21 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic
August 24, 2008
If you are stuck and don’t know what to do next to increase your blog traffic, this list of hand-picked resources is going to come at the perfect time for you! If you are on track and growing your blog traffic, there’s still going to be some things below you haven’t read or done.
I’ve left out some tips. There are many more. Please feel free to share your favorites with fellow FTR readers below!
1. Commenting: The importance of commenting and engaging on other blogs in your niche cannot be overstated.
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2. MyBlogLog: Join MyBlogLog and then join communities.
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3. Blog Catalog: Join Blog Catalog and participate in threads.
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4. SEO for Bloggers: This is for search engine optimization. Your main keyword should be early in your title and then repeated somewhere within your first paragraph. First sentence preferred. Shorter titles generally are better than long ones.
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5. Feedburner: Convert your feed to Feedburner and make sure to use their badges to build your RSS subscriber base. Feedburner will give you good stats if you upgrade to Pro and will expose some good info on where to put your feed next.
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6. RSS Feed Syndication: Put your RSS feed on all the social profiles you own that allow it. Examples: Facebook, Mashable, TwitterFeed.com, and many others will allow your feed so when you post, you update on multiple sites, not just yours.
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7. Video: Create and syndicate video. Make sure to use good descriptions and titles with your main keywords on all video submissions. Use a syndication service like Traffic Geyser or TubeMogul.
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8. Podcasting: This opens up entirely new channels for you. You get a new RSS feed to promote and you get to insert yourself into Podcast-only directories to find new, targeted listeners who will end up on your blog and subscribed to your main feed.
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9. Trackbacks: Essential in building backlinks and participating in conversations around you. Use TrackBoost to do this properly or you will become lazy and stop doing this important tactic regularly.
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10. Social News: Make sure remind your fans to submit you to the important social news sites like Digg, Propeller, Yahoo Buzz and specialty news sites targeted to your niche (e.g. Sphinn) Use ShareThis and buttons on your posts provided by each of the big social news sites.
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11. Communities: Find communities at Ning.com centered around your niche and make friends, fill outyour profiles carefully and completely, and interact on those sites regularly to pull people to you.
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12. Prize Contests: Massive traffic and subscriber potential here.
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- Blog Boost: Perfect example of a value-packed contest.
- ProBlogger’s excellent guide for running blog contests.
13. Writing contest: Different than above.
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- How to run a writing project contest (example)
14. Linkbait: Learn what it is and how to write it.
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- How to Linkbait (example)
- Andy Hagan’s (STILL) Ultimate Guide to Linkbait
- Problogger Linkbaiting Series
- Search Engine Journal on Linkbaiting
15. Twitter - Microblogging: Twitter rocks. Find out why and then start using it.
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16. Remote Blogging: Remote blogs on communities and blogging services help.
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17. Ning: Set up your own community attached to your site and encourage your people to join. They will invite hundreds, even thousands of others immediately giving you a huge boost, if you promote it properly.
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- Ning.com
- Social Marketing Central (example)
18. Networking: Ask questions directly to other bigger bloggers in your niche and try developing relationships with them to get powerful links and mentions on their sites.
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- Why No One Links to Your Best Posts (And What to Do About It) | Hint: Writing great content isn’t the final answer!
19. Guest posts: Through your networking you should be able to offer some bigger bloggers a guest post proposition. Guest posting piggy backs on their success and readership and can drive huge amounts of regular traffic.
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20. Bookmarking: Yeah it still has purpose. Here are the latest tips on social bookmarking.
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- Authority Black Book (to find out what’s worth doing and what’s a waste of time)
21. Consistency: Blog WELL every day. I don’t care how hard it is. The most successful blogs ALL post every day and post really good content on most days. This is blogging. Get used to it.
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- Use Utility Poster and Video Utility Poster to make the job easier.
- Tips for Blog Traffic - How to Increase Traffic Levels
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22. Join Social Power Linking: This is where you keep up to date on the latest social / blog marketing tactics. It’s clean, powerful, to-the-point information on a level that other courses and communities cannot touch.
