Written on December 30th, 2005 at 02:12 am by Darren Rowse

Three simple actions that doubled my website traffic in 30 days

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The following post on how to increase website traffic was submitted by Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes.

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I started the PC Doctor blog in May of 2005 and 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 decided that 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 them I discovered a WordPress plugin called SimpleTags that made the job a whole lot easier. I found that 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 receiver 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.

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  • Lindsay

    December 30th, 2005 3:25 am

    How do you “tag” words in posts? (My blog is on Typepad, so don’t think I can install any plug-ins.)

  • Louis

    December 30th, 2005 3:26 am

    The reason I don’t like tagging very much is that visitors when they finish reading your posts click on the technorati tags instead of Adsense, Amazon link or whatever money making links you have.

  • ~Dawn

    December 30th, 2005 4:38 am

    How do you do trackbacks? I see those, but don’t understand them.

  • Todd Brill

    December 30th, 2005 4:53 am

    Normally, a blog will list their trackback somewhere near the end of a post. You can (usually) copy and past the URL of the trackback into your post editor. In WordPress, when you create a new post, there is a field to include a trackback URL. Just paste it in there.

  • Kashif

    December 30th, 2005 5:07 am

    Incidentally I have implemented Technorati tags and trackback techniques on my blog http://www.pakquake.com and it got on top of SEs pretty quickly.

  • Quick Online Tips

    December 30th, 2005 5:09 am

    I use a free service Haloscan for trackback services in Blogger. Have a look at the end of any post on my blog.

  • IO ERROR

    December 30th, 2005 5:19 am

    Louis, you don’t have to display Technorati tags. I don’t. They are only in my feeds, where pretty much only Technorati sees them.

  • adamsb

    December 30th, 2005 5:29 am

    Good stuff, I’ve just installed the tag plugin-

  • Louis

    December 30th, 2005 5:37 am

    Hi IOerror, Do you use the plugin http://vapourtrails.ca/wp-keywords to have your tags just in the feeds or something else ?

  • wayne sutton

    December 30th, 2005 6:49 am

    IO Error, how did you put the Technorati tags in your feeds only?

  • Joseph Nilo

    December 30th, 2005 7:07 am

    Theres a great tutorial for users of Blogger, Firefox, Deli.icio.us, and Technorati here:

    http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/11/blogger-delicious-categorizer-script.html

  • Dmitry Chestnykh

    December 30th, 2005 9:40 am

    Louis: can’t you then hide the DIV with tags using CSS? Is this acceptable by Technorati and other tag search engines?

  • Luke

    December 30th, 2005 10:07 am

    Some very sound advice. I’m still having troubles getting my head around trackbacks though. I gather that when you write a post relating to an article on another blog, you can insert a trackback to it.

  • Greg

    December 30th, 2005 10:51 am

    Thanks for the tips, I’m going away this week but will try them next year. Thanks for explaining trackbacks Todd, never really understood them until now.

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  • Shirley George Frazier

    December 30th, 2005 1:31 pm

    I also appreciate the tips and look forward to trying at least one, starting with the Technorati tags. I’ve had problems understanding how to include them on my site, but I’ll give it a try this weekend.

  • Johnny

    December 30th, 2005 4:32 pm

    I congratulate you for having such a successful blog! Not only are your links better than some of the random ones generated in Google Searches, but your tips actually work, compared to the other “optimization” sites that have 3 Adsense blocks and a couple of sentences repeating google’s tips.

  • mark

    December 30th, 2005 5:15 pm

    thanks for the tips. I didn’t quite know about it, but plan to use it soon.

  • IO ERROR

    December 30th, 2005 7:11 pm

    At the moment I’m using a heavily modified version of the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin. It’s heavily modified because UTW doesn’t support Atom feeds, and Technorati prefers Atom feeds.

    I’ve been meaning to get around to writing a simple tag plugin that doesn’t have every feature but the kitchen sink, and just plain does its job, but I’ve been so busy blogging… :)

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  • Ozh

    December 31st, 2005 12:31 am

    Oô … No offense to anyone but I find it quite amazing that some readers of this blog, i.e. people you would say they are probably blog aware to say the least, still don’t know about technorati or trackbacks …

  • hyip farm

    December 31st, 2005 1:19 am

    Hi. Those that wanna use technorati tag and make it invisble, all you have to do is delete part of the code in the simpletags.php file. I did it to my site http://hyipfarm.com .
    The tags are invisible now and technorati can still detect them.

    You have to delete 3 stuff

    Step1
    In the simpletags.php file find
    $pre_replacement = ‘Technorati Tags: ‘;
    and change it to
    $pre_replacement = ‘ ‘;

    Step 2
    Find . trim($ttags[$i]) .
    delete it.

    Step 3
    Find . $ttags[$i] .
    delete it.

    Enjoy! No more worry that people will go away from your site from clicking those tags.

  • hyip farm

    December 31st, 2005 1:21 am

    sorry wrong link. the link to my blog is at
    http://hyipfarm.com/blog

  • Marco Raaphorst

    December 31st, 2005 1:58 am

    The categories of Wordpress are the same as tags for Technorati. So if you post them under the right categories, Technorati will pick them up correctly.

  • Marco Raaphorst

    December 31st, 2005 2:02 am

    forgot to mention on thing:
    - you need to open an account for Technorati
    - make sure Technorati is pinged after posting, use for posting: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

    no plugins are really needed to trigger Technorati other than the standard functionality of Wordpress.

  • Holly Ward

    December 31st, 2005 6:30 am

    While you might not “need” a plugin to trigger Technorati, in Wordpress, by default, the only tags applied to an article are the pre-defined “categories” that you check off when you post it. Now you could go in and add a category corresponding to each of the tags you feel an article might merit, but I think that’s a lot of work, and then you have this huge categories list that would quickly become rather unwieldy.

    Take the blog post I wrote about this post. One of the tags I applied to it (using this very plugin, in fact ), was “ProBlogger”. Now I thought that was very relevant for this one post. But am I ever going to tag another post “ProBlogger”? I suppose it’s possible, but I certainly wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of setting up a category called “ProBlogger”. Plus then “ProBlogger” would have shown up in the list of Categories in my sidebar, which might have looked a little strange. I could type in the html by hand, of course, and that was what I was doing before I found this plugin, but I notice that I didn’t add as many tags per post, again because I am lazy. I might not “need” this plugin, but I”m certainly finding it very useful.

  • Marco Raaphorst

    December 31st, 2005 6:48 am

    Yes, Holly Ward you are right. If you want to add tags you probably never need again again, such a plugin works better. And I do believe that plugin is great.

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  • Sean Wilson

    December 31st, 2005 8:11 am

    Hi, Excellent article

    I’ve got the HTML for Feedburner Headline animator blocks.
    How do i insert the HTML into my signatures?
    I use Thunderbird & Outlook

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  • Cary

    December 31st, 2005 8:27 am

    I just use ecto, and that makes it simple as pie :)

  • Skipease

    December 31st, 2005 8:39 am

    Adrian, I just looked at your traffic chart on Alexa.com and I must say that it is quite impressive.

    I too was concerned about the technorati tags directing traffic away from my site. Thanks to the previous posts for the tips on how to make the tags invisible on your site.

  • TEX

    December 31st, 2005 10:09 am

    Ok, so I love the tagging, but I tried the trick so that the tags don’t show up (I’m not worried about people following links to leave my site, but I don’t like the visible clutter) and it just flat out did not work.

    Anyone got any other suggestions?

  • Dmitry Chestnykh

    December 31st, 2005 10:15 am

    TEX: You can hide it with CSS. Wrap your tags in <DIVgt; with id, for example…
    <div id=”tags”&gt….</div>
    then add style for tags to your CSS file:
    #tags { display: none; }

  • China

    December 31st, 2005 2:49 pm

    I tried the trick from HYIP farm but it didn’t work. Anyone else has been able to get it to work, seems like a great solution.

    Happy new year you all by the way

  • John

    December 31st, 2005 7:37 pm

    thanks for the tips. pretty cool to find someone who’s so wlling to help others out.

  • Marshall Kirkpatrick

    December 31st, 2005 10:08 pm

    I’ve got two bookmarklets that make adding tags to the ends of your posts very easy at http://marshallk.com/bookmarklets

    That said, I sure hope people are going to limit their tagging to subjects that the posts are honestly about. The last thing I want to have to deal with is tag spam, and that’s totally on its way isn’t it?

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    January 1st, 2006 10:59 am

    great post, I’ve installed the plugin :D

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    January 2nd, 2006 7:23 pm

    I myself have been following step 1 and 2 and must say that does make a difference. Didn’t know about the Feedburner service though.

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    January 3rd, 2006 7:56 am

    hmmm…i wonder if just leaving a comment here will increase traffic to my little blog.

    only one way to find out i guess.

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  • mark

    January 3rd, 2006 6:37 pm

    what’s with ppl repeating the saem comments b/w […]?

    I don’t understand.

  • Razvan Antonescu

    January 3rd, 2006 7:41 pm

    They are not repeating they sent trackbacks from their blog. The trackbacks appear as comments and the text is the link from their blog :)

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    January 3rd, 2006 7:46 pm

    You might want to add a little disclaimer to your title – sort of a your mileage may vary kind of thing.

    I’ve been “tagging” or adding keywords or categorizing my sites for ages – little if any traffic ever comes from technorati and technorati seldom shows accurate activity on any of my blogs.

    While you may have had great success due to the topics you cover obviously not everyone will have the same success.

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    January 4th, 2006 4:27 am

    I’m pretty technologically/blogging intelligent, but I don’t understand trackbacks — does anyone know of a good link explaining it?

    Thanks!
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    January 4th, 2006 12:30 pm

    Thanks Razvan for the info. :)

    Alec > here’s a good link that explains trackbacks. A simple google query would do it ;)

    http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/

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    January 7th, 2006 1:37 am

    How do you tag words in Drupal ?

  • Teli

    January 7th, 2006 2:56 pm

    In response to Dawn’s question:

    How do you do trackbacks?

    There is a WordPress Trackback Tutorial (could be helpful for other blogging platforms, but geared toward WordPress users).

    I also have to agree with Clark – mileage may vary. There have been many complaints on Technorati not properly indexing sites or displaying accurate links.

    While I can’t say I have any complaints about Technorati, I have noticed that some sites receive quite a bit of traffic from them while others seem to be missing completely.

    And, for those who want to make their technorati tags disappear, wrap them in a specific <div> element and apply a bit of CSS ingenuity.

    example:
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    in CSS file:
    .tech-tags {display: none;}

    Hope that helps someone out :)

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  • John Sylvester

    January 17th, 2006 12:09 am

    I am the web designer for a property company based in Bangkok. At the beginning of the year I implemented the strategy you so rightly put forward above, using WordPress and including the Technorati tags. The site now has five times the number of hits! I would like to thank you for the advice given. It has been so successful I have also implemented a similar programme for a consultancy company in the UK who outsource all of their their SEO work to us. Their site was only put live yesterday so I cannot gauge its success as yet, but we are both highly confident that this is the way to deliver SEO strategies to our clients. We have abandoned our link building strategies since the Jagger update and now concentrate on content augmentation and article writing, with great results. Once again, thanks.

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    January 17th, 2006 10:34 am

    thats great news John Sylvester! Your site looks pretty nice too.

