subject: Blogging Espionage - Some Blog Promotion Tactics [print this page] Publishing a website is getting easier and cheaper these days. You can get cheap domain name with affordable web hosting service for less than $100 per year. If you are not a serious blogger yet, you can simply publish a blog for free with Blogger, Live Journal or Wordpress.
However, traffic is not something that you can obtain easily. Whether you run a free forum website, a blog, an e-commerce site or an affiliate website, you will need traffic everyday. You want people to read your blog post, participate actively in your forum or perhaps buy something from your website.
If you run a business on the internet, it is not that easy to obtain buyers these days. There are lots of marketers and companies start their own websites today on the internet to cut advertising cost. Which means, you will have to compete against them for high search engine ranking and massive buyer traffic.
However, if you provides freebies in your website and want to attract visitors, getting lots of traffic on the internet is easy. In fact, there are lots of social media sites and search engines that you can utilize to gain more blog readers and site visitors.
1. Use Facebook for traffic.
Based on research by Alexa, Facebook website is the second most popular destination after Google. Which means, if you don't use Facebook, you will lose lots of traffic. However, if you are selling products or run an e-commerce website, Facebook shouldn't be your primary traffic source since the traffic is not targeted, unlike Google traffic.
On the other hand, for bloggers, you can get more readers by using this network. Promoting your blog would be a fun activity here thanks to lots of application provided.
You can use certain application like blogs, forums and perhaps include great videos from Youtube to attract more visitors. You can also add other people as your friends and build a huge network.
2. Search engine optimization.
On the internet, people are looking for information and they depend heavily on search engines like Youtube, Google or Bing. If you want to connect your website, products or services with the right audience, you need to focus on search engine traffic. The key to generate lots of traffic with search engines is relevancy. As long as you publish relevant content in the website, search engines will send you decent amount of traffic everyday.
You should also consider building a few backlinks to your domain name. Search engines will count backlink these days to rank between two or more relevant websites. You can obtain quality backlinks by posting articles to directories or other blogs.
