How Blogshops attract traffic

Many blogshop owners seem to be quite clueless about getting traffic at their blogshops.  This article , written by a popular Singaporean blogshop directory owner, outlines the basics of driving traffic to blogshop sites.

From: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=2602901.

How to Attract Traffic to to Your Blogshop in Singapore   

by Kelly Chan

You have just build your blogshop and in it you have a great product to sell so it is time for the next piece of the puzzle, getting the right targeted visitors to your blogshop. Currently there are over 2,000 blogshops in Singapore but only a few popular ones that make over 8,000 dollars a month so how did they do it?

There are many online and offline marketing methods to attract traffic to your blogshop and in this article, our focus is getting the right referral traffic. So what is referral traffic? Before we go deeper, let first examine the type of visitors, this is often classify into the following categories:

* Direct Traffic - Visitors who enter your URL and visit your blogshop directly
* Referral Traffic - Visitors who are referred thru to your blogshop via an external link from a referral website
* Search-Engine Traffic - Visitors who found your blogshop thru Search engine like Google, Yahoo etc.

For most blogshop that just started not long, their focus to get referral traffic. There is no way one can get direct traffic if you do not adopt other marketing techniques as no one even know you to begin with. Search engine will take a while to indexed blogshop before your blogshop is displayed based on relevant keywords, let forget about that at this moment.

Ok... Let talk about referral traffic. The easiest way to build referral traffic is by leaving your blogshop link in popular forums. Before you go around spamming forums, make sure you check the rules and regulation when it comes to inserting external links else you may just get banned. Make sure you get the right traffic instead of any traffic, high traffic does not necessary translate to sales, it is the right traffic that does. For example if you are selling dresses then your targeted audience is female so you should focus on popular Singapore women forums like cozycot, flowerpod and deluxemall. In my opinion, forum traffic is often the most effective as they are information seekers and engaging users.

If you are asking "Yes, I understand you now, but how do I get traffic to my site from the forum?" Here are the answers:

a) Below each of your forum posting, you can always include a forum signature below your post. A forum signature can often be a hyperlink to your web site or just a statement that you want to put across to your readers. Whenever someone sees it, there is a likelihood that someone may find it interesting and click on your forum signature.

b) The other way is to write or indicate your web site link in your forum postings thru an article.

c) Finally, some forum also have specific area that allow you to advertise your blogshop for free as well
Other than posting in forums, you can also consider submitting in blogshop directories in Singapore like www.Blogshopcity.com
 
There is no shortcut for success, it takes hardwork so start building backlinks today!

Search engine like Google also indexed and ranked your blogshops based on your backlinks from relevant forums as well.