Inspiration: 21 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic, SEOMoz.com
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10 Important Blogger Hangouts
July 27, 2008
Where are all the cool bloggers hanging out these days?
Well, with the hundreds of thousands of blog sites that are out there, social marketing is sweeping the web and certainly becoming the number one way to do any internet marketing. Here’s a list of 10 Important Blogger Hangouts (note: these are listed in no particular order, they are all important and each have a little something different to offer)
- Blog Catalog: This blog hangout claims to be the Ultimate Blog Directory. Blog Catalog lists a wide variety of blogs, for every topic you can imagine. Blog Catalog offers free submission of your blog to their directory, making your blog more visible to other bloggers. FTR Profile
- MyBlogLog: One of the original social sites, MyBlogLog is a great way to see what others are interested in. Develop a network of friends, and find out what links they find great. Track information about your website, find out what your users are interested in when they visit! Join the FTR Blog Marketing Group
- Facebook: Facebook keeps you connected with your friends and makes it easy for you to build networks to include other bloggers with similar interests. You will find that you can get many, many social marketing tips by using words that relate to your niche as a search topic and joining the right networks! FTR on Facebook
- Social Marketing Central: This blog site is crammed full of people who are all clamoring for the top spot as an authority in their own expert niche. Getting involved with this group will help you get insider secrets to social marketing strategies, and you’ll see your traffic and your profits increase substantially!
- Twitter: Twitter helps networks and friends stay connected by having everyone answer one simple question, “What are you doing?” Bloggers use it as a mini-blogging tool, making frequent posts is easy with Twitter. Lead others to your blog almost effortlessly. Follow Me
- FriendFeed: A great way to hook up and monitor your fellow bloggers and friends across a decent selection of popular social sites. You can run your FriendFeed on your blog or on your profile pages at Facebook and elsewhere to show off your network and get more attention. FTR Friend Feed
- YouTube: No blogger misses a day on YouTube. This is a great place to find video clips for your blog, and other interesting topics to blog about. Just about anything goes on YouTube, and it has a huge slice of Internet traffic each day, one of the biggest draws on the Internet. Find out what the buzz is all about. FTR Videos
- Digg: Digg offers a major clearinghouse of “all things interesting” on the web. Find out what’s hot, get tons of information for your blog, and get your information out there to be “dug.” Millions of visitors decide what makes the front page, based on submissions from all over the globe. Friend Me
- Technorati: Make your blog even more powerful by using Technorati. Live updates and incredibly dynamic indexing makes Technorati a great tool for your blogging toolbox. Search the site for any relevant information, and instantly be greeted with the most up-to-date results for any topic. Fav the FTR!
- MySpace: Originally intended for teens and young adults, MySpace has become a powerful networking site for Internet marketing. By targeting particular networks and groups, MySpace offers bloggers a way to gain exposure quickly and share anything of interest easily. Friend me!
If you are serious about blogging, you must be using most or all of these tools to keep connected to the world, via the Internet! What other great blogger hangouts do you think should be added to this list?
Tags: blog communities, blog promotion, blogger hangouts, social marketingTactics to Increase Blog Traffic
May 10, 2008
I have collected some blog traffic driving gems tonight. These should be a great help if you aren’t already getting 1 million visitors per month.
If you are, then take the night off!
21 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic
A considerable portion of my consulting time has recently revolved around the optimization of corporate blogs (or the addition of blogs to revamped sites). As usual, I find a pattern emerging in the strategies that need attention and the pitfalls that must be avoided.
