Blogging aid

Heres a few quick tips on how to increase your traffic from stumble upon and keep it coming with solid user visiting your content over and over. Every site has a system all your mission is now is to learn what system stumble upon uses. so here we go

Having a core base of active SU users who read your blog is all you need to tap into a steady stream of SU traffic. If you haven’t yet developed this core base yet, here’s what you should do:

1. Start using StumbleUpon and voting up content from other blogs and websites in your niche.
2. Friend those who Stumble your articles and thank them. This will start a dialog that could turn them into a loyal reader of your blog.
3. Write about SU and encourage readers to add you as a friend.
4. Swap Stumbles with other bloggers.
5. Link to your SU profile on your About page.
6. Befriend active StumbleUpon users and stumble and review some of their content if they have a blog or website. Active users command more traffic and they’re more likely to repay the favor because they’re Stumbling all the time anyway!
7. Add a Stumble button/link under each of your posts.
8. Add a Stumble link to your Feedflare (find it in your Feedburner control panel).

Heres a very informative post i came across over on Problogger.net where Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes talks about what he did to increase the traffice to his site within 30 days by using 3 simple steps. If you are starting a new blog or even have a existing one these following paragraphs will make a heck of a difference.

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1. First, I made the most of Technorati tags. I tagged every key word in each of my posts. Initially I did this manually but them I discovered a WordPress plugin called SimpleTags that made the job a whole lot easier.
I found that by tagging my post effectively they were getting a lot more attention then their untagged counterparts, and as an added advantage I was getting focused, quality traffic to the site!

2. I leveraged my existing website. I’ve been running my business website for a few years and that was getting modest levels of traffic that was relevant to my blog - so why not try to drive some of that to my new blog! I placed a few FeedBurner headline animator blocks on some of my most popular pages and after a day or so I noticed a significant increase in traffic for 5 minutes worth of work on my part.

3. Finally, I made effective use of trackback links to popular sites. If I commented on a post on another site I would make sure that I set up the appropriate trackback for it. The results from this are varied depending on the site and post that you are linking to but since I liked to comment and interact with the wider blogosphere anyway, it was free traffic!

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Another thing you could do is the pay option which is actually purchase links from high ranking or high trafficed site that are relevant to yours. depending on what niche your blog/site is in the prices will vary but testing will rule out what is worth it and whats not.

A very interesting article covering many majour points about things such as internal links as well as quality links and how long it seriously takes building up your site to do well in search engines. You cant dis-regard search engines rather to social media places such as digg as google still send a hell of alot of traffic.

Among others it covers the logic of blog commenting in dofollow (what is dofollow?) blogs, why you need to accumulate more backlinks from authority sites - those with higher PR and the essential of outbound links - why you shouldn’t ignore them.

here are the ten tips discussed

1. Quantity or Quality Better?

2.Anchor Text Variations

3. Cross Linking Among Pages - Linking Internally Is Important

4. Get People To Link To Your Anchor Text

5. Do Not Totally Ignore Outbound Links

6. Links Embedded in Page Content are Very Powerful

7. Post to “Do-Follow” Blogs

8. Link Also To Pages Not Just Your Homepage

9. Online Directory Webmasters

10. Buying Manually Added Quality Backlinks

full article here

To start off here are some of the main income streams Bloggers use to earn multiple streams of income all in all the best way to make money from your blog is not just by having 1 income but multiple ones that accumilate to a larger figure when added together. Another benifit is that if one fails the others are still there.

Azoogle Ads, Intelli Txt, DoubleClick, Tribal Fusion, Adbrite, Clicksor, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, Pheedo, TextAds, Bidvertiser, Fastclick and Value Click (to name just some of the first blog specific ad networks. A more recent addition that many are using successfully are Chitika’s eMiniMalls and WidgetBucks, Text Link Ads. The most common way bloggers seem to earn money online is via the contextual ad program from Google - Adsense.

Of course there is more to come with MSN Adcenter and YPN both in beta testing and with a variety of viable advertising options for bloggers looking to make money from their blogs. Azoogle Ads, Intelli Txt, DoubleClick, Tribal Fusion, Adbrite, Clicksor, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, Pheedo, TextAds, Bidvertiser, Fastclick and Value Click (to name just some of the options) and there is a smorgasbord of options. A more recent addition that many are using successfully are Chitika’s eMiniMalls and WidgetBucks, Text Link Ads. The most common way bloggers seem to earn money online is via the contextual ad program from Google - Adsense.