Increase Blog Traffic by Being Your Own Blog Host

Market and Drive Massive Traffic to Your Blog

Kirby Rooks
Hosting your own domain is an easy decision for those that are serious about their blog. Having your blog on someone else domain site isn't good marketing strategy.

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By being your own blog host you can help drive massive traffic because you attract links, publicity, attention and search traffic to your domain. This is important when you are trying to establish yourself in your blog's niche. A professional look and feel is important to set the stage for your marketing strategy.

It looks more professional to have a web address that doesn't include someone else's domain. It establishes you as a professional blogger.

Probably the most important reason to having a blog host is to protect your content. At anytime your blogging platform can be shut down and you have lost your content. This could be years of hard work and information. Protect your content- hire a blog host for your domain.

Increase Blog Traffic

Being your own blog host helps when you need to market and drive massive traffic to your site. You can submit your own domain to search engines or pay a small amount to have a service do it for you.

Also by having your own blog host you are privy to your own blog's statistics free by going to your control panel at the hosting site. Updating the statistics and viewing the report is all it takes. This information will tell you information like how many visitors have clicked on your site and how many of those are unique or first time visitors. What keywords do visitors use to find your site in a search engine. What search engines are maintaining links and how many are pointing to your blog.

How to Use Search Engine Optimization

Talk with your hosting company about tweaking your site to improve its search capabilities. There are huge amounts of articles on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and how to include keywords to help search engines find your blog.

Go to a search engine and type in "keyword tool." This tool will show you how many times a certain word or phrase has been used during a period of time to find information leading to your topic or area of expertise.

Attract those people searching with keywords. Use the words or phrases that are most common in keyword tools. Place the keywords in the content on your blog or in articles on other sites.

Comments on Other Blogs

An inexpensive way to drive more traffic to your blog is to comment on other blogs. They usually require you to list a name and email address. Optionally they allow a website or blog address be listed. This has become less effective with no-follow plug-ins being used but it gets your name out there in the marketplace and helps to secure your brand. So do it anyway!

Published by Kirby Rooks

Kirby is a professional freelance copywriter and has written web copy, articles, press releases, blog post,non-profit donation letters, newsletters, ezine articles, business plans and presentations. He belie...  View profile

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  • Mike Hussy1/4/2011

    This is important when you are trying to establish yourself in your blog's niche. A professional look and feel is important to set the stage for your marketing strategy.
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  • Linda Louise Johnson8/6/2009

    How can you be your own blog host, and hire a blog host? Don't understand! Thanks for any help you can give.

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