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Increase your Blog Traffic (Part 3)


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7. Include an RSS feed where people can subscribe to your blog or your website (if you have one)
8. Write articles on a regular basis and you can submit them to the 20 largest article directories on the web. Also make sure that you include a link back to your blog in the resource box.
9. Post entries in your blog every day. Do it at least three times a week if you do not have the time. This is because frequent posts attracts engine spiders and increases traffic.
10. With every e-mail and outgoing message you send out, include a link to your blog.

Increase your Blog Traffic (Part 2)


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3. Optimize your blog. To make sure that spiders will visit your site on a regular basis, you have to submit it to major search engines.
4. Read and comment to at least 5 other blogs everyday. But don’t just say ‘Nice blog’ or ‘Good Post.’ Leave powerful comments that have substance. Also, make sure that you leave your blog address on each comment that you enter.
5. Submit your blogs to large blog directories.
6. Include a counter in your blog that will monitor unique visitors and total traffic. This can tell you what techniques are working best for your site.

Increase your Blog Traffic (Part 1)


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So you have set up your first blog and you post witty information everyday, but after three weeks, you are still not getting any kind of meaningful traffic. What can you possibly do to generate traffic for a brand new blog? There are ten suggestions:
1. Visit some forums that are related to your blog’s subject. You can try to reply to at least eight postings per day. Then include a signature file that will include the URL of your blog each time you post.
2. Ping the major blog directories every time you add a new post to your blog.

Countering Abusive Online Behavior

Due to abusive online behavior especially attacks or threats against the blogger, Tim O’Reilly proposed the Blogger’s Code of Conduct. The purpose of which is to enforce civility on bloggers. This move came about as a result of the threats made to blogger Kathy Sierra, author of the inoffensive blog Creating Passionate Users. In one instance she was made a target of vicious threats and misogynistic insults.

The Code emphasizes self-regulation, meaning it should be the bloggers themselves who should impose civility among themselves and place moderate comments on their blogs. If this can be done, it is expected that bloggers will be more responsible and abusive online behavior will be minimized if not totally eradicated.

Commenting – A Tool to Increase Blog Traffic

Commenting – A Tool to Increase Blog Traffic

Commenting is an effective and essential tool to increase blog traffic. Readers feel important when they know that you read their opinions and views that are posted in your site. As a result, their sense of loyalty is developed and they will continue on patronizing your site. Commenting to other sites is another way of drawing traffic to your site. By doing so, you can leave your URL in your comment so you create a link back to your own site. Make your comments interesting to read. This will attract readers to click on your link to visit your site and increase blog traffic.

Blogging Tricks to Increase Traffic to your Website (Part 3)


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Of course, the best way to increase traffic to your website is to start your own blog. This will definitely be a surefire method to promote your main site. If you did the first two methods mentioned earlier, I am guessing that you are now well known as a certified blogger and the readers in your market are already following your writings. Now it will be very easy for you to launch your own blog, and you can be assured that your contacts will happily announce as well as promote it for you. Remember that even if your own blog is rolling, just continue to still be active in the other blogs.

Reasons Why People Blog

Take a look at some of the reasons why people blog and find out if these are true to you. People make blogs because they want to express their thoughts and opinions. They also have something to market or to promote. Others blog because they want to help people (e.g. parenting, health). Those who are experts in a certain field use blogs to establish their craft. For like-minded people, blogging can get them together and share thoughts and opinions. Blogs can also change people’s thinking on certain issues especially political blogs. Some blogs are created to make money especially through advertising. People who love to have fun and be creative find that blogging is a good outlet. These are some of the main reasons why people blog.

The Blogger’s Code of Conduct

In order to counter abusive online behavior, Tim O’Reilly and others proposed the Blogger’s Code of Conduct. The proposal contained ideas that focus on self-regulation. They proposed that bloggers should take responsibility for their words and also for the comments that they allow in their blog. They should set their tolerance level for abusive comments, consider eliminating comments that are anonymous, and ignore trolls. When it comes to conversations, bloggers should take them offline and to either talk directly or through an intermediary. The more important ideas of the Code of Conduct are to tell the abusive person of his misbehavior online and to remember not to say anything online that you wouldn’t say in person.