How to explode blog traffic ( part II)
How to Explode Blog Traffic (Part II) Most of you might have
read Part I of this article on my blog Bloghit.blogspot.com
In this artile I wish to add a few more tips and strategies to
explode blog traffic on your blog. Read them and use them at
your own risk of attaining unexplainable traffic to your blog.
1. Get more Eyeballs to your site. Simple Logic. The more people
see your blog, more are the chances of somebody actually liking
and posting a link to it. Mind you, half of my inbound traffic
comes from other blogs that are linked to me. How do you do it?
Well, for starters I suggest you try BlogExplosion. Though they
promise you generous traffic, the actual amount of people who
really read your blog are few, but what the heck its still more
exposure.
2. Categorize. Agreed that you can write good stuff, even lots
of it, but the truth is not everybody likes to read everything.
Make sure you have different categories for your posts. This
helps people to find stuff they like and want to came back.
3. When Headlines do matter. These aren't the lines on your
forehead when you don't see people visiting your blog, what I'm
talking about is actual headlines in the news. Yeah, try posting
posts that have current media frenzy topics as the subject. As
search engines scour the web, they would pick your site as a
relevant match and will index you more often.
4. Interactive Addons. Get interactive stuff on your blog like
polls, quizzes, ratings....the works. However, make sure they
are simple with choices to make and takes the least amount of
time (People shouldn't be calculating E=(MC*MC) for every poll
you have.
Also don't have a poll that asks, I don't normally participate
in online polls. Yes. No.
5. Get Visitors to work for you. Invent activities like
nominations, games etc. where your online audience can
participate. You can give away prizes, but if you are not in the
mood an award will suffice (remember, people will do anything
for awards).
6. Search Engine optimization. Please ensure your title,
description and your keywords (in the meta tags) have your blog
theme in common. This not only gives you a higher ranking in
searches but is the first rule of site optimization. Also don't
forget to periodically submit your blogs to the major search
engines such as google, yahoo, Dmoz.