Aug 07 2008
Driving Blog Traffic
Everyone is looking for more traffic. So how can you get some more for your Blog?
Here are some and I’ll look at them in more depth over the coming days
- Joint Related Forums - Now don’t post rubbish. When you do that you’ve instantly lost the respect of your new public. Look for threads that you know something about and can add value to the ongoing discussion. Leave your future prospective readers wanting more and you’ll get visitors to your blog. Generally each forum will allow you a signature file us this to drive traffic back to your blog. A favorite forum of mine is Russell Brunson’s Conquer Your Niche Marketing Forum click this text and get involved.
- Comment on other blogs - very similar to forums add value to the ongoing discussion and people will seek you out to find out more about you and what your all about. DO NOT post lame comments like I agree what a great article, your wasting your time and that of everyone that reads it. If you have posted similar leave a link to the thread. Leave links of love from your blogs if you love a post at another blog link to it with no thought of receiving a backlink other blog owners will notice you.Because they will suggest and add ways you can generate traffic, here’s a post about an overlooked website traffic method frm Lynn Terry.
- Submit articles to directories - If you post articles on line you are allowed generally an about me box, leave a link back to your blog, If you enjoyed the article you can read more at yourblog.com. The article length in my opinion is irrelevant as short or as long as you want but the point is it should leave your reader wanting more and should have a way of finding you.
- Social Networking - Facebook, Twitter you name it Web 2.0 is big and will get bigger. Find people of a similar nature and comment upon what is going on in their lives get involved marketing is now a social event. I was slow on the uptake here as admitted previously.
- Start an email list- And if you haven’t subscribe to mine. Top right corner of the page guys - always always make it clear to people what they are required to do next. Ps I’ll only send you blog updates or stuff that I genuinely believe will help your online presence or learning.
- Use Lists - Search engines as well as people love lists. People tend to get all the way to the bottom which is where we are for today thanks for reading.
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I have been testing new ways to drive traffic to my blog - trying to understand what works and what doesn’t. The particular tests have been around how search compares to social networking to offline PR to blog involvement. I have done some analysis in a recent post that you might be interested in: http://dominiquehind.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/whats-working-on-my-blog-stats-update/
It shows that the main search drivers to my blog are keywords around my name (ie the conscious thought). There are only a few unconscious keywords (ie unrelated) that have been driving traffic. Social networks is a great way for driving traffic - particularly when you reference your URL in your profile and then in your status. I read today that another way to drive traffic to your blog is via updating your profile image to include the URL of your blog - another way to drive traffic.
Great post and I would be interested in your thoughts.