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I was asked recently how to get a 1000 visitors a day to your blog network. If you have a network it is quite easy. The more blogs you have the more content you have, and more content you have the better chance you will get hits from search results. Here is my quick list of do’s and don’ts.
- Content isn’t enough. You need content with good keywords and for that material to be indexed. If you run a wordpress blog the Google XML Sitemap Plugin is one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal for getting indexed. If you want to be properly indexed it is highly important that you use good content specific keywords and tags. I generate specific keywords with Wordsfinder and use the Calais Tagaroo Plugin to generate Semantic tags, both of which appear as meta keywords to search engines thanks to my theme.
- Write about popular things. If you follow the first rule of good tagging and and getting regularly indexed, writing about popular topics is going to greatly increase your traffic. While it goes without saying that writing about football in the off season isn’t going to bring you a lot of traffic for those posts, when I say popular I mean really popular. The Google Trends page is your friend if you learn to read it correctly. At any given time these are the 100 most popular search terms on Google and they all have links to recent blog posts through Google Blog links. Incorporate something from here and your search traffic will go up. Mention sixty or seventy of them over a couple of relevant posts and you are search gold for as long as the trend continues.
- Write something worth shouting about. If your posts are pretty good there is always someone willing to submit it to the Social Media outlets. Promoting yourself is held by some as being tacky and rude, but I don’t think so under some circumstances. if you aren’t the only one you are promoting. if you submit, comment, stumble, and rate hundreds of pages a week a little self promotion isn’t a bad thing. Once a page has been submitted by someone else there is no reason not to jump on the promotion bandwagon. If you put up a couple of stumble worthy pages a day your traffic can easily exceed a thousand hits a day.
- Comment on popular blogs in your niche. I can’t begin to tell you how many thousands upon thousands of visitors this can bring to your blog. This is a long term strategy that has to be cultivated and worked over time. You need to leave relevant comments on these blogs and do it often. One good comment will likely get you some traffic, but a hundred comments on a popular blog a year or more is golden.
- Give people a reason to come back. Unless you are giving your people a reason to come back they likely aren’t going to. There are lots of good sources of the same information you are providing so you need to give people a reason to return. I use CommentLuv, KeywordLuv, Nofollow Free, plugins and interact with the people that comment. Some of my blogs I offer an integrated forum so readers can interact with each other.
- Make it easy for people to come back. Not only do you need to give people a reason to come back, you need to make it easy for them to return. (I need to do a better job of this on this theme.) You can do things like put a Del.Icio.us, Technorati, Yahoo as well as rss feed or many other buttons that make getting back to you easy for people to return.
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Thanks for the great tips. Leveraging comments as a source of traffic is a great strategy. When I started blogging I underestimated the importance of participating in your niche. I would recommend to anyone new to the blogosphere, take this advice, you wont be sorry!
I have read a lot recently on having blog networks, instead of just one blog. A lot of people will have a one blog where they cram all of their thoughts, reviews, news, everything on. However, easy as that may be, it is not niche specific, and your audience may only want to come to your blog for just one of those items. To make your niche more specific, you can divide all of your blogging ideas into several different blogs that can be topic specific, really narrowing down your target audience, and helping customers find a way to get back to read about what they want to read. Writing about what you want to write about, and your visitors reading what they want to read about are two different things, and bloggers should pay attention that when blogging.
Great tips in your post!
The topic was really eye catching. Nice tips and easy to implement.
Thanks for helpful tips. I think they will help people to get more traffic. I use almost all of this tips, and I want to say, that they help me a lot.
thanks. i will try it.
Cool I have a fun little blog and hope to get some traffic to it. http://outofthecookie.blogspot.com/
Great post. I have found the Google XML Sitemap Plugin for Wordpress to be a lifesaver. If I had to update all of the sitemaps for my multiple blogs, I would never have the time to write any new posts. I love the fact that this plugin resubmits your sitemap whenever you make changes. It should also be noted that even though it is called Google XML Sitemap Plugin, the sitemap created by the plugin is read by Yahoo! and the other popular search engines, as well. Thank goodness for standards. Hooray XML!!!
I maintain multiple blogs, and have found that keeping each blog dedicated to a niche has been very effective. The only drawback, is that you have to be dedicated to regularly posting to each blog.
Now I just need to focus on writing something that people will want to read!
Keep up the good work.
It also helps to increase commenting on fellow bloggers sites.
It require patient and lots of promotions.
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I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
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