  • edward

    January 17th, 2006 12:52 pm

    I couldn’t sleep and browsed the web for some weblog tips. Especially about getting more traffic. Those 15 visitors of my weblog aren’t enough. That’s how I came on your website.

    Thanx for the tip on technorati tags. I installed the plugin right away.

    Maybe a little late ;) but hé who knows.

    I must say I don’t understand your 3rd tip?? How do you use trackback links to popular sites?

  • Andy, web designer

    January 19th, 2006 8:05 pm

    I find the steps quite reasonable.
    Do you fight spam using trackbacks? I mean do they bother you?

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  • squire

    February 3rd, 2006 1:51 pm

    Try the technorati tag generator

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  • John Hamman

    February 8th, 2006 8:48 am

    Tags definatly seem hard to grasp, least the part about where to put them on the page. I have 3 questions then;
    1. Is it better to have one word tags or is 2 words acceptible
    2. Does the tag have to appear in the RSS feed?
    3. Does it affect you to have tags that do NOT point to technorati? Like for example, a tag that points to your own categories on your blog (using the rel=”tag”)?
    john

  • Marco Raaphorst

    February 15th, 2006 11:01 pm

    Like I stated before: categories in WordPress are exactly the same as tags. Technorati has updated their information about this recently:
    http://www.technorati.com/help/tags.html

    In Wordpress 2 it’s possible to add categories on the fly while creating a new post. I think this is a better system than any plugin I have seen. Because categories can not be redundant and can be renamed, it’s cleaner than specifying tags per post.

    I don’t understand the confusion myself but it’s probably because categories and tags are different words :)

  • Teli

    February 20th, 2006 5:00 am

    In Wordpress [sic] 2 it’s possible to add categories on the fly while creating a new post. I think this is a better system than any plugin I have seen. Because categories can not be redundant and can be renamed, it’s cleaner than specifying tags per post.

    Yes, Technorati will use the category name as a tag in WordPress, but tags and categories are two different things.

    What happens when you only create a single entry on a specific subject? Or if your entry covers a number of subjects that may not warrant having a completely new category created (on the fly or otherwise) for it?

    Think of tags as meta filing without needing to clutter your sidebar with unnecessary categories.

    Lorelle has a nice run down of what the difference between tags and categories are for anyone interested.

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    July 16th, 2006 3:04 pm

    I would like to thank the author. Of all the advice I have read this is the most valuable to me.

    I came in late for the FIFA World Cup only updating my site a week before the events with almost me as the visitor. I followed these three steps and I ended up the month of june with an average of around 500 – 600 readers and some it even went up to 1500 depending on which post I trackback to.

    Cool man… I have read this post way way back but only got the time to put the plugin, find sites that have great traffic to trackback to.

    Come to think of it, I have not done the feedburner tip yet coz I only signed up a week ago for that service and I will hook up in one of my decent traffic sites and I would expect more readers coming in.

    Thank you so much…

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    September 7th, 2006 12:30 am

    I’ve been running a quality article based content management site for about a year now and regretfully my pagerank, and traffic, remains at fairly low levels. I could understand this if the site was sub standard but it’s not bad – at least from a search engine perspective. Any help greatly appreciated!!!

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    September 9th, 2006 1:59 am

    Very good points. For an immediate jump in your traffic stats try submitting your post to Digg or Reddit.

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  • Ohad Gliksman

    September 23rd, 2006 7:48 pm

    As someone who is always on the look for more traffic to my blog, I have to agree that technorati and trackbacks can generate an amazing amount of traffic to a site.

  • Eric

    September 28th, 2006 5:18 pm

    Good ideas, this helped when I started out. I’ve now compiled a more indepth plan of attack for those interested at

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    Sort of a new bloggers view on the whole situation. But I have to give props to this site for doing it’s part. Thanks!

  • Chris Harrington

    September 30th, 2006 5:08 am

    Just adding the Technorati tags alone has increased my traffic about 25% in a month. Great article.

    –Chris

  • Graham Keellings

    October 3rd, 2006 11:15 am

    Trackback is probably the greatest of the three. Although Tagerrrati and Deli.cio.us placing are very helpful – if you can get them.

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  • Binit

    October 5th, 2006 9:26 am

    I see 105 comments already to this “no so bad” article by Problogger, but I am not sure how much it can help me increase traffic on my blog.

    I have to say that I do get considrable amount of traffic everyday but I need more. I mean what about that third stage??

  • miriguy

    October 7th, 2006 12:09 pm

    nice post ;) yeah, I think qumana can be something useful when it comes to do that technorati tags ;)
    I personally use them for my blog. What I want to know is.. is that trackbak thingy u do we call linkbaiting nowadays?

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  • Jweaver

    October 17th, 2006 12:19 am

    Thanks Darren, your tips are awesome. I am trying to get more readers but am struggling. I will give these a shot.

  • Rugjeff

    October 27th, 2006 1:30 pm

    WP SimpleTags is awesome. Thanks for all the tips…I hope they work as well for me as they have for you.

  • Russell Ackner

    November 28th, 2006 7:10 am

    For someone who has been blogging for years, you tend to think you know everything when starting over. Unfortunately the blinders are usually on when starting over. These 3 simple tips have increased my traffic to my professional blog http://russell.ackner.com already – within the first week.

  • Lucas McDonnell

    November 29th, 2006 6:15 am

    I’m new to the blogging world, and I’ve been looking for ways to create trackbacks when I post to my site (http://www.lucasmcdonnell.com). While the tips posted above are extremely helpful, I have yet to come across a really simple, step-by-step approach to how to properly create and manage trackbacks.

    Does anyone have any suggestions?

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    December 27th, 2006 7:26 pm

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  • Jlyne

    January 13th, 2007 3:26 pm

    Thanks so much for the tips!

  • Mark

    January 13th, 2007 11:32 pm

    Great tips

  • Vikram Kamath

    January 17th, 2007 2:07 am

    this Plugin is jst cool

  • JackieB

    January 27th, 2007 7:53 am

    Hi thanks for the tips. I will be putting this knowledge to work for my website http://www.lonewolfradio.com right now it averages about 50 U.V. a day so i’ll update in a month.

  • Sheltie Nation

    February 1st, 2007 5:19 am

    Darren’s site is always useful & informative. I hadnt thought of adding tags to help improve website traffic. I plan to go back & add tags to all my posts (manually since I have typepad) and see if it helps – or based on others comments, see if it directs traffic away. Time will tell. Thanks for an informative site.

  • Gazzali Maidin

    February 2nd, 2007 1:14 pm

    hi darren

    i need your help for the two things below

    when i type the word i want to tag

    Question1 : Is the above correct way of tagging words to technoratii
    Question 2 : Why when i try to get into have a feedburner it give several reasons for not validating it. What shall i do?
    Question 3 : How can be a feedburner be bringing traffic? a little confuse

    regards
    gazzali

  • Gazzali Maidin

    February 2nd, 2007 1:19 pm

    hi darren

    i think my message is distorted.

    Question 1 : i use [ key for tagging but it doesnt work – the bracket is printed in my pages
    i use

  • Gazzali Maidin

    February 2nd, 2007 1:22 pm

    hi darren

    sorry for so many comments. Message distorted again.

    Q1: shall i use bracket key or arrow key for tagging. Bracket is not working.
    Q2 : How to tag technoratii
    Q3 : How to install a feedburner. I have tried but to no avail,
    Q4: Still not sure how a feedburner gives traffic

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    March 24th, 2007 10:19 pm

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    Nice resource here with good tips for people like myself with new blogs and who are still new to blogging.

    Many thanks.

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    May 18th, 2007 1:43 pm

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  • Marc

    May 20th, 2007 1:43 am

    Wow this really helped. I hopefully can get more people to my site which needs more hits badly.

    Written very well.

  • abduzeedo

    May 23rd, 2007 8:52 pm

    Really cool article, I will start doing that… thanks a lot.

  • Hillary

    May 25th, 2007 3:15 am

    Wow!!! Good job. Could I take some of yours triks to build my own site?

  • Mike

    May 26th, 2007 3:05 pm

    Decent tips but the advice to hide the tags with display none seems shady and unimportant, just div position absoulte and locate the tags to the side or in the footer section for each post, nobody will click off your site as they are away from the article and not tempting to click and not hidden with shady display none.

  • John Rohan

    June 2nd, 2007 2:23 am

    Tips #1 and #3 are fine, but I just don’t see how they can possibly substantially increase traffic if you don’t have much to start with. I think tip #2 is the real deal, but if you don’t have another sucessful web site to leverage, I guess you’re screwed.

    I’ve been running a blog for about a month now, and I tried all the above (except leveraging another web site, since I don’t have one).
    Right now, my traffic is so pitifully low its embarassing. Above you say you were depressed when your traffic was in the low hundreds. Imagine having far lower than that. What I want to know is, how did you start with that much traffic to begin with? I check everything every day in Google Analytics. Technorati brings in only 2-4 hits a day, sending trackbacks and leaving my sig when commenting on other sites (and if I really hustle) only brings in 6-12 hits or so. Search engines bring in about 10 hits a day.

    And feedburner, atom, rss, etc. I admit I don’t understand all the differences fully yet, but doesn’t someone need to go to your site first before they’re going to subscribe to your feed? In any case, no one has signed up for mine yet as far as I can tell.

    I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback on my site, but few people find it. (About 50% of my traffic is direct) I even tried Ad words and Blog ads, and they worked, but only while the ads were running, and in the end I was spending about 1 dollar in advertising for every 4 hits I was bringing in, not a great ratio. And since my site is not commercial, I’m not going to spend a huge amount on advertising. I tried everything else, announcing the site to friends and family, leaving my sig when commenting in google groups, registering with every search engine service, using Digg and Reddit, exchanging links with others, etc. If anyone has any other suggestions, I’m all ears. Help!

  • Chris

    June 2nd, 2007 12:44 pm

    I’ve tried it and it hasn’t worked

  • Alvin

    June 10th, 2007 10:14 pm

    Yes, they are right… Most of my blog visitors will click the tag instead of adsense. My adsense revenue greatly drop down… Thinking whether is there any way to change the placement of tag…

  • Melvin Woolsey

    June 14th, 2007 6:35 pm

    This one makes sence “One’s first step in wisdom is to kuesstion everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.”

  • Muzz

    July 5th, 2007 6:51 pm

    Thanks for this, I think I’m gonna do some experiments with trackbacks and tagging and see how much of an effect it has (if done right I assume).

  • J

    July 12th, 2007 7:25 am

    Ha ha. You only had hundreds of readers, Louis? I still only receive about ten page views per day. So it sounds like you were doing pretty well, especially when you compare yourself to me.

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    July 13th, 2007 6:10 pm

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    July 16th, 2007 2:49 am

    thanks for the advice

    consider this my effective use of trackback!

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    July 28th, 2007 6:14 am

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    August 2nd, 2007 10:49 pm

    I tried to make money from blogging. But my traffic is extremly low that it is below 50 per/day. I tried different topics, but i couldn’t find success. I deleted my blogs because i had no profit from it. I want to strat from the beggining. Can you help me?

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  • Edward-M

    September 1st, 2007 12:27 pm

    There’s many links to my website but very little google traffic. Somehow I must’ve ruined by google pagerank.)

  • Lincoln

    September 6th, 2007 11:48 am

    This is the exactly the kind of information I have been looking for. It seems like whenever I google ‘website traffic’ all I get is people trying to get their hands on my money with what I would suggest might be unproductive results. As a new website owner, it may take me a while to wrap my head around what I have to do – but I will start looking around now. A sincere thanks.