Tips for Blog Traffic - How to Increase Traffic Levels
But in my opinion, the best way to increase blog traffic is simply by posting often with quality content. In fact, there are so many benefits of posting quality content that I’m going to dedicate this entire blog post to the subject… …
Increase blog traffic via Blog Explosion
I have found myself spending a lot of time over at blogexplosion.com. It is a great way to get traffic to your blog and there are several fun ways to do it. You can surf others blogs, each time earning traffic to your own blog. …
Increase Blog Traffic With Google Image Search
How many times in a week do you search for images in Google Image Search? For bloggers, those numbers may be very high. I know that I use Google Image Search quite a bit when I need to find a picture to use for a blog post. …
Others find commenting to be a good tool to increase blog traffic. Being a middle of the road person - I see both sides of this debate and have not abandoned commenting all together. Why Commenting is Worthwhile …
How To Increase Blog Traffic With Your RSS Feed
The RSS feed for your blog is a very valuable traffic generation tool. Really Simple Sydication (RSS) makes it really simple to syndicate your blog content all over the internet….for free. … [[ This is a content summary only. …
Use TrackBoost to Increase Blog Traffic!
Its brand new. We programmed it, so you know its good!
How To Increase Blog Traffic and Improve Search Engine Exposure
Having a blog is good. Having a blog that gets traffic is great. Not having to pay for that traffic…. PRICELESS! If you have a blog, or any page on the web for that matter, learning how to… [[ This is a content summary only. …
Use Web2Submitter to Increase Blog Traffic!
It submits to the top social sites faster than you can!
How to Increase Blog Traffic with Social Communities
Social communities, like BlogCatalog or Twitter, are great resources to help you increase traffic to your blog and get more eyeballs on your content. While social bookmarking sites allow you to mark… [[ This is a content summary only. …
Use Utility Poster to Increase Blog Traffic!
It allows you to compile posts like this one you’re reading. Very fast, very keyword dense, very lovely for your readers looking for your information.
Cross Blog Conversations by the Web Success Diva
April 10, 2008
Not only does she have the goods to deliver sound advice on blog marketing and making money, but this web diva is a heck of a lot more fun to learn from than my ugly mug talking at you all the time!
Her name is Maria Reyes-McDavis. Smart, accomplished, and she is one of the few people on the web who is better looking than me.
Here’s Maria’s take on cross blog conversations and driving traffic:
Check out Maria’s Web Success Diva blog for more blog marketing tips!
Tags: Blog Marketing, Blog Marketing Videos, blog promotion, training videos, web divarssHugger Promises More Links, More Feed Subscribers
November 29, 2007
Here’s a new blog marketing and RSS promotion site to check out: rssHugger.com
What It Is
rssHugger is a new website developed to help bloggers promote their blogs, and to help visitors discover new blogs that write about subjects that the readers are interested in. Through the power of the internet and viral marketing, rssHugger looks to bring blog writers and blog readers closer together.
You get a free account for 10 years (like the web is going to be anything like it is now in 10 years, lol) for writing a post about it. Hence, this post.
Since I’ve just signed up, this isn’t a review. Just a new site alert. I will report back with my findings once I have had time to check it out thoroughly.
Tags: Blog Marketing, blog promotion, rsshuggerMonday Power Linking: Boost Productivity, Get Traffic, Copy Successful Blogging Strategies
May 14, 2007
Other than the first link, the following links are designed to help you crank your blog to new levels of success.
I didn’t notice the theme until I was done posting the links below, so now I will take credit for it as though I set out to help you boost your productivity, blog better, and design better content all along.
- 15 Minute Website SEO Checkup - A pretty useful check list of keyword usage based on positive or negative points depending on effectiveness.
- PerfectBlogger.com has a great article entitled “Top 5 Rules for Making Your Blog A Success.” I think everyone keeps pushing these points because they are the core functions of authority and obvious expertise in blogs and because most people are still trying to skip some or all of them looking for an easier way. Until marketers adopt these principles, look for more and more reminders, like this one, of what it takes to become relevant in your niche with a blog platform.
- Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.net has a great post entitled “9 Attitudes of Highly Creative People.” Creativity is not just for people who consider themselves writers only. Creativity is a key ingredient to business success whether it is content development strategy or implementing new ideas and tactics in your marketing. Everyone needs creativity.
- Liz Strauss has an excellent post called “25 Ways to be Jazzed about Productivity.” Everyone involved in building an authority presence on the web knows that productivity is crucial and organization is the key to success. The hard part is keeping your productivity up and staying organized and efficient ongoing. This guide will help you set yourself back on track and boost your productivity to new heights.
