To increase traffic to your blog:
1. try SEOor Search Engine Optimization. For a start, download Brad Callen's SEO Made Easy, it's a free eBook and should take you less than a day or two to read.
- Research on your target keywords using Google Adwords Research Tools. For a start, select the keywords that have lower search volumes, you can target more competitive keywords later. Remember that very competitive keywords take months, maybe years to rank first page for. Use Google Trends to compare search volumes between different keywords.
- Submit your blogs to the proper categories in Directories. For a start, submit to DMOZ.org. Download a free copy of Directory Submitter.
- Sign-up at SitePoint.com Forums and participate in their SEO Forums.
QUALITY content is KING! Write content that people would want to link to.
try Social Bookmarking (Digg, TechNorati etc)Post in other people's blogs, especially DO FOLLOW blogs (as opposed to NO FOLLOW blogs). The more related those blogs are to your theme, the better. Try CommentKahuna for finding blogs related to your keywords that are DO FOLLOW.
Watch some videos on YouTube about SEO. That will give you an overview about what you need to do.
Monitoring Traffic
Sign up for Google Analytics.
Sign up for Google Webmasters Tools.
To start earning money:
set-up PayPerPost
set-up Blogsvertise
set-up Adsense , use color schemes that will make the adsense blend with your blog. Avoid making them look so different from your blog's layout that your users will have "Banner Blindness". It's a good idea to put Adsense Units in blogs with consistent themes, if you're creating Hodge Podge(like my home blog) blogs where you rant about anything and everything, then consider separating that blog into several blogs each with different themes. This way, the Ads will match your themes and will be related to . Creating themes for your blogs also helps you to rank better in Search Engines.
