21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic (Updated 2012) It's easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic.
Over the years, we've grown the Moz blog to nearly a million visits each month and helped lots of other blogs, too. I launched a personal blog late last year and was amazed to see how quickly it gained thousands of visits to each post. There's an art to increasing a blog's traffic, and given that we seem to have stumbled on some of that knowledge, I felt it compulsory to give back by sharing what we've observed. NOTE: This post replaces a popular one I wrote on the same topic in 2007. This post is intended to be useful to all forms of bloggers - independent folks, those seeking to monetize, and marketing professionals working an in-house blog from tiny startups to huge companies. The Blogger's Guide to SEO - by Aaron & Giovanna Wall. 25 Great Blogger Widgets. Many people think that Blogger lacks in all of the extra goodies you can add to other platforms like WordPress, but it simply isn't true.
By using widgets you can customize your blog as much as you like by just adding little snippets of code to the sidebars. Allow users to talk to you via IM, see what your most popular posts are, or even read news from sites such as Mashable. With these 25 widgets, you can create an even more powerful way of communicating with your visitors, just make sure you don't overload them with too many! 50 Great Widgets For Your Blog. Widgets are a handy, easy and simple way to add some flare to your blog.
Whether you'd like to display the number of currently online visitors to your site or simply the weather report for Los Angeles, you can do it with widgets. We've assembled a list of 50 useful or simply cool widgets for your pleasure. And remember, the first rule of widgetizing your blog is - don't overdo it! MyBlogLog's Recent Readers - this widget can easily be called a hit amongst blog owners; its popularity even managed to convince Yahoo into buying MyBlogLog. The widget lets you see the avatars of recent visitors to your blog, provided they're also members of MyBlogLog.
Mashable - get the latest social networking news from this very site. 20+ Useful Blogger Widgets and Hacks. Blogger is a great free blog platform that is improving every day.
New useful hacks and widgets are being created on a regular basis. Here is a list of some of the very best blogger widgets and blogger hacks that will improve the usability of your blog. Bloggity Blog – An It’s Only Fashion PSA. Posted by Gidge Uriza It never fails to amaze me the really talented creators I will hear say things like “I don’t know how to get my things blogged” or “I’m too shy to send review copies, what if they don’t like me?”
And then there are the dramanistas stirring it up with the whining about who gets blogged and how often and how person X NEVER GETS BLOGGED WAAAAAAAAAAAH. Seriously, when I see this – my thought is “Wow, you seem to have a lot of time on your hands, why don’t you help your friend out with some PR work promoting them to bloggers?” IOF PSA: Marketing 201 for Creators. So your store is up and running.
We can find your store from search and from your profile. Now it’s time to get the word out. In-World Marketing Groups: I am a group-a-phobe and have no real expertise on in-world groups for marketing, but that’s okay. Harper Beresford is. She did a great summary on in-world groups for the Fashion Forum at Second Life Community Forums. Group Notices: Whether you form an in-world group or use a group subscriber system, I think the key to group notices is that they must be effective and popular representatives of your store. In-World Groups: They are cheaper than subscriber management systems. Marketplace: I am no expert on Marketplace and I hear tales of woe about how confusing it is, but seriously, dude, get your stuff on Marketplace. Second Life has lots of information about setting up your Marketplace storefront, learn how to do it and open your real satellite store.
IOF PSA: Marketing 101 for Creators. Kevin Costner has a lot to answer for.
I know that “If you build it, they will come.” sounds lovely and all, but if you build it, they won’t come unless you tell them what you built and where to find it. Who you are, what you built and where to find it – the essentials of marketing in Second Life. That’s not hard, but sadly many creators spend so much time and energy on their creations, they forget to market them. I am writing this from the shoppers’ perspective and know that you may have other ideas.