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Top 10 Ways to Increase Traffic

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Okay, so there is no porn here, but maybe this will peak your interests into blogging.

Increasing traffic on our blogs is something that we all want to do right? That is, if we are getting paid for our blogging service, or simply to have our names in the index for google searching. Whatever the reason, the main point is to increase the traffic for your own personal blog.

Unfortunately, one thing that these videos fail to mention is that blogs are such a rapid community, and since its growing so fast, your blog is less likely to get as much traffic as those high traffic blog such as engadget.

Fortunately though, if you’re looking for a way to increase your traffics, instead of making a regular wordpress blog in the www.wordpress.com domain, your traffic would be increased if you got your blog hosted on to its own domain(with wordpress installed, of course. Who doesn’t want the worlds best blogging platform? :P )

What this does is increase your traffic ability. For example, if I were to see a site named “www.blogismoney.com” I would be much more likely to go to that site rather than some site named “www.blogismoney.wordpress.com”

For some reason, having your own domain name, and being hosted somewhere else is a big plus to getting traffic. Of course, if you are a serious blogger, and really want to get your material out there on the web, you will have to be willing to put in a little bit of money to accomplish your goals.

Its not much that you have to put in: I say that if you put in more than 20, then you’re over doing it, and should look for a cheaper domain and hosting place.

Keep in mind that this is your first blog, and you have to be willing to accept some mistakes when you make them, but preventing a mistake is the best way to avoiding mistakes. (this applies to the topic of intercourse or SEX as well :P )


One Response to “Top 10 Ways to Increase Traffic”

  1. John Kelly Says:

    When you have the option to get a blog for free, like blogspot extensions, some people might prefer to start with it, and at the end you might need to have in consideration that you can be the blog owner but not the owner of the domain.www.uthos.com

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