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Toolbar Traffic?

Posted on 03 September 2010

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There are a few ways you can get your website noticed online, and one of the best ways is to get your site linked to from other blogs. This is the most powerful way of getting backlinks and traffic, because these are recommendations made by other blog owners, to their loyal readers. Therefore the readers are much more inclined to click the links. When you see names in comment boxes, you are not as likely to click, and likewise, forum signatures that will never be used in actual posts will never be clicked. They are just SEO fodder, and of course – Google can smell this a mile off if you overdo it. A good way to get your site about in actual communities, is to use the new toolbars that are popping up all over the net. These toolbars have “gadgets” and links on them, such as checking the weather, playing games and more. Another thing you can do, is promote your website on these toolbars, which have millions of users, and appear on thousands of websites. The basic theory is this. You create you blog, and then you go to a company like Conduit who allow you to create your own gadget, which will appear on these toolbars all over the internet, on webmasters’ websites. As long as you are related to their blog or website, they will have your gadget on that toolbar. And as long as you have great content – you will get webmasters using your site as a gadget. If you are getting related traffic to your site, from possibly higher ranking websites, then this can only mean you will retain these visitors over a long period. You will also never have to pay for this traffic, and of course the traffic is viral. Other webmasters will see your link, and possibly add to their toolbar. As new webmasters sign up for the Conduit platform, your site will appear on more and more sites – this is due to your gadget having a user count. The more popular you get, the more people want you on their toolbar.

Written by Andrew Fitzgerald - Make Money Blogging