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Blogging to Generate Web Site Traffic
By Aiden | Tuesday
Posting comments on other people’s blog is a great way to generate and increase traffic to your web site. We previously talked about creating your own blog. As you remember, one advantage of a blog over a static site is that a blog is interactive. Your readers can write their comments about your posts, adding more to the content of your blog, keeping it “fresh.” That in itself will keep the search engines happy and they’ll visit your blog more often, increasing your blog’s ranking and ultimately bringing your site more free traffic.
Since other people post comments on your blog, you can do the same on other blogs. You should first find blogs that are in the same niche as yours or general interest blogs, read a few of the most recent posts, and then add your comments. Most blogs will allow you to include the URL of your site on your comments. This is how you get more traffic to your website. First, through direct clicks from the readers of the blogs you posted your comments on, and second, by posting your URL on other blogs you create back links to your site which will in time increase your web site traffic.
Your comment should add value to the posts. Don’t just write something like “great and informative post.” If the blog is moderated, you comment will most likely not be posted, or it will be soon deleted once the owner reads it. They will know that you were just commenting to get a back link to your site and generate traffic. It’s considered spamming. So you should elaborate on why you believe it’s a great an informative post. Maybe you can also include some of your own experiences in your comments.
A couple more things are worth mentioning regarding posting comments on other blogs as a traffic generating technique. The first one is that you should create a relevant text link to your site, containing your main keyword. For example, your name is Andy and you have a web site about golfing, you can type something like “Andy’s Golfing Tips” as your name instead of just “Andy.”
The second thing is that preferably you should find blogs that don’t place a “no follow tag” (which instructs the search engines not to follow the link to your site hence, ignoring the back link). In other word, a “no follow tag” prevents your site from getting credit from the search engines for the back link. So all you get is direct traffic from readers of that blog if they click on your links. There is a great software that helps you search for blogs in your niche that don’t have the “no follow tag.” It’s called Comment Kahuna which is free to download and is a powerful tool to help you increase traffic to your website.
I was gonna write more but it’s past my bedtime and I’m really sleepy (yawn) so I’ll talk to you some other time. In the mean time, have fun driving traffic to your web site.
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