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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 catalog

Innovative Ways to Promote Your Blog

Innovative Ways to Promote Your Blog 1. Offer to Write Guest Blog Posts Many blog owners are actively looking for guest bloggers. You can research blogs in a directory like Technorati or go to Blogger Linkup that can connect you with blogs looking for a guest blogger. 2. Blog Communities Examples of Blog Communities that you can submit your blog to include MyBlogLog, Blogged, BlogCatalog and NetworkedBlogs. The search engines will index your blog faster because these blog communities have great search engine ranking. 3. Blog Directories Blog Directories are great places to submit your blog to. The advantage of this is that more people will find you since the blogs are listed by category. Technorati is a great blog directory, but you can find more doing a search in Google. 4. Submit to Document Sharing Sites Document sharing sites are often totally overlooked by the small and home business owner. Examples are Scribd, Issuu or Docshare, each with