Put Your URL On Online Profiles

Put Your URL On Online Profiles

If you are a savvy Internet user, I am sure that you have a bunch of online profiles spread all over the place. Facebook, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Twitter and so on. Sometimes we just create an account on those places because friends encourage us to, or out of sheer curiosity. Regardless of the motive, it would be cool if you could put those many profiles to work and gain some traffic out of it right?

The concept: The idea is pretty simple. List your website URL in as many online profiles as possible. Usually most social networks already offer a place where you can list your website. Even if they don’t, try to find a field where you can stick it in.

StumbleUpon for instance does not have a specific field for you to insert your website URL and share it with other users. They do have an “About Me” section though, and it accepts HTML, so just stick your link there.

Does it work?: Do not expect to crash your server with this technique. If you have many online accounts, however, combined they could end up sending you a good amount of monthly visitors. Obviously if your website is large already the effect would be hard to notice, but for new websites every small bit helps.

Secondly, the traffic that you will get from the links place on those online profiles will depend on your activity on the respective social networks. If you are very active on Digg, for example, more people will end up checking your profile, and more people will be likely to click on the link to your website.

How to get started: I would not recommend creating online profiles only to be able to place your link there afterward. This technique is fruitful if you already have dozens of profiles online and can edit them easily to include a link to your website.

20 Tips to Increase Traffic to your Blog

Do you want to increase traffic to your blog? Well, here are some ready tips to make a move in the world of success blogging. Get started with the following tips that make your task easy.

1. Make a habit of posting regularly in the blog.

2. Write a topic and post it in different sections and thereby create a series. This increases the curiosity of the web visitors who turn to the blog for the interesting follow-ups.

3. Write on controversial topics that arouse the interests of the web visitors.

4. Try to blog out breaking news first. It increases the popularity and creates an authentic image in the web community.

5. Use right keywords in the body content. The placement of the keywords in accurate density proves to be search engine friendly.

6. It is very important to encourage comments of web visitors in your blog. Highlight the most relevant comments on the blog. Try to build a cordial relation with the web visitors so that they visit your blog over and over again.

7. Submit your blog in blog directories and the RSS feed in RSS directories respectively.

8. It will be fruitful if you use the Ping-O-Matic service. Enter your blog name and its URL and select the directories according to choice. Any updates in your blog are automatically updated in the directories. The web visitors in these directories will be able to access your contents.

9. While designing your blog it is necessary to make an email subscription button and form. This proves to be very user friendly.

10. Try to comment on other blogs. This will introduce your blog in the blogger community.

11. List your favorite blogs in the blog rolls. You must also try to list your blog in other blogs.

12. It is highly important to add your blog’s URL to your email signature and any profiles other social networking sites. This will also introduce your blog in the web community.

13. It is essential to use Digg, Stumble and other social bookmarking sites for your blog. Once you send a post in the aggregators, it will reach millions in no time.

14. Write on related topics. Post related topics in a row. This helps in stirring up the interest of the web visitors.

15. Show the topmost posts in the your blog which received great popularity. This will bear evidence of your blog’s authenticity and significance.

16. It is mandatory to add “previous” and “next” post buttons. This helps the user to quickly and easily navigate through the web pages.

17. Try to build up inbound links in your blog. This will help the web visitors to access other important pages in your blog and thus enhance traffic flow.

18. It is important to that you must claim the blog at Technorati, which gives ranking to blogs according to number of incoming links and rankings by Alexa Toolbar.

19. Rework on the post. Try to check out every detail in your post and make it exciting.

20. Use photos in your post.

Blog Tips

There are lots of ways to increase traffic in your blogs. One way of increasing traffic is SEO i.e. Search Engine Optimization.

You can try for getting target keywords through Google Adwords Research Tools. Select keywords which has lower search volumes, you can target more competitive keywords later. Very competitive keywords take months, maybe years to rank first page for. Use Google Trends to compare search volumes between different keywords.

Submit your blogs to the proper categories in Directories. For a start, submit to DMOZ.org.

Sign-up at SitePoint.com Forums and participate in their SEO Forums.

Watch some videos on YouTube about SEO. That will give you an overview about what you need to do.

For earning money through Adsense and monitoring your blog traffic

sign up for Google Adsense.

sign up for Google Analytics.

sign up for Google Webmasters Tools.

For any further information/ clarification regarding signing up or putting advertisements in your blogs, feel free to contact me through Shout Mix "Talk to me" given at the top left side.