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Blog traffic - part 1
By Mike | May 12, 2007
Traffic for your blog seems to be a common problem for most people who submit questions. Here is one I got recently.
I have submitted my blogs to lots of blog directories and a traffic exchange for blogs, but I’m not satisfied with the small amount of traffic I’m getting. How do I get more traffic to my blogs?
First let me be clear it takes time and effort to get your blog a consistent amount of traffic. I don’t know of any one technique that you can do that will just turn on a switch and you automatically get traffic.
Getting your blog in a variety of directories and also taking the time to get your blog posts bookmarked is a great first step. For more information on bookmarking and those topics there is a replay of a teleseminar I did with Ross Goldberg available at The Only Submitter site that has a few actionable items listed at the end of it.
This will be a big help in increasing your exposure.
One of the things that I do is to use Google Alerts for topics that I write about. It does two things for me. It shows me how fast Google discovers or even if they discover what I write on those topics.
It also shows me who else is writing about those topics. This allows me to join the conversation on those topics in other places. I can leave an appropriate comment on other blogs and again where it is appropriate and adds to the conversation can link back to what I have written on that topic.
Now a very important caveat to this. ALWAYS make sure that you are adding to the conversation on that blog. Do not use this for spamming. It will hurt you and your comments won’t be approved.
This can where appropriate be a great way to get back links to your blog but only if you are part of the conversation and not an interruption.
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May 14th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Too much traffic is my problem, and for some reason my blogs get an average reader that spends between 1-3 hours per day. I am constantly increasing server capacity, and because I choose to keep my sites free of advertising, the increasing readership does strain my resources.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Have a question because your url is for a free blogger blog as to how that costs you?