In my last post, I wrote about signing up to do paid blogging with today.com. I'm enjoying the writing and the pay rate ($1/day for 100 words), but in order to generate more income from this site I will need to get people to visit it. How to do this?
Well, since I'm writing about an online game, I'm hoping there is at least a small audience of dedicated gamers who will read my blog with regularity. This is the key audience I'm trying to reach. But I have also been doing research on other ways to generate traffic to my site, and have found two that I am now currently using:
1) Entrecard.com - Entrecard is a site whose sole purpose is to encourage bloggers to visit each other site. Each day, you can visit up to 300 sites and deposit an online business card letting the blogger know you visited his or her site, and hopefully they will reciprocate. Once you have signed up, you create your own business card to put on our site, and when other entrecard users visit your blog they click the button that says "drop" to let you know they have been there. Entrecard also lets you advertise your site on other bloggers' sites, possibly generating interest from their readers as well. You can see my entrecard posted to the left of this blog (all drops are welcome).
2) Stumbleupon.com - This site allows you to randomly visit websites and rank them according to your personal preferences. Some forum users at today.com reported the unique hits to their blogs skyrocketed after signing up for this service (after signing up, go to your blog and rank it and you will be able to add it to the stumbleupon inventory of websites).
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