Start a Blog - Page 2

gradyp · 07-12-2008, 07:12 AM

I started a blog myself last month, but I'm still trying to learn how to generate traffic to it. When I look at the visitor stats, my own browsing trying to make sure certain things are working seems to be half the visits.

I know that if I find the right way to do it, I could get better traffic.

Grady

proson · 07-18-2008, 01:46 PM

hi grady,social bookmark your post, add your feed to feeds burner, join some blog communities,

submit your own articles to articles directories and many more...

Sweetestmiracle · 07-20-2008, 09:43 PM

Great advice! I too just started a new blog. But for the life of me, its frustrating on how to put in the links I want.
Thanks proson, I will try some of the things you mentioned for grady! As soon as I figure it out LOL

Thinking positive though!

rcarney6 · 07-24-2008, 09:02 PM

Hey, Sweetest Miracle,

I like the way you did your signature for these posts. I guess we will keep working with multiple ways to get an online presence. Blogs are good ways to do that.

rcarney6 · 07-24-2008, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by rcarney6

Hey, Sweetest Miracle,

I like the way you did your signature for these posts. I guess we will keep working with multiple ways to get an online presence. Blogs are good ways to do that.

Speaking of signatures, mine is not showing up. Do we have to do anything special to get them to work? Wait. Maybe it is working. It does show up in the preview.

rcarney6 · 07-24-2008, 09:15 PM

It shows up in preview, but it doesn't seem to get there when I hit submit or post. I do have the box checked that says "Show your signature".

Sweetestmiracle · 07-25-2008, 09:26 PM

Hi Randy, did you check to make sure your link is set up properly? After I put mine in I checked on preview and clicked on it to make sure it worked.

Take care!

gradyp · 07-26-2008, 05:51 AM

I think it will show up in about 11 more posts for you. It says it somewhere, but I don't remember where offhand, that for the signatures to show, you have to have at least 25 posts.

SweetestMiracle, keep trying, and you'll get the hang of it!

Grady

Sweetestmiracle · 07-27-2008, 01:28 AM

I'm trying Grady

At least its up. Before I do my next one I will go into their forum and ask some questions on certain things. Have to learn it somehow.

Hope things are going as planned!!

proson · 08-05-2008, 11:54 AM

you need 25 posts before your signature shows up. that prevents signatures spamming I suppose. and to reply blog traffic questions, so far there are 2 ways of getting traffic.
either short term or long term..
short term social bookmark if you don't bookmark, your traffic will die eventually. And beware you don't just bookmark your site or post, they call spamming... and your account may get banned.

long term - seo. optimize your website for certain popular search keywords. that's what I am currently doing... building links, design search engine friendly websites, add title, META tags, etc.. it's more complex but it's worth the effort because you will learn long term FREE traffic..

speaking of building links, you can do directories submission, articles submissions, press release submission, blog commenting on so called do-follow blogs and much more...

once my blog got better ranking may be I can write a report about it.