If you've been on the internet in the past two years or so then you are probably very aware of Facebook. Its the largest social networking site in the world, and its a goldmine for blog traffic.
The question is though, how do you pull all these people to your blog?
I will explain from my personal experience, the best ways I have found to create traffic from Facebook. I've used both moral and slightly immoral ways in the past, all of which I will cover here.
1. Make a Fan Page
The first thing you want to do is create a Fan Page for your website. If you are blogging about a particular product then name your page after it. This way people searching for the product will find your page, and your page will contain links to your blog on it!
I made a page for my Holga blog and called it 'Holga.' I now have over 21000 'Holga fans' on it, and its my biggest source of blog traffic.
Once you have a page, make sure you place a fanbox on your blog so that people are aware that you have a Facebook page. Sometimes they will land at your site before they found your Facebook page. This first couple of months will be slow, but be patient and your publicity will increase. Remember if one person joins they automatically tell around 500 other people.
Once your fanpage has a few followers, head over to a site such as Twitter Feed and get your blog automatically publishing your blog posts to Facebook. It will save you a lot of time, and effort, and a link to your blog posts will automatically get placed on your pages feed when you publish it.
Monday, 1 February 2010
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Choosing the Right Domain For Your Blog
Most people set up a blog on a hosted platform for a few months, watch their blog grow and then proceed to buy a custom domain.
Its a great idea because it sets your blog out from all the rest of the .blogspot.com blogs, and it can also help you to rank higher in Google.
From my experience there are basically two approaches to buying a domain.
1. Key Word Domain
Most people will choose key words related to their content and squeeze them into their domain. This will definitely help with your visibility in Google. Lets look at a quick example.
Tom is setting up a Golfing blog and wants to use key words in his domain. He might use something along the lines of http://golfnews.com. This will eventually make him much more visable when people search 'Golf News' in Google because it matches the words in his domain, and without getting too technical, Google reward domains that match the searched words quite heavily.
So there is the main reason for getting a 'key word domain.' Lets take a look at our other type of domain.
Its a great idea because it sets your blog out from all the rest of the .blogspot.com blogs, and it can also help you to rank higher in Google.
From my experience there are basically two approaches to buying a domain.
1. Key Word Domain
Most people will choose key words related to their content and squeeze them into their domain. This will definitely help with your visibility in Google. Lets look at a quick example.
Tom is setting up a Golfing blog and wants to use key words in his domain. He might use something along the lines of http://golfnews.com. This will eventually make him much more visable when people search 'Golf News' in Google because it matches the words in his domain, and without getting too technical, Google reward domains that match the searched words quite heavily.
So there is the main reason for getting a 'key word domain.' Lets take a look at our other type of domain.
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
The Importance of Finding a Niche
You have probably noticed the boom of blogging over the last couple of years. New blogs are being created every day, and its becoming increasingly easy for anyone to set one up.
Blogger and Wordpress are offering awesome user friendly blogging platforms, that are extremely easy to use.
That means one important thing for new and existing bloggers: You need to find a niche. In fact, its probably becoming one of the single most important factors in creating a popular blog now.
Blogger and Wordpress are offering awesome user friendly blogging platforms, that are extremely easy to use.
That means one important thing for new and existing bloggers: You need to find a niche. In fact, its probably becoming one of the single most important factors in creating a popular blog now.
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Tips On How To Rank Highly In Google
The one thing that you need for your blog to be successful is for it to rank highly in the worlds leading search engine, Google.
Its a rough road getting on the front page, but I'll let you in to a little secret, its not as difficult as you might think.
Sure its going to take time. But passing time is easy for a blogger because you can be working on hundreds of other things like great content and commenting on other peoples blogs.
So what you need to do to rank highly in Google is the following.
1. You Need to Have Good Content Rich In Key Words.
Try and get key words in your posts but do not over do it. Remember you are writing for readers and not for search engines. If you can slip a key word in great, if you can't don't force it. Other opportunities will arise.
If you can get them seamlessly into post titles on a regular basis then you are doing well. Just make sure it doesn't effect the content of your site too much.
Its a rough road getting on the front page, but I'll let you in to a little secret, its not as difficult as you might think.
Sure its going to take time. But passing time is easy for a blogger because you can be working on hundreds of other things like great content and commenting on other peoples blogs.
So what you need to do to rank highly in Google is the following.
1. You Need to Have Good Content Rich In Key Words.
Try and get key words in your posts but do not over do it. Remember you are writing for readers and not for search engines. If you can slip a key word in great, if you can't don't force it. Other opportunities will arise.
If you can get them seamlessly into post titles on a regular basis then you are doing well. Just make sure it doesn't effect the content of your site too much.
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