Best Sites For Bloggers
I am always on the lookout for great tools and sites for bloggers. I have tried many sites that claim to boost your traffic but rarely have they consistantly brought in traffic. The exception to this is blog catalog and several high traffic article sites.
Blog catalog is a great way to announce your blog to other supportive bloggers. For a small donation your blog is featured and you have some extra bonuses. Your new posts are updated. You get a nice thumbnail of your site. The best part is finding other bloggers blogs that you can visit and be visited by. In order to track where my traffic is coming to I have signed up with Engineseeker. This service can tell you exactly where your traffic came from, even the search engine or site that took your visitor to your site. It also has wonderful tools to optimize your keywords, description and blog title. Here are the links for these sites:
http://www.blogcatalog.com/
http://www.engineseeker.com/
As for the article traffic, by far the best traffic comes from ezine articles. It is well worth your time to send in an article when you can because it will pay you back in visits to your blog. We all know that traffic means money. Ezine articles rate high in Google searches. Even when you have not sent in new articles your old ones should give you traffic. That is a bonus, as most article sites do not create active traffic unless you are constantly adding articles. If you are can put the time in and write fresh articles you will benefit from sites such as Hub Pages. Hub Pages need work but if you want more views, it is a must. See my link below to access directly.
I also found lots of hits from Articles Galore, although this traffic was based not in Google but Yahoo. It was the only article site that I use that rated high in Yahoo searches.
I also did some playing around with backlinking to high PR sites but to be honest, this was not as helpful as I would have thought. I still think the best way to get traffic is through writing articles and being aware of where your audience is finding you.
So, here is to creating consistant traffic and having your site rank high in searches!
Blog catalog is a great way to announce your blog to other supportive bloggers. For a small donation your blog is featured and you have some extra bonuses. Your new posts are updated. You get a nice thumbnail of your site. The best part is finding other bloggers blogs that you can visit and be visited by. In order to track where my traffic is coming to I have signed up with Engineseeker. This service can tell you exactly where your traffic came from, even the search engine or site that took your visitor to your site. It also has wonderful tools to optimize your keywords, description and blog title. Here are the links for these sites:
http://www.blogcatalog.com/
http://www.engineseeker.com/
As for the article traffic, by far the best traffic comes from ezine articles. It is well worth your time to send in an article when you can because it will pay you back in visits to your blog. We all know that traffic means money. Ezine articles rate high in Google searches. Even when you have not sent in new articles your old ones should give you traffic. That is a bonus, as most article sites do not create active traffic unless you are constantly adding articles. If you are can put the time in and write fresh articles you will benefit from sites such as Hub Pages. Hub Pages need work but if you want more views, it is a must. See my link below to access directly.
I also found lots of hits from Articles Galore, although this traffic was based not in Google but Yahoo. It was the only article site that I use that rated high in Yahoo searches.
I also did some playing around with backlinking to high PR sites but to be honest, this was not as helpful as I would have thought. I still think the best way to get traffic is through writing articles and being aware of where your audience is finding you.
So, here is to creating consistant traffic and having your site rank high in searches!
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