Here are the simple steps to promote your blog:

1. Leave your comment on other blogs.
   Leave comment on other blogs is one way to get backlink, backlink is one method to raise your pagerank, and thus your rank in search engine will be better.
   When you always leave comment on other blogs especially on popular blogs which have tons of visitors, then half of those blog’s visitors will be converted as your visitors. Make sure you always leave good quality comments, not just simple comments which only promote your blog. If you do this I believe that your blog will have traffic bump.
2. Get listed on search engine.
   Search engine is potential place to promote your blog, because tons of people use this to search information. Make a posts regularly, one or two posts each day, and make good title of it. Once you done this, reader will subscribe to your blog because they like your posts and gradually your feed count will containing large number of subscribers, it means that your blog become popular. Besides post regularly, as I explained above you have to leave a comment regularly to popular blogs which has tons of visitors and have high pagerank. Make schedule, and be discipline. If you do all of this, you have make many doors that entice people to come in.
3. Advertise your blog.
   Alternative way is to advertise your blog on advertisement services. Use news ads line network like growurl.com.
   
4. Join on many forums and promote your blog through email signatureBy leave your email with signature, you have promote your blog indirectly. And do the same thing in forums that you have registered with.
5. Make link to your site/blog from your other site/blog.
   This is one effective ways to promote your blog, besides you will get them backlink on each.

If you do those tips above consistently and discipline with your schedule, you will achieve your goal in the future.

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In the early of PageRank (PR) birth, PR is one of the indicators of success or not a website. Website which has a high PageRank got special value to Google, PR can also be said of 3 months achievement report of certain website that scored by other website. This time the situation is changing, gradually PR is not so attractive anymore and be an indicator, because of not every site that has high PR will has tons of traffic al at once. As example is my blog with PR2 and JohnChow’s blog with PR3 has big different in visitor’s number, besides Google kick PR of a blog that participate in the program like Text Link Ads (TLA) and Paid to Review (PTR) is a factor people don’t like PR as indicator of blog success. People are more like to use Alexa rank as measurement of blog success.

PageRank is calculated with Google algorithm that seems so complicated, but the core is the number of backlink, either incoming link or outgoing link. The comparison is incoming link have to be more higher than outgoing link, when this is reached will causing PR going higher.

By observing those facts above, we can make a trick with this PR matter, that is creating so many incoming links as we can into our blog. there are various ways can be done, but the effective ones is by leave a comment on other blogs, and the comment’s blog using do follow rules. Do follow will make commentator’s blog address be indexed by Google.

To get to know the blog using do follow or not can be done by seeing the blog’s source code like this for do follow blog, or using search status by activate Highlight No follow Links to see no follow links automatically.

When you leave a comment on others blog you have to remember to leave your blog URL address (like http://www.albachtimi.com) and try to comment naturally and relates to the content. Don’t leave comment more than 3 times on one article because this will assume as spam. You have to read my other tips and trick to maximize your blog ability. Just wait and see.

Advanced Permalinks
I get a little problem when change the permalinks structure in this blog. Visitors who come from search engines and other blogs are to be directed to page 404 (Page not found). Fortunately there is Advanced Permalinks. This plugin can lead old permalinks to the new permalinks. So … you don’t have to fear losing visitor when you change permalinks in order to make it SEO friendly.

Akismet
I can not imagine how the world of blogs, especially Wordpress when there is no Akismet. Craze spammers have ever made me to close the old new ones. But Akismet now provide the solution. Spammers who are usually seen in the comment field are not appearing again. This plugin is needed for Wordpress users!

All in One SEO Pack
A plugin that can help you to SEO a blog or certain post. Get more traffic from optimized blog! This plugin is required for the SEO’ers.

Brian’s Threaded Comments
A smart plugin which is used to make respond to comments. I use this plugin to make discussion to be more focus because of a reply comments can be addressed directly to the concerned comments. The best comment plugin I ever had!

Dofollow
Dofollow is a “small gift” to those who provide commentary on the post because this plugin open dofollow so this can raise commentator’s blog ranking. However, on the other hand, the plugin can also entice people to comment to search for Backlinks. So, be wise!

DropCap First Character
This plugin makes the first letter in the post becomes bigger as the first letter in the magazines. Blog becomes more interesting, right?

flickrRSS
Do you want to display images on flickr in the blog? This is the answer. Better used in the photoblog.

Gravatar2
This plugin provides more space to commentators. By registered email and an image in Gravatar site, they can show their photos on every comment. This plugin also increase familiarity of each blogger too …

In Series
Would you like to make posts in continually series? Trilogy? Tetralogy? With this plugin your readers will be easier to access your next series of blog posts.

