Setting up a blog is one thing but then you need to try and get visitors to find your blog.  There are hundreds, even thousands, of blogs out there so how do you get your blog seen above all the others?

There are a few different options for driving traffic to a blog and here are my top five tips:

  1. Ping your posts.  Every time that you add a post to your blog you can ‘ping’ it and this lets the search engines know that you have just added a new post to your blog.  The search engine spiders will then visit your site to check your new content and then index those pages.  This will help your blog to show up in the search engines when someone searches for your keywords. Read more…