Traffic for success

If you are new to blogging, and you have your brand new blog published, I understand the great feeling of achievement. You may even visit your blog again and again to admire your masterpiece. But it does no good if you are the only visitor to your blog. Without traffic flowing to your blog, your masterpiece will just remain an ordinary blog and will not generate any income for you if money making is your main intention when you set up your blog. To monetize your blog, you have to spread the word around and make your presence felt in the blogosphere.

Here are a few things that you can do to generate traffic to your blog.

1. Blog directories

You can submit your blog to the many blog directories in the internet, Many readers or smaller publishers look for RSS feeds in these directories. If your blog contents have good quality articles, many will be led to your blog through these directories.

Different blog directories have their own requirements for submitting. Some need more details such as your name, email, blog URL, password, blog description and categories.

To save time, Wordpress Adsense System has listed 176 blog directories that you can submit to. So instead of looking around in the internet searching for blog directories, the Wordpress Adsense System list will save you a lot of your precious time.

2. RSS Announcer

This is a software that you can use to submit your RSS feeds to a list of  Feed Directories with just the click of a mouse. It is so simple to use. Once installed in your PC, you can easily submit you RSS feeds to make your blog presence felt. The benefit of submitting your RSS feeds is that other blog publisher will pick up your feed and use them as additional content on the website or blog. Since they will link back to you, you automatically get backlink to your site and this will drive traffic to your blog.

This software is included free of charge in the Wordpress Adsense System. Again this will save you a lot of your  precious time.

3. Ping

To “Ping” a site is to let them know that you have posted a new post.  When you “Ping” a site, a summary of your post will appear on the ping site. The search engine spiders will search the site and follow the links to your blog and starts to index them. There are many site that accept ping as part of their services to categorize blogging topics. This will help to drive traffic to your blog.

4. Backlinks

The advantage of blogging compared to a website is that it is easier to get a backlink from another blog due to the comment features in a blog. If you actively visit other blogs which is related or which has a blog topic similar to yours, you might want to leave a comment and it will create a backlink from that blog to yours. Backlinks are good for your blogs as more backlinks will help you in your page rank.

5. Trackbacks

Trackback is a mechanism for the communication between blogs. If a blogger writes or commenting or referring to a post on another blog, and both blogs support Trackback protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the owner of the other blog with a Trackback Ping. The receiving blog will display a summary and links of the commenting entries below the original entry.  These links make it easier for the readers to follow. Most bloggers choose to manually approve their Trackback links. So make sure that your comment is relevant to their post.

6. Good contents

You can do all the above but if your blog has no good contents, readers may not come back again. To keep your readers coming back, you must ensure that your contents are up-to-date an interesting.

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