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12 ideas for generating traffic for your website!

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Many websites have trouble generating significant traffic. I have some ideas that you can do….

1. email your friends with an introduction to your website! A quality website will be worth visiting! (easy)
2. a blog can certainly attract traffic, too. (takes time)
3. find some good quality directories.
4. make sure your site is indexed in Google, Yahoo, DMOZ, too. (easy to check/add and free).
5. put your URL in your signature for emails, forums, and other places where you login (easy, free and simple).
6. post notes in other blogs with info. about your website, but DON’T spam!
7. For a blog, join http://www.blogsoldiers.com and http://www.blogmad.net: both of these drive traffic, I have noted.
8. make sure your website has a ‘sitemap’ (may not be difficult)
9. check your website’s Meta file for appropriate keywords (fairly quick, usually).
10. join other people’s blogs, and post relevant posts to their blog, with links to yours. Make sure it’s okay with the blog owner, though!
11. try adwords or text links to generate additional traffic (text links might be more effective)

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12. keep your content fresh and exciting, word of mouth still works on the Internet, but now it’s called Viral Marketing.

Happy Chinese New Year 2007!

How many posts do you have in your drafts section?

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I was just going through my drafts, when I began to wonder how many drafts other people have in their blogs.

My current number on this blog is actually about 17. It was nearly 30 at one point. I create a lot of drafts for ideas about things to write, but sometimes I forget to write them, or something else grabs my attention, or I am too tired to do the research (I post late at night or early morning), or the post just gets outdated. I’ve had a lot of good ideas for posts for tomorrow’s blog, but the next day the story already seems old.

So tell us how many posts do you have in your drafts? Why do you put posts there? How long do they stay there?

Autometa: Meta Tags for each post

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This plugin for Wordpress 2.0+ provides a neat way to create tags for each of your posts, based on the first time you save the post you are writing. Here is the text taken from the Autometa website:

Automatic Tag Generation

This plugin will automatically generate and include HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post. When you save your post (and before you publish it) the plugin checks to see if any tags have been associated with it.

In fact, this tool works very well. It’s simple to install, requires virtually no configuration to get started. But here’s the biggest HOWEVER. If you use it to create automatic tags, you may find that there are some problems:

  • it tags based on your post’s first save only;
  • it creates tags that may not be appropriate; and
  • you NEED to edit the tags for EVERY post.

The actual editing of the tags is relatively straight forward, too. In your blog page creation space, just scroll down until you see ‘Custom Fields.’ That’s where you edit your tags. It takes but a few seconds, and the results are well worth it.