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You and I love to have a lot of traffic to our site because you want to share the internet surfers or your readers what you know so that they would learn something useful from you.  Or you want to offer them your solution to their problem.  You  are the expert and authority in a certain subject.

As you all know that traffic means making or breaking business.  If there is no traffic, there is no business.  After having some traffic, we want to have some comment.  You want to engage in a conversation with our readers and want feed back how you are doing.  But how do you get traffic and comment on your blog?

Here are my few suggestions on how to get traffic.

Good design: You must have a unique and brandable website and have a great look and feel.  The great design can draw people’s attention because it has a first impression that your readers would find something cools you offer.  It is a one of a kind environment where they hope they find the solution to their problem.  Good design can also make people to observe around longer than a plain and simple site.

Valuable content: On top of the great design, your posts must have a unique and valuable content that the readers find them useful and informative.  Otherwise your loyal readers would not come back for more information.  On top of that, you would not find any unique visitors either.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): If your blog is new, you have to submit it to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.  Moreover, your posts should have keyword rich content.  That way you do not have to spend a lot of effort to promote your site.

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How do you get comment on your blog?

Content: Again it is imperative to have a good content in the first place in order to have your readers leave you comments.  They want to gain a benefit from your blog before they place their comment.  As you know, they want to have a backlink to their site after they learn a few tips from your blog content.

WP plugins: There are few plugins that can help you get more comments.  The most common ones that most bloggers use are “CommentLuv” and “Top Commentators widget”, “NoFollow Free”, and “CommentRelish”.

Placing comment on other blogs: It seems that commenting on other blog would bring traffic to your site, but remember to place useful comment or to provoke a meaningful discussion so that other readers would benefit from it.

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Now you have some useful tips on how to get traffic and comment to your site.  I am sure there are a lot more out there.  If you have used other ways to get traffic and comment to your site, please leave your comment below.

Do you know it is important to have the first impression for your blog?  Yes, it is important besides the design of your blog.  Maybe it is the best way of creating that good first impression is through your blog post’s title.

Great written titles are important on many fronts and they are including the followings:

Grabbing attention in major search engines: You must have a great title on your blog because this is most highlighted that the readers would decide which result to click on when they go to Google and search for information most of the time.  They would have a very little information to go by.  There is a title, very short excerpt, and URL.  You have to have your title stand out among millions of search results that the readers got after a research.

Getting RSS reader’s attention: Similarly, you need to have your title grab attention of those following your blog via RSS feeds in new aggregators.  Those readers tend to scan the titles of posts for things of interest rather than reading full text.  They stop and visiting the posts that pique their interest.

Getting attention in social bookmarking sites: Apply the same principle to the social bookmarking sites such as Digg.com and Onlywire.com.  They have the potential to send your site thousands of visitors based almost solely on the title of your blog post.

Loyal readers: Your good blog post title has a great impact on your loyal readers.  It will make them pause as they roll their eyes down to your site because your blog title intrigues them enough to slow down their frantic web surfing and actually read some of the content that you have poured time and energy into.

Search engine optimization: Your good blog title can contribute to how search engines rank a page of your blog besides other factors they use.  And one of the most powerful onsite factors is the words that you use in the title of the post.  Most blogging platforms will include your title in the title tags of your post and the URL structure.    These two factors contribute to that page’s search engine ranking.  On top of that, other bloggers often use your title to link to your blog and then your titles become a very important factor in ranking and generating traffic in search engines.  Your blog post title is like an advertisement for itself and it can mean whether the readers would read your content or not.  Creating a great blog title is a skill.  Learn how to do it and you will appreciate it later.

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The optimal length of a blog post has been discussed by bloggers for many years.  And the general opinion seems to be that a page should be at least 250 words and less than 1,000 words.   There are many factors to consider when thinking about the blog post length.  However, you should consider the following reasons:

Reader attention span: The typical reader has a short attention span when it comes to reading content online.  As far as a research, it shows that most average readers stay on blog about a minute and a half.  You have that amount of time to communicate with them.  As a result, you should keep your content length down to a level that is readable in short grabs.

Search Engine Optimization(SEO): In SEO, both extremely short and extremely long web pages are not ranked as highly as pages that are of a reasonable length.  The eye of Google and its fellow search engines seems to agree that a page should be at least 250 words.

Quantity of posts: One theory says that shorter posts allow you to write more posts and that more posts and that more posts are better for generating readership with RSS and in search engines.

Topic/genre: The type of post that you are writing will often determine its length.  If you write a review of a product, you will generally write a longer post than when you write a new related post where you link to something someone else has written.

Comprehensive coverage of the topic: Logically, you write enough to comprehensively cover your topic and then stop.  Essentially, this is the main criteria for the bloggers.   So you do not think about the length of the blog too much.  As long as it covers the topic, it will be good enough.

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Do you know that there is no right or wrong way when it comes to a “good title” subjective?  And there are many strategies that many successful bloggers use to get readers attention to their blog.  The ultimate goal is to get people to read the first line of your post.  In order to do that, consider the following techniques:

Keep it simple: The most effective titles are short, simple, and easy to understand.  But breaking these rules can grab attention as well as confuse, and frustrate the readers.  On top of that, short titles are good for for search engines when you keep it under 40 characters or so .

Grab attention: Good titles can draw readers to your post.  Using tactic of shock, big claims, controversy, and confusion would get the attention.  These tactics would get people in, but they can also do more damage if your title would not live up to the promises your title makes.  Just grab your readers attention, but do not trick them.

Meet a need: The effective blog title would draw people to read more of your blog because they feel you have something to say that they want to hear or know.  That is why the articles, “how to…” got to the top of the list.

Describe: The titles should tell the readers what they find if they read further.  Then should describe what readers will get in the main post.  You do not need to give away everything in the post, but being descriptive will definitely help.

Use keywords: Because the titles are a powerful part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), you need to consider using the keywords that you want your post to be found with in your title in some way.  It can be done even though it is challenging when you are attempting to keep it simple and  to grab attention.  Words at the start of titles are more powerful than words at the end when it comes to SEO.

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