How to build traffic to your website or blog.

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 Florida, your key word would be florida, trip, vacation, Disney, etc.

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.

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8 Step to consider for web design

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.

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