Best ways for getting more traffic.
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Okay, so, I’ve been hearing about submitting my blog to search engines to get more traffic. My problem is that I’m cheap and don’t wanna spend that kinda money. However I am willing to errant my ways and take some dough out of the oven if need be to really get traffic!
Now the kind of blog that I have is just a book. A book that I’m writing. So what would be the best way to get readers to read my website? I am open to all ideas so don’t be shy!The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Search engines will find you as long as you Post – no need to submit your site to them. Most SEO offers are scams.
I did not look at your site – but lots of tips at the site below
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If you want to increase traffic then don’t listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work. If you want your blog to rank well in search engine results then that begins with creating and publishing original content ie. unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.
See How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/
Two ways of attracting like-minded subscribers are (1) commenting meaningfully and frequently on blogs with similar content and (2) being active on social networking sites.
On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/introduction/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/
If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/
6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/01/15/twenty-five-steps-to-increase-blog-traffic/ -
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My blog is a blog that I publish my book that I am currently writing on. I have new chapters written on it every week or so, and what else I’d like to know is, What is the best type of formatting/theme for my blog?
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Hi again,
I’m the same person but logged in under my other username.Blogs are essentially a reverse chronological order publishing tool wherein the most recent published post will display on top. You cannot change this order on a free hosted WordPress.com blog. It’s designed to serve your visitors as they come to read the most recent posts and will not be inclined to trawl through hundreds of posts to locate it.
See here for the option of creating a book-like structure > http://en.support.wordpress.com/write-a-book/ Perhaps that will work for you.
Or you could use a single sticky post as an index page > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts
Or you can falsify every date-stamp before publishing.
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Thanks ever so much for you help! I got some great tips from your blog and very well appreciated it.
You’ve probably been blogging for a while (well really I have no idea), but do you have any tips? I’m open to all opinions.
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Also, will this make my blog look uninteresting.
I’ve thought about it and have taken a short survey on what people want to see in websites. They want it simple to navigate around your website, but not so simple to where its boring to the viewers’ standards.
I followed the steps that timethief gave me in the link, and now my blog looks a little dull.
Please tell me what you think I should do.
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