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How to build traffic to your website or blog.
Every blogger dream that people come and read their blog. But this is not possible. Still some blog are able to catch people attention. How they are able to do so. I am going to write some of the tips, I follow.
No method is perfect unless your blog is the best in the market. For that you have to write something that everyone wants to read. Well not everyone can be Super Blogger but you can build a steady traffic to you website. This is how you can do.
The Key Word: The first thing is your content of the blog and tag words or key word. When ever you write something about your blog, always remember to tag your key word from your blog. For example, when you write about your trip to
Meta-Tag: When you have your blog designed, add few meta-tag in the HTML. Chose those meta-tag word which explain your blog. For example, I write about random thoughts, so I will few world which describe my blog subject in the meta tag. If you use blogger, you can add meta-tag yourself. Click here to see how you can add meta-tag in your blog.
Yahoo! Answers, Google Groups, Craigslist, are good place to post about your website. For example, ask and answer question on yahoo and mention your blog. You can do the same with Google group.
Submit a story to Digg that links to an article on your site.
Post your blog on Twitter. If you don’t have a follower, build follower and follow other. This way you can share you blog to a wider section.
Link to other blogs from your blog. Many bloggers also track who is linking to them or where their traffic comes from, so linking to them is an easy way to get noticed by some of them.
Technorati is another good place to tag your blog
List your blog at best blog directories.
Search SEO on google and you can find a lot of resources on how to increase traffic for your blog.
Steps to consider before you start for your web-design
1. Get Advice before you step out
The foremost important thing before you venture out in any particular business is full assessment of the business. Do not rush into things, you hear from the first person about building website. He may be right but you have to do the research before you settle down for someone. Research and talk to as many people as possible.
2. Define your objective for Website
Define you objective for the website you want to develop. Who are your target audience? What you are trying to sell or what kind of service you are thinking to offer? Set a clear goal for yourself and for the website development team. Discuss with your team about your objective and see how they can help you. Remember it’s always good to have positive feedback from your team who will be developing your website. List your objective like 20% more sale or 20% more reader to your website.
3. Write a project Detail
Write in detail about your project. Writing project detail can help you save time and keep your goal. If you are individual or a company, writing always helps keep focused in long term.
4. Looking for Potential Web Developer individual or company
In the world of internet, your web development can be done from any part of the world. The only thing you should worry about is the price and quality of the work. In most of the developing countries you can get good quality at decent cost value. Make sure you sign a Non-Discloser Agreement with vendor. This is very important.
There are few website such as www.guru.com, www.rentacoder.com where you can find possible vendor for your web development.
5. Selecting your preferred Vendor
Selecting your preferred vendor is as important as selecting or conceiving your project. You have to find the right team to do your job as you have initially thought about it. Right vendor will not only able to do the job but will also help you to improve upon it. After all a right vendor will think that you will retain them for future work. Build your relationship with vendor.
6. Agree to specification and work plan
Once you have selected a preferred vendor, make sure that you stick with the specification and work plan. We have seen that many times, we go off the plan or there is escalation in the work and budget. If you have a limited budget, make sure that your vendor stick with the work plan. If you have to sign a agreement with vendor, sign before you start working on the project You can find lot of resource on the web for the language.
7. Monitor your work
When you start working on your project, you should set a timeline for the entire project. May be you have set one month or three month for the entire project to go live. Monitor your work all the time.
8. Maintain and develop your site
Once you develop your website, it is important to keep it update with latest information. Make sure that you update it regularly. If you are not a webmaster for your website, it is good idea to have someone who can look at the website from time to time.
I am new to the blogging community. I just joined for the sake of friend who would keep pestering me about their blogsite and its content. They would force me to go and visit their blogsite once in awhile (I agree, I never told them that they forced me, otherwise I would have been crucified the next day, may be my boss would have fired me when he would come to know that I don’t visit his blog site regularly). Ok enough of anecdote and I want to confess that once I started writing my own Blogs on Random topic, I have started enjoying it. So what the next phase of the Blog. That brings me to the next topic.
