5 Simple Ways to Increase Traffic to your Blog

By Dylan Deleto

Blogs are a great way to promote your service or product. Blogs are simple to install, easy to administer and simple to update. Search engines love them because they are generally a great source of original content. However, without traffic, a blog cannot reach its full potential. Provided here are 5 simple and easy ways to improve traffic to your blog and start making money.

1. Submit to blog search engines There are multitudes of search engines available that list only blogs. Just Google for "blog search engines" and you should find 20 or more. These blog search engines will help you with targeted traffic. Be sure to write a good title and a good description to your blog, so that people will easily find it and click on your link.

#2. Update your content often. To effectively leverage the benefits of search engines and blog services, you must update your content regularly. If you post frequently, you will definitely get targeted traffic from search engines. A good rule of thumb is to update your blog at least daily. However, be careful not to update to often, more than 10 times daily, as this my harm your search engine position and hits.

Step 3: Post in Forums, but never SPAM them. A typical strategy is to post something relevant and interesting and include a link to your blog in your signature. Be sure to post in forums that are aligned with your blog content, don't just post in any forum. For example, if you are selling photo blockers for your license plate, post in forums about vehicles or travel. Don't post in music forums if you are selling computers. Posting in forums creates 1-way links which enhance search engines positions, particularly Google, MSN or yahoo.

4. Build a list of blog services to ping. There are a lot of blog services you can ping. This means that you notify this service that you've updated your blog. These services then list your new posts and you get the traffic from them. I've made a list of 50+ blog services you can ping on my site. These list are also available if you search in Google or any other search engine. That should be enough to give an initial jump to your traffic.

#5. Add buttons to popular newsreaders. Sites like Yahoo, Google, bloglines, etc. have members area where you can choose sites with RSS feeds to fetch the latest updates from different blogs. By using this method, you can have the latest updates from as many as 50 or more blogs listed on one page.

Adhere to these 5 steps and you will certainly increase the traffic to your blog. And the so long awaited sales will start to roll in. Please don't forget to update your blog with fresh original content that you have written yourself.

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