Necessity is the mother of invention. This is a well known proverb that can be applied to many things in life, including blogging. It basically means that whenever someone finds a need for something, if that need is great enough he will find a way of fulfilling that need.

One avenue of blogging where this is clearly displayed is the creation of all the great plugins that we use in our blogs. This can be anything from Andy’s Commentluv to Microkid’s related posts. They can save us time by simplifying tasks, they can improve the SEO of our blog or they can even reward those who take the time to comment on our blogs.

As bloggers our greatest need would be to get others to visit our blog. It doesn’t matter if you’re blogging for money or if you’re doing it just for the love of it, unless people are coming to your blog it all becomes pretty pointless. Our need is therefore quite obvious, we need to generate traffic.

Unfortunately it’s going to take more than a few plugins to achieve that goal. I’m afraid that I am going to disappoint a lot of you right now, especially if you thought this post was going to reveal an easy answer to all your traffic woes. I’ll leave that to the many squeeze pages on the subject, for the rest of us, we’re going to have to roll up our sleeves and get to work. Let’s keep one thing in mind though, and that is that we love the work we do, which is why we can throw so much into it and because it’s our passion to write and to succeed that is going to see us through.

The one thing that I do that brings a fair bit of traffic is commenting on other peoples blogs. I’ve found that by leaving constructive comments I get quite a few people coming here to see what else I have to offer. Knowing that to be the case all that is left is to Find The Right Blogs To Comment On.

While commenting is a good start, one of the major sources of traffic would have to be the search engines. As long as you provide the right food for the spiders the search engines can become your best friend as far as traffic is concerned. One way to get noticed by those guys is by getting a nice set of backlinks to your blog and instead of divulging my meager knowledge on the subject I’m going to send you to site that is going to tell you Everything You Need To Know About Backlinks! This is a pretty comprehensive post, complete with several instructional videos, and it may take more than one sitting to assimilate everything but it’s going to be worth it.

OK, I’m not one who likes to sit through a session where there is a possibility for information overload, so I’m not going to put you guys through it either. To finish off I would love it, and I think you will appreciate it as well, if you were to watch this small clip, one that shows you exactly how necessity is the mother of invention.

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Before I go any further I would like everyone to know that I’m not all fussed about PR. My normal readers would know this but I am just stating it for those who happen to stumble upon this post. There’s a reason for this post, and that is because I believe there are a lot of bloggers out there whose efforts to improve their PR may actually be hampering their blogging efforts.

This could be because they may be stuffing their posts with keywords thereby cramping their writing style or in an effort to getting backlinks they resort to spamming other blogs, specifically those dofollow blogs and those wanting to reward their commentators by using such plugins as commentluv and keywordluv.

As far as PR is concerned I think it’s the following people who are most preoccupied with it.

1. Bloggers and Webmasters who like to parade their ranking in front of everyone as symbol of their SEO prowess.
2. Bloggers and Webmasters and Companies who pay others for links pointing to their sites, much to the disgust of Google.
3. Paid To Review Sites who act as a medium between advertisers and those people selling links on their sites.
4. SEO experts who amongst other things promote their capability to provide amongst other things a good PR and to have their site appearing on the first page of Google and other main search engines.

Honestly, it surprises me that the largest and most important group of people actually don’t give a stuff about PR. Come to think of it they probably don’t even know it exists let alone know the reasoning behind it all. I’m talking about your average  surfer who bounces from one blog/site to another completely oblivious to it’s PR.

So, if PR is supposed to display a site’s prominence in a particular field or service and the casual surfer has absolutely no idea as to it’s relevance or even existence one has to ask the question; Whats the bloody point of busting your gut trying to get a high PR when those important surfers, the one most likely to click on your adsense ads, haven’t got a clue as to what it is?
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I’ve been blogging for several years now and I discovered relatively early in the game that having the right domain name had terrific SEO benefits. Nicolas’ post Domain Name Issues explains many of the issues involved with choosing the right domain name.

My problem was that knowing the SEO benefits of choosing the right domain name I still chose domains because I liked the sound of it rather than for any SEO reasons. I mean really, how many people would actually use the search term Wassup, or Blogsire? My Load Of Bullshit blog was really a fluke as I never imagined how many people would actually use the word bullshit when searching the net.