What should I write so that I can enjoy and my unknown reader enjoy too. Would I be interested in writing about war and my reader would be craving for peace. Well I can write about war but it will only me who will be reading the blog (rest assured, they will be ditching me next moment). So this brings us to a very important thing. The content of the blog. In my view, content is the most important thing to keep the reader coming back to you. Remember watch LOTR over and over again because the content of the moving and story telling was most fascinating. Other example I can give you is about Harry Potter book. Why do people stand in long queue so that they can grab first peace of the book? It’s the content of the material. So number 1 goes to the content of the blog.
Virtually you have to write something that interest most of the targeted audience. Your audience may range from 10-year kid to 80-year grandpa. So you have to keep their interest in your blog alive. Another thing about content is that you have to worry about time-frame. Why Shakespeare is still read in 21st or 22nd century? What ever he wrote is timeless. His content surpasses time-frame with ease. I don’t want to say that everyone become Shakespeare (or they could if they had the capabilities), but what I am trying to say is that write something which can be still relevant say 30 year from now (when I am 70 year old, if I am alive).
The second most important criteria is the original content. In the world of electronic media, it is very easy to copy from somewhere and put things in your or mine blog. As a starter, it sounds very easy and may be you will be able to bring some reader to your blog. But if you look within self, I am sure you will know the answer. I am not even going to there to answer for you but many of us can do it. If you like someone content, copy the main idea, paraphrase them and write on your blog with a definitely reference to the original source. Remember writing master theses in school and mentioning reference for their work.
So write something of your idea. Let me honest with you, even this article, the one you are reading write know is not my idea, I searched on the google how to build traffic for blog, read a lot about them, but I was never happy or content with their entire thing, so I decided to write my own ethic code. I call these as ethic code. Now coming back to topic, what should I write about? Almost everything is written by someone. Nothing is left for me. How should I do? Let me tell you that there are many things you can still write about. Perhaps try to write your experience reading Harry Potter or following someone on twitter or better you can write about how you lost money listening to someone on CNBC (I won’t name him as he is more famous than me). So virtually the list is endless and you will be winner one day. So the number 2 position goes to content of the blog.
Understand that your readers are just like you and me. I was not a good reader in school and I used bunk the class or just dozed in the last bench. Now the role has reversed, you are the book and your readers are student. So what you are going to write that your readers don’t fall off or go away to some other green pasture. Write something which interests your targeted audience. Don’t treat you audience like a computer machine or a scanner. Treat them as human and you will be reward. Sometime follow some unconventional method of telling things to your reader. May be follow your heart to tell what you think about something. No one is going to come and kill you. Just mention at the bottom of the blog that this is your thought and no one should get influenced by it (just to cover your skin). Have a feeling in your word. Write few and small but write something which make your reader to come again and again to your blog to see what happened next. May be try to write a story online. But the bottom line is that your reader should be able to associate with you.
The thing I have always looked at someone blog is to try find out who is the person behind those words. Try to keep your reader informed about who you are and why you like writing blog and what are you trying to do with your blog (Are you trying to change the world or are you trying to make career by writing blog. The fans or the blog reader are your real customer. So try to be clean with your customer. Tell them a short story about yourself, who you are, what you do and what are things that interest you. It’s always good to know about someone whom I like to read. I try to associate myself with the author as much as possible so that I can get a sense of belongingness.
There are two type of blog, one is professional and the other is personal. If you have read this thing, what do you feel about it? Definitely it is not professional blog, it is more of personal. Even most the sentence structured would be not able to pass the word processing of correct English. So who cares? I write with my heart out. So if my readers like it, he will ask me to keep this thing like this. So take your plunge and start pouring in your thoughts and let me know. Post your blogsite the comment section and I will come and read it. Or better email me.
(Note: Technical side I will post too)
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