Randy Roedl

posted by Randy Roedl on Dec 5

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Ten Ways To Bring Traffic To Your blog

There are many people out there who have already set up there own blog or are thinking of doing so soon.  Many have chosen their domain names, lined up their web hosting provider, installed a blogging platform like Wordpress, designed the look of their blog, and started writing blog posts.  This initial start up phase of a blog is exciting, all the possibilities of what they’ll do with their own little piece of internet real estate tumble through the minds of these blog owners, many of these dreams will never be fulfilled.  The main thing that causes a blog to fail is the lack of traffic.  Without traffic there can be no money made with a blog, when a blog makes no money the owner usually gives up and does something else.  In an attempt to keep those dreams alive, here are ten ways to bring traffic to your blog.

1.  Don’t forget to advertise your blog in the real world.  Printing the URL of your blog on any flyers, business cards, brochures, calendars, or other type products can increase your web traffic.  You never know when someone will use that URL either for themselves or reference it in a newspaper article or recommend it to a friend.

2.  Don’t forget to not only enable an RSS feed of your blog, but to display a link to it or an icon for it prominently on your blog.  This enables people to subscribe to your blog feed and be alerted when you’ve updated your content.

3.  Continually and frequently update your blog’s content.  The more blog posts you do and the more chance one of your posts will end up in a search engine result for a term that someone has searched for.

4.  Enable or use a ping feature like Ping-o-matic on your blog.  This feature will ping, or notify, blog directories each time you publish a new blog post.

5.  Write and submit articles about topics related to the niche of your blog to article directories that allow you to include a link to your blog in the article footer.  By doing so, every time someone reprints your article they will also be publishing a link back to your blog.

6.  Frequently comment on posts in other blogs that are related to your niche.  If your comment is informative and well written, people may follow your link back to your blog and become traffic for you as well.

7.  If your blog is one part of a bigger website that you run, make sure each page of your website includes a link to your blog.  This will maximize the traffic you already have coming to your site that may not be coming to your blog as well.

8.  Participate in social networking services like Digg, StumbleUpon, and others.  This can increase your traffic from people that search related subjects from these services.

9.  Submit your blog to both search engines and blog directories.  Submitting to search engines is fairly easy, and depending on how long you’ve been blogging may no longer be necessary as most well programmed search engines will find you on their own after awhile.  Submitting to blog directories can be very time consuming and can either be done a little at a time or can also be outsourced to someone else to do for you.

10.  Add a link to your blog in the signature of both your email and of any forum you’re using.  People that communicate with you via email or on an online forum can then follow these links back to your blog, increasing your traffic.

Utilizing tips like these make it so a blog has a bigger chance of succeeding.  Becoming a successful blog owner is not guaranteed no matter what strategy is used.  But without internet traffic, becoming a failed blog owner is almost a sure thing.

posted by Randy Roedl on May 6

If a person visits your website and leaves, chances are that he or she will not come back, especially if there are no compelling reasons to do so. After all, we all behave rather impulsively on the internet, so much so that we can easily forget where we were 10 web pages ago.

But the bottom line is that your visitor may not come back to your website again. If 1,000 visitors visit your website, leave and never come back again, you can imagine the amount of potential revenue lost, simply because they do not come back. You could have converted a fraction of the visitors into your customers.

Some may say that creating unique content can keep some of the visitors coming back, but very often, unique content is not the solution. The real, long-term solution lies in converting your visitors into subscribers of your mailing list.

Before your visitor leaves your website, you want to convert him or her into your subscriber via a simple opt-in to your mailing list. You do this by asking for your visitor’s name and email address through your opt-in form.

And if your visitor signs up to be on your mailing list, you can still follow up with him via email. You can get your subscriber to consider your offer, or endorse another offer to him or her.

All in all, you want to convert as many visitors into subscribers as possible and obtain the potential revenue you rightfully deserve – the easy, wise way.