Website Traffic ArticlesWebsites Traffic From Blog CommentingCommenting on blogs is another way to get website visitors for free. You are able to receive targeted human visitors while also increasing backlinks for your webpage. As with other traffic generation ideas, it's important to not abuse this method and start spamming. Instead, find blogs that are in your niche. Read a recent entry and add your comment to it.To be most effective, you want to comment on blogs that have a high pagerank and don't have the nofollow command enabled. If you have installed the SearchStatus plugin for Firefox, it's easy to see if blogs are a good match. You'll first want to right click the tool and select highlight nofollow. With this, you'll be able to see if the blogs allow bots such as the Google bot to follow links to webpages. When it is able to follow links to webpages, you'll get a valuable backlink. If the blogger chooses to use nofollow, human visitors to the blog will see the link, but bots will not. For the best results you want both human and bot visitors, so choose to post in blogs that allow the bot to follow the link. With the plugin, you'll be able to see from other people's comments whether nofollow is used. If it is, you might want to search for a better blog. Even if nofollow is used, you might still want to post in the blog. If it is an important blog in your niche or if you are hoping to work with the blog owner in the future, it makes sense to take the time to post on the blog. If you are only concerned with gaining a large amount of free traffic, move on to better opportunities. When you post a comment, you want to use anchor text. If you are trying to rank for the keywords "free guitar lessons" and your website url is www.guitarforeveryone.com, you want your link to say "free guitar lessons" instead of your url. You use html to accomplish this. In many cases, the html is simply <a href="http://www.guitarforeveryone.com">free guitar lessons</a>. Preview your post to make sure it is correct. Some blogs may have different options for making links. Using anchor text will help your Search Engine Optimization. If you have many links on the web pointing to your site for your keywords, the search engines will know that your site is a good match for those keywords. This isn't the only way a site is ranked, of course, but it will help your site gain in the search engines. Having a website rank high in Google, Yahoo, and MSN is the cheapest and easiest way to get a steady stream of traffic to your website. In addition to whether or not nofollow is used, you also want to leave your comments on sites that have a high Google Pagerank. The higher the Pagerank, the better Google feels the site is. If you are associated with high quality sites, your site will seem more legitimate to the search engines. A brand new website will have a Pagerank of zero. Amazon has a page rank of nine. There's no true cutoff point between good and bad. You'll find few websites that have a Pagerank higher than seven. You might decide to only comment on pages that are at least a three. If your niche is popular with many high ranking sites, you might decide to focus on four or higher. If your niche is smaller, anything two or higher might be a good match for you. The higher the number the better, but don't expect niche sites to rate as high as Amazon. As with forum posting, you want to make sure that you are not wasting too much time reading blog entries when you should be working. Bookmark the blog or add it to your RSS feed if you want to peruse it later on. For now, simply read enough to know that it is a good fit and add something useful to their site without spamming them. Other Articles And Resources On Getting FREE Traffic |
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