Increase Traffic With Technorati Favorites.

UPDATE 3 OCt 2008

Technorati now bars you from adding more than 200 Favorites :

Sorry, at the moment we do not support more than 200 favorites per user. This feature is coming soon. If you wish to add this url please delete another favorite and try again or check back later.

Those who wish me to add their blog as favorite will have to wait as I do not wish to delete anyone. Hope Technorati is not going to introduce a premium service. ;-)


One of the ways to increase traffic to your blog is by getting a higher Page Rank. An increased Page Rank ensures that your blog will appear in the first few pages of search results returned by the search engines. Your Page Rank increases with the number of backlinks to your blog. If there are more blogs with your blog-link and more blogs favoriting your blog at Technorati then it helps. Dosh Dosh recently introduced this Technorati Favorites Exchange Experiment which is is open to anyone who owns a blog. As long as your blog is not full of spam you’re free to participate.........

Here are the steps you can take to get started :

1. Participate by Exchanging Favorites

This is fastest way to join the exchange program. Favorite my blog by clicking here and then please leave your Technorati username as well as a similar link to your blog in a comment below this post. Click the Post a Comment link at the bottom of this post.

To make things easy, I suggest using a Technorati favorite link or button. You can get the buttons and links easily at this Technorati page. Please leave a link to one blog only.

I will favorite all the links as soon as possible. I won’t be leaving any comments to confirm this because I’ll just be repeating myself constantly over the comment section.

Please periodically check to see who has favorited your blog and do also let me know if I’ve left you out. My email address is :

2. Make a post on Technorati Favorites and link to this post

If you are interested in holding Technorati exchanges on your blog then these are the steps you need to take:

A. Create a post on your blog announcing that you are exchanging Technorati favorites. Prominently include a link to this post to indicate that there is a similar exchange going on at Dosh Dosh and at BetaBlogger for Dummies.

Make a new post on this topic instead of putting the link in a old post that is already deep in your archives.

B. Get a Link Back. Once I’ve noticed the link via backlinks or Technorati, I’ll include a link to your post on Technorati favorites in this post itself so readers here can visit your blog to participate if they want to.

If you don't see your link up after a day or two, please feel free to send me an email. My Email address is :

Do not just copy and paste the above. Write your own exchange rules and suggestions as it helps if there is not so much duplication.


This is a win-win two-way arrangement and allows us to share traffic and readers with each other.

Blogs Offering Technorati Favorites Exchanges

Fast Lane Transport.
Minas Musings.
Magical Rose Garden.
Thoughts On The World.
ShadowScope.
PlanetApex.
Spinditties.

Increase Traffic with External Content.

This is the second post in my series on How to Attract Traffic. In the first post we saw how to attract traffic using attractive content. Today we will see how to use online content outside our blog to attract traffic...........

CREATING EXTERNAL ONLINE CONTENT TO INCREASE TRAFFIC

1. Launch your site/blog with a press release. A Press release generates market awareness by distributing news across internet news channels. There are many sites where you can submit such a press release. Just Google for "press release".




2. Submit articles to various article submission sites. Make sure to include the link to your blog at the bottom of the article. Out of ideas on what article to write? Go through your blog and rework your posts into an article.




3. Become a member of a Google Group or forum related to your blog topic. Try and solve member's problems in the forum. Most forums allow for a signature line. In the signature line paste the link to your blog. Other forums allow a small banner. You can use Feedburner's Headline Animator in such situations. Do not spam the forums. Offer genuine help. Otherwise you will lose credibility.




4. Distribute Monthly Email Newsletters to your visitors. Include educational and informative content in the newsletters.




5. Start your own Google Group or Yahoo Group. Add members to it and start a mailing list. You can send your posts by email to all Group members.




6. Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers are two sites where you can answer people's queries and include your site URL in the signature line.




7. Put a link to your site in your ebay profile. Put your Feedburner Headline animator in your Email signature file. This shows your post titles by rotating them and can induce viewer interest. See it in action in the Header for this blog.




8. Banner exchange sites are where you can get more traffic. Make a banner for your site. Just Google for "online Banner Generator".




9. Post comments on other blogs. Many blogs have opened up their comments for Google spiders to follow. You can make intelligent comments on such blogs and leave your blog link there. It counts as a backlink to your blog.




10. Author a book and use your blog to sell the book and your book to attract viewers to your blog. It works both ways.





11. Review books at Amazon.com and link it to your blog.





12. Author an E-Book and give it away free or part of it to your subscribers. Write a free E-Zine and submit it to free Ezine directories.





13. Create free sites at places like Squidoo.com, Hubpages.com, wordpress.com, Googlepages.com, Tumblr.com etc... Write about your subject and put in links to your blog. These are sites for free backlinks to your blog.





14. Become a member of sites like Digg.com and Blog-buzz.com. Participate in digging quality articles and build up a network who will help to digg your articles when you submit them. An article on the Digg top list can divert substantial traffic to your blog.




15. GuestBlog on your friends' blogs. Include a link to your blog at the end of the post.





16. Allow others to distribute your ebook/pdf for free or bundled with their products. This is viral marketing in action.





17. Tag Blog photographs at Social Bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and also at Flickr.





18. Offer help and comment on other blogs in your niche. Establish a relationship with the blog authors and then politely ask for a link back to your blog. A backlink from a site with a higher page rank is invaluable.





19. Some blogs are willing to post a review of your blog, authored by you, on their blogs, provided you give them a link.





20. Put a link to your other blogs on your blog if you have multiple blogs. Do not overdo this as Google frowns on link spamming.