The quick way to increase blog traffic.
There is no point in writing a blog if nobody knows it exists, so finding visitors to read your information is paramount in the success of your blog. Having been an author of my own blog for 12 months, I have discovered a few great ways to promote and increase the amount of visitors. Some will help create a steady flow of new visitors, and some will only create a temporary solution (alphainventions), giving you plenty of new visitors quickly.
Use Tags
The first tip to increasing traffic to a blog is something that many of you have already been doing, but in case you haven’t I will include it. Each time you add a new post to your blog site it is important that you fill in the “Tags” as this will allow your content to be shown under that category. Your blog will also be indexed by Google and other search engines using the keywords provided. If your blog is talking about Web Design then having the following tags would help promote your blog:
Web Design, Web, Design, Web Designer, Website, Web Sites
Add your Blogs RSS Feeds to Feedburner.
There are many different web sites that offer to promote your blog using RSS feeds, many free and a few that will charge you a small fee. Google now provide you the opportunity to add your blog to Feedburner free of charge. This will help you to promote your new content quickly. Visit http://feedburner.google.com for more information.
Tell The World With Twitter
If you haven’t used Twitter then you are missing out on a lot of extra blog traffic. Twitter allows you to announce simple messages to people who are following you. It also allows website URL’s which are a great way for you to mention your latest blog article, and present a link for interested parties to visit your blog. Visit www.twitter.com and sign up for your free account now. Once signed up follow http://www.twitter.com/madcomputers .
Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites
Just like Twitter, many social networking sites allow you to add web links to status updates. Announce your blog update on your status update and you should see your traffic increase as friends and family visit your blog. To make things even easier you are able to use www.ping.fm which will update many of the social networking sites all together, saving you time. Some useful sites worth looking at are:
www.facebook.com www.linkedin.com www.ecademy.com www.bebo.com www.friendsreunited.com
Alphainventions and Condron
I mentioned earlier Alphainventions as one of the ways to receive a quick boost in traffic. Both alphinventions and condron will allow your blog to be shown to thousands of bloggers over a short period of time, which will bring you plenty of visitors. All you will need to do is visit http://aphainventions.com or www.condron.us and add your blog. It only takes a few minutes and the increase in visitors to your blog will be sure to amaze you.
I hope that with the above tips your blog will be receiving plenty of new visitors. There are many other ways to increase blog traffic, but the ones above are sure to get you the desired results. Look out for part two on how to increase traffic to your blog. To make sure you don’t miss it subscribe to the RSS feed at http://www.madpchelp.co.uk/blog/feed/