  • Jen

    September 6th, 2007 5:23 pm

    My google traffic is so off-an-on, and my rank keeps changing. It’s impossible to figure out what is working and what is not.

  • trixs

    September 9th, 2007 9:23 am

    I have been trying to get my site, http://www.artcitadel.com, to increase traffic for a few days now. It seems that even though all the content is original google does not love it :( Will try some of these suggestions.

  • Outsourcing

    September 9th, 2007 12:54 pm

    Jen, I had the same problem with my google traffic. My ranking to specific keywords keep changing from day to day. I hope someone could answer your inquiry so I could benefit as well…

  • cyberst0rm

    September 11th, 2007 5:38 pm

    Thanks for the tips. Will be sure to give them a try.

    Any increase in traffic is better than no increase!!!

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  • Eric

    September 18th, 2007 5:10 am

    Wow! I started a website and now I don’t think I’m going to be able to stop learning. This is good information. Thank you.

  • Free Ipod Touch

    September 18th, 2007 9:07 am

    My google traffic is off and on as well:(

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    September 21st, 2007 3:13 am

    Anyone know how long it takes before a new site’s ranking settles down and quits bouncing around?

  • Raman

    October 6th, 2007 9:48 pm

    Thanks for the great tips. I’m new to the blogosphere.

  • sam

    October 14th, 2007 8:45 am

    I think this is my third attempt at blogging but i aint gettin nowhere so anyone who has been successful,i take my hat off to you.

  • Joey

    October 14th, 2007 9:33 pm

    Thank you the tips. I try it on my new blog. :)

  • Mr.Money

    October 26th, 2007 3:20 pm

    Thanks for the tips, but second tips i can not use, lol.

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  • ExGen

    November 3rd, 2007 2:53 pm

    Thanks for the WordPress plugin tip. I will definitely use this feature on my site going forward.

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  • Nikolai

    November 14th, 2007 2:28 pm

    This is a very interesting article. And even though it was posted quite some time ago, the info can still be used to increase traffic. Thank you.

  • chesca

    November 16th, 2007 8:05 am

    thank you so much for this wonderful advice..I also have a blog and i do have a lot of problems regarding my traffic..so thanks for sharing your ideas..

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    November 27th, 2007 6:33 am

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  • simon

    November 28th, 2007 10:19 pm

    wow what an eye opener for me i ve been trying to get traffic to my site but with this i can now move on , thanks for this infor

  • chloe

    November 28th, 2007 11:28 pm

    i was thinking that blog commenting is not an effective way to get backlinks and more traffic.

  • nabin

    December 2nd, 2007 2:05 pm

    Talkback and comments separate please!!!

  • Jose

    December 9th, 2007 5:56 am

    Thanks for the tips maybe one day I will be as successful at blogging as you are :)

  • zero255zero

    December 10th, 2007 2:51 pm

    thanks, hopefully i can drive one or two new readers to my site.

  • Aileen

    December 10th, 2007 7:08 pm

    I’ve recently started my website (just a few days ago) and came across your advice. I tried the first 2 and I’m starting to get visitors, I mean it’s only very few but my site’s only day’s old. I’ve started to appear in google search pages now. amazing!. I don;t understand the 3rd though about trackbacks. Thanks for your this.

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    December 11th, 2007 6:42 pm

    personally, i found stumbleupon the single most effective way to get visitors to my site. excellent tool.

  • Budhi

    December 27th, 2007 6:03 pm

    I don’t know if tagging strategy is still as effective as it used to. I did this strategy on some of my websites, I got visitors but most of them are just “curious click” and left within split seconds. Well maybe the problem was with my websites layout or something.

  • ellen

    December 28th, 2007 2:03 pm

    right at this moment, i’m fixing my feedburner and simple tags. hopefully i get them up today and check on the results. i’ve been getting more traffic from people who are searching for wentworth miller photos…sheesh. my other articles does not generate that much traffic except from forums where i manually post links. somebody give me a tip please.

  • Evan

    December 31st, 2007 11:19 am

    I’ll try, but I don’t know why to do the technorati tags.

  • Jay

    January 2nd, 2008 8:44 am

    Hi, thanks for the tips. I agree that technorati tags seem to work great. I find that they help my posts rank much higher on google search terms. However, one problem that I have with my blog is that I get some decent traffic (for me lol) when I post every day. However, if I take a week off posting, my traffic plummits rapidly. I also notice that my new posts get a ton of google search hits for a few days, then completely stop driving traffic after that. My blog is about dietary supplements, so it’s not as common of a topic as your blog, of course. http://jmorrow50.wordpress.com.

  • Abhishek Kumar

    January 4th, 2008 8:48 pm

    These days, especially wordpress is coming with large no. of plugins and modules which can be really helpful in doing SEO, tagging i.e higher rank in search engines. Better the rank more will be the visitors. By the way that was nice read.. for increasing traffic on the blog..

  • Christopher Edward Marshall

    January 7th, 2008 6:41 am

    wow i wish mine got as many members as that as i trying to grow a research community and well done my website is avaialble for anyone to join with live chat

  • -MaLanG!!

    January 7th, 2008 7:27 am

    Hey Adrian,
    I recently started The M&M Online blog, all about adsense and many other many making tools.
    I am also struggling to get a good stream of traffic to my blog.
    Thanks for your post, I’ll try doing what you said, I hope that turns my fortune arround.
    Thanks once again.

  • Planet Malaysia

    January 7th, 2008 4:20 pm

    Talk is much more easy than action.

  • cellphoneguider

    January 9th, 2008 2:22 am

    hi,thanks for your article.I am a new blogger,and my site page is clicked only 400 everyday,always i am thinking how to change such situation or to quit,it seems very hard to me to solve this problem,now i am very glad to i learn your methods,i will try right now! I am confident now,thanks!

  • Joshua Dorkin

    January 14th, 2008 1:25 pm

    Great tips. People often forget to use trackbacks as a source for traffic. On the other hand, some people abuse them . . . it can be annoying if you overdo it.

  • be awesome instead

    January 17th, 2008 1:21 am

    Great tips….though I wonder wouldn’t the best way to increase traffic to be linked by problogger?…

    Seriously though, trackbacks and pingbacks have always been confusing to me? I sometimes get confused about what I should be linking to. I say that because often I have seen if I link to an article using it’s permalink then there is no trackback (or pingback) listed for it and vice versa…then again maybe it’s all the same and I just stay busy confusing myself.

  • Buddy

    January 18th, 2008 10:30 am

    I am trying the things that you suggested in this post and hopefully it will increase my traffic.

  • Miguel

    January 19th, 2008 5:16 am

    This is a great quick tutorial that’s easy to understand and easy to follow. If there are any more ideas in generating more traffic, let us know.
    I’m going to be reading this blog for a while, now that I found something that helps me.

    Thanks again,
    Miguel
    http://myfirstventure.blogspot.com

  • m07

    January 20th, 2008 4:33 am

    i will surely use them for my future posts.

  • A Bisht

    January 20th, 2008 5:12 am

    Although some points were quite technicla for me, but i think i benefited from the post considerably

    regards

    A Bisht

  • Trevor

    January 20th, 2008 6:16 pm

    The Technorati tip is awesome. Thanks!

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  • Sam Thomas

    January 21st, 2008 12:58 am

    Thank you for tipos. I have implemented Technorati tags and trackback techniques on my blog http://cartaogratis.blogspot.com and it is working great.

  • Jack Stone

    January 21st, 2008 10:18 am

    I totaly agree, but don’t forget social bookmarking websites it’s the best tools to drive decent traffic to your blog, thanks.

  • moonburst

    January 21st, 2008 1:58 pm

    Wow, nice tips especially on the feedburner note. I never knew it was that easy, thanks for the info. I will put that to use right now.

  • rubu

    January 22nd, 2008 9:25 am

    This is a great quick tutorial that’s easy to understand and easy to follow. If there are any more ideas in generating more traffic, let us know.

  • Buddy

    January 22nd, 2008 12:01 pm

    To tell you the truth I get most of my blog commenting on sites. Your’s alone, on average, brings in over 1,000 visitors a month!

  • Dave

    January 23rd, 2008 11:39 pm

    I have to try this tips, think is a very good idea. Check out my blog for technology reviews.

  • rubu

    January 24th, 2008 4:49 am

    I gather that when you write a post relating to an article on another blog, you can insert a trackback to it.

  • Saim Baig

    January 26th, 2008 9:07 pm

    I have applied All these.And now waiting for results.I have seen some change in traffic but its not a drastic change.

  • Lemizeraq

    January 26th, 2008 9:53 pm

    I am going to try it immediately to see if it works. These are good ideas to try out, but I don’t have method 2 to use so I guess I have to work harder at the other.

  • Prabhu

    January 30th, 2008 2:07 am

    Hi,
    I’m using the website below:
    http://healthylifestyleforall.googlepages.com

    I have added the following URL to Gogle and yahoo. I think mine is not still indexed.Can you give me the procedures?

  • Random Thinker

    January 30th, 2008 6:16 am

    Great advice for a new blogger. Thanks!

  • kdays

    January 30th, 2008 12:55 pm

    For those still a little confused by trackbacks, you might want to take a look at the Ultimate Trackback Help Guide.

    Great post, thanks. It’s good food for thought for new bloggers.

  • Daniel Andrade

    January 31st, 2008 12:58 pm

    Great Post, I will try it out, see if it works for me! =P

  • Jose

    February 2nd, 2008 6:32 am

    I’m going to try those three steps and see if they work on my site!!!

    thanks :)

  • PCLoadLetter

    February 2nd, 2008 10:10 am

    Great Ideas! Getting traffic to a web site can be very slow and painful!

  • d'Fish

    February 2nd, 2008 7:13 pm

    I still cant get traffic to increase even with all this ideas…can anyone send me a mail how else can i improve my traffic…currently im at 30-50 visitors a day… but im still not earning much?

    this is shaky fish at http://shakyfish.blogspot.com
    help!

  • Zul

    February 3rd, 2008 8:48 am

    An old post.. But this method still works nevertheless. =)

  • rajeev saxena

    February 3rd, 2008 6:36 pm

    I think to drive traffic on your site, please try to link more site

    with better google PR. To get idea please see my Indian
    news sites:

    http://www.agranews.com and http://www.onlineindiannews.com

    Link to higher PR site than your give better place to your site for more visiters.

    Good luck

    RAJEEV

  • Chaos Inc.

    February 5th, 2008 8:04 am

    Great tip about technorati… I’m glad I chose simple tags over Utw when I started blogging! I’m like stuck at 4500 unique page views daily.. and want to get this figure up.. maybe one day you will publish a post about how to go to the third level of visitors you know.. Cheers..

  • CCB

    February 5th, 2008 2:22 pm

    I’m going to take your advice and see if it helps. I have been using Google adwords and Yahoo search marketing to advertise my site http://www.collegecreditbuilder.com and have found that the keyword traffic is very expensive, but results in actual click-throughs, whereas the content match feature can burn through you daily budget with many clicks, but no actual click-throughs. I know there are click-fraud lawsuits pending and approaching settlement, but it seems like something is still not right.

