Site Submission To Increase Site Traffic and Ranking
By platinumgirl on Jun 21, 2007 in Coffee Talk, Blogging Resources
This blog of mine is not driving enough traffic as i expected. I’ve been searching high and low on how to increase traffic rankings. Unlike my other blog ZEROINTIMIDATION , which currently has a PR ranking of 3, this blog is unranked. I think its kinda slow as compared to the other one.
I’ve been trying to submit my site to search engines, using multiple sources of sites which claims to help you for free. No idea whether it will really work but since its free, there isnt any harm to do it. Other method which i have tried includes joining blog community such as BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog.
Do any of you have any methods that i could try ? *scratch head*
It’s not easy to have it ranked. Usually blogs that are hosted in those free blog sites can easily reach high PR in a short while coz of the platform since Blogpot is under Google and Wordpress is under Wordpress, they have their technology. For sites on your own server, it takes time, it took me years to reach a PR3 unless your are those kind of big shoots bloggers that known by everyone then you can get ranking quite fast with few thousands visitors per day. It’s not easy and you have to wait for Google update on their PR thinggy.
Irene | Jun 22, 2007 | Reply
Owww …. haiyo. Difficult lar like that.
platinumgirl | Jun 23, 2007 | Reply
Having relevant incoming links from quality sites is the best way to increase traffic and PR.
Historically, Google has updated its PageRank around every 3 months.
Kham Tran | Jun 23, 2007 | Reply
Oh and I see you’re on WordPress. Best to turn on the custom permalink option so your URLs don’t end with ?p-XX. Having meaningful titles will help you to get found in search engine rankings. If you get errors after turning this on you will need to contact your web hosting provider as the server will need to have php modrewrite turned on.
Kham Tran | Jun 23, 2007 | Reply
Hi Kham Tran,
Thanks for visiting my site. Ahh .. i’ve changed my permalinks to - based on my post name. Thanks buddy. But what i dont get is that after i updated it, there’s a msg asking me to update my .htaccess. Whats that?
platinumgirl | Jun 24, 2007 | Reply
It’s a file contained in the root directory of your site. If you don’t have one create a text file and paste the following code in there.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
Then save it as “.htaccess” and upload it to the root directory of your site.
Kham Tran | Jun 24, 2007 | Reply