Wednesday, February 27, 2008
1stsitefree-blog
How do you attract visitors to your blog? Start by following
these simple tips to drive traffic to your blog.
Frequently updating your blog with useful content is the first
step to building your blog's audience. The content you write is
what will keep readers coming back for more.
Add search to your blog. Here are four sites that provide you
a free search engine to search your blog.
| Name |
Features |
| Atomz Express
Search |
Complete page customization, customize your site,
search index containing up to 10,000 web pages, in over 30 languages. |
| Bravenet | Customize search and results pages. Site search
hosted on Bravenet's server. |
| FreeFind | Customize search and results pages. Free accounts
limited to 3,000 pages or 32 MG of storage. Site search hosted on FreeFind's server. Generates a site map for you. Supports PDF indexing. |
| Customize results page. Unlimited number of
searches. Must display Google logo. Google may serve ads on the results page. |
Search Engines - Google,
Yahoo, MSN and Ask are available to index new content
and rank your blog. Create an XML sitemap. Then
index it with MSN, Google and Yahoo. See this link for
Ask
Submit your blog URL to Yahoo (requires
registration).
Register your sites with social bookmarking sites such as
Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit.
Place your URL on your blog site (Website). Advertise your
blog by e-mailing your URL to your friends. Add your URL to posts
you make on other blogs.
Setting up an
RSS feed button on your blog makes it easy for your loyal
readers to not just read your blog but also know when you publish
new content.
Add your blog address to your e-mail
signature.
People look for blog content at Technorati every day, are you
on their
list? You should be. Submit your blog's url to Technorati.
Install a blogroll. It's a very simple yet effective social
networking scheme and it has the same result as a simple link if
not stronger: traffic! So if you don't have one yet, sign up for
a blogroll and get that
link-list going.
Be an active commenter. Most comment systems also provide a
way for you to leave a link back to your blog which begs a visit
at the very least. So if you feel inspired, leave a comment or
two in your blog travels.
If you own a business include your blog URL on anything that
leaves your office: stationary, business cards, invoices, return
address labels, etc. Also, make sure you inform your employees of
your blog URL address and encourage your employees to mention
your Blog address to your customers.
If you don't own a business, create your own "business cards"
Pass these "cards"out to your friends, co-workers, family and
casual acquaintances and ask them to visit you at your new blog
site.
Learn from others search Google how to promote your blog.
:: End blog tutorial. Go back to: Maintain.
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