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Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog

Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog

So, how can you begin enticing readers to visit your blog? Here are ten
quick ways to generate a flow of non-stop blog traffic:

1. Create Great Content

Obviously, this goes without saying. But, your content needs to educate,
entertain, inspire or offer a solution to your reader's problems. You want
to try to accomplish at least one of these tasks with every blog post.

2. Keep Your Posts Short, Sweet and to the Point

We're living in an age where short attention spans are the norm. Keep your
posts around 500 words so that you don't lose your ADD readers.

3. Get Your Blog Indexed With the Big Boys

Take the time to index your blog in the top directories such as Dmoz.org,
Yahoo, Google and Technorati. You can easily do this manually in less than
30 minutes.

4. Submit Your Blog Feed to Smaller Blog Catalogs

There are hundreds of niche blog catalogs on the Internet. When readers are
searching catalogs for blogs to read, you want to make sure that your blog
is there. For about $25, you can use a service such as SEOFlicks to manually
post to hundreds of blog catalogs.

5. Entice Your Readers to Subscribe to Your Blog

Offer your readers a free goodie (such as a downloadable ebook, whitepaper,
audio class, etc.) if they subscribe to your blog. Make sure that your
readers can subscribe to your blog through an RSS feed as well as email. You
can use Feedburner to manage your subscriptions.

6. Include Your Blog URL on All of Your Social Networks

Include an obvious link to your blog on all of your social networks
including: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Flickr,
Slideshare, etc. You'll be surprised how many folks find your blog through
your social networks.

7. Get Involved in the Blog Community

Blogging is a social activity. Read other blogs, comment on other blogs and
link to other blogs within your own blog posts.

8. Engage With Your Readers

When your readers make comments on your blog, make sure that you comment
back. You want to encourage a natural back and forth dialogue between you
and your readers.

9. Offer to Write a Blog Post for a High-Traffic Blog

Research various blogs within your particular industry by heading over to
Technorati. Read the blogs, comment on the blogs and interact with the
blogger. Once you've established a relationship, send them an email politely
letting them know that you would be willing to be a guest blogger for them
at any time in the future. Include a link to your own blog so that they can
check out the quality of your work.

10. Use Your Blog Posts in Your Ezine or Newsletter

Instead of writing a brand new article for your weekly ezine or newsletter,
send out the first few paragraphs of one of your past blog posts. Then
include a link for the reader to continue reading the post on your blog.

Once you implement these ten strategies, you'll certainly notice a spike in
traffic and begin generating comments and interaction from hundreds (even
thousands) of readers in your particular industry.

If you have any questions or comments please contact me.

Regards Gerald

Website: http://www.webcraft.ws
E-mail: gerald@webcraft.ws
Twitter: WebcraftGuru
Facebook: Webcraft Guru


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