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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FeedBurner: A very helpful tool for bloggers

FeedBurner is a very helpful feed manager which can increase web traffic considerably. If you're not already using this service then you are missing a lot. Using Feedburner will surely help you increase your blog's traffic.

If you use blogger then redirect your blogger's feed to feedburner. To do this go to Feedburner website and create feed syndication for your blog. Now go to blogger's dashboard Settings > Feeds and add your feedburner's feed URL and save.

Feedburner provides many widgets which can be used for blog publicity. As for example you can promote the content of your blog with a headline animator, this will display the headlines of your website anywhere you will place code of this headline animator. You can choose a suitable desin out of many available styles and designs. To get the html code for Headline Animator, just go to the Feedburner Account's menu Publicize > Headline Animator and choose a style. You can add this as a widget in your blog or anywhere else on the internet where you have access to edit html; as for example in MySpace.

Feedburner also provides ability to summarize your feed, this creats a teaser of your blog posts to encourage readers to visit your blog to read the whole post.
FeedBurner can also automatically ping few feed-reading websites when you publish a post, Feedburner can ping Technorati and Ping-o-matic! You can enable this option, just go to Publicize > PingShot menu of your FeedBurner's dashboard and choose services to ping.
Feedburner also provide a very simple widget that allows visitors to subscribe to your feed through email. To enable this email subscription, go to FeedBurner's dashboard menu Publicize > Email Subscriptions and customize subscription form. Then add the provided code as a widget in your blog.

There is much more that you can do with Feedburner; what is stated above is just an overview, there are many other ways Feedburner can help you. Try it and you will find it very useful.

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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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Increase Back Links for Your Blog

One factor than helps you increase Google Page Rank of your blog is to increase back links. You can increase back links by submitting your blog to internet directories. Here is a list of most prominent blog directories, you must submit your blog to all of them. This will surely increase the page rank and traffic of your blog.

BlogCatalog; Register and you can submit any number of blogs.
Yahoo Directories: Weblogs; Directory with detailed classificaton, premium service also available.
Top100Bloggers; Directory with ranking system, you will have to put there link on your blog.
Diarest.net; Directory for personal loggers. Blogs are classified into countries.
Blogroll.net; Register and put you blog to be ranked.
Blogoozle; Put your blog in paid listing or free listing. Your blog must be three months old to be indexed.
Blogarama; Only serious bloggers are accepted here.
BlogToplist; Index your blog, but you will have to put there sticker on your blog.
BritBlog; It is only for bloggers of United Kingdom.
Blogamama; Directory for blogging mothers, you will have to put there back link on your blog.
InternetPublicLibrary;  Directory for blogs on informative topics.
BlogsRating.com; Blog is added after registration and rating system is there for people to rate blogs.
Blogher; A directory for female bloggers, blog can be submitted after registration if it is at least three months old.
Technorati; A well known directory, your blog may already be listed there by some sharing service like share this. But put your blog yourself.
SportsBlogs; A very good directory but for sports blogs only.
9Rules; A directory to share your blog's feed.
TopBlogArea; A classified directory to put your blog and get it ranked.
WeBlogAlot; Easily submit your blog and put your feed for detailed indexing.
BlogRankings; Just register and submit your blog.
BlogDigger; No registration required, just put your feed.
QuickBlogDirectory; No registration is required, but you will have to put there link on your blog.
TopBlogSites; Add your blog to this directory, you will be required to put there link on your blog.
iblogbusiness.com; Directory for at least three month old business blogs.
BlogFlux; A very good directory, you will be required to register.
DMOZ.org Weblogs;Submit your blog in this monstrous directory, and hope for it to be accepted.


Also list your blog in other places like facebook and your profiles at different sites.

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