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leave 1 tip to help bloggers get more traffic
Posted by sulavmetal • 8/14/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: adsense, blog, promotion, traffic
1 tip to help your fellow bloggers
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Submit to search engine like google, yahoo and bing and altavista atleast.
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Go here: www.websitegrader.com/#ReportTop
Run a report and follow the suggestions to get your blog more SEO friendly. -
Be funny
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visit time thief www.blogcatalog.com/user/timethief-
THE most important thing to understand about blogging is that traffic can amount to a tsunami of indiscriminate one hit wonders who just pass through blogs never to return again and create a high bounce rate.
What does Bounce Rate mean?
Bounce rate represents the percentage of initial visitors to a site who "bounce" away to a different site, rather than continue on to other pages within the same site. A high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren't relevant to your visitors. To view the bounce rates for your website, go to the Bounce Rate report under Visitors > Visitor Trending > Bounce Rate.
www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=81986
Targeted Readers
What blogs actually need is targeted readers. Targeted readers are those who arrive at a blog looking for content they already have an interest in. They are inclined to become regular readers/subscribers who leave comments and become engaged in discussions, thereby becoming a member of a blog centered community.
Bloggers and their readers are co-creators of a blog’s brand. It’s important to invest time into finding the correct niche for your blog and formulating your goals. It’s likewise just as important to examine your blog in terms of growth models so that the structure of your blog and posts attracts a never ending flow of targeted readers.
In the final analysis, all bloggers need to focus on creating relationships with other bloggers by leaving meaningful comments on their blogs, and by encouraging “organic” traffic that translates into a faithful blog readership for their own blogs as well.
Organic Traffic: Organic traffic is any traffic that comes to your site without being paid for. This includes people who visit via links in forums and blogs, traffic from search engines, traffic from word of mouth, or traffic from bookmarks. Organic traffic generally comes to a site naturally and is not driven by marketing campaigns.
Inorganic Traffic: Inorganic traffic is traffic that is pushed via marketing campaigns. Banner ads, search engine ads, etc generate inorganic traffic. Generally speaking this form of traffic is semi-immediate depending on how much you blanket the Web with your advertising and slowly dies out over time unless more money is spent to build a new marketing campaign.
If you are interested in learning how to structure a targeted reader ie. search engine friendly blog than there are twenty five steps you can take to do that. You will find them in this post linked to below. You will also find that the steps are internally linked to "how to" tutorials.
onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/twenty-five-steps-to-increase-blog-tra... -
TT, I'm very interested to hear more about your views on the relevance of bounce rate for blogs. I think that you provide a lot of great information, but this is one area I've seen you stress that I just don't get. Virtually every regular reader of a blog is going to "bounce", since the latest post will be the only one he/she hasn't already read. Thus, the more regular the readership of a blog, the higher the bounce rate will be. -
Perhaps I can add to this ...
Imagine that I am a faithful reader of your What's Wrong blog ... either via RSS or Twitter or Email I get a link to your latest post and click on it, and arrive at :
whatswrongaroundus.blogspot.com/2009/08/book-burning-for-21st-century-and.h...
I read the post, go Hmmm, then I "X" out your window, and continue my merry ways.
>> That is a high bounce rate according to Google, because you never attracted me to anything else on your site.
However .. if I feel engaged on your blog and decide to comment, I'll click on your "Post Comment" URL (usually a different URL than the post) e.g.
www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2139235985154651604&postID=873625158957104...
After I post a comment, I might browse your sidebar and say .. OhBoy Dogs! and click on this link:
www.dogstoryblog.blogspot.com/
In this case, your statistics will show a lower bounce rate. Google likes sites with lower bounce rates in their PR assessments, and other secret analysis of sites in their search engines .. because obviously, in the second instance - your site had good keywords, or content, or something that engaged me to do something more with your site. In the first case, as good as the article may be, google just thinks you are a one hit wonder and doesn't think you have any importance.
So - to get more traffic from search engines (e.g. Google who is judging your site) you want people to interact with your site and stay as long as possible, even if it is to sign up for a newsletter, check your archives, do searches of your site .. The easiest way is to link to your archives on relative topics to the current post and with your own keywords. In your case, with the first scenario - in your blog post, you didn't link to anything. However, if you had a review (e.g. on The Kindle Reader) and linked your review post to everytime you mentioned Kindle on that page (4 times) .. you might get readers to click it to find out what it's all about.
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Petlvr
great info
I never new about Bounce rates
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good consistent content. useful and well written -
(1) Learn basic SEO and structure a reader and search engine blog
Reason: In blogging content is king and marketing is queen. If you write high quality original content on a regular basis and promote it then the result may be an increase in organic traffic, or not. If it’s not easy to locate your content in search engines then there will be no increase in new traffic. -
@timethief and Petlvr. Wow what would BC be without your great tips. As for me, submitting each article to relevant sites and engines do help. I usually based my stats on organic hits since mine is not a paid one but i am planning to move a step further soon after realizing, this is the best way to make friends with established musicians and artists.-
@celticmusicfan
Thanks. You are using tags. WordPress is properly set up so that categories and tags can be used on each and every post, are recognized and indexed by search engines and can be found in the SERPs. Blogspot blogs now have "labels" which are not recognized by search engines as tags.
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