The first step to getting more people on the site has to be placing comments on other blogs. Now, this can be done for 2 reasons. First, for link building, second for traffic.
If you are lucky then the comment drives both – search engine friendly links AND new unique visitors. Does it work? Well I know for certain that I see visitors arriving from blogs that are nofollow blogs, but these don’t give any link juice. So the first step to increasing the traffic on this site is to place comments on “dofollow” blogs.
Why on “dofollow” blogs (and this is one, so leave a comment!)? Well, that way if I comment on enough blogs and then start seeing people arriving from a handful, I can concentrate on following those blogs going forward and know that my work is having both effects. If I just comment on nofollow blogs, then there is no link advantage, just the hope of traffic. But at least a tiny amount of an advantage should be received from all of the dofollow links that are created.
So, how to find the blogs? Well, here are some recommended links to dofollow blogs that I will be trying out:
- Why Do Work
- Nicusor
- Dlist
- Do Follow Blogs
- Follow List
- Blogs that Follow
- Squidoo
- minterest
- Do Follow 001
So far, I have only tried out some of the sites on the list and I am going to work my way down the list. Why Do Work’s list I tried out a few weeks ago and I have to say that I have seen no traffic and a few of the sites were not actually taking comments. So not the best list. But maybe a few suitable sites there. I am also still waiting for my own blog to get listed. I am not convinced that site is updated.
As for Nicursor, well the list definitely looks frequently maintained and has provided a few links from which I have got some of the sites listed above and I have just posted comments on a few of the blogs. Time will tell whether the blogs listed there are any good.
The Dlist is huge – about 200 blogs. But many are Blogger redirects, expired websites and blogs that have not posted for a long time (the worst offender was 3 years!). But there were some useful sites on the list and if you are a traditional ‘mommy blogger’, then there are loads of sites for you to explore!
And if you own any of the sites listed above do let me know – I have left all of the above links as dofollow.
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