Bloggingtricks

This post is part of my series on promoting your blog. Read Part 1 and then follow-up with this post.

Every Thursday I offer a blog promo tip. Today's tip is designed for those of you who took my advice and built your blog with Blogger.

Blogger has a cool feature called the Navbar. When you build your Blogger Blog, you have the ability to turn this bar on or off. I turned mine on and it has led to more traffic. Why? Read on.

One of the features on the Navbar is a button called NextBlog. If you click it, you will visit the next Navbar-enabled blog. It seems to be a very popular way of flipping through blogs - sort of like channel surfing. Accordingly, the next blog button gets a lot of attention and is something you should take advantage of.

Not only does this bring you random traffic, the Navbar includes a Search box that lets your readers search your blog for key topics. This important usability feature will help build loyalty and thus traffic.