| There are several ways to get traffic to a blog. | | | | changes made so each one is unique. It only takes |
| Making sure you have a good ping list is the first | | | | a few minutes to make some simple changes. |
| thing you want to do for generating traffic to | | | | Then submit a unique article to each article |
| your blog. | | | | directory. Search engines love original content. |
| Every time you publish a post to your site, your | | | | Tracking and Statistics |
| ping list gets notified that you have added new | | | | If your hosting service uses Cpanel then a traffic |
| content. Spiders come and visit your site and | | | | and statistics package comes with your blog. Log |
| index the new post. That's one of the great | | | | into your Cpanel, click on the Web Stats icon, and |
| things about blogs. | | | | you are taken to a page with several statistics |
| It's important to add content to your blog | | | | options. |
| regularly. Posting every day is a great goal. You | | | | Awstats and Webalizer are two very popular |
| will get more traffic if you post every day than if | | | | programs that tell you how much traffic is coming |
| you post once a week or even every few days. | | | | to your site each day. Awstats tells you where |
| Once you have published your post and the ping | | | | they came from, what pages they looked at, |
| list is notified, what else can you do? If your post | | | | what they clicked to exit your site, how long |
| is well-written and contains information that others | | | | visitors are staying on your site, keywords that |
| would find interesting or useful, you can submit | | | | people used to find your site, and much more. |
| your post to various social bookmarking sites. | | | | Webalizer tells you the average visits per day on |
| There are social bookmarking sites for different | | | | the main screen. If you click the link for any of |
| topics. Digg focuses on news. MarkTD and PlugIM | | | | the months another screen opens up with lots of |
| focus on internet marketing topics. There are | | | | information in graphs and charts. |
| many social bookmarking sites to choose from. | | | | It's not necessary to spend hours looking at this |
| Try submitting your posts to various social | | | | information, but spending a few minutes each |
| bookmarking sites. Don't submit every post to | | | | week with these tools can help you know what |
| the same sites. You can also place bookmarklets | | | | you need to focus on to get more traffic and if |
| on the bottom of your post so readers can vote | | | | you need to make changes so people stay longer. |
| for your article at the social bookmarking sites. | | | | For instance, if a large percentage of visitors are |
| Perhaps you have noticed sites that have these. | | | | viewing your post on setting up a salt water |
| Get Traffic with Article Syndication | | | | aquarium, perhaps you could write a few more |
| Writing articles and syndicating them to article | | | | posts about that popular topic. Maybe it is an |
| directories is a powerful technique. Write the | | | | indication that there is a need for an e-book or |
| article (or have it written for you), post it to your | | | | video tutorial on setting up salt water aquariums. |
| site, and wait a few days for the search engines | | | | Conclusion |
| to find it. | | | | Following the tactics listed in this article will help |
| Once it has been indexed, submit the article to | | | | your traffic grow. Pinging, social bookmarking, |
| some article directories, such as and There are | | | | writing articles and submitting them to article |
| also sites on the Internet that you pay a nominal | | | | directories, social networking, and checking your |
| fee to submit your article to hundreds of article | | | | traffic statistics are all basically free. They only |
| directories or ezines. | | | | require your time. |
| For better results submit your article with various | | | | |