Niche Blogs and your Site

Blogging is a wonderful way to increase online traffic to your main website. Many people will log onto an cool looking blog, and this is the perfect way to get them to click a link across to your home webpage. If you don’t have time to get a blog of your own going, you can get a specialty SEO/social media firm to either set you up one or post comments and niche blog reviews for you to get the ball rolling.

Blogs used to have to be built by HTML savvy technogeeks, but h free blog creation tools like Blogspot (provided by Google to Gmail users) let almost anyone can create a smart looking blog in a matter of minutes. All of teh deep mystery of setting up a blog is nearly gone, and if time is a factor, you can always hire the job out, thanks to these and other user friendly programs now freely available across the market.

There are usually free templates you can download to get started, and then you can update or change them later as desired. Pics are also easy to download, and you can utilize a large variety of fonts and text colors ato make your blog stand out from the crowd.

Update your blog on a daily basis to get it indexed regularly and to attract more attention. Place hot keywords in your titles and tags to bring extra traffic to your blog, and ask visitors to post as well. Moderate the comments to be sure everything stays kosher.

You can use contests to help get your blog noticed. Try a guessing contest or a competition to choose the name for a new product, and use an attractive, attention getting logo to promote your blog and your business. Create caps or t-shirts and give them away to the first twenty or fifty people to sign into or register on your website by linking from your blog.

By getting the the existence of your blog out there and making it a main go-to place for information and for discussion in your niche, you will start to see people linking in and  search engines will start picking it up as well. When people visit your blog, they often return and link their friends as well. Other bloggers can link to you as an interesting blog to follow, and even niche blog review services can help you out on your way to the top of the blog pile.