New Bloggers! Let's create some traffic for one another!

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  ashleyrarcel2013 · Member · Sep 8, 2014 at 9:43 pm

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  Hi there. I’m newish to the blogosphere and I’d love to create some traffic for myself and other bloggers. You can find my personal development blog at the following address : http://thegirlinlongshorts.wordpress.com/. I’d appreciate any feedback you may have to offer as well as suggestions about how to build a solid base of readers! Thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 8, 2014 at 9:47 pm

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  This is a technical support forum where we deal only with WordPress.com support issues. Our technical support forums cannot be used as bulletin boards for blog promotion, business promotion, introduction or discussion purposes. Please respect our policy and promote your blog in social networks.

  This thread has been tagged for closure. Please do not continue to post into it and/or create additional threads of this nature.

  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.

  I suggest you invest more time into locating and on commenting on blogs with similar content. Identifying who your target audience is, what they already know, what they need to know, where they are found, and the best way to deliver your message to them is critical to success.
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/

  The Tags search page is in the Reader area of the Dashboard is at this link. http://wordpress.com/tags/

  The WordPress.com search engine indexes post, pages, and comments content (body text). Unless entered as text in those contents, blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/

  For Topics (Tags page) searches see http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/ This is the syntax http://en/wordpress.com/tags/canada
  See here http://wordpress.com/#!/read/topics/

  For Google searches use this format and replace “keyword” with whatever word or keyword phrase you wish:
  keyword site:wordpress.com/

  Example search string
  Queen Victoria site:wordpress.com
  results > http://tinyurl.com/csaobsx

  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.

  See these for Staff tips:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/

  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/

  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’s another helpful post 7 Common Sense Social Networking Tips http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/12/07/7-common-sense-social-networking-tips/

  See also http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/writing-and-blogging-101/