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Do You Join In The Blogsphere?

Joining in the Blogging Community or Blogsphere is very important to a blogger. Making useful comments when you enjoy a post, making friends or just reading blogs that you like. It’s good to ‘get your face out there’ it could even help with links to your blog from other bloggers and therefore help your traffic. [...]

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Do You Digg?

OK I know I lied, I just wanted to add one more post to my Create Blogs Traffic Series! So here it is – Social Bookmarking sites (and also Social networking sites) have found huge popularity at the moment and therefore have huge amounts of traffic, including returning traffic. It’s only recently that I have come across [...]

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Want a bit of Link Love!

Link Love! I am coming to the end of my blog traffic series for creating blogs, and I would like to point out that they have not been posted in any particular order, and that there are obviously a lot more ways to get traffic to your blog. It’s just these are the main ones that [...]

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Get Traffic from Emails!

So how can you get traffic to your blog from emails? Add your blog address to your email signature like we did with forums. You can add a message to the signature, inviting your recipient to pass your information on to a friend if they enjoyed your blog. Then every time you email your list (if you [...]

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Drive Targeted Traffic to your Blog using Google Adwords

Google Adwords is a great tool to drive targeted traffic to your blog. You can target specific keywords from your blog that you know people will be searching for. You’ll know the keywords from having done your research on search trends and competition when you set up your blog. Which obviously means you are putting [...]

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Classified Adverts – Online or Offline?

Just because you work online doesn’t mean all your promotion needs to be done online! So why not try an offline method, and place a classified advert in a local newspaper to drive traffic to your blog. Depending on where you live and which newspapers you pick, the fee can vary a lot from free [...]

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Creating Blog Traffic with Forums

To be honest I have only recently started to use forums for creating blog traffic – and realised their potential. They are more than just somewhere to post your news and articles to, to enable you to generate traffic. They are communities that you can tap into, and interact with a wide range of people, [...]

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Search Engines – Get Yourself a Homepage!

Obviously there are loads of Search Engines that you can submit to. But I would like to concentrate on the top 3 that will bring you the majority of your Search Engine traffic: Google Yahoo MSN You submit to Search Engines so that they will go and crawl your site with their ‘bots’ and add you to their index. [...]

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Have you tried Blog Directories?

They are a great source of free traffic for your blogs, you never know who could be searching for your topic? And there’s loads of them. Some are more popular than others, like Technorati, you can open an account and bookmark your favourite blogs (if you search on Google for a topic you will also [...]

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Are Articles the Best way to get Traffic?

Article submission is said to be one of the best ways to create traffic for your blogs, and also backlinks to your site (which helps with rankings). I think it is a really good method to use, although not the quickest. You basically open an account, which are generally free and submit your article for [...]

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