Did you know that
there are free ways that you can get links back to your blog overnight?
That after a few days they can number in the hundreds?
No
matter what you market on the internet at some point you'll face the
issue of increasing the number of visitors to your site. What most
people don't know is that there are literally hundreds of ways to get
free traffic. Here we'll focus on three overlooked ways to get
additional traffic to your site using a blog.
The third most overlooked way to bring traffic to your site with a blog is to read and comment on other blogs.
Now,
maybe you've done this before but stopped, because you're becoming
concerned about being considered a link-spammer. In that case, leave a
link to your site after your comments, instead of in the comment form
that hot links it.
In
the near future, blogmasters will be able to use special code to
prevent spam in their comments section, so this will become less of a
concern.
Besides,
getting clicks from people who read comments, or visits from search
engine spiders through your comments, isn't necessarily your direct
objective, though it’s
definitely a plus.
What
you want to do via commenting is to enter the blog community that
corresponds to your target market. Get to know who the players are and
make agreements with them to
cycle traffic between you.
Or
lurk to find out where your target market typically hangs out when
they're online – you’d be surprised at how many inexpensive and targeted
advertising sources you can
find through this method.
(If you're looking to get linked, there's another way that we'll go over next.)
This tip has earned me a few dozen links from prominent blogs in the past four days alone.
These
links are worth ten times a reciprocal link because they send targeted
traffic from established sources, and come from experts with records of
proven results.
You
can be sure these kinds of people will check you out before they linked
to you, since they may be judged by the quality of the information they
share.
The
second method to more blog traffic is the most confusing for newer
people, and this is probably the reason its benefits remain overlooked.
In
the simplest of terms, Trackback is kind of a remote commenting system
that incorporates linking. It allows the reader to follow a topic around
the web to see other
bloggers remark on the same subject. It enables the publisher to remotely cite references to the issue on which they've written.
Once
you've made yourself familiar with the blogging community you have
entered, you can often pick up the pulse of conversations within your
site's theme. Then, when you
see
issues that you want to expound on, you can send the other site a
notification to let them know you cited them on your blog. That link
will appear on their site, and often draws visitors to you.
Bloggers
who use Trackback often enjoy greater control over this function in
their blogs than they do over linking, as they have the option to reject
your reference - so there is
a lesser incidence of fraudulent linking. That also gives your link a greater chance of being displayed.
So why don't more people use Trackback?
One
reason is that what is arguably the most popular free blog system,
Blogger, doesn’t have Trackback. However, Haloscan.com can remedy this
with their free service – it’s
a cut and paste away.
Many
new bloggers don't get what it is and how it differs from commenting.
And of course, the dynamics of it are a little more complex than I've
stated. But learn to use
Trackback properly, and you won't need to beg for links to your site ever again.
It's
harder to estimate an exact number of visitors that come as a result of
trackback links. But if you posted five days out of seven, and was able
to get a trackback link to
your
site three times a week, by the end of the year you'd have almost 150
topical links back to your site, which are more valued by search engines
than a typical link trade
with an unrelated site.
The
most overlooked source of traffic for a blog is through article
submission. To start with, turn your longer posts into articles and
submit them to ezines or directories.
Look
especially for directories that ask for the direct link to the article
on your own site, and input the permanent link to the post on your blog.
Make sure that your Auto-Discovery tag is in place and it can mean hundreds more prospects, links and subscribers.
It's
a shame this is the one of the least used traffic methods for most
sites, let alone for blogs. In four days, this method generated just
over 1000 visitors. 157 newsletter leads, 98 new feed subscribers, and
206 links to my site. You may not get these same results right away, but
using these simple strategies can still get you more exposure than you
have now.
These
aren't normally the highest quality links, as they rarely make sure of
anchor text. However, bloggers are citing me using Trackback, sometimes
in lieu of linking to the site where they originally found the article,
so some anchor text linking does occur - enough, in fact, to make this
worth your while.
To
see this in action, do a search on "Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog
Get Top Search Engine Rankings", the title of an article I submitted
earlier this week.
That
article was published within a week of this one- the results speak for
themselves. Many of these sites aren't the ones where my articles are
normally published.
There
are, of course, plenty of other ways you can leverage the content in
your blog or RSS feed to increase the traffic to your site. The methods
outlined here may be a bit outside the norm, but, as you’ll soon find,
that’s part of the reason they are so effective.
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