It has not been that long since blogging has taken off as one of the top ways to drive traffic to your website. Many have not jumped on the bandwagon yet. Why is this? Perhaps you don’t realize the significant benefits to be gained from blogging. Perhaps you believe it will require too much time or the expense is too high. Perhaps you aren’t a writer or you just don’t like writing. Whatever your reason for not blogging, if you have a site that you want to drive additional traffic to, you should definitely consider starting.

Blogging makes it possible to go from your site getting a few hits a month to dozens of hits a day. Think of your blog as food. Food for thought and food for those hungry search engine spiders that are crawling all over the web. By drawing these spiders to your site, you will eventually be drawing visitors to your site as well as these spiders return to their “nest” and index the pages of your site. read more »

Search engine optimisation has become the savior of corporate blogging. Companies shell out significant amounts just to make sure that their websites are on the top spot of the search engine game. However effective SEO methods are, as proven by the specialists, there are other ways on how to drive traffic to your blog or website without having to send a hefty amount.

Blogging entails planning a good strategy. For one, there is nothing wrong with being meticulous and it would all start in your choice of the right blog software. There are a lot of blog providers out there but you have to prefer the one that has features your needs require. Choosing a blog software that is highly customizable is your best bet. Serious business requires serious attention on your part so it is always good that you get to start from scratch, and do all the concepts by yourself without being boxed up in templates. You also have to choose a CMS that is user-friendly enough for your bloggers. They are the ones who drive traffic by creating quality contents for you. Saving them from the burden brought about by technicalities will help them do what they are good at in its optimum. Picture in your mind how you want the blog to attract traffic for you and use these factors in choosing. read more »

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Hope you all had a great week. Here are week round up posts. Enjoy!

• You SUCK At Affiliate Marketing - Bryn.me
• Internet Marketing: How to Use the News to Drive Traffic to Your Website or Blog - BloggingTips.com
• OIOPublisher 2.0: Get the Premiere Advertising Platform Now - SlyVision.com
• October Case Study: Blog Commenting - LinkersBlog
• Rules For Accepting Guest Posts - Creadive
• Capitalize on the Long Tail - FreddieTaylor.com

About 70% of search engine traffic to any website comes from Google. Over the last several years, Google has grown to become the largest, most commonly used search engine-and with that growth has come power. Google has the power to help make or break a website because it is used by millions of people every hour of the day.

How can this make or break a website? The answer is simple-search engine rankings. Studies have proven that most people who use search engines rarely look beyond the first page of search results; therefore, webmasters must do whatever they can to get their sites listed on that first page of results. However, many webmasters go too far, using tactics of which Google does not approve-and this can result in that website being banned from Google. read more »

A Jakob Nielsen study shows that only 10 percent of the blogging community actually leaves comments when they visit a blog. The rest which is 90 percent are mere lurkers. Some of them do leave comments occasionally, whenever they find it necessary to say something. But most of the time, more than half of your traffic does not even contribute to your blog in any other way than visiting. Of course, the number of people who comment on your blog still varies depending on your content and website traffic. Most probably, blogs having high SEO rankings get more comments than those that are unknown to the search engines. In any case, there are ways to encourage contributions and comments on your blog entry depending on how subtle they may seem to fellow bloggers. read more »

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