Soon after connecting to internet, Do a google search on your own blog name ? Do a google search about your domain name? Do a search about your own post in search engines? If you have been doing this for some time. Then your are attacked by a bad virus called “N1TB” – Not even 1 Traffic to Blog site.  This virus attacks your passion towards writing, Your eagerness in creating more value added posts, and ultimately Blogging habit slowly moves away from you.

Every blogger have to go through this while starting a blog. Allowing this virus to sustain for long time will kill you as well as your blog site. The Cure is, expert guideline, well known small steps, well controlled strategies and few link exchanges here and there. You will see traffic coming through.

My first and fore most advice is, Decide your platform (Free Blogger OR Free WordPress.com OR self hosted WordPress OR self hosted MVT etc). Self hosted blogging is very cheap than before. With just $20 per year you can own a domain name as well as hosting space per year. This $20 is only the seed fund, once you reach considerable amount of post $20 is nothing when compared to add revenue. Choose your domain name either general OR target a particular keyword OR area of blogging.

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STEP1: Engage yourself in places where blogging community meet. The base line of blogging is read as much blogs you can, blogging community as a whole love to read. Try to engage them, and let them interact about your blog or blog post. There are many popular forum available like blogcatalog, Mybloglog, Blogged,  and indiblogger. Feedback from such a huge community will help you grow rich with blogs. Collate your blogs in Technorati, and blog pulse) but also through different blog directories (eg blogtopsites) and blogging communities (eg blogcritics).

STEP2: Get your blog listed in best directories. Try to place your blog in Dmoz. There are quite a few free directories available for free listing against reciprocal link one such site is http://internetdir.in/. Internetdir.in also accepts free article more number of article pointing to your site from directories are good way of attracting Search Engines.

STEP3: Configure automatic rpc ping tools. These tools will help you in updating new posts, posts changes and comments to blog search and aggregators.  Almost all weblog platforms have provisions to insert rpc ping urls.

List of BLOG PING SITES FYR:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://www.wasalive.com/ping/

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://ping.amagle.com/

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/

http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2

http://rpc.newsgator.com/

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud

http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

STEP4: Social Networking Sites will help you to get identified among your contacts and peers. Have your blog URL in status message, change it frequently as and when you create a new post. Digg, Delicio.us, Twitter, Facebook, hi5, Orkut are the best ways to express your blog site to others.

STEP5: Strictly follow the steps from 1 to 4 meticulously N1TB will never even come close to you. You will receive both organic and in-organic traffic and hence more users to your blog. Last but not the least It is the content that attract the readers neither listing nor presence is SNS. Think of niche idea and express your posts on your own.

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Blogs pave the path to share and to express your ideas. Blog needs a  fuel called readership. Social media helps you to increase readership and hence adding a social dimension becomes an important aspect of blogging. People love to share useful information. Your fresh short posts should have ways to share and express. Comments in your blog is one part of it, presence in sharing platforms like facebook, twitter, Yahoo buzz, digg, delicious, stumble upon helps to attract external readers. This is also termed as organic readership growth. Power of social media is well know. One classic example is the story of Time Warner cable and it’s increased use of tweets as main medium to solve customer issues, and information exchange.

How to add social dimension to Blog?

Comments etiquette – Comments are compulsory in blog posts. Allow readers to express their opinion. Respect freedom of expression, anchor to any blog.

Twitter - Having a twitter account against your domain name or blog motto is  must. Create auto tweets using plugins. A tweet in url, if useful will get re tweeted by others and sharing will provide exponential traffic to your blogs. Read more about how to get engaged in twitter. Plugins you must have in your blog.

Social Bookmarking – Bookmarking websites helps you to create incoming links, and link sharing. Most of the bookmarking websites allow you to give abstract of your actual content. Some the famous plug-ins for social bookmarking sites are Sociable (WordPress) helps you to share contents in close to 199 social bookmarking sites.

Web profiles – Let your web profiles have link to your blogs and blogs to your social profile. Blogs are not just  a way to create a posts, It is a way to “LET THE WORLD KNOW WHO YOU ARE“

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Twitter can be a very effective tool to promote your blogs. Most of the Inherent characteristics of twitter  has the potential to ease blog promotion. 140 characters of crisp introduction to your blog along with links to your blog post is the base for effective and efficient blog promotion using twitter. Your followers in twitter are the targeted reader, a link to your blog along with post title is the route. so the first and foremost step is to get associated with your targeted audience i.e getting followers. In twitterism “Following is the way to get followers”. Having a clear strategy is the easiest way to success.  A unfocused, and scattered tweets can not fetch useful result. pen down your strategy first.

