Get More Traffic From Bloggers and Better Search Engine Traffic - Be Followed - Search Engines

Heres a very simple traffic method for anyone who has their own web site, not just a person who has a blog.

1. Find the DoFollow Bloggers.

2. Participate in their communities. But alas, Simple is not the same thing as Easy. We shall come back to that point momentarily.

First, lets talk about why you should support DoFollow communties. DoFollow blogs manually remove the Nofollow attribute that prevents your site from getting full link benefits from the search engines. So when you comment at a DoFollow site and leave your link, you could get a link back that not only sends traffic, but increases your number of external backlinks, which can help increase your search engine ranking, as well as your relevance on sites like Technorati.

Now, here we are, back at the simple is not easy thing. Look at number two again. Note how it doesnt say leave a drive-by comment whose only purpose is to have a link back to you that contains your keyword.:) It says Participate in their communities. Why the distinction?

I'm a DoFollow blogger, so I can tell you. DoFollow bloggers arent looking for comments on the cheap. Do we want more comments? Sure. But if thats all we wanted, wed let the borderline spam flow. Wed then look like we were a popular blog without actually being one, which, lets face it, could give us the bump wed need to make the site popular. Not to mention that its a lot less work.

So why don't we do this? Because some of us changed our blogs back to DoFollow to make a point about how "Nofollow" doesn't prevent spam, and hurts our fellow bloggers. The commenting system is a reciprocal relationship in our eyes and many of us believe that fellow bloggers and webmasters especially should get something in return for taking the time to comment. And yet, spam posters try to make it look like theyre doing us some kind of favor by leaving their junk on our sites and cluttering up our experience for the rest of our community.

I know, its tempting to leave a generic comment to get more links, and it works on a minority of bloggers. To avoid having yourself lumped in with those people, really think about a brief comment, make it relevant to the discussion and see if you cant form a relationship with that blogger. Because its not actually the comment that is really the traffic jackpot. You may end up forming an alliance with a blogger whose blog you comment on frequently. That may mean that they feature you in a blog post, or that you have a future partnership that leads to an increase in revenue to your company. Either way the benefits will always be greater if you respect the etiquette of the blogosphere.

So dont make this classic newbie mistake - realize that not only are the bloggers real people, so are the members of their community. Be one of the good guys and prepare to reap the rewards of it.

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