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Getting Traffic to your blog
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Getting traffic to a blog is very crucial and very motivating for the author/editor. It is especially important when your blog is new and you would like to monetize the blog. There are few tips and tricks which you could get some readers, possibly loyal readers when content is good.
Not to mention the normal requirements for a successful blog is to have good content, niche content, updated frequently, nice templates etc etc.
Ping Feed Aggregator
This is the best way as there is always reader who reads blog from Feed Aggregator and when they finds a topic that interests them, they would give it a click. One of a very good feed aggregator for Malaysian blogger is Petaling Street.
Exchanging Links
Exchanging links with a good site with reasonable amount of readers will show that your blog is credible. Getting link exchange is not a very hard process but you have to ask for it, it does not come free without any job. You only need to find an email or contact me form, fill it up and wait and see. Do not get discourage for not getting and response or getting no for an answer.
Comments on other blogs
Giving a constructive comment on other blog will encourage the owner of the blog to return your blog for a view. This will be a good chance prove that your blog is worth reading. This will have an additional bonus, whereby reader of other blog have a small chance of clicking your link too. Therefore, commenting on high traffic blog is beneficial.
MyBlogLog
MyBlogLog has actually form another way to get reader to your blog. By visiting more blogs with MyBlogLog widget installed, there is a chance that people will click on your pretty avatar and then drop by your homepage. Therefore, have a nice picture there.
Drupal comment does not have no follow
Drupal is a quite well known CMS system as it is very user friendly. You could actually try them here at OpenSourceCMS.
As the title says, drupal comment actually does not have a no follow tag. Which might suggest spammer to actually advertise themselves by commenting.
The way I see it, this would be a nice way of getting some linkback to you blog as well. Here is a list of blogs which uses Drupal. I am guessing that it would actually works.
Hiding Wordpress plugin & themes
From my post previously, wordpress plugin thief, you notice that you are able to view the plugins for other wordpress blog and this could actually be avoided, all you have to do is to create a blank index.html or index.htm file [suggested by Iz].
For those who do not know how could you create a blank html, here is some idea:-
- Open a blank text file
- Copy the following code
<html>
<head>
</head><body>
<br>
<br>
<div align=”center”>
<strong>Invalid Page</strong><a href=”http://www.wahlau.net”>Wahlau.NET</a>
</div>
</body></html>
- Replace wahlau.net to your home link
- File name “index.html” [including the quote]
- Save as type > All files
- Then save and upload them to your wp-content/plugins and wp-content/themes/
Wordpress Plugin Thief
If you are found a wordpress website with some plugin that you think it would be suitable for your blog, this is what you can do.
- verify blog address (http://www.url.com/blog or http://www.url.com)
- add wp-content/plugins/
- you will be able to see something like below
- Now you have to use some common sense in finding the plugin you are looking for.
- If you don’t know, just copy each php file and search for it in google.
for example here is the famous John chow plugins:-
NOTE: you will not be able to download them directly from their website because the server will compile the php into html file before sending to you.
Reply to this comment wordpress plugin
If you notice some blog out there which enables readers to address comment to a another commenter, they have installed Brian’s Threaded Comments. It is pretty painless to install this plugin as of all plugins for wordpress.
But, they may be changes in your comment outlook as you will be replacing the entire comment.php for your current theme. Therefore, it is important that you backup your blog before installing this plugin.
You can download Brian’s reply to this comment plugin.
A screenshot from Brian’s blog for this plugin.
