Comments on: Top Five Blogging Tips for Boosting Your Web Traffic

By: Magic Jack

Magic Jack — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:26:00 +0000

I’ll try the blog carnival…how about places like facebook and my space

By: Becca @ My Perception of Life

Becca @ My Perception of Life — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:26:57 +0000

This has been the most helpful baby site I’ve found (expecting our 1st in February). Added you guys to my blog roll!

By: Alternative Energy News

Alternative Energy News — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:41:18 +0000

What about doing videos on youtube to drive traffic back to your site. Has anyone done this and how effective is it?

By: Alternative Energy News

Alternative Energy News — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:36:33 +0000

Hmmm….# 2 I did not know that. …. Time to place my own pictures on my site with better names on them. Should it be that long or 3 to 4 words is good enough?

By: Natalie of Go Green Baby

Natalie of Go Green Baby — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:58:43 +0000

What a great tip about naming the pictures in your blog. I never knew how to do this!

By: Going Green Mama

Going Green Mama — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:10:37 +0000

Gina, you can do this by editing your alt tags. This tells blind readers what’s in your image, but it’s great for indexing. Go to the html mode in blogger and go to add in alt=”DESCRIPTION OF PHOTO.” So it would look like

I’ll try not to put my geek hat on too tightly, but I do web by day, so here are a few additional thoughts:

Keywords are important, but good writing is essential. I don’t want to read keywords dropped for the sake of dropping them in an article.

One thing not mentioned is we are a part of a community. It’s more than just listing a link in a blogroll and weekly carnival. I think visiting and commenting on sites is just as essential of a part (something that always drops off in my busy day). I love reading everyone’s perspectives and comments as much as the posts.

Finally, routine postings always help! People crave routine. Post on Mondays, post daily, post at a set frequency, and your readers will remember to come back.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:30:28 +0000

great tips, thanks!

By: rebecca

rebecca — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:01:00 +0000

Wanda, it took us the longest time to discover that place to add tags (right under the post on the dashboard in WordPress, as you said). I like the fact that I can type as many tags as I want, but they’ll remain invisible to the reader. I’ve noticed that some people have found our site by typing in the weirdes things into Google, like: “is there a 100% natural baby mattress without vinyl or harmful substances” or something. So sometimes I put whole questions in as tags, if I think someone might be googling it. So on some of our cloth diaper posts, I might add in “how do I wash cloth diapers, what’s the best way to wash cloth diapers,” etc.

By: wanda

wanda — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:25:14 +0000

I’m learning more and more everyday. Still…..there’s so much I don’t know.
The keywords or tag words? I’m seeing that on my WordPress dashboard…duh! Never used it!

I think I’ll get crazy and try some new stuff.
Thanks, ya’ll!

By: rebecca

rebecca — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:37:31 +0000

Gina, I am not sure how Blogger works, but with WordPress you can retitle a picture after you load it up. After we learned this trick I explained in point #2, I went back and retitled a lot of our photos. When I use my own photographs, I usually open it in Microsoft Office Picture Manager so I can resize it, crop it, etc. Then when I save the picture, I give it a new title. (The original “title” is usually just a number, like 026.jpg–no one is googling that!) I am not sure how it works in Flickr. I’ll go to your site and see if I can figure it out.