Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Simple Ways To Get More Blog Traffic

This is every blogger’s dream. Increasing your blog traffic and in effect, your page rank. So you’re looking to increase your blog’s popularity this year, here are some basic tips:

Be mindful of your content . In blogging and the internet in general, it is important to carve your own niche. What is your blog about? Is it about parenting?computer hardware? Health and beauty? It is important to identify your target reader and concentrate of building your blog with them in mind. It is also important to have a feature article at least once a week. Think about a popular topic that will interest a lot of readers. Think about keywords also. These are words that are most likely to be used when searching for topics using internet search engines. It is important to have blog entries that will be interesting regardless of date, no matter how many years ago you wrote it.

Update often. Search engines can detect if a blog is active. If your blog is updated regularly, the more likely your blog will appear first in the search engine results. Try your best to update daily, or at least three times a week.

Participate in other blogs. Don’t spend too much time trying to make your blog the best there is, it is also important to network with other bloggers with similar interests. Choose popular blogs with high page rank. Visit them often and comment on their posts. Establish a friendship and join the community. Once you’ve established a relationship with them, try linking them up and wait for them to do the same. This will definitely be plus points for your blog’s popularity. These blogs will send traffic your way.

These are pretty simple tips that you may have already heard. Take them to heart and seriously consider them when logging on to your blog. I hope you see positive changes soon. We are all rooting for a higher page rank and increased popularity of our blogs. Good Luck!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the pointers!!

Tanner said...

I heard that you should only comment on blogs that have DoFollow. However, looking at the above post, I can see that it does not have DoFollow. So, which way is better?