Drive Traffic to Your Blog

You've got your blog set up and you've started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?

Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.

1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates.

Http://www.bloglet.com

2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine (see tutorial on http://www.biztipsblog.com)

http://www.my.yahoo.com

3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Don't write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.

4. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.

http://www.pingomatic.com

5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines:
http://www.submitfire.com

6. Submit your blog to blog directories. The most comprehensive list of directories is on this site:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this can take several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day for submitting or hire a VA to do it for you.

7. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.

8. Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.

9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.

10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.

11. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

12. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to.
The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some may consider its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as 'feeds') may be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries.

To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, see this site: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-readers.htm

13. Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other blogs, articles and websites in your posts

14. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.

15. Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box (See example in our signature below).

16. Make a commitment to blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can help increase your traffic as new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same time.

Tip: Use a hit counter to track your visitor stats: how many unique visitors, how many page views, average length of visit. You can get a free hit counter at http://www.sitemeter.com

Denise Wakeman of Next Level Partnership, and Patsi Krakoff of Customized Newsletter Services, have teamed up to create blogging classes and marketing services for independent professionals. You can read and subscribe to their blogs at http://www.biztipsblog.com, http://www.coachezines.com and http://www.bizbooknuggets.com

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If you are not up loading videos or audio to youtube like distribution technology to get your message out, you should be! It is a great way to get not only your company message out to potentially thousands of customers about your business, not to mention a great way to increase page rank, back links, and traffic to your site immediately using video & audio hosting companies to deliver your content.

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Check this out: Here is proof how the video distribution technology, using one video title as a test; type in "Lights in the Sky Series " into your google or yahoo search engine, if you like add Space or Travel to the name and it will increase the number of potential key word searches. You will see 1st page ranking for the program using multiple keywords in the title and sub titles even with out the additional words.

This title received a great response from the Video simple test. Testing the SEO keywords, will get improve results over time, this test was incredible. This video was up loaded to over 30 video sites & audio podcasting sites using video distribution technology that will distribute the content to multiple sites with the click of a mouse. (program uploaded on May 6th, 2008). The same results have been the same for all programs using video distribution technology and feel very confident it will for your as well.

Keep this in mind, all of the posted video sites will link back to your sites in several different ways using SEO search engine key words creating traffic, links back to you with results in a couple of days if not with in hours of uploading. FYI-Do not forget to add your web site address to the video for individuals to view while watching the program.

Every search engine around the world is looking for more video or audio content to distribute they need you as much as you need them. Do you self a favor! Jump start your business using SEO video & audio.

Below are a couple of ways how to get started if you are on a budget, it will only cost you your time. The results should improve page ranking & get your site indexed quickly if it is not already.

Try the following:

1. Upload your video to multiple sites like Google, Yahoo, & AOL yourself if you want to keep your cost down to begin with to get you started. Be sure to add SEO key words in your title and subtitles, add SEO keywords when call for on each hosting site.

2. Search for other video hosting companies to submit your video or audio too until you get the results you are looking for. There are over 60 possibilities and the list is growing.

3. Search for companies that provide podcast distribution and up load the audio sound track of the video. Be sure to add you web site url to the audio sound track.

4. Pay to have your video or audio submitted to multiple sites for you. I recommend the first 3 steps first to understand the process. It is exciting to see the results of your efforts.

Testing various distribution & keyword methods you may consider uploading 1 small video or audio file for FREE in exchange for your testimonial. I will continue submitting new articles on Video Distribution Technology... Stay tune for more

If you like assistance with video or audio content distribution to multiple sites quickly. Search on line for companies or email me with your ideas, needs or suggestions for assistance.

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How to Submit Information on B2B Platform

1. The methods for Submitting the release or updating information for the B2Bwebsite are different. You have to understand the major targeted markets of platforms. Then you need to know about local people's basic working routines. So you know that releasing information or update should be done at what Time. If release the information too early or update the information too late, your information will be sequenced in back position. It causes the bad effects that less or none of opportunity is created. Since the B2B platforms have various operational procedures, there is no conflict with the information publishing time.

2. Information Title: for you to Publish Information of Production just use the generic keywords (if it is to supply information or Sell XXX, Supply XXX). Do not think that the title including many products' name is a good thing.

3. Product Features: the parameters already have the function as much detailed as possible and to describe clearly and in good structure. There are two advantages:

A. First of all, these buyers can clear understanding of your product, which is your goal.

B. Many B2B platforms mainly rely on SEO effect to attract buyers. When you have a detailed description for a product, select the appropriate product keywords for it. The search engines will judge the importance of the keywords and professionally qualify them. The great potential buyers in the use of search engines can find you in the B2B publication of the information and contact you directly. This is likely to link pages of information that you published the pages.

4. To make product picture clear as possible, preferably dealing with a relatively pretty. We all like Pretty things!

5. Keywords settings: general B2B products in the release of information you are requested to fill in major product (Main Product or Keyword), this actually is an attempt to fill in your search by keywords, you can use Google keyword tool to filter your own keywords. The product called the most conventional, in the above can also make use of these keywords used by search or the popularity and frequency of information so that you can get more opportunities for world buyer to search, generally there are three main platform Search conditions: Company, Products Trade Leads (Selling Offer), you'd better release these three categories of information at all times like the front of reference as set just because buyers are used products directly from the search.

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