PUG Meetings and Photography Tips for Moms and Tips for Photographers14 Mar 2007 05:41 am

Blogging Tips to Increase Traffic

Do you have a blog and wonder how you can increase your blog’s traffic? The other night we had the privilege of having Steve Makofsky come and speak to our PUG group on blogging. His website, www.furrygoat.com, gets 100,000 hits per week. Amazing!

Here’s a video with some of the highlights from the night. With four blogging tips, the rest are below!

A few other tips from Steve that have helped us!

#5 Make Categories! This way people can easily find a recent post or have their interest perked at going through your archives. This advice has totally paid off since I know a number of you check the “Photography Tips for Moms” category to find exercises and tips to try. Some of our blog visitors are brides and want to go straight to our Wedding Slideshows, or they want to know the latest on Fabulous weddings. All they have to do is click the VH1 category. Big time saver for your visitors!

#6 Good Titles! Google and other search engines specifically use the titles of our posts. So make sure you title your posts with key words to help those search engines find you.

#7 Link, Link, Link! I know it was said in the video, but it’s such a big deal for your Google rankings. Link to others and have them link to you. Hyperlink words within your blog. All these things get you higher on the totem pole when someone does a search.

#8 Do ads work? From Steve’s experience they don’t do much. He has ads on his archived posts only, and with the amount of traffic he gets, he still only gets a couple hundred a month from his ads. Definitely not something to quit your day job for. :)

38 Responses to “Blogging Tips to Increase Traffic”

  1. on 14 Mar 2007 at 6:18 am   Janelle

    Great video and post! Thanks for the tips!

    I’m my way to my blog to incorporate some of the knowledge you’ve shared.

    :-)

  2. on 14 Mar 2007 at 8:05 am   Jacqui

    You are so sharing ,some great tips!

  3. on 14 Mar 2007 at 8:13 am   Rachel

    Thanks so much for the awesome tips!!!! I LOVE your blog.

  4. on 14 Mar 2007 at 9:05 am   Timmy

    I think Stevie (yes, that is what we call him) is a great guy too. My question is this, can you ask the furry-master to give you his slidedeck so you can post it? It would be great to have the slides that he presented.

  5. on 14 Mar 2007 at 9:35 am   Anne

    I totally agree - and another key thing is providing GREAT content that your readers WANT to read! Here’s another link with some great blogging resources…
    http://photolovecat.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-blog-making-most-of-your-blog.html

  6. on 14 Mar 2007 at 10:36 am   Todd Kim

    LOL - thats hilarious… Im glad I left early so I didnt get interviewed =) next meeting im gonna have to ask you something about bloggin! ur a blog master… http://www.thkimdesigns.com/wordpress

  7. on 14 Mar 2007 at 11:14 am   erwin wijanto

    Hi Me ra,
    Great Information and resources… I am glad I came to the meeting last month..

    Before I came to the meeting, I already bloggin.. Since then.. I can’t stop bloggin more and More LOL…!!! You the best !!!! http://www.erwinphotography.com/blog

  8. on 14 Mar 2007 at 12:15 pm   J

    Thanks!
    Going to hijack for my blog…hope that is ok!
    Blog on!

  9. on 14 Mar 2007 at 6:58 pm   Bob Goldberg

    I think Steve Makofsky is terrific. Excellent presentation.
    Oh bye the way I am his Uncle

  10. on 14 Mar 2007 at 8:31 pm   Me Ra

    Bob, you should be very proud of Steve! :) THanks for your post! He did an AMAZING job with the presentation. Photographers have been signing his praises for the last couple months. And I can honestly say his advice have helped our blog in so many ways! :)

  11. on 14 Mar 2007 at 9:00 pm   Michael

    Digg it!
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  12. on 14 Mar 2007 at 10:18 pm   Janet Klinger

    Fun, Me Ra. I’m so embarrassed to be interviewed. I’m such a goof!
    Steve, on the other hand, was such an entertaining, enlightening speaker. Thanks for doing the leg work to get him to join us for the evening. I wouldn’t have my blog up now if not for this meeting! Have you been recently? I need some brutal feedback.

  13. on 15 Mar 2007 at 7:15 pm   Jasmine*

    Me Ra…SO awesome! You rock for taking the time to edit this video…that was wonderful advice! :)

  14. on 15 Mar 2007 at 7:31 pm   Kristen H.

    I love, love, love your work! A friend of a friend of a friend pointed me in your direction.

    http://www.hooperportraits.com

  15. on 15 Mar 2007 at 7:59 pm   Jessica Del Vecchio

    Me Ra-

    Your blog is one I visit every day - thanks so much for the inspiration! And thanks for sharing all of the great blogging tips - I’m implementing them starting today!

  16. on 16 Mar 2007 at 9:17 am   eleni

    Hi Me ra,

    I love reading your blog and you always have such good tips. I am on the verge of starting my photography business and have read that giving talks definately increases your exposure as a business. And I was wondering what will you talk about at the scrapbooking store? Will it be an opportunity to hand out business cards? or will they pay to hear you talk? I would appreciate any tips you might have in this area.
    Thank you so much in advance.
    Eleni

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  18. on 17 Mar 2007 at 2:41 pm   ron storer

    Me Ra-

    Hey thanks again for adding these clips and notes! Excellent material and it really is helping us hone our blogs to be more effective! It was so awesome that you had Steve over for us to all benefit.

    Hugs to you both!

  19. on 18 Mar 2007 at 7:54 am   Mike Larson

    ME RA , as always, you provide the sweetest info, good job and thanks!

  20. on 22 Mar 2007 at 9:17 am   Melissa

    you rock!! thanks for sharing :) ’see’ you in the webinar in a couple hours!!!

    ….so on the track of blog…go visit me!

    http://www.mylotusphoto.blogspot.com

    peace, love and pasta!!!
    thanks Me Ra!!!!!!!!

  21. on 06 Apr 2007 at 9:43 am   John Karwoski

    Great video Me Ra! Jenna and I are looking forward to joining your PUG on the 25th.

  22. on 28 Apr 2007 at 3:03 am   HelloWorld

    Peace people

    We love you

  23. on 13 Jul 2007 at 9:48 am   azriman sahril

    There are many advantages of your web blog above a website, except it’s easy to setup and free. You can put every thing in your blog: from a couple of lines what it is on your mind or your new article just published elsewhere, or a product review. In principle, a blog is the same as a website, but you will need to update more frequently to get the visitors to your site. A major advantage of your web blog here above a website to getting major search engines like Google and Yahoo to visit your blog frequently is a technique called “pinging”. It’s a method of notifying all of the major search engines and blog directories, each time that you have updated your blog. The search engines will come and to take a look at your blog, thereby increasing traffic to your blog. If you link your blog, the search engines will follow the links from the blog pointing to your sites. This will help the search engine rankings of your sites as well!

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