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Ways to Get More Traffic To Your Content

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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.

Post on Facebook.com

Most people these days have a Facebook.com account which is connected to all of your friends. We have a very convenient button located in the toolbox (to the right of your article) that will allow you to post a link to your article directly onto your Facebook.com profile. I personally post a lot of my content to Facebook.com; if your article is interesting you'd be surprised how quickly people will pass it around. This is a great way to get a few extra visitors a day.

Blog about Your Content

If you happen to have a blog, you can casually mention your latest articles in a post (with a link to it of course), or place your Infobarrel.com profile as a link in your blogroll. If you don't have a blog and would like to get one, checkout http://www.blogspot.com, it is run by Google and is nice and safe.

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JennyWrites

Feb 7, 2009 4:49pm

Twitter can bring an amazing source too.

rizzle

Feb 7, 2009 5:05pm

Good point! If you have a solid twitter following you can quite a bit of traffic!

lissie

May 4, 2009 10:29pm

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?

admin

May 5, 2009 12:51pm

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.

Alana

May 8, 2009 7:38am

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

hospitalera

May 26, 2009 4:13pm

Another thumbs up for using google analytics here ;-) SY

Rudra

Jun 22, 2009 1:48pm

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.

PeterFalcon

Jul 2, 2009 8:52pm

Another vote for Google Analytics or Stat Counter support please!

deedavis

Jul 4, 2009 7:48pm

Thanks for the information, it was very helpful.

Bristolboy

Jul 9, 2009 5:30am

I would definately like to see Analytics integration. This is the thing which has stopped me publishing as much as I may have otherwise.

Educated_Caveman

Aug 3, 2009 4:18pm

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?

charliexx24

Aug 12, 2009 12:06am

yea that would be good to know whether you can use statcounter.

meRancidTaste

Oct 16, 2009 4:45am

For me twitter is the great source of traffic.

Momtrying2makeit

Nov 10, 2009 9:48am

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. :)

ljbinkop

Nov 15, 2009 2:40pm

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!