4 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR BLOG TRAFFIC

One of the most common complaints that I hear from bloggers is the fact that no matter how hard they try, they can’t grow their blogs past 100 or so daily page vies. Those early days are indeed the hardest, because you need to put hard work in without the certainty of achieving results.

If you are in that same situation, here is a simple strategy that will certainly increase your blog traffic and make you break the 1,000 daily page views mark. In fact, the strategy could be used even if your are already over that number but have reached a traffic plateau lately.

Just make sure to execute the 4 steps as planned and to spend the two hours and a half every day (obviously if you have more time available you can expand the time spent on each of the four steps proportionally).

First Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day)

Spend one hour brainstorming, researching and writing killer articles (also called linkbaits, pillar articles and so on).

Notice that your goal is to release one killer article every week. If that is not possible aim for one every 15 days. So the one hour that you will spend every day will be dedicated to the same piece. In other words, expect killers articles to take from 5 up to 10 hours of work.

If you are not familiar with the term, a killer article is nothing more than a long and structured article that has the goal of delivering a huge amount of value to potential visitors. If you have a web design blog, for example, you could write an article with “100 Free Resources for Designers”. Here are some ideas for killer articles:

• create a giant list of resources,
• write a detailed tutorial teaching people how to do something,
• find a solution for a common problem in your niche and write about it, or
• write a deep analysis on a topic where people have only talked superficially

When visitors come across your killer article, you want them to have the following reaction: “Holy crap! This is awesome. I better bookmark it. Heck, I better even mention this on my site and on my Twitter account, to let my readers and friends know about it.”

Second Step: Networking (30 minutes per day)

Networking is essential, especially when you are just getting started. The 30 minutes that you will dedicate to it every day could be split among:

• commenting on other blogs in your niche,
• linking to the posts of bloggers in your niche, and
• interacting with the bloggers in your niche via email, IM or Twitter.

Remember that your goal is to build genuine relationships, so don’t approach people just because you think they can help to promote your blog. Approach them because you respect their work and because you think the two of you could grow together.

Third Step: Promotion (30 minutes per day)

The first activity here is the promotion of your killer articles. Whenever you publish one of them, you should push it in any way you can. Examples include:

• letting the people in your network know about it (don’t beg for a link though),
• letting bloggers and webmasters in relevant niches know about it,
• getting some friends to submit the article to social bookmarking sites,
• getting some friends to Twitter the article, and
• posting about the article in online forums and/or newsgroups.

If there is time left, spend it with search engine optimization, social media marketing and activities to promote your blog as whole. Those can range from keyword research to promoting your blog on Facebook and guest blogging.

Fourth Step: Normal Posts (30 minutes per day)

Just like a man does not live by bread alone, a blog does not live by killer articles alone. Normal posts are the ones that you will publish routinely in your blog, between the killer articles. For example, you could publish a killer article every Monday and normal posts from Tuesday through Friday. Here are some ideas for normal posts:

• a post linking to an article on another blog and containing your opinion about it
• a post informing your readers about a news in your niche
• a post asking a question to your readers and aiming to initiate a discussion
• a post highlighting a new resource or trick that you discovered and that would be useful to your readers

While killers articles are essential to promote your blog and bring new readers aboard, normal posts are the ones that will create diversity in your content and keep your readers engaged.

COMENTING ON BLOG IS A GREAT SOURCE OF TRAFFIC

Once you have created your own blog, the next step would be to increase traffic to your blog. We can easily get more traffic to our blogs by avoiding common SEO mistakes, bookmarking our sites to dofollow bookmarking sites and we can also get free huge traffic from Youtube too. Another best and easiest way is to increase your traffic by commenting on others people’s blogs. Commenting on other blogs really helps you to get more traffic and intentions toward your blog. Commenting on other blogs not only gives traffic to your blog but you can also increase your blog comments by commenting on other blogs.

Reasons why every blogger should comment on the blogs

1. Once you start commenting on other people’s blogs it will get immediate traffic to your blog. Commenting on the blogs of your areas of interest will help you get the quality and quantity of traffic.

2. Once you visit other peoples blogs, you will read their posts. This will make you comment on the blog. When you go through different posts on different blogs, you might get some ideas for you to write a unique post on your blog too.

3. Regular posting of comments will help get many people to know you and develop an interest in your work.

4. If you keep on commenting, you will also get a good number of comments on your blog too. Make sure your comments are related to the topic.

