Free Traffic is everywhere

There are many ways to drive free traffic to your blog apart from using traffic exchanges, safelists, blasters and the like.

A blog is like a web site, it does need exposure and it needs traffic: loads of it! You must actively promote your blog to build up traffic to your blog. Sending a mail to your list announcing  your new blog is a good place to start.

Here are just a few of the many tips to get readers and traffic to your blog.

1. Headlines:
Just like a website, your blog needs to provide its readers with information they want to read. Good headlines will attract visitors, the headline is the first point of contact, so spend time on that; and of course the content matters too. Publish good content on a regular basis.

2.Optimised for search engines:
Make sure your post is optimised for search engines. When you write, think of the keywords, the primary keyword should be part of the title; the secondary in the body of your post, and don't forget the anchor text, here it is best not to use more than two, more can be considered as spam. Categorise and tag your posts to get the best results.

3.Pings:
If your blog set up is correct you will allow pings. There are quite a few services out there today specifically designed to connect blogs. One of the most popular to use is Pingomatic, but there are many others like Technorati. [First you must sign up with these and add your blog] When you write and publish your post this service sends out a ping alert to say you have updated your blog and then indexes your post according to tags; hence tagging correctly is so important.

4.Directories & Feeds:
Add you blog to to directories to give greater exposure. When setting up your blog set up an RSS feed. Both blog and feed can be added to directories. There are many and varied directories out there but one of the favourites is Blogcatalog. Good places to maybe make friends, pick up a few tips and exchange links.

5.Forums:
Join some of the many Forums and use a Forum signature including a link to your Blog. Add your comments and observations to posts, be helpful to others in the forum, then they will consider you to be an expert and more likely to visit your blog. More free traffic. Of course, never spam just to get link backs, this will just get your membership deleted.

6.Blogroll:
use this to add other blogs in your niche to your blogroll. This cross linking gives you an added edge and may result in added visitors and readers.

7.Comments:
Add you comments to other blogs, make your comments useful and perhaps start a discussion. Its surprising what you can learn that way too. Once you have built a bit of traffic to your blog allow comments to build up interaction. There are various plugins out there to help you increase your comments and ways to organise them.

8.Trackbacks:
A way to link back to other blogs that allow trackbacks. A good way to build up free traffic to your blog. Its a good idea to first leave a comment on the other blog then add a trackback in your post.

These are just a few tips, however you can learn more about blogging and traffic by joining the Daily Info Calls or participating in a monthly online live seminar and workshop.

Zo Nicholas
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