Blog Traffic Answers – Part 3

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 at 10:57 am

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This is the 3rd part of the series on traffic for your blog. We have covered submissions to the rss directories, using comments properly, blog communities and social bookmarking sites. Today we will discuss Technorati and Squidoo.

Technorati and creating proper tags and submitting each time to them is probably the best way to generate traffic. Google loves Technorati and it is very likely that if you do a search on any keyword that you will find Technorati’s tag list of that keyword in the top 20.

Using proper Technorati tags and your blog will do the work for you. If you use Blogger make sure to add your labels when you post and go to pingoat.com and ping your blog. If you are using Word Press make sure you have set up either the Ultimate Tag Warrior or Bunny Tag plugin to do this each time you post.

Make sure you have an account at Technorati and have claimed your blog.

The next tool to use is Squidoo. Squidoo is like a blog on steroids. You can create content on a specific topic that matches your blog. One of the features is to pull in your RSS feed. This allow people that find your Squidoo lens to find their way to your blog.

Now creating a Squidoo lens is fairly easy but if you check through previous posts there is a lot more detailed information on using Squidoo. You can listen to the teleseminar I did with Bob Jenkin’s about using Squidoo if you click the link at the top of the blog.

Because of that I won’t go into more detail on it.

Remember though that each of these items by itself won’t generate huge numbers but the consistent use of all of these will make a big difference in your results. There is no magic button only effort and consistency.

Next time I will do a summary and talk about blog exchanges for generating traffic.

If you have question about Word Press or blogging in general please click the survey question at the top or leave a comment. Then stop back and look for your question to be answered.

Have a great day.