Can't seem to drive any sizable amount of traffic to your blog? Regardless of its niche/subject, all blogs need to traffic to succeed. Without visitors reading your content, you won't be able to generate sales or produce leads -- and search engines may lower your ranking as a result, adding further heartache to the situation.
#1) CMS Settings
If your blog isn't generating traffic, you should check its visibility settings within your content management system (CMS). In WordPress, access Settings > Reading > and uncheck the box labeled "Discourage search engines from indexing this si...
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5 Ways To Attract More Visitors To Your Blog
Trending Topics
One of the easiest and most effective ways to attract new visitors to a blog is to write about trending topics. If a particular topic is being talked about in the news and media, you can expect people to search for it online. Check out Google Trends for some topic ideas. Another helpful tool is Hasthtags.org, which displays the top #hashtags currently trending on Twitter.
Comment on Other Blogs
How can commenting on other blogs bring traffic to your own blog? Assuming the blog allows visitors to submit comments, you should be able to include a backlink pointing to your blog....
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Coming Up With Ideas
The goal of writing for the web in today's SEO environment is to write for readers, not search engines. This means that your topic choices should be guided by the needs of your customers or readers. As we discussed previously, simply looking at the searches that people make involving certain keywords can yield tremendous insight into what people are looking for. There are a few other ways to tap into the needs of your readers directly:
Question sites, like Quora or Ask.com, often yield valuable insights into what questions people may have about any given topic. Find questions that seem to ...
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Choosing a Hosting Service For Your Blog
One of the steps in launching a blog is signing up for a web hosting service. The hosting company will host your blog's files and database, displaying your blog on the Internet for the world to see. But with so many different web hosts out there, ranging in price, service, speed and reliability, how to you know which one to choose?
When you sign up for a web host, you'll have to choose which type of account is right for your needs. The three main types of web hosting accounts are as follows:
Shared – several customers (usually hundreds or thousands) share resources on a single serve...
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