Received this on email today-
I really like your web log and would appreciate some advice from you. I also have a web log and believe that I have good things to share with people through my articles and messages. But I wonder how I might increase traffic to the site. Any advice on how I can do this? Any counsel you can provide would be great!
There are a number of things that people can do that will certainly bring more traffic. A while back Jollyblogger posted on this subject, and Diva Marketing also gives some good advice, and both posts link to other useful articles. I will highlight my own top ten things to do that are guaranteed to help bring you more traffic and are easy to carry out.
- Ensure your site is listed at google
- Turn on individual post pages
- Ensure that each post page has a unique title
- Make your post titles into active links that direct you to the permalink
- List an XML feed, and preferably NOT only an Atom one.
- Have a blogroll where you promote other blogs (you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours) www.blogrolling.com offer a great service for this.
- Join every list of blogs you can find. This would definitely include the Blog Carnivals
- If you are a God Blogger, join Blogs4God, the Blogdom of God, the evangelical aggregator and the reformed aggregator (if you qualify!)
- Visit other blogs, comment on them on their site and mention them on your site
- Post great material on your blog and the readers will come!
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