10 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic

Filed in: SEO Beginner, Weblog — June 23rd, 2006

Markus Merz has a list of tricks to increasing blog traffic. He calls it as “My cooking recipe for fast SEO results“. Here is the excerpt.

  1. Claim your blog at Technorati like services.
  2. Pinging Pingoat or Ping-O-Matic.
  3. Use FeedBurner for feed publishing.
  4. Bookmark every article at del.icio.us.
  5. Use extensive tagging and keywording inside your articles and on services like del.icio.us.
  6. Trackback, if you write about another blog or linking to other blogs.
  7. Use Flickr for your photos. Link to the articles in your Flickr descriptions. Don’t forget to tag your photos.
  8. Always ask permission before you use other people’s pictures. After publishing the picture, add a comment to the photo used (e.g Flickr photo) with a link to your article.
  9. If you are linking to somebody, send them an email about your link. Ask them to inform you if they have something interesting for you to blog about.
  10. Add a link to a keyword in Wikipedia whenever possible.


Read 10 Tips for More Blog Traffic

My two cents

By the way, if you follow the workflow, you will find that the checklist probably takes longer time than writing a post! However, I assure you that it will increase your website traffic.

Basically, I have done the same things as in the list, excerpt using Flickr for photo hosting. I am tempting to get a Flickr Pro account to host my photos. Hmm.. probably after I own a digital camera? :)


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  • http://sankt-georg.info/ Markus Merz

    Thanks for posting my list :-)

    The time consuming aspect for me is only to annotate the keywords for my pictures which I have to do anyway. A small amount of time is eaten up by bookmarking articles on del.icio.us.

    Well,8 and 9 speak for themselves. It has to do with building trust and a network.

  • http://sankt-georg.info/ Markus Merz

    Thanks for posting my list :-)

    The time consuming aspect for me is only to annotate the keywords for my pictures which I have to do anyway. A small amount of time is eaten up by bookmarking articles on del.icio.us.

    Well,8 and 9 speak for themselves. It has to do with building trust and a network.

  • http://whatthepets.blogspot.com/ gazard

    Add a link to a keyword in Wikipedia can help in traffic?

  • http://whatthepets.blogspot.com gazard

    Add a link to a keyword in Wikipedia can help in traffic?

  • http://www.planetmy.com/ Planet Malaysia

    gazard, just wonder how?

  • http://www.planetmy.com Planet Malaysia

    gazard, just wonder how?

  • http://www.wanginternet.com/ WangInternet

    How can bookmarking on every article at del.icio.us help? Will it bring traffic from Search Engines or from del.icio.us readers?

  • http://www.wanginternet.com WangInternet

    How can bookmarking on every article at del.icio.us help? Will it bring traffic from Search Engines or from del.icio.us readers?

  • LcF

    @WangInterenet: register a delicious account and bookmark your articles to your own delicious bookmark and tag it. It will bring traffic from delicious and search engines.

  • LcF

    @WangInterenet: register a delicious account and bookmark your articles to your own delicious bookmark and tag it. It will bring traffic from delicious and search engines.

  • http://gotechno.org/ Joel

    Hey thanx for the tips man…i hope these tips will help in increasing my blogs traffic…

  • http://gotechno.org/ Joel

    Hey thanx for the tips man…i hope these tips will help in increasing my blogs traffic…

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