How to Generate Traffic To Your Blog -- Tips

A few days ago, I was "Googling" and found a lot of people asking how to increase traffic to their blogs or websites. That caught my attention and gave me some good ideas to write this post that I hope everyone (my audience) like it and find it useful. I thought that sharing some of my experience and tips would be helpful.

There are a plenty of ways to increase traffic to your blog or website, some of them are straight forward while others can be hard to implement.

Here are these steps that you can follow in order to generate traffic to your website or blog:

1- Commenting in other people's blogs or websites isn't a bad idea.
2- Let your friends know about your blog/website.
3- Participate in online discussions forums. (always create a link).
4- Make your blog's address as a signature on your phone or e-mail account.
5- Chat rooms are very good!
6- Online Social Networks websites such as Facebook, Myspace, etc.
7- Add your blog or website to your personal information.(on your profiles).
8-Blogs communities.
9- Make logos and banners to your blog or website.
10- Social BookMarking Website

As you can see, there are many ways to increase traffic to your blog/site. You might have some more ideas! Below are some lists, where you can create logos and banners for free, Social BookMarking websites, and social Networks sites.

What are Social BookMarking websites?
Social BookMarking websites are a powerful tool to share, organize, search and manage content (bookmarks). Not are only good to promote your blog/site, but they also can save your favorite websites and send them to your friends; they allow you to specifically target what you want to see.

Here a list of Social BookMarking websites:
BannerSnack.
StumbleUpon.
digg.
Myqh.
MylinkVault.
Mysitevote.
Mywebdesktop.
Oyax.
Philoi.
PlugIM.
Propeller.
Quickieclick.
Rambhai.
Rawsugar.
Searchles.
Segnalo.
Simpy.
Site-bar.
Sitejot.
Slashdot.
SocialDanger.
Socialogs.
Sphinn.
SpotBack.
Spurl.
Startaid.
TagTooga.
Tagza.
Technorati.
Tedigo. (Spanish and English)
TotalPad.
Urlex.
Uvouch.
Vmark.
VoteBoat.
VoteLists.
Vuju.
Wetogether.
Whitelinks.
Wink.
Wirefun.
Xilinus.
Xlmark.
Yahoo! BookMarks.
Yattle.
Zlitt.
Zurpy.
Diigo.
Reddit.
Backflip.
BarksBookMarks.
BigSonomy.
BlinkList.
Blipoo.
BlogBookMark.
Blurpalicious.
Bmaccess.
Bookkit.
BookMarkAll.
BookMark-Manager.
Bookmarktracker.
Bookmax.
Buddymarks.
Bukmark.
Chipmark.
Citeulike.
Claimid.
Clipclip.
Cloudytags.
Complore.
Connectedy.
Connotea.
Contentpop.
coRank.
CrowdFound.
De.lirio.us.
Del.icio.us.
Dropjack.
Easybm.
Enroll.
Folkd.
FreeLink.
Freezilla.
Fungow.
Hyperlinkomatic.
I89.us.
Furl.
Gather.
Getboo.
Google.
Hanzoweb.
Ikeepbookmarks.
Jigg.
Iloggo.
Kaboodle.
Kinja.
Lifelogger.
Lilisto.
Linkagogo.
Linkarena.
Linksnarf.
ListerLister.
Ma.gnolia.
Markaboo.
Marktd.
Memfrag.
Memotoo.
Mister-wong.
Mixx.
Mobleo.
Multiply.
Murl.
Mybookmarks.

Due to the fact that most social networking websites are free to use or at least free to try, you are encouraged to give them a shot. If you are unsatisfied with what you see, you can easily cancel your membership, often at anytime.
This is a list of social networking websites where you can promote your blog/site:

1- Facebook.
2-Myspace.
3-Twitter.
4-Myyearbook.
5-Woome.
6-Bebo.
7-Mocospace.
8-Hi5.
9-Haboo.
10-Tagged.
11-Orkut.
12-Badoo.
13-BlackPlanet.
14-Sonico.
15-LibraryThing.
16-Netlog.
17-Skyrock.
18-Ning.
19-FriendFinder.
20-Yahoo! 360.

When it comes to promoting your blog on social networking websites, you have a number of different options. Your first option is to include a link to your blog in your community profile or profile page. This will allow other community members to checkout your blog, only if they wish to do so. The other way is to inform your online friends of your blog through private messages. Once you join a social networking website and create or join a network of friends, you should easily be able to communicate with those friends. Sending each of your friends a private message with information and a link to your blog tends to be more effective than just placing a link in your profile or on your profile page.


Although there is a good chance that you are already a member of a popular social networking website, you may not be. If you are not already a member, but would like to become one, you will need to find a social networking website to join. This can easily be done with a standard internet search. In your search, you will likely find a number of popular network sites, such as MySpace, Facebook, FriendFinder, Yahoo! 360, and Orkut. Before becoming a community member at one of these networking sites, you may want to first examine the website to ensure that it is everything that you want it to be. As you can easily see, there are a number of different ways that you can go about promoting your blog on online social networking websites. You never known, but, in addition to promoting your blog, you may also make new friends along the way.

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Google Adsense

What is Google Adsense?

Google Adsense is an online advertising network. Adsense publishers generate revenues with their own websites or blogs; they can earn a certain amount of money on either a per-click or per-impression basis.
Ads appear on blogs, websites, RSS feeds, parked domains, browser-based games, search pages, and videos.

How does Google Adsense Work?

Google’s Adsense program is the best way to start making money with your own website or blog; it is 100% safe and is run by a big recognized company – Google Inc.
If you already have a blog or website you can easily sign up for an Adsense account by filling out a short application and agreeing to the Adsense program policies.
Once enrolled in this program, you are able to customize the ads that Google displays on your website or blog so they fit pleasantly with your site/blog. Advertisements come in text and image ads in various sizes, fonts and colors.

How to set up Adsense on your website?

This is a very helpful video that I found on youtube I hope you like it find it useful.

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What Exactly Is a Blog?

What exactly is a blog?

In the post – How to make money from home without being scammed, I talked about some of the three basics questions, I want to talk about them and other subjects more specifically?

What exactly  is a blog?

Many people might think that a blog is just a simple journal of your personal thoughts, but I personally believe that a blog is not only a simple journal that is available on the web, where people just write their personal thoughts. A blog is whatever you want it to be, it does not have to be about your own personal thoughts; it can be your personal diary, a breaking-news outlet or how I said before – whatever you want it to be. There are no rules to write a blog.

In simple terms, a blog is basically an online journal or simply another type of website, the activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who maintain a blog is a “blogger” typically its postings are arranged in chronological order – New stuff shows up at the top.

Here a video that explain very clearly what is a blog.
I hope you like it and enjoy it!

A  Brief History of Blogging

Many people who are not familiar with the Internet they think that blogging was created since the internet started (I hear that sometimes). While others think that the Internet is a recent invention, the Internet has been around since 1957. But anyways, this is not the history of the internet what I’m going to say is a brief history of blogging. Believe it or not, blogging has been around for over ten years – not so long but for the tech world is an eternity.

The word blog is just a combination of the term web log. If you’re a blogger you probably have an idea of what and how blogs work, but for those who are not familiar, a blog is another type of a website that allows individuals publish and maintain content. Blogs display content (entries) in reverse-chronological order. Interactive blogs allow visitors to leave comments and even messages on the blog.

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