Popularity Contest
This plugin can sort our postings on its popularity. The popularity level can be set by our self.

Smart Archives
best plugin that people used to set up their blog archive to better fit neatly and easily accessible.

WordPress.com Stats
This plugin has to be had for those who love to watch the development of blog traffic. So that if the trend begins to move down, you can make anticipation so that blog traffic increased again.

WP-PageNavi
This plugin change the display of navigator’s page to be more accessible to readers.

WP-Polls
as its name, the plugin used to create a poll on the blog. Can be inserted to the sidebar and the content of postings is also pretty …

WP Grins
this plugin is useful to show “the smiley face icon” on the comment form so that the commentators may know the available smiley icons on our blog.

WPvideo
This plugin is used to display video from YouTube or similar websites.

I think this is for now about plugin parade. If there are interesting plugins, please to inform me and discussed it together. Thank you!

Almost entire PTR Programs required Page Rank and Link Popularity as their rules and regulations. In fact, blogs with high page rank and enormous link popularity have high quality post as their content. Several of these blogs maybe have nice content, but the rest just full with unoriginal content alias copy and paste.

Different with any other PTR, Pay per Post (PPP) doesn’t use PR as their requirements for approving one certain blog. PPP gives priority to original content, continually update, and has been registered at least 3 months long. I think, PPP has manual system for their approval, there are several people read blog’s content, and then take decision to approve or disapprove.

It sounds a little bit weird, when others use automatic system, PPP still using manual system. In my opinion, this is the interesting part; machine could be cheated than man. One more thing, this ways of working reflects PPP professionalism. When one of my blog was approved, I realizing one fact, that is PPP not only applies against original content, but they take a look at to quality content and topic.

I hope this matter that PPP done and their members could change negative image which said site/blog that provides link as well as PTR has low credibility. I hope Google and other big search engine could see this fact, that not all PTR is a spam.

By the way, when your blog is approved, you will get one task to make review about PPP program in $20 commission. Just do this task, and post to your blog, copy the URL permalink of your post to tell PPP that you have finished the task. You just have to wait PPP approval; if this is approved then you will be paid as long as 30 days from approved date. If your blog has many quality contents and high traffic, maybe you would get another job, maybe not one even more. What nice extra money for your online earning.

Click this link to enroll.

If you have read my article about Build Community Blog Using Wordpress must be know with this plugin, What Would Seth Godin Do. This plugin actually purposed to give few notes to visitors, like this example below.

We could make a message to newly visitor and return visitor, in its default, it contains a message that ask reader to subscribe to RSS feed. This message box could be set before and after post, I prefer to put after post.
We can set the message, it could be used to many purposes besides asking to subscribe to our RSS feed, like:

1. Offers to several affiliate products, bloggers who have bunch of traffic should exploits this chance and your advantage to monetize your blog. Promote your affiliation link with this plugin, put the link after your post, make it open in new window, so the readers are not leave your blog so fast.
2. Announcement maybe? If you have important notification or make a quiz, you can use it as your notification media.

If you have something want to share about this plugin, please leave your comments, OK!

The most important thing to setting up a blog that will be used to earn some money on internet or getting thousands dollar from blog is traffic. Though you have one good blog, if it is not have traffic then it is just a wasted. So you have to rise up, follow these steps:

1. Make sure your blog has been optimized, you can do it with SEO Technique, submit your blog to search engine like Google, Yahoo, and Live, ASK as well. Those are the main search engine for being your priority. This will ensure to show your site/blog to netter all over the world when they search information. This called natural traffic.
2. Comes to blog that has similar topic with yours. Being active in one related site/blog, related forum could be other way to get more traffic, make a good comment, respond all thread you interested and leave your site/blog URL, this will give you one nice backlink.
3. Update your blog frequently; make a post periodically and one good original post. Search engine really like one original blog and will place you at the top of search engine result.
4. This is the hardest probably, write a post every day and submit it to article directory. Make sure to leave your site/blog URL on it, there is alternative method for it, you just have to submit it to social bookmarking services.
5. Install stat counter on your blog to monitor your traffic, especially to unique visitors, with this, you will know which part of your technique are work perfectly and which are not.
6. Always leave your site/blog URL link in every single chances you have. You can create signature which adhere your site/blog URL and attach it on your email.
7. Advertise, try to buy an advert. This is absolutely will drive traffic to your site/blog, offer some good free e-book, mp3 free download, free video.
8. Join to one famous online game that has large community in it like Fantasy Premier League. You can read my next article to get to know this special tips and trick.

Now, I will share few tips to increase blog traffic without SEO technic. This based on personal experience, it is up to you to decide.