How commenting can greatly benefit your own blog

A few of the reasons as to how your comments on other people’s blogs can help you gain a lot of traffic are:

1. Online Exposure: When you comment on any blog you are leaving behind your mark on that particular blog. In other words, more and more people will get to know you and you will make a strong presence of yours be felt online.

2. Exchanging and interacting comments: Every blogger in the beginning needs help from existing bloggers. Since they are already established and have a lot of traffic on their blogs, it will pay to enge in conversations and comments with them.

3. Growth in credibility: Meaningful and appropriate content and comments leave an everlasting impression on the reader. You are indirectly letting other people take note of you and your work.

4. Add links to your website: Sometimes blogs also provide you a field to put in your website address at which creates a link back to your website along with your comment. Other people can discover your website this way.

After looking at the above list of benefits, you should enter the blog world and explore it. Take the time out to write genuine and honest comments and blogs or else you will ruin your credibility.

LINK WHEEL TO INCREASE SEARCH ENGINE RANKINGS

We discussed several ways to increase blog or website traffic such as post comments get traffic method, free youtube traffic method, Free Traffic from bookmarking sites method etc. A common and extremely popular way to increase site traffic is to build a link wheel. Link wheels give your site a higher search engine ranking and more visitors. Using the link wheel includes writing articles and using social networking websites to link each other and provide content based on your topic. You must build a link wheel for each keyword you wish to target or multiple keywords that are related. You can build the link wheel on properties that are free such as squidoo, hubpages and blogger.

What is a link wheel?

A link wheel is a set of popular online properties linked together in such a way so as to optimize the impact on the rankings of the main website. None of your online properties should have two way links. All back links must include the keyword you are targeting.

Reasons for building a link wheel

The two reasons why you should build a link wheel for your website are:

To increase your rankings: Building a link wheel will help you to increase the ranking of your website since you will have some strong links directing to your site. For this purpose you must make sure that the anchor links include the keywords you want to target.

To increase traffic: The places where you build your links have many daily visitors. If you are an active member of these communities you can direct traffic to your own websites from the content that you upload and share.

How to use Link wheels to increase search engine rankings

The first step in this regard would be to get good back links. This is called as search engine optimization or off page SEO. The quality of your back links is more important than the quantity. You can develop your own personal link wheel that you have control over and then build free back links to your website, thus increasing the rankings of your page. The sites used for this process are Squidoo, HubPages, blogger and WordPress, and many others. You can create a link wheel for each post on your blog or for each targeted keyword but remember to post unique and original content on these web 2.0 sites.

Conclusion

The most important thing when using this method is to build back links to your web 2.0 sites. As a result, page rankings of each property will increase and greatly benefit your main website.

HOW TO SELL YOUR BLOGGER

Blogging is done for several reasons like voicing your opinion, sharing your thoughts or just for fun. But the most common reason people get into blogging is to earn money from internet. There are several resources you can use to earn money from your blog such as earn with affiliate marketing, selling products on your blog or selling ad space on your blog using Google Adsense or other ad networks. They pay you money according to your performance. Keep in mind the following things before you consider selling or auctioning your website:

Important Things

1. Provide buyers with necessary data: Buyers might always ask for site statistics, unique visitors, page views, traffic details. You can attach these figures to the auction listing or provide them on request to the bidders.

2. Provide revenue figures too: Be prepared to provide your buyer with revenue figures too if you are using Ad sense, Amazon Affiliates or other advertising programs for earning from your site content.

3. Answer queries promptly: Remember to give honest and prompt answers to all the pre-sale queries of your buyers.

4. Contact details: Get the contact details of the buyer including their full postal address and phone number.

5. Be honest: Give an honest answer to the buyer as to why you are selling the blog if it earning so much revenue.

6. Specify the mode of payment: Whether your mode of payment is Paypal, Money Orders, Wire Transfers or Western Union Transfers, be specific in mentioning it.

Where to sell your blog?

The next question you will face now is as to where you should sell you blog or website. There are many popular, reliable and common marketplaces for selling websites. They are as follows:

1. Sedo auctions: Here you can list your website for sale. You will be charged a commission fee of 10% when you find a buyer for your blog or website by Sedo.

2. EBay website auctions: EBay has an enormous user base. This means that your site listing will be exposed to a much wider audience. EBay charges a commission from the sale.

3. Site Point auctions: This is the most popular and common place for buying or selling websites that have content. You will be charged a small fee to list your website on SitePoint.
Other sites where you can consider selling your blogs are NamePros.com and Digital Point. Now suppose you have a blog on blogspot.

