How To Get Traffic

The problem with the blog-and-ping strategy, however, is that it will never generate targeted traffic; rather, it would tap into a general audience. If you’re looking for mere volume of visitors, the blog-andping tactic may suffice. But if you want a specific group of visitors, blogging and tagging is the way to go. Basically, tags are the new age keywords. What makes them different, however, is that they are keywords that web publishers can choose. Now tags play a crucial role in ser-driven blog directories. Why? Because bloggers can choose the tags under which their blog entries will be classified with. If you have a blog about dog care, for example, you can choose the terms “dog,” “dogs,” or “dog care” as your tags. You won’t have to populate your blog entries to satisfy certain keyword density levels. By classifying them under the tags of your choice, you’ll be able to tell the world that your blog entries are all about the tags they pertain to. Want to know more about keywords in general? Do check out the Internet Marketing Cookery: Bake Your Online Success With Easy-To-Use Recipes, a thorough guide for everything you need to start out with online marketing. You can also give Jimmy D. Brown & Ryan Deiss’ Niche Factors a try to learn the many techniques you can employ to find highly profitable niiches. You can use some of these techniques to find hot, hot tags.
1. Create a blog. It would be nice if you can host your blog under your own domain name.
2. Create an account with www.flickr.com. Upload an image relevant to your online business. It can be a picture of your product or even a picture of yourself if you’re branding your online persona.
3. Hyperlink your URL to your images. Use the tag below: <a href=”http://yoururl.com”>custom message here</a>
4. Categorize your images under appropriate tags related to your online business.
5. Now, sign up with some social bookmarking websites. We will be discussing these in depth in succeeding tactics, but for now, simply create an account with www.furl.net then bookmark your website and blogs under their appropriate tags. You can do this for other social bookmarking websites like www.del.icio.us, www.moreover.com, www.blinklist.com,and others we will be enumerating in the next chapter.
6. Sign up your blog at www.technorati.com . Choose appropriate tags.
7. Publish a post.
8. Ping www.technorati.com
At this point, you will notice that Technorati will categorize your blog entries according to the tags you have chosen.Every tag has a landing page. The landing page is arranged in such a way that certain entries will be seen before others, hence the method we have described above. The goal is to populate the landing page with links to your blog, as much as possible.