So now are getting to the point of this article where I start sharing
everything I have learned over the last couple years about blogging.
So, if you are like most, you want to create a blog so that others can
read what you have to say. Sadly, people will not find your blog (in the
beginning anyway) unless you do a little legwork. These are some of the
things I did to get traffic and some that I still do. The first thing I
suggest doing is writing a few great articles about your topic and
feature them in your sidebar. Then I would start working on generating
traffic, because you not only want traffic, but you want returning
traffic as well.
Guest Posting!!
I think this is one of the best ways to start getting some quick traffic. Almost every blog I know allows guest posts (
even this one)
– and almost every one of those does not discriminate. What I mean is
that most bloggers (that I know anyway) will accept or reject a guest
post based on it’s quality, not on whether they know the person or not.
This provides a great opportunity for a newbie to write an article that
could be seen by 20,000 readers. I don’t know of any other method that
could bring traffic as quick. I must admit, I could still do more guest
posting myself. I have been pleased with the results in the past. The
key is to write a great article – don’t hold back your best stuff. I
have seen people grow their blogs very quickly by giving some of their
best articles away as guest posts. Also, only submit unpublished content
as a guest post. If it has already been published, then the blog that
is allowing you to guest post won’t get any search engine traffic for
that article. But there are places to republish your articles you have
already published – we will get to that in a minute…
Sign up for blog community sites
Just a few off the top of my head are
mybloglog.com,
technorati.com, and
blogcatalog.com.
Look for other blogs in your niche and join their networks and ask to
become their friends. Networking with some of your fellow bloggers here
will send a few visitors your way and is a good way to get started.
Submit to Blogcarnivals
One of the best things beginning bloggers can do is to sign up for
blogcarnivals.
At this site you can submit articles that you wrote on your blog to be
included in a list of articles by the hosting blog. It is kind of like
“open mic night.” If you have a good article with a good title, you can
get some good traffic from blogcarnivals, not to mention incoming links
from other related sites.
Join Directories
If I were starting a blog today, one of the first things I would do
is Google “whatever topic I want to blog about” + “directory” This
should return a list of web directories about your topic. Getting added
to these directories will only help. You may not get a lot of traffic
from them, but ultimately they will help you get more traffic from the
search engines. A few of the more valuable ones to get you started…
Blog Commenting
One of the absolute best ways for new blogs to get traffic is just to
comment on other blogs. Commenting with a thoughtful and provocative
response will often send a few visitors your way. The blogging community
is generally a very social community and those who are active in the
community often reap the rewards of it.
Forum Commenting
Becoming involved in forums related to your topic and having a link
to your blog in the signature line can send a few visitors. Google “your
topic” and “forums” and you are sure to find a few. Just don’t be
annoying and go in just to promote yourself. People can see that from a
mile away. The new age of the internet (aka Web 2.0) is very much a
“give and you shall receive” environment. If you seek to give and be a
benefit before seeking your own rewards, you will be much better off.
Why not get started at the
Christian PF Forums?
Linking to other blogs
I don’t know what it is, but everyone wants to know when someone is
talking about them. So it is with blogs. When people link to my site, I
get a notification and often go check out who linked to me and what the
context was. I have had some good relationships form just from this.
Create Squidoo pages
Squidoo.com,
InfoBarrel.com,
Hubpages.com,
and a handful of others are sites that allow you to build a simple page
about a topic. You can do it very quick and the pages often rank well
in the search engines. If you build a page that gets a little bit of
traffic and have links coming back to your site, you will catch some of
those visitors. If that weren’t good enough, many of them allow you to
earn money from your articles as well.
Article submissions
Submit articles to article submission sites. These sites collect
articles and most allow a bio-section that can include a link back to
your blog. Here are a few that are worth looking into…
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