This is part two in a three part series on the steps for building blog traffic. If you are looking for quick and simple ways for building blog traffic, or more involved ways with bigger returns, keep reading for some great information.
1 – Participate in related blogs and forum websites.
Whatever niche or industry you are in, if you are interested in building blog traffic then you need to participate in blogs and forums other than your own. There are going to be online communities full of people just like you including bloggers and forum posters that are already active. Depending on how specific your focus is, you may need to broaden your horizons a bit when reaching out to other communities in order to find a large community that you can fit in with. A great way for you to find out where these people are is to use a website known as Technorati, which will help you conduct searches. Then you can sort by authority and start participating elsewhere on the net to build some authority for your name, blog and website as well.
2 – Tag all of your content.
Technorati is the first place that you should be using to tag posts. It is recommended that you have the tags directly on your page, pointing to the technorati searches that you are specifically trying to target. There are a number of other good places that you can ping as well including Flickr and del.icio.us as well. Tagging your content is going to be really valuable in giving your website bumps from big name sites such as StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit. You do not want to submit all of your posts to these websites, but you do not want to offer about one out of every twenty in order to get your name out there in a big way.
3 – Launch without any comments, and then add them in later.
There is something a little sad about a blog that does not have any comments, because it feels really dead and unpopular, but if you launch your blog without allowing comments, then nobody is going to know that you’re not getting any visitors, because your lack of comments is only because you do not want any. When you start to get more subscribers and readers, THEN and only then should you open up the ability to comment, so that you can begin to see some decent commenting. Comments are a way that many readers judge the popularity of a site, after all. If they view your blog and see that you are accepting comments but not getting any, they may take this as a sign that it is not worthwhile for them to stick around, and this won’t be good for you.
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Originally posted 2009-09-21 03:01:37. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Good points. I especially like the one about disabling comments. But be sure to make sure you’re hyper-targeting your content. The days of the broad appeal blogger is ending, thanks to Twitter and Facebook. We found an interesting drop in blog traffic nearly industry wide in a recent project for a client
http://www.bigscarycranium.com/blog/why-your-blog-traffic-fell.html
I’m surprised that a page that ranks high for “build blog traffic” on Google, even a year-old article, would seriously recommend Technorati. It has been useless for years. The ranking algorithm makes no sense, the site is a spam/splog/warez wasteland and turns absolutely zero traffic for my site.
It’s an interesting suggestion, sure, but every link helps raise your Pagerank… and helps you get more readers.
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