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Free Resources To Increase Your Blogs Traffic
7:31 AMO ne of the best and easiest ways to get traffic to your blog is by taking advantage of the various free resources available on line. ...
One of the best and easiest ways to get traffic to your blog is by
taking advantage of the various free resources available on line.
You buy a domain, create your blog and start putting content there to draw traffic. You are posting at least daily to get started and more often if Bumble Bee is a very competitive keyword. (Yes, I know I just picked that and have no idea if it is a competitive word. Boo hiss on me.)
Now go to Squidoo and create a lens on your topic. Add your RSS feed to your money blog in as one of the modules and make sure that use at least 20 tags. (You did keyword research before you entered this market didn’t you?)
Go to Hub Pages, create a new Hub on your topic and add your RSS feed again. Make sure that you add tags here too. (For both of these you can do a quick re-write of your content to meet the content requirements. Do not use the same content on both sites or what you posted on the money blog.)
Create a Blogger blog using your main keyword in the title you sign up with and create a short post about the great article you just found that links to a specific post on your money blog with the keyword that post was focused on as your anchor text.
At WordPress.com and MSN Live you will be doing the same basic tasks except you will link to a different post on your money blog with the corresponding anchor text.
Once a week you will want to add something to each of these sites. When you visit Squidoo you can add a module or just add a few more keywords and re-publish the lens plus the rss feed from your money blog will be constantly updated.
Hub Pages will follow the same pattern as Squidoo. I usually add a new content module every other week.
Each week you will link to a new post from each of the free blog services with the anchor text for that post.
This allows you to take 5 minutes extra a day 5 days a week and keep a constant stream of links coming into your interior pages on a regular basis.
Caveat: Your main or as I call it money blog needs to be on YOUR server and on a domain YOU own. You should be using a WordPress blog there.Now that we have gotten rid of the caveat, lets look at some of the free tools that are available.
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Squidoo – my absolute favorite
You buy a domain, create your blog and start putting content there to draw traffic. You are posting at least daily to get started and more often if Bumble Bee is a very competitive keyword. (Yes, I know I just picked that and have no idea if it is a competitive word. Boo hiss on me.)
Now go to Squidoo and create a lens on your topic. Add your RSS feed to your money blog in as one of the modules and make sure that use at least 20 tags. (You did keyword research before you entered this market didn’t you?)
Go to Hub Pages, create a new Hub on your topic and add your RSS feed again. Make sure that you add tags here too. (For both of these you can do a quick re-write of your content to meet the content requirements. Do not use the same content on both sites or what you posted on the money blog.)
Create a Blogger blog using your main keyword in the title you sign up with and create a short post about the great article you just found that links to a specific post on your money blog with the keyword that post was focused on as your anchor text.
At WordPress.com and MSN Live you will be doing the same basic tasks except you will link to a different post on your money blog with the corresponding anchor text.
Once a week you will want to add something to each of these sites. When you visit Squidoo you can add a module or just add a few more keywords and re-publish the lens plus the rss feed from your money blog will be constantly updated.
Hub Pages will follow the same pattern as Squidoo. I usually add a new content module every other week.
Each week you will link to a new post from each of the free blog services with the anchor text for that post.
This allows you to take 5 minutes extra a day 5 days a week and keep a constant stream of links coming into your interior pages on a regular basis.
Tips To Increase Website Traffic Using Squidoo
As I mentioned above, now you are clear about how to create a Squidoo Lens, and you know the benefits of Squidoo, so we should reveal the tips and tricks to know how to create the highest quality Lens possible.
Even Squidoo does not get used as much as it should, but it is a great
tool for sure. If you are going to join this social network, you will
have a lot of opportunities to create valuable lenses that have not been
created by others. For website developers or designers, creating
Squidoo lenses is an easy way to drive traffic to websites.
Getting Traffic using HubPages
When you want to direct traffic from hubpages to your site, you need to be careful. You should be able to put a link in your bio (that was possible at one time, but I haven't checked that in a long time). Your content needs to actually provide some value on hubpages, or it will not do very well and they may unpublish it. Once you have something great, you should only include one link back to your site or once again it might get pulled for being overly promotional. I don't know if this is absolutely true, but it probably would not be a good idea to have a link to your site in every single post you have on hubpages. You should create a few posts that do not link back to your site, otherwise you will start sending up spam flags.
If you have a commenting and bookmarking strategy along with this you can easily increase the traffic and ranking to your money blog quite quickly with very little extra effort.
If you have a commenting and bookmarking strategy along with this you can easily increase the traffic and ranking to your money blog quite quickly with very little extra effort.