So now that we have experienced Googles first PageRank update for 2008, gotten over all our Christmas parties, and visited all our friends and family. Our sites are probably a little dormant at the moment, with everybody having been on holiday things can get quiet in the Web world.

So let’s bring ‘em back!

In this article I will concentrate on some great ways of getting people to your Blog.

Part 1: Spruce up your blog.

Now I am sure with holidays etc we have not had as much time as we would like to spend on our blogs, keeping them up to date and bringing fresh content. This is something we will have to address!
Content is the one thing that drives people to your blog, without it, why would people want to see your blog when there’s tones of others with interesting articles updated sometimes even daily?

But DON’T just fill your blog up with nothing, try and concentrate on your niche, give some new ideas, spark up discussion with your readers! The best way to target your audience is to provide content THEY want to hear, not what takeaways you ordered for lunch Although of course this does not count for personal blogs.

Consistently bring new content to your blog and they will come.

Don’t just stop at content, is your blog design a little out of date? People can get tired of looking at the same page every day, why not give it a little change maybe a new header, logo or even layout for the new year!

Part 2: Getting the word out.

This would be just as important as content, you may have all the best content in the world, but if nobody knows about it, what good is it?

A great service I have found recently is EntreCard (http://entrecard.com/). Basically its a service where you put a little image on your site, you can see this on our side bar, its over there >>>
When you have this image on your site people can “buy” that space to advertise their blog with “EC” credits, you can get these credits to advertise on other blogs too by checking out other peoples blog and dropping your card on theirs and many other ways.

Get to know other bloggers, check out other blogs preferably related to yours and read about what they are blogging, not only does it give you some ideas (don’t just copy though) but it helps you learn ways to better your blog by seeing what other people are doing on theirs.
Comment their blogs! Join in on the discussion, add your opinion, and of course have your link to your blog in the URL section, this helps get the word out about your blog and also builds your reputation online.

Also make sure you submit your blog to lots of directories and search engines, in our forums we have a great list of directories to submit to here.

Part 3: Subscribers and RSS.

Subscribers to your blog is one of the best sources of potential traffic you can have, Ensure that there is an ability to subscribe to your blog via RSS or Email.
I have personally found FeedBurner (http://www.feedburner.com/) to be a great tool in doing this, they have an email subscription widget that you can freely use on your blog, and they also can ping your blog to many other RSS directories.

Part 4: Social Networking.

Another great source of traffic is Social Networking. The basics of social networking are that people can find sites they like and share with their friends, everyone can also see who likes what and how many people like certain sites. By submitting your site to the likes of StumbleUpon, Del.ico.us, (and yeah Digg too…) you can get a lot of great traffic to your site.
But be very careful to follow the guidelines of these sites or you could get banned really easily (especially on Digg).

Part 4: Some More Tips

Okay so most people will know about these methods but I will list them anyway for those who don’t!

- Post on forums! By building an online reputation, responding to peoples questions, helping other members out etc people will be more interested in checking out your site, ensure to have your blog listed in your Signature. This is a great way of bringing new readers to your site. A lot of forums also have the option of syndicating your RSS feed into your profile (check in the user control panel!)

- Link Exchanges, Exchange quality links with other bloggers and sites related to your content, this not only helps your search engine rank but will bring traffic to your site.

- Nominate your site for awards like the Bloggers Choice Award (http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/) this will help get the word out about your site and you may even win!

- Be sure to list your blog on other blog sites like Technorati (http://technorati.com) this will help people find you too!

I hope this article will help your blog become more successful in 2008! If you have any more ideas please do share them with us, comments to my blog posts are always welcomed

Good luck!

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I am sure we all have that website floating around somewhere thats making a tidy, $1 per day on Google AdSense or similar. But it doesn’t seem like much does it?

Put your thinking cap on…

Who says you only can have ONE website earning $1 a day? Web Hosting is cheap now-a-days and you can host so many websites.
If you put some effort in and make some niche, content rich websites, they will earn $1 or more a day too.

Say you keep this plan and make 50 Websites, thats $50 PER DAY!! And how much is that per week again? $350!!!!

Certainly some food for thought. Don’t limit yourself to just one website, make a few others too and increase your revenue!

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If you have not yet noticed, the first Google PageRank update for this year (2008) is happening! Apparently it is due to be complete by the end of the week.

AdminMania has gone from no PageRank to PageRank 2 which I am pretty happy about, lots of other webmasters are reporting their PageRank going very low, or very high. Will be interesting to see how it effects the SERPs

If you have not seen any change yet you may still be in the queue so check again at the week to see your first ever 2008 PageRank!

If you want to learn more about PageRank this Wikipedia article is really useful!

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