Archive for June, 2010

How Do You Drive Traffic to Your Site?

If you are new to internet marketing, you would have discovered that driving traffic to your website is a formidable task. However, if you learn the ropes to drive traffic to your website, you can reap a ton of rewards. Here are some creative ideas that may help you.

Start blogging on several sites and leave comments on other people’s blog posts. Make sure to include your URL and hotlink where possible. Remain focused on your issue as you need to make sure that you write to get approved and captivate your readers. Write to establish trust as an expert on subject. Putting in all the efforts and getting it trashed as spam is such a waste of time.

Add as many suitable themes, extensions and widgets as possible to your blogging site. There are so many free add-ons to make your site attractive. Consistently analyze your site to see how you can make it user friendly, stimulating and attractive rather than a run of the mill boring site. Their visit should fulfill their desire to get information and new experience. Add intriguing and interesting podcasts, videos and audios to your site.

Enlist your friends and ask their help to spread the word about your website. They can use their website, contacts, blogs and contacts to drive traffic to your website.

Sign up with a social bookmarking site and share your bookmarked site with other readers who share the same interests as you. Add reference and links to your websites. Most social sites are used by many people as specific interest search engines. Add the bookmarks to your site and increase your traffic. Analyze as to what products users are searching for and add links to interesting and relevant products. The more such links you have bookmarked, the bigger your following will be. The more appealing information that you impart to the readers, the more they will return to your site for new information.

Use social photo sharing sites like Flickr to drive readers to our website. Attract them by adding smart tags. Write a post in your blogsite and link to your Flickr page. This way both the sites will work together to drive traffic to your site.

Twitter is another useful tool to drive traffic to you site. Make sure to tweet every post or comment you make. Use tools like bit.ly to shorten your links to post pages and link them in your tweets. Make sure not tweet only those links. Intermittently tweet some other useful information, tidbits, quotes, humor etc. to keep your tweets interesting. This will also increase your Twitter following and work in unison with your blog site. One more thing make sure to add a link to your site in your Twitter profile. That will drive more traffic to your site.

Add links to industry specific sites and network with them by contacting them. Most will be pleased to help you build your web traffic and promote the common cause.

Submit your feeds to as many blog site directories as possible. This is a good way to drive up traffic from other sites to yours.

Modify your posts to the article and submit to as many article directories as possible. Use the resource box to drive traffic to your site and create valuable backlinks to your site. When ranking your page, search engines give higher weight to backlinks from articles published in many reputable article directories.

Your strategy to build traffic should be to first and foremost offer what the reader wants. You service a valuable purpose when you provide them with interesting information, products and services.

A Guide to Honest Blogging

Creating a blog site is a terrific way for someone to express their life experiences and to promote their profession. Up to now there is really no actual code of ethics for bloggers to follow. However, there are three common sense ethic codes that a blogger should follow while they are publishing their blog posts. These are the code of ethics that will authenticate you as a trustworthy blogger.

1. Be Honest and Fair:

You need to be honest and fair to your followers. You must make sure that all the information you provide is truthful. Do not include any incorrect information. When providing facts, you need to make them true, easy to follow and distinct. Do not try to distort your facts, visitors can sense this right away and, as a consequence, you will lose readers and followers. If the information you provide in your blog site appears to be doubtful to the reader, you need to clarify with factual information and back up your statement. When adding photos and images to your blog, add captions to explain to the reader about the picture. Honest and fair are two immensely fundamental aspects of the bloggers code of ethics.

2. Harm to others:

When creating a blog topic on a highly controversial issue, avoid naming names or places. This will protect you from potential lawsuits and also from hurting the feelings of your readers. A good principle for this code of ethic would be, say to about others that you would want them to say about you. Also, be sure that you protect other’s privacy. Invading a person’s privacy is intrusive as well as rude. If you do not wish someone doing it to you, make sure you do not do it to others. A good way to avoid violating this code of ethic is to refrain from using names or places wherever possible. If it is unavoidable, use it with as much caution as possible.

3. Be Accountable:

You should be prepared to accept the consequences that may come as a result of your blog. If you have made an error in any of your postings, own it up it right away, do not try to deflect it. Everyone makes mistakes sometime or other and if you own up to your mistakes, you will be more respected by your followers.

If someone questions your information on your blog, engage in a discussion with the person. Try to analyze why they feel the way they do and if you see that they are right, apologize to the reader and admit that they were right and you did make a mistake. If you are not accountable for your own blog, you will be blogging against the code of ethics and, as a consequence, you will lose followers.

All of these codes are common sense, the most ignored parts of blogging. Following a basic code of ethics will make you a trustworthy blogger on your topics and visitors will keep returning.

Three Basic Tips to Great Blogging

A blog is an electronic journal that online community uses to post a plethora of topics. They use a blog for just about everything including a shared journal and advertising their business, among various other things. Many people are hesitant to start a blog as they think it to be complicated. In fact, it is not at all so. I have listed below three key tips to start you off. Once you start, you will be blogging regularly with ease. The best thing about it is, it is totally free, and you can blog just about anything you can think of. So follow these basics and start blogging.

1. Content

Think of the content you want to put into your blog. It is a personal journal with information on a certain topic, or just a way to promote your business. Whatever the reason, quality content is paramount. Begin your blog with three or four topics. This will start your blog and attract visitors to your site. Many of them will post comments on the topics you have blogged about. Pay attention to their comments and look for questions in their posts; they will give you clue to what you want to blog about next, without your realizing. However, be sure that before you post, you have done some careful research on those topics. To project your expertise, careful research is a must. The more you know, the more of an expert you will appear on your topic.

2. Accessibility

You must make yourself easily accessible to your readers. Always keep your updated. Include email instructions for questions that your visitor may have. The more you are accessible to the visitors, happier they will be. Visitors like personal interaction.

3. Personalize

After you have created your blog, it is time to add links to affiliates related to your blogging site. ClickBank is one of the most popular sites for bloggers to affiliate. There are other competitive sites and are relatively easy to find. Simply search them on search engines with terms like advertising affiliates. You will see an incredible selection to choose from. Most businesses are willing to pay blogger’s sites to promote their own businesses. Each site will multitude of the advertiser that you can affiliate with on your blog. You make money while advertising while promoting your ideas. However, do not have too many advertisers on your site. That turns away many of the visitors.

Whatever your reason for blogging, if you follow these three easy steps, you will be up and blogging in a remarkably short time. When you add affiliate links you can make some decent money without too much of an effort.

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Quotes and Ideas

The compassionate mind is very important. Fear, anger, jealousy are based on a self-centered attitude. By developing a sense of caring for others' well-being your heart automatically opens and that brings transparency, straightforwardness and honesty, which leads to friendship. We are social animals, and one individual's survival relies entirely on the rest of the community. - Dalai Lama