Learn How To Get Free Web Traffic Simply By Starting A Blog

Have you ever thought: "I wish I could make my website more famous out there. I'm tired of having no traffic and no sales."

It's true. Having a famous website in your industry will mean more recognition, more exposure and more profits.

But how can you get all those hungry buyers to your site?

Well, the answer is here...

I will not tire you with hundreds and hundreds of pages. There's no need to.

Instead, I would like to explain a concept that is based on instant web publishing technology... and then... I will show you how to exploit this concept. You'll learn how to get free web traffic simply by starting a blog.

There are many free sites on the internet that will allow you to create your own blog and they will host it for you. I prefer to host my own blog, but I'm going to explain both options you have for blogging. I'll first start by providing the options for Free Blog Hosting.

Free Blog Hosting Sites

1) Blogger.com

This site is one of the most if not the most popular free blog hosting site. You can instantly create a blog and start writing on various topics.

The positives about using Blogger.com are that it is spidered often, and your blog link will be in the path of the spider, enabling your new blog to be spidered quickly. Once your blog is spidered, the search engines will continue to visit your blog for updates. Signup link: http://www.blogger.com/

2) Journalhub.com

This is a newer site, not as popular, but is a very solid choice for blog hosting. Your account is setup instantly. Signup link:

http://journalhub.com/summary.php?op=RegisterStep0

3) Aeonity.com

This site also gives you the ability to create an instant blog site. Signup link: http://www.aeonity.com/

4) Ebloggy.com

This site also allows free blog hosting. Signup link: http://www.ebloggy.com/

You can register with any of the above sites to start your own blog, but as I mentioned earlier I prefer to have my own site host my blog. Another option is to have two blogs.

My recommendation would be to create what I like to call a sub-blog, where the blogger.com blog would be a blog you update from time to time that discusses topics dealing with your main blog.

You should have links pointing from your blogger.com blog to your main blog site. The reason you are doing this is because blogger.com is spidered often and by default your blog with blogger.com, which is your sub-blog will also be spidered.

Since your sub-blog will have links to your main blog it can also aid in having your main blog site spidered more quickly.

Hosting Your Own Blog

Hosting your own blog gives search engines a reason to keep revisiting your website. It is important as I mentioned before that you update your blog several times per week. Below you'll find some recommended free software for hosting your own blog.

WordPress

All my blogging sites use WordPress as I believe it is the best blogging script available. It's very easy to install and you can go live within just a few minutes.

Download: http://wordpress.org/download/

By default WordPress gives you the ability to choose if you want Search Engine Friendly URLS for your blog, but I've taken that a step further.

You will only be able to follow the instructions I'm giving below if you already have WordPress installed.

If you have WordPress installed add this line of code to your "Permalinks" section:

/%postname%.htm

Input the above code into the line that says "Custom Structure" and ensure that you have the check placed in the "Custom, specify below" under Common Options.

What this does is give your blog highly optimizable search engine friendly URLS. Every blog post you make will have a keyword rich URL based on the subject of your blog. For example if your blog post was "Caribbean Recipes" your URL would be http://yoursite.com/caribbean-recipes.html.

It's a nice handy trick to get more search engine friendly URLS out of WordPress to ensure that your keywords appear not only in the subject but also in the page URL.

Blogging Themes

Now that you've got your blog setup, I know that by default WordPress skin may not be too pleasing to you. Let's change that by installing a new theme. The sites below offer some free themes that you can use and customize.

WordPress Themes Viewerhttp://themes.wordpress.net/

Alex Kings' Theme Viewer

Theme Porterhttp://www.themeporter.com/tags/themes/

Instant Wordpress Themes http://www.blogbuzzer.info/InstantWordpressThemes

Browse through those four websites and select a theme that you like best. You simply download the theme and upload it to your wp-content themes directory, then activate the theme in the admin area of Wordpress under presentations.