Blogging

Today, I will talk about generating traffic via blogs. Besides than posting on your own blogs to create a following of readership for your own blogs, you can actually leverage on other blogs, especially popular ones, to increase traffic to your web site.

How do I find blogs to post? Read on to find out:

There are plenty of ways to do this. I will list a few of them below (note that they are not exhaustive):

1. Go to www.technorati.com and find blogs to post based on the topic that you are in. Use keywords to search for relevant blogs that you wish to locate and post.

2. Go to blogsearch.google.com. As usual, enter keywords to search for relevant blogs that you wish to post to.
3. To find more blog directories to locate more blogs, go to google.com and enter “blog search” as your keywords and you will be presented with a listing of blog directories. You can then use this to find the relevant blogs that you are looking for!

You may be asking “What do you do at other people’s blogs?”. These are some of the things you can do when you find other blogs relevant to what you are doing:

1. You can learn to appreciate what other bloggers are writing or doing, and give your comments on their blogs to show your appreciation or feedback. Most of the time,  you will be asked to enter your name, email address and web site address. Assuming that your comments are not moderated by the blog owners, your approved comments will appear on their blogs and this gives your web site some online exposure. Imagine your comments are appearing on a very popular blog, how do you think you will benefit from their traffic?

2. If you like something that you saw on a blog, you may post some good resources in return to share with the blog owners and their community, or even your own contents that you have produced if you sincerely and honestly believe that it will be of benefit to other people as well. In my own experience, I posted a special e-report online to share with many blog owners and it was downloaded by many people online.

3. You can ask for a link exchange. If you find a similar blog to what you are doing, you can politely ask for a link to your web site. You can reciprocate by putting a link back to their blog. Doing this will be beneficial to both of you as this provides exposure of each other’s blog to the other party’s community.

Apply the above steps consistently. I am sure you will get more traffic to your web site.

Many newbies always wondered how to create a web site fast. My answer to them is always WordPress. The reasons are as follows:

• Wordpress is free and easy to use. It is open source software!

• It is also very easy to learn.

• WordPress is easy to install too even if you do not have any technical knowledge, especially if your web host support Fantastico or SimpleScript. With the use of  Fantastico or SimpleScript, with a few clicks of the mouse, your Wordpress blog is installed.

• To give it a new look, simply search online for a free WordPress theme, upload it onto your web host using FTP (no worries, it is very easy to do FTP), activate the theme inside your Wordpress control panel and you will have a nice looking web site or blog within minutes.

• There are a lot of other free WordPress plugins that you can download and use for your blog too to expand the functionalities of WordPress.

• There are lots of WordPress users, designers and developers all over the world. If you need any technical support for WordPress, you will have a ready community of people to reach out to.

If you are seriously considering using WordPress but need some help to start, you can try out these commercial WordPress videos from WordPressEasy.com that will help you lots of time while trying to learn WordPress. You will get many beautiful Wordpress themes and many other bonuses as part of those videos. Great value in my opinion!

Learn how to fish (create beautiful-looking web sites within minutes ), and you will never have to have someone fish for you again (never ever need to pay expensive rates to hire a web designer again).