by Jen Edwards

Created on: June 24, 2008   Last Updated: April 16, 2009

Ten Simple Ways To Drive Traffic

This post isn't about being stuck in rush hour traffic, you're late for your daughter's lesson for the tenth time, and you need to move all the cars, buses, and trucks out of the way, ahead of you. An answer to that scenario... I'd say you are, "S@!t, out of luck!" However, I received a question yesterday about "having difficulty driving traffic to my site...any suggestions?" Well, I have been learning to do the very same thing so I'll share with you what I have found out so far...

1- Update your blog as much as possible with as much content as possible. 2- If you can't post every day, it is recommended to have a RSS feed with wp-o-matic (for full content to be posted not just a title or snippet. I recommend you also write your own content and use this in addition to your own info. offered ) 3- Design your blog for SEO: a) put Adsense on it or other ads b) make your title match the name of your blog (remember search engines love consistency) like title of blog "Kids' Keys To Success" so a title of a post would be something like "
Interviews with Kids' Keys To Success". And then you should mention your title of your blog at least twice in the body of the post. c) Make as many links to your site as possible with other sites and blogs i.e. (blog roll) d) us your tag clouds or keywords for your posts (this will make your key words jump out for the search engines) e) Have others comment to your posts. This makes more links to your blog for the search engine to pick up. f) As it is now, search engines don't love flash graphics, try to stay away from them. g) Use photos, videos and audios on your blogs and sites because it captures your visitors for a longer period of time (they tend to stay on your site longer).
4- Write a press release and submit with links back your sites. 5- Write articles and submit so that other people will post on their sites linking it back to your blog or sites 6- Adhere to the "golden rule" 7- Do jv (joint venture) with others who have a bigger "targeted list" already built (go to work with another person who has a list the same size as yours and then endorse each others productsit doubles the size of the "target audience for both of you!) 8- Go to www.pingoat.com and submit your blog to a bunch of services for free. 9- Check out Blogosphere (a black box on the front page of my blog, http://www.kidskeystosuccess.com/blog) Man is this cool! 10- Oh, How could I forget?... go to http://www.kidskeystosuccess.com/forum and register! These are just a few but it will get you started. Happy blogging and here's to flooding your blog with traffic!

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