subject: Attract Traffic To Your Online Business Blog With These 3 Methods [print this page] If you have an online business blog and you are posting to it regularly, it will not take too long before you become disheartened if no one comes by to read what you have spent hours writing about. Don't be discouraged just yet there are steps you can take to improve the situation and we will talk about them here.
The three steps are tagging, book-marking and pinging and they are pretty simple to follow. If you make it a habit to add them to your routine every time you make a post you will see a marked improvement in the amount of traffic your blog will start to generate.
1. Tagging:
Make it a habit to add tag words to every post you make. These are just basic keyword terms that will make it easier for readers to find your blog post on social book-marking websites. It also makes it easier for the search engines which will help in getting your blog indexed and ranked.
If you don't understand why tags are important, check out some of the social book-marking sites and you will see why they are necessary.
2. Pinging:
What happens when you ping your blog is that a signal will go out from your blog to a blog tracking service letting it know that you have added some new content. The tracking service will then crawl your blog looking for the new content and this will then be added to the blog tracking site. At the same time it will notify any subscribers that new content has been posted.
It would be worthwhile to get into the habit of pinging whenever you add new information to your online business blog. It is simple to do and an easy way to get extra exposure and traffic to view your online business opportunities. If you have a Wordpress blog then pinging is done automatically for you with every new post.
Pinging helps tremendously in getting your blog indexed by the search engines, as they will feed off the information that these blog tracking sites provide.
3. Social Book-marking:
There are hundreds if not thousands of social book-marking sites on the internet, sites such as; Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon and Reddit to name just a few.
You would need to join the ones that you would like to send your posts to, and this is really a simple process. Once you have joined some of these social book-marking sites you will then be able to notify them whenever you post fresh content to your blog and there is an easy method to do this. Most of the blog platforms today will allow you to add a button widget for the various social networking sites and you can then just click on that link and submit the notification that there is new content on your blog.
By following these three steps the chance of getting your posts seen on the internet and attracting targeted traffic to your online business blog will become a reality, and the more traffic you generate the greater your likelihood of success.
