>How to Increase Traffic to Your Blog or Articles

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1. Be sure your blog or articles use keywords that are searched often. Search Google or Yahoo to see what types of things interest people most. What is being searched on the internet and what words are being used in those websites to pull traffic into the site? For example, say the biggest concept being searched right now is ‘applying for unemployment’. Try writing an article about this, either how to do it, or placing something on your blog about our struggling economy. Be sure to use the word, ‘unemployment’ often in your article. This will place it high in the search engines for people to see quickly.

2. Submit your blog or article to various search engines for people to find easily. Google has a great place to ‘submit your URL’. Just go to http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl to add your site or article to Google’s search engine. You can also add any article or blog to a search engine by searching the words ‘submit your URL’ under all the search engines. Most places have a spot to add your URL. This increases traffic quickly and will get your blog or article listed on the search engines top pages. Just be sure your blog or article is well written with little errors because the search engines such as Yahoo and Google will not always accept all submissions.

3. You can also submit your blog or article to the URL Web Directory which includes some of the top searched content on the web. Just go to http://www.urlwebdirectory.org/ to submit your site for increased traffic. You can also search their site to find out the top searched articles, blogs, and other content so that you can get a better idea of what is hot right now. This may help you to add the appropriate content to your site for driving more traffic to your information.

4. Add your blog or articles to sites such as digg.com, twitter.com, mybloglog.com, and other social networking sites. The more social networking sites you submit to, the better. Get your friends involved too by utilizing Facebook and Myspace. Sometimes known connections are best for getting your content out there and noticed. Friends can pass your blog or articles onto others and before you know it, you have a whole social community viewing your information and telling more and more people. Hint: the more friends you make and help out, the more people will be viewing your content. This will greatly increase traffic to your blog or articles.

5. Add your site or articles as a signature to almost everything you do on the internet. Make your statement and get noticed by signing everything with your site’s address. Put your information in all places you can think of. When you send emails, sign with your blog address or article writing site such as your eHow profile or Bukisa profile. Sign with these on Facebook or Myspace and even add them to any business you do online such as purchasing orders (if possible). Anytime you can get the word out about your blog or articles, do it. Think constantly about increasing traffic and see how creative you can be with your internet signature.

>How to Make Money With a Blogspot Blog

>1. Sign up for a blogspot blog and choose an orginal name for the page that corresponds to what you are writing about.

2. Decide if you want to use your blog as a journal and talk about your day or as a niche blog/website where you discuss one theme or subject (niche blogs generally pay more money; especially if you write about a popular subject).

3. Write about five different substantive posts, add pictures and links if you want to. You want to make the blog look attractive so that it will draw people in. Blogspot has a lot of different templates to choose from, so play around with them until you find something you like.

4. Add Google Adsense to your account, blogspot makes it very easy for you to sign up and you can limit the amount of ads on your page, if you don’t want it to look overwhelming. You can also sign up to be an Amazon.com affiliate and whenever people click on the link from your page and buy something you get some money.

5. Start promoting your blog, submit it to search engine submission pages, add it to your facebook, myspace and twitter pages. Join forums and have your page in your signature so that people can go there. Email your friends and family with the link to your blog and go to yahoo answers and help people who have questions you can answer through your blog and leave your url there.

6. Make sure you write at least 2 new posts every week so that people have a reason to come back to your blog and keep reading. If you are serious about making money blogging you should learn about SEO and keywords as well.

>Blogging from iGoogle and Gmail

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The Blogger Posting gadget makes it easy to post to your blog from the convenience of Gmail or your iGoogle homepage.

1. To add the Blogger Posting Gadget to your iGoogle page, go to: http://www.google.com/ig/adde?source=atgs&moduleurl=www.blogger.com/gadgets/post.xml

2. Then click the blue “Add Blogger to iGoogle” button. Make sure that you’re signed in with the same Google account that you use for Blogger. Once you’ve added the Blogger Posting Gadget you will see the gadget on your iGoogle page.

 3. To add the Blogger Posting Gadget in Gmail, you’ll first have to enable the Add Gadget by URL lab feature from your settings. (Your Gmail Account – Settings – enable “add a gadget by its url” – save changes)

4. Once you’ve enable this Labs feature, then you can add the posting gadget by simpling entering its URL into the Gadget tab in your Settings. Here’s the URL:

http://www.blogger.com/gadgets/post.xml




Klik Add.







5. In the top right corner of the gadget you will see the title of your blog. If you have more than one blog, there will be a drop-down menu in the corner so you can select the blog you’d like to post to. You can then enter a title and write a post. You also have the option to add labels to your post as well. Once you have finished writing your post, click “Publish” to publish your post or click “Save Draft” to save your post back to Blogger without publishing it.

Notes:

• The gadget supports editing the HTML of title and body.
• If you start writing a post and decide you want to upload images or use other rich text features, just click “Save Draft”. The gadget will save your post, then give you a link to directly edit the post in Blogger.
• The gadget works in Firefox, Chrome, Safari 3, Internet Explorer and on the iPhone.

Source : http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=143415 with some modifications.