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.

But in this article, we're going to look at 4 of the most effective ways to set up windfalls of consistent traffic through one of the best publishing platforms online - blogs.

RSS Feeds

Apart from the fact that RSS feeds are free and that they never require any personal details of subscribers, they can for the most part be compared to subscription style newsletters. Unfortunately, even though most blogging software such as Wordpress comes with a RSS feed already built in, most people simply allow it to lie dormant on their blogs. In order to drive traffic to your site by using RSS feeds, you need to submit you your actual RSS feed URL to the maximum number of RSS directories. Providing you do this, all new content you post on your blog will be syndicated to your RSS feed and as a result, the RSS directories will display that content which essentially means that this is the easiest way to obtain exposure to all your new content.

Commenting and Blogs

Posting comments on blogs belonging to others provides you with an opportunity to include a link back to your own site and this is a guaranteed means of securing targeted traffic together with quality backlinks. Of course, the owner of the blog will need to approve of your comments but as long as they useful and meaningful, most blog owners don't mind and as such, your link will then be active. Not only does this help your search engine ranking but it also helps to bring traffic to your site.

Blogging Visitors

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.

Using Trackback Links

Essentially, a trackback allows a blogger to know when their material or content has been mentioned or referenced on another blog. In other words, if you for example posted an extremely good post, someone else could be impressed enough to write about you post and leave a trackback which then informs readers that they've been writing about your post. Of course, it's easy to see how this can result in your site receiving higher volumes of traffic but in addition to this, it creates yet another backlink to your blog. Admittedly, there are certain occasions which are more suitable for this approach than others, for example when you have some information which may be significantly helpful to the original blog.

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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