Blogs are a very popular ways of promoting your product or service. They are easy to install, easy to administer and easy to update. And search engines love them too. But what is a blog without traffic?Exactly. Here are five quick ways to boost traffic to your blog and start seeing those big sales.
1.Build a list of blog services to ping
There are a lot of blog services you can ping. This means that you notify this service, that you've updated your blog. These services then list your new posts and you get the traffic from them. I've made a list of 50+ blog services you can ping on my site. These list are also available if you search google or any other search engine for it. That should be enough to give an initial boost to your traffic.
2.Add buttons to popular news readers
What does this mean? Well there are sites like yahoo or google or bloglines etc, which have a members area where you can select sites with RSS feeds to fetch the latest updates from different blogs. That way you can have the latest updates from let's say 50 blogs listed on one page. I have a list of these popular pages on my website plus the buttons which link to them. Users can then easily add my blog to their news reader members area.
3.Update your content regulary
Search engines and blog services love regular updates. It's very likely that you will get targeted traffic from search engines if you post regulary. That means you should make a new post to your blog at least once per day. But be careful. Too many updates per day can harm your search engines position and hits. What's too many? 10 or more.
4.Post in forums
Post in forums, but don't spam them. Post something fresh and interesting and put a link to your blog in your signature. Don't just post in any forum. For example if you're selling cds, post in forums that are about music and cds. Don't post in car forums if you're selling furniture. By posting in forums you will get one-way links which are good for search engine position in search engines like google or msn or yahoo.
5.Submit to blog search engines
There are masses of search engines available, that list only blogs. Just google for „blog search engines“ and you should find at least 20 of them. These blog search engines will help you with targeted traffic. Be sure to write a good title and a good description to your blog, so that people will easily find it and click on your link.
Follow these 5 steps and you will start seeing lots of traffic to your blog. And the so long awaited sales will start coming in. And don't forget to update your blog with fresh unused content that you write yourself.
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Jumat, 12 Maret 2010
Sabtu, 06 Maret 2010
Blog And Ping Does It Work?
I have been doing an experiment with blogging and pinging, one of the ways which supposedly gets your site listed and ranked higher quicker.
Firstly I'll explain what blogging and pinging is. Blog and ping is a technique you can use to get your site listed in search engines. The idea is that search engines like blogs because of the ever updating content, so they keep going back. By writing a blog and placing some site links in the posts, the search engines will spider the links, and pages shortly after you blog.
Pinging is when you send a "ping" to let the directories, which keep lists of blogs, and when those blogs are updated, know that you have added content to your blog. These are allegedly closely watched by the search engine spiders, so they can spider any new content and add it to the search engine which controls them.
Anyway, back to my experiment, does blogging and pinging really get your site noticed?
Well my results have been encouraging. I have tested by only using a blog as the front page of a new information site I started. http://www.informationpagesonline.com has only been advertised by way of the blog to announce new content, and then pinged through http://www.pingoat.com which distributes the blog entries to several large ping sites.
Following a week of adding content, and then posting an announcement of the new content to the blog on the front page and pinging with pingoat, the site seems to be getting visitors to most of the sections, which I can see from the log files. I can also see some of the traffic is coming from search engines, and also a lot of spider activity can be seen on the site, where the search engines are crawling the content.
So I have to conclude that blogging and pinging is a way of getting listed on search engines, or at least of getting noticed by them quickly.
Should you be blogging and pinging?
Of course that's up to you, but for the time it takes, it maybe worth trying blog and ping for yourself and tracking the results. A quick blog post (use http://www.blogger.com if you don't already have a blog) and then ping with pingoat takes only a few minutes, and may help a site into all the search engines quickly.
Firstly I'll explain what blogging and pinging is. Blog and ping is a technique you can use to get your site listed in search engines. The idea is that search engines like blogs because of the ever updating content, so they keep going back. By writing a blog and placing some site links in the posts, the search engines will spider the links, and pages shortly after you blog.
Pinging is when you send a "ping" to let the directories, which keep lists of blogs, and when those blogs are updated, know that you have added content to your blog. These are allegedly closely watched by the search engine spiders, so they can spider any new content and add it to the search engine which controls them.
