Tips to increase your traffic
May be it sounds ironic when I write about tips to increase traffic since my traffic is still very low. But I will make these tips aggregated from good traffic websites as the guidelines for me to increase my traffic. Ok, let’s begin. Traffic is very important to the bloggers. It is even more important if you have any hope of earning money from your blog. The key of getting traffic is not a secret anymore. The most vital part is content. So you must write regularly, write well, and write unique and interesting content. If you can, write every, single day. If you cannnot try to write at least three times a week. People will keep coming back if you give them a reason to. Write regularly also let people know about your blog.
To write well, you don’t have to win any awards, but if you’re bad at spelling use spell check. If you make a lot of typos read over your post before you press “Publish.” A few mistakes greatly reduce your credibility. Write unique and interesting content. Give people a reason to come back or subscribe to your blog’s RSS feed. If you’re regurgitating the same stuff you read everywhere else, why would they subscribe to your blog? There are plenty of others with the same stuff. If you’re writing about a news story, offer your opinion. If you’re giving financial advice share a story or explain why you’ve come to a certain conclusion.
At this point, trackback is another good way to boost your traffic. If you commented on a post on another site, make sure that you set up the appropriate trackback for it. By the way, you can take your time by searching for related articles to your post using Google. If you are writing about increasing traffic, try searching for “trackback tips increase traffic”. Indirectly, you might have some addition of information, which you could mention in your post. It doesn’t cost you anything to you to link back to the post. You can name the links as related links, which will lead your reader to more sources.
Along with writing you should get involved in the blogging community. Start leaving comments on other blogs, email some of your favorite bloggers and let them know about your blog. Most of comment forms offer “your website” field. Never forget to put you URL when you are commenting.
Make fully use of Technorati tags. Tag every key word in each of your posts. If you are a Wordpress user, you can use Bunny’s Technorati Tags plug-in or Jerome’s Keyword. You will get a lot more attention and quality and focused traffic will go to your site.
Links exchange is fine. But just make sure you are providing your site visitors with only the highest quality of related sites. When you link to lousy sites, keep in mind what this says to your site visitors as well as to the search engines. On the other site make sure your site is “link-worthy.” Other sites linking to yours is a critical component of a successful search engine optimization campaign, as all of the major search engines place a good deal of emphasis on your site’s overall link popularity. If your site is full of wonderful, useful information, other sites will naturally link to it without your even asking.
Here you can find the best list of directories to submit your blog to. Add your blog to the directories in this entire list, and some of that targeted traffic, will certainly come your way. If you have done all the tips above, it is just a matter of time for the traffic to reach your blog.
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Dumping big mySQL database
I’d a big problem to restore my large backup of my mySQL database as I wanted to restore this blog on this new server. I tried to import the dump using phpMyAdmin but it only dumped few lines of the backup (my backup files were about 11.5MB) due to hard memory resp. runtime limit of the web-server.
The script which really helped me is BigDump: Staggered MySQL Dump Importer. With this script you can dump database files created by phpMyAdmin .By the way GZip compressed dump files is also supported but only with PHP 4.3.0 and later. But it you are advised to use uncompressed dump since using a huge GZip compressed dump file can cause the script to exceed the PHP memory/runtime limit since the dump file has to be unpacked from the beginning every time the session starts.
Read more about the script here.
I’m back!
About two months of down time of my website, now I’m back. This problem occurred because the co-location provider in Singapore Pacific Internet Datacenter is uncontactable. PI Singapore has suspended the co-location provider’s racks, as a result, the server on which my website is hosted were affected indirectly. For the past two months, I decided to wait until the server is ok, but nothing happened in two months. My hosting sponsor set up for me a new account in a new server in Malaysia with 120MB space and 10GB monthly data transfer. And now there are having a new promotion. Check out here. Now, I’ve learnt a lesson. Backup all your files at least weekly although your hosting provider offers daily backup. In my case, the backup data is safe on the server but unreachable. What for?
