6 FREE ways to DOUBLE your blog traffic in less than a week

Everyone want's traffic.You set up a blog with great content but,no one is visiting your blog, so what's the use of it. So, you need atleast a decent amount of traffic and what's great than getting that traffic for FREE?

So, here is the good list of 6 Free ways to get traffic to your blog.

1. SEARCH ENGINE:Yea! it brings lots of traffic to your blog.There are millions of people search in the search engines like Google, Yahoo, msn everyday. So, if your blog has so many good posts and is well indexed by google,etc.. you will get a good amount of traffic via search engines. There are a few steps to look at if you want a decent amount of traffic from the search engines like "submitting your blog sitemap to google", yahoo to index you blog pages very quickly. And the other important one is adding meta tags to your blog. If you follow these two simple steps,then you will get a decent traffic(massive traffic if your content is good).
2. Submitting your blog to Blog Directories: You may know this before,submitting your blog to blog directories will bring you a good traffic.
3. Here is a good list of blog directories(there are so many directories,but the below one's will bring you a good traffic). Most of these blog directories ask you to register before you submit your blog. My suggestion is, create a new email address solely for this purpose so,your personal emails are not flooded with the emails sent by the blog administrators,etc. You can find the Blog directories list here.
4. Participate in forums, groups, etc: Just go to google and enter your [major keyword + fourm] or [keyword+groups] and search. Suppose, your blog is about blogging, then search 'Blogging forum'. You will find some forums,groups related to your site. Register in the forums and post articles,etc with a link back to your blog(as a signature). Answer questions,clarify doubts and provide a link to your blog.But,Dont' SPAM.
5. Social Bookmarking:Social Bookmarking is another way to build good traffic to your website/blog.If you don't know what Social Bookmarking is "Social Bookmarking is a practise of saving Bookmarks, tagging the posts with keywords in a website".Bookmarking means saving a specific website url(address) in your browser that you wish to visit later.There are so many Social Bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, digg, furl, technorati. One good thing about these Social bookmarking sites is,y ou will get instant traffic. Just register with them, store your bookmarks, tags,.. and you are done,See your site meter blasting with traffic.
6. Submit Articles to Article Directories: Submitting articles to article directories is another effective way to build more traffic. By submitting to them,your articles get massive exposure and gain you more traffic. Some of the popular article directories are goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com, articlecity.com, etc. There are hundreds of article directories,just google it.
7. Leaving Comments on other blogs:Leaving comments with a link back to your blog is another good thing to do. Leaving comments in the related blogs is more useful and it also increases your pagerank. Always leave good comments and don't Spam(by placing links like'click here' like that).

Original Source : http://www.bloggertricks.com/2007/12/6-free-ways-to-double-your-blog-traffic.html

Installing Add Social Bookmarks in Blogger Posts Easily.

The best way to improve your reader's count is to add a social bookmark at the end of every post. This makes it easy for the readers to bookmark the post page using their favorite social bookmarking service (eg: Del.icio.us, Technorati, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, etc..) My post features to add some of the best social bookmarks at the end of every post.

Installing Add Social Bookmark to your blog on Blogger is easy. This visual guide will walk you through the installation process.

• First be sure to Get the Code for Blogger
• Then, follow the steps below.

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Sidebar

If you'd like to place the button in your blog's sidebar, follow these instructions. Installing this button will automatically position the button in your sidebar (typically in the top right hand corner of your page). By installing it once, it will appear on all your pages.

Step 1

Click the Install to Sidebar button on AddThis.

Step 2

Click Add Widget, and you're done!

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Blog Post Button

If you'd like to place the button below each one of your posts, follow these instructions. Installing this button will automatically put the button below each individual blog. This is the most popular implementation of the button for Blogger.

Step 1

Log into Blogger and select the blog you want to add AddThis to. Select Layout > Edit HTML. These controls look like tabs, and they're located at the top of the page.

Step 2

Check the Expand Widget Templates checkbox. This checkbox is located in the top right corner of the page, above the code. By clicking the checkbox, the code in the field below will refresh.

Step 3

Copy and paste the AddThis code snippet into the template, right after the div class='post-footer'> tag.

Note: If you have trouble finding this DIV, try copying and pasting the blogger code into a text file editing program and do a search for 'post-footer'. Once you located it, copy and paste the AddThis button code below the DIV. Then copy the entire text file and replace the code on blogger.

Step 4

Click Save Template, and you're done! A new page will load along with a confirmation at the top of the page should appear that reads, "Your changes have been saved. View blog." Click View Blog to preview your blog with the new AddThis button. The button should appear beneath each blog post.

Resource: http://www.addthis.com/

Create SEO Friendly Search URL - Wordpress Plugin

Nice Search is a WP plugin that makes your blog search “SEO friendly”.

It’s in quotes because normally search results won’t get indexed by search engines, because they are dynamic. Unless of course you store them as a static page in a specific folder in your blog.

This is a really simple plugin that redirects your WordPress searches (?s=search-term) to the pretty-looking URI version: /search/search-term, and also converts spaces (%20) to plus symbols.

http://www.domain.com/?s=search-term

into

http://www.domain.com/search/search-term

Obviously, you need to have mod_rewrite enabled, so that WordPress can process the /search/style URIs.

This plugin requires WordPress version 1.5 or higher.

Download

• Latest Version (0.2) [phps]