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Creating a blog is a big step in establishing your online presence, whether for personal notes and ramblings, or advertising your business, clubs, organizations or activities.

The next big step is to drive visitors or readers to your site. Nothing beats the the sight of seeing people reading your posts, and leaving comments to each of the articles you wrote.

Here are some basic ways to drive traffic to your blog:

1. Tell your friends and relatives you just created a blog, via email or by visiting their blogs, friendster, facebook, myspace or multiply account (if they have one) and just leave a short note telling them to visit your site. Of course, don’t forget to write the link to your Bloggista.net blog.
2. Visit other blogs – either another Bloggista.net blog or some other blogs. Read their posts, leave some sincere comments. This is one of the most simple, yet effective way of getting people to discover you and your blog.
3. Update your blog regularly – at least once a week so that people have something new to read whenever they get to visit you again.
4. Reply to your visitor’s comments. Its a great way to initiate discussions and exchange of views regarding your articles.
5. Join some social network sites to discover new friends and share with them your articles and other peoples’ articles. Some of the popular blog social network sites that you can share your articles, and also discover great articles from other members:

• Digg.com
• Stumbleupon
• Reddit
• Blogjoints
• Facebook
• Twitter

These sites allow you to register as a member, then submit your articles or let your network friends to submit the articles for you. Once your article has been submitted, other members can see it and if they find the article title interesting, they will visit your blog.

Try it, and goodluck!

Tip: To faciliate easy submission of your blog posts to these social networking sites, either by yourself or by anybody else, activate the “Add To Any” plugin found in your Dashboard > Plugins >.

About Bloggista.net

Bloggista.net is a free wordpress powered blog site based in the Philippines and is also a social network site.

Yep, you read it right! Bloggista.net is not just serving you Free Blogs but is now a full-featured Social Network Site. You should check out the homepage to see the cool new look (like Facebook eh?).

On top of the Free Blog, which is now running using the latest version of Wordpress blogging platform, Bloggista.net have these new cool features:

1. Create your Social Profile, upload avatar
2. Create public or private Groups, and join other groups
3. Create Forums and moderate your own forums
4. Connect with other members, add friends, send private messages
5. Post messages on The Wire – which works like Twitter, try it!
6. Create albums from Flickr or upload your own photos
7. … and more features coming like Chat, Videos, Classified ads, create your own Online Store to name a few

Now there’s more reasons why you should check back at Bloggista.net – and don’t forget to invite your friends to join too and let our community grow!