his article will cover one on their site.
of the unique methods of
getting traffic to a blog That isn't what I'm suggesting
that doesn't work for regular with the blog community. The days
sites. Remember that every blog of sending even a personal email
is a web-site, but not every to someone you haven't met are
web-site is a blog. My top nearly over. The spam problem has
methods of getting traffic to a made that more and more
web-site are still my top methods difficult. However, it is still
of getting traffic to a blog. OK and still rather expected that
Those include: article marketing, you introduce yourself when you
link building and content come into a community. It is also
creation/ranking factors. a good idea to let your new
community know that you are a
But blogs are a special breed of friendly guy and are willing to
web-site. There are additional help out in the community.
methods of getting new visitors
to your blog that are very This post will tell about one way
effective. The first one I played to do that when you enter the
with was linking to others. For blogosphere. First, you should
your blog marketing efforts to find your neighbors. The Alexa
work, you must understand that toolbar is going to help you find
bloggers are part of a community. out who the leaders are in your
Those of us old-timers on the new community. Start by searching
‘net remember when the entire for "______ blog" on Google,
‘net was a small, close-knit Yahoo or your favorite search
community... when it was OK to engine. Fill in the blank with
send an email telling others in the topic of your blog. Take a
your topic area that you just set look at the blogs you see.
up a site and would like a link
Do you like them? Good; these are rural area before, so it was
leaders in your new community. critical for me to go through
Link to them in your blog roll. this exact same exercise as I
Read them daily to find out what became a part of my new community
is going on in your community. Do up here in the mountains. Sure;
you not like them? No problem. it didn't involve Alexa or
Don't link to them then. Don't linking to others... but the
read them. Don't introduce your concept is the same. When you
visitors to them. It isn't enter a community and want to be
required that you like everyone a part of that community, get out
in your new community, but you do there and get to know people.
want to be a part of the This is one way to do that in the
community you now live in... blogging community.
Now as you read those blogs I now have a hundred or so links
daily, notice their blog rolls from those in the blogging
(links they have to other blogs community after just a couple of
in your community). Go visit months. From those links, I have
them. This is where the Alexa over 600 daily visits and over
toolbar comes in. You will find 100 loyal readers who come to
some new leaders (those with read my blog almost every day.
blogs showing less than 100,000
on your Alexa toolbar). Check out Did I ask for any of those links?
their blog and if you like it... Nope. Just like they didn't ask
add it to your own blog roll. me for the links I gave them. Do
I have 100 outbound links? Nope.
I recently moved to a town of A lot of those links came in
about 300 way up in the top of without me linking to them. As I
the Utah mountains. It was a new get the chance, I go and check
community. I had never lived in a out their blog and if I like
it... I give them a link. If I number of inbound links... AND a
don't like that blog for whatever list of those who recently linked
reason; I don't include it in my to me.
blog roll. It's not always a tit
for tat link exchange. When you see that a blog called
"Mattress Cleaners" just linked
Some of you may be confused at to you... can you ignore that? I
this point about how my outbound can't. I'm immediately
links became inbound links distracted... and what do I do? I
without any other action. You may click on it. I go and check out
be confused about why I called that Mattress Cleaner blog. They
this article "Getting Blog just got another reader (at least
Visitors" when I have only talked for that day). If they were a
about how to send my visitors to quality blog that was actually
others by linking to them. OK; relevant to the blog community of
let me go into why this uniquely my own blog (and they aren't)...
works very well on blogs, but not they would get a link in my blog
on other web-sites. roll so that I could check them
out periodically.
First, of all... I use Wordpress.
It is the fastest growing The same thing is possible with
blogging software out there. I'm non-blog web-sites. When you link
not sure of the features of other to a site and send them traffic,
blogging software, but I know the that shows up in their referrer
follow applies to Wordpress. When logs. However, a lot of
I log in to my control panel to webmasters don't look at their
write a blog post, I am given a logs or stats. Those who do may
page that shows a number of blog use stat software that doesn't
stats. One of the most prominent even show referrers. They may
parts of those stats is the only focus on traffic and not
where it comes from. you... it lets them know that you
are friendly and you like their
However, most bloggers DO see part of the blog community you
when someone links to them. It is just entered. Don't be surprised
right in their face when they when they link back or even write
login to make a new post. All you a post about your blog.
need to do to let someone know
that you have moved into their It's that simple.
blog community is to link to
them. BTW, it not only introduces
About the Author:
James D. Brausch runs a fairly new blog (less than 3 months old) that is already ranking in the top 30,000 on Alexa. Check out his blog here:
http://www.JamesBrausch.com
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