With my last two blogs I thought it was about time I did things right and so I purchase domains that reflected what I was intending to market, Top Software Online for tackling the shareware software market, and Top Sexual Aids for targeting the sexual health market. The latter is not quite a month old and it is already doing fairly well in the SERPs or search engine results pages,  and it is entirely to do with the domain name.

This is extremely fortunate for me becuase I do not feel comfortable using the url when commenting on other blogs If anyone has any ideas how to market this blog I would love to hear from you.

Speaking of purchasing the right domain name, Doug is actually selling MrBlogging.com! What a brilliant domain for a blog all about blogging, not only is keyword rich, it’s easy to remember and looks damn good to boot. Not to mention you won’t be embarrassed to leave your url when commenting.

There wouldn’t be too many bloggers writing today who didn’t have a rudimentary idea of how to promote their blog on the web. These ideas all fit into a nice little package called SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. Some of these ideas bloggers use may include;

1. Commenting on other blogs, especially do-follow blogs
2. Submitting the blog to RSS, blog and other directories
3. Signature links in emails
4. Being generous with your link luv
5. Using Social Media such as Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon etc.
6. Submitting Free articles
7. Being an active member in Forums using the blog link as a signature
8. Using the right keyword and phrases
9. Making sure that a google sitemap is active ensuring the blog is fully indexed
10. Supplying good content, because all of the above is useless if a blog’s content is not good enough to capture the readers interest so that they come back for more.

There are many other ways but I’ve only mentioned some of the free methods available to bloggers for the promotion of their blogs.

I would like to talk a little bit more about submitting your blog to article directories. This is pretty well an untapped resource for many bloggers. These directories are not just a resource where you can Find Free content, as submitting your own articles, complete with a link to your blog, is a great way of blog promotion, especially if you’re supplying great content. Apart from the SEO advantages, people reading the articles are very likely to visit your blog just to see what other great content you have available.

Is your blog or website is important to your business success? Is your presence in the top pages of the search engines seriously lacking? If this sounds like you then I suggest you should seriously consider getting the right tools to boost your presence in the search engines. I’ve been in business for close on thirty years and I have found that having the right tools can not only make your task easier, it can also increase sales and profitability. I see no reason why the same principle wouldn’t apply online.

While it is very unusual that a company will let you trial something in the real world, there are sites on the Internet that will let you download demo versions of their programs. One that I have been using for awhile is the Link Popularity Check! Whilst this tool is basically to help you compare your site against your competitors I’ve found another use for it. I use it to find what links are pointing to a particular blog and then leave comments on the same blog to build up the links pointing to mine. It stands to reason that if those links are already being accessed by Google then my links should also be picked up.

The Link Popularity Check tool is only one of the many tools offered by Internet Business Promoter, but the one that would sit way above the rest would have to be their proven Top 10 Optimizer, and just so you can have a taste of what it can do they will let you download a demo version. They are so sure that their software will deliver the results you want that they give a money back guarantee.

We guarantee that your website will be listed in the top 10 results in the search engine of your choice for a keyword of your choice.

If you don’t get top 10 rankings, you’ll get your money back. IBP is the only website promotion tool that can offer you such a strong guarantee. Order IBP now 100% risk-free.

Just to finish off the guys at IBP are even offering a free Search Engine Optimization eBook that will tell you how to get high search engine rankings. With over 160 pages it covers everything from an introduction to search engine marketing to tips and tricks on how to improve your order page. Applying the tips and tricks presented in this ebook should almost guarantee that you’ll get more visitors and more sales.

These guys even have an eBook that shows how to optimize your Google AdWords allowing you to pay less while making more money! Now that is what I call optimization. So sure are they that the eBook will do everything that they say it will they are offering a 30 day money back guarantee.

I hope that you will actually click on those links as each one will take you to a page that will describe the software in a whole lot more detail. There is no obligation to buy any of the products so there is absolutely no pressure. Last I can remember, as it was awhile since I downloaded the software, you don’t even have to supply any contact information so you needn’t worry about spam emails. If this has changed I am sure someone will leave a comment. I do not make anything from a simple click, but if you do decide to buy from them, all monies will go to my retirement fund.