Follow the steps below to sell your blog

• 1. Log in to your blogspot account.
• 2. Click on the “Settings” tab of the blog you want to sell.
• 3. Now click on “Permissions” tab.
• 4. Now click on “Add Authors” tab.
• 5. The invite is then sent to the person. When he will accept that invitation to join the blog as an author, he will see your blog in his blogspot account’s dashboard.
• 6. Ask the other Admin to remove you from the admins list.
• 7. Once you are deleted from the admins list it means that you have sold or transferred your blog to another person.

Remember: Selling your blogspot blog is not allowed by Blogger. This Post is for information purpose only.

SOLVE GOOGLE ERROR 404 CUSTOM DOMAINS

This is called, Google Error 404 Page. It happens due to unknown reason however you can fix this by following below given instructions:

Instructions

1. Sign in Your Blogger Account
2. Go to Settings > Publishing and click on Switch to: blogspot.com
3. After going back to .blogspot.com URL, assign your custom domain again.
4. Thats it ! now you will not have this error.

FREE AND EASY LOGO MAKERS.

The compatible logo plays important role in elegance of your website. You can create logos some applications like Photoshop, but they are expensive as well as complicated. There are lots of online logo creator tools which are free, easy and time saving. Some of them may need sign up to use created logo.

Following is the list of free logo creator tools and websites:

• http://highpowergraphics.com/xaratools.html
• http://www.logomaker.com/
• http://www.logoyes.com/logocreator.php
• http://www.onlinelogomaker.com/
• http://www.cooltext.com/
• http://www.simwebsol.com/ImageTool/
• http://www.logoease.com/
• http://www.logomakerdesign.com/
• thefreelogomakers.com/
• http://creatr.cc/creatr/
• http://www.xtvworld.com/free_logo_creator.html
• http://www.flamingtext.com/
• http://www.onlinelogomaker.com/applet
• http://www.txt2jpg.com/ 
• http://www.logodesignengine.com/

BOOST YOUR BLOGGER TOOLBAR WITH WIBIYAS TOOLBAR

You have seen a toolbar on many of the Blogger and WordPress blogs. It is a Wibiya’s Web Toolbar. This toolbar not only helps you to boost viewership of the blogs but also helps your visitors to easily navigate through your blogs. It also has so many social networking websites icons to share the contents. The toolbar also includes Recent Posts, Random Posts, Search and Translate features. You can add or remove applications from the toolbar in one click.
How to Install Wibiya’s Web Toolbar

1. Go to the Wibiya’s Web Toolbar website: http://www.wibiya.com/  and click an account there(by clicking on Get it Now).

2. Choose a toolbar theme. You can see a toolbar preview at the bottom of the screen.

3. Select your Apps. Add or Remove applications you want on the toolbar.

4. Choose Your Website / Blog Platform from WordPress, Blogger, Ning, Typepad, Drupal, Joomla, vBulletin, Tumblr or other. Select Blogger.

5. You will be then directed to Blogger. Select your blog and click on Add Widget. It’s done.

GOOGLE INTRODUCE BLOGGER ANDROID APPLICATION

Now you can post a Blogger blog from your Android phone using new app introduced by Google. The app is launched on February 2011 and is absolutely free. It requires Android OS 2.1 or above.

Using the app you can easily compose a post, add labels, attach a photo that you just took with your phone. You can then save it as a draft or immediately publish it.

Main Features

• Switch between multiple accounts and blogs that you have author rights of.
• Write a post, save as draft or publish it.
• You can take a photo using phone camera and upload to blog post.
• You can share to Blogger from gallery or browser

Downloads

Download Blogger Android App for free here

                                     
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MORE FONTS FOR BLOGGER

Bored of having same fonts for your blog. But now not. Blogger earlier has introduced 35 fonts for Blogger blogs and now updated the list to total 77 cool fonts. Express your blog creatively using these fonts. Change the fonts of Page text, Blog title, Tabs text, Post title and Gadgets title.

These fonts also include non-latin alphabets such as Cyrillic, Greek and Khmer.

To try all these 77 fonts just go to Blogger Template Designer and click on Advanced tab. Here select your desired fonts and click on Apply to Blog.

NOW ENJOY WITH YOUR FAVIOURATE FONT!!!

NOTE:
You can find complete list of Web Fonts on Blogger here.