How to improve traffic for your blog or website

Gaining traffic to your site is a big problem for most people when they start out. You have your website or blog and of course you want to showcase your hard work. So how do we bring people to look? Well there are many different ways for us to achieve this and in this post I will showcase you just a few of them.

These I think are the most effective but you can always look, search and try some different methods yourself. What works for me may not work for you. So give them all a go, they can only improve your traffic.

Write content that rocks the socks off

Writing contents for your blog will certainly bring in more traffic for you. Although this will not increase your traffic over night but can bring visitors back to your site if you write unique and compelling articles.

Professional bloggers are great when it comes to writing content. If you take a look at the leading bloggers in your niche, you can see that every blog posts is excellent. The reason behind this is that the bloggers have been creating content for a while. For a beginner blogger content creation can be difficult.

As long as your enjoying what you are writing, you will naturally become better without even knowing it.

Keep updating content on your website
Search engines love new content, you will also rank higher if your site is constantly updated. This tells the search engines that you are active and are showing new articles and information. Again this is not a fast process but can benefit you in the long run.
Write and submit press releases
These are a great way to create backlinks which search engines love! Here are a few to get you started:

1. Free-Press-Release.com –  The best part of using it is that you can place banners on the press release that will point to your website. The paid service offered by this website has better ranking and many SEO benefits.
2. Free-Press-Box.com –  Submitting your press release on to this site is really easy. It accepts free submissions as well as paid submissions.
3. Free-Press-Index.com –  This PR site allows for instant submissions for free with inbound links to your site in place. For the paid service, they charge close $60, and distribute the release among 250,000 subscribers and journalists.

Encourage readers to comment on your blog posts
This will show that you have an active community, and people are interested in what you are writing. Therefore more active content and higher rankings.

Offer something for free

This can be in the shape of an e-book or any other service related that your users are interested in. It will attract readers. I am currently planning and writing an e-book for my readers, this is a great way to offer something in return for your readers.
Using social media

Everybody uses some sort of social media today, whether its Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. This is a great way to take advantage of using these to promote your site. With social media giant Facebook with nearly 1 billion users that is 1/7 of the population on the website. This is a very strong argument for being on this craze.

1 Billion people can’t be wrong about how powerful it is for getting the word out about your business or hobbies. 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day. This is incredible! Just think that if you portray your niche or business correctly then you can easily get your word spread out there.

Even if you have generated a great deal of traffic to your blog or your aiming to grow your traffic. You always looking for ways to grow your traffic. Even more so, you are looking for qualified traffic to your site. (People who are interested in the content you write).

LinkedIn is a tremendous way to generate a lot of free and organic traffic to your blog. Although LinkedIn is great for job seekers during economic climate, it is a lot more than that. Individuals and companies are achieving more professional goals than you can really think of.

A few examples on what LinkedIn can provide you:

• Generate Leads
• Find new clients
• Receive funding for your company
• Obtain sponsorships
• Sell products
• Sell tickets to thousands for an event
• Press Coverage
• Save the best to last... Drive a substantial amount of traffic to your blog

Achieving these goals on LinkedIn don’t come naturally.  You have work the system on LinkedIn and experiment with different methods. To achieve the best results of driving traffic to your blog, check out these great tips to drive traffic to your blog using LinkedIn:
Now you have some of the basics to learn how to direct your traffic. Use these to improve traffic and bring in a lot more visitors and possibly earn yourself some money from them. Give them a try.

Categories: Blogging

Top gadgets of the week 23/06/13

We are going to kick this off with a look at this weeks top gadgets for us boys and girls. Every week we will be introducing the latest trends that everyone wants at reasonable prices. Check them out and see what you like.

Skullcandy Uprock Headphones

• Speaker diameter 40 mm
• Lightweight ergonomic fit
• Tangle-free TPE flat cable
• soft ear pillow





3072 USB Mini Fridge (Black)

• Chills one drinks can where you need it most: right at your desk
• Vintage design in black and silver, resembling the style of classic vending machines
• Cools down to about 8.5°C (47°F) within five minutes (depending on room temperature)
• Plug&Play: simply connect to your PC or Mac on any available USB port, no driver necessary
• With internal LED light for convenient use in the dark

 

Katana Bookends

• Bookends with hidden brackets
• Plastic Blade/handle ends create optical illusion
• Perfect for comic book/action movie fans
• Great for DVD collections
• 260mm (w) x 170mm (h) x 120mm (d)





 



Want to be like Sheldon Cooper?