  • kipas lipas

    February 7th, 2008 8:00 am

    Darren could you post an article how to make a lot of back link ? i figured out yesterday that google and yahoo like to search website with a lot of back link

  • azul

    February 8th, 2008 8:25 pm

    Yup, works wonders till today. :)

  • Web Traffic Expert

    February 10th, 2008 9:12 am

    Just wanna share a tip. If you run a blog, and people commented on your posts, make sure you reply their comments, and visit their blogs and drop a thank you comment. For sure they will come back to your blog. They might even link to your blog as well.

  • Lokapriya

    February 11th, 2008 12:22 pm

    good important points for a beginner like me.. i shall make sure to follow the same steps for my blog http://www.indyea.com

  • Magoo

    February 11th, 2008 2:14 pm

    kipas lipas,
    There are many way to make backlinks. One is to post good quality content and people will naturally link to your blog due to the content on it. Another way is to find people with similar interests and suggest they link to your sight do add more depth to their site.

    Others use more questionable tactics such as adding a link to their own site such as, Melissa Midwestinto comments. Take a look at these comments there are links all over. However, while most people think they are getting a nice linkback from a PR4 site here, they fail to read the source code and notice the nofollow attribute tag added, which means they get no linkback.

    I suggest you read up a lot more on linking and you will be able to drive SE traffic to your site better.

  • Anil Tandon

    February 12th, 2008 4:01 pm

    The trackbacks arent allowed on certain sites due to spam. However linking from other blogs is a great way to build rep and traffic.

  • Anil Tandon

    February 12th, 2008 4:03 pm

    The trackbacks arent allowed on certain sites due to spam. However linking from other blogs is a great way to build rep and traffic. Iv got a new blog http://www.indimoto.com/blog/autonewsamerica.php which isnt yet on google’s search index.

  • Dana

    February 13th, 2008 5:47 am

    I like the third tip and for sure I’ll try as soon as I can. But still I’m not sure if I understand correctly about the essence of trackbacks.

  • Alan

    February 15th, 2008 8:03 pm

    Real good information and another method to generate more traffic to my sites. thx again

  • van man

    February 16th, 2008 1:29 am

    excellent article , will try this on my new blog due soon
    van man

  • Mike Jones

    February 18th, 2008 7:58 am

    I see no tags on this post?? hmmmmm

  • Tim Bridge

    February 19th, 2008 3:57 pm

    Hey all,

    I am just starting out in the blogosphere and I’m slowing gaining more ands more unique visits a day. I’ll be sure to employ these tips as soon as I can and see if they have a positive effect.

    I have a few questions for everyone: What is a realistic daily/monthly goal for a new blog? What is a realistic rate of growth?

    I know that each genre of blog has different averages, but any generalization to give me an idea as to whether I am moving in the right direction would be great.

    Thanks,
    Tim Bridge
    PersonaDev.com

  • avee

    February 20th, 2008 6:23 am

    hi there, your post is helpful to everyone.

  • skykid

    February 21st, 2008 10:13 am

    Great tips. Also the maturity of a blog seems to have some significance – my blog is 2 years old and I am receiving much more traffic than I used to .

  • Michael

    February 21st, 2008 2:26 pm

    I digg this article, good tips.

  • tata

    February 23rd, 2008 10:57 pm

    Thank you so much for the tip…i am the beginner,so anyone can go and view my blog and give me some idea to improve? thank you.

  • Tom Ross

    February 24th, 2008 11:07 am

    Good tips, thankyou! Have you found Technorati to be THAT worthwhile though? It’s hardly helped my blog at all.

  • keyon

    February 24th, 2008 10:07 pm

    i like what i read on your blog.
    i will try it on my blog, and hope to see a difference.
    thanx for the info. if you have tym. do visit mt blog.

    thanx……

  • ifmarch

    February 25th, 2008 2:27 am

    Nice tips, what a powerful tools to append technorati tag in blogger.com ?

    Another tips that can invite traffics to your website : http://bloggerways.blogspot.com/2008/01/1.html

  • jessie

    February 25th, 2008 4:51 am

    very informative post as usual… i think i’m gonna try the Headline animator in my site since that is the only thing missing there. the story is very inspirational for new bloggers like myself.

  • Email Sender

    February 28th, 2008 6:13 pm

    I can always use great tips for website traffic.

  • Christalle

    March 2nd, 2008 5:16 am

    Thanks for the great tips!

  • Synaptic Spazism

    March 10th, 2008 4:17 am

    very clever suggestions, but I am just getting started and I m curious about the phrase “google sandbox” sounds rather negitive, can any one explain this one to me?

  • David Blaze

    March 10th, 2008 10:57 am

    one way to get hits is build up a myspace network and post bullitens to your site or post a question on yahoo answers and link to your site

  • Alex P

    March 10th, 2008 12:16 pm

    Is there anyone that can properly show me how to include trackback for my Blogcast. I use the software called Quick Blogcast.
    Thanks
    Here is my link:
    http://allfreemac.com

  • soulsearch

    March 10th, 2008 1:24 pm

    i’m just starting out and appreciate any tips to help drive mail to http://www.deephill.com.au.

  • kixs

    March 11th, 2008 2:37 pm

    Thxs for the helpful hints. Hopefully it will help with building up my new site: http://www.assetplay.net

  • monalisa

    March 12th, 2008 5:09 am

    Thanks for the tips. 1 and 3 i have understood. Please clarify more of the no. 2 point. this will be helpfull. Thanks again

  • moser

    March 13th, 2008 4:59 am

    Thanks mate. Will try to do the same.

    http://www.nela.in/

  • Andrew

    March 13th, 2008 11:25 pm

    “…for the first few months my traffic was really low – down in the few hundreds of visitors a day”

    Few hundreds?? I would love to be in that position! I really need to read the rest of your posts about how to even get to that stage!

    Great blog

    A

  • rajeev saxena

    March 14th, 2008 8:51 pm

    I am runing Agranews website about india news, latest & updated political, cultural, tourism, agra, cinema, sports indian news online.

    http://www.agranews.com

    Now site is getting good traffic from India and better google PR.

  • win a free playstation 3

    March 15th, 2008 6:45 pm

    Thanks for sharing your experience with us, hopefully you techniques can work for me.too.

  • Miguel Pineiro

    March 16th, 2008 5:15 pm

    hey excellent tips! Helped me to recheck some areas I may be neglecting. thanks!

  • Ned Carey

    March 19th, 2008 2:58 pm

    Holy cow, you get more comments then I get traffic!

    Thanks for the tips. I’ll apply them.

  • Alex Filippi

    March 22nd, 2008 3:17 pm

    Also for high ranking position i suggest try web and rank solution.

  • Peon Life

    March 23rd, 2008 10:23 pm

    Thanks for the tips, mate. We’ll try to implement your strategies to address our clients

  • Devin

    March 24th, 2008 4:14 am

    Great Info on traffic building.

  • Tobi

    March 26th, 2008 2:59 am

    Hey, probloggler and guys, please could you kindly state how to tag in technocrati?
    I wanna tag
    http://tobimichigan.com
    I’d be glad to hear from you folks.
    Regards,
    TM

  • Rajeev saxena

    March 27th, 2008 12:35 am

    My site Agranews is more and more popular now. If you are

    looking web traffic from India , You can link with my site

    http://www.agranews.com , I am sure you will get many

    visters from India.

    best wishes

    Rajeev
    http://www.agranews.com

  • Jaime

    April 2nd, 2008 6:47 am

    I am looking to understand the full breadth of Technorati tagging as well. Help please!!

    As far as trackbacks go, it’s my understanding that you use a trackback only when you mention someone else’s post in yours. Is there another way to use them?

    I greatly appreciate any help that anyone can offer me.

    Thanks guys!

  • secret owl

    April 3rd, 2008 1:41 am

    Trackbacks – pshht, first I should probably start commenting on all the articles I read. Then I can move to trackbacks. Just thinking of all the articles I’ve read and not commented on makes me ill…

  • Players With Money Review

    April 7th, 2008 4:46 pm

    I found this page through del.icio.us and thought I’d post a comment too.

    Thanks for the traffic tips. They sure help.

  • Scott

    April 10th, 2008 5:33 am

    I found this page under a search of website traffic blog. Nicely done. I am curious about the feedburner. I am going to try it.

  • johnny

    April 10th, 2008 8:34 pm

    Yes you are right, but if you want real traffic than look for new ways.

    http://www.iwantwebsite.com

  • Luis Gross

    April 11th, 2008 5:53 am

    Great tips, I’m trying to gain more traffic to my site, I will apply these tactics and see how they go. Although I’m not quite sure how to use these tags through blogger. I’ll do some rersearch and see what I can come up with. Thanks for the tip Darren.

  • Mircea

    April 12th, 2008 12:33 pm

    How much time you stayed in Google sandbox?
    I do get most of the traffic from Google (my blog is 2 months old) but I don’t have any pagerank yet…

  • facecow

    April 13th, 2008 8:21 am

    Testing the third simple technique

  • Ilaarijs

    April 15th, 2008 10:10 am

    Yes, let’s see, how many people will come to see adventures of crazy squirrel :D

  • Paradise

    April 15th, 2008 11:19 pm

    Let me add that Simple Plugin to my bÅŸog. I am sure it will bring quality traffic…

  • Joncy

    April 17th, 2008 12:20 am

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  • gamermediadownload

    April 17th, 2008 5:51 pm

    Good tips, I’ve got a site and am trying to do my best to drive more traffic to it. I’ll need to do some looking around to figure out how to use these tags in blogger. Thanks for the tips!

  • Joncy

    April 17th, 2008 9:29 pm

    hey this is a new trick to increase the traffic to your website.
    and its really works for everyone.

    http://www.stickiewicket.com/shine/shine4

  • CharlieJ

    April 18th, 2008 5:38 am

    THANKS for the tips. My original (and favorite) blog is from the old version of Blogger.com. Unfortunately, I can’t add any text or tags to the beginning of the blog without making it invisible. Otherwise, it messes up the layout. Two questions:

    1) How would you (or anyone reading this post) suggest I add tags, etc to a blogspot.com blog?

    2) If they cannot be added, what other blog service would you suggest? Can I “move” my blog from blogspot.com to another site? I don’t want to lose the content I have posted over 3 yrs.

    THANKS again!
    CharlieJ
    The Sope-Bocks

  • Boris H

    April 19th, 2008 3:45 am

    great, just great and useful article. Thanx Darren

  • Wenbin

    April 20th, 2008 3:59 am

    Thanks for the tips. I have added a tag on my website on improving interpersonal communication skills.

    http://communicatebetter.blogspot.com/

  • Cory

    April 21st, 2008 3:47 pm

    I’m still having a hard time getting my head around the differences between Technorati, Delicious, Digg, etc etc

  • Antonio

    April 26th, 2008 3:14 am

    Thanks, I have a spanish blog since two years. And my traffic is very low (barely one hundred of visits-day)… I will try yours tips, inmediately.

  • remrow

    April 27th, 2008 12:24 am

    Your points must help. I am using tags.
    Is there differences with blogger and wordpress tags?

  • dave

    April 27th, 2008 4:28 am

    great tips , I am having a heck of a time figuring out the traffic part as well , I will try your tips
    thanks !!

  • MeMyKidandLife

    May 2nd, 2008 2:12 am

    Thanks for the tips! I seems to average a few hundred hits a day at this point and am ready to bump it up to 1K+ daily.

