Blogging For Visitors - Increasing Your Website Traffic
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If you want to get more visitors to your website (and who doesn’t?) you should look at starting a blog. Blogs are an excellent way to get visitors engaged at your site, and open communications with them. These tips will help you use your blog to generate traffic.
First of all, make sure you’re posting regularly - at least every other day. If your blog is updated regularly, you’re giving your readers a reason to return often. If your posts are timely and helpful, you’ll become known as an expert in your market.
They will turn to your blog as a way to seek answers to their questions. Posting regularly also develops a relationship between you and your customer. They will get to know you and trust your opinion.
If you install a system like Feedburner on your blog, you’ll make it easier for your customer to stay up to date. They’ll be able to easily subscribe to your blog and they can choose how they want to receive updates - email, RSS reader, etc. These services range from free to fairly low cost and the setup is quite easy - you simply install a piece of code or a widget into your blog.
It’s also a good idea to have a “blogroll” on your blog site. This is basically a list of related blogs that you feel will help your readers. When you link to other blogs this way, they will see it and often will link back to your blog. This can help to widen your audience by reaching readers on other blogs. Just make sure the blogs you link to are related to the subject of yours.
One of the easiest ways to drive traffic to your website through your blog is by linking back to the site every time you write a new blog post. Whenever you add a new article to your main website, post a teaser excerpt on your blog along with a link to the full article on your website.
It’s also a good idea to link to existing articles from your blog, particularly if they are suddenly timely again. For example, if your website has an article about Halloween costumes for kids, post a new link to it on your blog every year around Halloween.
As you start practicing these strategies check your page stats and see how many visitors are coming to your site through links placed on your blog. You will get a better idea of what is working and will be able to increase traffic even further.
March 12th, 2008 - Posted in Blogging | |
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