Build Traffic With Blogs

Blog is the abbreviation of web log. Blogs are one of the hottest trends on the internet right now. It seems like everybody is doing it. People are starting new blogs at an astounding rate. It is well known that using a blog on your website can significantly increase your traffic and because its search engine friendly your website will rank higher in the results.

Anyone can write any type of blog they want. You could write about the Internet, movies, music, your daily life – anything. Nothing is off-limits when it comes to blogging. If you look for blogs on the Internet, you’ll literally find thousands of different blogs to look at.

Most of the rules about writing for ezines and newsletters apply to writing posts for your blog, but there are some important differences like keep it short and simple, write clearly, keep it lively, write like you talk, make it valuable and worthwhile, link often, etc.

You can also make money from your blog. Adsense is a program offered by Google that pays webmasters and blog owners to display Google ads called Adwords on their sites, and if you have a blog that gets many visitors, they will click on the ads which mean that you will earn money from it.

Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. For example,

1. Set up a feed on my yahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine.
2. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to.
3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche.
4. Submit your blog to search engines.
5. Submit your blog to blog directories.
6. Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.
7. Make a commitment to blog everyday.
8. Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box.

Source: Free Online Articles from ArticlesBase.com

About the Author:

Nasir Mehmood is a Senior Web Marketing Executive at MechTechnologies .

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