Author: jomark3@verizon.net

Many first time bloggers mistakenly believe that once they’ve blog is setup and added a few posts, traffic will come busting through the doors. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. You’ve got to market your site. You won’t get any traffic if no one knows about your web site.



To develop loyal readers, your blog has to have some style. There are some really great templates out there that look outstanding, take advantage of them. Many visitors are turned off by dull unimaginative designs or bold and extreme colors. You’ve also got to make navigation easy. Your goal is to have a unique attractive blog that provides easy (and obvious) navigation from one section to the next. You should also make it easy for readers to contact you. It should never take a reader more than one click to be able to contact you. This makes the reader feel like they are dealing with a real person who actually cares and can help them satisfy their needs.



Your blog’s traffic and popularity have everything to do with its content and how often you post. If you add content once a month, do not expect to get a lot of traffic. The more frequently you post, the more traffic you will get. Those who post daily (or several times each day), will usually see more visitors than once a week posters. But the key here is consistency. If you are going to post every day, stick to that schedule. Your traffic will suffer if you fail to enter new information for a long period of time.



Use Technorati or one of the many other blog ranking search engines to drive traffic to your blog. These services make it much easier for people to find your blog. To maximize Technorati traffic, place a link on your site in a visible location that people can click on to list your blog as one of their favorites. Technorati will rate your blog based on the number of votes you get. Blogs with the highest rankings will get the most traffic.



Although there are no guarantees that your blog will generate massive traffic, using the tactics described above gives you the best chance of that happening. Do you want to learn other money making techniques? Get my FREE ebook and start making money online!.

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Author: Kevin Sinclair

A FFA, or free for all page is a very simple thing in both concept and reality. You can submit one line of text to the page and visitors can click on this text to visit your site if you are interested. This would be a great thing if they worked the way that most business owners would prefer that they did. What business owners, yourself included would like is to receive massive amounts of email from interested customers - but instead, what they see a lot of in their inboxes is email form other business owners trying t make a sales pitch. Not so productive, is it? For most, these FFA pages do not give the necessary return on your investment to make it worthwhile.

So why do FFA pages usually fail to get results? Think about it like this - your ad is just one of possibly thousands on this page. What's more, these sites are often visited by other business owners who have placed ads, but rarely by those looking to buy a product or service.

These pages have another defect as well - they are generally designed to scroll. As new links are added, old ones just keep moving farther and farther down the page. At one time when FFA pages enjoyed less popularity than they do today, your ad may have been near the top for a day. Now, your ad may be out of sight within minutes! This means you would need to repost your ad again and again over the course of a day. And there is still the problem that you are not reaching customers on these pages, just other merchants.

Also counting against FFA pages is the fact that most search engines ignore them entirely. A search engine sees a FFA page as a page of unrelated links and passes it by. Remember, relevance is key with search engines - and FFA pages have nothing of the sort.

FFA webmasters are a bit smarter than those who use them to advertise. The FFA page will require an email address to submit your link; meaning the FFA site owner is building their email list every time someone posts an ad. It is the site owners of FFA pages who are truly the beneficiaries of these pages.

So is posting an ad on a FFA page a complete waste of time? That depends. If you are posting an ad there, the answer is likely yes. However, if you are the host of a FFA page, you can reap a lot of benefits - by doing so you can quickly build a list of prospective customers and that is really the only way to make good on the promise of FFA sites.

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