailing out the updates yourself, you can use an autoresponder system to capture and follow-up with subscribers.

These tips should give you a good start to building your blog traffic.

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Tips for Better Blog

Here are some of the few tips for better blogging


1. Blog's look: Your Blog's design should relevant to the title and content. You need to have few relevant images. (If you deal technical news, put some gadgets etc)

2. New Articles: Add new articles and content to your blog frequently which will give impression that your site alive (If you don't add new content, people think that the your blog is DEAD!). The most important point is let your visitors know immediately. You can do this by alerting your visitors using email. This will increase the numbers of people revisiting your web site.

3. Your Contact details: Let your visitors contact you. Let them send some feedback about your service / products. So display your your email address or even telephone number on your blog which will enable you to build good relationship with your visitors.

4. Comeback Visitors: Make sure that, your visitors come back to your blog. This is achieved by giving incentives to encourage them revisiting your blog like providing free games, adding entertaining videos frequently, allowing free downloads such as ebooks and software that are useful to your visitors.

5. Change you ads regularly: Your visitors can get bored seeing the same ad all the time. (Remember: A survey says that people see the ad 7 times before they actually buy)

6. Headlines: Use headlines that will tempt your visitors to read the article.

7. Content: The most important point you have to remember is, People visit your site for content. Make sure that you give them interesting and useful content. 'Content' is the keyword for a better blog


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HOW DO I GET MORE TRAFFIC TO MY BLOG?

Venthans Answer:Let me spend some time answering your question because it's one of the top queries I get from other bloggers, particularly after listening to one of my Crasy Stuffs Blog...
First off, the core answer is actually pretty easy: the best way to generate traffic for your blog is to reframe the question. Instead of asking "how to I get more visitors to my site?" you need to be asking the question "how do I become part of the blogosphere discussion?"
Bloggers that don't get this crucial point end up being tiny islands in a very big ocean. Some of them can gain a readership by being phenomenally good or astonishingly prolific, but that's a very tough path to travel and for most ends up being the blogosphere equivalent of the old Web site complaint of "I've built it, but no-one's come to visit."
Instead, you need to get involved! Regardless of your topic, I bet there are already other people blogging about the same issues, thoughts and ideas, even if you don't agree with them. Join their conversation -- on their territory -- and you'll be leaving your island and joining the party.
Here's an easy tip that I tell my clients: two days a week spend an hour writing one thoughtful and cogent article that's relevant to your target readership. Imagine you're going to be having it picked up and published in one of the key trade publications in your marketplace. Good grammar, good spelling, coherent sentences, and a valuable point or insight are all important. It doesn't have to be perfect, but I promise you, the better you write, the more your potential customers, clients, partners and investors will be impressed.
The other three days of the week? Spend the same amount of time and effort each of these other days, but this time find other blogs that are in your market space and add thoughtful comments to their discussions. Sometimes, when appropriate, link back to your own articles, but other times add your own comments just to participate in the ongoing discussion and, yes, gain some visibility in your marketspace.
Over time you'll gain a reputation as a credible expert and people will start checking out your blog to see what you have to say. Then you'll have gained traffic and visibility in your market segment, which is where it's most important anyway.
I spend a fair amount of my time scanning both blog and news headlines and then popping onto other weblogs and adding my two cents. It's fun, rewarding, and helps me gain visibility in a way that writing even the best darn blog could never accomplish.
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Top 7 Funny Google Tricks

We all use google for searching but its time to explore the funny side of google.Here I have collected the top 7 funny google tricks that will amaze you.Some of the tricks are provided by google itself while other have been developers.

So, Here is the List Of  Google’s Top 7 tricks

1. 1. Google gravity:- We all have read the Newton’s law of gravity.Does it also apply to google?To test it follow the instructions

• Go to google.com
• Type Google Gravity
• Click on I’m feeling Lucky

Now you will see the effect of gravity on google.The google icon will fall down automatically.You can even pickup and throw google icon anyware.

1. 2. Google Pacman Game:-I have already published a post on the google pacman.To read how to play the pacman game on google click the link below

Play Google Pacman Game

1. 3. Change Background Image:-You can also change the background image of google image.To change the background image follow the instructions

• Go to google.com
• Click on the Change Background Image

• Login with gmail username and upload Image

This will not work if you open the encrypted google.To open unencrypted version  click Here

1. 4. Epic Google:- In epic google you will see the font size of google increasing automatically as if it will come out of your computer screen.To use google Follow the instructions

• Go to google.com
• Type Epic Google
• Click on I’m feeling Lucky

1. 5. Google Advanced Search Hacks:-Google provides some special search operators.By using these operators you can easily search anything you want.To learn about these oprators and how to use them click the link below.

Google advanced search hack

1. 6. Google Hacker:-want to see how the google homepage will look if it gets hacked .Follow the instructions below

• Go to google.com
• Type Google Hacker
• Click on I’m feeling Lucky

1. 7. Annoying Google:- In this trick the capitalisation of your searches will change automatically.Some words will change into small letter and some into capital letters in your search result.Want to try it follow the instructions

• Go to google.com
• Type Annoying Google
• Click on I’m feeling Lucky

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Play Online Pacman Game At Google

If you are getting bored and need something intersting to kill your time then go for this online game. To celebrate 30 years of pacman google created its first ever playable doodle the pacman doodle.It was put on the google homepage for 2 complete days on google home to mark its 30^thanniversary.But due to large success of the pacman game google created a special page where you can play pacman and kill some time.

