How to Guarantee Page Views Using StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon, Source of Guaranteed Page Views

StumbleUpon 

     StumbleUpon has been great. Currently, we have so few page views that what StumbleUpon does contribute seems to quantify a large portion of our total traffic. So, It is reasonable to suggest that the effect would not be so influential on a larger blog, but the concept of guaranteed page views or traffic, no matter how small, still applies. StumbleUpon works but displaying user uploaded content to subscribers. This is in essence force feeding pages to StumbleUpon users. Users can choose what type of content they want to be given but beyond that they have little influence. Thus they have no idea whether they are going to be shown something from Problogger.net or from my site and thus have to be submitted as traffic to my blog. Now, they can down vote my content, but because StumbleUpon has to show the content to others users to avoid biases I am guaranteed more views regardless of the quality of the content. One would hope though that your content was good enough that it generated some positive feedback, but this is irrelevant being that the point is that by submitting your content to StumbleUpon you are guaranteed a certain number of views. 

The image above illustrates how influential StumbleUpon is in generating Traffic to the blog

    Currently, according to the blog's stats page StumbleUpon makes up my largest referrer, thus I recommend using StumbleUpon to generate a very small stream of traffic. To make uploading you pages to StumbleUpon I recommend that you download the StumbleUpon browser add-on so you can upload your content more easily. 


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How to Apply Search Engine Optimization Techniques to Increase Blog Traffic

How to Apply Search Engine Optimization Techniques to Increase Blog Traffic

Several Other Techniques

    Several other techniques that I have observed as being successful I found while listening to a podcast by Your Website Engineer - episode 065 - 6 ways to improve SEO Ranking . (I will do a more in depth write up tomorrow)

• Keywords
• Title Tags
• Meta Tags 
• Header Tags 
• Image Optimization 
• Utilization of Tools (Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, Google Keywords, etc...)

Comparison of views between  an article that used aforementioned SEO techniques and articles that have been on site for a couple of days already.

     The impact the techniques had on the article Learn How to Increase Traffic and Conversion Rate using Google’s Webmaster Tools is obvious. The article had only been posted for 30 mins and has as many views as an article that has been on the site for a matter of days. It would be ignorant to refuse the evidence and suggest anything other than the techniques applied had an impact on the number of views. Regardless, I will further explain the how I applied these techniques tomorrow, it is 1:30am here. Oh Ya, Happy 4th of July!!!


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Learn How To add a Sitemap.xml to Google Webmaster Tools

Learn How to Add your Sitemap.xml File to Google Webmaster Tools

Add Your Sitemap

First, login to your Webmaster account. If you do no have an account already you can view my post on how to Verify your website on Webmaster Tools account and verify your site. Once you have logged in select the Sitemap button. 

Here you can see the atom.xml and rss.xml sitemap entries
required only for blogger blogs as we do not have access to the webserver

     If you own your site you need to generate a sitemap.xml and upload it to the public-html directory titled "sitemap.xml" . This can be done using any free sitemap generator. Once you have generated the files and uploaded it to your webserver, using Webmaster Tools enter the location of the file (http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml) in the sitemap section, and select ADD/TEST SITEMAP. Once you have tested the location of the sitemap repeat but select ADD sitemap this time.

    For Blogger sites you cannot access the web server and thus cannot upload the sitemap file. Therefore, we must enter "atom.xml" and or "rss.xml" (as illustrated in the picture above) as the locations of our sitemap.xml. Note that you do not have to do both one is sufficient.

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This is the second article of two dealing with Google's Webmaster Tools. The first discusses How to Increase Traffic and Conversion Rate using Google’s Webmaster Tools. 

Learn How to Increase Traffic and Conversion Rate using Google’s Webmaster Tools

Increase Traffic and Conversion Rate using Google’s Webmaster Tools

Google’s Webmaster Tool

Bloggers, website owners and website content promoters must submit their website to a search engine in order to be indexed and included in searches for relevant topics. Bloggers, website owners, and web content promoters can add their website to Google using the Google Webmaster Tool. Doing so enables Google to find your site, index it, and rank it. Submitting your website to the Google Webmasters Tool will ultimately increase your traffic flow and increase your conversion rate. In the following article I will explain how you can add your website to Google's search engine using Webmaster Tools to increase your traffic and conversion rate.

Create Webmaster Tools Account and Verify Your Site

               First we need to create a Google Webmasters account; this can be done on the Google Webmaster Tool site. Once logged in, enter your website URL and click ok. You will be asked to verify your site; There are two methods to verify your site or blog (only one method for Blogger blogs).

The first method is to download the HTML file and upload it to the public-html folder on your web server. Once this is completed, revisit the webmasters tool and select the option to verify. Google will search your webserver for the file, if found your site has been verified. 

The second option is to copy and paste the generated META TAG into the html of the site’s home page. This is the easier of the two options. For blogs hosted by blogger (thebloggstory.blogspot.com) or hosting services similar in nature, this is your only option. To insert the META TAG, you must first obtain a copy of it by copying the generated code. For website owners this tag can be added to your website using any html editor, I am sure you are familiar how to do this. Bloggers, however, need to enter into their blog options and navigate to the template page, under the “Live on Blog” option there is the option to “edit HTML”, select this, and on the next page select “proceed” (Template>Edit HTML>Proceed).

 Once you are viewing the HTML, the META TAG can be placed directly underneath the <head> tag. Once you have pasted the META Tag, click "save template" and close. You can now return to Google Webmaster Tools and verify your website, but for the website to be crawled you must also add a site map. Read my article on adding a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.









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Learn how to submit your sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools so your website canbe more efficiently crawled

Learn about the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques I applied in this article 

thebloggstory.blogspot.com

#4 Reaching out to Fellow Bloggers

I have begun reaching out to fellow bloggers with similar content as my own. I began by posting comments to several of their articles introducing my own site, but also by contacting the site admin or owner and requesting a line of communication be open for interview or sharing of advice. For now we wait and hope for a response, as I continue requesting attention.

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#3 Youtube

I have created a YouTube account linking to this website with the hope of attracting user from YouTube. Eventually I will try to upload content to YouTube promoting the site as well as engage in commenting on videos of similar content to help spread the word.

TheBloggStory on YouTube

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#2 Reddit

I was hesitant at first for fear of being humiliated and downgraded to something less than human for grammatical errors and shameless self-promotion, but there is no bad publicity.

See TheBloggStory on Reddit

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#1 StumbleUpon

I have submitted the blog to StumbleUpon as well as the Google. By submitting the content to Google, Google will parse it for keywords, content, etc... so that it can be incorporated into their search engine.

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