how can I start and increase traffic to my blog?

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Hello and Good Evening Everyone,

Very good suggestions here. Thank you so much. After reviewing everyone's suggestions, I do have a few follow up questions. First of all, is it possible to get noticed without a personal or business web site? For example, can links to self-created personal blogs have an equal chance of becoming noticed as compared to a web site with one's own domain name? Secondly, are there tools available which can publish blogs to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc. ? Finally, what would be some good tips for using keywords to increase visibility and traffic on one's own blog? Perhaps there is a keyword tool which can be used to help create popular strings of keywords which get high hits on the major search engines which can also be used within titles of blogs, articles, and body of articles.

Any follow up to these questions of interest will be appreciated. In the meantime, I look forward to reading further input to this post.

Thank you

George

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Hello and Good Morning

It seems the more I think into this situation, the more questions I have regarding it. First of all, I am a member of AOL. As I understand it, I have a certain amount of server space which can be utilized for web space which brings me to this question. Since the URL for any website created by an AOL member is likely to have a long domain address, I am wondering if that will have a negative impact upon its visibility within the major search engines which are probably more accustomed to having much shorter domain names. And, secondly, how should the title of a website be addressed if the content surrounds a variety of different topics such as electronic media, animation, history, philosophy, etc? If I am not mistaken, blogs can work a little differently because each topic of interest can have its own title with 10 or more articles written within it. Each blog title would have its on unique domain name much like the ones used to gain revenue through Google AdSense.

In closing, I apologize for so many followup questions. Usually when I have this many questions, I am coming closer to gaining the understanding and comprehension needed to start and finish any project of interest. At any rate, if someone could share their thoughts and insights to these followup questions, it will be greatly appreciated.

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George

A straight blog as I understand and see them is not an advertising site in itself. So you would need to use your website (from your domain on AOL) to advertise yourself (provide links to blog).

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Hello and Good Evening Everyone,

Thanks so much for the thorough feedback given in reply to my follow up questions. I will be using this evening to thoroughly go back over everything just in case there are additional uncertainties. I will be back in touch.

George

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Hello and Good Afternoon Everyone

I greatly appreciate the thorough and detailed feedback given in response to my question. Each suggested step was easy to understand and will certainly prove handy when the time comes to launch my online project.

Thanks again.

George