The following post on how to increase website traffic was submitted by Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes.
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I started the PC Doctor blog in May of 2005 and for the first few months my traffic was really low – down in the few hundreds of visitors a day. It was pretty depressing I can tell you and there were times when I thought about quitting. I knew that the site was in the Google ‘sandbox’ and so I either had to keep on plugging at it until it was out or I had to give up.
Fortunately, I decided to keep on posting but in the interim I decided that I was also going to do my utmost to drive traffic to my site manually until Google kicked in. I took a look around at what some of the successful blogs were doing and came up with three tactics that helped to double my website traffic in a month.
- First, I made the most of Technorati tags. I tagged every key word in each of my posts. Initially I did this manually but them I discovered a WordPress plugin called SimpleTags that made the job a whole lot easier. I found that by tagging my post effectively they were getting a lot more attention then their untagged counterparts, and as an added advantage I was getting focused, quality traffic to the site!
- I leveraged my existing website. I’ve been running my business website for a few years and that was getting modest levels of traffic that was relevant to my blog – so why not try to drive some of that to my new blog! I placed a few FeedBurner headline animator blocks on some of my most popular pages and after a day or so I noticed a significant increase in traffic for 5 minutes worth of work on my part.
- Finally, I made effective use of trackback links to popular sites. If I commented on a post on another site I would make sure that I set up the appropriate trackback for it. The results from this are varied depending on the site and post that you are linking to but since I liked to comment and interact with the wider blogosphere anyway, it was free traffic!
Using these three simple techniques, I took The PC Doctor blog from a few hundred hits a day into the thousands in less than 30 days. This kept my interest in the site until it came out of the Google sandbox and I started to receiver some serious traffic. However, I’m convinced that these actions I took at the early stages have helped me create a loyal and targeted readership that continues to benefit my blog today.
Further Reading: If finding new traffic for your blog is what you’re interested in – check out 31 Days to Build a Better Blog – a month long set of exercises to help you develop content but also build a well read blog.
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what’s with ppl repeating the saem comments b/w […]?
I don’t understand.
They are not repeating they sent trackbacks from their blog. The trackbacks appear as comments and the text is the link from their blog :)
You might want to add a little disclaimer to your title – sort of a your mileage may vary kind of thing.
I’ve been “tagging” or adding keywords or categorizing my sites for ages – little if any traffic ever comes from technorati and technorati seldom shows accurate activity on any of my blogs.
While you may have had great success due to the topics you cover obviously not everyone will have the same success.
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I’m pretty technologically/blogging intelligent, but I don’t understand trackbacks — does anyone know of a good link explaining it?
Thanks!
Alec
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Thanks Razvan for the info. :)
Alec > here’s a good link that explains trackbacks. A simple google query would do it ;)
http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/
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How do you tag words in Drupal ?
In response to Dawn’s question:
There is a WordPress Trackback Tutorial (could be helpful for other blogging platforms, but geared toward WordPress users).
I also have to agree with Clark – mileage may vary. There have been many complaints on Technorati not properly indexing sites or displaying accurate links.
While I can’t say I have any complaints about Technorati, I have noticed that some sites receive quite a bit of traffic from them while others seem to be missing completely.
And, for those who want to make their technorati tags disappear, wrap them in a specific <div> element and apply a bit of CSS ingenuity.
example:
<div class=”tech-tags”>Add Technorati Tags</div>
in CSS file:
.tech-tags {display: none;}
Hope that helps someone out :)
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I am the web designer for a property company based in Bangkok. At the beginning of the year I implemented the strategy you so rightly put forward above, using WordPress and including the Technorati tags. The site now has five times the number of hits! I would like to thank you for the advice given. It has been so successful I have also implemented a similar programme for a consultancy company in the UK who outsource all of their their SEO work to us. Their site was only put live yesterday so I cannot gauge its success as yet, but we are both highly confident that this is the way to deliver SEO strategies to our clients. We have abandoned our link building strategies since the Jagger update and now concentrate on content augmentation and article writing, with great results. Once again, thanks.
thats great news John Sylvester! Your site looks pretty nice too.
I couldn’t sleep and browsed the web for some weblog tips. Especially about getting more traffic. Those 15 visitors of my weblog aren’t enough. That’s how I came on your website.
Thanx for the tip on technorati tags. I installed the plugin right away.
Maybe a little late ;) but hé who knows.
I must say I don’t understand your 3rd tip?? How do you use trackback links to popular sites?
I find the steps quite reasonable.
Do you fight spam using trackbacks? I mean do they bother you?
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Try the technorati tag generator
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Tags definatly seem hard to grasp, least the part about where to put them on the page. I have 3 questions then;
1. Is it better to have one word tags or is 2 words acceptible
2. Does the tag have to appear in the RSS feed?
3. Does it affect you to have tags that do NOT point to technorati? Like for example, a tag that points to your own categories on your blog (using the rel=”tag”)?
john
Like I stated before: categories in WordPress are exactly the same as tags. Technorati has updated their information about this recently:
http://www.technorati.com/help/tags.html
In WordPress 2 it’s possible to add categories on the fly while creating a new post. I think this is a better system than any plugin I have seen. Because categories can not be redundant and can be renamed, it’s cleaner than specifying tags per post.
I don’t understand the confusion myself but it’s probably because categories and tags are different words :)
Yes, Technorati will use the category name as a tag in WordPress, but tags and categories are two different things.
What happens when you only create a single entry on a specific subject? Or if your entry covers a number of subjects that may not warrant having a completely new category created (on the fly or otherwise) for it?
Think of tags as meta filing without needing to clutter your sidebar with unnecessary categories.
Lorelle has a nice run down of what the difference between tags and categories are for anyone interested.
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I would like to thank the author. Of all the advice I have read this is the most valuable to me.
I came in late for the FIFA World Cup only updating my site a week before the events with almost me as the visitor. I followed these three steps and I ended up the month of june with an average of around 500 – 600 readers and some it even went up to 1500 depending on which post I trackback to.
Cool man… I have read this post way way back but only got the time to put the plugin, find sites that have great traffic to trackback to.
Come to think of it, I have not done the feedburner tip yet coz I only signed up a week ago for that service and I will hook up in one of my decent traffic sites and I would expect more readers coming in.
Thank you so much…
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I thank the author for his wonderful timely advice.I had almost given up hope on my blog http://freakyvids.blogspot.com after having worked hard on it for months.
This site is an entertainment video blog (vlog) which is still a somewhat new idea. Still I was hardly getting an odd 300 page views a month. After having implemented some of the three steps, my traffic has gone up to nearly 500% in 3 weeks!
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I’ve been running a quality article based content management site for about a year now and regretfully my pagerank, and traffic, remains at fairly low levels. I could understand this if the site was sub standard but it’s not bad – at least from a search engine perspective. Any help greatly appreciated!!!
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As someone who is always on the look for more traffic to my blog, I have to agree that technorati and trackbacks can generate an amazing amount of traffic to a site.