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10 Blog Traffic Tips
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first
launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased
someone else''s blog chances are your blog launched with only
one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you
received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girl
friend and best friend about your new blog but that''s about
as far you went when it comes to finding readers. Here are
the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.
These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people
who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get
the ball rolling.
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each
technique builds on the previous step to help you create
momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you
gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough
audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no
longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead
your current loyal readers do the work for you through word
of mouth.
Top 10 Tips:
10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles.
A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach
your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500
words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This
article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar
article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson.
This style of article has long term appeal, stays current
(it isn''t news or time dependent) and offers real value and
insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.
9. Write one new blog post per day minimum.
Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five
pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh
with a daily news or short article style post. The important
thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that
your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they
come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This
causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.
You don''t have to produce one post per day all the time but
it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you
get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming
but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow
down to a few per week instead. The first few months are
critical so the more content you can produce at this time
the better.
8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging
be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people
to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily
rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they
like when they are speaking to friends in the real world
(that''s the offline world, you remember that place right?)
so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and
pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus
on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about
having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great
keywords and easy to remember then you''ve done a good job!).
7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar
articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is
ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find
the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other
people''s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused
on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there
will be more likely to be interested in your blog.
Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title
linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how
people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and
always have something valuable to say then people will be
interested to read more of your work and hence click through
to visit your blog.
6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts.
A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you
write a new article to your blog and it links or references
another blogger''s article you can do a trackback to their
entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your
blog post on their blog entry - it''s sort of like your blog
telling someone else''s blog that you wrote an article
mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.
This is a good technique because like leaving comments
a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours
for readers to follow, but it also does something very
important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The
other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what
you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of
yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time
down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing
in more new readers.
5. Encourage comments on your own blog.
One of the most
powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader
is to show there are other loyal readers already following
your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then
they infer that your content must be good since you have
readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss
is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question
in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well
so you can keep the conversation going.
4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival.
A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection
of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic.
The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic
in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival
host and as such the people that have articles featured
in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at
3. Submit your blog to
To be honest this
tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it
is so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it is worth
the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category
for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste
a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and
then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably
only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique
but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!
2. Submit your articles to
This is another tip that doesn''t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately
(although it can if you keep doing it) but it is worthwhile
because you simply leverage what you already have - your
pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar
articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then
becomes available to other people who can republish your
article on their website or in their newsletter.
How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box".
You create your own resource box which is like a signature
file where you include one to two sentences and link back
to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes
your article has to include your resource box so you get
incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes
your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.
1. Write more pillar articles.
Everything you do above will
help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques
I have listed only work when you have strong pillars in place.
Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers
but they won''t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one
solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you
will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles
that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.
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