- John Chow has an insightful post about “The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers.” Not only am I carrying a theme for topics today, but I have managed to find posts with similar headline structures. You’d think I was doing this on purpose, but it’s totally random, really!
- Mark White at Better Business Blog gave me the ammunition to point to a great list today with “52 of the Best Ways to Promote Your Blog and Your Business.”
I dare say if you read and implement what you learn just from today’s Power Linking, you are going to drastically improve your authority presence on the web!
Targeted Traffic From Social Networks…
January 19, 2007
I’ve been completely floored this week by the way MyBlogLog.com has taken off.
Sometimes it seems like a big company has to buy in to really get the current community to explode! And it has.
My MBL network has grown a lot this week and everyone seems to be posting comments on each others community pages like mad now.
My traffic from the MyBlogLog.com community has tripled this week just from participating and surfing over there.
If you are a blogger and you aren’t in the MyBlogLog world yet, you best get stompin’! And don’t forget to join the Blog Promotion group as your first order of business.
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Spicy Page is also really taking off. It is really fun to watch new communities grow. And I like helping them do it.
It is a blog voting and popularity community. People who sign up seem to be surfing through the other members and commenting on other blogs, usingthe system to discover new content in the blogosphere.
I like the neat twist they put on the community system and I can’t wait to see what they do with the video hosting tab which is still under construction.
My traffic from SpicyPage.com is going up and I am getting new readers and subscribers from them.
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I will have a list of all the new social networks I’ve discovered soon. Things are definitely going vertical instead of just large, general communities.
For instance, I found a new story posting place like Digg, but just for marketers and marketing content. It’s called PlugIm.
This site is sending me daily targeted traffic just by posting my posts and articles there for readers to pick up.
Make sure you take some time soon to “get social.” My stats are up across the board from taking a bit of time each day to interact with neat services like these, so it is time well spent.
Tags: blog promotion, mybloglog, plugim, social networks, Social Power Linking, spicy page4 Things The Winners Will Be Doing In 2007
December 31, 2006
Free Targeted Traffic Sources
- Power Linking
- Automated Traffic Without PPC or Other Paid Advertising (Hint: Every single player online uses this tactic!)
- The Right Publishing System That Attracts Attention By Simply Posting
- Video Marketing
These 4 things will earn sites millions this year. Millions of visitors and millions of dollars in sales.
There’s no theory involved and the tactics work for anyone who uses them, newbies and pros alike.
Tags: blog promotion, free marketing, free visitors, internet marketing, marketing tactics, targeted trafficJo Han Mok and Ewen Chia Unleash Their Traffic Secrets
December 30, 2006
If you find yourself looking around for the “holy grail” of driving targeted traffic all the time, it is because marketers and scammers come up with elaborate, unreal schemes to trick search engines and visitors while making up crazy stories that somehow fool you into thinking they know what they are talking about.
We must be approaching several hundred million dollars spent by online business owners on junk traffic schemes in their quest for that holy grail. That “big red button.”
Tags: blog promotion, ewen chia, free traffic, getting traffic, jo han mok, targeted traffic, Website PromotionBlog Marketing Book: Jeremy Wright
December 17, 2006
A great read on blog marketing is available through Amazon. The book, by Jeremy Wright, is getting great reviews.
Here is an excerpt from Bloomberg’s review:
“You must have blogrolls, or lists of links, because you aren’t really a cool blogger, Wright tells us, unless you link to other blogs in your subject area. NewsGator, a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, makes new feeds arrive the way e-mail does. PubSub offers a tracking system for feeds.
Wright makes all of these programs fairly clear, though the book would have benefited from some hints about which software packages are essential.”
Here is the beginning of the third chapter. Actually Jeremy has a lot of previews on his blog. You should check it out!
Tags: blog advertising, Blog Marketing, blog marketing course, blog marketing tips, blog promotion, jeremy wright
