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If you have arranged the hosting and published your blog and started to write a few reasonable posts, the next question on your mind will be how to generate traffic to the blog, without going to the unnecessary expense of paying for it. There are several ways.

Firstly, it’s important to make sure that your blog is ready for the attention of the search engines. Be posting to it a few times a week, at least. Plenty of fresh, unique content is what the search engines want and if you give them that, then they will reward you with more visitors. In doing this make sure that the posts are a reasonable length. What this is varies depending on who you are talking to, but I’d say a few posts per week of 250 plus words each should interest the search engines.

Now that you have done that, you need to convince the search engines that you really are worthy. To do this you need links in from other blogs and websites. The search engines see these links as a sign of confidence from these sites that your site is worth a link, and therefore you must be worthy of them

So how do you get plenty of links? Previously, many site owners, myself included, have gone through link exchange directories adding their links to as many as possible. It didn’t matter how related the site or the page was, more the merrier. But, I think that is old hat and the search engines are starting to ignore such techniques. You need to be more careful and selective on where you link to, even getting one way links where possible, over reciprocal link arrangements.

The next trick many people try is posting comments to other people’s blogs. Done correctly and with thought for the blog you are posting too, this can be really useful. Find a blog that is related, or at least the post is related, to your own content. Write a genuinely useful comment on that post. Make it a comment that the site owner will read and approve. You don’t need, in most cases, to link back to your own blog in the comment. Usually the comment will include the lotion of leaving your name and associating it with your website. There’s the link back.

After that you can reword slightly your posts and submit then to popular article directories. But again, there are problems there. Website owners are supposed to pick up your article and republish it, with a couple of links back to your site. But many are sneaky and remove the link, whilst others will link back to the links directory. They are worth a shot though. For the investment of a reasonably small amount of time you can potentially get plenty of links back to your own site.

There is one article directory that I know of that provides solutions to these article problems. But that’s another post!