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RSS feeds for traffic

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

This is the last post in the blog traffic series this time through .
Quite often I see people not use the most powerful part of their blog - the feed.
Here are just a few places and sites that you may be using where you can add in your feed and give people a chance [...]

Comment Luv Contest - your chance to win and get more traffic

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Earlier in the traffic series I discussed blog commenting. Blog commenting is one of those win win situations. The blog owner wins because they get more fresh content and the commenter wins because they get a link back to their site and potential visitors clicking through to their site.
Caveat - This is based on quality [...]

Twitter and blogging - get great additional traffic

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

If you are blogging Twitter is a must. It incorporates quite well with any blog traffic strategy. Twitter is basically micro blogging. You can post as often as you want but have to keep your post to just 140 characters.
It makes you get your thoughts into a very compact format. This makes it perfect as [...]

Using MyBlogLog and others for traffic

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

MyBlogLog is a social site for bloggers. Started originally as a straight social site they have continued to add more items to it. You can join it free.
Now how do you get traffic from MyBlogLog?
MyBlogLog allows you to add a widget to your blog that will let you see who is visiting your blog that [...]

Using social bookmarking for blog traffic

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

This is the continuation of the series on blog traffic. I was using the 5 comment rule here and stopped it because of a lack of comments but comments have picked up considerably so I have decided to continue the series.
First a bit about what social bookmarking is. There are hundreds of sites out there [...]

Blog Rush Is Shutting Down

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

That was the title of an email I received this am.
After a huge initial launch and then numerous growing problems with people trying to scam the system I expected it to keep evolving and have used it on this blog to continue to test it.
Now I have been a vocal critic at times of this [...]

Power of trackbacks for more traffic

Monday, October 27th, 2008

One of the things I love is tracking where my visitors come from so I know what is driving my traffic. It helps me to understand what is working and what is not.
Now I use both Google Analytics and for blogs My BlogLog. Was there today as usual (yes I am always checking stats a [...]

Using video for blog traffic

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Before I start on this topic a special thank you to Joel Osborne who added the 5th comment on the last traffic post. Thought the series was going to die for lack of response.
You can also see that I have added comment luv to this blog which shows your latest blog post when you leave [...]

Commenting for traffic

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

This is the next installment in the generating traffic series so the 5 comment rule is in effect.
Commenting can deliver traffic to your site whether or not the blog follows comments or not if…
You add to the conversation. It really isn’t that hard. Stay away from the I like whatever, actually read the post and [...]

Using articles for blog traffic

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Today we will start with the first of the items you can do to help generate backlinks and traffic to your blog - submitting articles. This is because we met the 5 comment rule and that will apply here too.
Submitting articles can be a very effective way to add backlinks. When people use your article [...]

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