Give confidence to your followers, Base line to keep your followers

“Follow me .. I think i know where i am going”

Feel free to increase your following,

In My view “A good twitter will have more following than a followers”

Well know blogger Blog Bloke’s view,

Twitter is more of a social “chat” tool than real blogging. But regardless of what definition you want to give it, it is indeed a boon to business and it will only get better.

Here comes 8 valuable tips from a well known blogger Blog Bloke,

1. First of all, more blogs today are getting rid of blogrolls. They are considered old school and going the way of the dinosaur.
2. Twitter is designed for short, burst announcements to communicate with your followers, grab their attention and to build relationships. But it is NOT a replacement for blogs.
3. Your blog is your most important tool in your Web 2.0 arsenal. You should think of it as being concentric to your overall social media marketing strategy (Twitter or any other Social Networking site) for leveraging your followers over to your blog.
4. Heck, Twitter (like all social networking sites) doesn’t even offer you a top-level domain. Might as well just stay on Blogspot — right? (NOT).
5. Twitter is quickly becoming a search engine in its own right for finding more fodder to write on your BLOG.
6. If you are a marketer trying to make money you will want your Twitter followers to visit your blog and click on your ads.
7. Like I said before, as a communication tool Twitter is still rudimentary and needs a lot of work. It is more efficient to conduct a discussion on your blog comments section than it is to follow a conversation on Twitter. (Especially with all of the third party plugins and scripts that are now available).
8. Ultimately your blog is where you want the action to be. You want your readers to follow you over to your real blog on your own domain and a site that belongs to YOU.

Source Post:  http://www.blogbloke.com/twitter-tips-promote-blog-traffic/

Few Good post to read about twitter,

http://hexablogs.com/twitter/twitterism-effective-usage-of-twitter/

http://hexablogs.com/twitter/a-must-know-for-bloggers-twitter/

http://twittertips.org/

http://www.twitip.com/13-twitter-tips-and-tutorials-for-beginners/

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/25/how-to-use-twitter-tips-for-bloggers/

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/25/35-twitter-tips-from-35-twitter-users/

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Twitter, the addictive message service that connects the world of users with 140 character at a time.  Thanks to the superb minds behind twitter the likes of Evan Williams for helping us to answer the question what are you doing? Twitter has become a vital connector for people and communities.  In fact it helps companies to update their status to the intended audiences.  In comparison with the legacy branding utilities tweeter helps you to choose and control your listeners, their home page is loaded with your tweets along with list of other tweets they follow.

Some of the user comments about tweeter and it is usage are,
Nicole Ahn

Twitter definitely is a great example of websites going further than what is available. Twitter proves to be beyond just a status update website, but more of a community of users who are informing one another of what is going on around them. It’s amazing to see networking among people, twitter working within the society, and the public being affected by what goes on on the internet.

Michele Lorito-Chase

To catch a glimpse of shared knowledge at one’s own speed, to share knowledge with those who desire to obtain it, a platform that facilitates collaborative thinking for creative genius, for brands to give without a price tag, to build an unprecedented global network to share with and grow-Evan Williams is a pioneer who’s contribution will open up different territories for even greater contributions.

Husnia Karimi

i do think the same that Twitter is one of many social media tools what i think that some of us using it as a fun tool and some using it as a connecting with each other, in the end of the day is the way you are useing this tool.

Hence proved, A powerful tool to update your status, your post, your thought, your feel, your understanding, your xyz. Twitter proved to be a powerful tool for bloggers. Usage of Tweet me, Tweet this plug-ins with wordpress helps you to update yous post publishes to twitter and hence to all you followers. It works as a SEO tool too. It works as a ping tool too, but only your followers are updated.
Extracting the full usage of twitter involves few easy to follow step by step approach. Come back here to get more guidelines on twitter.

1. Choosing a right Twitter template
2. How to design your Twitter background image
3. How to use plug-ins like tweet this, tweet me with your Blogs
4. Enhancement for your Blog
5. Enhancement for your brand identity
6. Following, Follower strategy
7. Use of Social monitoring tools for your tweets
8. Monitoring your twitter behavior

Follow up for contents on these area.

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