Things You Can Do to Get More Traffic to Your Blog
I just count that in our blog there is the top 10 posts in the last three months. It’s measured by how many people found our blog through search engines direct pointing to its article. So what does this mean and what can I do to improve my traffic?
As you might know, having a high PageRank in Google has a huge effect on whether search traffic finds its way to your web pages. On a web site, each and every page has its own PageRank. To examine your own pages PageRanks, you can download the Google Toolbar, go to your own About Me page and check your PageRank. Browse around to some of your articles and look at their PageRank.
As we know, your Google® PageRank™ is determined primarily from your website’s inbound links – i.e. links hat point back to your site commonly called ‘backlinks’. Recently Google made some significant changes to the way it evaluates links that are pointing back to your site.During the last Google® PageRank™ update (October 2007), there were a large number of sites that were adversely effected and many “types” of ites were significantly downgraded in PageRank™ value.
The hardest hit, were paid directory based sites. During the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the umber of directory sites on the Internet. These directory sites charge afee for backlinks, either per month fees, or annual fees – this is their revenue model – it’s fairly basic. oogle® now considers that these links are no longer of “high value”. Andin an attempt to filter out (and downgrade) sites that have based their rankings on paid backlinks, Google® seems to have focussed specifically on degrading their PR value.
This has created a follow through effect for the average website owner. Any links pointing to your site that come from directories are worth a lot ess than what they used to be worth. I estimate that their PageRank™values are between 20% and 50% of their original value. This means that many millions of websites across the world also xperienced a downgrade in their PageRank™ value as their totalinbound link value decreased. This has created a major stir-up in the Internet community.
How can you improve your pages PageRank? Here is a list of techniques that will help. Things you can do while at your blog is write a lot of articles that HOT in the trends today.
Get more “high-value” links from other sites to any of your articles or your About Me page—with the emphasis on “high value.” Adding links to your articles from your own blog (where the blog has no PageRank) isn’t going to help you much. Adding links to the navigational bar of your blog helps less than you think. When it comes down to it, not all links are created equal.
The best high-value links are ones you don’t create but come from respected bloggers who read your articles and link to them. So don’t be shy about telling other people about your blog!
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