Blogging = The Latest Phenomena in Traffic Generation
In what was originally a form of online journal keeping by
stay-at-home moms and college students, it has now become a
national phenomenon with its presence felt as a legitimate
business booster. For the novices, blogs are online journals
that are periodically updated with articles in the form of
posts. It can serve as an informative vehicle between business
and consumer. The possibilities are endless when it comes to its
ability to draw customers. If your blog is full of valuable
information, you will earn more traffic by retaining them. How?
1) Suppose your blog is based entirely on uncovering
conspiracies from the JFK assassination. By creating a daily
blog, you label yourself as an expert to the subject, which
makes it easier to promote yourself all over the net. This
builds more of a personal relationship between yourself and your
site visitors, since it can come equipped with message boards
and comment boxes where they can voice their opinion about
anything you write. A sense of community is established, and
people will want to visit again and again.
2) Search engines will give you a boost in the rankings if you
have a blog added to your site. This is because blogs are
frequently updated, and any fresh content will automatically
trigger the search engine mechanisms to classify your site
higher - generating more traffic. All it takes is 5 to 10
minutes of your daily time and search engine spide bots will
keep reverting back to your site.
3) By adding a blog to your arsenal, you can submit it to the
myriad of blog directories posted on the Internet. Some of them
include Blog Catalog at blogcatalog.com, Blogarama
(blogarama.com) and BlogsCanada.com which has a whopping
selection of over 10,000 blogs.
Some of the better blog sites on the Internet include
wordpress.com, blogger.com, and blogista.com. They have full
HTML capabilities which allow you oto insert the page into your
own website or direct to it if needed. I recommend using Blogger
the most of all, since it costs absolutely nothing to get
started with free hosting and you don't have to learn any fancy
HTML or FrontPage to publish content to your site. Just write,
and publish it to the Web for all to see.
Blogging is an excellent traffic booster because 1) it keeps
customers coming back again and again, 2) the search engines
love updated content, and 3) it has a wide range of promotion
tools, like blog directories. Watch traffic explode by using
blogs today.