Free Links to your Blog: Enhance your Blogging Efforts

Networking is a very significant concept of free marketing. When you visit an auto blue book site, you get all the information about insuring your car, banks, and financial institution who consider you eligible for a loan. Therefore, you have entered a market with a specific purpose and getting other information that could be relevant to serve your requirements.

Links are thus crucial to the success and sustenance of a site or blog. The web traffic rises if people find all that they are searching for, in your blog. This is effort saving for the prospects and they will be happy to find a comprehensive site that acts as a web-blog supermarket. Also WOMM, buzz marketing adds more value to it.

The best way to get traffic to your blog is thus to link up with other sites in a way that these will route traffic from their sites to your site every time. This is best done by the resource hook strategy where other sites link up with your site/blog for its content and quality irrespective of the fact whether your site has their links or not.


To make your business efforts cost effective you need to design your blog/ site carefully to draw in free links from similar bloggers. Exclusive, relevant, specific and exhaustive content, updated regularly and that incorporates relevant humors that supplement the seriousness of the content is the best way to attract them.Your efforts should be skillfully targeted towards convincing your competitors to consider you as useful resource that they have to link up to, to increase their web traffic.

Linking is also a deciding factor to judge the SEO efforts. Search engines rank and rate your site/blog high if other sites have linked you up in their web pages. Your rank tends to high if there are more links pointing towards your blog/site than the number of links that you are using in your blog/site. One-way links are more favored than reciprocal links while indexing your site. Quality of the links is equally important. It is always favorable that the links are coming from similar blogs related and relevant to your blog content.

You need to have your USP and an endearing formula to get free links from similar entrepreneurs striving to establish their presence in field of net marketing. You should be able to provide with adequate resource on the niche that you and many related blogs in the similar business domain are discussing right now. If you are successful in portraying yourself as a value added resource to your competitors then your competitors will link you up immediately to bump up their traffic flow.

You could be a quick comic relief, a blog that nurtures humor subtly, relevant to the current topics and discussions apart from the serious contemporary articles. This is adding extra spice or garnishing your blog with the flavor that many prospects look for in their untiring search for content. Comments and posts on current topics connected to your business is the best way to establish your position as the thinker-leader.

web traffic

WEB TRAFFIC:
It is the amount of data sent or received by a visitor to a website. Sites keep track of which page and which part of it is generating traffic. This helps in structuring, or designing the website in a precise manner. it can be some pages / sites that are popular in some countries, ORKUT being more popular in Brazil and next in India, than in other countries. This is also a measure of how many people saw their page.
Points seen about web traffic:

1. Number of visitors
2. Number of page visitors ( this indicates 2 things, one that the person is very interested in the content and goes on and on in search of information { positive impact }, and second is that the person is not able to find information and he is trying to find information in that page { negative impact })
   
3. Visit duration (no of visits)
   
4. Page duration ( time duration it was opened for)
5. Busy-time ( time of the day when the site was heavily used)
6. Most requested page
7. Less seen [ages
8. Refers etc

Websites like ALEXA Ranking gives details of all these statistics.
There is another website called NEILSON NETRATING (which needs registration)
This is how we see that a video of a pop-star or a song, or a page being visited more frequently, or having more hits.
There is also an alternate route to see if there's any security breach or lapse or any leak in information, in cases like a military website, or a government. an example is that the United States Of America has blocked the president' website outside the US. This can be used to find that if a military website is being opened more frequently, from where, how long, how often.

Ways to increase traffic:

1. By placing a site in search engines and purchase of advertising,
2. Bulk E-mail,
3. Pop adds ,etc

• It is important that the ad is placed properly on most used or top rated websites. Generally people don't go beyond go beyond 2nd or 3rd page to search any stuff. We can increase the traffic, by giving some information about our product, plus give some free ebooks or articles thats downloadable, plus a discount on downloadable items ... .
• Another easy method is to write mail to sites and ask them to add their link to our'.
• Another method is to write free articles to sites, like a freelancer, benefit being that you get to include a link to your site in the article, that is, everytime someone clicks on your link, it brings free traffic. pixel ads brings more traffic, but can reduce intended users.
  
• The more better way is to register with major search engines. After registering, what happens is that the search engines works by crawling registered websites. These crawlers (also called spiders or robots), starts at the homepage, and goes through links, internal links and starts gathering information about pages and stores it and then indexes in search engine database, and indexes the page URL plus title plus header and some amount of text.
• Paid ads: Here in return for a small payment, many larger companies choose to advertise their sites on other popular sites. types: banner ad or CPM (Cost Per Impression), PPC (Pay Per Click).