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Five Little Things YOU Can Do Today To Increase Visitors to YOUR Blog Or Web Site

December 9, 2008 By Gail Gardner 10 Comments

What blog or online business couldn’t use more visitors? There are so many little ways to plant seeds of growth that no list can be comprehensive, so we’ll just start with some off the top of our head and count on our readers to add their best ideas. Feel free to leave links to related articles and posts in the do follow comments.

As you visit other bloggers be sure to share the best posts you find at your favorite Social Networking site. I favor the FriendFeed bookmarklet. The better your shared items the more people will want to read what YOU write. Take a little extra time and make your FriendFeed posts more valuable to readers.

Here are Five easy to use tools to make the results of your time online more fruitful:

  1. Go to FFHolic to find the Most Discussed, Most Liked, Most Commented, Most Popular and Most Active discussions at FriendFeed. Select those that are related to your areas of interest and get involved in the discussion. Others reading your comments are likely to subscribe to you, read your feeds, check out your blogs – maybe even write about you or link to you. ACTIVE participants get shared!
  2. Go to Twellow and find others with the same interests as you. If you want to see all the bloggers you can find it under Media. The more powerful blogger Twitter users you follow the more you’ll learn – and the more who will follow you. Visit their blogs and leave pertinent comments. (If that is sounding repetitive it is because it is VERY IMPORTANT.)
  3. Use Twitaholic to visit the Top 100 Twitterers. There is a reason they’re top Twitter users, so even if you aren’t interested in their topics DO pay attention to what they’re doing to get ideas on how YOU can be more successful.
  4. Set up Twilerts for the subjects you are interested in to get an email once a day with related tweets. Remember to add any names or users you use so you can see when someone is interested in you so you can follow them. If they recommended you be sure to thank them.
  5. Use Zuula Blog Search to find the most recent AND relevant blog posts on any topic you’re interested in. Blog an answer and link them in and drop by their blog and comment. Wouldn’t you like the reader of the posts you most enjoy to be your readers too? With blog commenting and linking they can.

Have your own favorite way to grow your online networks? We would LOVE to hear from you. Drop your ideas including YOUR links and links to resources you use and recommend in the comments.

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Gail Gardner

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Gail Gardner is the founder of GrowMap.com. She is a Small Business Marketing Strategist who mentors small businesses, bloggers, and freelancers. After 23 years in the field with IBM and 5.5 years managing AdWords accounts, her focus shifted to small business marketing strategy. GrowMap.com is listed by Cision as a Top 100 Site for Marketers and has received three Small Business Influencer Awards from Small Business Trends. Named by D&B a Top 50 SMB Influencer on Twitter, you can follow Gail @GrowMap and on LinkedIn.
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  1. Danny says

    October 23, 2011 at 10:22 pm

    Or in stead of just writing a comment at the blog you like (point 5), try to get a guestblog post in there. It will give you a lot of exposure to people you know are interested in the same stuff as you. And if you write an interesting/funny good post then you might persuade some readers of that blog to check out your blog.

    But that will probably be “more traffic tomorrow” and not the same day haha.
    Danny would love you to read ..Earthwise PS40008 8-inch Electric Pole Chain SawMy Profile

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  2. pearl says

    August 22, 2011 at 6:16 am

    Hey really nice man!

    I’ve never heard of these sites ever before. Thanks a lot. I wish I can make full use of it.

    Reply
  3. Keith says

    March 1, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    Thanks for the post! I am always looking for more visitors. One more idea, I have been creating videos using camstudios free screen capture software and uploading them to youtube and a few other vidoe sites. The upload takes forever but if you work your keywords in right the visitors will start coming in!

    Keith

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    • growmap says

      August 22, 2011 at 9:56 pm

      Hi Keith,

      Videos are a great way to get more traffic and Google loves YouTube videos. Many bloggers are starting to post videos and there are vlogs which are only videos. I do NOT recommend ONLY doing videos because text is important to many readers (like me) and also to search listings for long tail phrases.
      growmap would love you to read ..Social Media: Why You MUST SpecializeMy Profile

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  4. Andrew says

    November 12, 2010 at 8:14 am

    More great tips as usual. Once I have added alot more content to my site I am going to start implementing these tips. At the moment I do not feel I have enough quality content for my visitors but it is only wee 3 😉

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  5. Ed says

    April 12, 2010 at 2:11 pm

    Just found your website and am loving it. I subscribed. Thanks for the links.
    .-= Ed´s last blog ..Make Your Website Environmentally Friendly And Become An Eco Warrior =-.

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    • growmap says

      August 22, 2011 at 10:03 pm

      Welcome Ed,

      Glad to have you here. If I can ever answer any questions or be of any assistance just ask in the comments or Tweet me @GrowMap.
      growmap would love you to read ..Happy Birthday GrowMap 3 Years Old TodayMy Profile

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  6. growmap says

    December 10, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    Hello Ronald,

    Good content is a given; without it no amount of traffic will make any difference. The visitors who will decide to read this blog, for example, will read more than just this post on their first visit.

    They’ll check out the categories and other posts to see what is posted here. My posts tend to be longer than many would prefer so I can’t cover everything required in each post. I haven’t even scratched the surface of what is important in this entire blog!

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  7. growmap says

    December 9, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    Thanks for letting us know, Matt. I hope you’ll drop by again. Be sure to check out the articles on Matt’s blog. I’ve submitted several of them to FriendFeed and especially like You Want Customers? Ask for Them at http://smallbizbee.com/index/2008/12/08/customers-them/

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  8. Matt says

    December 9, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    Great list of resources here…bookmarked them all!

    Thanks,
    Matt

    Reply

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