Increasing traffic to your blog is a must for every Blogger. A vital factor of achieving this goal is to develop contacts with your audience by following the 3C's of Blogging. They are comments, conversation and community
1. Comments
It’s not wrong to say comments are the lifeline of a blog. Ask your readers to leave comments. Make them feel like they all are worthful members of your blog. And spend some time to interact with them.
As the comments flowing in to your posts it automatically starts to build a conversation within you and the other commentors. Listen to them. And if you have time post your own thoughts in comments. If not write a second post in connect to the comments.
3. Community
As you follow above two steps, as the conversation moves on you have started a small community under that topic. Your goal as the bloggers is to keep the community run.
Search engine optimization is very important if you want to get traffic from search engines. Other fact is that 70% of web searches only look in the first page of the search list. So if you're not in the first page. You definitely going to miss many numbers of visitors to your website/blog
Here I will give you the top 10 seo mistakes that people made. Read this post not once but twice and don’t try but don’t do these mistakes again.
1. When targeting keywords use keywords that people may search. Do some researches before selecting keywords. Keywords can break or make your website.
2. Nowadays leaving . It not only works as keywords. But it's what the people see when your site appears in the search results page.
3. Flash might be attractive but flash website without html alternative you're no more. :( provide an html version of it. A search engine spider can't read flash so it can't index it.
4. We know that JavaScript Menus for navigation is good for the design but you must understand that spiders don't index them. So if you're having JavaScript menus consider build a sitemap
5. seo maintenance is important. Don’t think that once you optimize your site, it is optimized forever. If you want to be successful you must look at the SEO in a regular basis.
6. Most people think that SEO is all about Meta keywords and
7. Using images for headlines is an attractive thing but when it comes to SEO you are ruining your web/blog in a long run. So try modifying them in a style sheet or this.
8. Ignoring keywords in URL's is something that many people do. But just think, if you have keywords in the URLs this gives you additional advantage over your competitors. Keywords in URLs are very important MSN and YAHOO. Google, their relative weight is high. So there are no worries having keywords in URLs.
9. We all know that having more backlinks are always better in SEO. So because of this web masters go to things like link farms, forum spamming etc. but the hard truth is you could end up getting your site banned. So what you need is quality backlinks.
10.when you've written an article do some look back and check whether you're lacking your keywords for your content or not.
I Also recommend you to read Top 5 Mistakes in SEO which is similar to this.
Nowadays many online marketers use facebook to market and drive traffic to their websites. This trend is very understandable because presently over 150 million people are a part of facebook. It's a big way to drive traffic to your website.
Talking about driving traffic, if you're in to some internet marketing about youth addictions like sports cars, games, sports you're going to get a huge traffic to your site via. Facebook because many people using facebook are young people.
So, How to promote your blog via Facebook? Enough talking lets get down to the business,
1. Creating a Group:
One of the greatest functions in the facebook is creating a group. It’s a very simple way and the good news is all the group members don't have to be your friends. You can invite any of them and anyone can join your group. It's a very effective way to promote your business.
2. Status Update:
So if you're already using Facebook Sign In or If you're new to Facebook Sign Up
Well don't get confused or scared thinking that I’m going to write about that creature. But what I’m going to write about is the search engine spider that comes to your site as a virtual bot. It comes and crawls all over your site/blog content making its way through the links in your site. So basically it works as an inspector that inspects your blog and updates its content to the search engines.
Search engine spiders can only see your page source. They are blind for many extras like Flash, JavaScript, and Frames. It is worth to know what spiders like and what don't.
Feed the spider with what it need!
Flash, JavaScript and images are not visible to spiders. Frames are a real catastrophe in SEO rankings. They maybe great in web designing. A big mistake one could do is making a flash intro page. Try this Search Engine Spider Simulator to a page filled with flash and images and you will see that, to search engines the pages appears very much blank. So you can really know that they are not search engine favorites. But if you include an ALT tag in a picture. That will notify the search engine about the image. (But don't get caught to keyword stuffing with too much of this). Careful with optimization and over-optimization. Also you can use
Content: but at last but not least content is important than any of these. Even if you got the traffic thanks to the above things. New comer will never come back if your site's content is not relevant or not interesting. So above all consider most about your content.
Extra: Try this Keyword Playground tool to get analysis of your site regrading Keywords
Module 1: Introduction and Business Principles
Module 2: Domain Names
Module 3: Setting Up Your Website
Module 4: WordPress
Module 5: Web Design for Entrepreneurs
Module 6: Business Models
Module 7: Selecting Your Niche
Module 8: Blogs
Module 9: Other Types of Websites
Module 10: Web Content and Copywriting
Module 11: Basic SEO
Module 12: Advanced SEO
Module 13: Generating Traffic
Module 14: Social Media
Module 15: Web Metrics
Module 16: Selling Advertising
Module 17: Email Marketing
Module 18: Affiliate Marketing
Module 19: PPC (Pay-per-Click)
Module 20: Landing Pages
Module 21: Selling Your Products
The definition wikipedia gives for think outside the box is;
Is to think differently, unconventionally, from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel, creative and smart thinking.
Search Engine Optimization is the method of making your site search-friendly. But when it comes to Search Engine Optimization, there are few common mistakes that people incline to make when starting to submit their sites for Search Engines.
1. Lack of targeted keywords
Keywords play the most important role in Search Engine optimization. When a searcher went to a Search Engine and type in a keyword that you like to be found and if your site doesn’t have these keywords, then the searcher will not find you.
Good content is the key to higher rankings in Search Engines. Content is what the search engine spiders are looking for. But if your site or blog is badly written or never updating or not on the right track, it won't be search engine friendly. You must have great content for Google spiders to crawl on.
3. Black Hat SEO
Black Hat Search Engine Optimizations are the techniques that are prohibited by search engine spiders. They include Meta keyword stuffing, doorway or gateway pages, hidden content, and
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5. Bad Design
This includes lack of clear navigation, unclear design frames and also sites that get much more time to load. Spiders can block these sites that have bad design.
So try to avoid these for a long run…
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