How To Increase Links and Traffic

How exactly do you increase links and traffic to your blog?  Promoting links and increasing traffic are two of the same meaning you need links for traffic and visa versa you need traffic for links.

To get started yes it’s true I took John Chow’s “review my blog” idea and threw my own personal short review twist to it in return for the reviews on batches 1 – 14.  Starting with batch 15 do to time restraints I resorted to just giving a link back in return for the review. At present I am on batch 17 giving a total of 170 sites linking back with reviews. If I had to guess I would say out of those reviews around 40% are now readers.

In June I came across and partnered with two bloggers that run blog networks that are used strictly for uploading articles for search engine optimization for site owners. The partnership did not develop until later after many emails and the final agreement then the offer “Get 120 Links from 40 Blogs” was born.  The idea was to offer to my readers the same opportunity that I had received from submitting an article to the network and later I even decided to offer the idea as an Affiliate program to allow other bloggers to make money from it also.  Results: network one increase in Technorati authority 30 and network two increase by 40. Celebrity Gossip keyword 5th page for Google search for my wife’s blog.

Bloggers and Readers Love Lists:
• 1. Start with making a list people love linking to lists.
• 2. Most important write about stuff people want to read.
• 3. Be open minded to new ideas.
• 4. Be timeless write about things that are readable years to come.
• 5. Use images in your posts.
• 6. Promote commenting and answer those comments.
• 7. Be personal let readers know who you are.
• 8. Encourage readers to subscribe to your RSS feeds.
• 9. Share your ideas and success stories with readers.
• 10.  Link to other sites do not be a recluse.     

Lastly it’s been approximately four weeks now since I joined Andy’s Viral Links and Jimmy’s Viral Tags ranking improvement post. The idea behind both methods is that after the blogger copies the post onto their blog and you received the ping back you then add their URL to your viral post.  The difference between the two are simple Andy’s Viral Links helps for Technorati rating only and Jimmy’s Vira Tags helps with both Technorati & SEO for Google due to the fact that you choose an anchor keyword(s). Results: to be honest I am unsure as to how much the increase is but I can assure you that my Technorati authority has increase well over 150 because of both methods and my SEO for “make money blogging” is page 5 for a Google search now. 

Overall running score of all efforts: PageRank 5, Technorati Rank: 2521 Autnority: 924 and Alexa 98, 351.