How to Attract Traffic to Your Blog

5tendesign:

Internet blogging is a fun and profitable activity and a valuable source of information on the internet. People who love to write will find blogging a fulfilling activity most especially when the website is attracting traffic, with hundreds (even thousands) of visitors each day. But not all blog sites attract traffic. The quality of writing is essential if you want to increase free traffic to your blog and it would be wise to write about relevant topics that people actually understand and are interested in. Reading EzineArticles would give you an idea of what topics most people are interested in. Another method is link building which means you basically link your blogs as being friends with other related blogs. This method is proven to attract traffic to your website. Social networking is another way to increase free traffic to your blog, starting with a small friends list and is expanded by other friends your friends have on their profile. Having a website that already attracts traffic is helpful, utilizing the traffic in the website by posting links and putting menu options on your blogs.

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Andrea Caruso Online: Five Ways to Help Local Customers Find Your Business Online

Some customers are still more likely to buy goods and services in person rather than over the Internet, which is why local search optimization is integral to a company’s ability to attract new, local customers and increase profits. Using the proper strategies when optimizing a site for local…

Why Google Local Search Is Important

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Google has always understood the power of local search, and years ago launched its Local Business Center where any business can get a listing for free.

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It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor

infoneer-pulse:

as kept a promise it made last year: Site speed is now a ranking factor in Google’s algorithm, and is already in place for U.S. searchers. But Google also cautions web site owners not to sacrifice relevance in the name of faster web pages, and even says this new ranking factor will impact very few queries. More on that below, but first the background on today’s announcement from Google Fellow Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team.

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5tendesign:

Here Matt Cutts of Google Explains how a google search works

Search engines have programs called spiders which visit web pages to determine what the content of your site is, and to find other links to scan at a later date.

  1. Spiders, or web crawlers, scan the content of web pages.
  2. They send the results of their scan back to the algorithm to be broken down and analyzed.
  3. If the spiders encounter a link to another page or website these links are stored.
  4. Eventually other spiders crawl the linked-to pages.
  5. Therefore, the more links from other websites and pages your website has, the more frequently your website is visited and crawled.
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Logo Design Egypt: Balancing Your Web Design and SEO

The good thing is that more and more businesses are realizing the importance of Search engine optimization. But the problem is that, on their quest to win the search engine traffic many people often ignore that their content is becoming distant and uninteresting for their actual visitors. Even the…

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