1. Comment on other weblogs – Look for other blogs in your field and subscribe to their rss feed or get on their subscriber list. When they produce a new article, write a related comment … some weblogs list the first comments first and other put fresh comments at the top. Look for blogs that maintain the oldest comments listed first and make sure to post as soon as you can with a hyperlink so that anyone who views the article will see your comment and your link.

2. Ping your posts – Send a ping to the main ping services to let them take into account that you have composed a new article, each time you up-date your blog. Ping services notify Bing and other search engines that you have a new web blog post.

3. Use trackbacks – The majority of blog masters do not know how to use trackbacks. And much more don’t know what a trackback is. But trackbacks are very essential for driving free traffic to your blog site . Understand what trackbacks are and use them when you write.

4. Use blog site  directories – Get your web blog listed in popular web blog directories. Search Google for “blog directories” and get a full list to submit to.

5. Post in forums – Find forums in your market or niche and post there several times per 7 days. This will drive guaranteed traffic to your blog website.

6. Electronic mail subscription form – Add an e mail subscription form to your blog and start creating a emailing list and a specific following.

7. Submit to rss directories  – Each and every blog site has an rss feed and you can submit this rss feed to rss directories this will generate traffic to your blog site when persons search these directories to find rss feeds on their subjects to follow.

8. Write summary/review articles – We talked over using trackbacks above … 1 strategy involving trackbacks is to especially compose an article summarizing a post on the other blogging site that you want a url from. And include a trackback to that article so that you automatically get a back-link from the web site you want linking to you

9. Allow trackbacks and comments – Enable people to post comments and trackbacks on your blog … this may require that you do some moderation to ensure you are not letting persons post junk. But enabling people to share with you will make your blog more popular.  If you do not permit blog comments and trackbacks other bloggers will simply not include you in the dialogue.

10. Favorite Icon – Seems simple enough but a lot of blog don’t have one. Using a favicon.ico and a logo is the simplest approach to brand yourself and stand out in a crowd.

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