    Now from my thoughts to learning how to do that… ;-) I appreciate your help in the learning curve.

  • Vanessa

    May 2nd, 2008 7:06 pm

    The fact that there’s feedback nearly three years after the original post shows that the article’s still good and relevant! I’ve just created a completely new website about cool things to do on visiting London – http://www.morethanoxfordstreet.com

    It’s so new that it’s not even googable or yahooable yet, but I’m keen to get visitors already

    Anyway, this timely advice should steer me in the right direction of being more proactive about letting people know about the site. Some of the feedback has also been useful.

  • Master Business Credit Builder (Steve)

    May 3rd, 2008 9:43 am

    Darren,

    I wonder if you had this all to do over again if you would start with technorati tags? I’m certain that trackbacks and link building are a great method of driving traffic, and that’s what I plan to focus on.

  • amparo

    May 3rd, 2008 5:06 pm

    there’s lot of ways to attract traffic to your site. one is word of mouth, another one is to have a A well known blogger talk about your site on there blog. but im not worried about traffic i know mine will do well, once i get it going. but my problem is mapping a domain name. im tired of all the youtube videos. i have watched.. then when you send them a message. they dont get back to you, its more like look what i can do, not so often you get some one trying to help
    and i know people are busy……. im just frustrated

  • amparo

    May 3rd, 2008 5:16 pm

    just remember we all start some were. be patient and persistant and just use your imagination to come up with idea’s to get more traffic, and just remember you already posses everything to become great……

  • Z Solomons

    May 4th, 2008 12:32 am

    Some time’s we for get to cover the basic steps for traffic. This 3 is a must have for any blog who is starting out online.

    I have tested trackback before and its get picked by search engines very quickly.. Before adding trackback, make sure the blog or website, is in the same niche your are in. It will give your a extra point for seo link exchange..

    .

  • Ryan McLean

    May 4th, 2008 11:37 pm

    These sound hard to implement because I don’t know what technorati tags are or how to use trackbacks….plus I don’t have a second site to link to my blog.

    So sorry but I found this post useless for me as a beginning blogger.

  • Richie

    May 6th, 2008 9:17 pm

    These sound hard to implement because I don’t know what technorati tags are or how to use trackbacks….plus I don’t have a second site to link to my blog.

    So sorry but I found this post useless for me as a beginning blogger.

    But you can check my website:
    http://www.thousanddollarcommissions.biz/101368

  • Master Credit Builder (Steve)

    May 7th, 2008 2:45 am

    Richie,

    Everything you need to know about technorati tags and trackbaks can be found either here on Problogger, or, by searching the terms on your favorite search engine.

    One thing you’ll find out quickly is that there is no free meal on the internet. You’re going to have to learn to read the advice / suggestions people give you, and then take some serious time to research and develop your own plan based on their advice.

    I notice you posted your affiliate link at the end of your comment. It’s quite ok to have and state an opinion opposite of Darren’s, but if you really want to generate traffic to your website you better provide some useful and interesting, Subjective reasoning and data to back it up.

    Another thing you will find out quickly is that most of the “systems” you buy online for generating cash only generate cash for the owner of the system. Very few of these programs have any intrinsic value; IE the product is designed to sell itself, and doesn’t do much else. However, blogs, and this blog in particular are legitimate businesses. Problogger happens to be a relationship building business more than a commercial money maker (although it does make some money I’m certain), but Darren also has other blogs that are very commercial in nature. Both are legit business models, and I think you’d be better served learning how to recreate and adapt these models in order to make money than by pushing an internet “cash flow” system.

    -Steve

  • farhan

    May 12th, 2008 9:12 pm

    Nice article, I already implemented the point 1 and 2 steps, so it increasing my blog visitor in a month. I also try to put another tag after the main title of the post (then end of main tittle seperated by ” | ” ). it also drive a good related google adsense add (if you registered as an adsense members). Of course It depend on the contain and theme of your blog. And dont forget to submit or register your link to the submit link expl. google add url,astalavista, or yahoo add url.
    Regards,
    http://indo-woman.blogspot.com

  • justin

    May 13th, 2008 1:42 am

    how do you know which tags to generate? Is this something you just pick from your post, or would it be best to research before hand.

  • Tom Bates, CDA

    May 13th, 2008 2:24 pm

    Choosing a “trackback” works best if your “key Word” is related to your blog. If your selling a product or service the “key word” orterm used for trackback or back link, will yield you best results and return on your investment if it is related to your product. For example if you sell hats don’t use “truck Tires” as your key word.

    Hope that helps

  • Tom Bates, CDA

    May 13th, 2008 2:39 pm

    I follow everything except the leverage of the site.

    Please direct.

    Thanks,

    Tom

  • EyeSoft

    May 17th, 2008 10:36 am

    Nice post ;) thanks for sharing that was useful for me and my blog

  • CHIRAG JAIN

    May 18th, 2008 4:49 pm

    H3y thnks for sharing such a usefull information with us but i have some problems dear….

    i am really not getting some useful traffic in my website…. i dont know whats the matter with it can u plz help… plz plz plz

    Anyways i really like your website and it has helped me a lot in many other ways for earning some money in my early age of 14…

    SO THANKS A LOT

  • Tom Bates, CDA

    May 19th, 2008 1:52 pm

    Targeted traffic is key. In addition to good content I have found that educating client through articles works well. It has been a blessing in giving my clients their real options in debt consolidation and debt settlement.

    It is just my view of giving theall their options rather than being the guy that spends hundreds of thousands of dollars running “sales ads.

    This will deliver targeted visitors and help them along the way. Click Here to see what I am trying to show you.
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    Kindest,

    Tom Bates, CDA

  • Loren Paz

    May 19th, 2008 6:32 pm

    Some nice tips on increasing traffic. Thanks.

  • Rajeev saxena

    May 20th, 2008 3:23 am

    I have started Indian news website AGRANEWS (http://www.agranews.com) few years back. I have added site in free good directories and linked to few indian sites on same topics.
    I have very good traffic now.
    You can see the site for idea.

    Rajeev
    AGRANEWS

  • Rajeev saxena

    May 20th, 2008 3:27 am

    You can clik here to see AGRANEWS , to see the type of links.

    http://www.agranews.com

    It work very well.

    Rajeev

  • marcus

    May 21st, 2008 8:50 am

    Great post. I am going to try these tips right now! Keep up the good work.

  • MoonDog

    May 24th, 2008 10:42 pm

    Trackbacks are an excellent way to advertise for free. It certainly saves time from having to post comments on dozens of sites.

  • Jarret Morrow

    May 27th, 2008 9:19 am

    Very encouraging post! I have a dietary supplent research updates blog and I’ve been writing posts for about six months. I’ve tried technorati tags, digg, link referral, commenting in other blogs, blog directories–top blog/ blogosphere etc, link building with ezine articles etc, even useless tools like traffic g, and my traffic has gone no where fast, sigh. I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a look at my blog and offer some advice. I have a ton of passion for the topic that I write about, but maybe it’s just not a very popular blog topic.

  • Chelsea

    May 28th, 2008 6:25 am

    Trackbacks are very useful in generating traffic however it is important to take into consideration the type of traffic that you desire. By making sure to get track backs from site that has similar topic and page copy as yours will generate quality traffic.

    Thank-you for your post however, I am interested in finding more information on feed burning.

    http://www.contactlensking.com

  • Dominick

    May 30th, 2008 6:12 pm

    I really like Simple Tags. They have made using technorati so much easier. I also like to use ShareThis. I’ve found its one of the best tools for sharing my feed with social bookmarking sites.

    Thanks so much for the tips. I’m going to try #2 and #3 to see how that works for me!

  • Jolly Green Dad

    June 1st, 2008 2:07 am

    I am going to try all of these. Several hundred a day?? Many of us bloggers would love for that traffic alone! We would be very interested in knowing how to do this even.

    Thanks for the tips though. I will try all of them.

  • Tom Bates, CDA

    June 1st, 2008 6:44 am

    Understand that not all tags are going to be “follow”, and, do make sure sure the topic is related to your service or niche. Not that the link is bad, but if the niches are one in the same it “should” show more relivance to your landing site.

    Best of luck, and keep it direct and inviting

  • Daniboy | Marketing Copywriter

    June 6th, 2008 7:18 pm

    Nice one!

    I’d meant to spend 10 minutes max on zipping through this post, but one thing led to another and I’ve just spent the last 3 hours changing things around!

    Really good ideas in this article, though (who cares if I noticed it nearly three years after it was written?).

    Fingers crossed they’ll help http://www.daniboy.com/blog/ increase its (cough) hundreds (…yeah, I wish…) of visitors a day.

  • assasin

    June 11th, 2008 1:57 pm

    great advice i was in a sandbox and it was horrible im redeveloping my site and hopefully it will be completed soon. It is http://www.gl-science.com

  • Nate

    June 17th, 2008 5:36 am

    How do I know if I’m in the sandbox? How long til’ Uncle Google Starts moving visitors my way?

  • Cactii Cactii

    June 18th, 2008 3:31 am

    I’m always looking for ways to drive up my traffic – it can be very difficult and is a lot of work.

    There are really know make-money-quick schemes for web sites on the internet.

  • DebtDoc

    June 20th, 2008 3:13 pm

    Visitors come our way by having usefull content that is inviting. Be patient

  • Richard

    June 20th, 2008 9:23 pm

    I’m going to try this! I don’t know how to do the trackball though.

  • Provillus

    June 22nd, 2008 3:18 am

    I’m curious if the technorati tags still work as I don’t see in your posts your use of this?

    I’ll take a look at the simpletags plugin, I just never liked having the tags show up at the bottom …

  • MySaheli

    June 24th, 2008 11:56 pm

    Great Advice. I ‘ll give it a try. Thanks.

  • chrisk

    June 26th, 2008 5:15 am

    The whole trying to “create” traffic to my website is frustrating!!
    After all, the reason we all have created websites is to create more business, right? However, as a new website, we’re all tossed into the google sandbox until such time that the google gods see it fit that they pull us out. During this time in the box, I suppose one could attempt to create link exchanges with relevant sites, just make sure you don’t exchange with a site that’s considered a “bad neighbor” or your link will count against you (does anybody know how to verify if a site has been classified as a “bad neighbor” by google?)
    Don’t pay to have your link placed on a high page ranking site, ’cause if google finds out, you’ll never get out of “the box”.
    I suppose one could purchase traffic, but how do you know which sites are respectable. Or maybe more importantly, how do you know that the traffic that is being sent is even interested in what you’re offering – what if only 3 out of every 100 sent to your site could even care less?
    So, the way I see it is, as far as google is concerned and right now they are the King, we all will start recieving additional unsolicited traffic when google allows it – or not.
    In any case, I’ll give these ideas a shot, hopefully I’ll get a little boost once I’m let out of the box

  • Patricia

    June 27th, 2008 4:36 am

    Now only if i can figure out how to trackback properly! Sucks that wordpress doesn’t allow plugins. So much for simpletag.

  • sean808080

    June 27th, 2008 5:18 am

    some excellent tips here. i learned a lot about trackbacks. i cant wait to try it!

  • cklimen

    June 27th, 2008 3:14 pm

    I honestly had not heard of trackbacks before reading this article – thanks a billion!! I’ll give it a whirl on my blog post haste!
    Thanks for providing all of this great information

  • type 2 diabetes

    June 30th, 2008 1:15 pm

    I am not sure…. but I want to know just in 3 simple ways…. thanks for sharing

  • musiclover

    June 30th, 2008 11:37 pm

    I just started my blog…I will use some of these tips you provided. Thanks!

