How To Get Traffic

To Your Website Earlier, we discussed the sheer importance of always striving to add new content to your web pages. But this can be a very onerous undertaking. You will have to write – or cause the writing of – the content and you will have to manually upload it to your website. You can, however, encourage your visitors to add content to your own website. This way, you can be assured of fresh content, even if you’re not in front of your PC.You can add a “comment box” for every content piece you upload, for example.Or you can encourage reviews from your readers.All of these are made easy by a program called Turbo Feedback Manager.

You don’t have to wait for people to discover your blog, however. You can announce new blog entries to the whole world… or in this case, to the whole World Wide Web.You can do this through RSS, a file type that makes syndication very, very easy. All blogging services can transform your entries into RSS feeds, ready to be distributed to open channels.Real Simple Syndication (RSS) is slowly becoming the universal standard for message transmission over the Internet. RSS is an excellent option for the following reasons:
• Your messages will be delivered straight to the recipient’s desktop, eliminating the possibility of your messages being filtered out as spam.
• Your messages will be delivered in real time, meaning, your recipient will receive them as soon as you send them out.
• Your messages can be displayed on all the websites you maintain.
• RSS feeds can be generated from your blog entries.
• There are a lot of novel applications being developed for RSS.
You can even send audio messages, and the file size is amazingly kept to a minimum thanks to RSS 2.0 technology.To start delivering RSS feeds, all you need is an RSS feed generator.These are widely available for free all over the Internet. Your
recipients will need an RSS feed reader. If they don’t have one,they’ll be prompted to download a copy, also for free.

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.

The usual practice circa 2005 was to regularly publish new posts in your blog, then ping blog directories through services like www.pingomatic.com to inform them that you had new content.This would make the URL to your blog appear in a favorable position in those blog directories. Furthermore, since search engine spiders crawl through those blog directories, they would likewise be alerted that you had published new content.