Tuesday, February 10, 2009

How To Explode Your Blog Traffic For Free!

By Michael Parker

Every online business needs traffic in order to survive, that much we already know.

Blogs are without a doubt, one of the best online publishing platforms so during the course of this article we'll be looking at four ways in which to use them to drive traffic to your site.

RSS Feeds

To some extent, RSS feeds can be compared to regular newsletter subscriptions, apart from the fact that they're free and also, they don't require subscribers to submit any personal details. While most blogging software includes a built in RSS feed, the majority of people don't realize that they need to submit their RSS URL to as many directories as possible. When you do this, the directories will display your latest posts because they've been syndicated to your RSS feed. If you want to get instantaneous exposure for all new content you post, then this is by far the easiest way to go about it.

Blog commenting

If like so many other webmasters, you find you're in need of quality backlinks and plenty of targeted traffic for the purpose of boosting your search engine listings, then it's highly recommended that you start posting comments on plenty of blogs belonging to other people. As long as comments are meaningful and relate to the blog, the average blog owner has no objection, thus providing you with an ideal opportunity to leave a link back to your own website. Not only does this method produce desirable results as far as search engine ranking is concerned, but it also aids significantly in bringing traffic to your site.

Blogging Guests

Just as you can gain from posting comments on other people's blogs, so too can you gain when others post on your site. In addition to boosting your site's credibility, having others commenting in a positive manner with regards to the content on your site can in a sense, be compared to having a joint-venture. Furthermore, you can often strike up a deal to make an appearance on their blogs, thus gaining more opportunities to drive traffic back to your own site.

Trackbacks

A trackback is when one blog communicates with another to inform the bloggers that their material has been referenced on someone else's post. So if you were to write a really good post, I could write about your post and create a trackback on your blog that tells the readers I've been talking about you and your post. Not only can this bring direct traffic, but also provides another backlink to your blog which is great for a little SEO boost. When would this be most effective? Probably when I have a contrasting opinion to your original post or if I have something helpful (or controversial) to add to the original post.

No matter what you've been led to believe, it's perfectly possible to get a phenomenal amount of traffic to your site almost instantaneously when you have the proper information. The four steps mentioned above will certainly help, but in reality they are just the beginning. For a wealth of other helpful information, please be sure to check out a full review on Blogging To The Bank.

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