Increase Your Blog Traffic To Become Rich And Famous

Okay, I came up with this title to simply play with you, but if you are like so many bloggers who want to take their blog to the next level, then read on and I’ll share some blog building tidbits with you.

No, I don’t have the definitive guide for increasing traffic to your blog and, therefore, possibly helping you to increase your personal wealth. However, I did stumble upon (literally) Richard Alan Tatum’s (RAT) BlogRodent blog and I like what I read.

39 Tips To Improve Weblog Traffic And Visibility is the title of Tatum’s article that caught my attention. No, you aren’t likely to hear about Tatum around the blog circuit mentioned with the usual blog gurus (whoever they are), but you’ll appreciate the tips he willingly shares in his article.

Take tip #1 for example: SEO tips. You probably know about using keywords in your titles (something I don’t practice all that much) but did you know that the
< h 1 > and < h 2 > tags for sections and subsections is good practice? Although Tatum did not explain why I have read that Google loves them as the Googlebot searches for these types of tags when indexing a page. So, if it is good enough for your favorite bot, it should be good enough for your blog.

I know some of you are very good with tip #26, which is interviewing people and posting that information on your blog. Personally, this is something on my “to do” list, but I think it needs to move up to the top of that list. A real traffic generator as you might imagine.

Most definitely tip #27 should be practiced regularly and that tip has to do with being scanable or read quickly. Blogs should contain short, pithy articles (in my opinion 250 to 300 words max is usually best) with the occasional lengthy article just that — a once-in-a-while event.

For brevity’s sake I’ll shut up and let you read Tatum’s article. Maybe you will find just as I have some good information to sift through and to apply to your own blog. Happy blog building!

A Voice For Work At Home Mothers

I stopped over at Laura Spencer’s WritingThoughts blog earlier today and discovered that Laura has started her WAHM week feature — a focus on Work At Home Mothers — and their personal experiences. In some ways I can relate as I am a WAHD (Dad) who juggles several business angles from the “comfort” of my home too. My wife and I have two kindergarten boys and getting work done when they are around can be especially challenging!

Laura shared on Monday her personal WAHM story and for the rest of the week she will be publishing interviews with other WAHMers, sharing work/family balancing tips, talk about setting up a freelancing business, and conclude her week with a discussion about some great WAHM resources and WAHM hazards for mothers to be aware of.

So, if you are work at home mother or a mother who really wants to quit her job to spend more time with the family, then make sure you follow Laura’s blog especially this week.