Q: How do I get traffic to my blog?

A: There are plenty of ways to generate traffic to your blog and many will be the same as generating traffic to other types of websites. Here’s a few ideas for your blog:

1. Add your personality. Create interesting content, rather than sales pitches or formal articles.

2. Add an RRS feed to your website and ping web logs like pingomatic.com

3. Make useful comments on busy blogs related to your blog’s subject. Usually, you can link back to your site when you make a comment on another blog.

4. Submit your blog to blog directories. Just search for “blog directory” on Google for the latest directories (there’s always new ones being added.

5. Look into using tools like “trackback” that creates a link back to your site when you link to an entry on another blog.

6. Email your mailing list when you update your blog. Or set up a special new post notification mailing list.

Now, if that sounds complicated, don’t panic.

The way you’ll perform some of these functions, depends on which blogging tool you use. Either look in your user instructions or check out Lynette Chandler’s Blog Starter Pack which will provide you with step-by-step help on everything you need to do get traffic to your blog.

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