2008 July 20

Posted by: tale

If some say that “Content is King” I say that: “Traffic is Queen.” Traffic is essentially the engine of success of all blogs. These include the construction of an audience to your site is one of the most important aspect of blogging. In fact, is the most difficult to achieve. Do you agree?

The truth is an important part of my time in blogging, and I have spent on construction of my intended audience. So let me share with you a brief list of what I have learned and 50 steps I have taken - and taken - to drive traffic to my blog. I hope you find success with any of them.

1. Everything starts with content that people want to read.
2. POSTE often, not necessarily on a daily basis.
3. Use a headline attraction.
4. Write a controversial post.
5. Connects to your own posts - the internal linkage is good for SEO.
6. Tag your posts with keywords.
7. Use lists in your post for better readability.
8. Buy your own domain.
9. Set design your site for a better user experience.
10. Counter widgets unnecessary. This only drives away to your visitors.
11. Unclutter your sidebar and footer. Unclutter the sidebar and the foot.
12. Make the tittle of your blog friendly with SEO.
13. Ask your readers views and thoughts about what you write.
14. Put the RSS button in a prominent position.
15. Invites and reminds your visitors to subscribe in any way possible.
16. Optimize your RSS feed with Feedburner.
17. Submit your RSS to RSS directories.
18. It offers e-mail subscription.
19. Experience with email marketing.
20. It is part of social sites and forums.
21. Send your items to Digg or similar.
22. Send your blog directories.
23. Commenting on other blogs in your niche. Please do not spam.
24. It responds to every comment and any other means of contact.
25. Unmoderated negative comments. Let users have a say.
26. Learn to use trackbacks.
27. Enables DoFollow. Can Disagree?
28. Always grateful to your commentators.
29. It shows appreciation for users who commented.
30. Create an archive page. Show your old posts.
31. Create a sitemap for search engines.
32. Use Google Webmaster Tools.
33. Analyze your site with Google Analytics.
34. Meet the provenance of your users.
35. ForoBloggers join and participate in their community.
36. Participates in Yahoo! Answer. Reply.
37. Use Twitter to promote your posts.
38. It offers exchange of links to other blogs in the same niche. Moderately.
39. Participates in related forums.
40. Optimize the signing of the forum with your liaison forum.
41. It provides assistance to other bloggers.
42. Share your knowledge and experience generously.
43. Write an e-book.
44. He writes about Google. We love them all.
45. He welcomed a contest with prizes.
46. Send posts to other blogs as a “guest blogging.”
47. Make a review of other blogs.
48. Interview other bloggers in your niche.
49. Use images in the post.
50. Initiating a debate in your blog.
51. Do you have other ideas? Share it in the comments

Use RSS to increase traffic to your blog

Posted by: tale

Today we find ourselves increasingly with blogs where the number of readers via RSS is increasing considerably, although sometimes jump when the feed reader to the blog. So give our readers the option to subscribe to our feed or via mail is very important to have a community of faithful followers.

When we visited many blogs on a daily basis, the most convenient and easiest is to use a feed reader, either online as Google Reader or installed in our computer as can be Newzie, Feedreader or anything else, so when we find an interesting blog we would just have to continue to subscribe to its RSS feed and visit our feed reader to see if it was updated.

If you do not do this, we should add it to “favourites” and be entering the browser’s menu whenever we would visit a different blog, holding the problems of slow loading of some sites, advertising, etc.… or what is even harder to remember the address of your blog (which becomes impossible when you visit every day between 50 and 100) and enter one by one.

In addition, when the blog is professional, as is our case, and in it we have before us is producing advertising revenue, any form of loyalty to visitors is good and even more so when there are servers as Feed Burned already offer us the opportunity to add Adsense ads in the reviews of our articles they reach subscribers blog.

For all this, my recommendation is that once you have prepared the blog, before you start to get readers Publicité you register on a server feed tray and served them in your power back visitors.

Like all classic blog, it is known that organizes up through categories and labels (tags), usually most of the themes are in the sidebar list of categories of the blog, according to generate this list of categories is wp_list_categories. The any argument which takes us back to include within the category list or default if we do not include any arguments.

If your blog have any category, which want, or think it has many followers, you can put your rss icon for your readers who may have information of this category of a quick and easy.

Even if your blog is new and these retouching the theme you can be very useful to place links to the RSS in each category so that when you win a new visitor might have the chance to win a new reader.

With the following example, generate a list in alphabetical order of the category, which shows a link to the RSS feed for each category.

<ul>
<? PHP wp_list_categories ( ‘orderby = name & show_count = 1 & feed = RSS’);>
</ ul>
If you want to change the link by an icon of rss, you can change the lines above, the following:

<ul>
<? php wp_list_categories ( ‘orderby name & show_count = = = 1 & feed_image / img / rss.gif’);>
</ ul>
Where img / rss.gif is the direction or path where the image of feed this category, with this argument really can create different things for our blog, it is only a matter of our imagination.