Part 4 - 77 Ways to get more traffic to your blog for FREE



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Traffic tip #31


Attract new audiences with your own podcasts.

A podcast is a sort of audio blog, distributed via RSS. The audio files can be downloaded to iPods or any computer or MP3 player.

People can subscribe to your broadcasts via RSS feeds and automatically receive them.

If you create your own informative, useful podcasts, you can reach a whole new audience.

You'll need to get your podcasts listed in podcast directories such as Podcast.net. Make sure you use an eye-catching title for people scanning the directories.

Large, popular directories of podcasts can be found at Feedburner.com and Apple's iTunes Music Store.


Traffic tip #32


Use reliable web hosting.

Use a good reliable web host. If your Blog is down when Google's robot comes visiting, your Blog is likely to disappear from the index. Many really "cheap" web hosts can end up being very expensive.


Traffic tip #33


Analyze and tweak your internal linking.

Consider how your pages are linked. Changing your linking structure can increase or decrease a page's PageRank, which can give you a little boost in search engine rankings on your most important pages.

There's a logical, sensible reason for doing this. You WANT more links to your important, income-generating pages and fewer links to obscure pages.

Some webmasters use rel="nofollow" tags on links to certain pages, reducing PageRank flow to those pages. To me, this seems risky - surely Google would regard it as behavior aimed directly at search engines, not humans.

You could play around for hours testing various linking structures with Mark Horrell's free PageRank Calculator.


Traffic tip #34


Chase new fads and hot topics.

Some affiliates monitor popular TV programs and news items. When a hot topic catches their eye, as fast as they can, they create a new web page, a new blog or new Blog discussing the new product or new fad.

These fast-moving affiliates are the ones who get to capture the early rush of traffic.

Traffic tip #35


Chase new affiliate programs.

Monitor new affiliate programs and quickly create a new post, new blog to cover the new topic.


Traffic tip #36


Find new topics in your logs - and where your traffic is coming from.
Study your referral logs to see what phrases people are typing into search engines.

SEO specialist Brett Tabke says: "If your Blog is about 'oranges', but your referrals are all about 'orange citrus fruit', then you can get busy building articles around 'citrus' and 'fruit' instead of the generic 'oranges'".

Here's another reason you MUST have a decent tool to show you your traffic stats. You need to know where your traffic is coming from.
You need to know which of your many traffic generating experiments are most effective. Then you'll know where to allocate your time and energy - on the winners.

If you're comfortable with letting Google know just about everything about your Blog, you can also use Google Analytics, which is also free.


Traffic tip #37


Join business associations which list members' Blogs online.

There may be business associations in your niche which publish members' Blogs online. It's worth checking.

Traffic tip #38 

Add a forum to your Blog.

A forum has big advantages and big disadvantages.

A popular forum can attract a large number of repeat visitors to your Blog. It can enhance your credibility as an expert.

A forum can also involve a great deal of work. Before you decide to launch one, carefully consider who will moderate it, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Who will remove the spam? Will you have three moderators working in different time zones around the planet?

If you are going to moderate the forum yourself, who will take over when you want a few days off?


Traffic tip #39


Write free reports or white papers.

Write a free ebook or free report (you can use free Open Office software to create one in PDF format), and ask other Blog owners and newsletter publishers to give it away.


Traffic tip #40

Write brandable reports.

Write a report and allow other affiliates to put THEIR affiliate links in it and give it way. What you need is a nice win-win arrangement.

Here's an article describing how to do it: Brandable-ebooks.




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