We all know the importance of Blog. Many of us believe that, Blog is one of the important factors to bring traffic to a website. It’s 100% true. However, many blog owners forget to do one thing. That is ‘promotion’. Still many of the blog owners desperately think about the ways to promote their blogs. If there is no traffic to blog site, then no use of keeping a blog online.

I had found difficulties during my earlier time of blogging due to zero traffic. I posted almost 20-25 articles on it to get my first visitor. At present, my website has traffic of 10k-15k visitors every day.

Even still many of the bloggers fail to promote it online, here are some tips:

1.Use proper keywords on your title of the posts.

In order to optimize your blogs on search engines, use all the keywords and phrases which people use to look for information under your niche. When your website becomes more popular on search engines, you will also improve your page ranking to increase traffic to your website.

2. Social Bookmarking:

It’s a very powerful tool that you can rely to get some good amount of traffic from various parts of the world.

3. RSS Feeds:

It helps bloggers to keep in touch with readers forever. Once they subscribe it, they get updates continuously. This means that you will be bringing readers back to your blog every time you make a new blog post.

4. Article Submission:

Convert some Blog posts into articles and submit it to various article submission sites. All you have to do is to add more content to your blog posts if necessary, add a catchy article heading and convert it into an article. Writing and submitting articles is one of the most excellent strategies for traffic generation.

5. Inter Linking:

This is also a very effective strategy. This keeps your readers to stay for a long time on the site and more chances to read your other article (interlinked) as well. Even search crawlers can index all of your articles without failure.

6. Signature Links:

Put your blog home page link in signature field while sending mails or participating in forums.

7. Use Tynt Tool:

This free service allows websites to boost traffic and improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) using detailed analytics on track copy/paste actions of their visitors. With Tynt, publishers can monitor how and where content is being shared from their website. Copying any part of your content while sharing to their friends, it leaves a link to original site automatically.

8. Guest Posting:

Write some guest posts on other popular blogs. This helps to get back links as well as popularity to your blog.

9. Integrate Facebook Commenting Facility:

It helps user feel more comfort and chances are there to get some comments on your article. This also helps publishers to get the relevant information about these users and can keep in touch with them in future.

10. Standard & Quality Content:

It’s the last but not least point that every publisher should follow strictly. If no quality content, then all the above mentioned points are useless.

Since quality content is concerned by not only users, but also mighty Panda…! So build your blog with solid rocks!!!

Google Real Time Search Results

As we all know Google is mixing Real Time Search Results into Search Engine Results. As a part of SEO community we have to take this as an advantage and leverage traffic. Real time Search Results effectively pushed down other websites listing lower down in Search Results. So as Online Marketers we need to take this an an opportunity and get more traffic for our websites through these Real Time Search Results.

How to get traffic using Real Time Search Results:

Google has announced that it pulls results from Social Media websites, Micro Blogging Sites, News & Blogs. But if you watch closely in the Search Results, it’s often twitter results are displayed. So to start with focus on updating Twitter and try to get ranked in Search Engines.

Obviously the next move from Google would be filtering the Twitter Results from Spammers. So try to get more quality followers and also try to get a unique fan base in twitter, so that Google might not treat you as Spammer.

Also make sure your tweets and the people you follow are closely aligned to specific niche. So when some breaking news happens in the particular niche, Google will start using your tweets as legitimate.

Google’s latest results are constantly moving, so ensure you make lot of tweets. This will ensure your tweets stay in top. Also ensure not to spam your followers with tweets, try to maintain a balance so that you don’t end up as spammer but still you create lot of opportunities for listing in Search Engines with your tweets.

Recently most of us would have seen Breadcrumbs appearing in Google Search Results. Last month Google announced that it’s going to roll out Breadcrumbs in Search Results globally.

I got lot of queries referring what it exactly mean for Web Masters, so thought of explaining in my blog:

If you get Breadcrumbs on Search Results it means that we can get more links on the results page. You can get separate link for each page in the breadcrumb trail. This actually means Google says “Provide Context” – Google’s this move clearly shows that its moving towards “Semantic” where each link will be valued based on the relationship with context to content provided by other links. Google’s this move is generally well appreciated among the Web Master community.

Breadcrumbs in Search Results :

Google Breadcrumbs

Things to Note:

There are three types of breadcrumbs: Path Breadcrumb, Location Breadcrumb & Attribute Breadcrumb.

• Path breadcrumbs show the path that the user has taken to arrive at a page
• Location breadcrumbs show where the page is located in the Site Architecture.
• Attribute breadcrumbs give the Category information of the current page.

It Obvious that Google uses Location Breadcrumbs as it gives more of the Personalization in Search Listings.

Google just posted an “exclusive quiz” for all the webmasters to take over here >> Google Webmaster Quiz

This quiz based on site issues we see in webmaster help forum

Quiz Contains 40 questions with multiple choice answers

Quiz must be taken by Wednesday, January 27th before 5 PM PST

After Jan 27th Google is planning to post answers with the name of the top scorer in Google Webmasters Central Blog

Take this quiz and see how good your knowledge is.