  • bikran

    July 1st, 2008 5:14 am

    Does these tags things really help to get traffic . ? i think it my time to try it also

  • 3magin8

    July 1st, 2008 4:25 pm

    thanks for sharing these tips!
    I’ll definately try them out to increase traffic on my blog.

  • San Francisco Photos

    July 3rd, 2008 1:24 pm

    This is great advice! Thanks for all the great info on here.

  • Eamon

    July 4th, 2008 10:17 pm

    Thanks for the tips, we just started our blog less than 3 months old so I am feeling the pain as regards traffic!

  • Michael Aulia

    July 7th, 2008 12:25 pm

    Somehow I never get good traffic from Technorati even though I’ve put on the tags. There must be some other tweaks needed

  • Elizabeth

    July 13th, 2008 1:22 pm

    I just started my first blog about a month ago. I’m getting a little frustrated because I haven’t been getting much traffic. I’ve tried just about everything. I’m not going to give up though!

  • Lukas

    July 14th, 2008 5:10 am

    Since it is very difficult to create a high website traffic page, I want to thank you for your great advices.

  • Deepak

    July 14th, 2008 12:04 pm

    You wrote this post a while ago yet it still remains so relevant. I am following some of these techniques on BlogStroll and I can already see some results.

  • gout

    July 15th, 2008 7:36 pm

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  • Frank Burton

    July 16th, 2008 1:28 am

    traffic is good but attracting buyers is the hard part

  • Phil MacNevin

    July 17th, 2008 10:07 pm

    Thanks for the tip! I recently started my own blog after I started listening to your 6 Figure Blogging Course (which is a great course btw!), and it’s great tips like these that keeps me coming back to problogger each day.

    Now, I am a bit of a noob when it comes to blogging, but what is the most effective way to use trackbacks? I’ve never really made use of trackback links before, and honestly don’t know much about them yet.

  • charles

    July 22nd, 2008 12:16 am

    Tags? How do we implement them actually? I can only write one tag per site on technorati.

    Is it alright?

    And i have just started my blog 3 days ago and i am at #17,001,293 in alexa? What should i do to make it to top 1mil?

    Thank you.
    Charles
    http://www.resourcesandmoney.blogspot.com

  • George

    July 22nd, 2008 6:28 am

    This a great piece of advice, have been trying to improve my blog which is not ranked well, but now some reason for traffic to improve in my site
    http://investor-guide.blogspot.com/

  • mo

    July 22nd, 2008 6:07 pm

    Good stuff dude, keep update new things
    http://www.andhratalkies.co.nr
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  • Barb

    July 24th, 2008 1:50 am

    I have never understood trackbacks, but reading through all the comments to this post has helped me tremendously.

    Barb

  • Zoya

    July 30th, 2008 8:01 am

    Hi,

    Thanks for the writing, this is really very effective piece of Idea.

    Zoya,
    http://infotainmentcenter.com/lifestyle.html

  • Matthew

    August 3rd, 2008 2:28 pm

    Great post ive tried all sorts of traffic but the one that converts for me is at http://www.crawlingthenet.com and nothin else converts so good.

  • Julian TC

    August 5th, 2008 12:23 am

    Thanks, My site has recently experienced a drop in page views for some reason. Hopefully your tips will help me revive Technology Current dot com!

  • Sriram

    August 11th, 2008 5:10 pm

    hey i need to know about the tags please help me!!!!can u take few moments on my blog and tell me wat to tag on any of the single post so that i can get any idea

  • Hamdani

    August 12th, 2008 1:09 am

    I had try the technorati tag plugin, it make live so easy. Already sees some traffic after 72 hours of installing.

  • Cheap iPods

    August 15th, 2008 12:39 am

    Cheers for the tips,

    Don’t think ive taken technorati tips seriously enough in the past – I’m going to look into that plugin you mentioned, hope it works…

  • Tammy Warren

    August 21st, 2008 2:55 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I could stay on your blog for hours.

    Thank you for sharing.

  • Hyo Byun

    August 23rd, 2008 11:31 am

    I’m afraid to put my feedburner icon on my website, It a very low number T_T.

  • shawn

    August 26th, 2008 12:14 pm

    That is a very naturally inspirational post for bloggers who are just starting out online to learn and retain knowledge from. I actually am glad I decided to sop on by and read this post…:-)

    Shawn

  • Armil

    August 27th, 2008 6:36 pm

    Hello Mr. Darren Rowse, I’m so grateful I found Problogger thru the blog of my admired personal development blogger Mr. Steve Pavlina.

    I found the above post informative and helpful in my hardwork of driving a good traffic to my blog(http://freebiztraffic-arsenal.blogspot.com).

    From your thoughts one thing that bothered in my mind was about the concept of trackbacks. Because I had never known it before and I have no exact idea how it works.

    Please let me know what it is all about and how I should get started? Thanks!

  • Smart Boy

    August 29th, 2008 12:29 pm

    Great advice Darren. I’ve never harnessed the power of Technorati – but just might have to try now.

  • Ceramic Ball

    August 29th, 2008 1:22 pm

    Thanks for this quality information.Yes, these are three simple steps that can help you a lot.But the most important factor in my point of view is your content.

  • Zacchaeus Adetona

    August 30th, 2008 1:06 am

    I appreciate your open-mindedness in help many to succeed in blogging.As a fresher in blogging,I have a few problems:

    1.i can’t see those tags from technorati.com
    2.i don’t understand what you call feed burners
    3. i don’t know how to use trackbacks

    Please help me out on these.

  • Tom

    September 3rd, 2008 5:35 am

    They are good points, but do they apply across all blog types. Technorati is a very specific beast.

  • Edsil Puno II

    September 6th, 2008 11:22 pm

    Wow thanks a lot. I guess I should register my other bog to my technorati account. =)

  • Driving Traffic To Your Website

    September 11th, 2008 2:47 am

    This was an amazing article! I never thought to use Tecnorati with my blogs to Drive Traffc to my Wesbtie – honestly I have to much more reading in order to understand the value of using these but the fact that by implementing this plug in called attention from technorati to his site – this is more than enough reason for me to do it – simple things like these that don’t hurt should be done by all bloggers, doesn’t cost money and it may make you some in the end….

  • deepu

    September 12th, 2008 7:49 am

    a nice article which help to beginners like me………

  • José

    September 13th, 2008 6:22 am

    Hi,

    It seems that you got lots of visitors in the first weeks (compared to what I get).
    Do you feel that the name of your blog has influenced this fact ?

    best regards,

    José

  • dm2

    September 18th, 2008 12:24 am

    great tips…..I will try to use three tool above….very useful sharing and I hope following your success…thanks

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  • methode

    September 29th, 2008 3:09 am

    Excellent post.
    I never thought displaying the tags has any meaning, always thought it’s annoying for the visitors.

    Learned again something :)

    Thanks

  • Tom Bates

    September 29th, 2008 11:38 am

    I like the idea of listing tags, but Tecnorati with my blogs to Drive Traffic to my Website is both rewarding and credible.

    Great postings

    Kindest,

    Tom

  • John

    October 3rd, 2008 3:55 am

    Hello,

    Ok your post and the replies have convinced me to try social sites for traffic. Even though everybody is saying that social traffic does not convert.

    Two questions: Is this method still valid since 2005? Do you think this strategy will work with a site like http://www.increased-website-traffic.net?

    Thanks for the blog post

    John

  • Tarandeep

    October 10th, 2008 4:39 am

    Excellent post.
    I never thought displaying the tags has any meaning, always thought it’s annoying for the visitors.

    Thanks for sharing.

    SMS 4 All

  • Thomas Flight

    October 16th, 2008 12:11 am

    The first and last tips are great. The second one doesn’t have much value unless you have another website.

  • Professional Lab

    October 17th, 2008 1:47 am

    Woww!! It’s 2005’s post when there was no tagging system. Interesting.

  • johnnyBwilson

    October 22nd, 2008 9:07 am

    Pretty good article. But has anyone really had sucsess from this? I doubt my link will get any traffic.

    -John
    http://www.MindsUnite.com

  • dk

    October 25th, 2008 3:47 am

    nice post….
    the backlinks trick is worth to try…

    thanks a lot..

  • Tom Bates

    October 25th, 2008 4:31 am

    Natural Placement will come from many efforts and practical efforts. I have found link building to be both rewarding with traffic, but have made new Friends in the SEO world….

    Good post,

    Tom

  • Social Media Marketing Blog

    October 29th, 2008 9:14 pm

    wow, I liked the tagging tool. thanks a lot for that.

  • Website Traffic

    November 1st, 2008 11:48 pm

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  • gokhiel

    November 2nd, 2008 8:41 am

    I think why people come to popular web or blog is the contain. your blog have many good contain thats why people intrest to come and come again to your blog, .nice tips!

  • Tom Bates

    November 2nd, 2008 3:27 pm

    Hey Darren,

    where can I get a list of all your blogs? Your truly natural approach at SEM’s and Organic placement is AWESOME! I fully understand your direction and feel your direct and on target!

    Thanks,

    Tom

  • Website Traffic Magnet

    November 7th, 2008 9:55 am

    SimpleTags looks very interesting. I have heard of it but never actually tried it out. But now thanks to this post, I am checking it out!

    Thanks

  • D3Marketers

    November 8th, 2008 12:31 am

    Simple yet very effective ways to drive free traffic to your sites. Thanks for the informative article sir.

  • Tom

    November 8th, 2008 9:14 am

    Natural search engine placement is based on many facets of your inbound links and how traffic finds your site.

    Again, Darren is on target!

    Thanks D

    Tom

  • vishnu

    November 13th, 2008 3:18 am

    Nice article very good suggestion i implemented some of them found good result

  • Make Money Online

    November 19th, 2008 3:18 am

    This is exactly what people need to be doing. There are so many top quality sites out there that the owners have put so much work into but most people never find them. If only they would put a fraction of their effort into building their traffic.

  • Noodles

    November 20th, 2008 9:58 pm

    Trying out the SimpleTag plugin now :)
    Nice post! Thanks.

  • Kate

    November 22nd, 2008 2:50 am

    Great posting. I have been having some issues with getting readers to notice my site (http://www.realfreelancelife) but I am going to go and try the technorati tags trick and see how things work.

  • Justin

    November 22nd, 2008 9:00 am

    I always find that blatant self promotion works best :)
    http://aprilrainskinscience.blogspot.com/

  • Ged Sloan

    November 23rd, 2008 6:02 am

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  • Bhavin Swadas

    November 24th, 2008 1:57 pm

    Great article i have implemented this in my blog and gets very much traffic to my blog

  • Bhavin Swadas

    November 24th, 2008 1:59 pm

    Currently i have engineersguide.webnode.com site and i am using this stratergy now so i hope it will work

  • العاب

    November 30th, 2008 8:20 pm

    Getting more traffic is hard task . It takes constant work and patience .

  • Search Engine Placement

    December 1st, 2008 8:28 am

    NOTE TO SECRET OWL:

    with all the reading you have done, it is time for you to become the expert in your niche and write about what you have learned. I did the same thing for a long time, however kept good notes along the way, and introduced things like Darren has discussed here.

