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Increase Your Blog’s Page Views 10 Ways

With Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher, having people click onto more pages helps your revenue immensely, but how do you get them to read more than one page when they visit your website? Here are a few tips.

1. Create pages within the blog that contain reference material you refer to often in your posts. These static pages will also get crawled and indexed by the search engines and as you write posts about your topics you can refer people to these static pages as references to what you are posting about.

2. Use articles as static pages. You can reprint articles on any topic for free by visiting one of the many article directories like http://www.articlecontentprovider.com/articlesubmit/ Then refer people to read the articles that relate to the post you are making. You could even add one article as a new page every time you make a post.

3. Refer to other posts you have made on your blog or on another one of your blogs while posting. This gets the reader to click over to previous posts. You can even decide your posts by browsing previous posts and deciding which one to follow up on. Those archives are not to be lost and forgotten. Its great material, (you wrote it right?), so use it.

4. Create a page that links to your favorite posts that are timeless. You browse your old posts, find posts that you want readers to find easily, then build a links page with those posts directly linked. Then add a link to that page from your front page. Call it favorite posts or whatever and you will benefit by those that click through and follow those links.

5. I’ve posted here before about the “more” tag. You write your post as normal, then decide where you want to break the post up onto a new page. You put the more tag in and readers have to click to a new page to read the rest of the story.

6. Write once per week special projects. These are a series of articles on a particular topic. You will be offering it once per week giving readers a week to comment on it, then have them hanging on for next weeks special post in the series. Each time add links to previous posts in that series.

7. Using your content from your other websites or blogs is also a great way to get more pageviews for all of them. Use the target new tag and refer to material on your other blogs and websites. It will open a new window leaving the current blog open while they visit your other website or blog. You can quickly double up your pageviews while also introducing your readers to your other websites and blogs.

8. Make a list of 10 previous posts and the links to those posts. Make a post in your blog about 10 things you want your readers to know and read in case they have not done so before. At your suggestion they will at least go see if they have read those posts before, increasing your pageviews once again plus bringing old material to new readers. That also lets them know they should browse the archives for things they have missed.

9. Using that same list of 10 posts or a new one, visit other blogs on your topic. Find posts that talk about something similar to one of those 10 posts, then instead of adding a link in your signature to the home page, make a comment there and refer to the post that is similar and that contains helpful information to that blogger and their readers. You will also be increasing your link popularity while doing this. Do not spam the link. Make sure it actually contains useful information. Don’t be trolls or spammers and you will end up with new readers and more page views for your blog.

10. Do not stop being creative. Use the tips in this article, plus invent some of your own ways to interlink your blogposts together. Create pages. Don’t just post and forget. That content is valuable, use it. Do not make people search your blog. They are lazy and busy. Bring it to them. That is just good customer service.

I hope this article helps you learn there is more to blogging than just writing a post once in awhile or even daily. If you employ the tips I just gave you into your blog I guarantee you will increase your pageviews which in turn will increase your revenue if using an ad program in your blog.

Clueless Blogger Tips

I was reading this post by a guy who seems to just hate anyone who gives advice about blogging and he seems to believe that if something did not work for him that it must not work for anyone else.

Ignore the bloggers grammar. I’m sure it isn’t his fault. He is posting about blogging tips that he considers outdated.

Submit Your Blog To Blog Directories. – How many of you have submitted your blogs to all those directories and gained from it? Some takes months for your blog to be listed and when it does gets listed, what did you get? Hundreds of hits? Got a good back-link which Google almost don’t recognise now? It’s an outdated tip.

There are still good blog directories that will get you some traffic. I’ll list my blog in a directory if it gets me one new reader. There are millions of blogs for people to choose from. The more exposure you get, the better. It doesn’t matter what google thinks of the link.

Ping Your Blogs To The hundreds of Ping Sites – Except for the few big ones today, all the rest can be ignored.

Again, it’s his opinion. But it’s like saying ignore the small search engines. Can you afford to ignore any new traffic? So pinging a lot of sites when you post is still not outdated.

Submit Articles to Ezines – This was a tip I used and got bitten. Did not get a single hit from the articles I submitted but all my articles got ripped from Ezines by some arseholes for their sites that has noting but stolen contents and full of Adsense.

This is not a blogging tip in the first place. This is a tip for anyone with a website and Article Marketing is still alive and well. His lack of response and lack of success at it could have something to do with the quality of the articles he submitted. I can’t be sure but after reading this blog post I can make an educated guess.

Join A Blog Carnival – The most you get will be from the same group that took part in that carnival and for the duration of that carnival. Total waste of time.

I don’t participate in these but any networking opportunity is only as good as you make it.

Join A Forum – Unless you go and participate actively in at least 10 Forums or unless you are an established blogger, Forums are also a waste of time. If you go and join a very popular forum like Digitalpoint, introduce yourself, do you think all the participants will rush to your blog and check you out? NO. You have to spend months getting to know them. Chat with them. Become their friends. Even that does not guarantee they will read your blog. And how many friends can you actually make? 50 is already an exaggerated figure. How many will become your blog’s reader? Out of the 50, maybe 5.

Again, joining forums is not really a blogging tip. But forums were the first social networking websites. And again, it seems this blogger did not have much success posting in forums so it must not be good for anyone else either. Networking is what you make of it. If your social skills are not very good then you won’t likely do well in a social atmosphere.

Comment in other blogs – This a social practice. Commenting in others blog shows you either appreciate what has been written or you have conflicting views. It is an interaction between bloggers. It is a polite thing to do. If you hope to get all your readers from your commenting practise, then be prepared to comment in a few thousand blogs each day. You can build a community of your own through your comments. Try commenting in some high profile blogs. You will never ever get that blogger to come and comment back in your blog. So don’t hang your hopes on building your blogs with your comments.

I love that, “You will never ever get that blogger to come and comment back in your blog”. Ok, Mr. Negative. I get people to come and comment back to my blogs all the time without asking them to, so just because your socializing on the web didn’t work out, don’t assume it won’t work for anyone else.

So where can you go for all the new age blogging tips? I am no guru, but here is a good start. As I learn, I will implement. If it works I will share. If it doesn’t I will shut up. How does that sound? You will only get the tips that works. Sorry.. can’t help whoring myself a bit, but you do know how to subscribe don’t you?

If I was to wait on this guy to find anything that works for him I’d be too old to do any blogging.

Sorry I had to pick on this “down in his luck, black cloud over his head, i hate blog gurus, nothing works guy”, but it was so negative I couldn’t resist.