blog Traffic?

I have a new blog with a couple of post. how do you improve traffic for a new blog? how do you get noticed? I've already submitted my blog in a couple of blogging directories.

 

Hey Jo_cstd,

If you are pretty new to blogging take a look at the following articles, 10 Ways to Find New Readers and Three Sites Every Blogger Should Be A Part Of.

Hopefully they will give you a few tips on getting started

 

Technorati is always a good place to start. You might also like to burn yourself a feed with FeedBurner. If it's plug your article day today I'll suggest you look at my article about 'Site Optimisation - Spreading the Word' - pretty basic, but it gives a few starter ideas.

 

Heh I didn't mean to plug my articles it was just that I wrote them with new bloggers in mind so if they can help a new blogger thats great

You've got some good tips for new bloggers in there too I can see

 

If you update your blog with fresh content regularly you will get noticed.Content is the king, remember that.

 

build links and write new content as much as possible

 

emphasis on quality content. Make your readers want to come back to your blog. Also a forum like DigitalPoint is a great place to network and possibly come up with a few links for that blog of yours.

 

thanks for the tips.
how do get that "recent blog" link beside my username?

 

Go to your "User CP" and then click "Options"... The last Option at the bottom is: "Blog XML Feed URL"... Enter the Feed Address for your site and click "Save Changes" and your set... it may take a few minutes or more before your Blog shows because DP has to check the feed...

 

thanks.

 

Your welcome...

 

Create fresh content which you think visitors might be interested. Post signature links on forums, Try social bookmarking and post comment on visited blog which is related to your site.

 

First you need to get other bloggers to notice you. The best way to do this is comment on their blogs. I used http://www.blogmad.net/ and http://www.blogexplosion.com/ the first few weeks I blogged and it helped tremendously. I visited and commented on ~5,000 sites, and I received hundreds of repeat readers as a result.

If your content is good, this is a good way to start.

 

Anita is absolutely right - these two programs are a good way of getting traffic to get you off the ground but they aren't long term solutions. BlogMad in particular - very effective for traffic but you'll run out of credits quicker than you can surf for them. Another thing to be aware of it that AdSense don't like any method of artificially generating clicks or impressions - these schemes fall in to that category.

 

Bebo works.

No seriously, it does. I have a travel blog, and I posted on travel videos comments within Bebo, people checked our my Bebo profile and noticed my blog entries and left comments about my blog and that they have visited it.

 

Do bebo profiles with PR have any value/importance??

 

Quiet good, i would like to know to which directories, we must submit our blogs so that we should be getting good incomming links. Because, this is the big question where to submit the blog, or how to fully index the blog. Question remains the same and will also help in bringing the traffic.

 

Try pinging your blog then for sure traffic, update your blog from time to time. Join social bookmarking sites like del[dot]icio[dot]us, and stumbleupon for more traffic. Stumble and tag exchanges may increase your site's rating, making it more popular to other stumblers and bookmarkers.

 

I have found that for a web-development related blog that posting to sites suxh as dzone and stumbleupon has been pretty good in getting traffic off of the ground. I've not bothered submitting to any directories as I personally think directories are rubbish - I've personally never used one since about 1997 or something, and suspect the majority of the google-consuming public dont either.

I'll usually get a large spike of new readers for a day or two, but pickup a few links from other blogs which continue to send traffic and more search engine traffic too.

 

x10.

Make sure to always ping technorati with new posts. Beyond that, stumbleupon and delicious have both been good steady means of traffic.

But first step, lots of content. Write 10-15 posts with lots of links to other articles in your site and the user will feel like you have more than a "toss it up and hope it sticks" approach. Lots of internal (and RELEVANT) links usually show that not only are you aware of the content you're righting, but that you're also good at keeping it tied together well.

FYI, I use target="_blank" for outside links and just a standard href for internal links. Seems to work great for me so far.

HTH