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Alright, so my traffic isn’t that great but I’ve come up with a fairly decent strategy for getting myself more exposure and visitors though the free link exchange program, BlogRush. First, lets go over how BlogRush works:

• You show the widget on your site (you can see mine on the right sidebar).
• Each time this widget loads, it finds related articles from other BlogRush user’s blogs and displays ads for them.
• Each time this widget loads you earn credit so that your ads are shown on other member’s BlogRush widgets.
• People can sign up for BlogRush under you and you’ll earn a percentage of their credits.

Now, with all of that it seems fairly simple and straight forward. You just put up the widget and forget it, right? Nope, the widget itself will not be enough to bring you traffic. Personally, I use the following strategies to help increase my traffic through BlogRush:

• I advertise my BlogRush referral link. I do this through TrafficSwarm as well as here on my site (this post might actually be one of those advertisements… disguised as helpful information).
• I also visit my website on a regular basis to make sure everything is running smothly, I re-read articles every-so-often and check for spelling errors and what not. During these times I will actually click through to interesting links on the BlogRush widget. If the article is particularly interesting, I’ll comment on it. Guess what? That comment has a link back to my blog! Because I know they are somewhat related through content, it increases the chances that people will be interested in what I have to say, and thusly follow that link back to my site. It also increases the number of links back to my site, which increases search engine ranking.

I can’t stress enough how important it is to get out there and really comment on some other people’s blogs. If they comment on yours, be polite and return the favor. Just think, the more links you build that come back to you, the more traffic you’ll get. It’s worth it. BlogRush just makes it easy. I mean, it just shows you the links to related sites right there on your own site. You just can’t beat that.

If you’re a blogger and you haven’t yet added the BlogRush widget to your site, I would STRONGLY suggest that you do so as soon as possible. It has great potential for increasing your traffic. In any case, it can’t hurt. Check it out, I think You’ll like what you see.

Type to you later,
~Nathaniel