Saturday, 6 July 2013

Improving your traffic and having more options of where your traffic comes from is a great challenge for anybody looking for success on the web. We cant just rely on our traffic from search engines. We want to be everywhere! We want to be in every post and every social media feeds. But how do we improve our traffic and how can we find more backlinks to bring people to our sites?

off page SEO 300x279 Build Backlinks   14 Easy WaysBefore I start blabbering on a little more, I thought I would tell you what a backlink is. Backlinks, also known as incoming links, are incoming links to a website or web page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node.

I hope that has helped those of you who did not know what a backlink was. Now you must understand how powerful they can be to your online appearance.

In this post today I will show you some of the ways that I bring in traffic to my blog. These have worked very well for me as well as the search engines. But even if I get ten thousand unique views a month, I will always want more and I am sure I am not the only one. Sure its an achievement to get that many and I would feel very proud, but I still want more. How can we achieve this with backlinks? Well I will be honest and tell you that I am no where near the ten thousand mark just yet, but these processes below have helped me get to where I am today.

I hope these help you as much as they do me and I hope you have success in everything you do in achieving this...

Google Profile

Having a Google profile can dramatically increase your traffic. If used correctly it can be a great place to broadcast your posts and interact with a community that you want to. By adding people into your circles that are in the same area as you are, you can network and post articles and relevant documents that may be of interest to you. Your profile link on Google will be devoid of a no – follow and you can add much additional information along with the link including videos and photos. Give it a shot. With everything in social networking, make sure your profile is 100% complete to make it look like you are professional and you mean business!

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is by far the most popular site that I have for traffic and backlinks. This site has many people that are interested in what you do. Its a professional social media site and has many groups that all have many people that are interested in the same things. LinkedIn has done this really well by incorporating groups in the sense of a forum. People post about things that can help others or ask questions and others will try and answer. Its a great way to build relationships and possibly work with a few other members. I have worked with a few members on LinkedIn and they were all very professional and shared the same passion as me.

For more information about how to use LinkedIn, check out this great post: Maximising the potential of your LinkedIn profile

Digg

Digg is great for traffic generation, not as great as it once was, however it is still a large community. Plus, you can submit articles you want to promote, and links to those articles are followed by search engines.

Squidoo

Create as many "lenses" as possible and about anything you want. If you want to write about something you do or blog about, go for it. Squidoo offers you a chance to receive any royalties from your lenses if you generate any income or give it to a charity. Squidoo offers out a lot of charities for you to choose from and it never hurts just offering the money to charity of one or two of your lenses every now and then does it? A lens typically consists of a blog post/article, with links to other recommended sources.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is an article discovery website that allows you to post blog post links or other articles to their site for others to "stumble" on to through their necessary searches. This site is increasingly popular and very busy. StumbleUpon is a great source of traffic for me and have had some repeat visitors, so I recommend giving this one a try.

Forum Promotion

This forum is built for exactly this, there are tons of categories to choose from and post about what you are looking for and maybe can help others. Add your website or blog to your signature this well aid you out if you decide to become a frequent member. This is promotion for your site indefinitely. If you start helping people out with the right answers, other forum participants are going to think you are a know-how in there area and may decide to see what your website is about. I have had some success for this but to be honest it will take you more than a few days to notice any difference. This is why this one is last.

Got a nice link opportunity I have missed? Drop a comment below. I would love to hear from you.


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