Click here to play Pacman Game Online

Play Pacman Game Online (Multiplayer) At Google

If your brother or some friend is sitting along with you and you want to play multiplayer with him then visit this page

Click here to play Pacman Game (multiplayer) Online

Click on the “ Insert Coin “ Button and now you will two pacman.One pacman can be controlled with the arrow keys and the second pacman will be controlled with “ A,S,D,W “ keys.

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Google AdSense Tips

Sub­se­quent to my AdSense items from yes­ter­day today are a few ran­dom tips and tips for Google AdSense.

Again, I would like to pref­ace that these tips are not a panacea and always and every­where to work. One must also test here are first and pos­si­bly the best look­ing out for themselves.

If you have more tips, I would be glad if you write this in the comments.

Google AdSense Tips

AdSense not hide in col­umn 
AdSense ads will be paid not to Views, but for clicks. It is there­fore impor­tant that as the ads each vis­i­tor con­sciously per­ceived.
So hid­ing your AdSense blocks on your right side or bot­tom, but builds the code where it is seen. The begin­ning and the end of con­tri­bu­tions has to me always works well.

first ad with high­est click rates 
Accord­ing to Google the ads with the high­est click rates in the first occur­ring in the code are put AdSense block.
This block was the most promi­nently placed AdSense unit and should not be hid­ing some­where right in the column.

Adsense in Con­tent 
Very well worked for me How­ever, the incor­po­ra­tion of AdSense blocks sit­u­ated works in posts. You can either do it by hand with the plu­gin “AdSense Deluxe” or eg auto­mat­i­cally with the plu­gin “AdSense Injec­tion”.
I use the for­mer, since one has to sim­ply hand over con­trol of the position.

Up to 3 AdSense ads 
Google allows up to 3 AdSense text ad units per page. If you have enough text in its con­tent, this should also use and place one ad in the begin­ning, mid­dle and end of his con­tri­bu­tions.
If you have only short news arti­cles, you should not annoy his read­ers, and only 2 or an AdSense block installed.

Link Color 
For most blogs and web­sites blue for the AdSense links will work best. Blue is the color of a trained link for “nor­mal” Inter­net users.

AdSense Tem­plates 
Pro­vided by Google AdSense tem­plates are not rec­om­mended. Try to match the ads to the lay­out of your blog or your site so that the AdSense blocks can not be rec­og­nized from the very cor­ner of my eye as advertising.

1 item = one topic 
Lim­ited per you post on a topic as pos­si­ble. The more focused the arti­cle is more appro­pri­ate to the AdSense ads are.

Define Analy­sis Area 
In this con­text it is also impor­tant to the analy­sis of the page for the Google AdSense Crawler limit.
With the com­mands “<- google_ad_section_start -> and <- google_ad_section_end ->” Google says that only the text between them are cru­cial for the ads.
You can either make in his Word­Press theme itself or as the Word­Press plu­gin wpSEO * use these tags auto­mat­i­cally sets before and after the arti­cle text.

bad block ads 
Not all ads in Google AdSense blocks are really seri­ous. There­fore, one should con­sider whether to fil­ter out cer­tain ads domains.
There are in the Google AdSense account is an option. A list of dubi­ous ads find for exam­ple here, and I got blocked only part of it. But you have to your­self that it blocks all those URLs.
Many blog­gers, includ­ing I myself, found that by this fil­ter­ing and the click prices have risen. So it’s worth some­thing “clean up”.

Watch Show 
You should also see time at your recent arti­cles, the ads. Do many dif­fer­ent ads or the ads are repeated often? Or dive even more on just 1 or 2 ads in a 4 ad block.
This may mean that this sub­ject / these key­words are hardly adver­tis­ers. So rather put the arti­cle top­ics and key­words that bring more ads and there­fore more com­pe­ti­tion and higher click prices.

View chan­nels use 
It is very impor­tant to use a chan­nel for each ad. This sim­ply means that you can take the sta­tis­tics in Google AdSense account for the dif­fer­ent chan­nels and see it sep­a­rately for each ad. In con­trast, a com­par­i­son of each ad is hardly possible.

Text ads are more effec­tive than image ads 
Most blog­gers report that they are clear in text ads, more clicks than AdSense image ads.
I can only con­firm. So watch out for the pro­duc­tion of ads to click “text only ads.
If any­one has any other expe­ri­ence, I am pleased with a comment.

More traf­fic = more clicks? 
More traf­fic is of course always a good thing first. Is it pos­si­ble to keep the click rate, then of course, increase the clicks on AdSense.
How­ever, traf­fic does not equal traf­fic. Blogt you through pop­u­lar and (I may say so) adult themes, then I sup­pose you get a lot of traf­fic, but the own click prices (and cer­tainly the rep­u­ta­tion of their own blogs) suffer.

Basi­cally, but more traf­fic is also good for the AdSense revenue.

AdSense ads are imme­di­ately vis­i­ble 
Also falling back to the “do not hide adver­tis­ing”. When the first AdSense unit is imme­di­ately seen after load­ing the page, also heard the click opportunities.

As few other links 
I have even noticed this first­hand. The more other links are avail­able, the lower in gen­eral, the CTR of the AdSense ads.
Before I had my new lay­out, my CTR was almost twice as high as now. Now I have already sig­nif­i­cantly more links and vis­i­tors so that more alter­na­tives.
There­fore, so-called “AdSense Themes includ­ing opti­mized to have just as few links in the header.
The vis­i­tor should per­ceive the AdSense links as pos­si­ble first.

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