Comments on: Tips for Building Blog Traffic

By: everything free

everything free — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:12:16 +0000

Thank you for your precious insights. I just started a blog and I find it very difficult to build traffic for my blog.

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By: Reginald Kinsey

Reginald Kinsey — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:55:36 +0000

I just started my blog and in still trying to put together my first post where should I start?

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By: w0lfh0und

w0lfh0und — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:17:40 +0000

Great post and a very cool site. Some really sound advice here.

By: PreSchool Mama

PreSchool Mama — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:35:26 +0000

Thanks, Jodee! I am off to see how “well” I am doing on Yahoo now!

By: L. L. Woodard

L. L. Woodard — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:11:37 +0000

Suggestion: In Deb’s article, it suggests we visit other people’s blogs. Heck, a great place to begin to do that is right here; click on each message writer’s name…go visit. I’ve read some pretty neat blogs this way, and I am helping a fellow blogger out as well.

By: L. L. Woodard

L. L. Woodard — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:08:38 +0000

Thanks to Deb and to Jodee for this very helpful info. I see I have some work ahead of me, but at least now I won’t be headed in the wrong direction.

By: Jodee

Jodee — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:11:39 +0000

@ PreSchool Mama: Even the “Big Three” search engines (Google, MSN, and Yahoo) can’t possibly index all the web pages online. Your goal here is to get a high ranking on SEs. I would suggest that you search for your blog on MSN and Yahoo to see if you have been indexed yet. If not, take a few minutes to submit your blog rather than waiting for them to find you.

No one outside of Google knows exactly how Google decides to rank web pages, and to me it’s worth it to take a few minutes to register with a free SE submission service (even if you are going to get e-mail offers) to get your site/blog listed on multiple search engines. A high ranking on one of the smaller SEs might help your ranking with one of the Big Guys, and you may get traffic from SEs other than Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

By: PreSchool Mama

PreSchool Mama — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:11:58 +0000

@Jodee,

Is submitting to a search engine really important? I haven’t, and I am already listed in Google. In fact, I am noticing an increase in the number of daily SE visitors to my blog. I think Google begins to index you when another blog links to your blog. I am far from an SEO expert, so I was wondering…

I would vouch for Stumbleupon. I’ve had great results with it, and it does seem to be popular with women.

By: Ashley Burr

Ashley Burr — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:25:33 +0000

And apparently you have added your own little tip jar as well…how come you didn’t put that into your list of tips

By: RLD: Taekwondo Happiness

RLD: Taekwondo Happiness — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:05:21 +0000

@Jodee – I didn’t know one could do that! Thanks for the information

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:33:35 +0000

This is great information – thanks, Deb for all you do!

By: Jodee

Jodee — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:18:52 +0000

I have a couple of other suggestions to add:

Submit your blog to search engines. You can do this yourself or use a free site submission service.

When you post an article on your blog, submit it to a few free article sites like ezinearticles.com with a link back to your site.

By: Kristy

Kristy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:10:30 +0000

Now this is what I’ve been wanting to read! Yay! Thanks so much!

By: maggie

maggie — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:22:26 +0000

I am new to blogging and found your information quick helpful………..thx!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:09:39 +0000

Good post. Perhaps one covering social networking sites? (Slap me if it’s a re-post )