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How to Get More Inbound Links and Visitors to Your Blog
December 6th, 2007 by trentb
Do you want more visitors and more inbound links to your blog? Of course you do! Who wouldn’t?! In this post I am going to give you five ways to get more direct visitors to your blog as well as more inbound links to bring in traffic for years to come.
1) Provide quality. I shouldn’t even have to mention this but it seems many bloggers somehow overlook it. Quality posts are the foundation of any successful blog. You cannot expect people to visit your blog or anyone to link to you if you don’t provide quality information. The higher quality your posts, the more likely it is that people will keep coming back to read what you have written. They will also tell others about your blog and link to you as another resource for their visitors.
2) Post frequently. Nobody wants to come to a blog and see the same post sitting there for weeks at a time. Part of the appeal of a blog is the ability to update it often, and that is exactly what you should do! Some of the top bloggers say to post a few times per day, others say a few times per week. But one thing they all agree on is that you should post regularly. People love frequently updated blogs and will come back often to read. You will also have a much easier time getting inbound links to a blog that’s updated frequently.
3) Link to other blogs. If you link to posts you enjoy on other blogs, they will eventually link back to posts they enjoy on your blog. They will also come visit your blog to see where the link came from. If you have frequently provided quality content (as in steps 1 & 2) they will most likely visit again and again. Link to other blogs often without expecting anything in return, and the karma will soon come back to you.
4) Simple social bookmarking. Make it easy for your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites. You will see on many blogs there are buttons for popular social bookmarking sites above and/or below each post and they are set up to submit the post as easily as possible. This is something every serious blogger should do. It only takes a few minutes to set it up so these appear in every blog post, so there is no excuse for not doing it. You get many more visitors and inbound links if you have a popular post on a social bookmarking site.
5) Blogging communities. You should definitely join blogging communities such as MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog, and network with other bloggers. Forming friendships with other bloggers is a great way to increase traffic to your blog, and these people will usually be more than happy to link to your blog since they know who you are.
Well, there you have it. Five ways to get more inbound links and increase the traffic to your blog. Stay consistent with each of these tips and you will have a well-known, high traffic blog sooner than you think.
Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Owner of the Money Making Blog
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December 7th, 2007 at 2:05 am
Trent,
that was well written and is a great help for many bloggers who seem a little lost on what to do. You also managed to incorporate the essence of SEO into this since a ton of good inbound links will also increase our PR with Google.
Well done and stumbled for you. I’ll add the blogging zoom button too.
It is a little annoying since the button doesn’t appear automatically we will have to incorporate it in any post we want to.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:22 am
How to Get More Inbound Links and Visitors to Your Blog…
Getting inbound links should be the number one priority of SEO of any blogger. Without inbound links our Google PR won’t change much and we stay stationary. Inbound links can mean the difference between success and failure for a blogger and they shoul…
December 7th, 2007 at 11:35 am
I can’t disagree with anything here, and thanks for mentioning “Simple” social networking. Putting up the Socialize plug-in for WordPress, for example, shouldn’t show 30 social sites to submit to. Pick three or four and leave it at that. My site has icons for digg, SU, del.icio.us and BloggingZoom. Any more is just overkill, IMO.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
@Monika - Thanks for the kind words and for submitting it to BZ and SU.
@Rod - I agree with you. I have 7 of them on my blogs. Over 10 is too many I think.
December 7th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Trent,
Great post! I stumbled and zoomed it.
December 7th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Thanks Carla!
December 8th, 2007 at 8:03 am
I like it! These tips are easy enough for anyone to follow.
December 9th, 2007 at 5:02 am
Great post Trent,
I also agree - too many SN icons just confuses people and they end up going away having clicked none of them!
A bit like trying to eat a big meal when it’s all piled up on one plate. Much easier to get through when it’s split up into a few smaller dishes!
Terry
December 9th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Very good points Trent! Now that my blog is about to be on wordpress, I’ll be able to use the great wordpress plugins like zooming.
December 12th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Great article Trent! inbound link is so important in building credibility and presence. but somehow most people just felt that it is hard thing to do and don’t worth the time to go into all the trouble. maybe they didn’t see any quick result that a lot of them just don’t continue to do link building. IMO patience will always pays.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:31 am
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December 19th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Okay - so if I’m doing these - at least to an extent - and my numbers aren’t growing to the point of making me independently wealthy, then what is my next move?