Visitors equal money. Well they do if money making is your objective, but even if it isn't, most new bloggers want the posts they have sweated over to be seen by as many people as possible.
One of the main questions often raised by newbies to the blogosphere is about getting traffic to their blogs.
Now the following isn't going to be another post about How To Get More Traffic, there's lots of this sort of information about. I'll list a few at the end of this post - but, of course, they are often all theory. It's nice sometimes to deal in facts, and this is what I'm going to do now.
Here are seven sources that send me traffic, together with how many they have sent me. As I said: facts not theory. They aren't sophisticated ideas like link baiting, keywords, SEO and the such. These are simple basics that will get new blogs some visitors. As you will see they have worked for me.
Let's start with forums, which is really a social gathering of like minds all putting in their pennyworth. Again their are dozens of forums about but the one that has worked for me is the Blogger Forum. In a short time I have had 263 visitors via their forum. And to me these are 'good' hits because they have followed a link relative to the subject matter of the thread.
Now there is a problem with forums: they are time consuming. This is okay if your main objective is the debate. However, when you want to make money in a limited time frame, you need to find a way to keep any threads you have started towards the top of the page. This way they are more likely to be read and, as it's a numbers game, you are also more likely to get clicks from your link.
One way to do this is to 'bounce' your threads to the top of the list. The top listed threads are normally the newest ones and also ones with the latest comment. Providing someone else has made a comment at some time on your thread, there is no reason as to why you can't reply to this comment yourself - this will then bounce you back up to the top of the list, where it is more likely to get seen.
Purists will no doubt not like this idea - but I reckon most bloggers acknowledge comments on their own blogs, so what's the difference? The thing is timing. If you've only received one comment answer when your thread is disappearing from the front page.
Enough of that. All I intended to say originally was that from Blogger Forum I have had 263 hits!
I'll keep the next one short and simple. From myLot I've had way over 300 referrals. Again time consuming but at least you can earn a few dollars at the same time. Think 'referrals' more than 'money' though See my post myLot Money And Referrals for more info.
Moving on to MyBlogLog, from where I have had 109 referrals. I don't pay this the attention I should, but it's certainly worth joining as a lot of good contacts can be made. See also my post Experiencing MyBlogLog.
Following this there are link advertising programs such as 1000000 Links (105 referrals) and their sister site Mister Linker (36 referrals). Into this category I'd also put Klik Us (65 referrals). With these three they are not time consuming. Once you have their link on your blog, that's it. Some bloggers cringe at these sort of sites but what the heck. If they bring a few more visitors to a newish blog that's what matters.
To get referrals though you need to put their links in prominent positions on your blog. The more clicks they receive, the more likely you are to get referrals. You'll see why this is if you visit their websites. And with Klik.Us it may help if you are an attractive girl! In saying this I have managed to get my mug on the front page. I wouldn't, of course, suggest clicking on your own links - as this would be dishonest.
Okay, that's the seven. Also make sure that your blog is being included within Google Blog Search (132 referrals). If it isn't submit it here.
As I've said already this post is for the newbies. There is much more to getting visitors than this, but you have to start somewhere. There is further information here:
10 Ways To Increase Money Making Traffic
How to Get Free Traffic for Your Web Site
Learn To Do Effective SEO In Less Than 350 Words
How To Get Traffic To Your Blog And Make Money With It
The Quest for the Golden Google PageRank
Also my Money Making Weekly Reports give other traffic stats such as with Blog Directories and from link exchanges.
Good luck,
Mike.
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