    Be the grease in the Wheel,

    Tom

  • Seth

    December 2nd, 2008 12:43 pm

    This is amazing – this was originally written in 2005, with maybe a few updates (maybe?) the information is still very useful. I just want to say thank you for the advise. I just started my third blog (first two were unsuccessful) and really want this one to work. I implemented your advise and will post back with results. Thanks again!

    Seth
    http://fun-dad.blogspot.com/

  • Frank

    December 4th, 2008 7:17 am

    whats the best way to write a title tag…should i include my company name in the title tags?

    Frank
    http://www.welcometoinsurance.com

  • Albert

    December 4th, 2008 5:47 pm

    Does tagging make that big of an impact? Well I’m going to try it out and see how it goes and I am glad that you never gave in to your website. You can support me and check in my website and see if this tagging thing is working for me and perhaps wish me good luck. http://marketopinions.blogspot.com/

  • Kate

    December 6th, 2008 4:58 am

    I just started my own blog. Currently, I have no traffic. I’m going to try some of your suggestions. Thanks for the tips.

  • Money Making Surveys

    December 10th, 2008 2:46 am

    I can totally relate to with your story of getting started. It definitely takes persistent to make money online.

    In your situation it sounds like you did the old “turn lemons into lemonade”. Good stuff.

  • George

    December 12th, 2008 5:49 pm

    I have just started to be active blogging, I had been with a blog fragmented for the last one year without posing and knowing tips on how to increase my traffic

  • Ify Esedebe

    December 16th, 2008 1:58 am

    I stumbled on this site in my bid to find a solution to my blogging issue as well as learn how to drive traffic to my blog and also make money blogging.
    Your humble and honest advice will be really appreciated aside tips gotten from this site.
    Thanks and God Bless.

  • geetha

    December 16th, 2008 5:39 pm

    I came across your site, when I was very much confused about my blogging. I started blogging for the last one year, but only now i started it doing in a full-fledge. Your tips would be really useful to me. Thank you a lot.

  • Arjan

    December 17th, 2008 10:38 am

    Wow! This is a great article about web traffic. People need good information about Web Traffic. Thanks!

  • Scott Mahler

    December 20th, 2008 8:27 am

    Here’s my problem, I’ve done all of that and my traffic still hasn’t gone up very much. What do you do in the case of following all the advice to no avail?

    http://www.datexmedia.wordpress.com

  • Mike Lopez

    December 22nd, 2008 1:55 am

    Awesome and very encouraging. I guess I just have to work harder on my blogs to increase the 10s to a few hundred visits daily (much like yours when you started) to the 1000s a day mark (much like yours after you tweaked it).

    Thanks again!

  • onur

    December 22nd, 2008 11:08 pm

    I already wrote a comment but I forgot to say something.

    I wanted to add one more thing to your list and that is;

    Always search for what others are doing, because there is always some people out there who does something different which might work better.

  • German Romance

    January 2nd, 2009 6:22 pm

    Excellent post about how to increase you traffic to your website. Thanks I will put it into action right away :). Getting more traffic to your site in the end of the day not that difficult, you just need to work more!

  • Dargil

    January 5th, 2009 7:31 am

    Thank you for all your help, i followed some of your advise and got a big jump in traffic, i advise as many people as possible to have a look at this blog.

  • D Jackson

    January 7th, 2009 4:39 pm

    Great article, I’ve implemented 2 of the 3 steps.

  • Linda

    January 8th, 2009 2:21 am

    Sounds like some useful advice. You’ve really got to be able to think outside of the box in these lean times

  • Joi

    January 9th, 2009 1:43 am

    Great tips! The FeedBurner headline animator is also really cool to use in e-mails, as a sig.

    Thanks for sharing your wisdom, I need all that I can get!

  • clickktdotcom

    January 11th, 2009 4:42 pm

    Great article! People need good information about Web Traffic. Thanks!

  • Live in France

    January 11th, 2009 7:46 pm

    Thanks! Actually, the only one that I hadn’t yet done was the Technorati one. I’ll have to see how this helps. I just did it and I’m really excited to see what this brings. Thanks again!

  • farshad

    January 12th, 2009 2:08 am

    Thanks! I’ll have to see how this helps. I just did it and I’m really excited to see what this brings. Thanks again!

  • Zack

    January 13th, 2009 4:37 am

    Very basic steps, I am thinking if they can really increase that much traffic. Anyway, thank you very much

  • Organic Traffic

    January 14th, 2009 2:29 am

    This is a great post of how some real simple measures can make a huge difference. I have noticed a huge increase from my blog with another simple method..social networking

  • Spring Newton

    January 14th, 2009 6:07 am

    Thanks so much! Our traffic has increased tenfold in just one week!!

  • hire traffic expert

    January 20th, 2009 10:21 pm

    Hi thanks for the tips. Even i use Technorati to get good results . I suggest every one to use it. I appreciate you for writing the use of Technorati so that every one can be benefited by Technorati.

  • personal safety alarm

    January 22nd, 2009 10:52 pm

    Great tips. I will try them out when my blog is launched later this month.

  • paranormity

    January 23rd, 2009 2:56 am

    Great tips! I am using them now hopefully they work for me! I’ll post results here in 30 days. Thanks again for being such a great help!

  • fiona

    January 28th, 2009 1:42 am

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    • Your Basic statistics
    • Online visitos
    • All the Above or any combination of the above (Horizontal or Vertical )
    • A Small image icon
    • A Configurable hit counter (Select the font style, color , size, background color)
    You can change the display on your page any time you wish, fast and easy.
    Why do webmasters and bloggers have to track their visitors? Tracking the visitors is an essential part of any online business. Learn how many visitors you are getting and have the statistics tracking capability.

    But, you want to know even more about your visitors and their behavior, such as:

    • How many visitors come to your site?
    • How many visitors per day do you have?
    • Where are your visitors coming from?
    • From which page did they come?
    • What keywords did they search to find your site?
    • What pages did they view? How long did they stay?
    • How many visitors per week, per month?
    • Which search engines did your visitors use to find your webpage?

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  • Mark

    January 28th, 2009 2:02 am

    Great tips, this subject definitely comes up a lot in my line of work and I’m always interested in learning new things. Thanks for sharing.

  • Deskins Writing

    February 2nd, 2009 11:06 pm

    Thank you for sharing these tips. I’m always interested in learning about keywords and SEO. I’ll definitely try everything you mention.

  • dev

    February 8th, 2009 1:07 am

    Great help to doubled the website traffic, will try on few blog and website, hope can doubled the my traffic

  • Site Traffic

    February 8th, 2009 10:58 am

    It seemed to me that Adrian knew his stuff but after opening the PC Doctor, I know he knows his stuff! I too use technorati and I think it should be par ‘for the course’ these days. Feedburner is also a must. Not sure I want to experiemnet with Google sand-box though…LOL
    Ray

  • seth

    February 10th, 2009 4:59 am

    Can’t wait to see the results from trying these steps.. I am hoping to turn in the numbers with some improvements to my traffic strategies.

  • Avinash

    February 10th, 2009 10:47 pm

    Plan to put these tips into action. Let me see what I come up with and share it with you folks. Thanks for sharing this info.

  • Dex Anthony

    February 13th, 2009 10:34 pm

    Thank you for the information. I have just installed simpletags on my blog..

  • Jim Green

    February 16th, 2009 12:18 pm

    Excellent advice.

  • Citra

    February 21st, 2009 7:29 pm

    Do you plan similar topics in your blog?

  • ican't internet

    February 23rd, 2009 8:24 pm

    I haven’t yet seen alot of traffic coming from Technorati myself, but the trackback tip is definately a very good one. This serves multiple purposes, traffic, and search engine placement!
    http://www.icantinternet.org/2008/12/trackbacks/

  • Ligoy na Bata

    February 25th, 2009 7:26 pm

    I fell the same way like quitting and giving up but with some advices from other web person I am still here. Experimenting and testing of all SEO Techniques I learned from reading and blogging. :)

    Thank you for a such nice article. :)

  • gerry meade

    February 26th, 2009 8:09 am

    gonna give it a try today and will report back in 30 days

  • Web 2.0 Development

    February 26th, 2009 8:41 pm

    Even i feel same; not able to increase traffic, but keep on working. Hope one day it will give me result.

    My suggestion to every reader, keep on working even a small work in day on your website, gives you good result in future.

  • Jim Green

    February 27th, 2009 2:42 pm

    It seems like 10% of bloggers (whoever the hell they are) somehow manage to get loads of traffic while everyone else jumps through all the hoops, reads everything about it they can find online, does the SEO stuff, voraciously looks for advice like it was a drug, works all day on it (and sometimes late into the night) month after month, joins and comments on other blogs in the hope that it will garner some interest, leave trackbacks, blah, blah, blah.

    It is so absurdly difficult, that a small online cottage industry composed of thousands of websites exists dedicated to helping others find the holy grail of internet traffic.

    If I spent this much time and effort discovering for a cure for the common cold, I feel sure that I would have found it by now. Of course, as soon as I finish typing this, I’ll go right back to it like a monkey searching for that mother load of bananas.

    My name is Jim… and I’m a blogaholic.

  • Website Traffic Guide

    March 1st, 2009 5:53 am

    Had run the tips and hope grow the traffic true. Thanks Darren.

  • Somebodyunfamous

    March 1st, 2009 1:02 pm

    So I read through it and I can’t help thinking I need a Problogger for Dummies guide so that I can understand half of everything I just read. I joined Technorati a while back but not sure if I need an account there to apply your technique. I don’t have a wordpress blog, so not sure if there is a tagging plugin for Blogger. As for the feedburner tip, unless you already have a site with modest traffic, then it’s moot! I tried many different techniques with my blog http://somebodyunfamous.blogspot.com but eventually came to the point like most other bloggers, that told me, “You’re spending waaaay too much time and making NOTHING from your efforts, time to move on. I hate to let anything I put so much work into die, so I try to create a post occasionally, but honestly, I think it’s on its last leg (it never really got on more than one probably anyway …).

    Thanks anyway for the tips, and congratulations on all your success!

  • Hafid

    March 4th, 2009 3:18 am

    Thanks a lot for your 3 steps to get traffic in 30 days, I’v been set them up one by one and continue going till completely steps, I sure this works and get me huge of traffic……

    go4sukses buddy !

  • ioffersearch001

    March 5th, 2009 8:16 pm

    Dear Frenz

    Thanks a lot for your steps to get traffic, its very Excellent Tips.
    I have just installed simpletags on my blog..

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    Thanks Thanks

  • Mohammad Afaq

    March 7th, 2009 4:13 pm

    Great Post.

    I really like the idea of track back links. I would really love to use them and I think they help you get a lot of traffic for free and it is fast traffic.

    Darren I think that you should add some more information about track back links on your blog. It will be a really nice thing.
    —————————————————
    Mohammad Afaq
    Free Website Traffic

  • gazzali

    March 8th, 2009 2:13 pm

    Hi Darren…I have installed simple tags but I see 3 options in my dashboard, that is, ‘manage tags’ ‘mass edit tags’ ‘auto tags’.. Now how do you use simple tags when posting. How do you use simple tags

  • fornls

    March 8th, 2009 4:24 pm

    I never tried technorati. Even on the community blogs, having your blogs posted with more number of related tags increases your article’s visibility and hence gets more traffic. Using few popular tags is very helpful.
    Let me try technorati tags and see its effect.

