I like to eat. Do you like to eat? One of my favorite foods is chili con carne. Chili has no meat. Chili con carne has meat. I put ground meat in my chili con carne. I put in kidney beans, chili powder, green or red peppers, jalapeno peppers, tomato sauce and lean ground beef. With cold beer you can’t beat a bowl of my chili con carne with a stick.
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A blog likes to eat, too. You do know what a blog likes to eat, right? It eats visits. It eats hits. If you want your blog to grow up big and strong you’ve got to feed it plenty of hits. I want my blog to grow up big and strong so let me tell you what I’m doing to feed it as many hits as possible.
Right now I have seven sites that feed my blog hits. They are Triond, Feedburner, Twitter, Wordpress, Flash Fiction Chronicles, Every Day Fiction and Wordriot. I’m always on the look out for other sites to feed my blog.
I joined Feedburner and Twitter so that any time I publish anything on my blog I get a link on their sites. My blog is on Wordpress so I’m a part of their network and my blog gets all kinds of backlinks from Wordpress. When I publish on Triond I leave a backlink. And when I leave a comment on the other three sites I get a backlink, too. Then of course I try to be smart about search engines and I make sure my blog posts have plenty of good tags.
The sites I mentioned are constantly sending me visitors. Some of the visitors become subscribers to my blog. Some submit content. And some even click on the link to buy my ebook. Now remember, I’m just a small time blogger. I still have lots to learn.
But if I can do this any blogger can do it. Blogging is a process. Blogging is an investment. Like any growing organism a blog has to be fed. I probably have a lot more time to invest in blogging than most of you reading this. But if you make a point of leaving backlinks on one or two sites in the same niche as your own blog and you do this on a regular basis I bet your blog will grow stronger, too.
My blog is the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette
That chili con carne thing sounded delicious. Seriously, though, great article. I will check out your blog ASAP. Thanks.
Nice to read this piece.
Keep writing more about it. It is really gracefully and very well written skill.
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers.
Sara:
I am looking forward to put my site online soon. Very nice thoughts, Guy.
Its all very true what you said, good write. LB
I’m always grateful for the tips you give in your articles. One day I might start up my own website. Good work.
Christine
You also offer some good blog dishes your readers want to savor that is important to getting the hits.
More great blogging tips Guy, keep them comming.
Good one actually… creating back-links are important. I liked the procedures you mentioned. Way to to it! Keep it up Guy!
Unfortunately my blog is starving, I am allowed to use computer at work but I am limited to what I can do here, and on the weekends I just don’t have the time to do everything I wand so my blog goes negelected. Excellent advice and If I every get the time I will do exactly what you said.
Thank you Mr. Hogan that is good stuff..
A nice entry, I have been guilty of starving my blog too.
your post is always full of helpful tips for bloggers. Thanks friend for the share.
Feeding your blog, you know this is such an intelligent write
Good one– I thought that you were talking about the way you keep adding more body to your blog with things like guest bloggers and such. Ilkie this idea too, thnx
another virtue of infos here…useful tips indeed. thanks
You have an interesting way of wording an article so they keep my attention, good job as usual.
Great insight, friend. This is an invaluable advice.
I am very pleased with the thought and don’t feel like adding
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Thank you for all the useful tips, maybe I will branch out and try it one day soon.
haha – very nice metaphor!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
Very useful information.
Nice…I think I’ll give blogging a shot.
Thank you and hope for the best information that you will get to read articles and by similar embroidery please keep writing.
Guy,
I love the tips you give in your articles. My problem seems to be too many sites in the works and too many hours to get them up and running smoothly. How do you manage it all? I have come back to Triond in a big way; the other writing sites just didn’t pay at all. I don’t expect to get rich writing here, but some pennies now and then are a good thing!!! What’s a backlink? See what a dope I am!!!!
Madison, I deal with only two sites: Triond and my personal blog. A backlink is a link that sends you hits.
Great write up Guy. You have bags of experience and it shows!
Wow, this is really a simple and very helpful tip. thanks for sharing!
I’m new here in Triond too, and I’m also looking for ways for people to visit my articles, reading this gave me some ideas..thanks 
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