Forget Everything Your Heard About Links, Ad Clicks, Etc., Bring the HUMAN Element to Your Blog Pages and You Will Succeed
So you’re a fairly new blog owner who is scratching his/her head wondering why you’re only getting 50 to 100 web visitors per day to your blog. You’ve tried what all the “web gurus” out there told you to do: Link up with like-minded sites! Put an ad for your site on another similar site and you will get hundreds of click-throughs every day! Somehow it’s just not working.
Let’s…
I admit it. I hesitated to sign up for Twitter. See, every time I sign up for a new social networking site or tool I get totally sucked in and work suffers. I can be quite social, especially when I don’t have to leave my chair. So, despite everyone else’s encouragement I put off signing up. Last November at Blog World Expo a number of people convinced me to join, so I did - and it proved to be a wise choice.
Lots of New Friends
I made lots of new friends…
Getting traffic to your blog or site is not always easy especially when it is new. If you have an old blog or if you have moved from blogger blog to WordPress, you can try this method. Even if you have pre-written content, you can use this technique to get traffic. It takes less time and is also effective. But if you choose to follow this technique, be sure you don’t copy and paste the same content which you have already written. Here’s how you can get traffic using the…
Sure, it’s great to get a bunch of hits from Digg or StumbleUpon. There are a couple of catches, however. For one thing, those hits could be a temporary bump that goes away once you disappear from the front page or stop getting stumbled. Also, many theorize visitors from wildly popular social bookmarking sites just bounce right in and out of your site. That’s why it’s a good idea to target niche social bookmarking sites.
There are a few reasons to seek out a niche social bookmarking site, such as:
This weekend I received an invitation to a social networking site I haven’t heard much about. This one is called Flugpo.com and it’s promoted as MySpace meets Craigslist. It seems as though new social networking sites have to come up with unique ways to differentiate themselves to draw new users. Flugpo sounded like an interesting combination of functionalities, so I checked it out and decided to give it a try. I signed up and started my new account then spent a few minutes browsing through the site.
My first impression was that…
