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.
I’m going to try those three steps and see if they work on my site!!!
thanks :)
Great Ideas! Getting traffic to a web site can be very slow and painful!
I still cant get traffic to increase even with all this ideas…can anyone send me a mail how else can i improve my traffic…currently im at 30-50 visitors a day… but im still not earning much?
this is shaky fish at http://shakyfish.blogspot.com
help!
An old post.. But this method still works nevertheless. =)
I think to drive traffic on your site, please try to link more site
with better google PR. To get idea please see my Indian
news sites:
http://www.agranews.com and http://www.onlineindiannews.com
Link to higher PR site than your give better place to your site for more visiters.
Good luck
RAJEEV
Great tip about technorati… I’m glad I chose simple tags over Utw when I started blogging! I’m like stuck at 4500 unique page views daily.. and want to get this figure up.. maybe one day you will publish a post about how to go to the third level of visitors you know.. Cheers..
I’m going to take your advice and see if it helps. I have been using Google adwords and Yahoo search marketing to advertise my site http://www.collegecreditbuilder.com and have found that the keyword traffic is very expensive, but results in actual click-throughs, whereas the content match feature can burn through you daily budget with many clicks, but no actual click-throughs. I know there are click-fraud lawsuits pending and approaching settlement, but it seems like something is still not right.
Darren could you post an article how to make a lot of back link ? i figured out yesterday that google and yahoo like to search website with a lot of back link
Yup, works wonders till today. :)
Just wanna share a tip. If you run a blog, and people commented on your posts, make sure you reply their comments, and visit their blogs and drop a thank you comment. For sure they will come back to your blog. They might even link to your blog as well.
good important points for a beginner like me.. i shall make sure to follow the same steps for my blog http://www.indyea.com
kipas lipas,
There are many way to make backlinks. One is to post good quality content and people will naturally link to your blog due to the content on it. Another way is to find people with similar interests and suggest they link to your sight do add more depth to their site.
Others use more questionable tactics such as adding a link to their own site such as, Melissa Midwestinto comments. Take a look at these comments there are links all over. However, while most people think they are getting a nice linkback from a PR4 site here, they fail to read the source code and notice the nofollow attribute tag added, which means they get no linkback.
I suggest you read up a lot more on linking and you will be able to drive SE traffic to your site better.
The trackbacks arent allowed on certain sites due to spam. However linking from other blogs is a great way to build rep and traffic.
The trackbacks arent allowed on certain sites due to spam. However linking from other blogs is a great way to build rep and traffic. Iv got a new blog http://www.indimoto.com/blog/autonewsamerica.php which isnt yet on google’s search index.
I like the third tip and for sure I’ll try as soon as I can. But still I’m not sure if I understand correctly about the essence of trackbacks.
Real good information and another method to generate more traffic to my sites. thx again
excellent article , will try this on my new blog due soon
van man
I see no tags on this post?? hmmmmm
Hey all,
I am just starting out in the blogosphere and I’m slowing gaining more ands more unique visits a day. I’ll be sure to employ these tips as soon as I can and see if they have a positive effect.
I have a few questions for everyone: What is a realistic daily/monthly goal for a new blog? What is a realistic rate of growth?
I know that each genre of blog has different averages, but any generalization to give me an idea as to whether I am moving in the right direction would be great.
Thanks,
Tim Bridge
PersonaDev.com
hi there, your post is helpful to everyone.
Great tips. Also the maturity of a blog seems to have some significance – my blog is 2 years old and I am receiving much more traffic than I used to .
I digg this article, good tips.
Thank you so much for the tip…i am the beginner,so anyone can go and view my blog and give me some idea to improve? thank you.
Good tips, thankyou! Have you found Technorati to be THAT worthwhile though? It’s hardly helped my blog at all.
i like what i read on your blog.
i will try it on my blog, and hope to see a difference.
thanx for the info. if you have tym. do visit mt blog.
thanx……
Nice tips, what a powerful tools to append technorati tag in blogger.com ?
Another tips that can invite traffics to your website : http://bloggerways.blogspot.com/2008/01/1.html
very informative post as usual… i think i’m gonna try the Headline animator in my site since that is the only thing missing there. the story is very inspirational for new bloggers like myself.
I can always use great tips for website traffic.
Thanks for the great tips!
very clever suggestions, but I am just getting started and I m curious about the phrase “google sandbox” sounds rather negitive, can any one explain this one to me?
one way to get hits is build up a myspace network and post bullitens to your site or post a question on yahoo answers and link to your site
Is there anyone that can properly show me how to include trackback for my Blogcast. I use the software called Quick Blogcast.
Thanks
Here is my link:
http://allfreemac.com
i’m just starting out and appreciate any tips to help drive mail to http://www.deephill.com.au.
Thxs for the helpful hints. Hopefully it will help with building up my new site: http://www.assetplay.net
Thanks for the tips. 1 and 3 i have understood. Please clarify more of the no. 2 point. this will be helpfull. Thanks again
Thanks mate. Will try to do the same.
http://www.nela.in/
“…for the first few months my traffic was really low – down in the few hundreds of visitors a day”
Few hundreds?? I would love to be in that position! I really need to read the rest of your posts about how to even get to that stage!
Great blog
A
I am runing Agranews website about india news, latest & updated political, cultural, tourism, agra, cinema, sports indian news online.
http://www.agranews.com
Now site is getting good traffic from India and better google PR.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us, hopefully you techniques can work for me.too.
hey excellent tips! Helped me to recheck some areas I may be neglecting. thanks!
Holy cow, you get more comments then I get traffic!
Thanks for the tips. I’ll apply them.
Also for high ranking position i suggest try web and rank solution.
Thanks for the tips, mate. We’ll try to implement your strategies to address our clients
Great Info on traffic building.
Hey, probloggler and guys, please could you kindly state how to tag in technocrati?
I wanna tag
http://tobimichigan.com
I’d be glad to hear from you folks.
Regards,
TM
My site Agranews is more and more popular now. If you are
looking web traffic from India , You can link with my site
http://www.agranews.com , I am sure you will get many
visters from India.
best wishes
Rajeev
http://www.agranews.com
I am looking to understand the full breadth of Technorati tagging as well. Help please!!
As far as trackbacks go, it’s my understanding that you use a trackback only when you mention someone else’s post in yours. Is there another way to use them?
I greatly appreciate any help that anyone can offer me.
Thanks guys!
Trackbacks – pshht, first I should probably start commenting on all the articles I read. Then I can move to trackbacks. Just thinking of all the articles I’ve read and not commented on makes me ill…
I found this page through del.icio.us and thought I’d post a comment too.
Thanks for the traffic tips. They sure help.
I found this page under a search of website traffic blog. Nicely done. I am curious about the feedburner. I am going to try it.