My 2 Blogging Dilemmas – Solved!

Do you often work on long hours to gain traffic for your blog? I do, and I know how tiring it can be. Reserving whole days or weekends just for blog hopping is extremely frustrating knowing there is no guarantee that they will also visit back to me. My blogging techniques, just like those of many aspiring bloggers, obviously need improvement. I’ve thought about this overnight and here are my findings and solutions:  

Problem # 1 Very Low Traffic  

I suppose one of the many reasons why a lot of people are soo into blogging is because of the opportunity to earn money. This is my primary motivation, I admit. Unfortunately, I can’t do that without an impressive Alexa rank.  

Simple Solutions  

• Register my other blogs to Blogexplosion and alot at least 30 minutes every other day to surf sites. The more I surf, the better chances of getting free hits for my sites. I’m just not sure if bestfriend google will be happy to know about this because based on the quality guidelines, autorotation is not allowed. There is another site that offers the same function (Globalautohits) but it’s so effortless I’m hesitant to join.  
• I will also register my blog to Linkreferral to get constructive criticisms and reviews.
• Leave greetings and messages in blogs that have chatboxes or tagboards so the owner will be notified that I was there. I will leave my url and hope to get a visit in return.  
• Although I have an entrecard in my sidebar, I haven’t really used it that much. But I’ve seen a lot of bloggers attesting to how effective it is, so I’m gonna drop my EC to 300 blogs this coming weekend and see if it really works. It should, lol.  

Problem # 2 Need free backlinks  

I now understand why bloggers and website owners are going gaga over page rank. Although I still don’t have any idea on how it is computed (my blog I Love Sterndal has more than 100 backlinks while this one only has 4, but both got PR2), I am certain about one thing: it is a requirement to get approved in paid to blog sites like PPP. More incoming links means higher chances for a better PR. But the question is, where will I get free backlinks?   

Simple solutions:  

• Based on my personal experience, the easiest way to get free backlinks is through submission in popular blogging communities. My plan is to submit my blogs to Blogoria, MyBlogLog, Blog Catalog, Blog Hub, Zimbio, Technorati, etc.  
• Leave meaningful, sincere comments on other people’s blogs.  
• Ask other bloggers to exchange links with me.    

The only problem now is I’m too lazy to do all those solutions. LOL