A blog isn’t going to do much good if it just exists without anyone ever reading it. You may have the best looking and well put together blog ever created but you still have to do a little work to get traffic. Traffic has a way of snowballing once you get it started so put the work in now and then it will only take occasional efforts to keep the traffic coming. There are 5 tactics to increase blog traffic;

Twitter: If you don’t already have an account you should get one. Once you start using twitter, don’t jump right in with the “read my blog” tweets. Retweet other people and seek out people who may be interested in your blog. Post other websites that offer good information. Then, after you have been on twitter for a while, direct people to your blog. Interaction between the advertisements is critical for survival on twitter but it can bring you tons of traffic.

Forums: Join some forums related to your blog. Do nothing at first (except add a link to your blog on your forum “signature”, but occasionally join in some threads and topics. Again, once you have made your presence known, slip a link to your blog in one of the posts you make. Add the post casually such as “…and here is a blog where you might find more information”..Once they get to know your name and become interested in your niche, they will be more apt to follow a link you put up. Continue to read this article »

Just in case you have never heard of twitter; it is a social media site that instantaneously took off and gained popularity from the first “tweet”. You can choose to follow people (and hope that they follow you back) by searching by keywords. For instance, an internet marketer would probably search for friends by finding those who have tweeted about internet marketing or working at home, or something similar. It’s very addictive and many people have more than one account. One account is usually used for business and the other for friends and family.

With the many twitter applications available you can basically zoom in on your target customers or readers just by getting to know your way around. Remember that others are searching based on keywords as well so the more you tweet your “keywords” the more interested people you will likely get who want to follow you. However, being a social site there are some spoken and unspoken rules in the community. If you want the number of followers (hence, more traffic) then you must interact within the community. Here are some ways twitter can help you drive targeted traffic to your website. Continue to read this article »

When browsing the internet for information, you will often find yourself drowning in a sea of articles discussing on the same topics. Sometimes you just don’t know which to click and yet you don’t want to waste your time opening a link that will not give you what you need.

As a researcher, I have experienced being bombarded with the same dilemma. To resolve this, what I usually do is choose the titles that seem to be well thought out and completely ignore the ones that fail to get my attention. God knows I made the right decision! The better titles are indeed the ones that lead me to the contents that I wanted. When I tried to check the dull ones, I did found the articles lacking in substance. Continue to read this article »

Oftentimes, readers would just scroll down the mouse wheel to get pass through the latter part of an article. They often think that the section where they get to see author’s information and links doesn’t seem to have any importance in their research. Well, the reason for the wrong notion could be some article they’ve read that seemed to have wasted their time with advertisements and sales pitches.

Although it may be true that the ulterior motive of article marketing is to sell by means of providing contents, the main goal of an author is still to provide reliable information. The body of the article will do just that while the resource box (the author’s section) is the space allotted for a call to action. Nonetheless, you still have to write it in a very subtle way that it may seem as if it flows naturally from the contents. Also, the resource box should not dominate the whole article. You should limit the word count to 15% of its total size.

What to Include in the Resource Box

Name. Isn’t it a wonder that many authors still forget to give their names in the resource box? If there is a space for you to promote yourself, here it is. When you write an article, you only get to see your name on the byline and on the resource box. Some authors would say that they are not selling themselves anyway and that what they need to focus on is the product. That is so wrong. When you sell a product, you should also sell yourself to the readers simply because you have to gain their trust before you can get them to buy from you. If you frequently provide exceptional articles under the same byline, eventually, readers will remember who you are and how helpful you were. That reputation cannot be bought by money but you can earn a lot out of it. Continue to read this article »

Hi, i am Ali Hussain. A young 17-year old part webmaster, part webdesigner. I love blogging and sharing. I started Techuse for Internet Geeks all around the World Wide Web

Do you like to get the latest updates and news? Do you use services like Digg and StumbleUpon for submitting your information? Well, if you like to read breaking stories on major news to viral videos on personal blogs, Yahoo! Buzz is a great place to start. Instead of editors, people like you submit the stories and buzz up the best ones.

Like many of the other social networking and content sites (e.g. Delicious, Digg, Propeller, Reddit, and StumbleUpon) Yahoo! Buzz allows you to vote up or down an article based on if you like it or not, but they take this concept one step further. Their rankings take three things into account. Continue to read this article »

Websites are great, but without traffic, they are pretty useless. With millions of websites out there, and hundreds of thousands of new ones created each and every day, it gets pretty competitive. If you own a website and are looking for ways to promote it, check out the tips below.

1. Yahoo! Answers.

Yahoo! Answers is a great way to promote your website. No matter what your niche is, you can find questions to answer. For those unfamiliar with Yahoo! Answers, it’s pretty simple. Users ask questions, and for the next few days (usually 5 days), anyone can answer that question. Yahoo! allows links within the answers, as long as it’s not spam. So, just search for some questions, and answer them wholly and completely, leaving a link to your site at the bottom. It is important to answer the questions well, because after the 5 days are up, the question asker chooses a “best answer”. That best answer is displayed above all the other answers, and therefore receives more views.

2. Social Bookmarking Sites.

Social bookmarking sites are a great way to promote your website. Sites like Digg, Technorati, etc, take the days “news”, and allow users to vote on it. You can submit an article, or an entire site, and if the Digg users like it, then they will vote for it. The more people vote, the higher your site goes, bringing more traffic. Digg can also help with general SEO as it is essentially free links to your site. Digg is great for a quick traffic boost, and can often bring hundreds, even thousands of visitors to your site in a day. Continue to read this article »