Three Simple Actions That Doubled My Traffic In 30 Days

Have you started a blog yet? Are you using RSS to the fullest potential? There is a lot more to Blogging for Traffic than just adding a new post every few days. Today the
PC Doctor Adrian Kingsley-Hughes shares how he uses blogging to sell books and pc repair services. He also reveals exactly how incorporating a blog into your site will give you new online marketing possibilities.

I started PC Doctor as a resource for readers, but quickly became disillusioned by the time it took to make changes to the site. I wanted something fast and easy to use - so I turned to blogging! Not only did this give me a great way to upload and organize content, but it was an easy way to leverage the traffic power of RSS.

For the first few months my traffic was really low - down in the few hundreds of visitors a day. It was pretty depressing I can tell you and there were times when I thought about quitting. I knew that the site was in the Google ’sandbox’, and so I either had to keep on plugging at it until it was out or I had to give up.

Fortunately, I decided to keep on posting, but in the interim I also decided I was also going to do my utmost to drive traffic to my site manually until Google kicked in. I took a look around at what some of the successful blogs were doing and came up with three tactics that helped to double my website traffic in a month.

1. First, I made the most of Technorati tags. I tagged every key word in each of my posts. Initially I did this manually but then I discovered a WordPress plugin called SimpleTags, it made the job a whole lot easier. You can find it at http://www.broobles.com/scripts/simpletags/.

I found by tagging my post effectively they were getting a lot more attention then their untagged counterparts, and as an added advantage I was getting focused, quality traffic to the site!

2. I leveraged my existing website. I’ve been running my business website for a few years and that was getting modest levels of traffic that was relevant to my blog - so why not try to drive some of that to my new blog! I placed a few FeedBurner headline animator blocks on some of my most popular pages and after a day or so I noticed a significant increase in traffic for 5 minutes worth of work on my part.

3. Finally, I made effective use of trackback links to popular sites. If I commented on a post on another site, I would make sure that I set up the appropriate trackback for it. The results from this are varied depending on the site and post that you are linking to, but since I liked to comment and interact with the wider blogosphere anyway, it was free traffic!

Using these three simple techniques, I took The PC Doctor blog from a few hundred hits a day into the thousands in less than 30 days. This kept my interest in the site until it came out of the Google sandbox and I started to receive some serious traffic. However, I’m convinced that these actions I took at the early stages have helped me create a loyal and targeted readership that continues to benefit my blog today.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is a technical author writing in the field of programming, web development and PC repair and troubleshooting. For more free computer tips, tricks and news check out his site at http://www.pcdoctor-guide.com