By: Stefani Partin

Have you been blogging, but not too many people are visiting it? Are you waiting for those comments to come flooding in, but all you get is spam comments? I am going to tell you just a few things you can do, to bring in steady traffic to your blog.

Many new bloggers start a blog but get easily discouraged because they have no readers reading it. Well, the readers can't read your blog, if they can't it. They also won't read it, if it's not something they want to read.

My biggest tip I will give here is, give your readers something they want to read. If you write a post that people enjoy reading, they are going to reward you by coming back. Never forget that your readers are real people, make your posts conversational. When you are blogging, remember to keep each post to one topic only and include keyword rich words in your title. Be sure to post to your blog often. Search engines love blogs and if you are posting daily, your blog is going to be indexed by the engines even faster and more frequently.

My next tip, if you are looking for really large amounts of traffic, I would like to suggest optimizing your posts for the search engine. You will want to throw a little SEO into your postings. You can do this easily by doing the following:

1. Use your primary keywords in the title of your post
2. Use your secondary keywords in the body of your post
3. Use your keywords in your anchor text of links in the body of your posts

If you follow those three steps above, you have a better chance of your posts being properly indexed by the search engines. This means more traffic for you.

My next tip, submit your blog to as many directories as possible. If you haven't done so, make sure your blog has a RSS feed. If you are using Wordpress, it will create a feed for you. If you don't know much about feeds, visit http://www.feedburner.com You can submit your blog url and it will give you a RSS feed address to use. I use Feedburner with my blogs hosted on Blogger. When submitting your blog and RSS feed to directories, make sure you try to submit to the big directories like Technorati, Yahoo, DMOZ, MSN, etc. Here is a large list of blog directories you can submit to:
http://www.toprankresults.com/blog-submit-list.htm

My next tip, add a option to subscribe to your blog so your reader is updated by email when you make a new post. This is a great way to get readers to come back to your site. I use a service from FeedBlitz. You can signup for a free account at Feedblitz, then login to your account and grab some code to place into your blog template. In return, you are able to capture your subscribers names and email addresses. When you update your blog, all your readers will get an email letting them know. Don't pass up this way to bring traffic to you.

My next tip, create inbound links to your blog. You can do this easily by visiting other blogs and posting comments. You can trackback to other's blogs in your posts. If you have other blogs or websites, link to your blog within those. Basically, post your link to as many places as you can.

My last tip, ping ping ping. Make sure to ping your blog to as many as the services as you can. I use a free service at Pingomatic http://pingomatic.com At Pingomatic you can type your blog url, then select the service you want to ping. They have about 20 services you can select. This saves a ton of time because you can ping all the selected services at the same time.

Happy Blogging!

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© 2006 Stefani Partin, a work at home mom of three from CA who owns a network of sites for moms, blogs, a newsletter and more. Stefani dedicates her time to helping moms find ways to make money at home. Visit Stefani's blog at www.StefaniPartin.com or visit her main site at www.MommyEnterprises.com

 If You Are Thinking of Money Making From Writing Review You Better Read On

There are over 77 million+ bloggers online and I know most bloggers make lots of money from either reviews only , from affiliate programs or by selling ad spaces. Frankly speaking, money earned online is not easy. But my great friend Philip just commented on my blog said that I always looks for innovative ways to take a problem and turn it into a win-win solution which greatly encourage me.

But it's amazing when you start to learn more about the blogging marketplace with all the famous bloggers online it seems that the top bloggers on the Internet are only a handful of them (mainly found in Technorati top 100). I also did review with other bloggers and my motive for the report is to pin point some factors if you are thinking of writing reviews on your blog which can help you when you want to buy reviews.

I also did another review for a young guy, his name is Carl. A very nice kid whose started from no where but now is getting lots of attention because his website is ranked no.3 for the keyword "make money online". I purchased a review from him and this review was so much cheaper and ROI was actually 400%! Most of it got to do with how he wrote his review. Once you read the review you will understand why I rated John's one as 70% buyers as Carl's review was some where 50:50 still acceptable as an advertiser and I realized his target audience was so much better.

If you are thinking of writing reviews here are some key pointers to take note

1. You Need To Make Your Advertisers Happy

Why? If your advertiser is not happy with the results he get will he continue to advertise on your blog? Some way to ensure great results for advertisers is to provide additional offers like a text link ad If the user is not happy with the results you have. Customer service is really important when it comes to online support.

2. Careful What You Write In Your Review

You want to have a careful balance of 50:50 buyers and good stuff about the product you review to give a fair balanced to your advertiser and blog readers. I think the reason most bloggers nowadays are afraid to pitch is because of afraid to loose out their loyal readers on the blog. In the first place if you are not confident on a product that asked for review and felt that the product really bad, than I recommend you do not do the review at the first place.

Because if you personally find the product really bad and you reviewed it, you are in for a big trouble from the advertisers and people who are looking to buy reviews will be careful when they decide to advertise with you.

3. Offer Follow Ups To Ask How's The Review With The Advertisers

Most often, especially popular blogs. They do not follow up with the advertisers to ask how the outcome of the advertisement. I did a few blog reviews so I know there are not many bloggers doing that. When someone orders your reviews, it is always good to always email them to ask how the response they got in the review so that you can fine tune your review much later in the future.

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