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.

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.

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