BUNDUBLOGGERS INCREASE YOUR TRAFFIC August 28, 2008
Posted by frostygirl in Uncategorized.Tags: bundu, traffic
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I joined “Bundublog” during March 2008, in South African speak “Bundu” means “in the bush” or at the back of beyond, somewhere far away from city life. Bundublog is a free wordpress blog open to all those of us who live on the African continent. It is great because you get to know fellow Africans from our continent and learn more about their country and customs.
Many bloggers will agree with me when I say that you have to have a passion for the subject you choose to write about and you must make it interesting for a third party to read. I have chosen to write about South Africa, its people, their customs, general news, etc. I try to vary the subject matter and to tell the truth as I see it and this then attracts comments from people all over the world who have not experienced the type of things we experience in Africa.
I am still very much a “newbee” at this, but I did have success in attracting traffic to my blog by reading other blog posts from various blogs and trying out their tips. I will list a few of the successes below:
One blogger challenged people to the “30 day challenge” and he maintained that if you can write one post a day for 30 days that the traffic to your blog would increase dramatically. Of course you must not write rubbish, keep it interesting and not too long. After the first 4 days I could see that his challenge was going to be a winner for me and I just watched my daily traffic stats increase. Apparently if you post daily there is more likelihood that the search engines will pick up your posts.
Another tip is to try and blog about something very current and of interest to the world. For example when Nelson Mandela turned 90 years old the world was very interested in the occasion therefore if you had posted a piece about him, his birthday, etc. you would have had many overseas visitors to your blog. The same can be said about the Beijing Olympics, especially the opening ceremony.
I also found a site called “Entrecard” and they have helped me to attract a lot of new people to my blog and in doing so I once again made new friends in this community. It is free to join and has tremendous advantages. Have a look at them by clicking on the “E” on the advert you see to the right of this post, join them and see your traffic increase. The idea is to visit the blogs, read and comment on as many posts as you feel you want to, drop your card on them and most of the time they will then visit your blog and drop their card on you.
There are obviously many more tips to increasing your traffic, but I do not want to make this a long post, just try and make your blog user friendly and do not clutter it up with so many things that it takes ages to load in your visitors browser. If I have to wait for more than 2 minutes for the blog to load I tend to want to close that page and go to the next blog.
I have also asked a few people to visit my blog and to give constructive criticism and reviews on it and that has helped me as well. Go to the following link and ask them to review your blog:
I hope this has helped some of the new Bundubloggers out there, remember the whole point of the exercise is to enjoy yourself and to meet new people to share ideas with!
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