Just got another great question on WordPress blogging – how to get traffic.
It’s easier to get traffic than it is to turn that traffic into loyal readers who come back again and again.
Some traffic tips are:
Get your Twitter account at twitter.com. Pay attention to your profile and your avatar. Fill out your profile as completely as you can and put your website in there. People do check out who you are and if they can’t figure it out they will not follow you. I do not auto-follow! I check out everyone who follows me.
Do not use the default avatar. Use your picture (don’t worry – it’s very small) or your company logo. Let people know you are serious about being there.
Incoporate Twitter Tools into your WordPress blog. It’s a plugin that let’s you do many things. Only do 2 – create tweets from your posts and put the twitter widget in your sidebar. Do not let it create posts from your tweets.
Likewise – get a FaceBook account. Do the same as you did for Twitter when it comes to setting up your account.
Create a badge and put it in a widget on your blog. Let people know you are out there and give them the ability to click the badge and ‘friend’ you.
Start with these and we’ll expand your efforts from here in further posts.
In the next WordPress Workshop there will be an entire module on how to get people to your blog and what to do with them after they are there. Remember – you have to turn that ‘traffic’ into loyal readers who will want to come back. Watch for a blog post later this week about how to do that!
Cathy Perkins – The WordPress Wizard
this feels like plugs for Twitter/Facebook – and frankly I am burned out on both – scratching my head why I give either any precious time. sorry, this is not helpful.
Oh no – not a plug for either platform. If you want to drive traffic to your blog, you must get yourself ‘out there’. This is one way to do it.
Oh I also did not ever think of this very aspect. You have raised a crucial point. It enlightened me. Thanks.
Glad to show you something new to think about in your endeavors to get yourself known!
I think commenting increasingly on the blogs doesn’t increase you PR. It is about what you comment.
The comment itself doesn’t increase PR but the link back to your blog does. Of course, your comments need to be very relevant to get people to notice. So your goal is to get search engines as well as people.