Anyway, back to my experiment, does blogging and pinging really get your site noticed?
Well my results have been encouraging. I have tested by only using a blog as the front page of a new information site I started. http://www.informationpagesonline.com has only been advertised by way of the blog to announce new content, and then pinged through http://www.pingoat.com which distributes the blog entries to several large ping sites.
Following a week of adding content, and then posting an announcement of the new content to the blog on the front page and pinging with pingoat, the site seems to be getting visitors to most of the sections, which I can see from the log files. I can also see some of the traffic is coming from search engines, and also a lot of spider activity can be seen on the site, where the search engines are crawling the content.
So I have to conclude that blogging and pinging is a way of getting listed on search engines, or at least of getting noticed by them quickly.
Should you be blogging and pinging?
Of course that's up to you, but for the time it takes, it maybe worth trying blog and ping for yourself and tracking the results. A quick blog post (use http://www.blogger.com if you don't already have a blog) and then ping with pingoat takes only a few minutes, and may help a site into all the search engines quickly.
Rabu, 10 Februari 2010
Tag and Ping – Get Your Blogs Indexed Fast
What is a tag?
Tags are keywords that you use in your blog post. If you have a blog about dogs and you just write a post about dog food, your possible tags would be, say: dog, dogs, dog food, natural dog food, dog food recipe, and any other keywords that you used in your post.
How to use tags
Tags using your blog URLs:
<*a href="http://www.yourblog.com/[tagname]" rel="tag">[keyword]<*/a>
(remove asterisks in actual code)
Examples:
<*a href=http://www.yourdogblog.com/dog+food rel=”tag”>dog food<*/a>
If you are using Wordpress blogs you can set tags using Wordpress search function:
<*a href=http://www.yourdogblog.com/blog/search/dog+food rel=”tag”>dog food<*/a>
Using Technorati Tags:
<*a href=http://www.technorati.com/tag/dog+food rel=”tag”>dog food<*/a>
Ping Technorati and IceRocket using following URLs to your ping list:
rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
You can also ping Technorati and IceRocket manually by going to
www.technorati.com/ping/ and www.icerocket.com/c?p=ping
You can use www.pingooat.com to ping more than 60 ping services in the same time.
Technorati and IceRocket will index your blog posts according to tags that you used.
Some of Technorati tags pages are highly ranked in search engines. Search engines bots spider daily these pages and when it finds your tags it will index your blog posts too.
It is recommended to use this method for each post that you write. By adding tags to your post you can drive more targeted traffic to your blog.
By using this method you can index your blogs in 24-48 hours depending on the popularity of the tags you used.
Tags are keywords that you use in your blog post. If you have a blog about dogs and you just write a post about dog food, your possible tags would be, say: dog, dogs, dog food, natural dog food, dog food recipe, and any other keywords that you used in your post.
How to use tags
Tags using your blog URLs:
<*a href="http://www.yourblog.com/[tagname]" rel="tag">[keyword]<*/a>
(remove asterisks in actual code)
Examples:
<*a href=http://www.yourdogblog.com/dog+food rel=”tag”>dog food<*/a>
If you are using Wordpress blogs you can set tags using Wordpress search function:
<*a href=http://www.yourdogblog.com/blog/search/dog+food rel=”tag”>dog food<*/a>
Using Technorati Tags:
<*a href=http://www.technorati.com/tag/dog+food rel=”tag”>dog food<*/a>
Ping Technorati and IceRocket using following URLs to your ping list:
rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
You can also ping Technorati and IceRocket manually by going to
www.technorati.com/ping/ and www.icerocket.com/c?p=ping
You can use www.pingooat.com to ping more than 60 ping services in the same time.
Technorati and IceRocket will index your blog posts according to tags that you used.
Some of Technorati tags pages are highly ranked in search engines. Search engines bots spider daily these pages and when it finds your tags it will index your blog posts too.
It is recommended to use this method for each post that you write. By adding tags to your post you can drive more targeted traffic to your blog.
By using this method you can index your blogs in 24-48 hours depending on the popularity of the tags you used.
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