  • Millionaire Acts

    March 12th, 2009 10:27 am

    Thanks a lot for this Darren. I will try to upload the plug in and see if my traffic will increase.

  • Dump Trucks

    March 12th, 2009 10:15 pm

    Darren,Its interesting reading your articles.Really.I dont know about FeedBurner.Its important.But as recommended by you I will surely go deep into it ,read it & use it in my blog.

  • amit

    March 13th, 2009 2:43 am

    It is really good tips for every blogger. I even think seriously about this tips. Posting in forum not only give you free traffic plus name also. Keep posting in blog continuously and google will quickly realize it power of your blog.

  • tourism

    March 17th, 2009 5:38 pm

    This is good post for blogger but if a person developing a website then this may be good technic.

    i will also try the same on my site.

  • Neer

    March 19th, 2009 4:44 pm

    I haven’t seen much traffic from techonrati. I feels very sad because of my blog. I havent seen it increasing the reader, although i am using good keywords in my post. I dont know where i go wrong. I want to make my blog like you sir, but i stuck in the middle of getting good visitors. What should i do to increase my readers and traffic as well….

  • j

    March 24th, 2009 10:49 pm

    I get so much traffic to old site with google image search, pic’s do help, beleave me, they may not stay long if you dont capture them but google image search should be utalized at all cost’s, my site is new and I seem to be forgeting my advice but I will be using photos more once I decide my add layouts. As my adsence is going where my Image would.

  • Lee Ka Hoong

    March 30th, 2009 12:06 pm

    I’ve submitted my post to technorati, but I didn’t get good traffics from there. My purpose to submit my post there is to increase backlinks to my single post, I’m not whether it’s helped but I just did it since I just took me minutes to submit. :)

    Regards,
    Lee

  • Cheap cars

    March 30th, 2009 4:07 pm

    Wow there is some great ideas to increase lpc and get traffic from search engines. I also start a new site so it is more useful for me.
    Thanks.
    Himanshu

  • Shilpa John

    March 30th, 2009 8:13 pm

    I have a site whose traffic is very low and also decreasing continuously. I think your tips will help me to increase the traffic towards my site

    Anyway nice post
    Best of luck

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  • Kinarnedan

    March 31st, 2009 1:27 am

    thanks for the tip. really, when setting up a blog patience is also a factor. don’t lose hope in blogging.

  • Kim

    March 31st, 2009 11:14 am

    I use blogger. Is there a good program out there to use for the trackback links. Looking though the comments I’m not sure if there is something better now than there was a few years ago. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

    Thank you for what you do. I’m looking forward to the 31 day challenge.

    Kim

  • Marie Denee

    April 3rd, 2009 4:54 pm

    Very relevant, even four years later! I have been pluging away at what you have shared with us all. I am still trying to fully understand trackbacks, but all in all, Problogger you rock!

    Marie Denee
    http://www.thecurvyfashionista-mariedenee.com/

  • Mary

    April 5th, 2009 7:56 am

    WordPress Plugins, Duh! Great solution. Using Simple Tags will
    save a lot of time and make a huge difference in traffic. Just like a fine wine, this old post gets better and better. Thanks again.

  • Web Design Bangkok

    April 5th, 2009 5:38 pm

    I apply all three suggestions to a travel blog I write every day. Numbers still in the low 300s. It’s more to do with the stickiness of the subject rather than the quality of the article, in my opinion.

  • Kenneth

    April 7th, 2009 12:52 am

    Your information is tight.
    Thanks. I am gonna try it.
    Please, I am new blogger, could you please tell me how I can check the traffic to my blog?
    Thanks

  • indiandigg

    April 7th, 2009 8:43 am

    This is good post for blogger but if a person developing a website then this may be good technic.

    i will also try the same on my site.

  • seo and prcheck

    April 8th, 2009 3:53 am

    nice article,some great ideas on how to get more traffic to your new blogs!

  • crimesandjustice

    April 8th, 2009 7:18 am

    I have noticed that being a giver you will receive. That is the key

  • Wayne Sharer

    April 9th, 2009 7:21 am

    Excellent blogging advise. I know for a fact that the tips above work just like they are stated. I do the very same things. Simple Tags plugin works very well and is very easy to set up.

    I always say, do what the experts do.

  • Mohammad Afaq

    April 13th, 2009 10:16 am

    Awsome Ideas,

    I like this post and I am already doing this with my blog so I can hope I will get traffic after some time.

    Mohammad Afaq
    http://afaqtrafficblog.blogspot.com

  • online games

    April 14th, 2009 6:10 am

    I’ve been frustrated when trying out traffic increasing tips. Almost always, it seems to be a case of “what works for someone else won’t work for you.” Then again, my site is not a blog but a browser game (and quite a niche one at that — a fantasy golems vs golems RPG game), so it’s possibly a case of trying the wrong tactics for the target audience.

    How would you change your traffic generating tactics for something that isn’t a blog? Obviously Technorati is for blogs, but replacing that tip with something more appropriate to the site seems logical. In my case, that tip becomes “submit to top games sites.” If you were to update these tips, how would you generalize them to work effectively for more than just blogs?

    Kep

  • jagrit

    April 17th, 2009 9:43 pm

    Great post man.. it will be a big help.. thanks

    But sometimes you need to write things in details, everyone is not pro like you.

  • Ravi

    April 17th, 2009 10:03 pm

    thanks for the tips bro.

  • Erin

    April 17th, 2009 10:39 pm

    Just wanted to say thanks for the tips! I’m new to blogging and the tips from sites like yours has helped me so much during the set-up process. Check out my site…I hope you enjoy it. Thank you!! EB

    http://www.piecesofe.blogspot.com

  • Yanto

    April 22nd, 2009 3:29 am

    Thanks for the tips. I used to make banner from a site to link to another site of mine. It did drove traffic but not much. I’ll try to apply the tips you have told us.

  • Michael

    April 23rd, 2009 4:10 pm

    Great tips. Wish I had seen this before launching my new blog.

    BTW, to Erin at http://www.pieceofe.blogspot.com, nice site!

  • sudhy

    April 24th, 2009 2:55 am

    thanks for great info,
    iwas really getting low traffic these days i will try to make the most of ur info
    http://www.stormdreamz.blogspot.com

  • Perspective Shift Chris

    April 27th, 2009 11:06 am

    That is some really good advice. I’ve never actually done much with Technorati, so it makes me think about what I’ve been missing out on. I also never do much with the “trackback” thing, so I’m guessing I’ve been neglecting some serious stuff here! :P Thanks for the post, it gives me some more things to look into now.

  • Kim

    April 29th, 2009 6:31 am

    Your tips are good but is there something for people like me using blogger, in tags tip.

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  • Minimalismi

    May 5th, 2009 2:44 am

    One last thing: patience. Give it time; your traffic WILL go up!

  • chino

    May 8th, 2009 6:03 am

    Thanks for the information Darren….Will be applying your techniques ASAP…

  • LMT forex formula

    May 8th, 2009 2:55 pm

    Nice article..But I just feel that Technorati is not giving enough traffic now a days.

  • skipratt

    May 10th, 2009 1:35 am

    Hello, thanks for this article. But has any one got any idea on how I can implement the 3 steps to my blogger blog? Nothing ever seems easy when dealing with blogger unlike wordpress and it’s vast amount of plugins. Saying that though, I am using free blogger with my own domain name so I thought about switching to wordpress, but realised that free wordpress is no better!

    Maybe if I can get some decent traffic to my blog and make a little money from it, I can get some paid hosting!!!! whoops,,, I’m rambling about nothing again, sorry!!! ;-)

  • erick

    May 11th, 2009 4:38 pm

    ah…this is what i need….thank you somuch..sometimes even little things out from my eyes and mind to do…..once again thank you so much….

  • A Dawn

    May 12th, 2009 9:45 pm

    Keywords via Simple Tags and trackback links are the most commonly used techniques to increase website traffic. Although it takes a lot of time and effort, the return is worth it.

  • Bobby Hamasaki

    May 13th, 2009 8:21 pm

    great tips. for almost a year my blog visitor is stagnant.. so hard to double it up. I’ll try this simple tips.

    Bobby
    http://www.inspiration-inbox.com

  • Vicki Finn

    May 14th, 2009 2:06 am

    Thanks for the info Adrian! Thanks to you I was able to see that my blog was actually hacked and I fixed it and added the things you suggested to my blog: http://www.favorcreative.com/blog

    Thanks again!

  • SEO India

    May 21st, 2009 5:42 pm

    Great article! Thanks for these useful tips now i can definitely increase my website traffic.

  • Doug

    May 28th, 2009 1:14 pm

    Thanks Adrian! There is some great information in all these replies too.

    I really enjoy the challenge of not only proactively seeking traffic but chasing my new blogs up the search engine rankings. I find this to be my greatest motivator when things seem slow.

    My next venture is going to be starting two similar blogs in the same niche and race them both to the highest ranking possible inside 30 days. Should be fun while a learning experience at the same time.

    All the best,
    Doug

  • SEO Company

    May 30th, 2009 7:16 pm

    yaa i like your article i use your step three more time and it would give me some benefit, i also share one more thing if you make more online friends you got more traffic!!! thanks for nice article

  • Alexis

    June 3rd, 2009 10:14 pm

    I believe that the most important factor to realize a constant traffic is to let the users to recycle the website, meaning that some articles are just enough to read once, therefore you need to put articles or set things up so that people can re use them every single time they visit your website. Something like this will work properly I think: http://www.dictipedie.com/

  • The Newbie Guide

    June 4th, 2009 7:55 am

    good job on doubling your website traffic in just one month, it really goes to show that when you doubled your effort, it will pay off and reaping the rewards of your effort is something that keeps on pushing us towards our goal.

  • Ares Vista

    June 5th, 2009 7:28 am

    The best thing about building a high-traffic site is that once it is built, it can continue to produce revenues for years to come. A lot of hard work is definitely involved, but once it’s done, it’s easy to see what an amazing investment all that time and effort really was.

  • Niche Website

    June 5th, 2009 12:45 pm

    This article had some very interesting tips. I will be trying these tips in the future. One of the best ways to build up traffic is to understand how niche marketing works to cut through all the big name websites and build targeted traffic. Also building up your link popularity will help you get out of the Google Sand Box.

  • Smokey

    June 8th, 2009 6:08 am

    i could be curious to know how many posts per day you put out during that 30 day period

  • Make Money By Blogging

    June 13th, 2009 11:37 pm

    Very interesting and useful tips. I am trying these tips, and let me find out if it works for me!

  • Nina from Mauritius

    June 15th, 2009 3:44 pm

    Nice post, I will try these tips and will thank you if it works..

  • Chadwick

    June 16th, 2009 1:51 am

    Good info. I am only a local company and only receive an avg of 10 hits a day. I would love more.

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    June 17th, 2009 9:43 am

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  • Salvy

    June 18th, 2009 8:59 am

    Thank you for your advice. I am currently promoting my website: http://www.hobbyistparadise.com I know it has a lot of useful content, but it seems nobody is noticing it existes. Advertising is kind of hard.

  • neon

    June 20th, 2009 11:41 pm

    Everything is very open and very clear explanation of issues. was truly information. Your website is very useful. Thanks for sharing.

  • Novephel

    June 21st, 2009 8:10 pm

    Good Advice! This blog is amazing. It’s definitely something a beginner blogger like myself strives to be like!


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