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4 METHODS FOR CREATING NON-VIRAL TRAFFIC Method #6: Blogging This is a term I’m sure you’re all familiar with. I’m confident that you’ve visited at least one blog in your internet lifetime. They are very popular sites; anybody with any kind of interest in any topic has usually created at least one blog on that topic. It’s hard to find a niche that doesn’t have a blog associated with it. It’s a very popular style of Web site, and one of the reasons they are so popular is the content on blogs is fresh; they tend to get updated very frequently. We want to take advantage of the popularity of blogging in order to drive viral traffic to our revenuegenerating sites. Let’s take a closer look and see what’s involved. As we just mentioned, blogging can generate an awful lot of traffic, but they can be a lot of work. Again, the reason that the blogs can generate the traffic that they do is because of the freshness of the content, so in order to keep the content fresh you have to keep writing content. If people visit a Web site or a blog that doesn’t have some fresh content on it, they’re quickly going to find other sites to visit, so keep that in mind. Because of this, we want to find something that we enjoy writing about because we’re going to be doing a fair amount of writing. It is a lot easier to write on a topic that you actually enjoy reading about. You’re going to be doing a lot of research so it pays to write about something that you enjoy. We’re looking at about three to five articles per week, at least; obviously the more, the better. One of the benefits of establishing a blog is they get picked up by RSS aggregators; RSS stands for Really updates on all of their favorite blog sites. You, as the blog author, register your blog with these aggregator sites; they will send out alert messages to all your subscribers saying that new content has arrived, and they in turn will come and visit your site. One of the best ways to bring new visitors to your blog is by posting on other blogs and related forums. As I mentioned earlier, it’s difficult to find a niche or a topic that doesn’t have at least one blog already associated with it. There are going to be, in most cases, hundreds if not thousands of blogs on any given topic. And along with blogs are the other kind of popular sites, called ‘forums’. These are places where people can post messages and respond in threads and that sort of thing. If you can find other blogs and forums that are related to the same topic that you’re writing about, then drop in and contribute to those blogs and forums. Leave a link to your blog in your signature or in the post itself. It’s important to remember that spam is pretty easy to spot on these forums and blogs, so when you’re out there make sure that you post something insightful and useful to the community; it benefits you in the long run because you soon become recognized as an established member, and it all comes back to that topic we spoke about earlier - trust. If they trust what you’re writing they’re going to be more likely to visit the links that you’re offering, which are going to be links to your revenue-generating sites. If you make a comment about a different blog on your blog, this is called a trackback. How this works is that the other blog will get a note saying that you talked about their site on your blog, and in most cases they’ll return the favor and include a link back to your blog. You’re getting twice as many eyeballs for very little effort. The nice thing about blogging, again, is that it’s completely free. There are many free blog sites available, including blogger.com and wordpress.com. A lot of people blog professionally as their sole method of income. They find that not only does it drive traffic to other sites that they have in their network, but the blogs themselves generate great revenue from ads, affiliate links, and so on. It’s nice to make an impressive living just by writing about things that they enjoy. If you get to that level you might want to look into getting your own domain name. The thing about http://traffic-for-websites.beststrategiesforwealth.com/


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