7 Steps to Increase Blog Traffic and Targeted Web Traffic – Steps 1 & 2

Welcome back. As I mentioned in my previous post, I am going to introduce you to seven surefire ways to increase your targeted traffic today. So let’s get started…

1) Learn the ins and outs of Social Traffic (web 2.0).

Today’s online crowd is filling up the Social Web 2.0 sites. Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Youtube and others are massive gathering points for people of all ages. There are people there interested in – well – just about everything!

The easiest and fastest social resource to gather targeted traffic from is Twitter. There is almost no one that hasn’t heard of Twitter. And almost everyone is on it including news channels, politicians, global corporations, actors, marketers, and all kinds of social addicts.

Even if you’re a social “reject” you can exploit the targeting powers of Twitter using your blog and the many Twitter tools available online. Any other social site worth a penny, allows you to import your Twitter feed directly into the site. The power of Twitter for free-targeted web traffic and targeted blog traffic is unmatched. It is imperative that you get online and master Twitter Online Systems today.

2) Build one way back links to your site.

To be recognized by the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN), you need to appear to them to be important to other sites. One of the biggest measuring sticks of your importance is the number of one way backlinks coming from other relevant sites of your niche. Two-way exchanges are antiquated and just really are a waste of your time.

Your efforts need to be focused on getting relevant one way backlinks and there are a number of ways to do this free. Posting comments in relevant blogs, posting your link in niche directories, and using your social bookmarking sites to save links back to your relevant material. Without these links, you will never see the traffic you deserve from the search engines, no matter how good your site is.

This truly is a case of “the more the merrier.” It’s that important.

In my next post, more of the 7 fundemental steps. See you next time

- Wayne Sharer

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