29/05/2010Blogs are currently very popular way to promote your product or service. They are easy to install, easy to administer and easy to update. Then the search engines love them too. There is no means a blog without traffic? Here are five fast ways to increase traffic to your blog and started seeing sales people are great.
1. Build list of blog services to ping
there are many services you can ping your blog. This means that you notify this service, that you’ve updated your blog. This service then lists your new post and you get traffic from them.
2. Add buttons for popular newsreader
this means that there are sites like yahoo or Google or Bloglines etc, which has an area where your members can choose the sites with RSS feeds to get the latest updates from different blogs. That way you can have the latest updates from say 50 blogs listed on one page.
3. Update your content on a regular basis
Search engines love blogs services and regular updates. It’s very likely that you will get targeted traffic from search engines if you post regularly. That means you must create a new post to your blog at least once per day. But be careful. Too many updates per day can harm your search engine position and hits. Is it too much? Like 10 or more.
4. Post forum
posting on the forums, but do not spam them. Post something fresh and interesting and put a link to your blog in your signature. Do not just post in any forum. For example if you sell a CD, post on the forum about music and cd. Do not post in the forum car if you sell furniture. By posting on the forums you will get a one-way links are better for search engine positioning in search engines like Google or msn or yahoo.
5. Submit to a blog search engine
there are masses of available search engine that lists only blogs. Just Google for “blog search engine” and you’ll find at least 20 of them. Blog search engine will help you with targeted traffic. Be sure to write a good title and good description to your blog, so people will easily find it and click on your link.
Be sure to follow these five steps and you’ll start seeing a lot of traffic to your blog. And so long awaited sales will start to go and do not forget to update your blog with fresh content that is not used you have written.
