Want more traffic to your site? Start a blog. Google loves blogs and by adding one to your site you can dramatically increase your page rankings and you earnings.
If you have a well established site that is well-linked and maintained, adding a blog can really help with your SEO and search result rankings. A well-linked site is crawled often by Google, so make sure to keep adding new content to keep the rankings high.
Blogs are also another great way to bring in additional traffic. Be sure to provide your visitors with the option to subscribe to your blog and receive feeds. You should also place sharing tools on each page so that you can benefit from social networking and get your name out there faster.
When you set up your blog, opt to automatically have trackback links posted. This leaves somewhat of a comment on the external blog you are referencing and lets their readers, and author, know that you mentioned them in your post. This is especially helpful if you link to a popular blog, as many of their readers will see your link and visit your blog.
If you really want to get into blogging and drive up your traffic even more, it is helpful to join a few social networks and become active in your niche’s blogosphere by leaving comments and interacting with other bloggers. Blogs and social networking work really well together and essentially build your online presence and add a human element to your site.
These are just a couple ideas for increasing site and blog traffic, but I know there are many more. If you care to share your tips on driving blog related traffic, I’d love to hear from you!
