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Are you worried about the low number of traffic you presently receive on your website, if you are only looking to blow things up a bit increase visibility to your website.
With the growing interest in blogging as a means of online promotion and branding, a lot of marketers are starting blogs to express their opinions and promote their products, books and services.
But a blog is like a website. "Write and they will come". Isn't exactly a magic formula to bring in traffic
Below are ways to increase your blog/website traffic
1. Write posts that people will want to read
This should be commonsense, but many marketers tend to forget that their readers are real people and that you need to use the principles of online copywriting to make your headlines and copy interesting to your readers.
If you write posts that people enjoy reading, they will always return to your blog regularly.
Make your posts conversational and topical. Keep them short and stick to one topic per post.
Write often and regularly so that both readers and search engines visit your blog more often.
2. Optimize your posts for search engines
There are most important rules to follow to get your posts listed for keywords of your choice.
Make sure your blog URL contains the primary keyword you want to optimize.
Use your primary keywords in the title of your post
Use your secondary keywords in the body of your post
Use your keywords in the anchor text of links in the body of your posts
3. Submit your blog and RSS feed to directories
If you publish a blog you should submit your blog and RSS feed to big directories like Yahoo and Dmoz, also to numerous blog directories and search engines.
4. Ping the blog services
There are a number of services designed specifically for tracking and connecting blogs. By sending a small ping to each service you let them know you've updated your blog so they can come and check you out.
Bookmark the Ping-O-Matic ping results page so you can visit it and quickly ping a number of services with a single click.
5. Build links to your blog
I recommend the methods here as the best ways to get links pointing to your blog.
Link to your blog from each page on your main website
Trackback to other blogs in your posts
Post legitimate comments on other blogs with related topics
Offer to exchange links with other similarly themed blogs and websites
6. Edit your blog posts into articles
One of the best methods for promoting your website is to write articles and submit them to article directories.
The suggestion for extending this to edit your blog posts into articles and submit them to directories came from the coach at "Explode Blog Traffic" who also has other noteworthy suggestions at his blog.
7. Capture subscribers by email
It may seem strange for a blogger to send out updates by email, but email is still the #1 choice of most people who want to receive news and information.
Using a free service like Feedburner to manage your subscriptions is easy and it allows your subscribers to manage all their subscriptions from one interface.
However, if you want more control over your list and don't mind mailing out the updates yourself, you can use an autoresponder system to capture and follow-up with subscribers.
These tips should give you a good start to build your blog traffic.
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