How to boost traffic to your blog - Helium

How to boost traffic to your blog - Helium

If you have a low-traffic blog and you have actively gone about trying to get people to read it then you probably already know all the old tips, reciprocal linkage equals high search engine ranking equals traffic, or, place your URL in the footer of your emails and people you e-mail will click back to it and viola, traffic. The truth is that you would be lucky, in 2007 to get 5 hits a day with those tactics. I have tried every tip to be had for free on the Internet (going back to the old days of the free-for-all pages) and exactly none of them have worked. I have even tried link-rotation programs like Blogazoo, which boost your traffic pyramid-scheme style, you click two links, they send one visitor to your site. The visitors in such schemes are there only to boost their own traffic so they never return. You get a short term rise in your traffic stats and no click-throughs on your ads, or to anything beyond the front page. The truth is that "free" and "quality traffic" do not go together.
Tips:
1) ignore any and all websites promising to send you traffic
2) do not waste your time asking for "reciprocal links" or going Google searches for them. If you are operating a big business-oriented site, maybe, but not for a personal page.
3) Do not e-mail your friends and family soliciting hits for your website. It does not work, and if your blog really is personal, your friends and family are probably the last people you want reading it anyway.

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