How to get more traffic to your blog from Google, Yahoo and MSN

Posted on September 3, 2007 at 3:24 pm

I’ve noticed over the last few months that even though my Google traffic has been steadily increasing, I barley get a few hits a day from Yahoo and MSN combined! I’ve checked using Yahoo’s Site Explorer and have found that I have well over 200 pages in their index! In MSN, there are 161 pages in their index! Yet I still receive very little traffic and it’s nearly impossible to figure out why.

After doing a little bit of searching, I ran across a blog post by Darren Rowse from ProBlogger about how to get more traffic from Yahoo, which has really a great tip I would have never thought of on my own. Basically, a couple of bloggers have found out that if you create a MyYahoo account and add your RSS feed to the headlines feature, your pages get more hits. The RSS headlines feature allows you to track the latest headlines from multiple blogs via RSS.

Apparently, once you add your feed to their RSS tracking system, it somehow gets linked to their indexing system and your traffic increases! It’s nowhere near what Google will give you, but it’s better than 2 visits a day! What’s even better, it seems like if you add your RSS feed to the Google Personalized homepage and onto your personal Windows Live page, you can increase your PageRank and MSN traffic also.

Of course, trying this cannot possibly hurt your blog, so go ahead and do this if you haven’t already done so. Here are the steps involved for each search engine:

MyYahoo Homepage

From the main MyYahoo page, click the Add Content link at the top left underneath the search box:

Next, click on the Add RSS by URL to the right of the Find button:

Type in the full URL of your RSS feed and click Add. You should now see your home page. Check your traffic for the next few days and see if it’s increased or not! I’ll update this post with my results in a few days.

Google Personalized Homepage

For Google, there is a two-step process: first add the Google Reader module to your iGoogle page and then configure Google Reader to subscribe to your RSS feed. To add Google Reader, click on the Add Stuff link on the far right of the page.

Next click on Tools from the menu on the left and find Google Reader (Labs). Make sure it’s the one with the (Labs) at the end of the name. You can also search for it from the search box at the top.

Next, click Back To Homepage click on the Google Reader link to customize your RSS feeds. You’ll have to sign up if you already don’t have an account. Once in, click on Add subscription and paste in your RSS feed link.

You should now see your most recent posts in the window on the right. Go back to your Google homepage and you should see them in the Google Reader also.

Windows Live Homepage

For Windows Live, click on the Add stuff link directly above the Basics tab at the top left.

Then click Advanced options from the list of options across the top:

In the second box text box for adding a gadget by URL, go ahead and paste in the URL for your RSS feed and click Subscribe.

You should now see the latest posts from your blog on the Basics home page in Windows Live:

 And that’s it! This probably won’t double your traffic, but it’s definitely worth a try!

Src: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/03/11/getting-yahoo-traffic-for-your-blog/

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6 Responses to “How to get more traffic to your blog from Google, Yahoo and MSN”

  1. Heinz Rainer said on : December 5th, 2007 at 5:38 am

    Thanks for your advice. I have followed and posted my rss feeds .

    Heinz

    http://www.squidoo.com/moringa


  2. Teavygarfanelf said on : December 5th, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    mm.. very nice


  3. News Bandit said on : January 20th, 2008 at 10:24 pm

    Thanks for your help this was a great post and easy instructions for people to use!


  4. akishore said on : January 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 am

    Hi News Bandit,

    Thanks for the comment! I’m glad it has helped you out! This is a pretty simple way to get traffic and it doesn’t work so well, but it’s still better than nothing!


  5. Jayaprakash said on : June 12th, 2008 at 11:03 am

    I was a dummy in blogging. By reading help articles by good people like you I started one blog about my life in Japan. Now I have created 9 blogs, some with the help of my Japanese friend who is working as an electronics engineer in consumer electronics division of one reputed company in Japan. I used to get around 40-50 visitors per day, but wanted to increase. I saw this blog and found useful. Thanks a lot


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