Business Blogs: Getting More Visitor Traffic
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Still waiting to see your visitor traffic to your business blog increase? There are a number of things you can do to help it along, from getting your blog listed in online blog directories to old-fashioned offline networking. Wayne Hurlbert provides many, many ideas for those who want to see their visitor traffic numbers go up.There are few things that create more initial excitement than the launch of your brand new blog. You have built the best blog you possibly can, and you’re waiting for the visitor traffic to start pouring right in.
You wait.
And you wait some more.
Something needs to be done to make those visitor counters start clicking -- and soon.
Here are some ideas to get some visitors to your blog. While each one, in and of itself, may not bring the thousands of unique visitors you would like, taken together they can add up to some fairly nice totals.
Every visitor helps.
Some online traffic building ideas Place a link to your website on all of your outgoing e-mails. It sounds simple enough, yet very few people do it.
In fact, your website URL should be featured prominently on every piece of paper, including letters, faxes and business cards, that leaves your office. Many people will click on your website link, giving you some instant traffic.
One of my favorite promotional ideas is participation at various message boards and forums relating to your area of interest. Be sure to be helpful and not blatantly pushing your product. Answer questions fully and politely, and freely provide solid information.
Develop a reputation for being knowledgeable and helpful, and you will be regarded as an expert in your field. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, and to start discussions either. There are many other people who will be wanting that same question asked, but are often too shy to do so.
Don't forget to place a link back to your site in your signature line, sometimes referred to as a sig line. Most forums encourage the use of signature lines. They often provide space for some additional information about your site as well. You will be pleasantly surprised at how many people will click on your sig line link.
Add some reciprocal links. Many people are concerned about theming (the practice of search engines downgrading links that are not part of your blog’s overall topic area) but if done correctly, there should only be benefits for you. One technique for link gathering is to find out who is linking to other, similar blogs.
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