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    Drive traffic to your blog

    You blogged last week but nobody came to read. You blogged yesterday but nobody left any comment. You blogged today but still nobody came to read and left comment.

    So what do you do to let people know that you exist?

    Here’s some tips that I can share with you:

    • Submit your blog’s URL to free search engine. Main search engines include Google, Yahoo, etc. This will increase the visibility and optimise your blog for Google search, and distributing your content across the search engines at large.
    • Social networkings. Join social networking like EntreCard, Technorati, Twitters, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, LinkedIn etc. The more the better.
    • Exchange links. Link your blogger friends’ URL on your sidebar and let them know about it. Most of them will reciprocate. But some don’t. If they don’t, please do not get upset. This is normal, it’ll take time.
    • Provide RSS Feed by e-mail. This is to let your blog readers subscribe to your blog and receive updates by e-mail.
    • Be interactive. Make friends with other bloggers and leave friendly comments in their blogs. You’ll be surprise to receive replies from them!
    • Make your blog post more interesting. Accompany your blog post with pictures. It is advisable that your post your own pictures. If you want to post other people’s pictures, make sure you get a consent first. You can use royalty-free pictures from iStockphoto but make sure you read the rules. They are basically free for personal and non-commercial use only. The watermark must be kept intact.
    • Share your post. Let people share your blog post by providing social sharing buttons (Facebook, Twitters, etc). You can also share by linking Facebook NetworkedBlogs to your blog. New updates will appear both in NetworkedBlogs page and your Facebook wall.
    • Comments. Encourage readers to comment and please respond back. Readers love it when their comments have respond. You can add subscribe by e-mail button to let readers be informed when they have a reply from you.
    • Update quality content. Search engines are always looking out for new content and when you add quality content on your blog regularly it becomes easy for them to crawl it. Your blog thus shows in the Google search results and pulls traffic automatically.
    • Throw away a giveaway. Do this once in a while, people love free gifts!! But make sure that the rules are not too hard for people to join!

    These tips are not comprehensive and I can bet you can more great tips from the experts. Try and google this keyword: How to get More Traffic to Your Blog, and you will likely to get millions of results. You can try as many tips as you like! All you need is to make time!

    Do you have your own tips? Leave me a comment or two. Or three. I don’t mind replying to all your comments. 😀