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You’ve got a new blog, and you had four visitors yesterday. You’ve been blogging for a whole three weeks - where are the crowds of eager readers?

Patience, patience. Your traffic will come. If you think about it, you should be pleased that you’re not getting thousands of visitors a day. Since you don’t have much content, you don’t want to disappoint the people who arrive. So minimal traffic is fine in the beginning, while you’re a new blogger.

Here’s how to increase your traffic.

1. Focus on content

Write a longish post, of at least 1200 words. New bloggers tend write short posts, and while these are fine, usually short posts are fillers, they’re not “destination” posts so it’s hard to get links from others.

2. Comment on blogs in your niche

Please don’t spam. Add useful information. Long time bloggers will delete your “Nice blog!” spam faster than you can blink.

Create thoughtful comments, and chances are other bloggers will check out your blog, and they may even give you a link or two.

Want more ways to increase your traffic?

At this stage, the above two tips are more than enough. Writing good content with four or more posts a day, and commenting on others’ blogs in a thoughtful way will increase you traffic - and your visitors will have something to read when they arrive, so they may add you to their feed readers.

Step by step to blogging success

Blogging for Dollars is a comprehensive blogging package which helps you to make money blogging.

Pro bloggers can make serious money, whether you choose to blog for a company as a freelance blogger, or build your own entrepreneurial blog. Many bloggers make six figures annually, and blogging networks have been sold for millions of dollars.

Make money blogging today - you’re sure of success with Blogging for Dollars to guide you.

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This week, I received several questions from “I’m going to start blogging real soon now” readers asking which blogging platform they should choose.

Should they go with freebies like Blogger and WordPress.com, or should they choose a paid option like TypePad, or should they buy their own domain name and install WordPress on it? Or should they…?

Here’s my answer.

Your blogging platform DOES NOT MATTER. Your blog does.

I’ve tried just about every platform available. Currently I use three: WordPress on my own domains primarily, but I also use free Blogger and paid TypePad.

Yes, some platforms have benefits over others. However, when you’re new to blogging, just start. You can always switch platforms later, when you have a real reason to, or you can start another blog on another platform, again when you have a real reason to do so.

When you have no blog, you’re completely in the dark as far as the benefits of a platform to your nascent blog. You don’t have any information, it’s all hypothetical, and you’re wasting time you could be spending on your blog.

So… close your eyes, choose a platform and start blogging.

Step by step to blogging success

Blogging for Dollars is a comprehensive blogging package which helps you to make money blogging.

Pro bloggers can make serious money, whether you choose to blog for a company as a freelance blogger, or build your own entrepreneurial blog. Many bloggers make six figures annually, and blogging networks have been sold for millions of dollars.

Make money blogging today - you’re sure of success with Blogging for Dollars to guide you.

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What’s the secret of the top bloggers? Posting frequency may be the most important.

Blogging takes commitment, and if you want to create a top blog, you need to post often and well.

State of The Blogosphere: The More You Post, The Higher You Rank reports:

“Blogging is a volume game. The more you post, the more chances there are that someone else will link to one of your posts. (Technorati rank is based on the number of recent links to your blog). The majority of the Top 100 blogs tracked by Technorati post five or more times per day, and a full 43 percent post more than 10 times per day. Meanwhile, 64 percent of the 5,000 blogs ranked lower than 600 post two to four times a day, which is still a serious commitment.”

Could you match the top 43 per cent of blogs and post ten or more times a day? That’s a serious commitment. Assuming that it takes you half an hour per post, that’s five hours a day spent blogging, which means that your blog is a full time job.

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