targeted Traffic is the key source of online Income

Today, I decided to post some good ways to get your blog noticed in the blogosphere. Now, these tips might not apply to a professional or famous blogger but the beginners can take great advantage of it. There is always a place to start and its better to start early. I believe that these tips will definitely help the new bloggers get their blogs in the list. Just go with the flow, do it step by step and tell me how it worked out for you!

1. There are tons of blog directories and the first step to get exposure is to submit your blog to these directories.

2. Submit your blog to the popular search engines (google, yahoo, bing).

3. Do some article marketing. Sites like ezine, goarticles, article dashboard are really powerful to drive traffic and also give you a good backlink. Now, you can submit the same articles to several article directories but I would pefer unique content.

4. You can also make use of several free websites to promote your blog. You need to do the searching.

5. Make a wiki page for your blog

6. Take advantage of the powerful web2.0 dominators such as Squidoo, Hubpages, Weebly, Wetpaint, Knol, Gather, Ning, Bukisa and more..

7. Get involved with social media. Create a page on myspace, facebook, hi5 and friendster.

8. Join mybloglog and blogcatalog; create a community and get involved with other’s community. Remember, when you check out other bloggers/authors posts, there is a 80% possibility that they will do the same!

9. Ping your blog regularly; at least when you update your blog.

10. Youtube is huge! It is everywhere. Create a custom video related to your blog with animoto or use any other software you find good and market it through youtube.

11. Forum is a very good place to get noticed. If you join several forums related to your niche and stay active, you can easily use your signature to drive traffic.

12. Use social media plugins on your blog. This helps your readers to submit the post they find good, making your work easier.

13. Yahoo answers can be a great way to get noticed. When I google something, I get a lot of searches from yahoo answers and hence I realized its potential. You can help out people by answering their questions; at the same time you can put a link to your blog in your resource box which is a great link juice.

14. Make use of good seo and social bookmarking plugins on your blog.

15. Use a comment notifying plug-in to let your readers know about new comments. believe it or not, most people read more of other peoples comment on your post, than your post itself.

16. Keywords are one of the main factors determining the visibility of the blog. Use a good keyword tool to find good and relevant keywords in your niche. I use keyword elite but you can use the free google keyword tool.

17. Take advantage of the Press Rrelease Sites to gain visibility.

18. Use Pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators.

I know there are tons more but these will at least help any new blogger get some exposure on the web. If you have any you think is worth mentioning, feel free to add them through comments.

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First Steps to Get Targeted Traffic!

Every blogger has a day when he finally decides to start a blog and reach out to his audience. So you have started the blog, made some posts, now what? You are expecting visitors! The first time you may get a few hits but to get the main attention you need to market it. Marketing a blog is very important; it plays a huge role in exposing your blog to the world. I have decided to put together several tips to help out the new bloggers who have JUST started a blog and are looking for exposure.

1. First, Make Sure You Use An Appropriate Domain Name

Ok let me be honest. How many bloggers out there use a free wordpress or subdomain name? Tons! Sometimes you start a free blog and get bored out of it in couple of days and then simply quit. I know many of you have do that or have done that in the past. I have done it myself so I know how it works. Now, when we talk about purchasing a hosting or domain, we don’t simply try to sell it to you and make money but we try to emphasize the importance of having your own domain. If you invest on something you will definitely work hard towards it to get your return. Your domain is your online blog recognition. It is cheap and worth it so make sure that it is relevant to your niche.

2. Write At least One New Blog Post A Day

If you are serious about blogging, you will have to make the commitment of writing at least one post a day. Your readers are hungry for knowledge and they expect something new and useful on a regular basis. That is why they subscribe to your blog. Think about it, if a new visitor visits your blog and finds out that the latest post was done weeks ago; he will not take any further steps or waste his time to check out your blog. This shows that you are not serious about blogging and there is no point subscribing to your blog.

I know sometimes you are busy; oh come on we bloggers are busy too but at least try to keep up with the blogosphere. Just an important note: If you have just started a blog, you need to update it everyday for at least several months.

3. Write Several Major “Pillar” Articles

You should have come across this term. Most popular bloggers will always mention the importance of pillar articles. A pillar article is a tutorial which is aimed to help your audience in a certain field. Consider this post as a pillar article–I am writing several tips to help you increase blog traffic. Pillar articles are important. Everyone has something to share. You might have your personal experience with a certain niche or thing and you can simply write about it. This helps other learn and keep up. If you compare your usual posts with pillar articles, they have great advantages. Pillar articles usually have a long term appeal. For example: I am posting tips on increasing blog traffic. Now this will work if you implement it now or even several months later. The more pillar articles you have on your blog, it is the better.

4.  Comment On Other Similar Blogs

Commenting on blogs is really important and brings tons of targeted visitors to your site. You should try to comment on blogs similar to your niche since you know that the readers from that blog might be interested in your stuff since its related. It wont make much sense if you comment on some health blogs while focusing on tech niche on your own blog. Although you can do that for extra traffic or backlinks but I would suggest you try to focus on your niche types. There is one more advantage to commenting; some bloggers reward their commentators with a do-follow link which is just awesome.

5. Trackback And Link To Other Blogs In Your Posts.

A trackback is one of three types of link backs. It is a method for authors and bloggers to request notification when somebody links to one of their posts. This allows them to keep track of who is linking to their articles. Trackbacks often appear like comments. If you are still confused about trackbacks just check out the comments on this post. They work in a similar way comments do. They also get attention of various other bloggers who might drop by, check out your posts and decide to link your blog with one of their posts. This is just sweet—which means more targeted traffic.

Hope you found this article useful. I will be posting the next part in a bit. Feel free to share, comment and ask question. Till then, take it easy!