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How To
Boost Traffic To Your Blog - Tips To Get
Inbound Links
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by:
Ryen Kim
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Inbound
links bring you traffic and boost your ranking!
One time I saw a blog that saying,
If you want to increase traffic... get links!
If you want to get high page rank ... get links!!
Link, link, links!!!
Though that blog was written for general web sites owner, when it comes
to blogging, nothing changes!
Strictly speaking, the amount of traffic coming from external links may
be small compared to that of one coming from major search engines.
But,it is highly targeted traffic and moreover it does increase your
page rank. Thus, more traffic can be expected from search engines.
One may raise a question. "How many inbound links do I need?"
Sorry, it's a wrong question. Quality of links matters,having many
inbound links is not bad, though. If you have external inbound links
from absolutely not related to your blog theme, the links are just
junk. And if they are coming from the site which have lower page rank
than your blog site, it doesn't help you much. That said; quality
matters.
One way to get inbound link is link exchange. You link to other sites
and ask the owner of that site to link back to you. I don't want to
discourage you from doing link exchange, however, it is difficult and
time consuming job. Whenever possible, try to get inbound links by
doing link exchange. But you may put more effort to do other things yet
more effective ones.
First, why getting inbound links by link exchange is difficult?
Most of web masters and bloggers know that they have to get inbound
links from
- the web sites or blog sites that have similar
themes as theirs
- those have higher page rank than theirs
The first one generally doesn't produce problem. But there seems to be
logical problem when the second one is concerned. If everybody wants to
get inbound links from higher ranked site, who else is willing to link
back to the lower ranked sites. Not many, I guess. This makes doing
link exchange less effective.
A warning: under any circumstances, don't be involved in link farm or
Free For All(FFA) links. Once they were good tips to get high rank,
however, nowadays search engine, especially Google will ban you if
you're involved in those activity. They are not legitimated link
exchange.
Having said that, here are 4 tips to get inbound links other than link
exchange.
- Submit your blog and/or RSS feed to blog search
engine and directories
It does bring you small amount of traffic. More importantly you will
get inbound links from authentified web sites, blog search engines and
directories. There are more than 100 of them and you can find the links
at RSSTop55 -
Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites. It says top 55
but if you read on more than 100 submission lists you'll find. I don't
think you have to submit all of them, but if you can it's OK.
Submitting to 100 sites is not pleasant job. Start from first 10 or 20
sites, and if you think you need more, do it another day. But don't
fool yourself by buying auto submission program or service because most
of blog search engines don't allow auto submission and most of them
pinging is enough.
A note: it lists Yahoo Directory and Open Directory at the first two
spot but postpone submitting there unless you have more than 20 content
pages.
- Leave a comment to other blogger
Everybody seems to know this. :-) My 2 cent tip is that visit a blogger
who has higher rank than you and leave a comment with your blog link
(remember you have to use your blog name or keywords as a link title).
Some bloggers allow to leave a link, some are not. Of courses go to the
bloggers who allow. Don't forget to leave your blog link with your
keyword title.
- Similarly leave a post on some forums
Of course to the forums that are active and highly ranked.
- Write a free article and submit it to the
article directories
This is a powerful tip yet not many blogger are doing. By doing this
you'll get quality inbound links and a decent amount of traffic. This
tip even make many other sites work for you. The secrete is that you
provide useful information with your resource box that promote your
blog. You allow other blogger or web master to publish your article on
their web sites or blog with the condition of placing your resource box
at the end of your article. Just pick up some of your blog, refurnish
it and submit to the article directories. You can submit your article
at "Ezine Articles", "Article City", "Go Article", "Article Factory",
etc.
There you have 4 tips about how to get quality inbound link to your
blog and this concludes the traffic to blog:how to boost traffic to
your blog series.
To sum up,
- find niche keywords that are related to your
blog theme and topics
- write a good informative blog using the keywords
- mind some search engine optimizations
- and more importantly get quality inbound links
That's it. Happy blogging and wish you all the best.
About the Author
Ryen Kim is an MBA, specialized in marketing
research and analysis. His current focus is blogging and home based
affiliate business as a work-at-home scheme. He is a founder of Blog Sites and
running Hom
Based Affiliate Business web site.
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