T-shirt Folder (by Suck UK)

 

Fool-proof cardboard T-Shirt folding aid

T-Shirt Folder with printed instructions

Made from recyclable materials.

 

Here is your top gadgets of the week! Having these things in your life will only make it more fun right? What will they come up with next.

Categories: Gadgets

Making money online like you never seen

Making money online really has not been any easier. Many people have succeeded in making an income without leaving the comfort of their own home. In this post today I will explain some of the ways that you can make money online. Below you will find some great ways to make money from home as well as some great advice for you to flourish online.

Complete Online Surveys

Online surveys do not pay out a lot but can bring in some income for you providing you have the time. Search around for some websites. There are a lot out there and before you know it, you have generated a small income to pay for the shopping a week.

Become an affiliate marketer

This is a great way to improve your income providing you have the traffic to your website or blog. Promoting products from a company and selling them can earn you a great commission without carrying an inventory of stock. As long as your careful about how you promote the products or in another way, clever about how you go about advertising them. You can make a great income. There are blogs out there that make over £10,000 a month just through affiliates.

If you have a lot of traffic you may want to think about cost per click advertising (CPC). Doesn't earn you a lot of money through one click but can make the difference if you have 2000 page views a day.

Become a freelance designer

Create websites or logos and showcase them to the world through your online portfolio. Build a client list and create a database of clients (Potential and Converted) to email every month or two about your services and offers. This takes time to get up and running but in the end you can earn a respected amount and make a great name for yourself.

Sell your stock photos

For all you photographers out there, this is a great way of making money. People search for stock photos for their websites and other things by keyword search, your work will be the same as any others and wait for the money to pour in. You wont really make a lot of money per sale of photo but having a great number of photos submitted can only benefit you.

Sell your articles

This is for all you writers out there. Lots of businesses, blogs and websites need outstanding written content. Though you wont make much to start off with, learning and gaining experience can only mean that you can charge more for your work. Start off by submitting articles that are 200-300 words long and submit them to pay per post sites that are all over the internet. You may just make a name for yourself that way.

Sell your stuff on eBay

Most people reading this will know what eBay is. You may have stuff in your home that you don't need anymore. Sell it on eBay. Sounds simple but it does take a lot of practise to sell items successfully on eBay. Creating persuasive pages about your products will help you sell them better. Its also wise to set reasonable minimum bids in order for your products to sell.

Here are six great ways for you to try and make money in the comfort of your own home. Why not give them a try? You don't have anything to lose at the moment apart from your time but that exchanged for money is what we all do now right?

If you liked this post try checking out Top 6 websites that you at home can make money from. Six websites to help you get started.

Categories: Making Money

Top 6 websites that you at home can make money from

Just about anyone can make money at home these days. With that in mind its only getting easier. There are so many ways online now to make you that little extra money. It may not make you rich but can certainly give you a few extra coins in your back pocket. In this post today I will show you 6 websites that will allow you to do just that.

• About.com - Become a guide and explain things you know better than others. Based on what you write about and your performance you can earn a substantial amount.
• Squidoo.com - Is great for publishing your articles, if you can write about a popular topic trending and you gain the visitors to your posts, you can earn a few coins from this. Squidoo also provides you with an options to donate the money to charity or transfer to your PayPal account monthly
• Amazon Affiliate - Everybody trusts amazon right? Why not sell their products on your website? The way this works is you promote a product and when you sell that product you earn a commission. Have enough traffic to your website and you can certainly earn more than your day job through this.
• Freelancer.com - This is for experienced designers and tech geeks. Here you can earn money for completing projects that others have posted. The competition is fierce and I recommend you being an experienced worker in the field you are bidding for.
• SurveyCompare.net - Do you like filling out questionnaires? This could be for you, earn £5 per survey you complete. You could also get vouchers and free products. What have you got to lose?
• Fiverr.com - Here your work is referred to as a gig. Gigs are jobs that you post telling people what you will do for a fiver. This can work out really well and can have multiple people asking you for your services. As there are a lot of members on this website the best thing for you to do is to make your gig stand out about the rest. Take the time to fill in the blanks and try to be unique.

They vary in skills and task but if you can spend the time at home and do all of them each day, for all you know you could be having that extra cash in no time. What have you got to lose? Give them a try and let us know what you think in the comments below.

Categories: Making Money