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To get on the map you need unique, quality content for your blog. Once you have this, here are a few tips on getting traffic into your blog:
1. Submit your URL to blog directories. Do this manually and over a period of weeks as gaining 1,000 links per day looks spammy to the search engines. Look at Robin Good's 'Top 55' list for directories to submit to.
2. Submit some of your best articles to delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and other social media sites. Add their buttons to your web pages. Build up friends on these sites. But don't overdo it.
3. Issue a press release. Distribute via the press release sites, and look out for ones that allow you to link back to your site using anchor text (aka link text - say something meaningful rather than 'click here'; be descriptive in links and your headlines).
4. Brush up on your SEO skills. All good writers working online should know a thing or two about Google. The way you write is very important. It is also essential to think about how people might search for articles like the ones you create. The more you learn about this, the better you will do.
5. Apply to news aggregators like Google News, Yahoo News, and NewsNow. Getting your articles into these aggregators will depend on the quality and frequency of your posts, but is an excellent way to boost traffic.
1. Submit your URL to blog directories. Do this manually and over a period of weeks as gaining 1,000 links per day looks spammy to the search engines. Look at Robin Good's 'Top 55' list for directories to submit to.
2. Submit some of your best articles to delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and other social media sites. Add their buttons to your web pages. Build up friends on these sites. But don't overdo it.
3. Issue a press release. Distribute via the press release sites, and look out for ones that allow you to link back to your site using anchor text (aka link text - say something meaningful rather than 'click here'; be descriptive in links and your headlines).
4. Brush up on your SEO skills. All good writers working online should know a thing or two about Google. The way you write is very important. It is also essential to think about how people might search for articles like the ones you create. The more you learn about this, the better you will do.
5. Apply to news aggregators like Google News, Yahoo News, and NewsNow. Getting your articles into these aggregators will depend on the quality and frequency of your posts, but is an excellent way to boost traffic.
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