Tuesday 24 July 2012

Your New Blog Needs Traffic And Here Is How To Get It

By Rozella Haver


Creating a full-blown web site is not easy at all when you compare it to a blog. Creating a blog does not require technical knowledge at all; there is no programming involved and no file transfers have to be done. When you decide on a blog instead of a site, you can be up and running on the Internet in a much shorter period of time. However, though you can quickly build an online presence with a blog, you won't instantly make money because you need traffic, which takes more time and effort. Regardless of whether you have a blog or a website, if it is new you must find ways of generating traffic to it.

With a blog site you'll be able to make use of pinging. Every time you make a new blog post, or have new content, in order to get it indexed, it can be pinged, which is how the search engines are informed. Once the ping has been done, spider bots will go to your web site and have a look at your new content. The crawlers will index fresh, unique content, storing them in the search engine cache. Your pages are now available to be shown to those individuals who look up the keywords that appear in them. Traffic derived from the search engines is excellent traffic, as it is so relevant, and that is the kind of traffic a webmaster relishes.

You can also get site visitors from blog directories in which you can have your blog listed. Literally thousands of people go to these directories on a daily basis, in search of blogs that are relevant to their needs, and they could consequently stop by your site. Blog carnivals are another way to get traffic driven to your website. The good thing about blog carnivals is that your web site can be introduced to those who have the same interests. This means that you will get visitors who appreciate your topic. If your website is new, this is a fantastic way to get visitors.

Posting comments on web sites that you go to is very effective at bringing site visitors to your own site. This can be achieved by checking out blogs in a similar niche or by participating in discussion boards. When you post intelligent comments on other people's blogs, the website visitors can read your comments and follow your link back to your blog site. It works exactly the same way when you participate in forums in the same market as yours. Since the discussion board is the same niche as your blog, you can pick up a lot of traffic that should be curious about your blog subject. You could scale this up and get increased traffic just by participating in more discussion boards in the same niche.

Each time you post a comment in a community forum, your signature shows up, and it contains a link back to your website or blog. The more you post and the more forums you post in, the more visitors you'll get.




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