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Just like any business, if you want customers to visit your shop, the first thing you need to do is to create awareness. You have to let people know that you exist. There is no instant magic overnight. I created my blog a few years back. My first blog is Peace Starts With A Smile. Blogging was a new and hot topic then. I do not know anything about blogging. I just signed up and started a testing post.

It was a year or so later that I had decided to do something about my blog. These few years, I have been blogging. I am a blogger. The purpose of blogging is to let your blog be shown and be read. For this purpose to be successful, there must be traffic to your site. How do I generate more traffic to my blog? Here are some tips from me:

1. Go to other people's blogs, leave your sincere comments on them. When you visit people's blogs, they will visit your blog too. While leaving comments, it is good to have link exchange with various bloggers. These could be links put in blogroll of your friend's blogs or even listing your blog at Technorati! This will expose your blogs to more people slowly.

2. Update your blog as frequently as possible. Whenever you update your blog, the homepage of the site will show a list of recent posts. Your blog will be seen by more people. In addition, your frequent reader to your blog will always come back to your blog if you are committed in your blog. This is just like doing any real life business. We always like to visit business or shop who is committed in their job. One who opens on a day and close on another day would not build a good reputation.

3. List your blogs in directories or search engines. There are numerous directories online. Just like yellow pages, the purpose of directories is to help people to search for information they want. Listing your blogs widely in different directories such as Blogranker, Blogtopsites, Blogsg, etc, would expose your blogs to a wide range of people. Visit my blogs to see the various directories I have listed my blogs at. Those are just some of them. There are so many others available. If you search you will find.

4. The next step is Advertise. There are various ways to promote your blogs. Certain directories offer ways of exposing your banners to the community such as BlogExplosion. Other ways are advertising through Google or Yahoo Ads - of course there are other sources of advertisements, I am just mentioning a few.

5. Key Words are important when surfers search for information online. Ensure that your blog will be listed in the first page of the search results when surfers search for information. This is called Search Engine Optimization. If you are no good at this, you can always seek the professional companies to help you. This will increase your chances of people visiting your blog.

6. The Page Rank of your blog is important when it comes to search engine. The higher page rank your blog has, the better chances your blog will be found by search engine first.

Besides the above, provide information about your blogs whenever you go. This way, wherever you go, your blog will be known as well. So these are ways in which traffic can be generated to your blog.

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