1. Entrecards, this program is recommend to blog, we could attract traffic from this service site either by its way to drop entrecard on others blog or buy adverts on others blog.
2. Social Bookmark, bookmark your article post to ‘Social Bookmark’ like digg, technorati, stumbleupon, and others. This trick could give you more traffic when visitor found things interested through social bookmark search. Social bookmark is free, let give them a try.
3. Leave a comment to Blog, this is the simple way. Just try to leave a comment in every blog you came by. Most of famous blog using do follow tags on their comment form, it means we get backlink and traffic from this.

This is will give you thousands traffic everyday, when your blog is indexed on big search engine like Google, Yahoo, MSN and others, it is one step closer to “Make Money Online”.

Getting user/visitors that is committed with site/blog content will produces sells, subscriptions, bookmarks and continuously visits. The best way to increase bound user is by designing site/blog structure that has content related link and shows them up in such enticing so they entice to click it. The logic is, if the first article does not produce subscription, it is probably the second will.

Webmaster used to call it with bounce rate, it is the percentages of visitors that leave site/blog after look at the entry page (the first page been visited). They are visitors who bounce away and does not look at the other pages on the site/blog. You might be using Google Analytics for this purpose.

Low bounce rate means that your visitors explores your site/blog more detail. It means they are more content related. In his new article, Jacob Nielsen said that bounce rate remains an important metric.

“Given growing bounce rates, we must stop using «unique visitors» as a metric for site success. Site tourists who leave a site immediately ratchet up the unique visitors count, but do not contribute long-term value. On the contrary, bouncers should be considered a negative statistic: the site failed to engage them enough to entice even a second pageview.”

Nielsen suggests analyzing bounce rate partly for each different visitors sources: low-value referrers, direct links from other sites, search engine traffic, and loyal users. The reason is so simple: visitors come to your site/blog with different purposes, it depends on their needs. The source who sent visitors could be the indicator of behavior, and it could be observe.

One constant user could come to site/blog through feed reader and go away after read latest article/post because he/she always monitor that site/blog and have almost read entire articles/archives on certain site/blog. One visitor that need particular knowledge/information will come by through search engine and will easily entice to clicks site/blog links. Casual visitor could come on site/blog through social sites exploration like StumbleUpon.

Noteworthy, bounce rate will be more varied depends on the source, thus it must bee compared with similar data, not to different sources. For example is, visitor performance who comes from search engine referrals must be compared with the earlier data with the same source, not to compared with other sources, like Digg.

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Most webmaster/blogger definitely want their site/blog has many visitors, SEO Moa creates 21 tips for increasing traffic. This could be your starting point who wants to increase their site/blog traffic, or trying to apply SEO basic concept (Search Engine Optimization). Here is concise of those tips:

Creates title with two targeted visitors

First and the most important thing is creates title for people who visit your blog through search engine or for your feed subscriber. Try to make it short, on-topic, and eye-catching. Secondly, think about search engine when you want to give title, search engine will be helpful to give you traffic. The best way is to write article and title first, then search through Overture to find out suitable and orderly phrase.

Covering properly topic

Each thing always has topic and frequently ask question. This behaves on all kind of site, but easily done on blog. For example, if everyone always asks about nice broker characteristics on a certain forum, give them your answers. In other case, when lot of people ask about what kind of stock that has good chance to success after terrorism attack on online stock trading, you can give them your answers. Do your researches, make documentation, and compose it.

Use smart URL

The best URL structure is the succinct URL, thus people could guess its contain. I do not like URL with 10 hyphens in the long title, which is made automatically by most CMS, but this is better than using dynamic parameter in URL. May be you do not take it seriously, but you have to know that by rewrite ‘?id=530’ becomes ‘/450’ will produces better result and easy to remember.

High traffic days harness

If you get much visitor, do not know how it goes, may be comes from popular blogs/sites that linked to your blog, use this chance. Make two or three high quality posts in that time that shows your skill as writer and tell them your sophisticate. Make your visitor aware that ‘this is the content they should be sticking around to see more’. If you do not do this within 48 hours after you got visitor bump, you have to forget this and start again from the beginning.

Build an image

One important thing from blogging world is brand building. To have outstanding name, then you have to build an image where people have intention to join, an image where people can get added value. Exclusivity is not good choice, visitors will feel inconvenience and knock out, but this is important for your old loyal visitors. Keep your old visitors might be much more significant then to attract new visitors. Be careful with an image, when people like it, then it will be difficult to be changed. It is need more effort to change an image then to create this from zero point. If you make one new blog, or your blog has low traffic, may be you need to write down your blog objective with your brand image to help you make a post.