Use The Blogosphere For Immediate Traffic
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If you start a brand new website, I’d like to suggest you consider adding a blog day one. You’ll have a lot less problems getting your whole website spidered if you do this. Blogs are visited often by search engines. At least the ones that are updated frequently are. When I suggest you add the blog, I also suggest you try and update it about 20 times monthly.
But one of the best benefits of this blog will be the fact that you can get PEOPLE to your website while you’re waiting around for search engine traffic to kick in. These early visitors are critical to your site becoming successful. If you can get some of the people to give you feedback, even better yet. But the key to getting fresh people to your website from the start is that some of them will be webmasters and some of them will link.
The blog search engines are full of people who are looking for fresh sources to link to.
Okay, “full” is too strong a word for the volume of most blog search engines, but the people that do come to your website are webmasters who are LOOKING for info to link to. They are bloggers, and bloggers will link to you. While you’re waiting for your search marketing efforts to kick in, you can get an influx of visitors and links from the blogosphere, and this will help you even more with your search efforts.
I know the blogging is extra work, but it’s so fundamental, I don’t see how new websites that want to be successful can avoid doing it.
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9 Responses to “Use The Blogosphere For Immediate Traffic”
Well said. I also suggest forums. I can be a lot of work getting them up and running but once you do, your users do all your updating for you. I’ve noticed from my own forums that search engine spiders visit them very frequently.
By Courtney on Nov 3, 2006
Definitely, Courtney
The only downside is they can be a lot of work when it comes to moderating them. But that’s just part of life on the internet.
By Darren McLaughlin on Nov 3, 2006
Consider having a blog as your website. There are lots of scripts out there that will add content automatically.
By gr8face on Nov 6, 2006
Hi Darren
I totally agree with you 100% I only recently started blogging and I wish I had started it from when I first got my website. Its a great way to get pages of your website indexed or spidered.
I have now started a few blogs as I can see the great potential they have.
Hope more people realise how right you are.
Sally
By Sally Neill on Nov 6, 2006
Thanks for the comment, Sally.
Blogging is a bit like anything else: the more you do it, the easier it seems to get. But it’s a big boost to any new website.
By Darren McLaughlin on Nov 6, 2006
Hi Darren
I have been using blogs for about a year and compared to a normal html website blogs give you so much more flexibility when it comes to search engine marketing. And a major plus for blogs like Wordpress and the like is that they are user friendly and even grandma can have a quality site up within a few hours.
By Steve on Nov 6, 2006
Steve, no doubt about. The blogosphere is very social so you get a ton of chances to increase link popularity, which is harder to do with static sites.
By Darren McLaughlin on Nov 7, 2006
Hi…
we are new to the blogging experience. And you refer to the blogoshere as the blogging community, which is understood. But I run a couple of blogs for a couple of new sites and I have run into the fact that since the blogs are new, no one reads them.
I think one of the problems is that one of the blogs is run privately, and not on blogger or some other blogging community. I understand that there is a way to notify some central blog directory of new entries and updates, but I have no idea what that URL is to “ping”.
I think the other thing is that blogging actually takes some time. I have no problem announcing new websites that I have just made live and such, but honestly, as a web designer, content copy writer and SEO, I also take way too long to write (unless, of course, I am posting to someone else’s blog).
I mean, we all pretty much know how to change the oil and flush the coolant. And it’s pretty hard to write everything you can think of about replacing an engine. I mean, most blogs are just quick blurbs.
I guess what I mean is, I have plenty to write about, but little or no time to get it done. If I write about something insignificant, what help is it? While if I write about something cool, it can be monumental.
So, I am having trouble getting one site updated (which is at Blogger) and having no trouble updating another site, but no one knowa about it because I have no idea of who I should ping.
Any ideas? -Doug
By Doug on Nov 7, 2006
Sure, Doug
First off I’d say that you should link from the second blog that Google hasn’t found yet from the Blogger site. I bet that one is already at least indexed.
You can edit your Sidebar inside of the Admin panel and add the link. This way it will appear on every page of the Blogger site. That will help.
Secondly, sign up for FeedBurner and “burn” an RSS Feed. This will help you get your pages updated and indexed a LOT faster.
Third, do what you’re doing here: comment. Find RELATED blogs and make insightful posts like you did here. You will have no problem finding plenty of traffic based on the quality of your comment.
Also, check out my Blog Republic blog which has a few hundred posts I’ve written on monetizing blogs. Also, sign up for the RSS feeds at sites like mine which are primarily devoted to getting traffic and monetizing websites. You should get a few good free tips from me and bloggers like me.
By Darren McLaughlin on Nov 7, 2006