Getting More Clicks on Your Blog

If you haven't already, sign up and register with some social networks. There are a very many to choose from. Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Digg, StumbleUpon, and more. Try to register them all under the same user name to make it easy to remember.

Sign up and register with some popular blogs. They play a key role in generating unique views. I personally just use eBlogger from Google. You can set up multiple blogs within (1) one account. For example, I would setup (3) three accounts with the names, How to Make Money Online, How to Generate Traffic, and How to Earn Residual Income Online. I would then publish articles that are relevant to the themes of the blogs and leave links that come back to my eHow articles. Now you have a permanent gate way for unique viewers from these blogs.

Most publishers use AdSense on their blogs or websites to make money from online. Adsens is easy to use and understand a lot of Publisher I agree that Adsense is the best solution for all bloggers and website owners to make money with their websites or blogs. But there are a few tips to help you earn more clicks on AdSense ads, and more money.

Yes, more visitors, more clicks, more money!

Know Your Alexa Rank

Alexa.com offers a search engine, a directory and a toolbar (among other services). It also has a resource called Alexa Traffic Rankings (click the traffic rankings tab at the top when you get to Alexa.com), which is what we are focusing on when we study AlexaRank. You can input any domain name into the traffic rankings form and Alexa will spit out the current ranking data for that site.

The AlexaRank blue bar is a snapshot representation of the full Alexa traffic rankings, which include graphs that track the history of practically every website online, or at least every site Alexa “touches” or is exposed to via it’s toolbar. Each site has ranking number, the lower the number the better, which is an aggregate of the last three months of traffic data.

What Is Alexa?

Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and is a website which provides information on traffic levels for websites. The Alexa rank is measured according to the amount of users who’ve visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.

Put simply, the Alexa Rank is a ranking system which bases its ranking schema on the level of traffic each website receives from the number of people who visit a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.

Alexa ranking is heavily skewed towards websites which have a large webmaster/tech audience. This is because webmasters or web savvy audiences are much more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed than websites whose visitors are unaware of Alexa.

As such, many have indicated that Alexa is a vastly inaccurate method of measuring a website’s reach, traffic and potential. I don’t disagree.

Alexa is a silly way to measure web traffic but unfortunately, in an imperfect world Alexa is still heavily used by webmasters and ad networks when measuring the value of advertising on your website.

About Alexa Rank

To increase your Alexa rank in the long run, I would highly recommended that one focus on developing quality content which attracts and maintains a large audience instead of purely focusing on artificially increasing your Alexa Rank.

Great link-worthy content will leads to an natural increase in site traffic and is an excellent way to passively increase your Alexa rank.

It is important to emphasize that you should devote most of your efforts in growing your site audience alongside integrated implementation of any of the following tips below.

1. Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.

2. Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day. According to some, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.

3. Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers. Be sure to link to Alexa’s full explanation of their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension entails.

Blogwalking = Back Links

Everybody has their own blogwalking ritual. For me, my first priority is to visit everyone who has visited me. Hey, it’s only fair. If they made the effort to come all the way to your blog, it’s the simplest way to show your appreciation. So I will clear my shoutmix and my chat box. Some people wonder why I have both. The simple reason is because I know some people prefer one over the other when BW (I prefer shoutmix especially with all those cute little animated icons). Secondly, when one goes wrong, visitors can always type in the other one.

Secondly, I will visit all those links I have on my sidebar. I put them there for a reason right? It’s because I really do like reading their entries. So I make a point of visiting them whenever they update their blogs.

Increase PR by Blogwalking

Blogwalking is an activity of blogger to surf from one blog to the other blog, read its content, give comment, ask for link exchange or just leave comment in shout box. Blogwalking is very useful to promote our blog, increase Alexa rank and the most important is to make friendship among bloggers.

Some people blogwalking just leave message in shoutbox in hoping the owner visit back to their blog, maybe like me, this is the easiest way instead giving comment on post because we should read the article first, but when we read any article we get something useful and add our knowledge.

There are some service that offer us free chat box or shout box such as Cbox, Shoutmix, Meebome, Oggix, Sbox, and others. The most famous shoutbox or chat box I know is Shoutmix. During blogwalking I found many shoutmix chat widget than other services. As I know that shoutmix is very simple, easy but very interesting. We can customize our chat widget so looks different than others.

Blogwalking Tips

Blogwalking is one of blogging process that a blogger should consistency do. You may blogwalking to another blogs randomly but it's better to blogwalk through blog that has the same niche with you. Sometime finding blog that suite with your niche is hard and time consumption.

There is some way to find blog to blogwalk that has the same niche with yours:

1. Search on Google Blog Search

You can search it by type your blog keywors on Google Blog Search. Click the blog's links that appear at the first page one by one. Open it in new tabs, so you blogwalking from one tab to another without leaving the tab that has google blog search result. After the blogs open you can start fast reading throughout the blog post and leave a comment on the comment section. Or if the blog has chat box you can drop a few word just to say hello. Then you can move to another blogs and doing the same thing as I mention above.
There is no rule that restricted the number of blog that you want to visit for blogwalking. It defends on your goal to build a relationship with another blogs. You can visit 10 per day or you can visit to 200 blogs per day if you have the time.

2. Browse it through Blog Directory

Blog directory such as Technorati, My Bloglog, Blog Catalog, have wide range of category. Browse blogs that have the same category as yours, find some posts that interest you and then do the above tricks that I mention earlier.