Ping Your Blog

Well I have been posting every day to the other blog I set up as a test. Each day of the 14 days I have used one of the service like Ping-o-Matic to ping the blog.

As of today I haven't seen any traffic to the blog. I have pinged using just my blog address. And other time I also added the rss feed address.

I don't even think that this blog is even on the radar, but I will continue to post and ping for the next 17 days to see what happens.

Good Luck

Do You Ping Your Blog?

When I first started this blog, I heard that you should ping the blog using a service like Ping-O-Matic. And the reason was two fold; first you let the world know about your blog post and second was that it was suppose to bring some targeted traffic to your site.

Well I don't know, if I have been doing it right but I have ping my blog almost every time I have had a new post. And to tell you the truth, I don't thing it has helped me in any way. My blog traffic isn't beating my door down, as you can see I have a few product on the side and there hasn't been one sale from the traffic that I have had.

So my big question is; is it worth the time to ping your blog?

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Good Luck

Does Fresh Content thru RSS Bring Traffic

When I started this blog about 2 1/2 years ago, I came across this article about using rss feeds to generate fresh content for your website. At the time I hadn't heard or seen much about using rss this way.

The article talked about fresh content, high PR, more traffic and so on. How rss would update your content daily, bring the search engines to your site more and thus bring more traffic.

So I was able to find a script to add rss and waited for the traffic to flood my site. In the six months I had this script on my site, I didn't receive any traffic.

But now, you hear a lot about using rss on your site for fresh content, even blogger now has a widget to add rss to your blog. My question is, if it didn't bring me any traffic a few years ago, how is it going to work now when everyone is trying it?

So I have started a new blog and I am not going to ping it or promote it in any way. I am just going to post and have an rss feed on it. Let's see what happens!!!

PS. Now if you are looking to add Rss to your site then Click Here!

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Affiliate Internet Marketing ***Warning***

Affiliate Internet Marketing is a popular way to start marketing on the Internet. But one of the mistakes that I find myself doing that maybe you are doing too, is having your hand in to many cookie jars at one time. You get caught up in the making money thing that you forget to make a plan.

My hand in to many cookie jars moment was, after building 20+ sites I still wasn't making any money. Some how I had gotten the idea into my head that if I seeded the Internet with 100's of site someone would come. And with as many people trying affiliate Internet marketing each day I was fooling myself.

So remember to make a plan and stick to it: find a good niche, product etc. and work on getting lots of traffic to that site. Then move on to the next project or you will end up like me scratching your head, feeling overwhelmed without a product sale in sight.

Remember spinning your wheel in one place gets you nowhere fast.
So work on your web traffic, because traffic is the key.

Good luck

Getting Traffic with Social Bookmarking

Well if you haven't heard about social bookmarking and using it to get targeted website traffic, plus getting your site indexed faster, then you may want to learn more about it.

I tried social bookmarking about 2 months ago to see if I could increase traffic to my website. And I was surprised that after a few hours I started to see more traffic. Now the increase lasted for about 3 weeks, then slowly decreased to the amount of traffic I had before bookmarking the site.

Now the downside is (depending on how many accounts you sign up for) it takes time to set-up. Then posting to each of the accounts will take more time unless you use a site like onlywire etc.

Now the upside is:

*your site is possibly indexed faster
*you are building one-way links back to your site
*if other's pick up your links then it may help with PR
*burst of targeted traffic to your site
and more...

So is social bookmarking going to help you get more web traffic? Yes for a time, but like any else you will have to work at it. Make social friends, pass on your links and keep working to promote your site.

Good luck!!!

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