How to Increase Traffic To Your Blog.

There is no point in writing a blog if nobody knows it exists, so finding visitors to read your information is paramount in the success of your blog. Having been an author of my own blog for 12 months, I have discovered a few great ways to promote and increase the amount of visitors. Some will help create a steady flow of new visitors, and some will only create a temporary solution (alphainventions), giving you plenty of new visitors quickly.

Using Tags To Increase Traffic

The first tip to increasing traffic to a blog is something that many of you have already been doing, but in case you haven’t I will include it. Each time you add a new post to your blog site it is important that you fill in the “Tags” as this will allow your content to be shown under that category. Your blog will also be indexed by Google and other search engines using the keywords provided. If your blog is talking about Web Design then having the following tags would help promote your blog:

Web Design, Web, Design, Web Designer, Website, Web Sites

Add your Blogs RSS Feeds to Feedburner.

There are many different web sites that offer to promote your blog using RSS feeds, many free and a few that will charge you a small fee. Google now provide you the opportunity to add your blog to Feedburner free of charge. This will help you to promote your new content quickly. Visit http://feedburner.google.com for more information.

Using Twitter 

If you haven’t used Twitter then you are missing out on a lot of extra blog traffic. Twitter allows you to announce simple messages to people who are following you. It also allows website URL’s which are a great way for you to mention your latest blog article, and present a link for interested parties to visit your blog. Visit http://www.twitter.com and sign up for your free account now. Once signed up follow http://www.twitter.com/madcomputers .

Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites

Just like Twitter, many social networking sites allow you to add web links to status updates. Announce your blog update on your status update and you should see your traffic increase as friends and family visit your blog. To make things even easier you are able to use http://www.ping.fm which will update many of the social networking sites all together, saving you time. Some useful sites worth looking at are:

http://www.facebook.com http://www.linkedin.com http://www.ecademy.com http://www.bebo.com www.friendsreunited.com

Alphainventions and Condron

I mentioned earlier Alphainventions as one of the ways to receive a quick boost in traffic. Both alphinventions and condron will allow your blog to be shown to thousands of bloggers over a short period of time, which will bring you plenty of visitors. All you will need to do is visit http://aphainventions.com or http://www.condron.us and add your blog. It only takes a few minutes and the increase in visitors to your blog will be sure to amaze you. I hope that with the above tips your blog will be receiving plenty of new visitors. There are many other ways to increase blog traffic, but the ones above are sure to get you the desired results.

Useful WordPress Plugins

If your blog is hosted on your own server the extra tools available are ideal to boost your search engine rankings, bring in many visitors, and even earn an extra income from Google Adsense and affiliate programs. One plugin “Addthis” is a perfect tool to have installed, as it allows you (and visitors) to promote your blog through most of the social media sites with a simple press of a button.

Optimise Your Blog by installing the SEO-All-InOne plugin to help boost your search engine rankings.

If you are looking to host your own blog then consider MAD Computer Solutions who provide an affordable blog package including:

  • Domain name
  • Hosting
  • WordPress installation
  • Theme Installation and configuration
  • Plug-in advice and configuration
  • Training
  • Advice on how to maximise your earnings from your blog.