Most effective ways to drive traffic to your blog

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There are literally hundreds of ways to drive traffic to your Blog. Here we have published the 44 most effective ways of getting visitors to any blog.

Enjoy!

1. Be active in Forums and use a Forum Signature including a link to your Blog.

Don’t try to spam forums just to get a link to your blog… you need to contribute great content and help others in the forum, then they will regard you as an expert and visit your Blog more likely.

2. Submit your blog to Blog Directories.

Search on google for the biggest Blog Directories and submit your blog there manually. Aim to get listed in at least 10 good directories.

20 Essential Blog Directories

3. Submit your RSS Feed to Feed Directories.

You can use automated or semi-automated software to do this or you can do it manually just like you did with the Blog Directories.

RSS Directories

4. Claim your Blog at Technorati.

Get an account at Technorati and claim your blog there. Tehcnorati is a must use for every serious blogger.

5. Cross Link with other Blog Owners.

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We want both blog.stampingdetails.com and www.blog.stampingdetails.com to go to our stampingdetails.blogspot.com blog. We have been able to direct blog.stampingdetails.com to our blog using either a CNAME record or A records. But we cannot get www.blog.stampingdetails.com to work.

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blogging, blogger,blogspot,make money from blog 14400 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.

307373 IN CNAME    ghs.l.google.com. 168 IN A 74.125.53.121

Attempt #2

blog.stampingdetails.com. 14400    IN A 216.239.38.21 blog.stampingdetails.com. 14400    IN A 216.239.32.21 blog.stampingdetails.com. 14400    IN A 216.239.34.21 blog.stampingdetails.com. 14400    IN A 216.239.36.21

www.blog.stampingdetails.com. 14400 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.

477736 IN CNAME    ghs.l.google.com. 158 IN A 74.125.53.121

This is the result of both attempts when when you try to go to www.blog.stampingdetails.com:

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404 Not Found

Google Error

Not Found

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

What are we missing, or setting up wrong?

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Thanks.And we have my in thread tutorial.

Having your blog searchable on the web won’t happen automatically, nor will it happen immediately.  A lot of hard work, and patience, is required.

Besides friends and family, your initial readers will come through the “Next… Continue reading

Blogging Tactics – Merge Blogging with Social Networking To Get Greater Traffic

Not using social book-marking with  blogging is a bit like putting together a jigsaw with pieces missing.

One of the fastest and easiest ways to get free targeted traffic to your website is with blogging. However, writing a blog and keeping it up to date is only a fraction of the story. One of the best blog strategies involves taking advantage of social networking sites to promote your blog posts.

If you have a presence on the Internet but you’re not blogging to the world, then you are missing out on one of the great options to get free targeted traffic to your website. However, creating a blog and maintaining it is only a fraction of the work of the story. One of the productive blog strategies requires taking advantage of web 2.0 social networking sites to advertise your blog posts.

The primary reason why social bookmarking sites should be a part of your day-to-day Internet business activities is that numerous individuals use these places as their main source of gossip and news. A favorite social news site such as Digg draws agood deal of traffic. Digg attracted over 200 million visitors… Continue reading

Learn about Blogging to Get Traffic!

If you want to get traffic, you need to learn about blogging. If you are already blogging, you still need to learn about it in order to optimize your blogging efforts. This article caters to two types of readers which are those of you who are not blogging and those of you who are blogging

First of all I am going to give essential tips for the people that fall into the first category i.e. the category of those who are not already blogging. The very first thing that you need to do is figure out why you need to start a blog. When you figure that out, choose an industry for yourself within which you will blog. It is better to be specific when it comes to blogging. Blogging on general topic is not going to help you build traffic to your website. One of the most common reasons that you want to start blogging is that you need to get traffic to your website. If you want to get more traffic, you need to blog specifically. When you are done deciding upon the kind of blog you are going… Continue reading

15 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic

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