Blog Traffic

I reckon that one of the most common ways of getting your blog noticed is to post a blog about how to get your blog noticed. If you search in Google for driving traffic to your blog you will notice the most common sites have roughly the same content.

One of the most commonly regurgitated lists is something off John TP's blog:

1. Submit your blog
   to all of the directories listed on Pingomatic which allows you to ping a few services all at once.
2. Submit your blog to Pingoat which allows you to ping over fifty blog ping services all at once.
3. Sign up for an account at BlogExplosion and register your blog there. After registering visit other members blogs to earn credits.
4. Submit your blog to all of the directores listed at RSS Feeds directory
5. Sign up for My Yahoo and add your blogs feed to your own “My Yahoo” account. This will get your blog included in Yahoo very quickly.
6. Sign up for My MSN, and add your blog to your own “My MSN” account. This will get your blog included in MSN very quickly.
7. Sign up for Google Pages, and add add some content (non spam) and link to your blog. This will get your blog included in Google very quickly.
8. Place a link to your blog in your signature, so that any posts to Forums, Outgoing Emails, etc, will promote your blog.
9. Place your blog on all the major search engines. AddMe.com will submit your blog free to the top 14 Search engines.
10. SubmitExpress.com will submit your blog free to the top 20 Search engines.
11. Submit your good articles to Ezine Articles
12. Locate blogs with a lot of traffic and place relevant comments in their comment box .
13. Do not spam or place the ‘I like your site,visit mine’ type comments.
14. And last, post quality content as often as possible.

It seems the lastest game with blogs is to see if you can make money with your blog, but like most good ideas you should have gotten in early. If you have only recently started a blog you better hope and pray that you have some influential people who will link to your blog otherwise you will be the proprietor of a ghost town much as this blog is at the moment.

I don't mind as a blog is the 21st century version of a diary and most people were not trying to make money off their diaries - perhaps in hindsight if there was a paper based version of google ad sense they would have.

If there is anyone out there who believes there is a simpler way to get your blog noticed I am all up for suggestions.