Ways to Get More Traffic To Your Content
Tips To Get More Traffic
This article is intended to be used in conjunction with InfoBarrel, however these ideas could easily be applied and used on your blog or on a full fledged web site.While just having your articles on Infobarrel will yield some traffic, you aren't maximizing your potential by just hoping other people find it and see what you have to say. By being proactive you can ensure others find it and potentially increase your earning potential.
I will outline some things you can do to increase your articles exposure below:
Email Signature
Most people write at least a few emails a day, why not put a link to your Infobarrel.com profile in your signature so that your friends, family and associates have an easy way to access your latest content?Forum Signatures
Do you post on any online forums? People click on links in other's signatures all the time; I know because I do it myself! If you post on any forums, create a signature linking back to your latest Infobarrel article, or directly to your profile page. The more you post the more opportunities people have to see your stuff. One thing though; make sure that the forum allows links in your signature before placing them there, as some have strict rules against it.Social Bookmark Sites
Social bookmark sites allow you to create your own personal list of content that you think is great. This is a fantastic way to build more links directly to your articles which helps search engines find them more easily.Some of my favorites are:
http://www.Digg.com
http://www.Reddit.com
http://Buzz.yahoo.com
http://Del.icio.us
http://www.Mixx.com
http://www.Folkd.com
http://www.Shoutwire.com
http://www.Mister-Wong.com
You will need to sign-up and create a free account at each of these sites. Once you are all signed up, you can easily submit your latest articles to each of the sites to help the search engines locate your new articles quicker. This will also help with where your articles rank when you search for them. You will also find your content will get a nice burst of traffic after submitting, a great way to make a few extra bucks.
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Twitter can bring an amazing source too.
Good point! If you have a solid twitter following you can quite a bit of traffic!
I like to see what search terms my visitors are using to find my content, that way I can tailor my writing for them but I dont see either any inbuilt stats on infobarrel or a way to add my infobarrel articles to Google Analytics or statcounter. Are there plans to move in this direction for the site?
Google has just recently opened up their analytics API code to the public and we are in the process of looking at it to see if we can use it to give you your search data, demographics and other useful information.
We will keep you posted on the development.
I would also like to see analytics intergrated, also I may have missed it, but where can members find information on increasing their achievement score (and what it means) and how an article can be featured on the home page?
Thanks
Another thumbs up for using google analytics here ;-) SY
The thing with social networking sites are that they make the articles rank well in search engines but traffic can be of poor quality. Meaning they land on a site and quicky dissapear to the next.
Another vote for Google Analytics or Stat Counter support please!
Thanks for the information, it was very helpful.
I would definately like to see Analytics integration. This is the thing which has stopped me publishing as much as I may have otherwise.
I would love to see statcounter made available to our content here, however, is it possible that the infobarrel template's html feature already allows for statcounter monitoring?
yea that would be good to know whether you can use statcounter.
For me twitter is the great source of traffic.
Thanks now I am off to learn all I can about this site and see where it leads me in my journey of writing online. :)
There is also a free site out there called Traffic Swarm, and I had very good luck with it on my eHow articles. I'll send you the link if you want it!
Great tips thanks, I'm new to Info Barrel but I enjoy writing for this format.
Any news on the Google Analytics front? SY
Info Barrel has been very helpful for us. Article submissions also another way to generate traffic. We learn something new everyday
Very valuable information that is very useful that will help be to direct more traffic to my article or website. Thanks!
hey nice information! Isn't YouTube a healthy resource to use? Log on, post a bullitin to all of your friends? YouTube has worked very well for me but your tactics will probably work better! Thank you!
The more sources you use to promote your article the better. So if YouTube is working, then keep going with it!
Yes can I use google analytica?
Hi Projectmaster,
Once you hit 10 articles published you can add your analytics ID to Infobarrel.
Can i add 'infobarrel.com' to my google adsense channels?
Hi Viryabo,
Yes, in order to track the number of ads you are showing on your articles at Infobarrel you will need to add a channel for www.infobarrel.com.
Thanks admin. Just did that.
The funny thing is, I know where this photo was taken. It's in Canary Wharf in London. Those traffic lights are on a roundabout. Luckily, they don't (somehow!) confuse the heck out of people! :D
For me twitter is the great source of traffic.
Ok..learned something new again. Thanks. You are very helpful.
Very good article. I'm ready to start increasing traffic!
Thanks for the information on getting more traffic. And all of the informative comments.
Most of these sites have policies that prevent you from self-promotion and posting to your own work. How does everyone get away with backlinking when such site rules are in place?
It is noted here in how to get more traffic to your articles that you can post your articles to social bookmarking sites.How can this happen when your article cannot be a duplicate elsewhere?
Well you probably will want to re-write, or add some information to make it unique.
I think what the article says is post a summary and link to the article in a blog or on Facebook, not a complete rewrite of the article.
This is a very helpful article. If possible, I would love to see the information on income, etc., posted directly on our Infobarrel content page, so that we do not have to check Google Analytics to see how our articles are doing.
If you click on my profile and review the dates and views of my articles you'll notice I might know a thing or two about how to get my article out. Without giving away too many of my secrets, when you write you have to think what is interesting to read AND marketable. If you have significant "brand power" in your online name in some kind of field on the internet, use it (google EV38 and see what comes up as an example). If you don't, create that brand power in your field of expertise. Its the difference between having people click on your links, possibly check out the ads that make you money and then thank you for your advice vs calling you out on spam.
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Going to be doing all of this to help generate some traffic to my articles and other websites and pages throughout the web.
I've had good success adding a link to my author profile on my blog. It brings some traffic and some link juice since the blog is PR2. More link juice to the profile spills over to the articles.
I keep getting black balled by Reddit. On Hubpages. . . .reddit is almost my number one source of traffic, so I do well there, then they decide; "oh, he just spams us with his own stuff."
*sigh*
I'll create another account there sooner or later, and do it all again!
some great tips!!! thanks
Don't forget about StumbleUpon. I think it's the best social bookmarking site for driving article traffic.
don't forget blog comments its one of the effective ways to get traffic
Thank you much I enjoyed this article very much and was extremely helpful as well.
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