Kokul’s World

The first thing I have to say before I give you a few ways to get more traffic is: This article does not give you quick ways into getting web traffic. All of these methods have been collected from other guides and put into one that I feel is the best combination.

So now that we have that down, I will be talking about a few ways to get more traffic. These steps may seem long, and pointless, but if you do it right and with enough patience, you can see your readership climb. This week I will talking about things you should do. Next week I will be talking about things you shouldn’t do.

Things to do

1. Write blog posts that are more focused on quality, while keeping a balance with quantity.
   This is the first key step. No one will come to your site if you don’t write good blog posts that they want to read. However, that doesn’t mean you should only write a few, so you can focus a lot more time on quality. You need to write enough blog posts in a certain period of time with the same standard of good quality to attract a large audience of visitors. Just writing one or two good quality blog posts will only snag you a handful of visitors.
    
2. Link to other blogs, and sites that are relevant in theme and subject to your blog.
   Within your blog posts, and perhaps on a separate link page, link to blogs ors that are relevant to your own. The owner of that certain blog or site may be grateful enough to link back to one of your articles. With blogs, the pingback feature or trackback feature is especially useful. If you have a Wordpress blog, and you link to another Wordpress blog through your posts, your blog will automatically ping the other blog telling it that you have linked to it. That blog will then display a small excerpt of your post in the other blog’s comment section. This is a great way to get links since people will click on your link in the comments to see what you have said about a certain blog post.
     
3. Post comments on blogs relevant to your own.
   One way to getting more visitors is to make yourself known among people who will most likely come to your site. These are the visitors who have some interest in reading your kind of blog. Commenting on well-known blogs that are relevant to your own or just commenting on any blog that is relevant to your own builds exposure for you and spreads your image over many people. Comments are a great place to get friendly with other readers, bloggers, and perhaps the blog owner him/herself. Knowing other blog owners has great advantages. They may link to you. That way, you can have a network of blogs that are sending visitors your way.
      
4. Generate a Google sitemap and submit it to Google.
   Although Google has some intelligent spiders to crawl through your site and list its pages on the Google search engine, you can make it much more efficient and more accurate if you generate a Google sitemap and submit it to Google. The sitemap will tell spiders what pages you have on your blog and crawl them, ensuring that they do not miss a single page. There is a great Wordpress plugin called the Google Sitemap Generator that you can use generate and submit Google sitemaps.
     
5. Use Technorati and Meta Tags.
   If you are a blogger, you should have definetely heard about Technorati.com. If you haven’t then head over there, create an account, and add your blog to their directory and index. Technorati is a blog search engine that is a great source of visitors who would prefer to read a blog post over a website article. This works to your advantage because they will be more familiar with blogging, so they tend to stick around more and browse through your posts.
    
   Technorati tags help classify your posts. Also, the tags help people find your post easier through the Technorati search engine as their search keywords are matched to your tags. Meta tags work in the same way; however they more general, and used by search engine spiders to classify your posts.

That’s it for this blog article. Next week I will be posting another post that will tell you what NOT to do to get traffic for your blog.