Where's All The Traffic!

After reviewing your site you wonder where's the traffic. If your blog is newly established. That may be the primary reason. No one has found you! Time can help your blog if you've done the following with your blog.

1. Are you writing in the right niche? If you're a mortician writing on a real estate topic try cemetery plots as time shares. Choose your market carefully. It must align with your interest. There is room for a blogging undertaker. Why should your blog attract traffic?

2. Have you told every search engine and blog directory that you exist? Alright that's impossible but try to list yourself on appropriate ones

3. Is your content appropriate to keywords pointing at your niche. Every post should have a slant towards particular keywords on its subject.

4. Remove the bushel hiding your blog from public view. You must get out there and tell everyone you know what you're doing and how lucky they are that you're doing it. Self promote yourself to the public trafficking in blogs is not illegal.

5. Seek opportunities that bring new readers to your blog. Such as guest blogging. Doing local radio guest appearances. I blog therefore I'm qualified to discuss blogging. Let others blog on your blog. That would bring some of their traffic to your blog. Advertise what's happening that you support in your local area on the blog.

6. Instant come, instant go most good blogs aren't created overnight. They mature with their readers. A relationship forms and is built on mutual support. Blogs are not superheroes they need the readers' support and traffic.

7. The public, as individuals, likes to deal with persons similar to themselves. Simply put, they deal with those they like. So make sure your blog is likeable. That it doesn't attract fire, brimstone and rocks to its little glass house.

8. Advertise your blog. I didn't say pay money! Just pay time to promote your blog. Remember there's a benefit to being the world's best, little known, unappreciated written blurb of a blog of little traffic. Have articles from say pro-gun control and anti-gun control authors on your blog. Give both sides if not more of a position an opportunity blog on your blog. The comment storms alone will catch some attention. You blogged about sex between squirrels and chipmunks and the traffic brought your blog down. I'm not saying you should.

9. Take the high road with those who hate, have no good word to say, even slander your blog. Your blog needs everyone of them to help you prosper. Why call a fool a fool; or an obese person fat if you're trying to win and influence the public. People have a habit of remembering the hurt or insult you did to them. So don't do it!

10. It has dawned on you that your blog hasn't made you rich. For many of us, that's the tale of woe financially, but blogging is such fun for the soul.

Remember you have your very own private media dedicated to what ever you want. Responsible to just you, no editor or commercial client, let your voice travel high and far and let it also be true.

By: Freelance Retired

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Just a freelance writer retired from IBM and the quota wars. I set up online mentoring sites for students interested in the SAT, GED, or personal finance. I enjoy the students and what they do with the information. Blogs are a necessary part of what I do on the Internet. Visit or email me from www.rnweton.net. I would like to hear from you.