How to Increase Blog Traffic

Read this article completely to make your blog more popular and get more visitors. I'm sure your blog will attract much more visitors then before.

1. More Content More Visitors:
On the internet you can see many blogs that have very high traffic. You will notice that all of these blogs have at least 300 post. More content promises more visitors and this provides visitors with temptation to stay.  So add new articles continuously, because beside quality, quantity is also very important. If you can't produce qualified articles (made by yourself), arrange for "guest posts". Initiate others like your friends to write for you, and publish there stuff with there credentials.

2. Internal Links:
While writing a new post, build internal links i.e. create links with older similar posts and tell your readers about your other posts about similar topics. You can add links to similar posts at the end of post or between the sentences of your post. This has other benefits too, for example with this technique your posts get back links and also helps crawlers to index your posts.

3. Be Social:
Submit your blog to social indexing sites like digg, quadriot, pixelmo, business-planet, folkd, mecozz, swik, socialogs and hatedorloved.

4. Guest Posting:
Try to post your articles on others' blogs with your name and link to your blog that is; write guest posts on others' blogs. Those who will like your posts at those blogs will come to your blog, to see your other posts.

Some more tips
  • Submit your articles to sites like Google knol, Goarticle.com, Qassia.com and also to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, zimbio.com and squidoo.com.
  • Write about hot trending topics and also about controversial issues, this will help you in getting more tarffic.
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Becoming A Successful Blogger


Make these blogging tips your habits if you want to be a good blogger. All great bloggers follow these habits regularly, follow if you want to become a effective and successful blogger. I compiled all the stuff in a simple way. Spend few moments to read this.

Write Brief Articles:

Writing articles always try to be concise. Visitors of your blog will vist your blog for a particular information or for info on a particular issue.  Provide your visitors a clear write up, try to give your reader knowledge they want as precisely as you can. Your readers will surely not like to waste their time reading fluff. So always keep in mind to make your blog easily digestible.

Keep Absorbing Knowledge:
A blogger must always experience the process of learning. Spend time learning about topic of your blog.  Your blog will be shaped into a good collection if you will keep your mind open for new information and latest developments in world of blogging.


Become Analytical:
Try to find what your readers want to read and write in accordance with the mood of your readers. Use readers feedback and there comment to decide what to write. Care about your readers, the readers will care about your blog. Also keep an eye on the country of origin of your readers and the search terms they used to reach your site. You can use static tools to find all this out.
Try To Be Prolific:
Blogger are mostly well aware of the fact that quantity is very important. Practice makes man a perfect blogger, meaning as you write more and more, you can perfect yourself in the art of blogging. Adding more and more posts will also help you grab more traffic from search engines. You will feel increase in your blog's traffic with increasing number of posts. And to increase the number of posts in your blog you need to put in a serious quantity of time researching planing and exploring for new topics.
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PING | If you want more traffic

Ping is a blog term which tells servers that a blog is updated with new posts and keep track of new posts. It is time consuming action so here are a list of services where you should ping. I don't recommend that you ping after every post. But it is good practice to ping once a month on each of following site.

Pinging ensures that your fresh post are available to them. Here is the list of services where you should ping:

1) Topic Exchange
2) Spinn3r
3) Audio.Weblogs
4) RubHub
5) GeoURL
6) BlogMatcher
7) A2B GeoLocation
8) BlogShares
9) PostRank
10) SkyGrid
11) Collecta
12) Blogdigger
13) BlogStreet
14) Moreover
15) Weblogalot
16) Icerocket
17) News Is Free
18) Superfeedr
19) blo.gs
20) pingoat.com
21) longrank.com
22) ipodder.org
23) freshpodcats.com
24) memigo.com
25) Technorati
26) Weblogs.com
27) Feedster
28) Google
29) Google FeedBurner
30) Pingomatic
31) Blo.gs
32) Syndic8
33) NewsGator
34) PubSub.com
35) bulkfeeds.net
36) Weblogs.se
37) coreblog.org
38) feedster.com
39) BlogPeople
40) catapings.com
41) Topic Exchange
42) My yahoo!
43) Blogrolling.com.

Instead of visiting all these sites you can ping with free ping services, here are some free ping services,
Blogpingtool
Pingoat
Pingomatic
If you know about any other ping service then please share through comment box.
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Create Sitemap For Blogger Wordpress TypePad Blogs

Many bloggers especially new vibes are worried about generating sitemap for their blogs. Here I will describe some easy and less effort requiring ways to create sitemap for your blogs.

Solution 1:(For Blogger)
Create a new page, go in Edit HTML mode and paste below given code and save this page. This is your sitemap.

Making sure to replace http://myblog.blogspot.com with the actual URL of your blog.


Solution 2:
For this method your blog posts must me labeled (each post must have atleast one label.)
1. First of all Sign-up for an API key by providing the site address for which you want to generate sitemap.
2. Save your key in notepad or somewhere else.
3. Create a new post or page and in Edit HTML mode paste this code and edit it by adding your API key, Label names and Label urls (add all label names and there urls). There are ten lines for labels, if labels in your site are more or less you can delete or add more lines.
4. Save this post, it is your site's sitemap.


Solution 3: (For Blogger)
If you need sitemap for blogger blog only for submission to search engines then this is the best solution for your.
If you need sitemap for Google Webmaster Tools then your sitemap is already created! here is its url:

Making sure to replace http://myblog.blogspot.com with the actual URL of your blog.
OR

Making sure to replace http://myblog.blogspot.com with the actual URL of your blog.


Solution 4: (For TypePad)
If you want to enable sitemap for TypePad blog, just go to Weblogs >> Configure >> Publicity menu and enable Google sitemap. After enabling, URL of your sitemap will be:
http://blog.typepad.com/myblog/sitemap.xml
Making sure to replace myblog with actual name of your blog.


Solution 5: (For Wordpress)
DOWNLOAD this zip file, extract its contents to wp-content/plugins/ and then on your Wordpress administrator board hit plugins and activate this. After this you will have a menu to manage your sitemap.


Solution 6: (For Wordpress)
To create sitemap for wordpress copy this code to a php file and use it.
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