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by Will Lion

The blogosphere is a big and busy world with over 100 million blogs and growing. How do you attract visitors to your blog? Follow these simple tips to drive traffic to your blog.1. Write Well and Write OftenFrequently updating your blog with useful content is the first step to building your blog’s audience. The content you write is what will keep readers coming back for more. Make sure you have something meaningful to say to them and say it often to maintain their interest and keep them loyal.Furthermore, post frequently to increase the number of chances you have for your blog’s content to be noticed by search engines such as Google or Technorati.Google Reader – Use Google’s web-based blog reader to keep up with blogs and news.reader.google.com2. Submit Your Blog to Search EnginesGet on the radar screen for the popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo! by submitting your blog’s URL to them (for example http://www.download4fun.com). Most search engines provide a ‘Submit’ link (or something similar) to notify the search engine of your new blog, so those search engines will crawl it and include your pages in their… Continue reading

Do you have a blog with few or no readers? Are your blog posts without comments? Posting rich content regularly and not having people coming to read them can be very discouraging. The beauty of having a working blog is expressed in its ability to draw active readers and comments. Now, you can smile because below are simple but effective blogging tips on how to increase your blog readers and comments.

1. Find a loyal reader and commenter

Find someone who believes in you and would want to support you in your blogging. This can be a friend or a relative.  Comments from this person will draw visitors to read your post and will encourage them to also leave comments. When I started, I got my sister to read and leave comments on my blog posts.

2. Find blog buddies

You are not the only one in need of more blog readers and comments. Search for these bloggers and connect with them. Offer to exchange favours, that if they would subscribe to your blog and leave comments on each posts, you would do likewise on their blogs. Comments leave good impression about your blog… Continue reading

The whole purpose of a blog is to put your content in front of as many viewers as possible; so many new bloggers are disappointed when their blog doesn’t get a flood of traffic right off the bat. Quite simply, it’s not that easy. Blogs have a number of built in features that make it much easier to get traffic that a conventional website, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to provide some input to get the traffic flowing. With that in mind this article covers 7 ways you can get more traffic to your blog. All the tips are tested and proven to be effective. Tip One: Get Yahoo on your side. By submitting to My Yahoo! you can get a good return of viewers to your blog. Submit your RSS feed to the My Yahoo! site and you are more or less instantly spidered and added to the Yahoo search rankings. Tip Two: Get Google On Your Side What’s better than Yahoo on your side? Having Google on your side, of course. You can submit your site to the Google Reader and watch the results you get from being listed in Google’s Blog Search. Tip Three… Continue reading

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Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with an average intelligence, some hard work, and a basic grasp of blogging technology. However, very few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog.
Most people who attempt to make money with their blogs do not succeed for two reasons. Often, bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how much money they make, and when these expectations are not met, they never attend to their blog again.
Here is a blogging business tip; Set some realistic goal and study the competition. Writing to your blog every day for 30 days should be your main objective. Make sure you use relevant keywords that web surfers use in your niche.
Search for other blogs in your area of expertise and watch what they are doing. Make sure you check out the most popular blogs in your niche by checking their Alexa rank. Can you improve on the blogs you find? Do you know enough about the subject to come up with fresh content every day?
The other trap that many bloggers fall into has to do with lack… Continue reading